skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use Janet most often as a glue for shell utilities using the sh package (https://github.com/andrewchambers/janet-sh). It's a great tool for building small containerized jobs. I think it has a ton of potential as the ecosystem grows and matures.

Some rough spots:

- No canonical http client. There are a few attempts at wrapping libcurl but nothing complete and well documented yet. However, the creator of Joy framework for Janet does have an http client library.

- The main http server circlet is MIT licensed, but it is built on top of Mongoose, which is GPL/paid commercial. Something to be aware of if you want to distribute binaries made with this library.

- I have never been successful getting any of the UI or drawing libraries to work.

- Naming of packages is a bit confusing even if you have watched the Good Place and are aware of all of the inside jokes.
I searched the internet trying to find a reference to the study regarding the glaciers at GNP and found exclusively news stories and blogspam repeating the "removal of the signs" meme from foxnews, right-wing think tanks, fundamentalist christian organizations, and oil & gas funded "science" web sites.

I'd love to have a look at the original publication that the USGS used when it decided to create those signs, but its buried so deep under partisan schadenfreude that I can't find it to even analyze it.

With respect to Greenhouse Gases: what's hard to understand about conservation of matter?

GHGs cause some warming; you can do lab experiments on flux and gas mixtures in identical glass containers to prove this.

The Biosphere (that is, the surface of the earth and all its organisms) has some essentially fixed amount of carbon distributed between critters, plants, soil, air, and dissolved in water. It's a closed system. When something dies and decomposes, it releases its carbon into the soil and atmosphere where it is endlessly recycled. Only in rare (and extremely slow) circumstances does the carbon get removed from the biosphere and put deep into the earth as coal, oil, or natural gas.

When you dig up carbon that is currently out of that cycle and put into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels you are adding additional carbon to the system. It has to go somewhere. Some of it will temporarily become plants (until they die, rot and release the carbon again), some of it will dissolve into the ocean and raise the acidity, and some of it will stay in the atmosphere and cause some warming.

This part of "climate change" is very simple to understand. The earth previously did just fine with a higher fixed amount of carbon in the biosphere, but it was a lot warmer, wetter, and humans weren't around.
> Contrast that to Facebook or Twitter, where only positive signals exist

i've never seen a downvote button on HN. Is my browser to old or not supported?
Desktop peek is now a three finger swipe down and up on your trackpad.
Clearly vile
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> Where Are the Easy Jobs?

> I just want a job I can do without being constantly bored and frustrated.

You can't have both. Interesting jobs tend to not be easy and vice versa.
There's still e-mail, IMs, weather widgets, mobile banking, turn-by-turn navigation, maps, calculator, camera, photo editor, music players, taxi apps, delivery trackers, guitar tuners, games, and a bunch of other things many non-tech people use on their smartphones every day.

Not to mention, the browser, giving access to everything on the Internet - not just social media. This is doubly important for people on the go, and people who can't afford to also own a laptop or a desktop computer at home (assuming they have one).
Honestly sounds like a good exit strategy for failed or low-traction companies. Take the money and run.
The problem is it all comes down to authority in the end.

There, I said it.

But it does.

In the end all evidence in the public sphere is second hand. If you don't already trust the scientists, there's an alternative universe of quacks who will give you what you're after.
A part of the scientific method is trying to replicate studies... which is essentially an expression of distrust.
I don't think the article touched on it, but an interesting point is that dopamine is not just the reward but also the anticipation / prediction of reward. And there's some interesting literature basically showing that the reward system of the brain is a prediction network of sorts and that the magnitude of error in its prediction correlates with how rewarding something is; that is to say, that how rewarding something is is as much a function of the expectations going into it as it is of the activity itself. (I don't mean expectation in the sense of the high-level ego's expectation of an event but rather of the lower level reward processing system's expectation)

Here's a reference on dopamine wrt reward prediction error: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.0024...

And here's one that kind of builds on that theory and proposes a sensory prediction error. Haven't read this paper yet: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2018.164...

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Anyway as far as the article itself, the point that dopamine is oversimplified is very important but I felt the author did a frankly terrible job making that point. And they tied in a bunch of irrelevant stuff ("dopamine is a vasoconstrictor"...true but it's a bit of an implicit strawman to act as if the people talking about dopamine addiction think that its ONLY purpose is as a reward chemical)
More children have died in car crashes in 2021 than have ever died of Covid
Why profit sharing is essential for building middle-class incomes and wealth [pdf]
MacOS 11
The main difference being that scientists (are encouraged to) update their model of the world as they gain new information.
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I endorse this reply.

I'm thinking not "flat earth" here, but people who are legitimately exhausted from the scientific media telling them eggs are good for you one month, and then that they're bad for you the month, and repeating that for literally decades.

It is a rational conclusion to devalue science, or at least devalue science journalism, at that point. Science journalism should not be so free in giving people rational reasons to discount them.
"The 65.02 MHz 6502" would be a much better headline
And this is where anti-trust lost the plot (and popular support).

Anti-trust ignores situations with CLEAR customer harm, and goes after folks like Apple (which many consumers like) for blocking scammers from doing the noncancellable subscriptions and other things in the store.

This diminishes confidence in govt and unfortunately increases confidence in big business.

Literally thousands of folks getting scammed daily online - govt does nothing. Some business hurt (and consumers SAVE money) -whammo.
Windows 11 is indeed rushed. Since Apple released MacOS 11, Microsoft needs to release a new version as well. It's obvious[1] that Microsoft took the features made for Windows 10x and glued them into Windows 10.

[1]: https://twitter.com/vhanla/status/1434730813183209472
The sort of person sitting in US prisons is very different from those in Chinese ones.
I'm A-Okay with them being required to follow reporting requirements. NHTSA should figure out guidance for doing that for over the air updates, yesterday.
>i've never seen a downvote button on HN. Is my browser to old or not supported?

You have to get enough upvotes first.
Or you know, they're just an asshole.

I got some acquaintances who taunt and jeer me face-to-face in board games, and they're well paid professionals paid 6+ figures. So yeah, I stopped playing boardgames with them and play with others.
> Not really. Your assertions have been Xi sucks / his decisions are bad, then quote XYZ trope about authoritarian governance from western perspective.

Like you've done anything differently (Xi is great / his decisions are good, then quote XYZ troupe from PRC's perspective)? At least I'm doing it from the world perspective instead of just one country's POV.

> Like I said, he was excessive and did the hard things sometimes poorly, but it was important to do them none the less.

Mao didn't have to do anything. He could have at the very least delegated it to someone else more pragmatic.

> Go look up hunger indexes over last 20 years. India is at North Korean level.

You're right about the hunger index. I should have checked it. I can believe India's score. However, how is it even close to accurate for North Korea? Data isn't exactly easy to collect from the Hermit Kingdom. It could be much worse than the index score.

> Because democracy sucks for development.

India is a developing nation that doesn't represent all democracies. The US would be a much better example. Even then, it would be more accurate if we also look at the EU.

Less centralized economies, which is representative for democracies, are actually very good for development. One could see this at work before and after Deng's policies took effect.

> Authoritarianism is the worst form of government for developing countries... except for all the others.

Sometimes it works because of good leadership. Deng & his successors are the best example of this. I'm sure there are plenty more since dictators dominated most of human history. The issue with authoritarianism is that when you have bad leadership it's near impossible to get rid of them. They are there for life. Also any bad decisions get magnified 100x because there's no checks and balances of power. Democracy has a control for that: voting and term limits. For example, the US was able to neatly depose of Trump in four years without blood. You can't same about bad dictators.

> Why does it matter what others or diasphora are embarassed by?

Because the PRC obviously cares about saving face. Only barbarians would be indifferent to the developed world's uproar. The fallout for overseas Chinese is just a side effect, but it's still important.

> This makes PRC citizens happy, and forwards interest of PRC.

That's very debatable. How do we truly know when there's no free speech and free press? Data is not accurate within an authoritarian regime.

> Except... he hasn't bumbled outside of this imaginary CIA report.

He did and I've already listed his mistakes. Even you and the other guy admit that he doesn't seem very bright.

I think we're going around in circles. Your arguments are not going to move me, and vice versa. The second that you mentioned that the Great Leap Forward was "progress" is the second that this conversation became a waste of time for the both of us. We're grounded in different realities.
Or maybe this is a comment on a forum full of people that like to pretend they are experts in any subject at hand, and the author has no idea how big this source code is. Literally.
Besides money, entrepreneurs invest a lot of time and energy.

Buying on one market and selling on another is not much more than gambling/speculation/trading.

Seems like a real stretch to call it entrepreneurship.
He still held an influential position on Microsoft's board until March 2020.
The good news is that it has been reverted I believe. How obnoxious.
No, GP means upgrading from one Win10 release to the next. 20H2[1] to 21H1[2].

1 - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/whats-new...

2 - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/whats-new...
> If they are going to do it anyway. Wouldn't be better that they share the research with the world?

There’s precedent already that these types of things are inhumane and the data shouldn’t be used strictly based on the ethics of it. One example includes experiments done by Nazi Germany in the 1940s[0].

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_human_experimentation
And if you really want to have fine, put them in your git commits and stand back as `git log` destroys your coworkers terminal.
> "The solution here is to augment our tools with the information a screen reader needs."

So we are in agreement that there should be different interfaces that suit each experience, we just disagree on the exact implementation details. I submit it's best to build entirely seperate experiences, but you submit it's enough to take the graphical-first experience and annotate it enough so that a screen-reader can generate an equivalent experience on the fly (using different kinds of annotation technologies). My response to this is:

1. Annotations and metadata (ARIA-labels, et-al) make it easier for the screen-reader to display relevant information in an accessible manner - but they create an unnecessary coupling between the visual-first frontend and the accessible frontend, when in reality they are built for different kinds of users.

2. Annotations are a decent starting point, but they are NOT a substitute for building an "accessibility-first" experience because they are too limited. You can't annotate a graph, or a progress bar, for example. But you could've built an entirely seperate experience which conveys the same data a graph would, in an accessible manner (given the right tools and frameworks).
This story seems to be getting flagged (based on the posting time/upvote count, compared to other stories). Wonder why?
Getting the shot is not reliable at all either. How would we know without testing anyway? As I said in another comment: nursing students got the hepatitis B vaccine, and it turns out they were still not immune after the 2nd shot. How do we know how many people are actually immune without testing? Having vaccinated is not exactly a certainty of anything.
"If everyone wins, who cares if a couple of individuals somewhere have an underground garage with 12 sports car, I couldn't care less."

The point the article was making was the enormous size of the ratio/disparity (which is more than just a couple). Whether one agrees with the situation or not depends on one's political compass - and I've no comment on that.
They don’t work for very low wages though… the wages are usually quite high relative to the local COL
I did some napkin math before on the CO2. A falcon 9 launch is about 400 Transatlantic flights. There are roughly 40000 of those per day and a little over 100 F9 launches.

So by that rough math, all falcon 9 ever is about 1 day of flights across the Atlantic. Still far below all flights in a single day.

The joy rides are less harmful because they don't use as much energy and thus fuel
Is Christ perfect though? Didn’t he fuck up a fig tree just for not having figs at that very moment? Mark 11, starting at verse 12:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%2011-12&ve...
> How should we counter coordinated unauthentic or disingenuous skepticism?

Isn't this really asking "how do you have ideas that stand up to the Socratic method?"
> Krugman is a socialist first and a Keynesian second.

Yeah, no. Krugman might be a socialist by the broadest conceivable definition, but only because by that definition Keynesianism can itself be seen as a bourgeois socialism.
The issue is that hardware purchased last year and not supported by Windows 11 (like for example the Surface Studio 2 still sold by Microsoft, and other currently sold CPUs) has a much longer lifetime than five years.
Good point, but some like GE or petroleum companies seem to have lasted quite long already.
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Considering that a number of Western countries have moved to "deemed consent" when it comes to organ harvesting I don't think that the absence of explicit consent is the sticking point. Rather, I think the ethical issue is ignoring explicit refusal.
> In a conventional steam engine, the steam enters and is discharged through the same valve. This creates two problems. The first is that discharged steam needs a large port, which requires significant energy to operate against the pressure of the intake steam. The second problem is that discharged steam cools the intake valve and steam passages, leading to a significant energy loss.
The net total is the sum of heat in and heat out. :-)
> We are beginning to see that all these years we thought it was our constitutional right to free speech that was the major thing. Yes, it would be and will be if the government takes a turn for the worst, but really what we're seeing in the US is an erosion in the ethos of free speech, an attitude that in our society you are welcome to say something that I heartily disagree with.

When did American society have an 'ethos' of free speech (let alone an ethos of universal free speech)?
>Ostensibly governments were initially for defense of a nation.

Can you elaborate on this conclusion? At least in the U.S., the Constitution explicitly defines responsibilities of the government that go beyond national defense.
Well yes, it's as simple as that. It doesn't look like you're innovating if you don't change version numbers.
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It is interesting how one's behaviour is dictated by the social network they're participating in.

I've recently deleted my ten years old Reddit account because I was getting into fights with everybody, and to this day I can't spend 10 minutes on that site without feeling the need to comment "what the fuck are you talking about you dimwit" to some random poster, while I'm finding much easier to be civil on HN, and while I get my downvotes here as well sometimes, I'm on my best behaviour, and proud of the wonderful discussions I've had over the years.

I've tried getting into Twitter, and I feel I would soon turn into the most toxic asshat on the Internet like many over there are, so perhaps it's best I don't.
"Politics is anti-libertarian as it is 'about interfering with other people’s lives without their consent.'"

Ain't that the truth...
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I think we have a lot of examples of what happens when the wealthy and powerful get anything they want (see the right of kings, predestination, Social Darwinism, fascism, etc) and we blame the poor and weak for all their problems and victimize them. There is a big difference between making life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness available to most vulnerable and disadvantaged in your society and "forming" your society around it. In the US we only made basic rights we take for granted available under law to gay and disabled people in the last two of three decades.
They don't need good talent. And there's always a surplus of what they need.
Assuming you could afford to upgrade, it's pretty bonkers keeping these old inefficient machines running from a power consumption standpoint.

I had a bunch of old Dell Precision workstations and I eventually got shot of them because my electric bills were becoming more and more eye-watering. I built a cheap PC that (with virtualisation) can carry out all these old machines workloads and more, and my power bills were a fraction of what they were previously. Quite an eye opener for me with regards to how energy efficient new stuff is.
Anything independently reproducible doesn't come down to authority. Reproducibility is fundamental to science.
It depends on the definition of easy. One could say that it is easier to excel at a job that is not boring, and thus the easiest job is one that is just interesting enough vs a boring one. Just like you don't want an interesting job that is frustrating.

I don't see why an interesting job can't also be easy. My current job hard because of the frustration and boredom, although the subject matter should be easy.
A nearby home security camera actually captured a short glimpse of the meteorite falling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwHxuhVA_8o
In other news, audio jacks are also dangerous so you need to buy our overpriced wireless earbuds.

In every case, Apple does whatever is most profitable for Apple --- and then feebly tries to justify it on some other basis.
I bet this influenced the idea behind Looom. Fun app if you have an iPad.
https://iorama.studio/
Haha, I like that description: "ghetto tailwind jit".

From your blog it seems like you're not really using it yourself anymore, though?

I tried to add a styling thingy (sorry, really not familiar with the terminology) to `tw` to add support for "print" media queries (like this: https://tailwindcss.com/docs/breakpoints#styling-for-print), but didn't get it to work on the first try. If I do make it work I'll create a PR :)
Sunlight exposure causes nitric oxide release (which itself will have downstream effects on neurotransmitters). That's probably what you're feeling if I had to guess.

FWIW the best way to get a feeling for what serotonin feels like is doing MDMA since it dumps massive amounts of serotonin out. It dumps plenty of dopamine too - it wouldn't be nearly as fun without that - but the unique "rolly" feeling is very attributable to serotonin.

Not advising people take MDMA just to figure out what serotonin feels like, but for those who have it's very helpful to sort of "recognize" what different neurotransmitters feel like
Really depends upon what you're talking about. Examplle you can have a `Maybe (IO ())` data which would indicate "call this for side effects if it is present, otherwise do not". You could also model this as e.g.

foo :: [(Text, IO ())]

so thsi would be a list of capabilities, each with a name.

Ofc this is a bit tricky, you would have to do a lot of heavy lifting in C to pull this off; but it wouldn't be hard to do in e.g. JS at the FFI layer before Haskell.
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Calling ones discipline "sociocyberneering" is a bit much. I also find it interesting how much of Fresco's designs is designed inside an suburban context.

Interestingly also hyperloop like concepts: https://youtu.be/I1IXWnS6vwk?t=2376 And so much individual transport

I find it interesting that in this youtube video only old people are interested in the future he proposes.
My understanding is there are two phenomena here in play: forum rules and aggregate forum political culture.

Forum rules will generally discourage any political commentary that doesn't fit extremely unambiguously into the curiosity mould (because observation of how political discourse goes on other sites leads to some pretty strong prior beliefs that both assertions and "just asking questions" can create a climate that rapidly degenerates into useless flamewar). By the rules, plenty of discourse in the political space should probably be discouraged; it's default thin ice.

But moderators focus on threads that leave a big flag / downvote wake, and there aren't very many moderators (one?). So in general, a subset of commentary will have the "eye of Sauron" drawn upon it, and that's the subset that the average reader with more than N-hundred karma finds objectionable.
I'm not a positivist, and I think much of life should be approached in the vein of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations. By which I mean, as meaning-making tied to real activities within socio-historically specific forms of life. But that doesn't mean you ought to abdicate one's critical faculties and wilfully enter into self-serving delusions. I can understand and appreciate nationalism, for example, without accepting its constitutive myths as fact, or losing sight of its role in sustaining collective delusions. In fact, I would say that you cannot fully understand it without that clear-sightedness.
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If you have an integrated video that is sufficient. I don't even know if iGPU can handle 3 monitor setups, let alone smooth experience or any kind of gaming.

ML tasks being delayed by a few minutes is generally a drop in a bucket, but the machine would be barely usable for hours if not days. I honestly don't know how ML enthusiasts do their bidding on Linux.
It's quite simple. More money = more clever.
That’s really what happens though, the update is prepared and installs when you restart. Unless it’s a packaged Linux version and the files are updated while the app is running of course. But there is little Firefox can do about that.

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