skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there are at least three notions of "high-quality" conflated in the article:

- leisure which also satisfies longer-term goals (e.g., listening to an educational podcast, practicing a skill), vs leisure which is only pleasant in the moment

- leisure that you had to make some deliberate effort to initiate and with a clear end time (e.g., going out, going to the movies) vs leisure which starts automatically and ends when it does (e.g., binge-watching)

- leisure that gets you outdoors and/or with other people, vs leisure that doesn't

And of course you can find many kinds of activities along these dimensions. Binge-reading Wikipedia can be instructive even if it's an impulsive behavior and indoors/alone. Sitting down to play a short video game and finish it in a few hours can be actively chosen fun even though it's indoors and only pleasant in the moment. Walking in nature can be pleasant and outdoors but not instructive. Ambient chatting with a friend can be social even if it's indoors and impulsive...
Not modules but removal of JEE classes from Jdk.
Toronto company is making shoes that turn into Apple trees
No, you are just not familiar with the data. There is no such thing as 'modulating biochemistry', the placebo effect is not different from no treatment at all except for the few cases I talked about. This has been throughly tested, and the conclusions are overwhelming: there is no such thing as spiritual healing or quantum healing or other such bullshit. Its all fraud and picking the few people who have happened to recover.

Even in the playlist you gave, it's mostly people who have had improvements in things like pain, irritation, scratching, stuttering. The rest is happenstance: cancers sometimes go into remission, treatments with low chance of success sometimes work and so on.

Again every time this has been studied well it has proven to be ineffective. Sometimes subjective effects are even explicitly contradicted: placebo inhalers make people with asthma feel better, but they do not in fact improve their blood oxygen levels one iota.

You have a playlist of 580 testimonials of these frauds 'helping' people. Look for such things, and see how many millions of testimonials you'll find of people who have not survived after trying to rely on 'faith healing' and 'bioenergetics' and 'eastern medicine' and so on.

Edit to add: your example of brain pattern changes in people suffering from depression on placebo treatments is again perfectly in line with known medical practices. Depression and many other psychological illnesses are well known and reported to be improved by non-pharmacological treatments such as psyhco-therapy. The gold standard in treatment of depression is a combination of psychotherapy and anti-depressants, which has been proven to be more efficient than either on its own. However, this doesn't in any way prove that psychotherapy can help with tuberculosis, as you seem to believe.
Can AI Scale?
At what point does the founder get shares of the new class?
The economy which caps maximum income at some small value removes incentive to perform. When combined with helping the poor it would encourage parasitism.

Parasitism is a very convenient life style once you adopt to it, and very hard to abandon even if you wish to.
Django RestQL
> Did the Nineties really feel like a period of stability? Or does it just feel like chaos now because I’m an adult?

I was born a good decade before him but still wonders this very question. I asked my older friends and family, and it appears (empirically) that... there's no clear answer.

There's actually something specific about our times (information technology, ecology, western world mostly at peace for 70+ years...) but it very much relates to how much you look and feel about the world surrounding you.

The true difference is that much more people are aware and worried about the state of the world in our times than before. In that sense, the chaos seems much more apparent than it used to be.

Of course, this is anecdotal, not an evidence in any way :)
Product Mix – Who's Mommy's Favorite?
I've been playing with this app for a few minutes, and it does appear to save everything in plain text files, so adding it to git would be straightforward.

I'm currently saving into a dropbox folder, which gives me automatic syncing.
Broadly speaking, citizens of developed countries are unaware of the hurdle visas really are.

I had a friend complain pretty vehemently because their Ukrainian partner had to get a visa to go to a country.

I then had to explain that for most of the rest of the world going to most countries requires a visa, and that my passport at that moment was at an embassy for a visa application.

I also had to point out that it is in fact possible that your visa might get rejected so then all you've booked for your trip is potentially wasted.
The Chinese film beating Bond and Marvel at the box office
Project Marketing, Product Marketing
Comes from latin vocalis in most European languages and many non-European languages.

English got it via French, which is where the c disappeared.
> specific levels of quality control.

Good luck defining that though.

The main difference between programming and engineering is unfortunately that no one wants you to build the same thing over and over. So you have no idea if it will work until you build it.

Please don't point me to formal correctness proofs, they just won't work at scale. Hmm, perhaps some bright mind will come with a proof that correctness proofs are too complex to be practical.
I’ve found http://tbswitcher.rugarciap.com/ that can turn of turbo boost on intel macs to be useful when on battery and compiling. Since 100% cpu usage will run at a much lower TDP and not kill my laptop battery as fast.
Court rules that Ring video doorbell invaded neighbor's privacy
You're missing the point really. With a competent desktop cpu/mobo it's easy to peg the CPU clock at a certain frequency.

And with modern CPUs the power density is sufficently high that the die and heatspreader thermal resistance is enough to cause substantial temperature changes even with completely overspecced cooling.
> The idea that developers are somehow empowered to a) not do as they're told by their bosses, and b) should just go off on their own and do whatever the hell they want (eg. making things reliable), when it is not what they have been asked or instructed to do...
>
> ...well, it's a big ask.

While back my brother's band had a song called, Money Goes to the Man. It captured this issue pretty well.
I think it’s more that a lower TDP might mean the compile takes 50% longer but I’m still multitasking and I might get 2h more out of a battery charge than when the cpu is spiking to max TDP
Yeah, they did the same thing with Apache Harmony. Ostensibly, "more than just IBM;" de facto, pretty much IBM. Some of the very same people, too.
I tried taking 7 of my AMD Ryzen 5800HS’s 8 cores offline with `echo 0 | sudo tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu{2..15}/online >/dev/null` and found it made no measurable difference to battery drain (as in, approximately less than 0.01W and certainly well less than 0.1W). I don’t know if I missed a step for actually turning the cores off, or whether you can’t actually turn them off, or whether the CPU is actually using way less power than I thought when idle (seems rather unlikely given my error bars). But if anyone did know a way of actually turning them off, I’d be very interested to see if I could get the whole laptop stably under 5W.
That's both currently the amount I am getting per year towards my bank account and the amount I'm being granted per year * 4 + cash (I got promoted ~a year ago, meaning my new grants though missing the time value have a higher dollar value at grant time)
A 5 buck loaf is certainly not in the wonderbread territory. Its both a mix of far more expensive and smaller in size.
> With a competent desktop cpu/mobo it's easy to peg the CPU clock at a certain frequency.

No, you can up/down the base/turbo limits, but the effect will be miniscule.
It's okay to talk about interesting side points too, like your cultural point about HN users.
It he only incentive to do stuff money?

Asking because I find myself building a lot of stuff despite not really making money off it.
Actually I'm still there :-) Nothing against people trying to move and make more, but I just want to let people know that you don't _have_ to do that to be successful (plus refute people that might claim that it's the only way to do so in tech)
I was writing about Lucy launch, which used Atlas V rocket.
I don't know how much some god is going to help. Isn't your belief of what your god wants you to do, or at the very least lets you get away with, shaped by your group? If you're already caught in group dynamics, then your god's authority will probably act through the group. People seem to use their gods to reinforce what they already want to think or do.
The article seems to speak of stock awards and not salary, despite what the title says.

"Today’s Tech Founders Don’t Just Own the Company. They’re Also Getting Huge Pay Packages." How are these stock awards different to owning the company?

If anything, those stock awards sound less attractive as they should be options at a very high valuation?

In effect, isn't this the same as later VCs reallocating the cap table in favour of the founders (and against earlier investor and employees)?
I’ll believe it when Wall Street liquidates their real estate positions.

Have these executives shorted the housing market?
Yes, just fix whatever issues were with X11. Why didn't anyone else think of that.

I for one can't wait to have Wayland+pipewire in full effect.
I wonder if previous eras (before the massive space taken by economic principles) had a different view on incentives and performance.

The current system doesn't reward performance in general, just a few instances here and there, the rest is actually backward (good employees are ignored, sometimes hated, sometimes fired even).
The only advantage I’ve heard put forward for RISC-V on single threaded applications is the existence of compressed instructions - which could reduce cache misses albeit at the expense of a slightly more complex decoder. I’m a bit sceptical as to whether this is material though as cache sizes increase.

Of course the flexibility of the RISC-V model allows approaches such as that being pursued by Esperanto [1] with lots and lots of simpler cores.

[1] https://www.esperanto.ai/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/HC2021.E...
This still aligns with the observation that psychological state can impact blood pressure and similar heart-related physiology. This is not surprising and not indicative of anything very deep, as we know very well we can consciously control our rate of respiration which also directly correlates with pulse and blood pressure.

It isn't surprising then that, just like your heart can fail from exaggerated effort, it can also fail from psychological stress forcing the same behaviors.

The same is not true for your liver or bone marrow. You have 0 conscious control over those, and psychological factors have 0 impact on these.
Since it's just markdown files, using a fit repo to sync it is trivial. There's even an obsidian plugin to automatically commit/push in regular intervals (i.e. every 30 minutes).
How many old 6502 systems are still in use, and people want them to run faster? I'm thinking embedded systems like elevator controllers. But few of those systems need to get more performance out of a 6502 than it originally had.

I would guess that many computer systems of this era will use delay-loops for timing some things, which means that running the CPU faster is going to break some code.

That means there isn't much benefit to running the CPU faster unless you're happy to make source code modifications to the application you want to run... And at that point, it really might be easier to just run the whole thing on modern hardware...
THIS.

The quality of software I can churn out on a hungover weekend far exceeds what I could realistically produce in a professional week, using terrible 90s tools, even with my skills advances since then.
https://github.com/denolehov/obsidian-git
This is correct and too often ignored. Bullshit owns nothing:)
yes usually, but some companies split the shares by class, for example google class c shares are given to employees but have no voting rights
> Parasitism is a very convenient life style once you adopt to it, and very hard to abandon even if you wish to.

100% agree, look no further than current communist, and ex-communist countries.

Even ones which succesfully "decommunized" still have that ex-party member class which still lives off fraud, and economic crimes 30 years after.
building what ? I'm curious
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A lot of the chaos just wasn't apparent before because the information flow was slower more than because people didn't care.

E.g. look at any news event, and consider how differently it looks if you only look at print news and one daily news broadcast vs. if you look at the same event online, with conflicting narratives, easy access to how foreign news media describes something, speculation, and far more granular reporting.

Everything looks a lot more coherent and certain with just a few viewpoints and a couple of updates a day because you miss a lot of the mistakes and changing opinions and differences in bias.
PTE Essay Writing – Universal Templates and Methods
Absolutely awful. I would also recommend watching Caché, the excellent Michael Haneke film which adresses this horrible episode. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cach%C3%A9_(film)
Former continents?
A brief chat with the fired AppleToo organizer
Sasha Frere-Jones used to be the music critic at the New Yorker and writes a fantastic (although somewhat irregular) substack blog > https://substack.sashafrerejones.com/
the Minecraft world, as in the Minecraft community.
How does that worldview jive with the notion that I'd do my job even if I wasn't so handsomely paid?

There will always be differentiators.

I don't work with garbage or have to break my back, this is worth "performing" for.
Define 'perform.'
And why do you think it would happen under Republicans whose last President was loudly and publicly pressuring the Fed to keep interest rates low?

Something no Democratic President (or other Republican President, for that matter) has ever done.
SO Cool
I preferred GPM in every way except that it would silently remove songs from my playlists, probably as a result of the publisher updating or removing them. This lead to me losing songs I had painstakingly worked to discover over many years. I discovered this only after several years of using GPM. Spotify seems to leave removed songs in playlists but disabled, which at least means I don't forget them.

The Spotify UI is atrocious. It must be designed for income/royalty maximisation because it certainly isn't designed to help me find and play the music I like.
Same. In fact the obvious question in the absence of photographs is how blue they really were.
His thesis is basically the cliffnotes version of the later Feynman & Hibbs-book, which is a bit of a standard in that part of physics. I relied heavily on it when I did my thesis (even if it was at best tangentially related).

Feyman was very readable for an academic, even on an academic level. Very clear writing style.
I agree with you, I think design patterns can be useful, but they’re so often sold/taught as being a sign of good code in and of themselves and that’s why they’re so often misused.
Very nice story. It rings a few bells now that I’m in process of designing my own house, and started doing research on materials, energy efficient homes, renewable energy, insulation, etc.

It’s quite an experience, overwhelming at times.
Are you building hobby things for your entertainment (which I do as well) or building things which make society advance and which others benefit from?

It’s the loss of incentives for the latter that concern me.
Here's an older HN thread with the author in it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23324598
> Independently of whether that's true, isn't most consumer hardware (laptops) running "idle" most of the time?

Yes, which is why you want to become idle as fast as possible - and that means running at the fastest clock speed when you need to get some work done. Otherwise you are extending the amount of the time system is not idle, which has a fixed power cost beyond the CPU cores themselves.

Here's a Lenovo power optimization guide. It's for servers, but the same principles apply to pretty much all modern systems. Spoiler alert: the "ondemand" governor has the highest energy efficiency, significantly higher than "powersave" (page 14). The newer schedutil governor (page 23) is even better, over 34% more power-efficient than powersave.

https://lenovopress.com/lp0870.pdf

"Powersave" means saving power, it doesn't mean saving energy. Your battery holds a fixed amount of energy, not a fixed amount of power. Energy is what matters.
Whats the overhead of this daemon running all the time?
It uses RAM which effectively increases power consumption because now something else is pushed out of the cache. It polls therefore waking the CPU every few seconds, even if perhaps nothing else is going on on the machine and the CPU would otherwise be idle.

I wonder if its benefits outweigh the disadvantages. Would be good to have numbers for a bunch of different hardware configs...
Great software, 100% recommend.
That makes sense, thanks for elaborating! I could imagine a different solution where instead you just don't report the overall star-average, to make it a harder metric to game, but still get to have a stronger feedback signal for your recommendations.
42. The right answer is always 42.

:)
Well you can take the battery size (and screen times you get from those). iPhone batteries are tiny compared to android. Like seriously tiny that my 10Wh Powerbank can charge it 5 times with some to spare (I only really get 4 due to losses but still).

So yes comparing iPhones to anything else highly suggests that the tuning Apple did pays off. That being said: I’m not aware of a useful comparison. I’m not even sure how you would design something like that, ie what would you like to keep constant?
Reading the scripts it doesn't look like more than the standard Linux ricing script, which means that if you're using a well made distribution it will hurt you but if you're using a poorly made distribution it might help you.

In the recent years you really shouldn't have to worry about this anymore. You can check in powertop if your laptop CPU package idles for the most part in C8 or higher, and if it does great don't worry about it, and if it doesn't then look for the rogue software (like maybe some random scripts).
He also transferred content outside of the network, while contacting someone who did not wish to be contacted.
The idea that the only, or even primary, incentive to do stuff is money is an invention of 20th century economics. It was then tragically taught to most educated people, especially business leaders. That made it a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy, along with the shareholder value myth (the idea that companies should be (may even be required to be) entirely short term profit motivated out of a duty to shareholders. These are among the most harmful ideas from the 20th century. To answer your original question, no money is not the only incentive to do stuff. But in Econ 101 that assumption is made to make the math easy.
it’s crazy that we need to jump through hoops. these providers should allow an opt out for specific devices or at least the ability to apply context.
> If you practice without conscious effort then you aren't practicing, you are just playing and almost surely isn't improving

This is true to an extent, but at least with music there's sort of a spectrum of difficult -> automatic (i.e. hard work -> pleasure) as you build up muscle memory.

I played piano for many, many years without making conscious effort to improve, and, like you described, I didn't get any better. Once I decided to get serious and start taking lessons again things changed; it gave me an external incentive to make progress each fortnight and practice daily.

There's an element of it that feels like pressure at first (its easier and more tempting to play something I already know than to work on a new song/exercise), but once I get the basics of it right and enter the phase of repeated practice to improve, that's where the fun part comes which I genuinely enjoy. With a bit of practice it becomes automatic and I can just enjoy the process and experiment with whatever comes into my mind (this is with jazz, not sure how it applies to other genres) I find it an extremely therapeutic experience.
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You're very certain of things you shouldn't be so certain about, I'll leave it at that.
Couldn't view link so didn't read, but:

What does this mean from a taxation perspective? Could it be that "todays tech founders" want to "pay their dues"?
You can certainly write something like this such that it will use as near as makes no difference any CPU time.
Dr. Jessica Rose, Slides on Vaers, Sept [pdf]
an easy way to test if your cores have gone offlane is to compile a big codebase or transcode a video file.

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 output.mp4

will use x264 which is well optimized to use your whole CPU (you can check htop).
The true "Indigo Children". Sorry to resurrect that early 2000's meme.
I used this Australia specific page https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-21/income-calculator-...
He was certainly a person with some flaws. It seems to me like he took up philosophy to retroactively justify, mostly to himself, the way he was already living his life.

Another part that I found especially unpleasant was how, in the chapter about sexuality, he seamlessly transitioned from his sexual attraction to women to how much he enjoyed beating up other men. He made it quite clear that the two things were different sides of the same coin to him.

His accident followed a similar pattern. On the motorcycle forums where he was posting pictures of his trip as it happened, there were lots of comments politely begging him to wear more protective equipment. He acknowledged then but politely refused.

Ultimately, I still sympathised with him. He didn't do himself any favours, and I probably wouldn't have wanted to know him personally, but he didn't deserve the level of torture he ended up enduring.
I mean, even just Wim Hof is proof that you can have conscious control over things previously thought you couldn't.
Longtime lurker, I just created an account to respond to this thread.

Why not consider how much software has improved our life collectively and only find faults in it.

Developer is someone who knows how to instruct machines. They are not the owner of the product. So it might not their decision to disable right click.

The era that author talks about when everything was achievable with "html form", we should also consider the number of people who had access to the internet at that time. Also most of the people were technologist or early adopters. The usecases have changed in last "28 years" that "HTML forms" are not enough. The problem they solved in 1993 was good for that time but it does not always fit for the current standards and requirements.

There are 1.7 billion websites[1]. If we apply "Six Sigma" to it, still there would be 5780 websites would be defected. what are the chances that author might be browsing only those sites /s

I'd like to close with this - we have made huge advancements as a humankind and many of them seems impossible imagine without software developers. I'm grateful for all the technologist before me for their contributions even if its just "JAVASCRIPT-POWERED CUSTOM TEXTBOX WIDGET".
Spoiler: "Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base on top of
a local folder of plain text Markdown files. "

Thanks but org mode seems to handle that kind of thing just fine.
Wayland doesn't constantly redraw the window (this is why pycharm had issues with Xwayland) so you already have this benefit if you're on Wayland.