skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I get that it's subjective, but my subjective view is that having sunlight after work is more important, and I stand by that.

Plenty of folks that study chronobiology do not think it is subjective. The Society for Research on Biological Rhythms:

> Local and national governments around the world are currently considering the elimination of the annual switch to and from Daylight Saving Time (DST). As an international organization of scientists dedicated to studying circadian and other biological rhythms, the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms (SRBR) engaged experts in the field to write a Position Paper on the consequences of choosing to live on DST or Standard Time (ST). The authors take the position that, based on comparisons of large populations living in DST or ST or on western versus eastern edges of time zones, the advantages of permanent ST outweigh switching to DST annually or permanently. Four peer reviewers provided expert critiques of the initial submission, and the SRBR Executive Board approved the revised manuscript as a Position Paper to help educate the public in their evaluation of current legislative actions to end DST.

* https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31170882/

* https://doi.org/10.1177/0748730419854197

World Federation of Societies for Chronobiology:

> In summary, the scientific literature strongly argues against the switching between DST and Standard Time and even more so against adopting DST permanently. […]

* https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2019.0094...

* https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2019.00944

Article that links to various other societies and such:

* https://herf.medium.com/why-standard-time-is-better-e586b500...

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26416574
On the desktop, ton of apps don't do their own payments. It takes quite a lot for a company to be able to process their own payments. That's why you see a lot of pay with PayPal, Amazon, Google Pay, Apple Pay, etc.

So I think for sure people will still offer Apple Pay. The difference is that there'd be competition now, so Apple would be forced to reduce their margins to the minimum, maybe close to cost price to compete.

That's basically the point, the competition would drive prices down.
Does anyone know what change was responsible for the big improvement from a few days ago?

https://perf.rust-lang.org

It's less of a universal improvement than the pass manager, but for most of the benchmarks that it does impact it seems just as large, or larger.
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It's different for Wuyi oolongs, they're much closer to black tea so they can withstand boiling water. If I did the same for a green dragonwell or white silver needle, it tastes terrible. I also ran a direct to consumer tea business so I've also tasted quite a lot of teas as I'm sure you have as well.
Awesome! Let me know if you have any questions.
Oh ok! Thanks for the explanation
How does this compare to, for example, Squarespace?
Isnt this argument predicated on the supposition that the only reason they are opposed to coercive experimental gene therapy is because they want to "own the libs?"

I mean, maybe that's right but it seems unlikely when there are other much more obvious things to explain the reasons for the actions in question. That they then post hoc express schadenfreude for the party who they perceive to be responsible for the situation is evidence of the addiction to contempt the article refers to, sure. But I find it difficult to imagine they wouldn't prefer not to be coerced into experimental gene therapy even if it means they don't get the opportunity to "own the libs" in response.
I am disenchanted with "guru level" work in a language. The old saying about "if I'm just barely smart enough to write the code, I'm not smart enough to debug it" is true immediately, and then even more true if there's a 3-6 month delay.

I appreciate being back in a language long enough to not have to look things up all the time, but the dialect of all of them I write in gets simpler and simpler over time.

Portable guru knowledge like "I know how to write an interpreter/compiler" and "I know that for this task there must be a library in $LANGUAGE" and "I know that language construct/function call looks simple but it has to be an O(n^2) algorithm for it to be doing what it says its doing" is much more useful.
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One more point: your argument has very strong resemblance to that of a racialist trying to justify a belief system that is fundamentally rooted in stereotypes and hatred. Contrast that to the person who supports everyone irrespective of their visuals and self-identity.
At least for testing, and traditional automation (aka code) the bar is knowing what you're doing AND knowing the product enough to be able to test it effectively.

We remove the code requirement, making testing accessible to more folks - i.e. product managers and product designers who have great knowledge of the product, but don't want to or can't code. Also, this doesn't tend to exclude developers either. Currently our user base is roughly 1/3rd engineers, 1/3rd product managers/designers, and 1/3 QA folks.
Not very much off-topic, I wish someone makes https://docusaurus.io as a service.
They think about the short term, an end result rather than how to get there. That's one constant that will persist through time with "less than smart" people.
Hm I doubt that developers on Ethereum will switch to such a system. At the end developer/product adoption will decide how the future will look like.
I do not think there is any disagreement here. Your reply, the essay, as well as the quote I posted are all about this distance between being naturally intelligent and making something out of it.
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Lots of past threads, most recently

You and Your Research (1986) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28322153 - Aug 2021 (35 comments)

with links to the rest here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28323486
IMHO, there is a particular clarity of thought in Bastiat's writing that makes him superior to Anglosphere classical liberal authors, at least as far as economics is concerned.
Isn't Bremen, Hamburg, and Berlin's "statehood" because of their former membership in the Hanseatic League?
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https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/quality-of-...

They are #19 in standard of living. Seems fine.
That discussion is a bit strange. In that example Foo is implicitly #[repr(Rust)] meaning it has an undefined layout. In particular, a,b is unordered, and even if you don't care which order you get, there is the question of padding (a reasonable compiler will tightly pack a,b but that's not required).

For this reason, we never reach the question of alignment because we know neither i32, u8, nor any other type has the same layout as Foo (undefined layout).

It is certainly true that unsafe Rust is veeeeery unsafe, as perhaps evidenced by me being the first person to point out the repr issue. On the other hand this scheme has a lot of advantages for writing safe Rust.
I'd really love to know his mindset, because it's completely unfathomable to me.

The idea of applications on the phone was something blindingly obvious to me ever since my first Nokia 3410 I had as a kid. The phone had a bunch of distinct functionalities other than making calls, which you could invoke through a menu. Why shouldn't I be able to add new ones? Write new ones myself?

Installing custom software was later normalized when phones gained ability to run J2ME applets. By the time iPhone was conceived, it was an expected feature.
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I work with good people, and when they screw up, I cut them some slack.

Everyone sometimes screws up. Some more than others. Some distractingly so, and some so often that it's not worth continuing the relationship. But the mere fact that someone at some point screws up does not make them irredeemable. So, yes, I think cutting people slack is important.

This is totally orthogonal to being qualified for a job, or being good, or any other attributes people have that puts them out of their depth. If you work with a bunch of unqualified poseurs, then sure, slack isn't what's missing, and you should quit. But if you find yourself in that situation very often, I'd be asking different questions...
So how do we make decisions based on science? Especially incredibly complicated science that can't easily be replicated? I mean, there are people who believe the earth is flat, so do we just say, "well, it could be flat, so lets never decide anything based on the idea that it is round!"
Or maybe climate change has something to do with this
Proabably 20 days, scattered over 6 months. For me it was more about distributing the work load, so that I wasn't coming back to the same forces that induced the burnout. Improving stress management also helped a lot, which mostly amounts to regular, weight-bearing exercise (leading to a calmer mind, better sleep, better eating ... etc).

I'm about 5 months out of it now and feel like a normal human being for the first time in years.
"'Machine Learning' is Linear Algebra for marketers"

You read it here first.
Type-safe parametric polymorphism (C23)
Likewise using local variables instead of global variables. The point of structured programming is that it's less flexible than gotos are. Decreasing the flexibility of programming constructs means that the reader has fewer possibilities to consider and hence makes the result easier to reason about.

Beyond structured programming you might have object oriented programming that uses restricted access to the object's members to enforce certain parities on them that make the object's behavior easier to reason about. Or functional programs that restrict the persistent mutable state and make programs easier to reason about in another way.
> people who say that never actually think that their questions will be stupid

I use it all the time. Oftentimes they are stupid questions. Sometimes they're not, but generally that's when I'm not sure if it's a stupid question or not. And that's okay—the point is, it's fine to ask stupid questions.
How do you know that? That is just an opinion based purely on your politics disagreeing with the actual facts about CA.
> "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." - Edsger Dijkstra

Something about that quote always bothers me. I'm not sure what, but if I were to try to express the same fundamental idea, I would probably phrase it as "whether a bicycle can walk".
you know zero about the subject matter and are not qualified to comment on technology on a tech website. i am not here to educate you. the m1 processor does not have any x86 instructions that it can execute. if you have trouble distinguishing between an application and a CPU, you need to go hang out on reddit. the real issue is you are here with zero knowledge, correcting people who have the knowledge. you are quite literally a trumper telling doctors the vaccine "changes your dna." same broken thought process, just about a different topic.
Could be up, could be down :)
It's a joke, or it's real, or both.
That's hilarious

"Cancel culture is just a moral panic, also this guy got cancelled for his views And That's A Good Thing"
Take it up with the CCP
"The g factor (also known as general intelligence, general mental ability or general intelligence factor) is a construct developed in psychometric investigations of cognitive abilities and human intelligence. It is a variable that summarizes positive correlations among different cognitive tasks, reflecting the fact that an individual's performance on one type of cognitive task tends to be comparable to that person's performance on other kinds of cognitive tasks. "

from:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_%28psychometrics%29
"It was definitely not related in any way to the research we funded at Wuhan" ~ Person involved in funding decisions that end up at the Wuhan Lab

Sorry, but they had already lost their credibility by lying throughout this pandemic. I'm not going to believe your statements to deflect any potential responsibility in this, given all the other evidence out there.
the oversight board was always a PR tactic. Zuck is the common denominator, expect more of the same bad faith and sociopathic tendencies. Scott Galloway has accurate critiques of these shenanigans.
> Entirely true, but it is also not the reason for the push to de-anonymise (and de-pseudonymise) the internet. It is merely the pretext. The true reason is to make it impossible to speak your mind without fear of retribution. The democratisation of the public discourse haunts and frightens the ruling classes to their bones. The broad dissemination of information and opinions was firmly in the hands of a feudalistic elite until just a few decades ago.

Social media companies are fiefdoms whose real customers are other companies and individuals with large piles of money that want to use it to sway public opinion for profit or power.

YouTube et al. had no problem taking plenty of Mercer money to promote things like Brexit and other content that shifts focus away from those in power to other working class individuals. All someone with enough money has to do is pay to run promoted content on the platforms and it will be disseminated instantly to billions of eyeballs.

Social media platform owners and operators regularly remove content that might rock the boat. They already know that governments will pull the kill switch on them should real unrest happen, because it's happened countless times before. That's bad for revenue, so they play ball with people in power.
Ok, I'll bite. How do you integrate with the tested software?

Do you a) run the tested software inside your VMs (if so, what's the integration API?) or b) expect your clients to run it (if so, how can the client authenticate your test access?)
> . For example, when we apply convolution filters on images the network consists of repetitive blocks of convolutional layers, and one linear output layer at the very end. It's essentially f(f(f(...f(x))...)) where f is the neural network, and we call this "deep" because of the layers of composition. But what if we make this composition go to infinity?

This really does not jive with my understanding. Each layer of, e.g. VGG 16 [1] does not implement the same function. Each layer has its own weights. There are certain architectures that tie weights across layers, but not all of them.

[1] https://neurohive.io/en/popular-networks/vgg16/
Ridiculous example.

"The only people allowed to live in the Vatican City are clergy (religious people) and the Swiss Guards who are the Police force of the country."
Yeah, people want a spotless FOSS project run entirely on donations. It's silly, and I'd wish people started waking up to the realities of the world. You can still do a decent job while living according to them.

The strange thing is that it shouldn't even be a timing thing all that much, a bunch of SaaS apps were already running by 2015 and subscriptions were becoming a more normal thing. Even Office 365 had been a thing for five years at that point, Dropbox and Evernote for eight.

But I definitely remember the hatred, and I was one of the haters back then.

Maybe the difference is that the initial Firefox userbase came more from FOSS people where there's more of a purely altruistic expectation, while I at least approached new browsers more from an IT startup culture angle, wanting to support organizations that do good things more than hanging onto moralisms.
Skills, opportunity, motivation. He had all 3. Together we just call them luck.
Am I the only one thinking that in some GTK4 forms, such as for example the file requester dialog, placing action buttons on the title bar, is both unnecessary and logically wrong? I find it really annoying.
Having the buttons below allows me to drag the window in a favorable position (good, the title bar is available!), then read the entries by moving my eyes towards the lower part, then when finished I just keep looking down until I reach the controls to either accept or cancel the choice. But no, with the new arrangement I must go down, then back up to confirm. At least give us a way to go back to the old widget placement.
You are creating an impossible burden of proof (causation, which in the Pearlian sense can maybe only be established when observing interventional data, which we can't have) while ignoring the balance of probabilities and possible harm done.
This comic illustrates the scale of previous deviations, including the ice age one you keep harping on about

https://xkcd.com/1732/

If you drink a bunch of methanol and then go blind without knowing the exact biochemistry, you don't say "eh, there's no causation proven yet" and keep drinking, you stop the things which correlate until you can show they are safe. Where's your credibility? What have you done to give an alternative explanation to anthropogenic climate change? If you don't have one, you aren't acting in good faith here
The network can be emulated across multiple processes (even 127.0.0.n has some space for multiple emulators). Is the hardware well specified enough? Are there working disk images?
>>> slow down or pause the release process to do QA, or move faster at the expense of product quality <<<

This is a constant dilemma for Solopreneurs/very small teams. I was just thinking last week - can I find an affordable automated testing platform (need to run tests on new features that I've added to my latest project - an Electron App).

Follow up question - does this work for Electron Apps? Either way, still happy to try it for other Web App projects if I do another Web App
I don't think it's about who's at fault, it's about what risks you're willing to tolerate.

Insurance is always a trade-off of EV for tail risk. In exchange for losing money on average (the insurance company has to earn money somehow, after all), you're protected from the worst case scenario. You can think of it like, yourself from parallel universe where you don't get into a crash, pays yourself in the parallel universe where you do get into a crash. And the insurance company skims a little off the top as payment for the service of sending money across parallel universes.

But if you can afford to just eat the cost of a crash, you don't need to pay the insurance company for that service. And maybe you can eat the costs of some crashes but not others: If you crash into a rich guy's car, maybe you can't afford those costs, but damage to your own car is capped at the price of your own car. So that's all Dan's doing: insuring the costs he can't pay (damage to others) but not the ones he can (damage to his own car).

The math isn't affected by his chances of being found at fault, or how good of a driver he is, at all.
> For lack of a better metric, how many IQ points would you be willing to trade per new idea? It feels likely that environmental factors and luck have a much higher impact on happiness and other outcomes for individuals within whatever defines the "high intelligence" or "slightly gifted range". I'd probably make the "less smart" trade for 1-2 novel/high quality ideas since you're basically guaranteeing one or two high rolls. I doubt a 1-2% bump in intelligence would outweigh the benefits.

For one that'd make me at least somewhat rich? Maybe one or two. But I have a feeling I'd end up regretting even that, worrying "would I have gotten this idea I'm not getting, if I hadn't made that trade?", or if a loss of interest in something is because I'm now slightly dumber, or whatever, every day, for the entire rest of my life. Aging-related brain changes are already terrifying, without helping them along.
Does the UI output some kind of configuration file that can be checked into source control? If not, how do I maintain a history of test changes?
> "I'm smart, life is easy, and I'd like to keep it that way." How is this not complacency?

It's all about your perspective. "I have many ideas, I'm working hard to achieve them, and I'd like to keep it that way."

This could also be construed as static, self-satisfied, and "complacent" in it's own way. Complacency is ultimately a negative and derogatory word - using it to characterize an approach you don't agree with seems disingenuous.

You can lead a simple life and still be taking risks, and be comfortable with failure. There seems to be some hard intrinsic assumptions going on in this conversation that "having ideas and executing on them" is the only avenue in life worth pursuing, because failure, risk, fulfillment can't be defined along any other angles.

As you say: a "simple" lifestyle is completely compatible with originality, productivity, creativity, and personal growth. Denying that would be a crime against yourself.

You can lead a simple lifestyle, and still experiment with your passions. Creating new musical scores, taking risks, and putting yourself out in the world to fail - none of this is fundamentally incompatible with having a simple lifestyle.

I feel like we are both orbiting the same point but viewing things from two different perspectives. It may be as simple as us not fully agreeing on what a "simple lifestyle" actually entails. In the context of the original post, it's a dichotomy between "having ideas" and "being smart". As the grandparent alluded too, "having ideas" becomes a function on how you can impose yourself upon the world to influence it, "being smart" is a function of how you personally experience the world. I think that is really the heart of it, and for some, your personal experience is paramount to your short time on this planet you get to experience being alive - and compromising that just to have more ideas just seems antithetical to the entire enjoyment of life.
> I think assuming VS Code means open source is not right.

When VS Code came out, Atom, which is open source, was popular, and VS Code was thought of as an alternative. So it definitely was part of VS Code's brand.
Having high-res eyes on fingers would be handy for soldering SMD's
We need to rapidly:

Adopt modular nuclear reactors, and produce hundreds/thousands of them yearly.

Electrify transport.

Figure out how to get to a global population of 4 billion: ie massive family planning drive in Africa/West Asia encouraging 1/0 children. (Keep in mind this is just the population level from 1974).
Okay, but the division of the Dakota Territory into two states was done, at least in part, to game the system and secure more seats for the 1870s Republican party. It's not just a matter of "well, there turned out to be two states, and so they just happen to get two sets of representatives and senators" - the causal arrow points in the other direction.
I love how you added "laptop" to make your statement... still false. There is a program running on macos that literally recompiles x86 binaries to arm, then the m1 executes the arm code. the m1 does not execute x86 binaries. period. it only runs arm binaries.
The relatively low salaries compared to the huge amounts of power is almost begging for insider trading, influence peddling, etc.

> The salary of a Congress member varies based on the job title of the congressman or senator. Most senators, representatives, delegates and the resident commissioner from Puerto Rico make a salary of $174,000 per year.

https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/pay-salary/congressman-...

Then again, some people have near insatiable greed and even at a $1M/year salary, some would be looking for ways to further boost their income at the boundaries of ethics, or beyond.
There is a huge difference in semantics with defer compared to RAII since defer is called at the end of the function while RAII is scope based. It's mostly the same except for if you want to use RAII in a loop.
You just reminded me that I used to have a camera with an magnesium body. That thing was a delightfully tough beast.
Once, when traveling in mountainous Central Asia, the road was blocked by a mudslide. The digger that came in to clear the way for us was a Samsung...