skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Smoking is attested both archeologically, and historiographically dating back something like 7000 years in the old world. People have been smoking opium & marijuana in the middle east for probably 2000 years. Smoking culture in India goes back at least 3000 years. Anyone who's accidentally put the wrong thing on a fire will immediately recognize the source for "smoking".

This makes me feel like the rest of your comment is probably not accurate, either.
I had very low expectations for this TV show, so when I saw the first episode I felt it was better than what I had expected. But when I tried to watch the second episode, it was so bad that I couldn't even bring myself to finish it (I saw less than half of the episode).
I don't even think that's the point, though. I think it's more of a criticism of strict stubbornness. It's not the fact that he's immortal that's the problem, it's the fact that he/they continue to "lead" in the exact same manner, attempting to ossify a society that, on its insides, is changing. The only thing consistent is change, especially in society. Isn't the point of Foundation that, despite spectacular individuals, societies move on and change?
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This is possible at Cambridge and certain other universities for graduates of those universities:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_Philosophy_by_public...
> There's little worse than a friendly but incompetent teammate

Did you met unfriendly and incompetent? Cause those really sux.

The worst is "jerk, average competent, but people who don't work directly with him assume he is genius because he is jerk".
Is this on Windows? If so Windows provides a typical Win32 type of HANDLE API for the console which can be used to change the properties of the console among other things.
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Okay, we all know what this is really for, reversing VR porn for goggleless horny men.
I've just gone through the process of configuring a new MBP with nix-darwin and home-manager, and I'm sold. Keeping my MacOS and my NixOS environments in sync has been a nice bonus.

I still run Homebrew for a couple of services and casks, but I'm down to less than 20 packages still installed that way.

There have been a few points of friction (which I'm used to as a polyglot with lots of active projects), but the community has been very helpful with ironing those out.
Personal anecdote, had ordered fairly expensive headphones the other day, I wasn't home yet their tracking said "handed to resident". Customer support said that happens sometimes and the package will probably still arrive within the next 2 days. Yeah sure. Didn't happen, they sent me another pair. It's awful how much waste and theft there is in this system and I feel terrible to occasionally be a part of that.
I was sharing my subjective preference and the reasons for my preference. The research is surveying other people's subjective preferences. There is no conflict here.
"Maupin and her colleagues focused on a cohort of MBA students to conduct their study. Students were randomly assigned to teams at the beginning of the semester to work on class projects and assignments."

So this is about what people prefer in their MBA program study group. While I do, personally, think that kindness is super important in work colleagues as well, this study doesn't particularly address that.
To be fair, I never made it past Season 1 so you may be right. It was just so distracting that I couldn't force myself to continue. More and more people recommend it, though, so I may have to just suffer through those early seasons to get to the good stuff.
> Where do you live that it takes "months upon months" to close a sale? Usually the complaint is that the market moves so fast people have to make risky snap purchasing decisions.

IIRC, when I bought my home, the closing date was about two months after we'd made the deal with the seller.

But that's not as long as it seems: there's stuff you have to do in that time, like getting the inspection done, haggling over any issues found, and getting ready to move in/moving out.
No.

The cost of soylent is not more expensive, and its taste is not bad. The problem is culture. You don't need to convince a progammmer who doesn't want to leave his computer. Vegans are/were also not convinced by taste or cost, that is not why they are vegan.
Billions in funding for modern fission nuclear reactors in the short term. Trillions in funding for Fusion power plants for the medium term.

One unprecedented step in this direction would be to shift fossil fuel subsidies into nuclear subsidies. You probably want to do that part in stages.
Just to add… std::vector can lead to fragmentation in heavily threaded applications. We found std::deque solved that issue.
This is radically different than the 2000s bubble.

also GME is over $200 currently, when it was $10 a year ago
24 and a bit aimless here too.
The problem here is windows not providing an open way to update things from an external repo easily like Linux does.

The end game, I assume, is that updates eventually come through the store. But that effectively prevent updates unless they agree to it.
"Effectively prohibiting construction is a ridiculously stupid policy"

But one has to convince the residents or other voting population of that.

"it obviously can't apply for everything, and housing is one of the things it shouldn't apply to."

I generally agree that government should take the smallest role possible. It seems that this topic has a long and expansive precedent - code requirements for how structures are built and where they can be, zoning for where structures can be built and their uses, property taxes (and seizure of non-paying), ordinances restricting what people can do on their own property, property state restrictions (disrepair ordinances), etc.

We could do away with basically all these restrictions. The question is where we draw that line, what we consider problem activity, and how we come to those determinations.

"It's also not just about "personal preference" - building more housing in these areas would be societally welfare improving."

What the preference was aimed at is that many people want single homes, garages, yards, etc. If they can't get them, they will end up moving to where they can. If they have them, they (and the other neighbors) will advocate to keep the neighborhood that way.

You can call something societally beneficial, but others might not see it the same way. It seems the boom-bust housing cycle and migrations between various cities or other areas can also provide societal benefit, and may even be self-correcting as we see people and companies select away from the highest COL areas to more attractive areas. This could lead to sufficient remaining voter base to make the building more permissible or eliminate the need by reduction in demand.
the web allows the spider to be small, like the hot servers and powerplants allow your phone to be a cool glass object
There's little worse than a friendly but incompetent teammate, who will often get too many passes and second chances (because they're well liked) before being terminated.

Except of course for the perfectly (if narrowly) competent but decidedly jerkface and/or outright asshole teammate. Who is even more likely to get a pass for being such a "rainmaker". Or because "it's crunchtime and we need all the firepower we can get our hands on".

Which was basically the article's point.
Where? Almost everywhere except for a few high cost cities. Take your pick.

There are currently 71 homes for sale in Nashville, TN at or under $175K.
Mods didn't flag it or even see it until now. Users flagged it. We can only guess why users flag things, but in this case I'd say the comment was a direct step further into flamewar, so the flags were justified.

A comment that begins "wow so you're essentially [doing completely indefensible $thing]" and ends "serious question: how do you justify this in your mind?" is not the kind of discussion we want on HN. It at least broke these guidelines:

"Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine."

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

"Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

It also crosses into personal attack.

I'm sure you can make your substantive points thoughtfully and respectfully, so could you please do that instead? I don't have any problem with your views (I don't know what they are actually), but we need users to abide by the site guidelines. It's not as if every other commenter in the thread was doing a great job of it either but, as I said already, your comment was a noticeable step further into flamewar hell.
The immediate effect of Heartbleed was the OpenBSD folk [1] and Google [2] forking OpenSSL.

There's a talk from Bob Beck of OpenBSD on pruning OpenSSL, it's pretty hilarious [3].

In that case open source was at least able to react appropriately, even if it didn't act preemptively.

[1]: https://www.libressl.org

[2]: https://boringssl.googlesource.com/boringssl/

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnBbhXBDmwU
The key difference is that an opinion is something that can change. A kidnapping cannot be undone. In fact, you have highlighted exactly what I'm getting at. You can tidy a cluttered counter, and will do so if you think it beneficial for you socially. You cannot un-kidnap. Which scenario do you think maps better to an opinion?

I think the difference in our positions is that you think people are born with a rigid, unchangeable "real" opinion, and I think opinions change according to the person's company.
Steam Is Banning Blockchain-Based Games on Their Platform, Groups Fight Back
I wonder if many of these more transactional tablets would be amenable to automated transcription/translation. I imagine that names would be rough, but lists of goods and prices
seem manageable.

I've dabbled a little in Akkadian languages but gave up because the time commitment seemed too massive.
Compared to yesterday's thread on HN, the news is that Circle (part of a joint venture which Coinbase, the HN unicorn, is part of) welcomes the treasury paper.

Apparently Circle would love to become a "narrow bank" (a bank without fractional reserve banking).

Who knows: maybe that could even turn out to be a bank not giving us headlines like "German chancellor on the brink of second banks bailout"?
I’m sure you created a shitty day for one of us :( I’d like to say this was unusual, but it was pretty common.
The Chrome solution to require you to hold quit down or press again is the ideal solution. Prevents accidental closures while also allowing pretty fast quits.
Actually, yesendadam, I was in Australia in 1989 and I went to a baseball game near Sydney. Granted, it was in a park and there were no admission charges. It might even have been girls' softball; I don't remember anymore.
Yes - I'm American. I would rather die in a gunfight against glowies than ever release my keys.

I understand that is not a widely held view.
They've mentioned it without saying directly that that's what they've done.

> And on Linux, we’ve improved WebGL performance and reduced power consumption for many users.

It links to a page with some more info[0]. Exiting stuff.

[0] https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2021/10/30/switching-the-li...
And that s why that chart is misleading, because prices of e.g. houses have gone up and millenials are called to manage with just 3.5% of the total wealth while boomers had 21% in their age. This clearly sets the dynamics of which generation will be working for whom. And while there is a temporary reduction of life expectancy due to various factors, incuding covid, millenials will most likely see extension of their own life expectancy within their lifetimes due to medical advances.
Did Zillow factor themselves into their algorithm telling them to buy/sell? We had the same thing in our ML trading system. The first few iterations worked well because the system was set to run on small positions and volumes, and then we increased that, the PnL in the market was completely different to our models. As soon as we added ourselves into the model, we ended up trading more much like our original predictions.
> There are many reasons why someone would not want this behavior

It's a good thing that this feature can be configured.

https://www.ghacks.net/2021/04/28/mozilla-is-working-on-fire...
We should bring back lab coats and mustaches. So dignified.
The fall of civilizations podcast mentions how Clay tables have captured this information. Long but thorough episode.

https://youtu.be/jpAphcaVJIs
If you wonder the three criteria with three discrete levels you get a cube that's something like:

Very unfriendly, somewhat friendly, very friendly.
Very untrustworthy, somewhat trustworthy, very trustworthy.
Incompetent, average, very competent.

Now if you take these and model the interactions between people who exhibit a three-pair (e.g. (somewhat friendly, somewhat trustworthy and average) against (v. unfriendly, s. trustworthy, v. competent)) I would imagine the "world" would eventually remove all friendly people (depending on the assumptions).

If you imagine friendliness and competence is correlated I would also imagine you'd get rid of a lot of the competent people as well.

Unfortunately more research would be needed to assert or refute this hypothesis. Anecdotally I'd say friendliness and competence are positively correlated, but not very strongly.

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To put it another way, if you have a team of people. Will you team as a whole receive more benefit from someone very competent but ultimately toxic and ruins the culture or somewhat incompetent but very friendly?
When I choose tools I like to ask "Who has the hardest version of this problem? What are they using?"

I'm reaching the tipping point to adopt Nix, after seeing Nix as an alternative for supporting project after project. The unstated subtext always seems to be "Nix is what the smart kids are using, but it's harder to learn."

Haskell? Same religion. But the joke is that one needs a PhD in category theory to use Haskell at all, and package management has long been a Haskell sore point, yet Nix hasn't taken over.

The Lean Theorem Prover?

https://leanprover.github.io/lean4/doc/make/nix.html

A century ago, Hilbert's program to formalize and automate mathematics was stopped in its tracks by developments in logic such as Gödel's incompleteness theorems. There is a new push involving many leading mathematicians, using the Lean theorem prover. While some imagine computers replacing people, a better model is how a chess grandmaster checks their analysis using computers. Even as the experience of observing computer Go games leads to moments of amazement, as if observing an alien tournament, the role of a human to appreciate and generalize is preserved. Primates have long used tools; our future is to coevolve with machines.

Dependency hell and Gödel's incompleteness are cut of the same fabric. This is where I first read about Nix flakes.
I mean you aren't really contradicting anything. Friendly people get too many passes and second chances because people like them.
This is a Windows problem, not a Firefox problem.
If I could pin your comment on all threads related to Firefox, I would. All this whining is what will finally do Firefox in.
Did you validate Firefox updates before?

Most people don't.

For the rare people that do (probably 100 on the entire planet), they can disable the automatic updates and do it manually.

I have no problem with automatic updates I can disable.
> As a manager, it's a lot easier and more enjoyable to work with higher competency people, that's for sure. Though I will say, that I'd trade a certain level of competency for general attitude/friendliness. Some people are quite good but difficult to manage.

Why's that?

Here on HN there are Ask HN threads every few months about one cofounder trying to get rid of another competent, but toxic cofounder.
You're making a good pitch for learning Akkadian! I wish you were there when I was a freshman in college idling flipping through the foreign language offerings to fill a requirement. Akkadian was towards the front of some alphabetical listing and I was idly wondering whether to try it or stick with the language I studied in high school.

I still wish my school didn't have a foreign language requirement at all, but I feel like this pitch would have converted more people scrolling through that alphabetical section of the course catalog.
We had cable at our early-20s-hacker-raver-crazy-person crashpad in Edmonton, Canada in 97, 98. And DSL was available around then, too.

The year before, though, I worked in an office in Toronto with dual ISDN hookup, and it felt fast and state of the art but holy crap... looking back it certainly was not.
Restrictive zoning is a consequence of scarcity seeking incentives.

Housing can't be both Affordable and a good Investment. Therefore the only proper value for a home is the price that it costs to build it. The way to do that is a 100% Land Value Tax.
Mesh for Microsoft Teams aims to make collaboration in the ‘metaverse’ personal
It's opt-in AFAIK.
What's advantage of Fedora over something like Arch?
I like a little bit of both. They better be downright brilliant if I am going to put up with their ego. I worked with a guy like that once. Yeah, he worked at Google, and "that's not how they did things over there". He was very sure of himself, but being smart is NOT the same as being intelligent. He never missed a chance to throw jabs at our lame, working codebase.

Then he checked in AWS secrets in our main repo and made it public.
There's a guy in our Matrix and Discord channels that's working on a Nix package. :)
I'll introduce you to him if you'd like.
Just want to chime in and say I enjoyed reading this interaction. Both well-reasoned points, politely and maturely presented (one of the things I love about HN.) I happen to agree entirely with your side, but that's irrelevant. Thanks!
Maybe this is just because of where I am in life, but between work, children, and hobbies, I don't have time to be bored. If I'm watching TV it's because I'm choosing to do it instead of something else I should be doing or want to do. I will only even try shows that receive high praise from people I trust or from a lot of reviewers. If a show's only function is to kill time it has negative value to me.
Possibly because they didn't add themselves into their modelling?
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For a price.
I really love how humane this whole thread is. People often say here than they miss the old internet, in a way this thread feels like it.
Brew used to be much more useful to me. Using brew years ago, it was way less opinionated and more flexible, which was perfect for OSX.

Homebrew's response to criticism seems to be to continually narrow the field of users and the scope of their project, and tell users to use something else.

People are only frustrated because they found it to be so helpful.

But I suppose that it had to mature, or something like that.
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Awesome, I will check it out.

In my case, it was in 2017, and I remember clearly what happened. Homebrew alerted me about the most recent compatible formula, and what commit it was removed in a week earlier. I was then forced to unshallow the Homebrew repo, revert that commit, and then I could install it. I remember I had a good reason for not updating my OS, and I'm sure it was less than two years old.

It was incredibly frustrating, and took a lot more effort than it was worth. Homebrew already had the ability to find the last good version, it would not have been hard to automate it. There were no taps at the time, I had no choice but to do it manually.
I find Baseball kind of interesting (in an academic kind of way rather than a want to watch it kind of way) because it is so different from nearly everything else.

Ball games can be split into two categories.

1. Games where you score by putting some moveable object (typically a ball) or objects in some specific places or regions.

2. Baseball and related games.

American football: ball carrier in the end zone. Soccer: ball across the goal plane. Table tennis: ball on ground. Golf: ball in the cup. Basketball: ball through the hoop. Skeet shooting: bullet hitting target. Quidditch: Quaffle through hoop or Snitch to Seeker. Pinball: ball to specific targets.

The game is all about restrictions and requirements for how you get the ball to the scoring place or region.

Contrast this to Baseball. The ball there is not used to score. In fact the team on offense does not even possess the ball.

The ball is a repository of power, like the One Ring or Mjolnir, granting those who posses it special abilities. In Baseball that special ability is a Touch of Death. The player wielding the ball can symbolically kill a base runner by merely touching them.

To score in baseball the team at bat has to get someone to run the bases without the other team using the ball's death powers on the runner. Generally that is done by the player at bat using the bat to knock the ball somewhere far enough away that runners can advance before the team on defense can retrieve that ball and use it to reestablish their control over the base paths.
My take is that as long as your workers are above a certain threshold (as far as technical competency goes), a team with healthy culture will on average outperform a team with toxic culture - even though the latter may have members that are more technically proficient, than in the former team.

By toxic culture, I mean:

- Poor communication

- Abrasive or toxic personalities

- Bullying and harassment

etc.

I think that in most normal people, stressors like those can affect their performance.
And I don't mean full-blown hazing rituals - even more subtle actions (poor communication, for example) can lower morale. More so if you feel that said poor communication is deliberate.
Is it actually a lot easier? By what metric?

I'm assuming when you say "host your own servers" you mean actual hardware, right? So getting the hardware, setting it up, hooking it up, reliably, to power and the internet, physically securing it, maintaining hardware, that's "a lot easier" than using a couple EC2 instances across availability zones?
Tramp mode is great. My only pain point with it is it operates purely in serial.When i save a buffer i have to wait for it to complete on the remote server before I can switch to another. It's almost enough for me to want to open a separate emacs instance for each remote file I'm editing. (Which in tmux might even be feasible ... hmm ...)
Just as you expect your asset to be worth more at some point in the future, you can expect your cash to worth less at some point in the future. These follow from each other. To say the cash is always worth less is not coherent with your stated asset model.
I think that sums up the other replies that say 'friends first, etc', and is in fact my point.

In my experience there was some prestige in winning, and particularly in picking a winning team, and that would feed into who was picked for the school team.

When the stakes are low, you can can choose to be among friends. When the stakes are higher, you need to work, perhaps less comfortably, with greater talent.
I’ve always said that a coworker has to be either friendly, competent, or both. Ideally both but some are neither.
Clickable URLs (It's not automatic, no worries you didn't do anything wrong, the ranking looks fine, too)

https://basetool.io

https://www.loom.com/share/b8f40183134445208c121128d11b12d9
Just want to chime in (on the flip side) and say I enjoyed reading this interaction. Both well-reasoned points, politely and maturely presented (one of the things I love about HN.) The opposite of what i wrote below: I happen to not agree with your point, but that doesn't matter. Thanks for sharing your perspective!
There are better ad-free tools like FaceTime (which can be used on the web) for speaking with friends and family.