skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He and warren buffet both strike me, as a huge fan of buffet, as being incomplete humans somehow. They are like characters in a role playing game where you put all your points into “business intelligence” and severely neglected everything else. Then they grew up in an insulated bubble just thinking about money 24/7 their whole lives. Buffet himself said something along the lines of “if I was born at any other time in history I’d be eaten by an animal for lunch”. Jordan Peterson also made a good point about the very wealthy…why do we ask why there aren’t more billionaires instead of asking why some people are willing to do nothing but work 24/7 their whole lives for success. These are not people we should demean or aspire to be in my opinion. They are not healthy mentally.
Their approach seems to be piecemeal, so I don't think there is a risk of empty promises here. My guess (based on following their dev comments for a few months) is that they are just going to replace the components most diverging from their desktop vision, until it's a new desktop environment.
Why do some of your "profiles" have Xs?
PGP is a battle tested tool, widely available and straightforward to use vis Linux command line. It’s also well supported, eg, by Yubikeys etc.
Wow Hackernews never ceases to amaze me, I enjoyed this. TIL I missed my 1 billionth second. You should also make a programmer mode, one that shows you powers of 2 (like 1024 days old)
I use it a couple of times a week. Sometimes it’s brilliant, and sometimes I have to find my answer somewhere else. Most of the time it does its job.
Work on a game all by yourself in your spare time. Learn to make graphics, music, characters, and all the coding.
HN comes from YC, which was birthed from Silicon Valley. Almost everything on this site has an american centric perspective.
This happened to me with an older Dutch friend. It took a while to figure out why he would never eat corn tortillas or corn pupusas while in Central America. It was until some months later they told me they considered corn as animal food and didn't want to taste it.
I don't want a little money every month, I want a lot of money all at once! -- Russ Hannaman (from Silicon Valley)
I was one of those children. My father used to smoke. I hated it, and so did my mother - who had given up and had various respiratory problem.

We didn't get a choice.

I have no doubt that the tobacco industry is simply evil. History still hasn't come to terms with the horror and catastrophe created by an industry devoted entirely to farming and promoting addictive toxins.
Because common expectations are two complex algorithmic problems finished coding up in 45 minutes? “Show me the incentives and I will show you the outcome.” and “It’s not rocket science.”
i’ve been in high stress situations, and angry, where I made a bunch of correct decisions, and a bunch of mistakes. in this case, especially since I’m not the one who is in the crosshairs, i understand her pain
I'd say on average HN readers can avoid COVID by way of privilege. They can have food delivered to them, work from home, receive necessities from Amazon, etc.

This allows them to disproportionately value individual freedoms over the greater good with little to no personal risk.

You don't see this level of anti-mask/anti-vaxx nonsense on forums for Uber drivers and grocery store workers, for example.
> You really need to see these results to appreciate them.

Seems more like the quality of the queries rather than the results. Many of the complaints I see about google and friends is related to them dumbing down search for the global common denominator.
They should switch their efforts to KDE then. Gnome has long held back linux desktop
Assuming they are happy with fully remote work, $90-110k is an obscene amount for a developer role in parts of the EU.
I don’t understand the problem. You are asking what is 48*6, and the correct answer is right at the top.
No one lies on the Internet, right? I’ll grant the OP the Mark Twain Benefit of the Doubt. I laughed, I shared. Bwhaha!
One of California's cheapest cities became unaffordable
I think the M1 CPU lowers some of the ARC retain/release to silicon -- it doesn't remove the problem, but it does seem to reduce the relative overhead significantly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25203924

> this requires at least as much effort as not using ARC to begin with.

Designing a brand new CPU architecture certainly counts as "at least as much effort", yes. ^_^

P.S. While I'm here, your "handles are the better pointers" blog post is one of my all-time favorites. I appreciate you sharing your experiences!
The organism didn't evolve to live in a petri dish. I wonder how it uses this ability in the wild.
Wolfram isn't reporting how much protein you'll get from eating something; it's reporting how much there is in the bread. Protein assimilation depends on a huge range of factors, and varies significantly between individuals (based on everything from gut microbiome to health factors to how much you chew your food to your saliva production to... Well, it's a long list). There's no way a website could report the amount of protein you will get from bread. Reporting how much is in the bread makes much more sense. It's a shame your friend didn't explain that.

This is something that actually annoys me immensely when people say "you eat too much!" to fat people. Two people can have the exact same diet and the exact same exercise regime, and if one assimilates particular foods more effectively they'll be getting more calories, and put on weight. Food intake is far more complex than many people believe.
A more important question: what happened to Wolfram? I think they missed an opportunity to have an enormous market by pricing themselves into a niche. They had so much cool stuff that could have played a much larger role in most developers lives. And which would have funneled more users into higher end premium products.

Every now and then I go to their site to have a look -- and then realize that I'm not going to go subscribe to some piece of software I'm unsure I will be using enough to justify the cost.
Maybe we're mostly in agreement? I certainly agree that ancient people were very similar to us, and that religion can have value by transmitting knowledge. But religions, almost any social meme complex, tend to have a lot of nonsense closely entwined with the beneficial payload. So when people act it out as a whole, it can have some really goofy side effects, like cathedrals (the details of what's inside, if not the brute fact of its location). You can't treat the ritual separate from its practical implications, because in the minds of people they derive from the same logical source, and if you try to take just the parts you like you'll actually be acting inconsistently with your supposed beliefs. Separating the good from the bogus at scale apparently takes centuries at best.

I guess maybe you're saying we should try harder to find the economic purposes under the apparently ritual artifacts? Maybe. I'm honestly pretty sure that's assumed in practice. I bet if you talked to an archaeologist on the project and raised a similar point to your point about cathedrals, they would say something like "Hmm? Yes, of course it was something like that." But even if we get enough evidence to figure out the economic or political role these sites played, my guess is the religious or other ritual aspects will not go away.

As for our modern perspective, assuming that ancient people were superstitious is a completely natural extrapolation from watching ourselves, even if that's not where the assumption comes from in practice. Math is pretty solid, and the platonic ideal of science but science as practiced today too often is a ritual, or we wouldn't have all these replication crises and junk COVID papers.
They should break this down further, and state the average dollar hit per smoker. Most people don't mentally comprehend how many smokers there are in the world at any given time, or whether the financial impact even high when applied to an entire population.

"On average YOUR smoking costs approximately $X" would be far more easy to understand.
I find it it interesting that spending billions on promoting smoking somehow isn't considered social engineering, but trying to prevent it somehow is.
Would be great if there was an option for those of us that have enabled the "2-step verification" setting for our account. :(
How much do you weigh? That sounds close to right for most people I think.
Prolog was the first kind of logic programming that existed. It opened the door to a world but as a language and depending on the domain, it can be considered to have numerous deficiencies.

Constraints liberate. A datalog program for example can be considered a very restricted prolog program, but it is guaranteed to terminate and there are alternative evaluation strategies that can be very efficient.
google is so big nobody can get anyone else’s attention. so making a public stink, while very questionable otherwise, may get someone’s attention who’s able to fix this mess
If that's a selling point of Win11, I bet they refuse to sign the driver for Win10.
This seems normal for employees with privileged access. Give them a two week vacation on their way out.
LSP is definetely not needed (or even widely used?) for syntax highlighting.

LSP is not even used for highlighing in vscode, where it originated.
Shouldn't this have been submitted as a [Show HN], given that it's basically someone promoting her own service?
I’ve have a couple of really useful reviews from this guy: https://www.roastmylandingpage.com/
I don't know a single old smoker who thinks that. My grandfather, great uncle and others acknowledged their shitty older years were their own damn fault but they urged me to never start. There was no "make a choice" or "it's worth it to some people."

I've only heard younger smokers say that but I don't think they've internalized how bad it's going to be.
The process group thing isn't pettiness, it's an implementation flaw.
Someone who purchases an iPhone does not automatically endorse every single aspect of the iPhone. Many people choose iPhones because they are fashionable, and not for any security consideration.

Governments and enterprises contract with original equipment manufacturers for repairs because it is more convenient at that scale. Most phone users are not government or enterprise users, and have lower budgets. The cost difference between an Apple repair and a third-party repair is negligible for an enterprise, but much more significant for the average user.
Hetzner is German, not french.

Ovh is french.
We don't need less DEs, we need one with a low learning curve that happens to be usable by power users too, and one that can serve as the face of the OS in public. There's nothing like that yet.
I'm guessing most people try to obtain the same username on every service, so generally it's not hard to trace people's other identities. And some people, including myself, are happy to have all their identities out there.
So, the startup is you offering your services as a contractor? That was the longest ad-read pretending to be a blog ever. Many times you used quotes without an author making attribution very difficult.
But their products are so blingy and fast! /s

It's a magician trick. Distract you with one hand while performing the trick with the other. Watch the dazzling performance while they further lock down your device.
It's a gaming survey with mostly reddit users, so may be skewed.

https://boilingsteam.com/which-linux-distro-for-gaming-q2-20...
I only reply here because I know some readers will be open minded and interested.

There is a behavioral literature on what's called 'stimulus equivalence' - it shows how emergent, novel behavior evolves out of training the underlying relations (e.g., train a>b and b>c, then you get the emergent c>a). This happens with humans down to the level of mild retardation, but it's very hard to demonstrate it in animals.

Such emergent behavior is a kind of variability - the same genotypic variability that the environment 'selects' from to reinforce complex stimulus-governed learning.

If animals show observation learning, as you suggest, it's a mistake to conclude that it's not learned. As dozens of studies have shown, when the reinforcement is contingent, not of a fixed behavior, but on a conceptual behavior, that's what's learned (eg. an animal doesn't get food unless the sequence of three behaviors on a 3x3 grid are totally unique relative to the last 100 responses). Such contingencies are natural in all animal environments.

An animal or person can't execute complete motor performances according to some computational scheme, unless by this you just mean neural-networks (which don't compute, they just respond). If you look at primitive reflexive responses in insects, you see that the underlying neural pathways are, at the micro level, different for each individual. In other words, the brain develops according to environmental feedback (the first matrix movie has much to teach us about this). This is not learning, but the same notion applies to learning: a four legged animal has to learn to walk, then run, and gallop, and that neuronal-based learning is governed by feedback between the organism and the environment. You don't have to call this operant conditioning, but that's all that's involved: a complex biological system adapting from environmental feedback.

We overlook the power of conditioning because we think in simple terms of behavior being reinforced. As noted here --
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2000-08385-002 -- behavior is not what's reinforced. What is selected is a stimulus-response relationship. Think of memory. Memories are not stored, if they were, the brain would have to remember where they were stored, ad infinitum. Memory is just a tendency to respond based on history: we see a movie, we remember a movie. It's all about remembering (a kind of behavior), and you won't think of what was the first car you owned if you don't read this sentence. Without stimuli, including interior/private thoughts, memories don't really exist. Sensory deprivation shows this impact of removing stimuli.

A problem with Skinner was he often simplified things too much. But not always. As seen here --
https://www.jstor.org/stable/27759371 -- his offering of a 'selectionist' model where the operant was the constructed product of cultural conditioning, anticipated a number of influential philosophers that few would think to tie to Skinner. As well as a number of post-modern philosphers
I appreciate that info. I tried Hetzner a decade ago from the US just to see what kind of latency I might expect. I've been waiting for them to finally get US located services to give them a serious shot (vs Digital Ocean & Co.).
Helping coding students with pair programming
Sure, it's from 1999 (and earlier) but this immediately reminded me of ACiD Draw.

http://www.acid.org/apps/apps.html

ACiD Productions is a digital art group founded in 1990. If you're into ascii art you might dig their work.

http://www.acid.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACiD_Productions

ANSI/ASCII art was the aesthetic of the pre-internet BBS era. Text graphics was the best you could do over a slow modem link at the time.

Later on we even had vector graphics (anyone remember RipTerm?) which were pretty cool (despite the slow transfer speed) because the limited speed meant you got to watch it progressively draw.

https://wiki.gen.net.uk/doku.php/archive:computers:ripscrip
hr is like the police. they are the servants of the upperclass, and their job is to do whatever the board wants, while keeping it legal and keeping the company immune from lawsuits as much as possible
> there are tons of new, modern GC implementations that have no pauses

There are no GC implementations that have no pauses. You couldn't make one without having prohibitively punitive barriers on at least one of reads and writes.
I don't know if it's still true. Probably not. But at one point in the past 10 or 15 years I heard the (what seemed to me credible) claim that, taken as a whole, the commercial airline industry had never made money.
Stable Baselines3 (SB3)
that was Firefox on Windows
Opensuse Tumbleweed also works well on the XPS (in case you get bored of Ubuntu)
Language changes based off usage. Her use of "begs the question" isn't it original meaning, but it is perfectly acceptable today. It is similar to how the dictionary definition of "literally" now includes it meaning "figuratively". Continuing to complain about these things after society has moved on just makes you sound like an old crank.
Oh man! I remember riding fung wa over a decade ago. Wow, time flies.
I felt a great disturbance in the Billing, as if millions of rows suddenly cried out in read and were suddenly repeated. I fear something terrible has happened.
The curse of Microsoft is having piss-poor timing, early or late. This shot is way too early. Don’t worry, they saved a shit-ton of money by not betting big on TPM yet. Even if it’s a boring roll out with a slow adoption rate, they can run the clock. They are in no hurry as long as they set the direction.
To agree with the sibling comment, another better alternative may be "Measure What Matters" by John Doerr: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39286958-measure-what-ma...

He has a lot of respect in the tech world, being a leader at Kleiner Perkins who invested early in Google, Amazon, and many others. He's the person who really popularized OKRs, so the book has some great examples.
This feels like the area of advice where you can probably concoct a narrative that supports any particular day of the week. :D
To rule in hell or to serve in heaven.
So a marginally sophisticated player motivated by say stealing someone's content can still do it relatively easy, but if my 14-yr-old breaks her screen, we're SOL. You don't actually think this would even slow down the NSA do you? It's about Apple locking out independent repair businesses.
I don't think the /s is necessary. Many EE's go through much of the same coursework as CS students. For young EE's why would they go into the HW world when they could make so much more money working in SW. I am an EE and I am considering making the jump to SW as my daily workflow is already about 60% SW work.
There's an open space to fill right now for "switchers" coming from Mac OS, with a high expectation of polished experience when they invest more than $2k into their main driver hardware. These new Linux users don't want "choice at all costs" (the current vibe I get from the community) but rather, "good design that just works", with a Mac OS expectation origin. I think this explains why System76 chose Gnome over KDE, and why they built Cosmic. If their users aren't satisfied with Gnome's (somewhat inflexible) constraints, then the natural choice is to piecemeal develop a better DE for customers.
In fairness her focus is much more on message and content than on correctness. I do agree that she would benefit from a copy editor but the main challenge a lot of business owners have is with what to say, rather than saying it with perfect grammar.

So I imagine she may well be able to help people who struggle with that. Which in my experience is almost everyone in business.
OKRs are Objectives AND key results, they're two different things. There is no such thing as "an OKR for growth".

I've found it helpful to insert the phrase "as measured by" between the two. If I can't do that the there is either a tenuous connection or I've blended the two concepts together.

For example instead of "OKR for growth = Improve {topic} by {percent} during {timeframe}. Measure by {metric}" You should have something like "Improve new user experience to create a loyal customers (aspirational objective) as measured by Improving onboarding completion by X%, Remove X steps from onboarding, Improve NPS for new users by X% (KRs)".

Usually putting both a measure and a deadline is redundant. There is an implicit deadline (the OKR cycle length). Likewise if you're defining a deliverable and deadline then you may as well just use roadmaps. The idea of OKRs is to give teams flexibility to learn and change course rather than follow a set path.
When Recommender Systems Fail, Who Are You Gonna Call?
Is 2% a rounding error?

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide
You don't back track, you just try everything from scratch
Oh yeah, for sure possible, I just meant doable in the “easily extend the current pattern in an evening or two” kind of way, ha!

But hey, if a district or school menu software company wanted to sponsor it, it could absolutely get done
Thursday, 10am: Company All-Hands. Scheduled at short notice.

First 10 or 15 minutes is beating around the bush about how well things have been going, buuuuut....

Another 10 minutes of different leaders explaining how difficult the decision was, crocodile tears and all.

Everyone, meanwhile, is waiting for leadership to stop wasting time and get to the point. If it wasn't obvious at the start, it would be crystal clear now.

Another 5 minutes or so of hand-wringing about how amazing everyone is and how hard this was, to complete the bullshit sandwich.
That's decent counterargument to something I didn't write.
It might help to explain what your friend says is “wrong and useless” so others could provide feedback.

It also might help to avoid insinuating things about strangers online in order to promote discussion and not stifle it.
> The most sophisticated repair shops have found a workaround, but it’s not a quick, clever hack—it’s physically moving a soldered chip from the original screen onto the replacement.

Sounds like that's not a problem for sophisticated adversaries, such as, say, the United States Government.
To face the possibility of not answering your question, I think I answer on the not so obviously one.

https://www.verywellfamily.com/hormones-in-breast-milk-p2-39...

Here's an explanation of hormone/active content in our human mammals milk.
I assume (others say "We know") with other mammals it is the same.

There is also evidence that milk of cows given to human babies let them develop eczema of skin. That's why they get mom's milk or processed artificial powder milk with supplements a human newborn needs.

Also, young mothers should avoid alcohol while still breastfeeding.
Medicine taken also must not be passed to baby with milk. Quite a lot of medicine have a warning.

Also a lot of food ingredients can be passed with milk to newborns, like salt, pepper & spices, garlic, onions, cardamom, etc - which induce flatulence and pain or having even bigger effects, like lavender scent does by being oestrogenious and letting boys grow boobies or the girls developing "elephantiasis of their secondary sexual character parts" (= I can't write that three descriptive words in here) and later as a result a high risk of breast cancer (to much of oestrogen hormone as main cause).

So, we eat parts of dead bodys and drink the milk which is not intended for our branch of evolution :)
Me too – my dad only stopped smoking around us when my sister and I got migraines and he couldn’t tell himself it wasn’t a problem. This was 100% supported by the tobacco companies’ well-funded propaganda machine.
I think you will find if you watch the video I linked that Jean Martin Fortier is anything but dumb.
Yeah. Simon Marlow also left MSR years ago, for Facebook.
Fucking traitorous maga judges.
It's safe to assume any recipe written in the last 50 years is using the standardized units. It isn't literally 100% true, but close enough that it's not worth worrying about.
Fucking traitorous maga judges!
MSR is having pretty substantial layoffs at the moment. Some kind of substantial reorientation, with whole projects being shut down.