skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every time I read something like this I always think they have the causality backward which I think that anyone who has ever suffered from depression can attest to. The food doesn't make you happy, you're predisposed to finding happiness. You wouldn't say that bad food makes you unhappy would you? Disappointed maybe but under normal circumstances it wouldn't cause unhappiness. If you were depressed it might, and you would find it difficult to find happiness in even good food.

Everyone has heard the story of the person who toils under great hardship and still manages to find joy in life. That's sort of the opposite of depression and it isn't necessarily good. People who are content to toil in hardship might find it difficult to motivate themselves to change their situation. It's a balance between the internal and external. Even the definition of what is good food is malleable. The chef or food critic might be repulsed by Taco Bell while someone else might enjoy every bite.
Rotten episode on Chocolate is really eye opening about the staggering amounts of slavery, child labor, and corruption in the chocolate industry. Basically every brand you can think of is in on it.

https://www.netflix.com/title/80146284
> Worse, Chase even openly admits to being hostile to Linux and BSD to someone on Reddit. It’s something even Microsoft, Windows PC/hardware OEMs, or Apple won’t do.

If you click through to the link, you will see that this claim is totally made up.
One machine is always the server and the other one the slave to it, it's like that with most transfer protocols, including scp and nfs
The smartest thing I've ever heard someone say about "taste" was an elaboration on the phrase "taste is subjective", with 'subjective' meaning "based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions".

He said that there isn't any higher truth that can "prove" that a recording of off-tempo typewriter clacking is 'worse' than the Beatles, and that technically both are equally valid as an artistic statement, but that since taste is based on the subject, we can use someone's stated preference for typewriter clacking over the Beatles as revealing of their personality and belief set, and then we can decide whether or not we want to be in society with them.

This put this debate entirely to rest in my mind. I no longer worry about whether or not my tastes are "inferior" or "superior" to someone else's tastes, only whether or not they are compatible. Some people want to rid the world of traditional architecture, classical music, and any other old-fashioned hierarchical art form; their taste for the contemporary isn't inferior to my taste for the traditional, it is merely incompatible, and will inevitably lead to a different society than the one in which I would like to reside.
Due Diligence, Lofi Music, and Exploding Subreddits
I came here precisely to suggest Skiena. Excellent book that gives you a good grounding in both theory and practice, and opens the road for further study, if you're so inclined.
Please stop. Zoning issues/lack of supply would imply that there are lots of homeless people without a roof over their head.

Investors have too much access to property. It's a system of greed that benefits those who entered the market early (typically boomers).

Just stop blaming zoning already.
Microservices is an solution to an organisational problem.

Make sure you use it when you need it. Not because others do it.
What? Save 2x (20% of 10x) your annual income in 5 years? What planet are you on where you think people can save 40% of their net income, let alone gross

And even if by some miracle you save 2x for a 20% deposit, what bank will lend you 8x income for the rest ?

Complete fantasy
Even worse than rising interest rates is a society addicted to the fentanyl of zero interest rates.

There is a reason major religions regulated debt in general, because that is how societal slavery develops. Of course we, the modern people of technology, 'know better' than our primitive ancient ancestors.
Sure everyone is going to pick Harvard over Davidson but would you pick Cornell over Georgia Tech?
The free market will also fix this, you'll see /s
I could argue that its causing 70000 people per year to leave California for Texas to pay those increased property taxes. Well, its only an increase in percentage of estimated asset principle, but in actual dollars its still substantially less. 2% of 250,000 is 5000 which is less than 1% of 750000.
It was $200 billion
"Rational founder" is a contradiction, at least if you believe that a rational actor maximizes the expected value of their life. The modern rational actor pursues the low-risk, high reward professions in finance, law, and medicine if you have good grades and access to capital, and regular entrepreneurship (e.g. start a plumbing business) if you don't. (And if you're a child of the .01%, you're rich no matter what you do, and heaven help you and your character survive the damage that will cause you!)

To believe that starting a new business on the internet is a path to riches is irrational, similar to believing that buying a lottery ticket will lead to wealth. However, it IS a path to valuable pain, learning, and again, with luck, wisdom. The riches are optional, unlikely, and probably means something a lot different once you get them, because by that time you've probably come to appreciate the striving for it's own sake.
Running a WiFi-Less Home Network: Security Paranoid Edition
The issue is the expert who was brought it in was not an expert. They failed to answer even the simplest of questions related to upscaling and did nothing to inform the court of the nature of the upscaling used.

https://www.usnews.com/news/technology/articles/2021-11-11/b...
The whole thing weighs 69g, meaning that the kinetic energy even when rotating at full speed is quite low. You'd still want to avoid getting your eyes in its way tho.
> Again it sounds like you're demanding from physicalists an explanation of consciousness, and, since they can't give one, you take this as a reason for dismissing physicalism…There's like 80 billion neurons which we can't currently inspect at a reasonable granularity

It’s not a problem of scale, but a problem of kind. No one can give an account of the exact motions of waves, of the waving of leaves in the wind, etc. Physicists struggle with providing the exact movements and outcomes of even very simple systems, let alone the movements of things at the level of the ocean’s waves or leaves in the wind. But I suspect most of us think that at least there’s the right kinds of things at the lowest level of physics to account for this. We’ve got particles (or waves, or fields, or strings, or whatever it turns out to be) that with just a little imagination we can see, when aggregated together in large quantities, could amount to waves in the ocean, or leaves waving in the wind. There’s the right kinds of activities at the lowest level that are plausibly all that’s needed to make up these large scale phenomena.

With consciousness, however, there’s nothing in the lowest level that we can point to and say “maybe piling up more of this would amount to consciousness”. There’s things in the lowest levels of physics we can point to and say “these are movement-like events”, but no analogous “these are consciousness-like events”. No candidate precursors to consciousness, to there being experiences and things that have experiences. What I’m saying is that there isn’t even the beginning of a plausible story here. There is, so far as I can see, nothing at the lowest level that is a plausible starting point for consciousness.

Suppose that we have two contending theories, and when we compare their relatives virtues and vices, we find in most ways they’re on a par. However, there’s one, and just one, sticking point — one theory cannot even begin to explain or account for a significant (perhaps the most significant to us) part of reality, while the other has no analogous problem. That gives us reason to prefer the other.

I think that an idealism something like George Berkeley’s (but not exactly Berkeley’s) is just such a theory. I think reductive physicalism and a particular idealist theory do about as well as each other on a great many points, except this one. The idealist theory can account for or explain physical stuff, but the physicalist theory can’t even begin to account for or explain mental stuff.
Can you bring some examples of films that are considered bad, rated say below IMDB 5, but are novel in some way? I don't know of any. There are some edge cases "so bad it's good" like The Room, but I personally don't get the appeal of it. And then it's an edge case anyway.
Honestly, I am disappointed with Marx. For every day people only two things really matter. Fix money (usury and debt) and land. Once you do that, there is no need for a communist utopia.
All that was required was an expert witness, right? So what’s the problem?
> What I don't like is the tagging part - kindles are terrible to type in.

Did you get a chance to try the recent Kindle SW update(> v.5.13.7)? Performance has improved a lot, Tagging (Notes) is smooth due to a surprisingly responsive keyboard.

The browser is out of experminetal too.

I wrote this comment from a Kindle Oasis 9th gen.
There was, the article mentions the cyclist having to pedal backwards in order to allow the chain slack to be taken up when gearing 'up' (smaller sprocket). That would be impossible without a freewheel, unless they mean to say 'exert some pressure backwards' rather than backwards pedaling, I don't see how a fixed linkage would be compatible with this system, it would behave terribly bad during a gear change because the system would always be under tension.

Freewheels were in use in the tour since 1936 at least, and possibly even earlier:

https://hizokucycles.bigcartel.com/single-speed-history
It's very slow for big files though, and requires several clicks on the 2 devices. If you are on the local network, kde-connect is still the golden standard provided you use linux (even with gnome) and android:

- click on the top bar menu to select your device

- select the file

- done

It uploads automatically in the download folder of the other device. It uses the local network speed. Doesn't require additional clicks.

But as soon as I'm on 4G, telegram saved messages is what I use too. In fact, I use it to takes vocal notes, pictures of stuff to remind me later, schedule reminders (yes, it has delayed messages!) and so on. It's my inbox basket for GTD at this point.
Anyone who has received the economic and educational benefits of a wealthy family has gained immensely by being heir. Plus the estate itself!

What's being proposed here doesn't stop generational wealth transfers. The suggestion at hand means that the owners of real property in California would have to pay (or defer) an amount of tax that's related to its current value. Inheritors would have to continue this, instead of inheriting a tax assessment from their parents or grandparents along with the ancestral pile.

A family is absolutely allowed to prioritize a child as the target of its earned resources and good fortune and exploitative practice or whatever. Potentially less a cut, because society has agreed to tax large inheritances. The family just shouldn't get to pass down an inherited tax break too. That's aristocratic, which is unacceptable in a free democracy.
https://archive.md/8c9hs
There are thousands of mindblowingly delicious fruits that are simply incompatible with modern supply chains so most people don't even know exist. I recommend "Weird Explorer" on youtube to get a small glimpse.
Yes, I agree that a fixed rate mortgage is a necessity for this strategy.
TikTok Demonstrates Great User Experience Design
Oh yeah, you're right. If software companies ran the government all cash dispersions would become opaque micro-transactions tied to a vendor completely incompatible with other government services.
Hmm, $30 Xiaomi wireless Bluetooth earpods have pretty good battery life and very decent audio quality. I don't know about waterproofness, but the low end range of wireless earphones has improved significantly in the last few years.
Thanks, that's an interesting paper:

> We find that students who attended more selective colleges do
not earn more than other students who were accepted and rejected by comparable schools but attended
less selective colleges. However, the average tuition charged by the school is significantly related to the
students’ subsequent earnings. Indeed, we find a substantial internal rate of return from attending a more
costly college. Lastly, the payoff to attending an elite college appears to be greater for students from more
disadvantaged family backgrounds.
I don't think Mark Zuckerberg has broken E2E encryption yet. But yes, there is some metadata.
Interesting. The apparently little I’ve ever read about lasers said they are a single color and all of the waves are in-phase - monochromatic and coherent. But that’s an over simplification 1). And I suspect working with extremely short pulses makes it much less so, because the laser has the widest spectrum and least coherency when it turns on (the pulse starts).

1) https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/564727/why-is-a-...
Because we have formula and breast pumps. Whether or not they should is apparently irrelevant to many US voters.
Go to guy on this is Bourdieu.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Bourdieu#Theory_of_capi...

PG may say that his father pushed him in a different direction. But I suspect - like me - PG grew up with the cultural direction of the BBC and its mission to "inform, educate, and entertain."

So if you were a bright curious kid your parents wouldn't necessarily be the ultimate authorities on culture and taste. There were other authorities. If you were interested.

I was genuinely shocked a few years ago when I realised how much my cultural interests had been shaped by that kind of social programming. I still enjoy art and music, but I'm little more circumspect about them now.

The point: cultural taste is an aspirational social marker. It correlates loosely with some observable features in various kinds of art. But the real goal of "having taste" is to convince yourself and others you're a certain class of person, and also to reassure yourself and others you're not a certain other class of person.
I'll definitely check it out. True, verifiable or not... even the most speculative theories are interesting to me. I'm even (especially) a fan of Julian Jaynes, and his strongest claims are flat wrong.

Music is certainly a wild card in the human story, and I'm interested to hear how it can be woven into our superhero origin.
It's things like this that remind you that birds evolved from dinosaurs (in fact, recently birds have been described as just a kind of dinosaur, the only kind to survive the asteroid impact).
The question of the existence of taste can be reframed as the question of whether all people are equal. The answer to one implies the answer to the other and vice versa.
You're getting fixated on the specifics of Tora Bora. Zoom out and look at the other big mountain operations over the following 15 years; you'll hear similar excuses "we needed this technology/we needed more men at this spot." With that context it's easy to see that Tora Bora probably wouldn't have been a success even with GATOR mines or more men.
> The US has the "excuse" of being the first domestic power distribution system -- other countries have better standards because they were able to learn from the design flaws in our plugs.

Are the US plugs actually original? The UK ones are on their third generation (originally various proprietary or light-socket-based things, then the three prong round ones found in very old buildings and specialised industrial applications, then the three prong rectangular ones from the 60s).

> And our split-phase 120V system is (as far as I know) a great idea that's way safer than direct 240V.

Eh. They are both safer or less safe in different ways. The US system requires about double the current for given power, so is less forgiving of marginal wiring.
TLDR: things that lots of people like are good taste.
Their point is, can you mitigate vendor lock-in if you need to do so? The fact that you don't even consider that is a sad commentary in itself.
I loved my AirPods but I’ve gone back to wired headphones.

Why? The batteries lasted less than 18 months and the cost to replace them is more than a new pair. Not even considering again until this is fixed.
Let my give you my primitive explanation to this, maybe it helps a bit. Art is actually more than than the drawing itself, art always comes with a story. When the technique is so great that you can get a good hang of the story just by looking at it, you have the Sixtine chapel. Probably you won't get everything the master wanted to say at a first view, but it's already a lot. On most modern art though, you have zero chances to grab the meanings by just looking at the creation. Thus modern artists write also a lot, talk about their works, and try their best to sell the story to the listening consumer. What are the chances of a casual museum goer to know the story of a certain piece of scrap metal? Thus we can only laugh at what we call ridiculous attempt and walk on. But it's only because we don't know the its story. I won't say that all modern art have a convincing story, of course - not everybody is a master. But my point is that where there's less technique, it needs way more story.
Yes but, isn’t mood also a shift in consciousness as well?
This advice is all well and good, but what happens to your state of internal bliss when one of you a-hole neighbors deliberately brings their dog to do its business on your front lawn. No amount to karmic happiness will stop you from wanting just retribution.
Editor’s note, March 17, 2021: Last week, we ran this story that originally appeared on The Conversation, a nonprofit news outlet that publishes writing by academic experts from around the world. After publishing, we heard from multiple scholars who disagreed with the framing, analysis and conclusions discussed in the article below. They argue, in fact, that contemporary depictions of witches originated in sources other than women brewers and that the transfer from women to men of the work of brewing, in various geographic and historical settings, came about for economic and labor reasons. We addressed a number of factual errors in our March 10, 2021, editor’s note, found at the bottom of the page, and we have changed the headline from its original version.
>And which one makes sense to do as costs go up… property taxes fund things. If you build a $100,000 home it’s hard to charge $8,000/year in property taxes on it.

That's true. However, if you build a $5 million apartment building with 15 apartments on 2 or 3 lots (or even just one) the same size as that $100,000 house, you could charge significantly more and it would be perfectly viable.

What's more, you could house 15-20 times more people.

And the places[0] where a whole house costs $100,000 aren't the places we're talking about.

And those places certainly aren't the ones where increasing the density of housing will do much good.

Note the distribution of median house prices in the site I linked. The really expensive places are clustered around densely populated urban areas (and ski resorts in Colorado).

Increasing housing density to match the population density makes a lot of sense there.

Longer term (as I mentioned in another comment[1]), building out infrastructure and housing of all types in poorer, low population density areas can make them more desirable and provide an economic boost, while taking pressure off more densely populated areas.

[0] https://www.nar.realtor/research-and-statistics/housing-stat...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29223502
Cost of living is too high there now.
Why are these Asian pseudo scientific ideas so tolerated here? I wouldn't expect people being on board when some 3000 year old earth Christians start talking about how your body reacts through the lens of some old judoeo Christian values.
I'd also wonder how durable the coating is, and whether or not it can be cleaned. That could seriously limit its applications.
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Licensing costs were most definitely an issue. The Smallworld GIS system was written using a home grown language and VM because that was more economical than issuing every user with a suitable Smalltalk licence (because in the early days every user was expected to potentially be writing code to analyse their data).
The apparently only empirical study relating interest rates and growth was done by Richard Werner, concluding growth actually historically happened in high interest rate environments, whereas the current economic dogma states exactly otherwise.

https://youtu.be/JD2z4l1DiBw
Asking a question is fine, accepting the defence's claim without further substantiation and the rest of the follow up is less so.
The plugs are part of the overall system they are in and are designed to that. If you have a ring circuit and 240volts like in the UK, then you had better have a plug that deals with common failure modes - switches on the sockets, fuses, ground as standard etc. If you have 120volts and a radial circuit then you can perhaps do without it.

The US plug does have advantages, like being smaller. UK plugs are really annoyingly large and weighty.
Both Rohloff and Shimano have been making pretty sturdy internal gear hubs for a long time, efficiency is fantastic. Ditto for the venerable Sturmey Archer internal gear hub, which goes back to the dark ages.

Efficiency sucks for the continuous variable kind, like the Enviolo and other variations on that theme.
Which software is objectively better?

I'm answering your question with a question because the difficulty of the evaluation process is the point. But there can be an evaluation, and there can be an objective answer for a set of values.

For instance, if we said "I would like a worldview that optimizes people not committing suicide" we could compare and contrast and say that worldview A is better than worldview B because A's adherents don't commit suicide and B's do. We can combine multiple factors, however imprecisely, and still compare A and B together as a rational person.

PG is making a similar argument in the "truth" of how art evokes subjective goods in humans. Humans across time and space are the measuring stick, and hence why the present is not overly weighted in his assessment of this evocative metric of art's quality.

PG's view on this is radical today but hasn't been for thousands of years and won't be again, because human nature doesn't change that much. Contextualization (acquired taste) can make one appreciate art better, but there is something transcendent across space and time that makes art lovely to humans, even lacking focused context.
I very much support paid parental leave, but having to go to work isn’t really being “separated,” in the sense that it’s forced or non-voluntary.

Plenty of women (and men) can and do just stay with their child, paid or unpaid. Many permanently do so.
Shang Chi Bus Scene demystified by operator
That's walking pace though. Humans probably compare even less favourably to other animals if you open it up to the ability to walk marathon distance.