skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am probably an outlier but I can't stand shows that are too gory or violent. I prefer the old school shows where even when someone was murdered you could hardly see a drop of blood. These days almost any show that involves any kind of crime depicts so much violence and blood, I find it extremely disturbing. Is this just me? I really hope not.
Everytime an article like this comes up, there's always someone who says "correlation doesn't imply causation". Which anyone who has done statistics 101 knows this and the article says in its title, that there is a positive correlation (not causation). It also acknowledges in its limitations that it cannot claim that play time has a causal affect on well-being.

They also say in the abstract that they found only a small positive relation between gameplay and well-being.
I had an Atari 1040ST and wrote little C programs for it, mostly lower-level, sometimes using line/poly drawings. Didn't make many GUI-like apps, perhaps some utility type programs. In all I didn't mind it but wasn't 'wow'ed by any of it either. It seemed moderately powerful and generic. The midi ports were probably the coolest thing on it but I wasn't into that at the time. Very different from the Atari 400 which was quite underpowered with quirky hardware that you had to know well to get it do anything interesting.

The only other experience with GEM was on PC's where it would be bundled with desktop-publishing programs. I recall Ventura Publisher was quite popular. Aldus PageMaker was on Mac, don't think there was a GEM port though I imagine it should have made it onto PC/Windows at some point.
What's new in Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021
Planet nine... why not simply consider it as something in the same level of conspiracy theories until better evidence arrives?
MS bought NPM in March 2020. I'm certainly not "blaming" MS for NPM's issues, but they bought them, so they're definitely responsible for them now.
I'm not an expert so I could be wrong, but my impression is that outside of a few academic and industry research groups there is no such thing as "quantum programming" because there is as yet nothing resembling a programmable quantum computer. There may be some quantum computer simulators that you can try implementing quantum algorithms on, but I think that's about it.
Non animal food. Will transform land use.

Remote education. Available to any kid or adult anywhere.
What that actually means is that if the observations are representative of the underlying reality, then 1% of happiness is explained by playing video games.

We use p-values to determine whether a relationship is likely to actually exist based on observations. R^2 is a measure of the "strength" of the relationship, i.e. how much of the dependent variable is explained by the independent variable -- it is silent on the matter of whether the relationship is likely to actually exist.
I mean, you say that, but the practice of pulling in so many dependencies is fairly recent. It wasn't even possible for most projects before everyone had fast internet.
I already configured something philosophically similar using Unite. Is it worth it to migrate to Lua?
The Double Bind
No. we've been shouting warnings for years. There have been dozens, if not hundreds of threads on HN alone warning of supply-chain security threats.

At this point if you're not actively auditing your dependencies, and reducing all of them where you can, then you're on the wrong side of history and going down with the Titanic.

The frank truth is that including a dependency is, and always has been, giving a random person from the internet commit privileges to prod. The fact that "everyone else did it" doesn't make it less stupid.
Good info thanks
Americans Need to Learn to Live More Like Europeans
This... It is so annoying. Especially as we use teams for longer now and looking back manually is really unfeasible now.
Cultish is projection. I and those I know do not base our identities on hating him. Its shock and dismay -- there's zero pleasure or satisfaction in this.

> If people were more reasonable with their negativity of Trump, I have no doubt most Trump supporters would admit Trump's flaws.

Prove it. In this thread I've done my best to be as reasonable as can be. I've acknowledged the few things I think he did that weren't bad. I've been clear that Joe Biden and the Dem party is not above reproach.

* Biden's son's position was a old school corruption (buying favor).
* The wind-down of Afghanistan was poorly executed (really the failure of military leadership but the buck stops with him).
* Biden promised to decriminalize cannabis at the federal level and shows no signs of acting on that.
* Biden has done nothing to address immigration (but the biggest solution is to decriminalize *all* drugs and that ain't gonna fly).

So let's hear what disappoints you about Trump.
I've been saying this since the early days of Node.js and npm... But nobody would listen; instead, they opted to go for the linux philosophy of encouraging many tiny composable dependencies... They went overboard with it..It doesn't make sense to use a dependency which is less than 100 lines of code. Not worth the risk.
If you're going that far you might as well ask browser makers to make a non-awful UI for client certificates and avoid the whole password problem in the first place.
I would be with you, but leftpad was a thing. Anyone importing leftpad (or any of the similar 5-line dependencies) has no leg to stand on here.

Yes, you should write leftpad in-house. Anything that is a copy-paste Stack Overflow answer should not be dependency.
> I haven't touched JavaScript since the late 90s

Can I come live with you? It's sad that I'm only half joking.
If anything, Bitcoin will use up all the planet’s energy sources, forcing us to become a type 2 civilization.
When the consensus was wrong they often didn't readily accept the correct interpretation. Miasma theory persisted into the 20th century for example.
It's there fortunately. I also turn off threaded and focused modes because they make it too likely I miss something.
> for a vastly improved user experience.

Assuming for a moment that you live in the US, do you count Fifth Amendment issues into that experience?
Then you are shit out of luck and vulnerable to supply-chain attacks. Good luck with that.
> If you're going to touch every stack out there, then JUST DEPLOY IPV6 ALREADY.

But nearly "every stack" already supports IPv6 at a software level. Most of them have for more than a decade.

I'd agree that, given a choice between implementing software support for any of our proposals in some platform and implementing software support for IPv6 in the same platform, it would be obvious that the latter should be a higher priority. But I've been trying to find platforms to which this would actually be a relevant consideration. So far it seems like the answer might be "a few CPE routers, and a few IoT software stacks". If anyone knows of more than this, I'd be glad to hear about it.

More generally, I don't understand a way in which the behavior of "stacks" that could conceivably be updated is an important barrier to IPv6 adoption. Every device on my LAN, except the printer, already supports IPv6 well. I think my router does too. My ISP doesn't. We can't fix that with software upgrades.
Yeah what doesn't help is that dialog windows from that era are still in Windows 11 today... Especially around the settings.
I raced with pros. :-) But apologies if my wording was misleading, I was never good enough for the big show. I did, however, glue my own tires. It wasn't that much of a hassle, really. Cover the rim, let it dry, cover it with another coat, coat the tape on the tire with glue, let it all dry overnight again. The trick is to not be in a hurry, which pro mechanics might not have the luxury. Hence, I've never had a tire come off. It's been ages since I've done it (quit racing a while ago), but I bet it doesn't take an hour to do a set of tires. I had also been doing it since the early 80s, so lots of practice.
Sure, I'm OK with naming it Le Creuset.

Oh, you meant anodyne ....
Laws and law enforcement. We should demand our governments to make laws that make unauthorized (by the people themselves through a decentralized system) use of our data illegal. At least the more flagrant/large scale forms of abuse could be prevented that way.
> Funny that when Vancouver was a 'backwater' as the article refers to it was when it was much more affordable and a lot less crowded. In other words much nicer to live in.

There’s no getting around it: increases in population density yield diminishing returns on quality of life. Returns may even turn negative if population density spirals beyond that which the natural ecosystem can support.

Quality of life must be balanced against human population growth. Life is expensive — my fear is if we don’t intelligently limit the number of humans alive, soon only the ultrawealthy will be able to afford having a reasonable quality of life.
Start by questioning the premise that climate change can be “solved”. Most of the “climate change” conversations today are politics not science. Dissenting voices tend to be suppressed in the media.
I have three issues:
No custom tld domain for premium?

I like the service but want use my own domain, because some signups forbid subdomain emails.

Spam or too big attachments won't deliver.

There is no spam folder? so I will never get the email even it's no spam.

The attachment size is way too small if I get an invoice pdf eg.

That means that service can only used for unimportant websites.
https://github.com/moxystudio/node-cross-spawn/pull/102
Safe at standstill. How about seismic resilience? Surely a leaning building isnt exactly well tested seismically.
hehe...

CVE: "the entire javascript/ruby/python development model is insecure"

affected: "the whole damn internet"

resolution:"rewrite the last 10 years of internet developmet from scratch"

not sure that's gonna happen
Stop caring, and do the job you want to have as much as you can.

I'm assuming you have things in mind for the job you want. Do the bare minimum for what you're assigned, then volunteer to do the parts you actually want to do. Even if they're going to get thrown out or not implemented, at least you get to work on something you like and get a new resume bullet.

By feeling like you're getting some form of professional advancement, you might hate every day a little less.
I realize it looks like an odd contradiction, but doing highly-effective business on top of Microsoft products is sometimes a game of compromises and grey areas.

Even though Microsoft is ultimately responsible for NPM on the org chart, I still dont mind the entire ordeal from my current perspective. No one ever said we had to use 100% of Microsoft's product offerings. The nuance is in selective adoption and careful negotiation of roadmaps.

I will signal my displeasure with Microsoft's acquisition of the NPM ecosystem by simply disregarding it's existence and never electing the node workload at VS install time. That's all it really takes to entirely opt-out for us. I don't hold any principled grudges against an organization larger than most municipalities. There are a lot of stakeholders involved here.
Editorconfig_gen – .editorconfig generator for various languages
"Verwandte Objek" seems cut off, it should be "Objekte" but other than that it aligns pretty well.

Ps my German is basic so perhaps I'm wrong
>tote bags

I think they're a scam. They cost orders of magnitude more than paper bags. There is hardly anything people like better than rationalizations for spending more rather than less to save the environment. Pull out the magic word "externalities", it can do anything!
> The reason packages are so big is the complexity for an interesting app is irreducible.

This is absolutely, demonstrably false. Can you really claim that you use 100% of the features provided by all of the dependencies you pull in? If not, you are introducing unnecessary complexity to your code.

That doesn't mean that this is necessarily a bad thing, or that we should never ever introduce incidental complexity—we'd never get anything done if that was the case. My point is simply that there exists a spectrum that goes from "write everything from scratch" on one end all the way to "always use third-party code wherever possible" on the other. It's up to you to make the tradeoff of which libraries are worth pulling in for a given project, but when you use third-party code, you inevitably introduce some amount of complexity that has nothing to do with your app and doesn't need to be there.
Xbox Live Gold. I'd call, give them my account details, and the rep would tell me it was canceled. Three months later, another bill. Called my bank and had my card replaced, three months later somehow again another bill on my new card. After that I figured out what was going on and managed to cancel the account. I was a teenager at the time.
There's arguably something more insidious about pretending murder is a pg-13 act.

To paraphrase Michael Haneke: Violence must shown in all its vicious detail, The truth is obscene
Abhorrent is how environmentalists aren't pushing for nuclear energy. The people in power don't want a solution that'll essentially solve the power problem. They want a continuous battle over renewables.
What Is NSR? & How Does NSR Work?
If you separate compilation from type checking, the compilation stage is instant. If it’s not, spend the hour or so to understand how to rework your tooling so that it’s working properly. It’ll pay off by the end of the same day.
Yeah the teams search drives me crazy, I can find the comment I'm looking for, but it's impossible to find the thread with all of the important context if it's too old

reminds me of this:

https://xkcd.com/979/

Only denvercoder9 is myself!
All fields were once "philosophy", that's a naming artifact not an insight. What's being claimed is something like: when "natural philosophy" and "philosophy" diverged into distinct fields, "natural philosophy" got the good stuff.
It was found that plants roots are in symbiosis with bacterias and fungus to get minerals from the ground.

I think that like us with our microbiome, the plants have evolve with their microbiome in the soil. To grow them from a chemical mixture is to oversimplify nature.

Alternatively, you could use a coarse sand bed as media and ’compost’ natural fertiliser and get beneficial bacteria and fungus going.
Wonderful job and congrats, this looks awesome. Are there any sources (books, papers, websites, etc.) you (or anyone here) can recommend for further reading about the science behind the elements a plant needs to grow?
If we didn’t have currency, our only means of exchange would be through bartering: I have food, you have clothes. I need clothes, and you need food.

I’ll swap you 5 bags of corn for 3 pairs of socks.

Do we have a deal?

>> The only way to refute it is to show that yes, such a valuation model exists.

It’s complex and inconvenient to barter all day long. So, “we” (society) created a “token” (e.g. USD) to represent the value of our economic goods.

I believe 5 bags of corn is worth about $10. You believe 3 pairs of socks is also worth about $10. Now we have a deal, unambiguously, because we have a mutually-agreed asset from which we can both continue to derive value in other markets.

So, both statements are true: “all money is imaginary” — because it has no inherent value (OK… I guess I can wipe my ass with it, or light a fire… but I can’t feed or clothe myself with a $10 bill).

But, at the same time, it’s not worthless — as we mutually agree to assign it worth, on the basis that others are willing to do so too.

> It's really hard to refute someone who says that

There’s a good reason it’s hard to refute this… because it’s a fundamental economic principle! As more and more people “agree” that Bitcoin has value, its value grows.

A mutually-agreed representation of value (i.e. a “valuation model”), therefore, exists.
the other one that gives me the screaming heeby-jeebies is the wave of maintainers that are going to get bored of being abused for no pay and sell their maintainer rights to malware authors. Or to seemingly-nice people who will then sell it to malware authors.

Though this does give them a shortcut.No need to bribe some aging, disenchanted nerd to sell their soul when you can just impersonate them.
> Banking, for example, is such a clear-cut case of competition not being detrimental for Canadians

How much does the average Canadian pay per month for their chequing account?
I think is because of the oxygenation of the roots, do you think that an organic fertilizer will necessary give lower yield?
I really like that term “Cyber 9/11”. Is that something you made up or is that a term people use describing a bad attack?
I think that there is a thing called literary nonfiction which does use these higher level abstractions.

It might be that they are less fixed, as you say. That is a feature rather than a bug. It would take so much more text to describe everything literally than to use literary devices, which seem to be things that humans are really good at grasping. They are everywhere in film and TV but not everyone has experience naming them and referring to them in text at a meta level.

Imagine writing a symbolic AI in Go or C. There is a reason why people use Lisps and functional languages for very dense abstractions. They just do a lot of work, which some folks choose to deride as magic.
You can also use jsdoc to ask tools like vs code to run js as typescript and complement your variables with typing information.

I used this recently for a project that couldn't use typescript.
There's pluses and minus. For actual off-road capability it's mostly plus. If you're driving long-distance on a highway then yeah it's a minus... but that's not what trucks are for.
> I couldn't believe how an original so bad could get multiple sequels

Eh. Baen is (was?) a capitalist, and his publishing house operates likewise - if it sells, they'll buy more of it. I can respect that, even if it doesn't always result in great literature. (Honorverse novels used to be a major guilty pleasure, I'm not in any position to judge here.)
Priority-Based Flow Control
Not the GP, but unless you need verifiably independent noisy samples, quantum computers are too noisy to work at practical problem sizes, and afaik there's no clear path to fixing that. I wouldn't say they're 20 years away, but it's an r&d problem not an engineering problem so it's probably not going to be very soon
Oh yeah Win8 was such a big misstep. I really hated it and the server version which I still deal with sometimes today.

I think Win11 is pretty good except for the fact that there's way too many old style settings dialogs left over, just like Win10. If it was actually consistent I'd love its design.
I still think it's two weeks max before those routes are passable with temporary measures even with unions.
There is evidence, but what you mean is "evidence," i.e. "headlines," i.e. "I am being assured by multiple sources that my worldview is still socially acceptable." So to answer your question, you shouldn't.
IMHO the Chinese room thought experiment is essentially a tautology which hinges on the validity of the key assumptions it implies, namely, that such a room is possible.

So, Searle supposes that he is in a closed room and has a book with encoded instructions that supposedly allow him to communicate in Chinese; and he also supposes that being able to convince the Chinese-speaker that they're speaking to a human (i.e. passing a Turing test) is sufficient to demonstrate "understanding" - for whatever definition of "understanding" Searle wants to use.

If we discount the second assumption (which might be the case - IMHO humans could be tricked in a Turing test by something that makes zero pretense at understanding anything), then there's no paradox, then it's just an experiment that's too weak to say anything about "understanding" whatsoever; but since Searle considers the experiment valid, let's assume that this holds, and if someone/something can convince the Chinese person of "proper understanding", then that someone/something would really have "proper understanding".

So it comes down to whether simply blindly following instructions a book can achieve proper understanding. If yes, then Searle must concede the argument. And if not, then Searle's room simply doesn't work - apparently such a book is impossible to make or have, the Chinese room can't exist and the impossible experiment can't have any results.

In essence, it's a tautology - no matter how ridiculous you consider encoding "proper understanding" in a book of instructions, if you start with an assumption that you do have such a book, then you obviously have assumed a world where the combination of instructions+mindless executor can have "proper understanding"; and if you start with an assumption that a machine like that definitely can not be thinking "properly" (as Searle does) and Strong AI is impossible, then you have thrown away the key thing required for the thought experiment - the possibility for such a Strong-AI-enabling book to exist.

If you make two assumptions and find out that they are incompatible - like Searle does here - then you can deduce that at least one of them is wrong, but it does not say anything at all about which one of them is wrong, so I don't see much value in this thought experiment.
Also I think WinFS would really have been a great idea. I'm sad it was cancelled.
An odd non-sequitur, as I never mentioned Communism, much less professed a belief in it. I also don't see a lot of people trying to turn the US into a "Communist utopia."
I largely agree with the author, but why isn't the ire directed at the companies that offshores everything in the first place? We'd be in a much better position if we hadn't outsourced the manufacturing of all our most most needed items to china I'm the past 30 years
That title is a non-starter for so many Americans. Any such shifts need to be sold without reference to foreign lands.
If I have an alphabet of size x and a password of length n there are x^n possibilities. What results in a larger set -- adding 1 more character to the alphabet or adding one to the length; i.e. which is bigger (x + 1)^n or x^(n+1)?
People often learn one mistake at a time. Let them. If they go bankrupt, so be it.

Not everyone wants a nanny state to dictate their activities.
Feels like a bad business decision, considering it will definitely promote piracy... and Paramount+ already has multiple other banner Star Trek shows to entice new subscribers in coming months. If you're willing to subscribe for Paramount+ for Discovery S4, you're definitely willing to subscribe for Strange New Worlds, which is only a couple months behind Picard S2. And those will probably simultaneously air close to when Paramount+ actually launches in other countries.
Wow I know that password expiration is on its way out [1] but this is crazy.

[1] - https://www.sans.org/blog/time-for-password-expiration-to-di...
I find I can still enjoy it, in the context of when it was made. It does not seem mean spirited, and I am not white. I grew up with it though, so it could be my frame of reference allows for it.
> Well isn't the issue here that The Fed enables the reckless behavior of congress by sterilizing the deficits?

Well doctors enable unhealthy people to live unhealthy lifestyles, but nobody blames them for that. They can't just say, "I won't give you blood thinners until you go on a diet." Yes, politicians ought to face consequences, but that is not up to the Fed. It is up to the voters to demand better candidates rather than point their fingers at the Fed.

> It's not that this wouldn't cause pain in the short term but that you can't just eliminate reality and it's going to happen sooner or later.

It worked out during the Great Depression because all of our rival powers were completely destroyed by WWII. We won't be so lucky this time. China is poised to overtake the US as the top superpower if our economy collapses. In a couple decades, this might not be the case, as they will be facing severe demographic problems.