skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So how many exits are needed for extremely rare circumstances? 5 stairwells plus two elevator shafts could take up >80% of floor space in a lot of high rise buildings...
I wouldn't draw off the possibility completely, likely to some new technology or algorithms, or better results of understanding the human brain. But the chances are indeed miniscule.
The guide is only good for people who have received a diagnosis or are aware of their own behaviour. For the folks who don't aware of their own ADHD behaviour, they think it's completely normal to interrupt, to feel restless, to blame the job to be so boring, to plan for the immediate need instead of long term etc

A close family member exhibit the ADHD behaviour. Growing up, I thought that the normal adults are all restless talk over other people and only think short term. I unconsciously mimic the behaviour. The traits really hurt me during my early career because the traits come across as non-professional and blunt to others. I've since identified those traits and fixed my own behaviour. I've since advanced my career and increased my income quite a bit.

I brought up the topic with the family member and was interrupted.
It's supposed to be red to celebrate Christmas, which is associated with the colors green and red.
archive.is is good too
New Zealand’s unicameral parliament, has supremacy over all other parts of government [1] and cannot be overruled or contradicted by any prior parliament’s legislation … the bill of right’s drafting reflects this. As a consequence of New Zealand’s somewhat atypical political history (as a former British colony without a federation treaty or other founding constitutional document), it’s not really possible to entrench any legislation so it can’t be overruled by a normal majority of a subsequent parliament.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_sovereignty
Clearly we need a double-blind study.
I use the exact same method. Hello from the magic tavern, darknet diaries, and the dollop are all top billed. what are some of yours?
In my part of the world the jesuits had done a lot of good by starting schools.
Ideally these apartments could be rented to the many many many people that prefer to not have a car of their own. Especially in SF, there's a need for more apartments like that.

To solve the parking problem, SF should require a dedicated parking spot be obtained before allowing a person to register a car with a San Francisco address. Alternatively, start charging reasonable rates for street parking, and have hugely increased rates for permits beyond a person's first.

"Free" parking has an extremely high cost on every aspect of city life.
That might work if not for climate change.
Or just once till next restart, Just Close the Lid ™.
A lot of regulations are designed to make new construction as expensive as possible and limit usable floor space as much as possible.

No one should be surprised that fire safety laws are going to the extreme for safety at a large cost to floor space.
Learn from Thales!

https://thehistorianshut.com/2020/05/06/thales-of-miletus-an...
I have doubts it will ever be "Supreme" but I can genuinely believe it will help locate solutions, subsequently confirmed by traditional methods, which are then optimised to be as quick or quicker.

Run enough times, find the statistically satisfying minima or maxima or point of interest. Mainly it's about coherence and noise. Stable qbits are like Noah's cubits: hard to find.

ubiquitous RSA factoring in nanoseconds? Don't personally think so. Specific key finding for post-hoc analysis? Dunno, but not in 2022 or by 2030 (to agree with you)
I used to use google assistant on my phone, back when it first became a thing.

These voice assistants are sparkling novelties and nothing more. Since cell phones and ramping up with smartphones, people have this weird hype based relationship with technology. It permeates everything. Screens everywhere, capacitive touch everything, wireless where it isn't necessary, it's all novelties that don't actually improve anyone's life. And the voice assistant is probably the biggest example.

And that's what these products are supposed to be, pretty on a shelf, playful in the commercial, a spunky young woman smiling while making breakfast for the kids or going on a jog, all to get you to buy them, not to get you to use them. As long as they're plugged in in your house tracking everything you do they're generating revenue. When you step back from the hype, what you really are doing is inviting a spy into your home in exchange for an overpriced and overengineered egg timer.
I should do a comparison with the more recent one then; it's been a while since I first ran into this. Thanks for the pointer!
Everything you mentioned is irrelevant in the context of unbuffered IO. The majority of time is going to be spent on system calls, context switching, and signal handling / checking, and waiting for hardware interrupts to fire and handling them.

Also there is a lot more then mentioning cpu cache as this is very generic term. which part of the cpu cache are you talking about? instruction cache? data cache? And why do you have think they matter in this context?
How can it be funded?

I would love to work more on open source.
AGI is a weird term because it seems to mean different things to different people. Generally it seems to mean "parity with human cognition", but cognition is not just one thing and some ML models already outperform humans in narrow tasks.

A lot of criticism of AGI is more aimed at ASI (artificial sentient intelligence) a sentient, conscious entity with goals and agency. We haven't made much progress on this front, but there definitely has been progress on AGI in the sense of general intelligence - ML models that incorporate many modalities and generalize to diverse tasks instead of a single narrow task. Such a model need not be sentient to outperform humans on economically important tasks, and we're rapidly heading in this direction right now.
The reason I rarely bother reading the fine print anymore, anywhere, is that way more often than not (and certainly way, way, way more often than containing any sort of prize or easter egg) the fine print is extremely poorly written, full of contradictions and vague statements that are frustrating and exhausting if trying to understand them logically. So it's just not worth the headache.
Same can be said for imagemagick
I don't know much about her, but Didion's central legacy is based around her creativity and putting art and ideas out into the world. Bryant's life surely has many lessons to teach us, but in terms of legacy he was not someone who could potentially inspire anyone--you have to be into basketball or sports in general for his life to be relevant to you at all, much less a source of new ideas.

Maybe a fitting comparison would be the deaths of a famous philosopher and a famous Christian theologian writer?
There's plenty of space to spread out, it's not like this is a hard thing to find. Yet those areas tend to not be nearly as productive, and they have far fewer amenities for living.

If that's your thing, great, do it, you have your pick of geographies because nearly all of the US is empty space. But if that's not what a person wants, and instead they appreciate the things that humans can create and do for each other when there are many nearby, there are very very few locations available, the are all extremely pricy because the supply has been artificially constrained by reggulations of people who live in cities, but apparently don't want to live in cities.
For real, I feel like people throw around "how to make friends" advice that is not at all consistent with how they came to know the actual friends that they have.
Of course it's an artificial limitation, the whole thing is an exercise in artificial limitation. Putting all pages in the same document is an artificial limitation.

They're artificial limitations exercised in pursuit of demonstrating that, with new CSS tools, something surprising can be done. Something which, as I stated in my original comment, could not be done twenty years ago: putting multiple pages in the same HTML file without Javascript.
Yes! Let us give children the world's worst UX, and then mock them for its inevitable failure!

This worksheet is from the school of thought which sees education as a way to train you to be a better person, and by "better person" I mean "a mindless and compliant drone for some corporate or government bureaucracy".
The article mentions that the parents of the kids who grew up during the transition period were conservative and compliant and didn't make a fuss. They knew the system was not great, but for them, it was what it was. There wasn't much to do but get on with life.

The kids were different, they began to have access to cartoons and other cultural experiences from the West and began to question why they had to make do with so little (during Brezhnev's time, GDP went into guns and away from butter).

In any event, why should people feel happy about living under an oppressive system -a system which stunted their potential? Their "police" were soviet milicija, so in a way they lived under occupation to booot.
that's not the impression i have

people around me are using alexa way more than usua

and by around me, it's globally, on various networks (discord, irc etc), i see people mention/talk about alexa way more than google, even more than siri..
For a while now, this site has felt to me like one of the last bastions of high-quality discussion on the internet. Many days, it's the first thing I open in the morning and/or the last at night, and I sure am thankful that amid the firestorm of superficial engagement maximization platforms, there's at least one site that consistently leaves me feeling more informed, enlightened, and rational. Happy Holidays, HN!
I feel like RSS / HTML fail to make easy certain components of the social media experience. They don't do a particularly good job of assisting networking, which I would consider a primary function of social media, nor do they do very well with content discovery. Any implementation that's going to displace the fbs and twits of the world is going to have to have some mechanism to solve that problem.

Perhaps something to augment RSS for discoverability and internetworking is the ticket. It's not a fully-baked thought, though.
That is possible, my Gmail is indeed firstname.lastname@gmail.com.
That's what I was thinking. Yeah anybody who tries to actually hire a hit man through that site ought to be checked out. Claiming that lives were saved seems a bit over the top though - if you're trying to use a random website nobody has heard of to hire a hit man, the odds seem mighty slim that you'll ever find somebody prepared to actually kill someone.
because it's CPU and memory efficient

no GC no JIT, server starts instantly, you need to allocate less resources, and it's easier to install, no runtime dependencies, usually, if done correctly
Russell was an interesting character and I hadn't heard of this particular work by him.

It's important to understand that Russell was also limited by his own particular personality and world view. He was a good example of an ENTP or "debater" personality type as was Feynman. So in writing that he was very much bound by those limitations of his own world view and I'm sure he found a lot of the behavior of his (most likely autistic colleage) confusing and most likely it didn't adhere to these "universal desires".

This isn't totally related but I love this essay by Zapfe and I think that these 4 coping mechanisms he mentions in the article are a lot more "universal" (isolation, anchoring, distracting, and sublimation): https://philosophynow.org/issues/45/The_Last_Messiah

We're all bound by our own world view of things and certainly Russell was as well. It might have been self selecting that the type of people he spent time with in that era were also very concerned with those things but I'd be really curious if he ever had this conversation about these "universals" with Wittgenstein because I feel like Wittgenstein would really disagree, and Russell would just keep trying to label autistic traits as forms of these when that's not a good characterization at all.
Governments don’t create companies. Companies create governments. (Governments don’t create people, people create governments).

Companies trying to make AGI, is just people trying to make AGI.

The limits of intelligence are more a limit of energy and resources. I mean there is plenty untapped human intelligence.
They rather explicitly weren't using this to put individuals under scrutiny, given that it was anonymized, and aggregated...
COVID has become an absolute wet dream for the surveillance state. It's amazing to me to see so many of my anti-establishment peers throw their convictions out the window because of tribal issues around the vaccine.

The government so easily divided us, and now as we bicker and complain about each other on social media they turn the screws on our freedom.
>”Our society has decided that nobody should die from COVID. That’s still the right answer.”

This sentiment should terrify you. COVID is serious, but my god, there are so much more dangerous and lethal things out there. You’ve basically just given your government a virtual blank check to do as it pleases so long as the threat is sufficiently scary.

>”many many more living with chronic conditions and the economy and society crippled.”

You’re saying this would happen with widespread Covid, but this same outcome can happen with excessive containment. So many mom and pop small business have closed in my town since the pandemic began. And I live in America, where we aren’t nearly as restrictive.
The problem is the 2nd staircase creates the need for a hallway between the staircases. Look at the floor plans in the article.

In one you've got units clustered around a staircase landing.

In the other you've got a long hallway and 2 staircases with units along the hallway.
There's a lot of evidence that cars are made far safer with seatbelts and airbags. I don't think there's as much for school buses. The types of crashes, the skill of the drivers, the seats themselves, the size of the passengers versus the size of the seat backs, and the weight of school buses versus cars are quite different.
Yes, governments must exercise power over media, and force said media to destroy the materials they obtained. The media must learn who is boss here: the government.
Ataraxia, plenitude, serenity, all these are variations on the theme of attaining 'peace'. Whether it's religion (ie Buddhism) or philosophy (ie stoicism), there is this notion that the ultimate goal is to reach this state of contentment: not desiring more, not being driven by overwhelming emotions, just satisfied with what you have, regardless of what you think you can achieve, or what expectations others have of what you could achieve.
What does Amazon care? They know having an eavesdropping device in every home is table stakes in their league so I am sure they would keep pushing Alexa shit even if it was losing them a lot of money in the short run
You realise people did all those things before smartphones, right? You absolutely could do them all. It might be harder, but suggesting you couldn't do them is clearly just silly.
> That's the weirdest euphemism for murder I've ever seen.

I don't believe he killed his son, and I believe the wording in the articles is intended to indicate that he tried to force his son to kill himself and ended up stabbing him in the head.
there, there is an explanation to all of our problems

always comes down to maximizing profits, poor society..
> during Brezhnev's time, GDP went into guns and away from butter

The peak of shortages happened not during Brezhnev but in the 80's during Gorby's rule.

> a system which stunted their potential

Did launch man in space somehow. Plenty of people realized their potential.
You are conflating the emotion of grief with mental disorders.

It's pretty common nowadays, I find it quite strange.

My grandfather died when I was younger and it sucked. I still miss him.

But I could go to his funeral and hang out with my friends in the bar, go on holiday, study hard at University, etc, employ all of the normal time tested coping mechanisms.

Coronavirus restrictions deliberately took and removed almost everything it means to be human from people.

Sitting inside and only interacting with the world through a screen is obviously hilariously unhealthy.
So by "least terrible* you mean it's the best?
>given that it’s the cell provider’s anonymized aggregate data, for sale to anyone who cares to pay.

I heard that's the case for the US, but is that the case for canada as well?
I stopped using after reading a news article about Alexa recording personal conversations and sending to your contacts.
> I decided to move from PyCharm to VSCode and honestly, I am starting to miss PyCharm.

I'm a vim user and had to use PyCharm on a previous job, and it wasn't half bad. I'd take IntelliJ before VSCode if I had to.

> Not necessarily an indication of actual user base; could just be that more/less devs of each "group" are deciding to participate.

I found no data regarding this, but I have the impression that new developers are getting into VSCode, and maybe those younger ones are skewing the editor/IDE usage. I'd like to see a survey about editor/IDE migrations, it would be interesting to see where people start and with what people settle.
This is a fascinating thing for me, and it makes me want to truly study architecture. Though, like so many pieces of art and society, America my home seems to be sliding further from anything that doesn't optimize for money, or... optimization.

But the idea of code defining form, and how we can meld safety, efficiency and beauty together - that's interesting to me.

I found this article [1] on the wiki page of 5-over-1 and find it hilarious. It's an interesting and biting critique of a number of styles that are applied to 5-over-1. I wonder if we will ever have again in this country truly beautiful housing for the masses, or if we will look back on the 2000s and 2010s US as we do now, looking at Soviet bloc apartments from the 60s and 70s.

https://www.westword.com/arts/denver-is-drowning-in-awful-ar...
Fatality rates sure, but what about injuries? People getting trampled over, falling downstairs.
She doesn't spend much time on English thinkers. The focus is on French and German thinkers who (she says) codified liberalism. The word was really rare (foreign) in English until well into the 1860s, IIRC. Anyway, it's one of the criticisms of the book e.g. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/what-they-meant-on-helen... (notably, this critic works for a libertarian think tank).
I think it's too bad this article got posted on a day when I'm assuming relatively few people are on HN, since it's an interesting story.

One doesn't have to approve of the history European colonialism, religious imperialism, etc., to find this adventuring academic religious order interesting and significant.

(Disclosure: attended a Jesuit parish school, and am not religious, but picked up some intellectual and humanist values from there.)
The USSR was actually fairly successful once they figured out that brute force was never going to work, and executed the crazy leader of the national government to replace him with a more moderate leader. Their puppet state survived over a year without Soviet support, until Yeltsin sanctioned them. That's something the US never managed to do, not even close, and it took them 9 years instead of 20. Likely if the USSR wasn't moribund the puppet government could have pulled through long enough to start a process of consolidation.

And that's despite massive and direct US support to the Mujahideen, which the US didn't have to worry about.

Afghanistan was a winnable war. The way to win the war was, from the outset, to build a strong state that is fairly self-sufficient and motivated to defend itself, without too much corruption. The US military wasn't able to do that. At every turn they were ineffective in rooting out corruption and moral decay, didn't have anywhere near a workable vision for a path out of the Afghan disaster, and lacked the ability to implement a stable political system.

I agree that the US isn't geared towards massive troop deployments. That's why it's absurd to trot out troop numbers as the person I was replying to did.
I think the key is fatigue.

You get so many calls from spammers and scammers, you turn off the ringer and just let things go to voice mail. Nobody answers their phone these days unless someone pre-arranges a call or messages first and then escalates it to a voice call. Phone fatigue.

So much spam and ham in e-mail that you turn off notifications and just occasionally go check your e-mail to find the 4 things of interest and delete the other 7000. Then wonder if maybe you overlooked and deleted an important one. E-mail fatigue.

You get so much junk mail, medical bills that say 'this is not a bill', mailings from places where you've selected e-statements and e-billing only yet they keep mailing - that eventually you stop bothering and it all just piles up on the counter. Until one day you go through it all, find a refund check from the IRS, and rush out to deposit it before it goes stale. Junk mail fatigue.

You go to the store to get X, but there are 47 varieties of X to choose from so you end up deciding you don't want it that bad after all and don't end up getting it. Decision fatigue.

The description of social media fatigue fits right in. With all that rapid attention switching, it gets hard to focus on anything for any length of time. Your mind starts craving a feed of constant stimulus, but it's exhausting. Attention fatigue.

The idea of Quiet with a capital Q is a good way to relax and recover from all that fatigue. My favorite is to take an actual physical book outside into nature and read for awhile, where the only distractions are birds, chipmunks, and butterflies. Unfortunately that doesn't work so well during winter when it's below freezing out, but at least there's still bathtime.
Two HK universities remove Tiananmen artworks after Pillar of Shame dismantled
I read Russell, and sometime afterwards read [1] Becker, whose primary thesis is that all human behavior is driven by a denial of death, specifically the death of our own egos, so carefully crafted and shaped over a lifetime. I found this to be much more of an approachable philosophy, tied more closely to Darwinism than Russell ever was.

Recommended.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Denial_of_Death
They use scissor stairs. That's two stairways in one stairwell, with the stairways winding around each other. They count as two exit stairways if (1) the stairways are enclosed in and separated from each other by masonry or masonry equivalent construction having at least a 2 hour fire resistance rating, and (2) the exit doors are 15 ft or more apart.

While they might work as far as providing residents two routes out in an emergency, they do present challenges to firefighters [1]:

> Jack J. Murphy, a former firefighter, fire marshal, and current chairman of the New York City High-Rise Fire Safety Directors Association, has inspected some of these buildings and says they present unique challenges for firefighters. For one, the buildings’ small footprints mean very narrow scissor stairwells that can have five or more turns between floors. “What would that do to my hose stretch?” Murphy said. The compact size also means tight quarters for operation and medical staging in an emergency.

[1] https://www.nfpa.org/News-and-Research/Publications-and-medi...
It is a pretty solid example of market power at play - nobody but a big player would have the scale to force a change like that.
I recently went on a dive into libcaca. Those devs are the heroes we need.