skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Life isn't long.

Get depression and puff 10 years are gone and you life expectancy likely decreases too due to unhealthy living for 10 years.

Get a child and for the next few years there is only a child in your life, and after it is still a majority factor (if you are/have the chance to be a responsible parent).

Also don't count on you life post 70, it might be grate. But it's not unlikely to be but so grate even if you have money.

Lastly if you are working to hard and are too much used to working hard all the time you might not be able to enjoy it, either because you have to learn again how to enjoy life it because of health issues due to so the stress you put on your body.
By far the most important for me is the absence of notifications. I avoid Reddit most of the time because there's no option to turn off notifications, or even clear notifications without reading them. Your only option is to click the button that takes you to the page with the reply to your comment.
> C knowledge is still way more generally useful than javascript and/or web knowledge

"Generally useful" is a vague concept. If you judge by number of job openings, you'll probably find JavaScript is more useful. There are probably metrics by which C is more useful.

"Being everywhere" is not necessarily a good measure of the upside one can get by learning it. For example, electronics are also everywhere (more so than C!) but software engineering is generally a better career (measured by income f.i)
I did read the article. Language committees are particularly intense concentrations of conflicting reality distortion fields.
Blender – Top Committers 2021
Are storage prices inflated at the moment? How is a physical commodity comparable to a ledger with hashes, ultimately assigned a value purely out of demand, despite being devoid of any actual purpose or usefulness?
The timing of this post is amazing me. Just an hour ago I was doing an internet search for how to host or participate in screen sharing while working on pet hobby projects. My thinking was “coding a side project on your own can get lonesome and stall. Wouldn’t it be neat to hangout with devs while coding, even if not speaking that much. Can share screens, be supportive.”
Thin/flexible cells are often called "eco", because "less material", but then I find the composition and they are made of Arsenic, Cadmium or similar toxic non-degradable materials that will end up in the environment.

This one seems actually seems very ecological, or at least not toxic:

> tungsten diselenide and contacts of gold spanned by a layer of conducting graphene that is just a single atom thick

They don't mention Cadmium Sulfide surface layer as seems standard in CIGS. Hope they don't feel the need to add it in the efficiency optimization process.

EDIT: Doing some calculation on CIGS with 700Å (70nm) CdS layer [1], 1m² of solar panel would have about 1m²·70nm·5g/cm³ = 1m²·70e-9m·5e6g/m³ ~ 0.4g of CdS.

[1] https://www.nrel.gov/pv/copper-indium-gallium-diselenide-sol...
What?

One of the hallmarks of a tech company is that the costs associated with producing the product is relatively flat and the revenue from the product goes up linearly with usage. Most tech companies then spend their money on recruiting more engineers, to try to build more products that are cheap to maintain and generate smooth rising revenues. The increased fed spending changes the stock price, but it’s not changing the fundamentals of why selling network access software is so good.
Maybe you've heard of global supply chain shortages, covering all manner of chips and other components? And a pandemic producing sudden changes in demand, as

Meanwhile, mining hardware demand depends on cryptocurrency prices, which go up and down like a yoyo. Only a food would invest billions in a new chip plant when demand might have collapsed by the time it's finished.
Cryptocurrency was and is volatile enough that the correct play is to not build out long-term capacity for what very well could be a flash-in-the-pan phenomenon.
Learn from the past but don't take it as gospel because people probably worked with different constraints and assumptions that might be completely different today.
It’s definitely worth remembering that just as polls can be misleading about sentiment, so can the voting of comments.
Pretty arrogant of you to think jumping on the bandwagon at the last second would help.

Fortnite is not great training material chump. It's rich to see the same people crying about taking people's guns now want guns. Better to think liberals gun owners that have never used a gun talk about life long gun owners whose kids could even smoke you. Lol. Rookie.
Of course what Trump actually did was make people’s lives more miserable, uncertain, and gave the body shop like companies even more agency and power over their workers. Unlike the Obama administration which changed rules to the extent they could (Congress hasn’t passed changes to immigration law in nearly 3 decades now and the executive is necessarily constrained) to reduce the percentage of visas that went to body shops and also prosecuted many of them for their exploitation.

Of course, Trump’s utter indifference, actually attempts to make immigration worse both for immigrants and citizens, was completely predictable.
> It's got to be any package maintainer's worst nightmare.

Is this really a problem in most modern package management systems and build systems? I think Nix is a great example of handling this gracefully by just tracking the inputs and outputs of each compilation and sandboxing the compilation so we can guarantee the build definition includes all specified deps. This is something debian can build on top of apt.
You should setup a discord channel.
I work on ways to write programs that help outsiders understand their big picture (rather than insiders understand incoming contributions).

The goal: you (any programmer) should be able to use an open-source program, get an idea for a simple tweak, open it up, orient yourself, and make the change you visualized -- all in a single afternoon.

More details: http://akkartik.name/about

What I have so far: https://github.com/akkartik/teliva

Lately I'm spending a lot of time on the sandboxing model. It's nice to be able to download and run untrusted programs before we start trying to understand them. How to permit this without letting them cause too much damage, by explicitly giving them arbitrarily fine-grained permissions that are still easy to take in at a glance.
The podcast "Imaginary Worlds" featured an episode that dealt with constructed languages "conlangs" (Klingon and Dothraki). It's available at:

https://www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org/episodes/do-you-speak...
The irony of this article is sorely missed by the Economist and most Western commentators in this thread.

On one hand the Economist spreads tropes like "Brahmins have a tendency for bookishness". Replace Brahmin with Jew and it becomes anti-semitic but saying it for Brahmins is ok?

Should'nt the fact that the Brahmins who are poorer on average than the other two castes who "follow" them in the hierarchy disprove the notion of hierarchical caste system? If they really did dominate the hierarchy, could they not marshal capital given their abundant intellectual resources to dominate commerce in India? This reminds of the various Jewish world control conspiracies which are simply falsified by pointing to the horrific suffering that the Jews have suffered at the hands of said conspiracy theorists for over two thousand years. Similarly, the fact Brahmins that they do not dominate commerce or wealth generation prove that the so-called hierarchy does not exist?

Commerce in India, as the Economist points out but then glosses over, is dominated by guilds just like it did in most of the world including Europe, China and Japan. It is pretty easy to get into the Diamond business if you are from one of the few families who were traditionally in the Diamond business from the State of Gujarat or Rajasthan. Even better if you were from the village of Palanpur [1]. Why? It is easy to apprentice in the industry, get access to capital, know-how etc. etc. Ditto if you want to get into one of the traditional industries that have a long history of being dominated by guilds. This even holds true in the US today - it is easier to start a Motel if you are a Patel because you can find someone in the extended family who is in the business, whom you can tap into for advice, funding or partnership. Same for starting a Donut join in SoCal if you are SE Asian, Retail if you are Syrian Jewish, etc.

Brahmins have long been dominant in education because their traditional profession requires learning complex concepts and memorizing tens of thousands of pages. This was similar to how Ashkenazi Jews but not Sephardic Jews came to dominate the sciences and the Nobels [2]. I suspect that the selection pressures experienced by Brahmins are similar to those experienced by Ashkenazi Jews.

Not a Brahmin, FWIW and neither is Parag Agrawal who is the CEO of Twitter. Another fact that should dissuade people from the notion of Caste-dominated industries is that 3-4 of the top-20 industrial families in India, (Tata, Wadia, Godrej, Shapoorji Pallonji, etc.), are Zoroastrians who came to India from Persia 1500 years ago fleeing Islam and are still practicing Zoroastrians.

[1] https://www.rediff.com/business/special/how-palanpurs-diamon...

[2] https://web.mit.edu/fustflum/documents/papers/AshkenaziIQ.jb...
I never said it would be worse. Just that it would happen.

But I don’t think that people wanting to reshare in a digital context would bother with the work of rephrasing. They already have the opportunity to add their own thoughts to a tweet they reshare. I suspect it would be practically the same.
I bet that tablet is c worth millions now. Maybe it can be actioned off a a nft.
it's unlikely anybody has truly actionable data about the vaccine and omicron yet, but companies that produce vaccines are already working against omicron targets.
And meat terraform/ansible to run those.
I love the Google Testing Blog https://testing.googleblog.com/
I always viewed it as 0 is neutral but your comments start at plus 1 because 'we' trust that it will be interesting/ engaging.

We begin @dang, the HN collective, the illuminati that run the internet...
So essentially, it’s a poorly made movie by the standards of moviedom (that makes fun of moviedom types on top of it all) but the content, message, and vibes are cutting and relatable from the view of climate scientists.
There is social science indicating that employment mandates increase vaccination rates. There is science indicating that vaccines reduce transmission rates.

Regardless, this is a different point than the original comment.
I think many intelligent people are prone to depression, and it may manifest itself in this fashion. It is not as simple as rationalizing your way out of it. Nothing here indicates they don't love learning.
Social skills are not relevant if he imagines he's smarter than others.

His social skills, or lack thereof, only become relevant when he is cured of his sense of superiority.

There's no point in wondering whether the author has social skills or not, because they don't make a difference to anything.
Intellectual as an adjective, relating to the intellect. Without any claim to degree of intellect. So as opposed to emotional, physical, or spiritual loneliness. This is a loneliness of the mind, intellect.
I see it as a product of specialization. So many of us put so many hours of our life into things that few other people can understand or relate to. It's not that these other people aren't smart enough to understand what we do. It's simply a matter of hours of attention dedicated to a specific topic. Think of it like branches on a tree. The tree of collective human knowledge keeps growing and consequently, individual knowledge becomes more disparate.
Isn't the vaccine supposed to provide that protection from (catching Covid from) them?
Kind of confused by this release to be honest. It seems to lack features compare to azpainter 2. I can't find any wiki or tutorial about it. If anyone knows more, please help.
This is not intellectual, but spiritual loneliness.

There's a book about learning how to draw "with the right brain". The main idea is that you learn how to see. It quotes one of pupils who said that once he learned that he realized that there were no people who were not beautiful.
> [edit: one app I host can only be run single-instance as it keeps some state in-process. It can outsource it to Redis, but that seems overkill if it's only needed during upgrades, 10s/week or so]

Not exactly the same, but couldn't you serve a 425 Too Early with a meta refresh of 10s to achieve exactly the same goal? So change your nginx config to serve this "updating, your browser will refresh automatically" page, reload nginx, update the app, revert nginx config and reload nginx. Would that not address your needs, albeit in a more convoluted way?
The NAP is very basic and fundamental (in stark contrast to all the laws we have on book). And in order to be so and not open to too-much interpretation, it has a very narrow and explicit scope that has emergent properties. If you expand it you're back into "government" and "interpretation" territory and have made the NAP meaningless.

Just look at this thread and all the disagreement about vaccine policy; even without the NAP at play and with supposed "social contract" and "laws" and "constitutions" and "UN Declaration of human rights" we still can't agree how to coexist and deal with this pandemic. Meanwhile, the authoritarian CCP/Chinese government is handling it just fine, and probably laughing their asses off right now at the rest of the world's inability to deal with this. The rules are currently stacked in favor of bullies, whether that's an overreaching government like Canada in this case, China and international law that allows it to not be punished for this world-scale disaster, or everyday bullies that are effectively victim-blaming people who are discriminated against because of their medical choices.
Covid is now endemic - that is the scientific consensus.

Are you suggesting that we permanently give up our right to decide what medications to take?

Taking a vaccine is a forced medical procedure for the benefit of someone other than the individual. I'm fully vaccinated and boosted, but I recognize that effectively forcing this upon people by denying them fundamental rights and services, is not ethical, and sets an intolerable precedent.
While I understand where you are coming from, pretty much all the observational evidence is pointing to vaccines not being particularly effective against omicron, which seems to explain the data we are seeing (massive surge in infections and hospitalizations). That alone is enough information to reasonably conclude that the vaccine does not provide a high level of protection against omicron, even if we are nto doing a large-N population comparison.
2021: The Year Authentication Saw a Resurgence (and Why)
Oh, if I were invested in C++ I would be worried! And it sounds like the committee members should have some takeaways, for sure.

But I'm not a member of that community. Bringing up one problem (C++ committee interaction) doesn't mean that is the only problem that was brought up.

She has trouble communicating because she's very scrupulous, same as lots of other engineers - some people are responding to that problem.

She wants another language that fits her criteria - some people are responding to that problem.
Rust has an abysmal macro system that cannot be properly tooled for.
NAP is about physical violence. The problem with your way of thinking is that it lets you interpret whatever you feel like as "violence".

Should infecting others with a flu also be considered violence? What about blasphemy? What about just being mean?

People have very varying opinions on whether spreading COVID should be considered violence, hence contractual jurisdictions.
Fascinating discussion, but I have a flight to catch in the morning. Bye!

(Goes home and eats a bucket of ice cream while perusing Tik Tok)
Maybe i've missed something, but the only way i've been able to browse replies so far is via the threads?id=myself page. is there another way?
>The more I wrote, the more I understood the issue was more complex than that

This is why discussion of a topic and the ability to elucidate them in speech or writing is important. It is easier to examine them in an orderly format. I often model conversations in my head about my opinions (about work, things with my home life, just in general).

As a side note: Strong ordering of ideas is something that can be developed naturally, but it is also a skill learned through willing engagement with oft-maligned academic topics like humanities (liberal arts) courses. This is especially true of learning ordered writing. I often see devs who fulfill requests precisely, literally as they are requested, and then bemoan how it doesn't even make sense. Then I see devs who demand detailed conversations to pick apart each word of a request so they don't just provide what was asked for, but also what was needed. ( Sometimes to the frustration of the requestor for whom their needs seem obvious since they live every day with the area of work)

I'm not claiming humanities are some sort of magic bullet on this, only that they can be a convenient path to skills that are actually useful, albeit subtly hidden by a surface level course title that fills a 3-credit literature requirement. And yes, some people don't need it. But colleges (in the US, my area of familiarity) do have a mechanism of getting out of a lot of them if you don't need it: Take AP exams the demonstrate you already have those skills and get requirements waived.

You may wonder, since most have had such courses forced on them, how I could correct. Well-- 1) I make no claim that it always works. And 2) Look above for my caveat of willing engagement. Blowing them off as useless won't get you much out of them.

If I had to make a recommendation, I'd direct comp sci majors to fill as many of those courses as possible in philosophy courses, which is an area defined by the requirement for ordered thinking and dissection of meaning on a very granular level. For literature requirements I'd recommend Shakespeare which also often focuses around dissecting multiple levels of meaning from the text. (If you have taken a Shakespeare course and don't know the multiple meanings of "3-legged stool" then you didn't read carefully.) For history, choose courses that focus on the enlightenment and renaissance time periods.
> Intelligent people find a lot of things interesting and love learning.

No, I think being interested in things is a completely different dimension from intelligence. You can be average in intelligence and extremely high in being interested. Or you can be high in intelligence and very depressed, then you don't have interest in anything.
Nah, we computer scientist are happy embedding electron into every application no matter how small.
Cool.

https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/epidemiological-s...

Which groups are not "at-risk" here? What age? Because it seems like there is a significant % of the population in groups other than 80+ that are in the hospital.
Better lit structures make photos of them look better. Tourists choose destinations to spend money at based on how good the photos of the destinations look.
Look into the social science of marriage, parenting and middle management. It was bleak before the pandemic and odds are it's become worse.
Wow, that's a great resource. Thank you very much for the link!
Very nice aggregation blog. Is it possible to have a rss feed for your blog I can add to the readers?
The internet is broken because it is free
Actually nothing in life is free

Everything in life is constraint bounded including time and attention and computer capacity. When you have free email, you get spam. When you have free video uploads, you get low quality advertising funded content, when you have free search, you get SEO blogspam.

Microtransactions for everything would fix the internet. It should cost a small amount of money to send an email. It should cost a small amount to use a search engine or upload a video.

Advertising is a racket and it distorts incentives without actually producing much if anything in the way of economic good.

An effective search engine that has advertising as its revenue model is an oxymoron.
Actually both parts bothers me. I'm quite tech savy and privacy focused and this combination keeps me frustrated. Idea of using emulator for example for Premiere that use dynamic links for After Effects and Audition makes me very uncomforatble in workflow. Or Cintiq with Photoshop or Illustrator. Still... In 2022 no competition for Adobe.
Gotta give patio11 some love here...

https://www.kalzumeus.com/greatest-hits/
The penalty in the case is irrelevant to the nature of the government's power. Also equating vaccines to apartheid is unrealistic and in poor taste.
A big limiting factor with many cities though is if you need to commute to an office. In Boston, for example, many professional jobs will require commuting out to the suburbs. In tech specifically, there's more in the city than there used to be--there were basically no major employers in the immediate urban area any longer as of a couple decades ago. But the majority of engineering jobs broadly speaking require driving to a suburban office.
How to set annual goals without leaving everyone pissed off
city user experience :)

There is the same financial incentive for MS to fix their Y2k22 bug.
>If you removed that button people would copy and paste or screenshot and share.

And this already happens, often between people who've blocked one another yet want to continue the personal attacks. It's all too easy to open a blocked tweet in Incognito Mode, take a screenshot, add negative comment, and hit post.
An open question: What useful information do you think each person should write in the comment to help you decide whether to collaborate or not?
You can train it not to do that. When I saw those in my notifications, I kept picking the option that is something like "see less like this" and I haven't seen one in months.

But yes, they are optimizing for things like UAM and engagement, so to them almost anything that draws people back looks like a good product choice.
In “The Book of Thinkage” (which I heard of on HN), one of the characters practices “cozy” - making his space fit his exact needs, by adding a shelf here, a lever there. There’s something universal, and quite satisfying, about the instinct to shape the world around us to match our individualisms. It’s like all of our random automation scripts, but physical.
Here's an estimate of broadband access in the USA, for comparison.

> "In 2021, we expanded our study, manually checking availability of terrestrial broadband internet (wired or fixed wireless) for more than 58,000 addresses. In all, we checked more than 110,000 address-provider combinations using the FCC Form 477 data as the “source of truth”.

> "This study confirms our estimate that at least 42 million Americans do not have access to broadband. For the first time, we also estimate broadband availability for all 50 states."

https://broadbandnow.com/research/fcc-broadband-overreportin...

I suppose the Chinese government could be inflating reports of connectivity for propaganda purposes, but that also seems to be what the FCC is doing:

> "The figures and estimates cited by the FCC rely upon semi-annual self-reporting by internet service providers (ISPs) using the FCC-mandated “Form 477.” However, there is a widely acknowledged flaw with Form 477 reporting: if an ISP offers service to at least one household in a census block, then the FCC counts the entire census block as covered by that provider."