skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My problem solving ability is noticeably much stronger when working on paper versus at the screen. This is true for both mathematical reasoning and narrative writing. The effect is so great for me that I don't even try to do serious editing or study of a text on screen.

I have just a tentative explanation for this, that it is related to the apprehension and distraction of having a machine staring you in the face, waiting for you to do something. I had exactly the same issue in the days before personal computers, when I would sit facing an electric typewriter.
If they know how to fly a plane...

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2015/06/25/air_france_fli...
Is the ‘Future of Food’ the Future We Want?
It's not "just a database row," I oversimplified a bit too much perhaps, but it pretty much is very very little in the way of data. Since the following blog post, more stuff has been added to Git (2018, iirc): https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly/blob/master/doc/delta_i... https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly/-/issues/1519

https://github.blog/2015-09-22-counting-objects/

> Very early on we figured out that actually forking people’s repositories was
not sustainable. For instance, there are almost 11,000 forks of Rails
hosted on GitHub: if each one of them were its own copy of the repository, that
would imply an incredible amount of redundant disk space, requiring several
times more fileservers than the ones we have in our infrastructure.
Look at the ZeroKnowledge podcast; it’s fantastic and has no scammy bullshit
I can't speak for myself (I don't listen to that many podcasts), but my friends who do seem to do so mostly through Apple's Podcast app, Spotify, or a similar service.

RSS might be providing the syndication under the hood to these services, but it's firmly an implementation detail at this point and not a thriving protocol/community in its own right. Which isn't to say that I want it to fail or be replaced with something else, either!
I thought it was a prank?

And that c&d looks faked
Open source developer corrupts widely-used libraries, affecting tons of projects
I don't think I'd be so gentle. It is one of the most cringe-worthy things I've seen in quite some time. Makes the crypto space seem like it's entirely inhabited by morons and fools.
Is that how most people are currently following podcasts? I listen to a lot of podcasts, but I hate to admit that I do this mainly through YouTube and sometimes Spotify, maybe Podbean. It's been many years since I subscribed to an RSS feed using a podcast app.
Blocking on Twitter is such a meaningless feature. You can just log out to access the content someone who blocked you. It’s like the feature only exists to make people feel good about signaling their actions to the blocked party.

Muting fulfills all the goals those features are supposed to solve. Does blocking actually add anything sensible on top that I missed?
I say: don’t bother trying to talk to minor celebrities on Twitter. If you want discussions, HN (and other well-moderated forums) are the place to go. Twitter is just the Internet version of that scrolling celebrity soundbite bar on cable TV.
When it comes to cat health and preventative care a lot can be gleaned from the book The Forever Dog (https://foreverdog.com). There is a lot we can do as care takers to prevent health issues and not just monitor for them.

The summary of the book is "Eat less, eat fresher, and move more and more often"

Perhaps with cats the movement part maybe not be as applicable, but the eating fresher (no processed foods) and eating less would make a huge difference it a cats life. Maybe someone will write Forever Cat?
I think I read somewhere that Aboriginal Australians have oral tradition that mentions rain forests covering much of the continent. I wonder if these are the same (edit: perhaps remnants of, since the fossils are dated in the millions of years) forests that the article mentions.

If anything, really shows how the “traditional” knowledge that I personally did not consider much before may be worth taking a second look at.
"cease and decease". omg, what a bunch of hacks

https://twitter.com/cryptoland/status/1480236809531838464
Relatives plus culture seems like more than enough to do it, no matter how egalitarian or "antiracist" the local politics.
Boaty McBoatface’s new mission is more serious than its name
You are imputing a lot of state of mind to my initial remark.

I enjoyed reading his books as was certainly disappointed when like 2 years after my tweet I realized he had blocked me for it. I of course don't recall my state of mind when I sent the tweet, but I don't think I paid it much attention until years later when I couldn't see a tweet someone else was quoting and wondered why.
Should be ‘whichever party does not disfranchise a large group of TAX PAYING people within its jurisdictions’
It occurs to me that a few places in my code effectively have 'backup comments', but invariably because I found a faster or otherwise apparently more desirable way to implement something and having the original version Right There both acts as an explanation of the current code and also reduces the effort required to back out to the previous implementation temporarily to double check parity.

I'm ... invariable a little ambivalent about doing that, but I do it rarely enough and the times I have have come in handy often enough later that I think it's one of those things where "ask yourself twice if you really want to do this, but don't never do it" applies.
It's because Homebrew (if you're on macOS) decided not to compile it statically.
The men who starved to death to save the world's seeds (2014)
And its clone https://giscus.app/ using Github Discussions instead.
> If 50% of the population are COVID invalids, who's going to be doing the (building) work for a new economic boom?

This is a good question to raise, and IMHO does not invalidate the original piece: Two plausible predictions, but how do they interact? Which one gets the short end of the stick? Are the able-bodied hard at work throwing up temporary homes for invalids?
Nope EUR. If you are making less than 3000 BGN as a juniour in Sofia, you are getting robbed.
Sure, "didn't even exist" was an exaggeration, but you can't deny that it was a much, much smaller age category before.
Visual studio won at the zero-to-interactive-program metric. People who have never programmed are not going to care so much about portability as they are about not getting stuck trying to figure out how to install/make things work properly on their systems. The modern ‘getting started’ choice is often python which doesn’t give you such an easy path to interactivity and has its own portability problems.
This looks dumb af
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29717182
I would assume that's quite a hard project, considering that even for Netflix it took two decades of research and world-class AI competition(s?) with a million dollar prize(s?) :

https://netflixtechblog.com/netflix-recommendations-beyond-t...

(Note that was for the much more USA-focused DVD by mail Netflix, so the current problem might be even harder to figure out !)
Most of the more "out there" posts line up with /r/legaladvice, which is my bellwether for the kind of shit that goes down in the low-end American workplace (spoiler : goddamn awful,).
Yes it does. Like it all not we all subconsciously associate media format with a certain era or genre. A gramophone places a story back in the early 20th century and a minidisc surely brings up memories of the late 1990s. Having a period-specific piece media show up in depictions of the future surely breaks the veil of suspended disbelief.
Nice to see so many scientists on their way to the glacier. I hope they calculate more than just sea level rise. Will they also study ocean water current salinity and its impact on water temperature and density? [1]

[1] - https://sciencing.com/salinity-impact-oceans-currents-551724...
My friend got scammed in a similar way via CashApp.

He sold something a few weeks ago and received payment via CashApp. Two days ago he's informed that the customer disputed the charge through his bank, and CashApp is taking the money back from my friend. CashApp says there is nothing they can do, they are simply the middleman.
Because it correlates positively with the quality of life and civilization capabilities.
It could be deliberate. An unprofessional pitch shrinks the buyer pool, but by repelling scam-savvy people it *concentrates* that pool with vulnerable people, increasing the conversion rate. This is useful if the scammers need to devote a lot of individualized attention on each target.

HN had threads discussing this concept (in the context of 419 scams, I think); I don't remember how to find them. Those have enormous attrition rate between the initial contact, and the "walk into a bank and wire your life savings" step.

edit: They discussed a Microsoft researcher's article about scam emails (thanks, walrus01):

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/why-do-... ("Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They are From Nigeria?") [2012]

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=why%20nigerian%20scammers&type...
Poe's law in action: after watching this I cannot tell if this is 2nd order trolling or real thing
After browsing OpenSea one may reasonably come to the conclusion that for every competent artist selling NFTs of their art, there are approximately 40,000 low-effort mspaint primates.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220107114736/https://iopscienc...

images available with the actual paper here

https://web.archive.org/web/20220107115445im_/https://cfn-li...

pre explosion images
> The planet without toxic media and mad billionaires is a much nicer place than the planet with them. Many of the biggest trad-media offenders will be dead by 2030. Will they be replaced

I'd like to hope that they won't, but why? The same forces that produced the current crop are no weaker, indeed stronger. Past performance indicates that there will be more.
Which is prominently displayed in the tucked away kebab menu.

Linux was designed to run hardware but can be configured to block hardware. (Not cpus or ram, but you get my point)
So they literally don't take any tax for foreign income and don't require any social security payments? That's seriously awesome. Actually I specifically like it because, while I'm paying here those social security contributions for pension etc, I've no idea if I'm gonna be able to use them for the retirement, since I'm not a citizen, and not sure if I'm ever going to be one.

By paying those I'm helping other people though, which is not a bad thing I guess. But I'd definitely prefer this to be more of a donation and less of a tax.

Anyway, thanks again. You got me researching about Panama this evening.
I think that's what they meant by "civilizational" extinction, which they specifically mention in your own quote instead of species extinction. Maybe a little dire, but a disease with a 20% fatality rate in 2021 would have very different transmission characteristics than the bubonic plague in the 14th century.
Your grandpa is rich, yes.

The fact that many farmers choose to operate their business in a way that is under-leveraged and often over-work themselves instead of hiring outside help that they can certainly afford is an artifact of culture, not a measure of wealth.

Of course, coming from a rural community there is a pretty good chance that you engage in an unusually high level of personal savings and as such have converted a high income into high asset holdings, I know I do - it is something in the water I think!
Same here. I have a goal of 10 books this year, and this will already be a stretch for me.
> A “ham fisted lockdown” was completely justified to protect everyone while we figured out what was going on.

For the first two weeks, the lockdown was indeed completely justified. But it's completely unjustified that it lasted so much longer than that, now that we know what's going on (in particular, there's some places with lockdown rules still in effect today, 2 years later).
I hear insulin is the same way. Eventually they still die, and OMG IF THEY STOP THEY DIE TOO.

/sigh.

please stop this, you're contributing to the stigma both in terms of mental health, and that lifesaving medication is somehow an addition.
It might well be on the hyperbolic side, but I'm not sure your counter-example is really apples-to-apples. It isn't totally reasonable to compare the current pandemic to communicable disease outbreaks pre-globalization; in the 1300's, someone exposed to plague couldn't hop on a plane and be in a global transportation hub with millions of people passing through in just a dozen or so hours.

Furthermore, the plague had a catastrophic impact on population - in just a few years it killed upwards of 50% of Europe's entire population! I wouldn't call that "extinction level" but it's really not something to shirk at so cavalierly. What would be the impact on civilization of losing half the world's population today over just a few years? Whether or not it would lead to a decline into extinction is kind of academic; undoubtedly, it would lead to a fundamental shift in society and civilization.
I don't know, but since GitHub allows you to show commits from any fork with a URL referencing another fork, GitHub seems to use a common object store for all forks.

Maybe setting up the separate issue tracker and Pull Requests takes some time?
It also prevents you from reading their tweets

It’s basically twitter’s fault/design choice that choosing not to see someone’s replies to you also blocks them from seeing anything you post [0] (of course, cleverly circumvented by simply logging out)

> Blocking helps people in restricting specific accounts from contacting them, seeing their Tweets, and following them.

There were some court cases [1] to this effect since politicians would block annoying trolls/constituents, but this apparently violates the blocked users’ first amendment rights to access the public information. I don’t know, never made much sense to me, point is, blocking someone is, I wouldn’t say taboo as it’s quite normal, but it’s also very annoying to be blocked.

[0] https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/someone-blocked-me...

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/02/can-government-officia...
Nicky Case's simulation is great and fun, but I think she reaches the wrong conclusion.

Her takeaway is this (in my words, not hers): "Diversity is good, therefore we should alter our behavior to increase diversity."

My takeaway is the opposite (again, my own words): "Segregated communities may arise in a decentralized way through the free choices of people optimizing for individual preferences for homogeneous communities. Engineering a system to promote diversity may cause harm. Such an engineered system must, by definition, pressure or force people to make a different choice than they freely would."
Yeah, I know about Chernobyl too - I grew up there and my parents still work there (since 1987). Yes, it was a huge tragedy but it’s effects are hugely exaggerated by oil and gas lobbyists in US.
> we'd have more than a million dead Americans

We would? How do you know?
Open source maintainer pulls the plug on NPM packages colors and faker
Exoplanet Characterization ToolKit
I agree, except citizenship has significant hurdles to immigrants. And lots of people take theirs for granted.

People who immigrate and become citizens, yes - they are invested. I don't think people who are natural citizens are as invested (except by default). And I definitely don't think people who are non-citizens are not invested -- they aren't allowed to "invest" in the same way.

For local residency, it's a little different since it's relatively easy to switch residency (at least here in the US).
Sounds a bit like Zerotier. But I'm not sure how it's different. How does it find other machines, deal with NAT, other corner cases?
It feels like that way to me but it's hard to tell these days. Possibly a good example of Poe's law
I had trouble at my previous job like this. I knew I was right and my boss was wrong and let him know. I also worked way too hard for the benefits I was getting there. It didn’t do much for my career and didn’t help my mental health, so I ended up leaving.

In my new job, I decided to care about the outcome a little less so that I can play my part better. Sure, we could fix all the stuff that I think is wrong here at the new place, but then we would not get the stuff done that will make more progress with our customers and product. Honestly, just caring a little less does wonders.

I sure wish I could quit and start my own business, though, because surely I could do better! At least my ego tells me that I could do better…
It depends (a lot) on your car and the engine.

In general your otto-cycle (diesel is different) engine is most efficient at full throttle near its peak torque. However, this is far more power than is needed at cruise.

So the lowest speed your highest gear can go?

Not quite. First, engines are so powerful that you’re probably well in a range dominated by aerodynamic forces. With modern 10 speed transmissions you are probably several speeds too high.

Like I said, it depends on the car, you’d have to test it on an empty flat country road. But I’d guess 50 kph or less.

I’m a pretty staunch Republican, but Jimmy Carter was a great president. And his 55 mph interstate speed limit is the most sensical fuel economy policy of any president.

Then again, Jimmy is an engineer :)
I wouldn’t say unnecessary; most available comment systems are either a Discuss-style firehose of tracking scripts, or a pain to maintain when self-hosted.
this reminds me of the crypto/seasteading bros who tried to buy a cruise ship

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/sep/07/disastrous-voya...

https://futurism.com/the-byte/bitcoin-cruise-ship

cryptoland, more like grift-o-land
“If the SARS family of coronaviruses had emerged just a decade earlier it's quite likely we'd be on the brink of civilizational, if not species-level, extinction by now—SARS1 has 20% mortality among patients, MERS (aka SARS2) is up around 35-40% fatal, SARS-NCoV19, aka SARS3, is down around the 1-4% fatality level. If SARS1 had gone pandemic we might plausibly have lost a billion people within two years.”

That’s a scary thought.
Interesting! I recently did something similar based on my GoAWK interpreter (an AWK interpreter written in Go): I wrote a compiler that tries to statically infer types and compile a subset of AWK to Go source: https://benhoyt.com/writings/awkgo/ My conclusion:

> Is it useful? Not really. If you want performance, just use Mawk! And if you want your text processing script in a more maintainable language than AWK, you’d probably just write it in something like Go from the start. You’re pretty certain to end up with more idiomatic Go that way, and it’ll probably be more efficient as well.

> Still, if you have some AWK scripts lying around that you want to convert to “real programs”, AWKGo might not be a bad place to start: you could compile a script to Go to get the structure, then clean it up and maintain the cleaned-up version.
> This, but also don't underestimate the personal satisfaction of "eating what you kill".

I love that expression and mere words cannot describe the sense of satisfaction one gets when the sale is made and the checks are cashed. It’s not for everybody. Honestly, it’s not for most either. But if you do pull it off, the feeling is fantastic.
> but I can't leave the toilets open because we have dogs around.

As someone who's never been a dog owner, what's the problem with dogs and toilets?
New keyboard design lets you type at 500 WPM
I think it's fair to say that Linux isn't Unix and goes well beyond the design constraints of Unix that were imposed when it was originally started in 1969. That's the era you stick to when you insist on only doing things the Unix way, but there are a lot of other ways to know what your system does and have reliable tools. In current times the most common usage of Linux is Android, which is ostensibly not Unix-like at all regarding its userspace. If you're talking about GNU, that quite literally means "GNU is not Unix".
> Those I know on iphone also rarely using iMessage.

I think there is a significant US vs. ex-US difference in how people use messaging. I am in the US and very few older adults I know use over-the-top messaging apps, with perhaps the exception of Facebook Messenger. The only people who use WhatsApp are folks who have traveled internationally, have international friends, or international business contacts. Signal is for crypto-nerds. Telegram is for... I'm not sure. Certainly nobody I know.

Interestingly, people I know who are in their 30s are more likely to use FB Messenger, because they're more likely to have been on Facebook since it was introduced.

But people in their 20s seem to have eschewed Facebook. Some of them seem to use Snapchat or Instagram Chat, but without the expectation that everyone is going to be on it.

So, basically, there is no universal chat tool that you can use in the US and basically expect people to be on, except SMS/MMS (and iMessage, which basically takes the place of MMS on iPhones from a users perspective).
Her response to that is gold.

> "cease and decease"

> I have removed all the false information
Did the state of the art change much in 8 years? I am not sure we can use consumer electronics heuristics to determine the rate of progress at the high end. Consumer electronics has only one constraint: cost. Sony could sell you a gigapixel camera and a 200 core CPU to process the data today. Consumers can't afford that, though, so it's not a product. But at the high end -- humanity's only new space telescope -- the cost constraint is not as big of a problem, so the tech is going to be be better than what comes in a $100 phone.

Hubble is 30 years old using 1970s and 1980s tech and it's still a useful scientific instrument. Something with 2013 tech is going to be spectacularly useful in 2022.
RCS has been a "thing" for years but nobody has bothered using it, because it's terrible.

Last time I checked it didn't even have E2EE.
Command Line Video Player
And I run a $80 Android with a user replaceable battery. At least in my social circle the majority are Android owners.
The solution partitions the solution space exactly the way I want it to: it was designed for the site this thread is about. Obviously it doesn't work against an arbitrary adversary.

My solution is static and doesn't take any clues into account, so what you're saying just doesn't feel very relevant. The only "solution in general" to an arbitrary adversary, if you're not allowed to look at the clues it gives, is just to guess every single target word, which isn't very interesting.

Now, you could easily argue that the greedy strategy used by the site is suboptimal, and I'd agree, but AFAIK nobody's put up a site with a better one yet.
Thanks, I'll research more into that.

In the meantime, I clarified in the article that as long as a company is concerned, the article only focuses on the dividends option, and added the link to your comment.
I think you may be referring to the following:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/why-do-...

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/82814/secretly-smart-rea...

by immediately weeding out the skeptical, they can focus their direct person-hours of communication back and forth labor setting up the scam on the most vulnerable and guillible.
Put your profile up on Freelancermap.de, I got some ok offers and in the end a very good contract within a few weeks. You end up on the mailing lists of recruiting companies very quickly. I‘m usually receiving multiple emails with offers every day. Probably not very good ones, but good enough for feeling secure and boosting your feeling of self-worth. Good luck to you! :-)
Here[1] is an article with more details. One worrying detail is that whoever runs the Cryptoland Twitter account "joking" about the age of consent being the age of "mental maturity". It is always interesting what laws these people prioritize changing.

[1] - https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3n38x/cryptocurrency-invest...