skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> what if they simply learned something new which caused them to change their belief in something?

Then they would have shared that, instead what we got was indistinguishable from "some charismatic people dupped me and/or I'm in on the scamming now."
Hispanics are not a homogenous group like you portray them to be. For example Republicans won Hispanics in Virginia this year [1]. There is a balance between more conservative leaning Hispanics from Central/South America, wealthier 3rd+ generation Hispanics who lean conservative, and more liberal recent Mexican demographics. All evidence from the past 2 elections in 2020 and 2021 indicate that Hispanics as a whole are shifting towards the GOP (even if Democrats currently have a solid majority among Hispanics as a whole).

[1]: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/04/latino-poll-virgini...
The key behind understanding the guy is he's always defending imperialism and the current power structure as the correct, natural and inevitable course of events, with no other alternative possible.

He's been playing that same song for decades. You already know what his position on everything is and how he'll argue for it. The real amazing thing is how much he's committed to it
How is that genius? It basically ignores compatibility and stability as concepts entirely. Most people don’t want breaking changes to happen at arbitrary updates.
Holy smokes.

Bob was the money-man at a place I worked, long long ago. He wasn't a billionaire then, just a measly little millionaire I think.

He always was a blown-back-hairdo phony. One example: he at one point decided to read some inspirational business text to the whole company. Some jabber about productiveness, etc. While the rest of us dozing off to these empty phrases, he got so inspired that was moved to extemporize "Straight! Like a laser!" into it.

That phrase, "Straight! Like a laser!" became an office joke after that.

Now I really need to go read this article.
Here's the bug report where players figure out what is happening 2 comments in, if you don't want to watch a 40 minute video (I almost never watch video and find them slow and boring and regret the loss of text in the web)

https://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=9195
Cash is not so easy to move internationally. It is not so easy to move around internationally at all with flight-delays and cancellations and what have you covidis
The best examples are related to the magic and alchemy systems: you can break the game in many different ways, the classic one being to use fortify intelligence potions to boost your alchemy skill and then make new fortify intelligence potions until you have effectively infinite skill and extremely valuable potions. You can also use levitation and chameleon spells to access areas or items early.

It's not a /very/ emergent game but it has more to offer than skyrim. The speedrun completes in something like 10 minutes using a variety of exploits.
I've been using chrome remote desktop to get to a box and it's been alright. I also use teamviewer. Which is ok but struggles with scrolling.

I'm still pretty unhappy with myself for using chrome remote desktop though. It's something I wouldn't be doing if this system had anything private on it.
I think the Google Research blog is all ML and AI. Google/Alphabet does research into a lot of topics, but they aren't all updated on this site
best comment ever (well, to be more precise, best consumer software comment ever)
https://github.com/labwc/labwc is one I've seen. I don't use these myself, so I can't speak for the quality or anything.
That's the dream of the quant!
I’ve always wondered what happens when I move my hand.

If I zoom in close on my hand, does it move like a sprite in a 2D video game? Always on a “grid”, with no way to be in between pixels?
You might like to try rcmd? No affiliation, and I’ll add that it didn’t work on my external MS Natural keyboard, so I stopped using it. But I like the idea. Perhaps it would work for you?

https://lowtechguys.com/rcmd/
I completely agree! And I myself use a to-do list. I mention these just to illustrate why some might disagree that to-do lists are obvious.
Cool. I haven’t read the comments but I did find a possible bug. If I successfully click in the painted area the generation of the next painted area may land on top of my current “cursor”. I wasn’t quick enough to click it and the game didn’t fail me ( it let the cursor go around the perimeter again at which time I clicked when the cursor was over the painted area and was awarded a point ). Might not necessarily be a bug but it adds unnecessary ambiguity to the game.
I have a notebook; sometimes it gets a to-do list so i can forget about things I have to do, sometimes it's a design sketchbook, and sometimes is for doing a bit of math.

That some rich or smart people have/had Todo lists sounds like survivorship bias
>a few
I agree with everything in this article. Drinking alone is the best, particularly if you like to write while listening to music. The flights of fancy I used to go on!

I wish I could still do it, but I found myself waiting for the liquor store to open up at 7:00 am to get rid of the shakes. Then when I tried to stop I couldn't. Long story short, after several rehabs, more stints in mental health lockup than I care to remember, and burning through more sponsers in AA that I can count, I finally was able to stop.

"Cunning, baffling and powerful" is how Bill Wilson, founder of AA called alcohol for those of us who are "real alcoholics" or if you prefer

“Everyone knows that dragons don't exist. But while this simplistic formulation may satisfy the layman, it does not suffice for the scientific mind. The School of Higher Neantical Nillity is in fact wholly unconcerned with what does exist. Indeed, the banality of existence has been so amply demonstrated, there is no need for us to discuss it any further here. The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the purely hypothetical. They were all, one might say, nonexistent, but each non-existed in an entirely different way.”

— Stanisław Lem

p.s. There is a tradition of the Drunken Zen Master but it's archaic. We all know better now.
Some caution with cloudflare:

Because they give a lot away and post blog posts attacking AWS folks think they are cheap. But a lot of their free stuff may be in the marketing budget. The issue here is:

1) Their paid offerings for their core product, CDN, does not have a public pricing guide. That's a BAD sign if they claim to be competing on price. So we can pretty safely assume their paid service bandwidth charges are NOT the 80X cheaper than amazon despite their claims here.

2) They hype their bandwidth alliance. I tried following this up on Azure, it's basically all call a sales person / maybe you'll get a deal type stuff. Smoke and mirrors again.

3) If you actually try to use their CDN to serve something high bandwidth (games / software updates / video streaming) that is going to violate some type of clause which says that the free CDN is not REALLY unlimited.

4) Financially they spend a mind boggling amount on sales costs. Between sales costs and cost of sales I think they are negative relative to revenue.

BTW - If you try any of the other "free" and "unlimited" providers (for $5/month etc) you will also find out once you try to move some real data volumes (video etc) - it's all a lie over and over.

Same things with geo issues. Cloudflare claims to have "one" price globally. These are almost alwyas false claims. It's easy to test - setup a stream into a high cost area, stream a bunch of video there - you'll usually get a call over some tricky TOS issue they pull out.

In short, if you want pay and forget, there is a reason the big cloud players have a business still.
I missed websites from the 90s where you could find very unique pages reflecting the personality of their creators.

In the meantime landing pages for businesses need to be very well structured and clear to expose the value proposition for potential customers.

So I made Daftpage.
Bootstrapping is tough, especially when you finally build a product and get a paying customer only to read about founders raising $mn without an MVP. Comparison with FAANG jobs are meaningless to some degree because the value of freedom and creating a business is so much greater than the value of a comp package. Also, corporate BS. As a founder you only have to deal with your own BS!
The global menubar is such a big thing for me that it’s tempting to try to maintain forks of various things that ensure that global menubars like those in KDE and XFCE (w/extension) work properly — that is, the menubar in the app window hides (if present) and in apps that don’t have a menubar normally (like GNOME stuff) also populate global menubars.
Trump got 30% of the Latino vote in 2020, more than republicans get historically.
I would have never understood how to implement threaded code without Jonesforth. I highly recommend it.
These used to include base pay only (at least that was the case for me)
Which is funny because we have so much story telling and myth that suggests the same thing. Our hero lost somewhere follows a wild animal which brings him to food or water or treasure or shelter.

In real life, animals might also be seeking out that 100th triangle. In low density areas like fields they are super exposed to predators and the elements so if chased or watched, they'll go to places with complexity and resources. I think this is a very amusing and interesting parallel between the virtual worlds we build and the real one nature built.
If an offender removes key elements from your observation (or in the example adding a branch beside the scientists car) you will not even consider to form a new hypothesis?
That's quite convenient for those kids.
I can't say much about the MacOS side of things (I do use a Mac at my day-job, but only because the choice is Mac or Windows, no Linux option). But as far as PopOS goes... I've been using it full-time on my personal laptop for several months now, and I'm very happy. Surprisingly so, you might say.

Why "surprising?" Well TBH, I always looked at PopOS as kind of a niche / oddball thing, along with any other distro that exists only because a device manufacturer is pushing it. I had assumed that when I got my System76 box I'd immediately install Fedora or something. But when it got here I felt too lazy to do that on "day zero" so I figured "Aaah, heck, I'll keep this PopOS thing around until I get some spare time, then I'll do a reinstall." Fast forward 6+ months now and I'm still running PopOS and am pretty happy with it. It mostly "just works" and I have access to basically all of the same packages as Ubuntu so everything I've needed to install (modulo a very small number) has been right at my fingertips, a quick "apt install" away.

Net-net, if anybody out there is thinking of trying PopOS, I'd encourage you to give it a whirl. Note: I am not associated with PopOS or System76 in any way, aside from being a System76 customer. I have no financial stake in this discussion.
The irony being that Google themselves doesn't even get good scores on Lighthouse. Check out the report for a simple search for "tomatoes":

https://i.imgur.com/qcaMTBh.png

...although I guess they got a green light on CLS, lol.

URL for transparency: https://www.google.com/search?q=tomatoes&sxsrf=AOaemvKVS3_Ep...
Distro does not matter as much too me like Desktop Environment or Window Manager. I tried many distributions, in the end, I got back Fedora but then to Ubuntu (mostly because of the ZFS on Root thing and everything works out of the box experience). Artix was pretty good, but KDE and krohnkite was "too customizable" for me and dwm to less desktop environment.

BTW: If someone would like to have a tiling window manager on MacOS, try Amethyst[1]. Pretty awesome ;)

[1]: https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst
In case anyone wants to devote more time to this subject, Cambridge University's Institute of Continuing Education have an online course on the fall of the Roman empire starting in February (costing £295):

https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/course/fall-roman-empire-3
Why doesn't someone use kmonad or libinput or something to make a utility that holds a database of the most-used applications and, whenever the user focuses a window, remaps the keyboard to some set of consistent system-wide bindings?

I don't think that exists, does it? EXWM comes close, but it doesn't have the database.

I know, I know, I just said "someone" when I should do it myself.
Interesting book. I got it ordered to check it out.

Does anyone have any interesting examples of Nerves or Elixir Circuits being used in industry and not by the developers of Nerves? I tried using Elixir Circuits a while back for a simple project but found it a little non-standard and got the impression it's only used by the few people developing it.
I usually use middle paste on a desktop mouse but keyboard paste on a touchpad device. As for copying on highlight it depends how you manage your windows, if you use a traditional floating WM and typically click windows to select them you end up with a lot of single character copies messing with your clipboard. Doubly so in the touchpad case again. Or if you like to highlight to bulk delete/replace or if you like to highlight to simply highlight the section on your terminal as you read a manpage or whatever in another window or probably more use cases that didn't immediately come to mind.

Point being it's more about use case matching than one option being the dark ages and another being The One Right Way™. Layer on that some like using clipboard history and others just want a single parking space and it gets even more blurry.
> As a counterpoint to "throwaway cars", when they don't need repairs they do seem to be able to do a million miles or more with comparitively little maintenance.

Can you point to a case of this?

Literally written yesterday: https://jalopnik.com/one-tesla-model-s-has-gone-nearly-1-mil...

> One Tesla Model S Has Gone Nearly 1 Million Miles And Needed Some Major Repairs

> The owner, Hansjörg von Gemmingen-Hornberg says the car is on at least its third battery. The first was replaced under warranty at about 180,000 miles. The second was replaced after about 93,000 additional miles before the third battery was installed. So far, the Model S has done more than 621,000 miles on that third battery.

>That isn’t all. The car also needed four drive motors to reach over 900,000 miles. The P85 has only one drive motor on the real axle. That means three different drive motors have failed.

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An out of warranty battery replacement is 20k or so and drive motor replacement is about 10k, so I think it's safe to say we're talking about the equivalent cost in drivetrain replacements to what? 4 engines or 5 engines in an ICE? Assuming a rather expensive engine since the Model S is technically a luxury car?

Not really doing any better than an ICE: https://www.thedrive.com/news/27940/2000-honda-accord-with-o...

(Note all of their engine replacements combined would cost less in CO2 and money than a single DU swap on the Model S)

Here's one with no replacements at all: https://www.thedrive.com/news/29982/this-2006-honda-civic-hi...

And another with none: https://www.metrostlouis.org/news-release/second-metro-trans...

There's more if you want to look.

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Technically you can drag most modern ICEs (or any vehicle for that matter) along to a million miles, but different cars are more or less likely to make it without major issues.

Tesla is not who I'm expecting to make the most million mile worthy EV. EVs are not some magical land compared to every other product in existence: Chasing new hotness so ruthlessly you consider model years an undue burden is not a recipe for a long-term reliable car.

The EVs that will do 1 million miles without major work (at the very least not needing entire drive units) will come from "boring" companies with "boring" designs.
We have regular evaluations where each employee is matched against a career ladder document we have. If you meet all (or most, with no red flags) of the criteria, you get a promotion. We’re going through a process with a consultant now to compare our salary ranges for each level with other companies like us, with the plan to adjust everyone’s comp to match the new levels.

I’ve gotten substantial promotions and raises as I’ve worked my way up the ladder, and I’m pretty sure most/all of my coworkers have, too. The last thing we want is to have someone feel that they’ve hit a cap here. If someone’s awesome and growing in their career, that’s exactly the kind of person you want to stick around.
Ads, ads, and more ads. The Internet with an ad blocker vs. without is like a completely different universe.

Most sites load pretty quickly with ads blocked, even complicated over-engineered SPAs.
For reference, here's the markups dealerships have put on some electric cars to make some extra cash.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vQQEE7Pk... (from reddit https://old.reddit.com/r/electricvehicles/wiki/index/msrptra... )
- From "Social and Cultural Aspects of Drinking" [0]:

"The most important of these cross-cultural constants in the social norms governing alcohol use is the near-universal taboo on solitary drinking. The fact that drinking is, in almost all cultures, essentially a social act, is recognised throughout the anthropological literature, and ethnographic data from a wide range of cultures indicate that solitary drinking is at the very least ‘negatively evaluated’, and often specifically proscribed."

- Drinking and masculinity in everyday Swedish culture [1]:

""Drinking alone should not be done. To drink alone is to be anti-social (by not wanting to share); it is commonly thought to be an indication of alcoholism. And alcoholism is shameful: to be labelled an alcoholic is a condemnation beyond words…""

- Also touching solo-drinking: "America Has a Drinking Problem" [2]:

"He and his onetime graduate student Kasey Creswell, a Carnegie Mellon professor who studies solitary drinking, have come to believe that one key to understanding drinking’s uneven effects may be the presence of other people. Having combed through decades’ worth of literature, Creswell reports that in the rare experiments that have compared social and solitary alcohol use, drinking with others tends to spark joy and even euphoria, while drinking alone elicits neither—if anything, solo drinkers get more depressed as they drink."

- Pandemic related, "When Drinking Alone Becomes A Problem" (2021) [3]

- From Kasey Creswell, "Drinking Together and Drinking Alone: A Social-Contextual Framework for Examining Risk for Alcohol Use Disorder " [4]

"The context in which drinking occurs is a critical but relatively understudied factor in alcohol use disorder (AUD) etiology. In this article, I offer a social-contextual framework for examining AUD risk by reviewing studies on the unique antecedents and deleterious consequences of social compared with solitary alcohol use in adolescents and young adults."

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[0] http://www.sirc.org/publik/drinking5.html
[1] https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/97802030...
[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/07/america...
[3] https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/psychology/news/2021/creswell-a...
[4] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/096372142096940...
There is no equivalent only because there were no economy that could afford such projects. Kingdoms were much smaller and couldn't waste resources on grandiose vanity projects. People certainly knew how to make an aqueduct, or a road.

As for arenas, they came out of fashion with the rise of the Christianity. You know, publicly feeding early Christians to lions didn't help popularize this type of entertainment.

Also, all this knowledge was very well alive in Constantinople, so any rich ruler who wanted to build a replica of Hagia Sofia could just hire someone from there. The only problem, there weren't any such rulers who had enough resources.

Regarding Barbegal waterwheels, what do you suggest checking? Waterwheels were abundant in all medieval Europe, this knowledge was never lost.
Elon’s job isn’t to make sure that the cars actually have brake pads. Elon’s job is to ensure he’s hiring leaders who won’t repeatedly use racial slurs for the people whose jobs are to make sure the cars actually have brake pads.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58807212
How old are your MacBooks? It works fine on a pre-Retina 2012 MacBook Pro.
"It gets down to what drinking is all about: getting loaded, and by doing that, getting down to the inner you. The inner joy, the inner madness, the subconscious you, the real you"

No, except for alcoholics, drinking is not just about getting loaded.

And for inner journeys, there are way better drugs avaiable, or - how boring, paths without any drugs at all.
I used to get custom made pads for my car that I would drive on the street and track. So yea thanks for your concern.

Sintered metal pads definitely sound like metal metal contact at low speed and even more so when they've recently been hot.

Watch the video. It doesn't sound that bad and I can understand the engineers but probably wouldn't expect that much from a "performance model"

Remember my BMW Martin, that ran pads that would make horrible sounds. However the Integra and it's brembos that used to take a beating a Ruapuna often sounded like something you would want to pull over and check out. ;)
Dependent types aren't terribly complicated intrinsically, see e.g. https://shuangrimu.com/posts/language-agnostic-intro-to-depe... for one explanation of dependent pairs.

Nor do I think the value of dependent types comes from proofs, which I agree are still too cumbersome to really use at a large scale for most codebases.

My hypothesis for the sweet spot for dependent types is to express invariants, and then use other mechanisms such as property tests to check those invariants, rather than actual proofs (except for trivial proofs). This does mean that I favor a very proof irrelevant style of dependently typed programming (i.e. in the language of Agda, way more `prop` than `set` or in Idris lots of zero multiplicities for dependently typed arguments) which is quite different from the way a lot of current dependently-typed code is written.
Well training animals to do basic tasks is literally thousands of years old, but using this density concept probably won't fly since the real life "grid" is pretty much infinitely dense. (yes yes the Planck length is technically a limit, but that is not a concern for anything alive)
Window switching on mac has always driven me mad. I cut my teeth on windows so that is probably why.

Why can’t one switch between windows of the same application on MacOS with a modifier+tab combination?
Was it this Atlantic article?

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/07/america...
Currently work at an independent PC repair shop, and can confirm this.

It's not uncommon for us to get a machine which is limping along on Windows 7 for the 15th year in a row, add an SSD and reinstall 7, 10, or rarely Linux Mint depending on how stubborn the user is on not upgrading to 10 and how open they are to change.
Thank you! I think the first is where I first read it.
Could you post your resume for us to review? Make sure to remove any personal information, company names, and position names so you remain anonymous. It doesn't need to be in PDF format either, could be plaintext so there's no risk of metadata leak.
The missing usb was a post delivery fix for a lot of people due to supply issues. You should have been alerted to this before delivery. It sucks their service people don’t care. I had to argue about my wheels being completely curbed in delivery and they insisted they weren’t. Car sales/service people are all the same it seems.
No, it's also true for traditional SLR cameras, due to the nature of focusing screens and other issues you don't get accurate depth of field for very fast lenses, for example.