skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think if a reasonable product actually got RYF certification it would attract a lot of people who have so far just accepted that an open device isn't happening and compromises need to be made.

Basically I don't check RYF certification before buying a product, but if I heard of one getting it I'd be interested in it.
We have annual flu shots. Naively I’d expect COVID shots to be the same if not more frequent for the first few years while global immunity is low and so variants keep evolving quickly.
The 'nebulous' bit referenced in parent comment is your claim that hyperdensity is uniformly detrimental to the social fabric. Do you think there is less of a meaningful social fabric in the most dense neighborhoods of NYC or Tokyo, compared to the average American suburb? There will always be people who opt to live in smaller towns, but those simply cannot sustain the sheer level of density that big city cores can.
The root cause is mental illness, academic trauma is a symptom.
Aside: if Apple's M1 processor is ARM-based, why do we bother making the distinction? If anything I feel like this hurts more than it helps because Windows and Linux need better ARM support too.
>science in principle shouldn't treat them any differently than results about "regular" subjects.

That's the whole problem, as I understand it. If we are going to treat ESP research the same as research in other fields, we either accept ESP as real, or reject both ESP and other fields as deeply flawed.

Personally, I'm leaning heavily toward the second option. The methods in ESP are identical to methods in psychology, social sciences, etc, but not physics or chemistry. I'm just wondering where to draw the line. Maybe the whole method of statistical inference needs to be flushed? Maybe it cannot be saved by preregistration, publishing all the data, transparency and other bells and whistles.
Yeah, that's a hell of a hard thing to do a double-blind test for, isn't it?
Oh, sure, that would be preferred but I can't see that happening anytime soon. I guess it all depends on whether you feel like the FSFs polices will bring improvement for open blobs etc
Forrest Mims III books & mini-notebooks? I think these things raised a generation, were stocked at most Radio Shacks (defunct once-upon-a-time hobbyist-friendly store). Friendly illustrations, simple design, very nice walk throughs. He has some material with Make too now.

There might be way better options. This seemed to be pretty good though. Helped me a bunch. There were also a series of like 60-in-1 electronics projects at Radio Shack that demonstrated some projects, but it was kind of overwhelming. If i had an oscilliscope back then (easy to get now!) it wpuld have been neat. Make probably has better.
>Even the T60 offers a decent performance if your usecase is browsing the web,

I actually own a T60 and this is not true, for any reasonable definition of "decent".

The web is a horrid wasteland of poor performance JavaScript.

Forget running any Electron apps (a necessity it seems in this day of Zoom and MS Teams).
If you're not finishing projects then that's a you problem, not a code problem.

JS is fine, and for a front-end MVP it's probably the easiest choice. Ruby is also fine, but I don't think Rails is as popular as it used to be job wise.
Yeah that's a failure on my part. Like I said, I've spent ten years trying to articulate it and spent a few hours in conversation with you, and I still can't seem to get my actual thesis across. I don't think another attempt right now will help where all else before it has failed :) How about we pause for a bit, and we can pick it up again in a few hours. Perhaps even over email or something, because this back and forth is likely not helping anyone else. My email is in my profile.
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I work on a healthy software team that successfully works together and it's nowhere near this acrimonious.
Just take a look at what industry most billionaires got rich from. Those are the industries that extract most value from society and environment. And since there's no free lunch there probably is some associated cost no matter how well hidden and surprising.

> My mind would have gone to energy, war industry, tech, banking, news media, chemical, health and pharmaceutical, and probably a lot of others before I thought of fashion though if I was thinking of societal cost.

Sure, there are other heuristics that might point out to other industries worth regulating.
I've been one of these ants before. The key is seeing the bigger picture and not just following the ant in front of you.
We really need to purge ambient authority in this industry. Completely.

The alternative is a low-trust low-collaboration regression to 1990s style software development, and that is simply untenable.
Every single senator and president and house representative of both parties should also be voted out for not banging their drums on civil forfeiture and passing legislation yesterday to forbid it.
Please dont confuse gameplay code with the game engine itself. Unity runtime was always written in C++ even though for games and editor they use C#.
> They were fed stories
> They got fomo and bought in.

But the key factor is that they were they fed stories via a new information medium: The Internet. And the Internet is also where beanie babies could be bought (via ty.com) and resold (via Ebay). An argument could be made that Ebay might not even exist today without the beanie babies phenomenon which gave it early traction.
Agreed. There's a demand for skyscrapers, just not the tallest skyscraper.
I'm speculating, but maybe it seemed like an unnecessary / unconstructive rant as against a group.
I am tired of people acting like their bang average pub steak has any semblance of an exquisite culinary experience. Yeah, don't sauce your A5 Wagyu or beauty marbled meat from a cow that lived like a queen. But, the 20$ filled mignon that grew up without getting shoulder massages is as mundane as any other 'decent cut of an animal'.

That's not to say that I don't like a good simple steak, but there is nothing extraordinary about a grocery store cut of meat to warrant eating it with just salt and pepper all the time. Hell, at least goat, elk or salt water fish are gamey enough to have enough complex flavors going on by themselves. Steak is honestly, a little one dimensional.

IMO, a medium rare, dry brined and cast iron seared fatty steak with some chimichurri on top is admittedly excellent. Also, complaining about a welldone steak not being as juicy as a medium rare steak is ridiculous. But if thats what they like, then making fun of people's culinary tastes because you have a specific classist hangup about your food is snooty and stupid.
My current employer has an "Activity Bases Working" philosophy.

This means we hot-desk. We do not get an assigned desk. We are likely to sit somewhere different every day you go to the office. We each get a personal locker to store items so we don't have to carry everything to/from the office each day. The desk each have at least one monitor, most have two, they are easily adjusted by height/left right and viewing angle. Each desk also has a keyboard and mouse and a USB docking station. Each desk is cleaned nightly. There are disinfecting wipes available if you feel the need to wipe down the keyboard or mouse when you arrive. Some of the desks are height adjustable. There are a few standing desks for floor as well.

Generally we are organised into semi-autonomous squads of 8-12 people though sometimes larger squads are formed. Each squad has a nominated set of desks they can claim for collaborative work. Anyone can come and sit in a squad's area if there is a free desk available. This allows for easy inter-team collaboration when required. Someone from another team can come and sit with us to work through how we will interface/integrate between our respective services.

We also have meeting rooms and other spaces available we can go work in when we need somewhere to deeply focus or have longer discussion that might impact others.

This works quite well. No one is very possessive of any particular desk or location. If you get in late sometimes you may not be able to sit with your team. Though you have the right to ask someone to move out of your teams designated area if you really do need to collaborate with your team mates.

One exception is for people that have strict ergonomic requirements. They will be assigned a dedicated desk and chair set up for their needs that don't get changed.

I don't ever feel possessive of a desk I might be using. I don't feel the need to leave things on my desk for the next day. There is a slight time cost to going to/from your locker and adjusting the monitors and chair each day to your liking - but that time is on the clock.

The biggest challenge with this arrangement is when we do increment planning. Every squad is trying to do increment planning at the same time so finding a meeting room or space becomes very challenging. Due to Covid, we have done a lot of remote working over the past couple of years and have become more adept at running meetings over Teams. So finding a physical meeting room has become less of an issue.
The funny thing is that a few years ago, I bought a mining ASIC box at a thrift shop for like $10. I realized there was nothing useful in it; the fans were all gunky and the enclosure couldn't be put to much use.

I suspect there's a huge churn of "we bought nth-generation kit, the old n-1 generation stuff is worthless scrap silicon" in that sector, especially with things like BTC-specific ASICs that won't do well on newer hash lagorithms.
Yes, you could do that if the payment volume was high and bidirectional. It doesn't work at all for a company that occasionally has to pay someone in Brazil, but has no revenue or presence in Brazil.
> If those same laws made IDs free

Hasn't this already been true for years? https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/penndot-offers-fr...

> easily accessible, and gave every eligible voter enough time to get their hands on one

Is there any voter ID requirement, or even a proposal for one, that doesn't accept drivers' licenses? You can get that at 16, and most people get it well before 18, the minimum voting age.

> Research shows that voter ID laws in today's conditions would prevent a large number of legal voters from being able to vote.

Can you link to this research? In particular, is it making the assumption that people who can get an ID would just choose not to for some reason? Because I can't think of anyone who's allowed to vote but not allowed any form of ID that would let them.
This person is asserting that the market for Bitcoin is a great source of liquidity.* This is patently untrue; it's well documented that dollars and access to banking (and thus liquidity) are scarce in the Bitcoin/cryptoasset ecosystem. This has necessitated Tether and other stablecoins, to enable trading in the cryptoasset ecosystem without losing dollars from the ecosystem, or wiring money into and out of the unbanked exchanges.

I think the subtext of this particular response to your question is also that Tether is a buck wild part of the cryptoasset ecosystem, being the people in whom the most trust has been placed, even though they have been repeatedly demonstrated to be lying and have obvious and severe conflicts of interest, and it's just a crazy rabbit hole and systemic risk that ought to be discrediting to the ecosystem as a whole. But time and again cryptoasset folks will roll their eyes and say, "This again?"

I'm frankly not interested in taking the time to cite any of this, but if you throw Tether into the HN search, there are many, many credible takedowns of Tether.

* At least, this is how I interpret "store of liquidity," liquidity isn't something you store? It's the property of a marketplace to execute trades readily and at a low cost? So this may be some jargon from the cryptoasset community with some alternative meaning.
1945–75 was 30 years of uninterrupted growth. A very interesting coincidence that the WTC was built then of all times.
> Identifying and separating nonfree issues is a useful tool in their goals.

Issues are not always easily separated but I understand it's a tool for their goals. It's just not for me

> The FSF last year started a new campaign that is specifically meant to not be hardline and to respect the needs and desires of users: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/support-the-freedom-ladd....

I was not aware of this - I will read up on it. Thank you
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?pid=97828

The above link contains the answers applicable to your question.
Where's the replacement for what? Are you unaware of other blogging platforms?
The ground floor of a 6 story building can’t support a full set of shops with just the people inside the building. This shows up as cities like Paris having clusters of destinations and then seemingly dead space streets filled with buildings only residents visit. It can still be “walkable”, but you’re walking farther with fewer destinations within walking distance.

It’s a basic economic reality is if a restaurant needs X customers to be viable a city will have some constant * population/X restaurants. Be they in 5 story buildings or 50.
Uses C# for its scripting API, but crucially the engine itself is written in C++.
Unity uses C# for a certain layer but the engine itself isn't C#. They also do some work for ammortized multi frame GC.

That said, there's tons of games written in less than optimal languages for major portions of the game, like Naughty Dog games in the PS1/PS2 era used a lisp based language for a lot of things
Anyone else have a constant reload of the site no matter what I do it reloads within seconds?
> And I'm saying it's not a generally conservative opinion. Generally, conservatives are against abortion across the board

40% of self-identified conservatives support first-trimester abortions (see the table at the end of https://news.gallup.com/poll/235469/trimesters-key-abortion-...). I think its weird to claim that my categorization is narrow when I'm explicitly broadening the definition of conservative compared to you, and not treating conservatives as a monoculture?

> No, he's saying that they have a significant racial disparity between their executives and their workforce. A non-discriminatory workforce would have are more equal representation between workers and leadership.

Right, he criticizes these organizations for not being diverse enough [at the executive level].

> Help the disadvantaged by actually improving their skills such that they can be equal, not by using inequality to create a false sense of fixing the problem.

Sure, this sounds great, but then he criticizes any way to actually accomplish this. Do you fund worse performing schools better so that they can hire better teachers? No, that's anti-Asian racism because it draws funding and teachers from the better perming schools. Do you allow some lower performing people into good schools on the assumption that they've been underserved and that they'll catch up? No, that's affirmative action. If your solution relies on one-in-a-million teachers fixing the problem, you're totally willing to let the inequality persist.

> His stance is that these institutions should be non-discriminatory.

And this begs the question about what "nondiscrimintary is" in a way that Xu never engages with. Is Harvard accepting lower SAT scores for black people "soft racism of low expectations", or is it the reverse: that lower scoring Black students will be able to perform just as well as their higher scoring peers once they're placed in an environment that gives them the resources to thrive?

And to be clear, I don't really think it's wrong per say to, after thinking about that, decide that yes, that is discriminatory in a bad way. My problem is more that Xu doesn't even begin to engage with these questions. His position begins and ends with "anything that benefits Black people at the expense of Asian people is unjust", which presumes that we have perfectly just systems today (or that they're just enough that it isn't worth harming one group to fix the injustice).

Edit:

> Not to respond to systemic racism with to the soft racism of low expectations.

Also amusingly, by acknowledging that systemic racism exists, you're doing more than Xu does. This is goes along with my broader point that he doesn't actually engage with the other side here, and instead when challenged misrepresents. He characterizes "systemic racism" as something that can't exist because it would require a sort of racist cabal, which is just directly in opposition to how the term is defined.
At the risk of being accused of self promotion, a quote from one of my projects:

At least one study suggests that four-story buildings are the sweet spot for minimizing energy usage. Though some people speculate that additional research will find that optimal height for minimizing carbon footprint will prove to be in the 6- to 12-story range, there is general agreement that very tall buildings are an energy burden to be avoided if we want to get climate change under control.

http://projectsro.blogspot.com/2021/02/copenhagens-first-sky...

The study in question:

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/getting-buildin...

One of the things that is part of my mental model is that poor people are frequently people with serious health problems and our built environment is part of what fosters that.

I'm dirt poor and not at my best tonight because of that. This late in the month I'm often broke as is the case currently. It's a very stressful way to live and it compounds problems.

I have lived without a car for more than a decade which is challenging in the US. Our built environment requires a lot of Americans to own a car so they can get to work and get groceries and what not. We make it very difficult to make your life work without a car.

We also have an obesity epidemic which means a lot of people suffering from preventable health problems. That epidemic is rooted in our built environment and the fact that it's so hard to walk anywhere.

It's also hard to walk anywhere because of pollution and extremes of weather rooted in climate change. In my mind, all these things are very clearly tied together.

But it's always challenging to express that effectively, more so when I am in poor health and dirt poor and can't seem to solve that.

The poorest people in the US are people like me. And I have gotten off a bunch of prescription drugs in part by living without a car for a lot of years. But I get openly attacked and dismissed anytime I try to talk about that. I get told I'm making that up and a liar and yadda.

I am not for building more skyscrapers, certainly not for what the article in question advocates of making them even taller.

The myriad problems the US has are rooted in our not human scaled, not human friendly built environment. This includes issues like poor air quality, lack of opportunity to get exercise as a consequence of running errands on foot and many other issues.

I think it's probably time for me to step away from this discussion. I don't know how to keep having it and comply with unstated expectations that my welfare is not important, my experiences are not real and cannot be expressed etc. That's not something I can politely deal with at the moment.
Agreed - the cloud providers are laughing all the way to the bank.
What a ridiculous take. I live in San Francisco without a car, and there are entire classes of business I can't easily shop at because they're concentrated in shopping centers elsewhere in the bay.

Concentrated business districts only help you avoid using a car if you live on top of them.
What do you think about this?

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/whither-tartaria
If you try to pin down someone on the fly who is publicly advocating for something on what exceptions are ok, expect them to be stubborn. But there is a lot of pragmatism at work. It's why we have the LGPL, GPL, and AGPL. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pragmatic.en.html
That has nothing to do with its veracity.
I’m a weirdo but I actually like unpredictability in my workspaces, preferring a laptop in a noisy cafe to a huge monitor in a quiet, boring office.
Is this how clever software degrades into crap, or is this how users work around "clever" software that isn't actually all that clever and constantly gets things wrong and moves stuff around just often enough to drive your spatial memory crazy?
I'm pretty sure we don't need millions of hectares for Ethanol to satisfy the demand of the five people living in the frozen tundra.
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A mil, or a thou, really isn't good enough for high precision work. 25.4 microns is a lot. A surface flat to that isn't really that flat. An instrument that measures to that isn't really a very high precision instrument. Microns are a pretty good unit.

EDIT: There's this rule of thumb (I might be getting this slightly wrong) that one in a million accuracy/precision is about what you can expect to achieve without resulting to exotic means (at least order of magnitude). So microns of flatness over a meter e.g. Trying that with imperial units just breaks my mind, what's a million mils. Sure I can calculate that. But it's like a pretty useless measure. So accuracy of one thou over a million mils is sort of weird. (1000 inches which I'd have to translate to some normal unit... 25.4 meters ;) ).
Like setup categories and tags, themes, url structure, etc. without needing to read the documentation?
>both parties should also be voted out

It will never get better until we do vote them all out, and we have to vote them out every election like a revolving door. Retaining the seat should be the exception not the norm. This stuff has been going on for a long time. I'm convinced they're all corrupt and rotten, it's just a matter of degree. They're great salesmen and saleswomen. They'll tell you what you want to hear, but it seems every election cycle, they only do whatever helps themselves and their donors. I don't care how the sausage is made, the sausage is rotten.
I guess because M1 describes the entire platform in shorthand (CPU+GPU+performance characteristics), whereas ARM only describes the CPU instruction set.
I'm not vaccinated, have not been sick, don't know anyone who has been sick, do know many other unvaccinated people, and I live in a normal metropolitan area.
Linux 5.17 Lands Fix for Hanging If Ejecting a Broken Floppy
A lot of horrible shirts.

Yet one of my favorite t shirts was a black Linux-distro shirt from the mid(?) 1990s with a cool, flaring sun (Caldera?).

I only stopped wearing it when it was so worn out that it ripped in the washer, in the early 2000s.
Immunity against Omicron from breakthrough infection could be a matter of timing
>If you're not finishing projects then that's a you problem, not a code problem.

Yes I was thinking about that while writing it. But I also read about some people claiming that developing their MVP with RoR instead of JS was twice as fast.

And usually by the time I'm halfway done in JS, I lose interest or already thought of something else, if prototyping was twice as fast I'm sure I'd release a lot more small projects
I am a programmer, but I don't have patience to read through SSG documentation to setup a basic website.
And Publii for simple static blogs.
Agreed. I anticipate the day coming in the not too distant future where I'll have children running around and my time spent on side projects will diminish to a large extent, and become sporadic. I'm very glad to looking forward to having Elm by my side in such a time. (ever-unchanging Elm...how many years ago was it that it pushed a new release? Another bonus for my situation).
Deadsimple Lazyloaded Images in Svelte
Medic here.

It's very important to swear at your pain.

It helps tremendously with pain management.
I'm with you up to this weird high-earners fixation. Who exactly is working in those coffee shops?
Likewise, I’m 100% not against a pure reverse sear. I just prefer to focus on getting the sides prepped and done, knowing that whenever they’re ready, the meat’s only a few minutes out.
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