skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your experience may be different from the psychology-of-obligation issue that the GP describes.

For someone in a stable, salaried job that pays reasonably well (assuming USA level or the better paid parts of Europe), it rarely makes financial sense to accept "hundreds of dollars" for a complex task.

That's due to the amount: "Thousands to tens of thousands" would likely get a different sort of response, assuming it sounded like a reliable offer, not a gamble.

Most FOSS bounties pay terribly if counted by the hour. I'm guessing the bounties came to "hundreds of dollars" for several days (at least) work on the developer's part, because so many other FOSS bounties do? They would have to take formal vacation from their day job to do that work, or extend their working hours to focus exclusively on your issues across many evenings or weekends, at cost to their personal life? They would have to change the way they file taxes to accomodate this payment outside the regular flow of salary? Or, if they work in a job paid by the hour already and with flexible hours, they would be getting less accepting your bounties than they make at work?

The burdens and typically low pay make it a net negative to accept small FOSS bounties, for a reasonably well-paid salaried worker, just on the basis of economic rationality. The psychology of feeling obliged to finish the project after agreeing to do it is just one more burden.
Zim wiki. No Android app but it's text that can be edited by markor, and sync'd by Dropbox or an alternative. Offline by default.

https://zim-wiki.org/
I can't help but think of the phrase "Stockholm Syndrome"... I'm sure it's a fine city aside from all the excrement, waste and rot! ;)
I remember someone I knew stating that "The official smell of New York City is urine."

Better than the old pollution from the 1970s.

When I first came to the US, in the late '60s, or early '70s (I think I visited before moving to the US), we came on a ship, which docked in New York.

My mother brought me out onto the deck, one night, to smell New York. We couldn't see the lights yet, but I remember that nasty, metallic stench.
Being willing to do the interview process is part of it, yes, but this idea that they’re all just average is completely wrong.

Highly paid big company engineers are some of the most talented developers out there. The companies invest great resources into making it that way.

The idea that they’re all just average devs who did LeetCode for a month and now they’re paid twice as much is a comforting fiction for non-FAANG engineers, but it’s not true.

If it was true, we’d be seeing scores of average developers taking a month to do LeetCode and then get huge pay increases. Who wouldn’t invest a month of work on a free website if the payoff was millions of dollars over the next decade?
Sure some cultures are different but we can also make judgement calls on whether it’s worse or better.

A country that deprives women of agency, for example, is different, sure, but one can also make the judgement call that’s it’s a worse culture.
I believe that the main reason why the science and technology advanced much faster in Europe than in the rest of the World, leaving the others behind and vulnerable to be conquered and exploited, was the wide availability of cheap printed books after 1450.

This coincided with the spread of the ideas that reading the Bible is not enough for who wants to acquire valuable knowledge. So initially the surviving manuscripts with the writings preserved from the Ancient Rome and Greece were printed and became known by a large number of people and then a flood of new writings was produced, diffusing quickly over Europe every advance in science and technology.

Before this method of publishing became technically possible and also fashionable, most technical advances were known only in small communities and they were frequently lost when for some reason they were not taught to some apprentices who would continue the techniques of their masters.
The birth rate in Oman has collapsed since the 90s to a bit above replacement level.

You’re right about the Haredi though. Congratulations, on a discussion of demographics across billions of people, you found one community of less than 2 million that buck the trend. Good for you.

Cultural background can have an influence, sure, but generally not enough to have a macro level effect. Hence the global trend.
Show HN: PloUI – a minimalistic SwiftUI library for charts
Not really. China had their own nomadic allies. And so did the Qara Khitai. The Mongols also destroyed the Cumans. And many Turkish Empires that were still connected to the steppe and had the same technology as the mongols.
Tech talent flees Russia as Western sanctions bite
> Let me repeat that, the majority of the world, by every meaningful metric, in every meaningful sense, population, GDP, natural resource production, industrial capacity, etc. is willing to trade with Russia.

For starters, it is not true that the "majority" by GDP would trade with Russia, when the whole European bloc, Canada, US, Japan, Australia, etc. would not.

Leaving that behind, Russia economy is largely based on natural resources, of which the main buyers are in Europe, so much so, 45% of Russian exports were going to the EU and the UK. In that regard, only China could be considered a feasible partner, both geographically and economically, at least until someone figures out how to lay down enough gas pipe to reach South America.

India's GDP, while large, absolutely relies on population numbers, as their GDP per capita would put them well behind countries like Vietnam. India accounts for less than 5% of Russian exports right now, and unless the Indian government is willing to take another hit at the per capita GDP, which has decreased 9% in the past year, they will not be buying more from Russia in an amount so significant, it would cover the losses.

Bottom line here is that Russia will not make up for the losses by relying more on China, and India is irrelevant at this point. If anything, I would say that China will step in and buy Russia's assets at a discount rate.
> Same would apply in the case of a major environmental catastrophe

I used to believe in that. After COVID-19, not anymore.
Curves of Competence
> the pollution and climate impact is just dislocated in space and time to the power plant when the truck is charging.

Isn't that the major point (aside from get the heck out of the way) of these anti-idling laws? Reduce the localized noise and air pollution.

Also NYS gets a ton of electricity from carbon-free sources.
No it wasn't a joke but also you are also blowing out of proportion my reasoning for having children. There have been dozens of reasons why I had kids. One of them, very small compared to the others, is the Idiocracy movie.
The idea that smart people have less kids is dangerous for society and I wanted to "be the change that you want to see in the world".
Now if you want to take that and blow it out of proportion and say THE ONLY REASON WHY YOU HAD KIDS IS WATCHING THE IDIOCRACY movie you are using Reductio ad Absurdum, you are enlarging my claims until they are absurd.
Try instead to watch the movie and then comment on whether Idiocracy is applicable to real world or not.
Also who has the tape and is measuring 8ft. This law criminalizes regular behavior. The actual implementation will inevitably mean a police officer that doesn't want to be recorded can't be recorded. And he will get away with it
> The west was able to control most of the globe due to their advances in weapons, and their brutal tactics, which many indigenous people decried as "too furious".

Okay, but why did those developments happen in Europe in the first place?

China had gun power and printing way before the Europeans.

The Europeans were supplicants to the courts of Mughal Indian and Imperial China in the 1600s. By the late 1700s and 1800s the Europeans were stomping on everyone "due to their advances in weapons".

The question that is being asked is: what caused the change in those 150-200 years?

> and their brutal tactics

Genuine curiosity: are the tactics "brutal" merely from a contemporary stand point, or where they viewed as "brutal" at the time when they were employed, or where they viewed as 'normal' at the time? Were tactics of the other side any "better" or "worse" than those employed by the Europeans?
I think he was kind of a hippie. I remember reading The Timeless Way of Building, and wanting to live in the world he described.
> There has been ARM fans claiming that conditional instructions make ARM superior for simple chips.

For those following this only from the sidelines, it would help strengthen the article if the article has links to such claims. I couldn’t easily find them, and would be curious as to their age, given that, reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predication_(computer_architec..., ARM has made substantial changes to conditional execution a few times since 1994 (over 25 years ago); Thumb (1994) dropped them, Thumb-2 (2003) replaced them by, if I understand it correctly, an instruction “skip the next 4 instructions depending on flags”, and ARMv8 replaced them by conditional select.

(In general, providing links to articles claiming each proclaimed myth to be true would strengthen this article. I think I’ve only ever read about #1, and not with as strong a wording as “bloats”)
Be sure to keep an eye on humidity in your room. I had the same problem until I've got a basic air humidifier and I feel much better now. I can work the whole day without problems.

You can try eink displays but there are still very expensive and refresh rate is subpar even for coding. They're excellent for reading though, much less taxing on eyes than usual tablets or phones.
Under your logic, I should not call 911 if a building is on fire. What business is that of mine?
It almost happened. If I’m not mistaken, Sun was on Apple’s list of possible acquisitions in the late 90s before they decided on Next (Be being the other). Considering Jobs came with Next, Apple would have turned into a very different company. If fact, I suspect the whole tech landscape would probably look a lot different today had Apple bought Sun Microsystems.
I received warning emails for almost a year over and over.

I would log in immediately, they would stop, but then start up again a month or two later.

Even though I had logged in, the last time they sent me an email that my number was reclaimed. Then they ignored my emails about their mistake.
Doesn’t monogamy predate nearly all religions on every continent on earth? How is it a western ideal?
The odd reason nature favours symmetry
Decrypting your own HTTPS traffic with Wireshark
Any insight on initial investment required and ROI? Is this actually passive or you still have to do a lot of back-office work?
Was in tech for 15 years, I was feeling burned out and started a beverage company out of my kitchen. It really took off and now its my full time gig. I have a small staff and work 3-4 days a week. Work-life balance is way better, however I'm missing the challenges and smart individuals that come with working on tech products.
And I think these comments summarize why consultants like Accenture, KPMG, McKinsey, etc survive today. They are for leaders who want to shift strategy risk away from their own responsibility. Whether a strategy succeeds or fails; consultants have a finite lifespan with the organization
Very well said.

I maintain an open source project which is used by a few hundred companies, and I also sell a couple commercial products which enhance the functionality. I don't accept donations since I much prefer to offer well-defined commercial products instead of ill-defined donation benefits.

Despite this, I've still had users who insist I should accept donations, often claiming that I would make some absurdly unrealistic amount of money if I did so. In one case the user kept arguing with me and demanding to know more reasoning as to why I didn't want to accept his donation. Of course these same users are absolutely not interested in the well-defined paid products and always offer weird mental gymnastics as to their thinking.

I just can't relate to or understand this behavior. Do these people burst into random businesses in real life and say "Hello, I love your store but don't want to buy any of your products! I demand to know why don't you have a GoFundMe?"
The misperception probably came about when the mean age of death increased dramatically due to the enormous drop in mortality. Because far fewer young people were dying, the mean age of death increased. But plenty of people lived into their 70s, and many lived into their 50s.
The document you shared is a great example of the education system acting as a vessel for inculcating children with sterile, polite thoughts. I can imagine the room full of well-meaning adults who think they must protect children from dangerous ideas like racial superiority and end up building an edifice of useless ideas.

Maybe we shouldn't even try to explain such an overwhelmingly complex topic like "development of civilization" in grade 4? A charged topic where reasonable sounding yet deeply flawed ideas are known to dupe entire generations of adults.

Alas, our education culture still prefers a feeding tube of narratives over an actual education that equips children with a robust understanding of basics (history, economics, ...) and the ability to question content in front of them. The same sadly applies to science education I think, but with less dramatic effect.
Sorry for the blunt question, but how does it feel to go from something where you make something valuable to ...that?

(At least I feel what I do give me meaning)
Startup for 2k$
Nobody within a particular human organization is a replaceable cog (well, at least that's an ideal that I think it is reasonable to aspire to, even if it's not technically true in a great many instances).

But just as you shouldn't be surprised when you visit a forest that there are some really big trees, some not so big, and some dead trees because that's how forests work, you shouldn't be surprised that when you survey the American corporate landscape, there are some huge successes, some moderate ones and lots of failures.

Sure, there was something about that much larger tree that made it nearly twice the size of its neighbors. But it was just as likely to be luck of where it germinated, luck of when it germinated, and yes, perhaps some good genes. Still, the idea that it was all the genes and that we've just discovered the uber-tree is mostly absurd.

And so it is with companies. The successful ones are most the product of an intersection of different kinds of luck with some necessary-but-insufficient features of their people. We've built a mythology in the USA that mostly all that matters is the nature of a few early founders (or perhaps the occasional turn-it-around later hire). I think this is demonstrably false. That doesn't make success a "meaningless byproduct of a system outside [your] control". It means that idolizing particular instances of success as being based on people distorts our understanding of how success actually happens (and how it doesn't).

I believe in intrinsic motivation - especially having worked with Bezos for a little while - and I do not think that we should, as a society, be providing motivation to people through the promise of fame and fortune. This is typically something that distorts and misdirects human effort and imagination. I also don't believe that we need to offer that motivation, at least certainly not to the extent that we currently do.

To whatever extent Amazon is amazing, it is also a mixture of good and bad, and I strongly regret that as individuals our society tends to focus so much more on the good and ignores the bad (the media over the last few years have begun to rebalance this, but it needs to go much further).
I'm curious in how to use Conway's Law to be more effective. I can learn from Brooks and Amdahls to improve software, but how to apply Conway's?

I think the closest thing is Bezos's API mandate. This is an attempt to flatten communications across a vast organization, with the upfront cost that each team build and maintain an API.
I think about this a lot too. My grandmother had an interest in it as well and studied the history of the British kings for an answer (she was a teacher in India). In my own readings, it seems that at the time of the Roman conquest, Brittania was a backwater of illiterate (in the Roman conception) ugly brutes. It was only after three conquests by the first the Romans (who left), then the Anglo-Saxons, then the Normans, that the British had a chance of mattering in the world in any meaningful sense. It was only after the Normans in England became differentiated from the Normans in Normandy, marrying the locals and speaking the local language that something like Britain emerged.

I think (pardon the non-sequitor) that the key to all of this is theft. The British elite, for almost a thousand years after the Norman conquest still had their children learn French and acculturate to French norms of the elite. The Romans did much the same stealing copiously from the Greeks. So for that matter, did the Arabic civilizations. And America stole copiously from all of them. Rather, you might call it learning and extending the achievements of the past, often the achievements of those who conquered you, often of those you have conquered.
1. May be to avoid Russia = Putin scenario. As in they are not against Russians, but Putin.

2. Epic Games = ~45% Tencent. Which means there may be some small PR limitations to consider.
If you're a random Ukrainian citizen in Russia, you can buy assets outside Russia and have your wealth on the other side before the sanctions. The fact that you can buy Bitcoin in Russia from other Russians and leave is only a temporary workaround with Russia not yet regulating it. People consistently mistake the fact that Bitcoin hasn't been regulated with the idea that Bitcoin can't be regulated, which is false.
I mean, kudos to you, but the vast, vast majority of people (myself included) are not willing to give up refrigerators, or heat, or hot water, so your approach really isn't relevant give the scale needed to solve the problem.
Yeah I know I'm an emacs zealot, but emerge works fine for me.
I've been meaning to donate more to open source and free services (e.g. archive.org).

My last contribution was $20 to libcurl. Apparently it's used on billions of devices, if only each of those device owners donated $1!
I like it, but without a remote it's a little like taking backups on another partition of the same disk
This is at least partly explained by the Qing dynasty; the emperors and ruling class were Manchurians, who were initially outsiders.

To better rule, they assimilated themselves into Chinese culture by embracing a very traditional, conservative form of Confucianism. Unfortunately for them, this coincided with exposure to western countries expeditions, and rather than embrace your marketplace of ideas, they rejected anything that was not traditional thinking.

Feudalism, rebellions, drug trade, the opium wars and more all together helped to give china the "sick man of the east" moniker.
Yeah that pattern makes me think "this is spam"
JavaScript Might Get Type Annotations (ECMAScript Proposal) [video]
That's a distinction without a difference. Pitting citizen against citizen is not a healthy state of affairs.
I'm good at project management though, but highly unconventionnal compare to PMI type. So this create a lot of issues that make me hate my job... but I do deliver, so there's that.
Still, after 4 years, I realise I truly despise my job.

I'm searching for my next career switch. I don't know what it'll be.
Good call on the humidifier, I'll buy one today. I wasn't aware e-ink displays even existed outside of the classic kindle haha. I'll check them out but if they are as expensive as you say may only buy one as a last resort.

Thanks!
I didn’t call it the future of money.

Limited supply is not irrelevant or “factually wrong” for a long term store of value (like gold) which is more the role BTC plays specifically.
I know that people who do this seriously for a living hate armchair speculations about trolley problems and other dumb and misleading narratives that in effect sabotage valuable research.

However, I'd wonder if progress on the beneficial use case has to come from solving first for malign one, where the only way to get to "kill no humans," is to start with "kill all humans." Sort of like throwing yourself at the ground, but missing.

Even to the point of where cars learn to set traps for humans, where we think it's parked, and then it pounces and runs them down, misdirects them into thinking they're turning one way, and then swerving to take them out. Maybe the infotainment system has access to social media data that implies someone will be in a place at a given time, and like Appointment in Samara, there is no avoiding your fate, determined at birth, of meeting your maker via being run down by an autonomous car. They could even co-ordinate, where one can signal to the other that a cyclist is coming, flash its lights and honk, while the other opens its door into the cyclists path. They could hunt in packs, where data about pedestrians they didn't hit gets passed to oncoming vehicles who might still have the opportunity. The presence of a school in the area would enable cars to reduce human populations by both preventing them reaching maturity, but also imposing catastrophic costs on humans who had already invested in making new ones. They could linger around known bus routes at peak times and co-ordinate to select routes based on their lifecycle whether to sacrifice one of their own against many humans on a bus.

These are obviously horrific, but the counter-cases for them yield features and that pop out of serial 1:1 sensor array development, and into a general strategy for "self driving," that is not a replication of human abilities at all, but an entirely new logic of transportation that optimizes for risk reduction, based on the contra strategies for the hunter/killer use case.

I'd wonder if to make anything remotely human or resembling a living being at all, you need to equip it with the capabilities of a successful predator in its environment, and then have it choose to not exercise them for some higher order incentive.
With the switch to GTK3, it no longer fits on my screen (and headerbars stand out like a sore thumb too). Kdiff3 was confusing for a moment, but does a good job too.
Immediately fails to match the OSD due to rule 6: https://opensource.org/osd
OSS developers perceived some value to be gained by them, at some point they seem to be disillusioned by the outcome or don't want to pay the cost of further investment beyond what they put (and got back) thus far.

This just seems natural and could be followed by one of either

1. productise OSS project and start making money from it
2. allow other top maintainer to take the lead
3. work at some BigCo where they can afford to pay full time working on this OSS project, if that makes sense
Here's an interview with the guy that did the throat singing for Dune.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp1r2vD79PA

It's more Kyrgyz style than Mongolian, and wasn't digitally edited too much.
Providing liquidity to the market is valuable too, as well as rapid reallocation of capital where it's needed.

Not to say there aren't differences, of course. But I feel like your comparison is condescending. These people do valuable work too.
Honestly this sounds like me
The autofill feature that tries to autofill things like shipping addresses. As far as I know, it’s entirely unrelated to the username/password autofill feature.
Throw some reverb on the to be reversed recording for spooky premonitions
A century ago when people were fleeing war zones or religious hatred, the difficulty of the rest of their life often depended upon whether or not they had any gold (which was often confiscated) or a Swiss bank account.

In a similar situation today, a mnemonic phrase for a crypto account serves a similar purpose.