skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I skimmed the first ~150 pages of that and I'd say it's exactly as cranky as you'd think for a 400-page-long self-published book about science.

Real equations are introduced without defining any terms or notation and then quickly abandoned for discussion of other things. For instance, the QED Lagrangian is brought up on page 126 without defining any of the highly-specialized notation involved (the slashed partial derivatives) and then the discussion moves on from it without _doing_ anything with it.

The QED Lagrangian gets only slightly more words than "the three lightbulb scams" (p114). The term "spinor" is used several times but defined exactly zero times.

The truly "wat"-inducing parts are the "Challenges" sections, for instance the first one on p29. An example: "Challenge 12: Do birds have a navel?"
What's the end game? Even if we continue to grow population now, we can't forever. At some point we have to reach a solution for a population equilibrium.
Happy to take feedback and try to answer any questions here!
Hah, fair. 20 is probably a better choice for superchargers given the location.

I was just up in the Bakken and all I saw was F250's. Maybe if Cybertruck ever happens we'll see those adopted instead :)
> ‘While it cannot be said that youthfulness “causes” war,’ he writes, ‘or that maturity “causes” peace...
That's easy; there are synonyms added for test but not for steve.

If you search for ["test" -test] you'll get no results; quoting "test" removes the synonyms.

It's probably not new behavior per se, but synonyms have gotten a lot broader over the years, so it was a lot easier to punch [term -term] ten years ago and hit a term which had no synonyms.
> evidence based approach that uses the Bible to interpret itself as it was designed to do

I don't understand what that means. But I do think Misquoting Jesus is one of the better biblical criticism books I've read, and can recommend it for interested folks. Your recommendation reminded me of that.
At least for me and my spouse, we need stability. It is impossible to raise 2 children when you know you are going to be a slave to the bank for 30 years and have no guarantees of job and healthcare.

If healthcare alone would have been taken care of, we might have considered 2 kids. But for now, I hesitate to have even 1.
We are close to the beginning of the universe, but we are about halfway through the lifetime of our sun, which formed right around when 50% of all sunlike stars that will ever be formed, had been formed. So we're actually around average in many ways.
My department has four managers that do this and I work in a private hospital. We’ve been asking for a break room for two years.
Rust Keyword Arguments, Optional Arguments, and Variable-Arity
> two most important factors in having successful children are: 1. having two parents and 2. having older parents at child birth.

This ignores the genetic confounding.

The reason "older parents" have "successful kids" is because those same parents have genes which make their kids successful. Decades of twin studies have shown that parenting really doesn't matter, but parents do (because of the genes they impart).
Related, a few months ago Dr. Brickell provided a fascinating discussion about this topic.[1]

A minor note, when I was in Japan I heard the term obachan as mildly derogatory slang for old people (e.g., the old lady who throws elbows if you are in her way). I hadn't heard of the similar term rougai referenced in this article.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNqCRvDbCVI
What consequences will this have for real estate?
My experience with the game has been that I've been over-levelled for almost all bosses (and the ones I wasn't were all optional), just by exploring the world. The game is designed so that if you get stuck somewhere, you can go do something else and come back later. If you stubbornly hammer your head against the one challenge or focus purely on the critical path, then I feel the difficulty is self-inflicted.

For example, some of the early bosses I've heard people complain about, Margit and Crucible Knight, I beat first try without much difficulty at all because I explored the starting areas thoroughly before reaching them and was naturally overpowered. I plan to actually play again when I'm done and purposely not level just so I can experience the challenge.

Speaking of self-inflicted, I've also seen a ton of people (eg on Reddit and Youtube) complaining that they're being one-shotted by bosses with their high level characters, but when they share their stats, they pumped everything into a damage dealing stat and few (or often NONE!) into their health. Of course they're being one-shotted if they don't increase their health. Again, this difficulty seems completely self-inflicted.

There are some truly hard bosses, for sure, but with a game as huge as Elden Ring and with as much value for money as Elden Ring is, I think people just have to make peace with the fact that unless you're dedicated to overcoming the challenges it presents, you may not see every bit of content the game has to offer. FROM Software certainly are ok with that.
Every proposal I’ve seen for vouchers tries to tie the amount to average spending per student. My point is that’s fundamentally unfair because private schools are only interested in students that cost below the average to educate. They work hard to exclude and disqualify those with costly special needs. The result is you leave the public education system with all the high cost students but still getting the $X k they had per student when they had low cost students too. The net result of vouchers is raising the per capita cost of public education without raising the per capita funding. That’s unfair to everyone forced into using that system.
Parenting younger in life is a much better experience for everyone. The real problem is that nobody is stable anymore at a younger age.
> but rather an evidence based approach that uses the Bible to interpret itself as it was designed to do.

Can you expand? Did you create this approach yourself or just read the Bible directly?
There's also the matter of the government paying them welfare, permanently, to engage in religious studies.

Israel is barreling toward religious extremism.
IIUC most people instead precondition their matrices and stick to double precision instead of quad or deep precision.
Comments seem to be focused on whether this is good or bad. The argument for good sounds suspiciously like the (all invalid) arguments for hunting, that hunting is somehow conservation, because if game not hunted, it would reproduce beyond the point the environmental resources could support their numbers, and they will all suffer greatly by starving. So, if these generous and selfless bitcoin mining individuals were not using residual methane from old wells to mine bitcoin for their own self-interests, then the methane would be released into the atmosphere, and everyone on Earth would be worse off. When you hear these individuals speak in support of themselves, all you will hear, over and over again, droning out your ability to discern if what they're saying makes sense, is, "it's win-win. It's really a win-win. So it's a win-win," and the only message you need take with you is that it is a win-win.

I don't know if there are lesser evils here, but the smell of bullshit is overwhelming.
Very easy especially with omf, has a web interface for terminal schemes. I think you’ll be right at home.
The Spotify iOS app. It's simply unusable. I can't navigate it. It's buggy as hell. I am astonished how crappy the UX is for a service as popular and technical as Spotify.
That's a grim take.

We wouldn't be here if our ancestors didn't face hardship.

Our evolutionary cousins (eg. gazelle) are still being born and hunted on the savannah and many will get eaten alive. I think we've got it pretty good, all things considered.

When I had no money I didn't wish that I'd never been born. My parents didn't have college degrees or loads of resources.

Wishing for an ideal environment to raise children is pretty much a modern invention that doesn't correlate to history and nature.

Life isn't as bad as the news and the zeitgeist keep telling us. People are paid to make us feel this way.
Agreed. I live in a densely packed urban neighborhood. There’s no way I know streets that aren’t main streets more than 1/2 mile away.

Cool concept though. This would be a nice game at many geographic magnitudes.
It’s ok for individuals to take a break. But is it ok for a generation to take a break?

How are skills passed two generations into the future? We would have to start over.
I would definitely add Hollow Knight to that list.
This state of being is a focus of Sam Harris' Waking Up book, and one he discusses in some of his initial podcast episodes. The beatific state achievable by meditation, deep prayer, or psychedelics sounds very therapeutic.

Note I'm not a Sam Harris acolyte, but I do appreciate his logic-first approach to understanding the world, the mind, current events, and life generally.
As far as age is concerned, just doing a Google search shows there's a ton of data both in support and against having kids at various ages. There is no single dimension called "success", there are all kinds of health, economic, and educational considerations and they're all impacted in different ways by age. Furthermore it also looks like where the study was conducted plays a big role, which leads me to think this is more of a correlation than a causation. Studies in Europe seem to focus a lot more on health in which case being younger seems to be the best time to have kids. Studies in the U.S. seem to focus a lot more on crime and educational attainment, in which case being older seems to be the best time to have kids.
So Spanner uses TrueTime as an integral part of it's concurrency control algorithm. To preserve external consistency, Spanner sometimes has to wait out an uncertainty interval at transaction commit. The tighter the bounds on timestamp intervals from TrueTime, the less this waiting impacts performance. I've heard through the grape vine that TrueTime currently operates much better than the numbers in the original paper, but can't confirm if that's true.

They use GPS for global sync and a local atomic clock as reference. From conversations over the last few years this seems to be the common setup at big DCs, as the cost for a couple atomic clocks is minuscule compared to the scale of everything else.
I do not disagree. In fact, going outside the context of tech, sometimes democratizing inventions for the lay people is great in one area, and terrible in other perspectives. One example could be the invention of the automobile which - at least in the U.S. - empowered so many people (and commerce), but it also enabled folks to do very foolish things...to the detriment of so many, many auto-related deaths every year. So, back to technology...yes, i like me some PHP, but it is not lost on me that in the hands of the less qualified (or maybe folks who know, but simply do not care), there could be significant (and widespread) downsides. ;-)
I think it’s more important for the game to be meaningful than difficult. How well do you know a neighborhood is deeply meaningful. How well do you know 2.5 neighborhoods isn’t. I’d strongly recommend sacrificing difficulty for meaning here.
F150 Lightning perhaps, unless 3/4 ton is table stakes.
there are two USAnian movies, of the very few that make sense to me..

Still.Mine-2012 - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2073086/

Magnolia-1999 - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0175880/

IMO some answer is somewhere in them..
This must be one of those lifetime warranty things
I wonder - do you think that people always loved cooking with gas as much as they do now?

https://youtu.be/hX2aZUav-54

A lot of “cultural” things are corporations at work. This is a very small example…
I’m not just talking about wealth…

Look at our prison population and you’ll find people raised by a very young single parent.

Look at people that graduate from university and you’ll see the opposite.

It strongly correlates with just about any measure you can think of. And it is true across race, gender, immigration status, etc.
Quantization, Polarization, & Indoctrination
This is a fun game!

I tried 2 areas: where I live today and where I delivered pizzas 20 years ago.

3/5 for my local area, 5/5 for my old stomping grounds. I’m no London taxi driver, but I do have a bit of Knowledge about my old neighborhood. We didn’t have GPS back then and we liked it!

The size of the circle was perfect. Just large enough to challenge, but not so large that random tiny streets miles away trip the player up.
The spitzer image is 3.6um IR, I think the webb alignment images are at 2um... pretty big difference in resolution just due to the wavelength.
Or just link to the massive PNG here. Beware if your mobile plan has a bandwidth cap before clicking:

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/te...
This is almost content-free, and the little that is there misuses/confuses terminology. Not HN worthy material to put it mildly.
There are many FLOSS projects with contributions from many different players from the 'industry'. From the top of my head a few complex ones: linux, gcc, llvm and apache.
What the article says makes sense but he's not disproving doing a coding test similar to what you may encounter on the job vs algorithms you'll implement once in a lifetime.

When I'm interviewing, I ask about their projects to see if they're passionate about something and then I test them on something I need to implement for work (or similar enough).
It's often something like, implement an API endpoint that does X with Y database, implement this UI component. I'm happy to be flexible on language and technologies the candidate is familiar with.

If you think the job will be much more than that, you're simply wrong.

The closest I got to implement a leetcode exercise at work was when I had to implement pathfinding for a 3d game in a language that is not commonly used for games.
Turns out my naive solution was poor, I duckduckgoed 5 minutes and implemented a way better algorithm from Wikipedia.

Besides:
If I need to prepare for two months for your interview, I won't apply for your company.
Even doing a take home exercise takes way less time than that, I can crank most of those in a couple of hours. Still, I'd prefer a real world exercise at the interview, so I don't need to prepare anything in advance.
Maybe something from the parent corp? https://neutralcorporation.com/
Dustin travels a lot. Maybe we give him the weekend before we bare our teeth?
I am sorry if it read as sneering, i tend to loose track of people identifying with the positions, i hoped to make the error in perspective better visible.

You argument is that my assertion cant be true because it would mean Anarchism to be the only form of government.

I think this is intellectually dishonest, you dont end up at it as a logical conclusion, after all, there are some practical problems with Anarchism that dont just disappear. If i had to guess why you might think this, it might be caused by you wanting to look favorably on your worldview? (no offense intended, its an honest guess that might help to self reflect)

The description of reality is however absolutely unrelated to the implications drawn from it. Just because you think there is a logical conclusion doesnt change the basic facts and i think we should communicate them plainly. Because doing so might show errors in what conclusions you drew from it.

My initial statement is true unrelated to its implications. I tried getting away from the individual vocabulary to the meaning behind it so we dont get hung up on the wording.

What you describe here (yes i heard of societal contracts before) is the justification of why this is a good and necessary flubbitz. I point out that this is a bit dishonest, because on paper the Flubbitz you describe is a lot closer to slavery then to a consensual contract. You just think its necessary because of (story + implications) which makes your use a common but dishonest frame. You could make a good argument, that "Good and necessary type of slavery" is an equally fitting description, after all, you agree that it entails not giving individuals a choice and forcing them to comply by force. We by no means have to agree on it being slavery but think about the structure we exist in. So:

Statement 1, calling that a consensual contract is a frame aimed at making it more palpable because of (implications + intentions). It is still forcing individuals to do something they never had the chance to disagree with

Your answer to this is repeating the intentions and implications you see. You dont disagree over the basics, just argue that it is necessary.

All of the above might be seen as just an annoying attempt of smearing a righteous worldview. However, my argument is that this dishonesty has substantial implications. Namely

Statement 2, the wording of the contract being quite broad and exploitable. Not just are you stuck in a good Flubbitz, there exist a power structure that has the ability to redefine its terms how it sees fit.

Saying that this would would mean we had to start anarchism is no different then saying due to problems with capitalism we now have to start communism. The problems still exist and have to be dealt with them. Sugarcoating to feel better about a bad situation is counterproductive. Politics is an ugly business, maybe we should think about where the terms of the Flubbitz get interpreted to broadly, no? After all, its not as cuddly and innocent as it sounds.
It fun how golden billion’s boomers, after grabbing whole planet wealth and creating a globalised totalitarian system to brainwash its own people and squeeze resources from peripheral nations are now expect less violent and calm future with new kids playing on streets (among 7 usd/hour workers who can only repay out 2 meters of lands they presumablyown.
As others have suggested, use zsh autosuggestions, personally I like to use oh-my-zsh as the framework for adding zsh plugins, but I don't think its required. As for the terminal emulator, iTerm is stellar, but the terminal emulator does not handle things such as autosuggestions, that's all up to the shell.
I don't see how Ukraine being democratic is an existential threat to Putin in any meaningful way. This situation has been almost 14 years in the reckoning since April 2008.

The NATO-US acting from Ukraine possibly attempting to foment "color" revolutions in Russia, NATO missiles on Ukraine soil, an increasingly belligerent leader in Ukraine renewing the push to join NATO and NATO-US arming and training Ukraine troops. These seem to be more likely factors in the invasion.

Given that the "West" has been frothing around the mouth for his ouster (he did once ask to join NATO btw), one could conclude that "He who goes first wins" was a viable strategy for him.
My own intuition is that the norm of both parents working is hard on fertility. I can't imagine what it would be like without a dedicated full-time parent.
What's the 'best' way of protecting against this sort of thing?

Extremely frequent diff based backups? Firejails?

The latter seems a more appropriate/thorough solution, but isn't that convenient, seems mostly people use it for select programs they already slightly distrust.
Western governments attempting to raise birth rates are like fat people trying to lose weight: "We've tried nothing and it didn't work!"
That makes sense. Such a system would also have to include transportation, food, etc. It's probably a good move if the funding is there. France is wealthy enough I think.
Monopolies can implement efficiency gains and lock-in strategies that companies with less market share can't.

For example, imagine grain being shipped across an ocean. Initially there are multiple shipping companies providing transport services, with their own models of ships and way of doing things. Over time, GrainMove Co buys out the other big players and becomes the main provider. In a bid for dominance, they buy up the ports on both sides so that competitors either have to pay exorbitant fees to dock, or build their own ports. They introduce a fleet of ships of the same model & capacity in order to streamline their logistics management. Then they start manufacturing container crates and modify the ships so that only their containers fit on them, forcing customers to also hire their containers in order to ship grain.

There are now a number of weak points making the industry less robust. An unexpected fault or parts shortage for that specific type of ship. A sudden increase in demand for containers because a toxin from a disease of the grain means they can only be used once. All these are suddenly not just inconveniences that the market can adapt to, but major disruptions to the food chain.
I think there will be more war. In the future wars will be fought with drones - you don't sacrifice many young people.

One could make an argument that fertility rate of 1.8 is a good thing. There is a better control of the labour market using immigration. Automation won't hurt that much.
How about we increase wages so people can afford to work less? Because we are more productive than ever. No thanks on more government-run programs for daycare facilities. No thanks to making participation mandatory at 3 years old for compulsory education outside the home. I prefer they give direct cash to parents in the form of more generous direct payments like they were doing for the last year and a half during the pandemic, thereby empowering parents to make the best decision for their own households. Idgaf about Macron until he publicly gives an account for why France was degrading its nuclear plants prematurely and failing to build more in a timely fashion. And he should also talk about what France will contribute to NATO in the form of defense budget spending as a share of GDP, along with Germany and other western European countries that were slacking off for years. He can otherwise shut up about compulsive kindgarten at 3 rather than 6, because that is subversion of parental authority.

More shitty government programs or opportunities for bad and dishonest people to indoctrinate the young from earlier ages, particularly now that some bureaucrats would want to use their responsibilities as if they constitute the power to subvert parental involvement, are a huge no from me.

We spent too much already and these politicians only gave us inflation. Now you advocate for them to have more control and say over education by recommending more of their services? Nah, way more efficient, empowering, and aligned with freedom & democracy if parents in a household just get direct cash every month rather than government-run facilities. No thanks. Way too many problems with more gov. Give cash instead, solve the problem. And foster good working environment so wages go up and people can choose to work less and still have a family.

Not rocket science
How fast is the JWT data transmission in mbits/s?

And if it's fast, how is that even possible if it's so far away?
Because they have a very high child mortality. When child mortality goes down, birthrates plummet.
The difficulty certainly adds a level of tension and atmosphere that other games simply don't have.

For the most part, outside of some specific bosses, the games aren't actually thaaat difficult, they're just uncompromising and they punish mistakes. I feel that the Dark Souls 1 marketing focusing on the difficulty so much was a detriment to the series really. Don't get me wrong, the games are definitely not easy, but most of the content can be experienced without too much challenge if you're methodical and take it slow.