skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>which really doesn't seem any worse to me,

I wasn't trying to compare noisy lines-of-code so your simplification still doesn't change the underlying issue: unfamiliarity and not being able to leverage existing knowledge/libraries in the Electron/Chromium landscape.

In this perspective, the "<Window><Text>" is already "worse" to many devs even if you reduce the source code line count to be the same.

In an ideal world, developers wish for this (unrealistic) technology:

- No need to change any code or learn any new knowledge and just effortlessly recompile with NewTool and then the executable magically runs 3x faster with 3x less memory and cpu usage.

But such tools don't exist so we end up with the following tradeoff and reality of prioritizing costs:

- You can make your executable use X less resources and be more efficient -- if you expend this extra mental cost of Y

And that "Y" cost ends up being extra friction that many developers don't want to do. (E.g. use React-Nodegui-Qt instead of Electron.)

So the answer to "Why aren't there any real alternatives to Electron?" ... ends up being: "There _are_ alternatives to Electron but developers don't want to pay the _costs_ of switching."
A person's opinion can be predictable in advance (1) because they are closed-minded and not responsive to evidence or (2) because they are responsive to evidence and the evidence is clear. Presumably you're saying #1 rather than #2 is going on with these authors; could you be a bit more specific about why you think that?

I had a quick look at the paper and it didn't seem obviously "incoherent writing" to me. Could you be a bit more specific about what you found incoherent?
Basically whatever body part you strengthen, is beneficial for your lifespan.
The title is a click bait.
I like drinking raw milk. It has a sweet grassy taste compared to store-bought milk. My wife grew up on a farm and it was common to drink the fresh milk while still warm.

One thing that was eye-opening to me about unhomogenized milk is that you can skim the fat and make butter. I’m sure everyone knows that, but what might be less well known is how much butter you can get. A gallon of milk makes one, maybe two tablespoons. That’s it! I’m sure industrial butter making is more efficient, but I always think about how much milk goes into a stick of butter now.
But if the loop is eventually not strong enough to have negative effects, why should we reinforce it? I am quite optimistic that the climate change crisis will be eventually resolved by the combination of engineering to restore the environment and adapting our existing technologies to damage it less (like it’s already happening). Humans are very adaptive.
> it’s a huge attack vector.

I'm confused by this phrase. Wouldn't it have a 'huge attack vector space' ? I never really understood that phrase.
> LGPLv3 means you need to provide the end user a way to replace your Qt libraries and for many companies, that's a no go

I assume you mean companies developing interfaces/applications for closed-down end-user systems like set-top boxes?
Did it really?

`/usr/bin/python` invokes Python 2.7.18 on my just-bought Macbook Pro 14 running MacOS 12.2. Maybe that's because I installed the Xcode command line tools?
This is reasonable in general, though in this case, I think this will replicate the problem of the second Bash version, as the problem there is with the_tool requiring at least one argument.

While dethanatos's point about Bash's default behavior with a non-matching glob is on target, the remainder of the example demonstrates a problem in the_tool, which will need to be worked around regardless of how you invoke it.
I can't find the quote now but that is actually one of the issues with PFAS studies. They couldn't find people they could use as a control group.

Literally everyone has it in their body, even in very remote regions.
Using several batteries seems to be the best option... but Purism doesn't seem to sell external battery chargers ?
This is such an odd conclusion I’m struggling to wrap my head around the mental gymnastics necessary to make it there. Please see my other response addressing the false equivalencies presented in the previous post.

Btw the rules were not made “a long time ago”, the law restricting the sale of raw milk was passed in 1987 in the US.
There is fascists in America and in most European countries. There is more white supremacists in America than Azov members in Ukraine(in %), but the GOP still exists, and there is American senators against interracial marriage.

There is literal nazis in any army in the world. Armies are rarely full of peaceful left leaning people.

putin doesn't need a reason. for anything. he murdered people for decades without repercussions, why would he need any kind of justification?
> Federated/decentralised identity is a problem we're actively working on at Matrix

Is there a good place to follow this?
I was also surprised by the complete absence of face to face interaction. It seems very odd; though I hope it is not something that the author ends up regretting as well. Mental health needs to be talked about much more and de-stigmatized.
Are you assuming radio hams are better at this than engineers getting paid for it?
People made clay sculptures of CG characters as a modeling technique for a long time. It’s still done, but digital sculpture tools are getting easier to use so it’s not as common as it was.
> Any image transformation you can do on voxels you can straightforwardly transfer to nerfs

No.

> it might be cheaper to do it on the fly instead of redoing the training procedure to bake the change into the model.

I think it’s a bit more complex than you imagine; it’s not “cheaper/not cheaper”; it’s literally the only way of doing it.

If you have a transformation f(x) that takes a pixel array as in input and returns a pixel array as an output, that is a trivial transformation.

If you have a transformation that takes a vector input f(x) and returns a pixel output, it’s seriously bloody hard to convert it to a “good” vector again.

Consider taking a layered svg and applying a box blur.

Now you want an svg again.

It’s not a trivial problem. Lines blur and merge, you have reconstruct an entirely new svg.

Now you add the constraint in 3d; you can never have a full voxel representation in memory even temporarily because of memory constraints.

At best you’re looking at applying voxel level transformations on the fly to render specific views, and then retrain those into a new nerf model.

I think that counts as … not straightforward.

Doing all your transformations on the fly is a lovely idea, but you gotta understand reason nerf exists is that the raw voxel data is too big to store in memory. It’s simply not possible you can dynamically run a image processing pipeline over that volume data in real-time. You have to bake it into nerfs to use it at all.
>Are we at the point where all developers, or all GUI developers, are expected to be familiar with HTML/CSS/JS/DOM concepts?

Unfortunately, yes, and we've been there for a while.

>The QT stuff is familiar to me (from python mostly), but I have only very barebones knowledge of HTML/JS and almost none of the DOM and CSS.

Feel free to join the rest of us dinosaurs out on the patio to watch the world burn.
The aircraft being exited is often not in a factory nominal condition.
That’s a really good point! Thanks for calling it out
Thank you for sharing such an incredible story - I would never have expected to read something so entertaining in the comments of a post about mouse splenectomies.
This is something that I've thought some about doing and sometimes try to do, albeit haphazardly. One thing I've wondered about is whether the overhead of recording your mistakes and then looking them up in the future is worth it. I probably make at least a couple dozen small mistakes a day, depending on my level of familiarity with the tools that I am using.

It's been difficult for me to decide what to write down and what not to. On the one hand, I may encounter an issue again, but then again, maybe I'll just remember how it works naturally if I encounter the issue frequently, so it might not be worth the time.

As an example, if I am learning git, the subtleties of the `git checkout` command would likely trip me up, but should I write that down? It is such a common command that, if I am using git regularly, I will probably remember it without having to write it down.

As another example, what if I have an issue with something that I likely won't ever use again? Say, for example, I have to get my W-2 from a former employer, and their Web site requires you to call a number that's really hard to find to reset your password and then navigate a complicated phone tree. Should I write down the mistakes I made in figuring out how to do all that? I would say probably not, because I won't have to deal with this issue again.

Finally, there is the fact that technologies change. Some things, like Unix commands, are pretty stable, whereas other things, like best practices for JavaScript, are not. How much time should I dedicate to writing things down when they are likely to change?

All of this is to say: I agree it's a good thing to document mistakes, and I should probably do that more systematically, but I think there is some art to deciding what to write down and what not to.
There's no way you'd get accurate answers to "do you want this child?".
https://theweek.com/russo-ukrainian-war/1011528/zelensky-nat...

Zelensky has banned all opposition parties that were critical of him in any way, claiming they "were all Russians", which looking at a few of the parties banned is clearly a joke.

Zelensky also banned all non-state approved news, forcing all information to be funneled through his one approved network.

This was after banning all males age 18-60 from leaving the country. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2022/02/25/russia-...
I did, but I don't understand most of the technical stuff about OSes :/
Will Neuralink have the same problem? Seems like that would put a big damper on the insane level of hype around it.
In comparison at the opposite side of the spectrum, the largest communication satellites are Telstar 19V launched in 2018 @ 7,076 kg, and TerreStar-1 launched in 2009 @ 6,910 kg.
Would you have a cite for that? I would expect any politician admitting to that (as opposed to merely thinking it) to get crucified even in Sweden.
We lost a valued team member in late ‘19 and two others through the past two years. I choked up talking about him on several calls.

Your note is very thoughtful. All we can do is our best. Grieving is very personal - from a colleague / employer standpoint we just support each other as best we can, if we can.
Seems to me like goblin mode is only necessary when you've fully bought into modern social media driven culture. Otherwise, "goblin mode" is just winding down after work at home and chilling and doesn't require its own term.
The Ant Mill Theory of Discourse
I've been assured by Hacker News that this is effectively impossible for any entity without Google's resources or budget.
I suppose there's a procedure of some kind for rebooting from zero, rather than restoring previous state.

I guess I'd like to be able to specify at startup which processes are to be de-hibernated, which are to be restarted from scratch, and which are to remain dead.
I don't know, would it be more awkward for management to force you to turn on your webcam? I think the lack of face to face and the free language of this post shows some empathy. Maybe they could/should have arranged an in person trip sooner than that or something
here you go: https://github.com/mody5bundle/capps
please feel free to open issues and pull requests :)
SOL: A macOS launcher/command palette
>For reasons I don't fully understand, there's a lot of folks in the social sciences these day that seem to be waging war on the very concept that you can describe intelligence generally

The fallout from eugenics gave social science a complex. Innate difference and especially innate superiority of one person over another is taboo. The field is poisoned by motivated reasoning.

>At the height of the controversy, during the 1970s to 1980s, the debate was highly ideologised. In Not in Our Genes: Biology, Ideology and Human Nature (1984), Richard Lewontin, Steven Rose and Leon Kamin criticise "genetic determinism" from a Marxist framework, arguing that "Science is the ultimate legitimator of bourgeois ideology ... If biological determinism is a weapon in the struggle between classes, then the universities are weapons factories, and their teaching and research faculties are the engineers, designers, and production workers." The debate thus shifted away from whether heritable traits exist to whether it was politically or ethically permissible to admit their existence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_versus_nurture#Determin...
> Sweden did not have a good response to the COVID pandemic

Austria (with several complete lockdowns) overtook Sweden in Covid deaths per capita in December 2021[0]

Aren't Sweden's excess mortality figures since the start of Covid actually pretty good compared with the rest of Europe? [1]

[0] https://www.kleinezeitung.at/international/6078837/Relativ-z...

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
As others mentioned, this wasn't actually published in Nature.
While it's important, CO2 isn't everything. The use of pesticides (and monocrops) leads to dramatic loss of biodiversity, and that is an environmental disaster.
> It’s easy to think that we could have prevented Pete’s death

This sounds like guilt, one of the stages of grieving. I hope you get counseling.
I find the reasons for the delay interesting. The "root cause" is arguably not signalling or station fit out, it's the fact that the senior management essentially didn't understand the processes or how progress was being made or not made.

Under the original CEO it was going to be delivered in 2018 right up until mid 2018 when they were like "oh sorry, maybe early 2019?". This was a CEO with basically no construction experience who rarely set foot on site.

They replaced the CEO a few years ago with someone who has a long career in construction, who understood what it takes to build a railway, who really knows the details, and who is on site, in the weeds, understanding the progress at a very granular level. Since he's taken over the communication has been much better, much more consistent, and felt much more honest. He wouldn't commit to a date, but has progressively shortened the window again and again as they've got closer to completion, and maybe this is naive, but I fully believe that they'll hit the goal of "first half of 2022".
This is exactly what I’ll try to change in next 5 years. Have a sustainable baseline: my own food (or at least 50% of it, other 50% locally grown within ~10km) and energy independent (for heating and cooking), and treat everything else as a luxury that can perish any time now.
I don’t want to give up my remote work, car and (occasional) luxury vacation, but would love to be able to sustain myself without it. Current life-style (apartment, frequent food orders, total dependency on the power grid) is a ticking time bomb (which might not go off in my lifetime) and feels like all-or-nothing gamble.
I believe only wolf 3d snes used bsp. I may be misremembering.
Article leaves out cost of migration. If you're trying to get better uptime, you're likely going to incur a downtime migrating everything over so you've already taken a few step back uptime wise unless the platform you're moving off of is already horrible.

The article touches on it, but there's also compliance concerns (access control is mentioned, also retention policies, DR, ability to redact/remove improperly added data)

They briefly mentioned monitoring but, like auth, can be non trivial for a well built system. Something like email is easy until the entire system is down and the alerts don't go out anymore (so you need an external monitoring system)

I also don't see labor cost mentioned very often. How many hours will it take to support?
> In small European companies I've worked for this would be considered a big red flag and a sign of broken company culture, but for US companies it is seemingly the norm.

Try working for a big European company, it’s no different.
So you're saying you're spending $2700/month right now but cooking & cleaning for yourself would cost you more.

Assuming you are becoming more successful over time, eventually you will be able to afford it.
I'm not sure that's exactly human friendly. Can people answer questions like that without training? Would the amount of thought needed create a noise signal?

If they have vision, you could ask "Which of these two sets is the letter in", where the sets were dynamically generated by predictive software.
Potassium resources are a concern if you're talking about fertilizer, where it has to be extremely cheap. For technical use in batteries cost would not be a concern. Potassium is about 4000x more abundant in seawater than is lithium, btw.
I've moved my email and calendar off Google, stakes are just too fucking high. Also ditched Chrome for trusty Firefox. The only reason I have a Google account is just for Android and Youtube

Edit: also DDG for search
Nonsense. There are various reasonable ways to calculate a baseline and they all show large surges over the covid period (which correspond to reported covid deaths, btw).

Also, there are no winners, what are you even talking about?
My biggest concern is nuclear war. The death it would unleash would make the COVID pandemic seem like an afternoon picnic, and it would all happen in a frighteningly short period of time. 4pm war starts. 5pm most of the people you know are dead. This comes, far as I'm concerned, close to the end of the world, and shouldn't be impossible, yet it isn't by a long shot.

My second biggest concern is the rapid loss of natural habitats and the concomitant loss of biodiversity.
Am OP, can speak to the lack of cameras. We actually crafted our process in the Microsoft Lync era. Video was brutal. Also because of the diverse accents (Vietnamese, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish) it was easier to 'listen' without distraction. Obviously if you were starting today, cameras would be on. As you pointed out, probably a mistake.
I loved the first few seasons, but now it seems like such a liberal wet dream.
I don't think it was a deliberate lie.

Many conventional wisdoms we're overturned during these last couple of years. Saving mask for the health care services might have been a reasonable thing to do 20 years ago. But today with Chinese extreme mass production it is entirely feasible in rich states to equip their populations with sofisticated face masks and test for virus infection with anti-gen tests several times every week.

It's a new world.
I've used qt professionally for years and have been slowly coming to the same position, but I'm wondering about going the other direction with performance and using lvgl.io for GUI only and all the backend server communication and business logic in rust. Lvgl.io is beautiful and it runs all the way down to esp32-connected devices.
> And for those confused: this is not published in nature, but in an open access journal owned by nature: "Humanities and Social Sciences Communications".

Worth noting for those unfamiliar with academic publishing, "open access" does not necessarily mean anything for what it takes to get published. It's "open read" not "open write".
You'd be surprised how normal this is, historically, among remote-first companies (pre-pandemic).

A decade or so ago, I worked at a remote-only company with 1600 employees and we never cammed up. We had a large number of employees with serious medical conditions or other personal issues that prevented them from holding down normal jobs and really appreciated not having to go on video.
Further your assertion by discussing the real concern: uncertainty.

It seems to take generations for health problems with novel products that humans ingest to materialize.

We have millennia of experience with cross breeding, animal husbandry, etc.

Why trust these salesmen of genetically modified organisms, the same gentlemen who gleefully introduce pesticides into the environment, when we know that traditional hybrid crops and selectively-bred livestock provide ample nourishment?

Is optimizing for per-acre yields at the risk hazard the environment and human health worthwhile?
EU is going to require interoperability between messaging platforms
You are right, this is why approaches like plenoxels are vastly faster than nerf. They combine the optimization approach of neural nets, but combine it with a simple and regular data representation of the scene.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.05131.pdf
Hmm, embedded code copies.
I wonder if some kind of wearable fMRI could be used to just avoid the whole thing. Seems like the universal rule of tech is that any insane idea within the laws of physics is eventually possible, but anything to do with biology is 50x harder
"If it's not written down it doesn't exist"
Electron is the lazy way as there is no barrier to entry. But if I wanted to run a web app then I’ll use a browser. I avoid all electron apps except Teams and Edge. When we have a text editor requiring electron then we’ve truly lost our way.
Yeah, working remote has many advantages when looking at it "rationally", but humans (even software developers!) are social beings and a lot of that gets lost with remote work. I tend to also not turn the camera on more often than not, have to remember to change that...
Comfortable?

I've heard some men can't even feel the difference, but to me condoms essentially mean "why even bother?". Having sex with a condom is like saying you went swimming, but actually you went to the aquarium.

But still, in some types of encounters ya gotta do it, for safety.

For long term relationships though there are so many other options.
Judging our past selves by what we know now isn't useful.
I don't agree. It's a different kind of loss entirely and it's also important. Culture is a major aspect of what it means for a society to endure over time. Erasing that culture and that history is monstrous.
I pictured a whole live cow covered in breadcrumbs instead of fur when I read that. The southern US would be a huge importer.
Yeah, I didn't mean open access as an insult. I just included it for description. Sorry for the confusion. I have published open access before, so I would be equally guilty in that case.
Dutch construction innovation shows how to quickly retrofit every building
I'll never forget the onboarding in my first job. It was almost perfect. Senior developers who knew how to communicate without making me feel like a toddler (in spite of the fact that I was), small tasks that helped both to build confidence and measure my comfort zone. All that on top of the fact that I worked fully remote.

But my biggest issue was pairing me in the immediate visinity of another junior developer. Yes, rationally I understood perfectly that people can be different, and that someone may have more knowledge in a language or framework than me. Emotionally all I kept feeling was fear. Being unable to keep up with him, needing more time to complete my assigned tasks, him being more chill/casual with the lead devs while I'm hammered with my negative self-talk telling me that I waste their precious time and they're better off hiring someone else instead. And the worst part: Interpreting their positive feedback as professionalism. "Surely they don't really mean that, just look at me".

Eventually I moved out of that team and got into another team where I'm the only junior developer, meaning that it's finally time for my self-talk to accept that I obviously cannot hold a candle compared to everyone else, and I can focus on learning the codebase and improving myself. Now my self-talk thinks that I got soft-booted out of the old team for being unable to keep up with the other junior developer.

What I mean is, some problems can be so personal that you cannot help even if you do everything right.
Dystopian beyond belief