skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Democracy is pretty decent, but comes with some big flaws

I'd argue you are overstretching one example of one broken system to a whole class of systems. We can reframe these big egos as people who do not believe in democracy, but great believers in feudalism. (Though I do not know all the details what is going on in Debian, may be I misunderstand the affair, and I don't want to mark some specific people as anti-democrats, but I don't know how to aviod it, sorry).

We see how individual developers say "get off my lawn". The social dynamics of a collective decision making doesn't mean for them a thing. Any democracy needs a legitimate way to reach consensus. And everyone needs to conform to a consensus. Legitimacy of procedures must be enough for everyone to believe in the consensus or at least to believe in their obligation to conform. And the more power someone have, the more his obligations to conform are.

I mean, if I'm a regular voter without any special powers to resist consensus, then I cannot brake the consensus, I cannot stop system from working without resorting to really destructive and antisocial behavior. But if I was a president, I would have power, I could resist. But if I did then it would be not a democracy but an autocracy. If I was something in between a voter and a president, then the situation would be something in between, though probably the president may interfere with my plans, use their powers to stop me ruining the system.

In Debian it seems every developer maintaining something important enough have powers to resist any consensus reached. And moreover there are some who actually use their power to resist. And the system as a whole doesn't treat such behavior as them undermining the system and may be undermining the very idea of democracy. I'd say that Debian is playing democracy but didn't invested enough into building a mythology of a democracy, into making people believe in a divine right of democratic procedures to rule them all.

Though from other hand, it may be not a bug, but a feature of a system, because it pays to people by handling them some power, I believe it helps them to not burn out too fast. It charges the community with struggles and a constant fight, it provokes people-centered procedures, not rule-centered.
Ahh I had a lowly fx5200 and dreamed of the day of being able to afford a better card. But that meant skipping 6 months of lunches and by then I’m sure the better card would not be compatible with my motherboard anymore anyway.
That link about Fox News is from two weeks ago.

Fox News is the most widely watched news network in the US.

Tucker Carlson has the highest rated show on that network and has taken an anti-Ukraine stance.
Very supportive and interactive community,
2022 and developers still use Wordpress for what could be a static blog site
Yea, “religious” in the context of physics means, for me at least, more like “metaphysical” (with a nod to Brian Green & a caveat that nowhere near a professional unnatural philosopher am I). Should I say metatheoretical? As you both reveal, we have already here from 2 fields of physics each an equally promising definite sounding but potentially hairy (even divergent) description of ”emergence”. One seemingly about logic and the other about ..computational complexity(?)

Thanks for the hair loss tip! Have been glancing thru the recent lit (admittedly thanks to the quantacoverage)—- it was all “no-hair” and no “hair-loss”. Seems like the term “hair loss” went out of fashion before i was born?
To every new, better way there is always someone doing it alone first.
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London probably has most generous tax incentives for startups to offer their investors. S/EIS.
Glad you are learning from it.
> I lost my creativity and the sense of wonder I used to have in childhood. I am no longer curious because I am settled for the world as it is. I accept things the way they are instead of imagining how they could be.

God that strikes close to home.

I have genuinely pondered how 10-15 years ago when I didn’t know what I was doing, I had a million project ideas and just went for them with no real plan. Some of them panned out, most of them didn’t. Many I still maintain today came out of that raw energy. These days when I do (rarely) come up with a project, I know off the bat how I am going to build it. I’ve been blinded to possibility by my own experience.
272 pages is not actually a lot for a book.
For academia, all 3 major cloud providers have a data egress waiver - meaning that as long as data egress is less than 15% of the total bill then it is free.

Combine this with the fact that S3/Glacier make much more sense than local HDDs for long-term archiving and egress turns out not to be a significant factor in my experience.
I feel like the words "3dfx Voodoo Banshee" just unlocked a part of my brain, full of IRQ conflicts and blue screens, that I had been keeping firmly closed.
Elaborate. I don't find the UNIX file hierarchy complicated, but there are some historical quirks and artifacts (like `/var/lib`). The difference between `/usr/X` and `/X` is about the worst of it IMHO.

Everything important is usually at most 3 levels deep and the short names are very convenient (versus "C:\Users\xxx\Documents and Settings").

Compare to things like Windows: c:\windows\system32 that has 64 bit stuff in it, the whole c:\windows\syswow64 b.s., c:\Program Files (x86) and c:\Program Files, the hierarchy in the Windows registry which has "Windows", "Windows NT", "Microsoft Windows" (probably), etc.
After using a lot of different tools, now I use a plain text file. It works for me. I move things down as I finish them. The top part always have my pending tasks in there. The file is more than ten years old now, and have been the best productivity tool for me that I started using the same approach at office as well.

I had some sticky notes at office, but now with the world having changed, I took a screenshot of all of them and manually transferred them to my text file as well. If I need to refer to a diagram or something, I just add a pointer (the path - local file system or URL) to that in my text file.
To be honest looks like scam.
I'm already wary of creating accounts on VC funded apps. Surely there are others like this too. I'm just tired of being burned by the cycle you just described, eventually value must be extracted and usually that means a tradeoff of user values versus budget values and I'm not here for that anymore.
The UK will issue its own NFT by this summer
AMD 46%
Intel 54%
Yes absolutely on your side, being just against the general thinking that minority's are per se good and must always be protected from criticism.
Don't worry, at some point your brain stops being capable of processing all the new stuff and you'll have to focus all your energy on just keeping what you have, so the problem solves itself in time.
or “off the road” by neal cassady’s wife (Neal is the real Dean Moriarty of On the Road)
/SQY .. ah, the Q.E.D of the early 80s.
This is because of old contracts and agreements, including patent agreements for LTE modem etc
Tone down expectations.

This is the silver bullet in my opinion.

How do you define fairness, rethink it and tone down your expectations.

How do you define love / relationships? Rethink it and tone down your expectations.

How do you define work / career / success? Rethink it and tone down your expectations.

I honestly believe this is a huge help.

A therapist who is a good fit for you is very hard to find. Learning about the skills you need to reorganize the way you view yourself and the world, simpler and the solution which a good therapist will help you with.

As someone who has suffered from depression and been negatively impacted by bad medical interactions for this and other conditions, the only choice is to do the work myself.
It is entertaining to watch the waves of opinion crash against each other when things happen that people don't like. The cognitive dissonance must must a deafening roar. On one hand, people get miffed when twitter changes their JS to block out quotes of deleted tweets, citing an alteration of the public record. On the other hand, people argue that twitter is not a "public square" and can do what they want with the content and users of their platform.

Edit: clarified js change
Blog. Yes it’s cliche but it’s step 1 of many different paths. You can decide where to go after a year or two of consistent writing. You could

- write a book or ten

- become a speaker (TED talks, conferences, universities, etc)

- become hands on in one or more of those fields (not sure what that looks like but it came to mind)

- get a PhD and become a professor, after your children are older etc

- create a new field of study synthesizing several of your interests

Caveat: I haven’t done any of this, or anything like it. These are just ideas I had after reading your post. They may all suck. But I think blogging is the first step in many paths. It creates a perception of authority for yourself, where previously the only way to do that was to get a PhD or similar. (Some have no right to this perception of authority and they abuse it; they just blog a lot and convince some, but such is life.) Anyway, you can leverage this perception of authority to do any of the things I mentioned above, and more besides. If you’re 40 right now, you can squeeze in 2 full careers before you’re 80 if you want to go broad.
There is a lot of constructive value in this comment, I hope it is internalized and thought about
Well the clock speed of a Pentium 4 from back then isn’t exactly comparable to a Core i9 from today. Heck it wasn’t comparable to AMD’s offerings at the time which IIRC were uniformly 2.5GHz
Study economics. Starting with Mises Human Action.
This is just a study in distraction. It is like asking why is it common courtesy to not make a ton of noise at a library. We figured this out already a long time ago.

I even find with a digital device a distraction aspect to having 100 books I want to read at my fingertips. It is the paradox of choice. This book I have open is good but maybe one of the others would be even better.

Of course, I doubt there would be any difference if the digital device only had one book on it at a time and could not do anything but read but that would largely defeat the purpose of a digital device.
It wasn't my intention to dismiss the engineering challenges, I'm aware of how difficult something like this can be at a scale like Airbnb. I was more venting about the fact that all the engineering effort is directed at such a seemingly minor thing to begin with.
There is no Nobel Prize in Economics. There is a prize in memory of Alfred Nobel, which is not the same thing.
And for the "not STEM" = "lowball" thing... "no math" does not mean "simple". Read through any serious sociology or anthropology work, you'll see what I mean.
It was a general comment about frameworks. It’s possible to have a framework that includes all the “batteries” but has idioms and conventions that promote simplicity and maintenance.

Rails chose idioms and conventions that prioritize speed at the cost of complexity. The “included batteries” are not the problem.
/R/Place Atlas
Ability to see expertise is a milestone worth aiming for
My parents got me a brand new computer in 2001.
I think it was a PIII 700mhz with 64mb of ram and onboard graphics. Day 1 windows me wouldn’t boot past a blinking cursor. I had to reset it a random number of times and it would successfully boot. Some time after through who knows what (didn’t even have an internet connection, only CDs), I figured that if I uninstalled the USB devices before shut down it would boot fine in one shot.

I believe Windows Me is the reason I was way ahead in IT troubleshooting in high school and got me a position at a pretty good company which that led to my career in IT. We didn’t have money to pay a tech very often to fix our stuff so I had to bang my head through keeping that shit running so I could play Driver, CS 1.6 with bots and Test Drive 5.

That computer kept running until 2008 somehow. I upped the ram to 256 by scavenging the recycling pile at work and it would do OK opening google and writing word docs
A philosophical zombie can repeat all your thoughts about colors, so you can't prove even to yourself that you're not a zombie.

>But I know I do, and since physics relies on objective measurements that's a dead end.

You don't assume you understand all physics, do you? Objectivity in physics isn't the same as that of a layman: it has relativity, which proved many times to be counterintuitive.

>But we understand physics at the scale of the brain very well, and there just isn't any place for that binding to look.

What. We understand some physics at the scale of a neuron, but almost nothing at the scale of the brain. Ask anybody, inability to see any place is undoubtedly ignorance.
I assumed the job queue was on the same database so either both would succeed or both would fail. Your should_send_email flag effectively corresponds to my job queue.
> The way I understand the mini-GmbH model (UG) there is no limitations regarding shareholders versus a standard GmbH.

This is correct, however from my understanding this is only at time of incorporation. If I was to incorporate and then get a term sheet from an investor, I would struggle to then make them a legal shareholder in my UG.

Perhaps I am also misunderstanding, re-reading [0] you could be correct. I did reach out to firma.de for clarification in February but never got a response.

[0] - https://www.firma.de/en/company-formation/what-is-a-ug-haftu...
Same if you ride a motorcycle; I had a set made which reduced the harsh wind noise, but still let you hear the traffic around you. In fact it made it easier to hear cars, etc. Made motorway riding much more relaxing.
> Imagining boatloads of complexity involved with the blinking cursors according to markets, profiles and geographic locations and whatever else really doesn't make it sound any better at all.

These basic everyday requirements are oblivious to those who have zero first-hand contact or experience with professional user-facing problems imposed by business requirements.

However, just because you're oblivious or unfamiliar to these requirements, they don't mean they aren't requirements.

Think about it for a second. If it's necessary to target a service to specific geographical markets to comply with legal and/or business requirents, and given it's considerably more profitable to target a shop to a customer based on their personal interests, why would you ignore that and naively presume that the hypothetical "blinking cursor" is straight-forward to implement? And I'm not even touching hard technical probs which most developers aren't experienced or competent in, such as security and reliability.

There is a widespread problem in software development which is this this tendency to be very opinionated over all problems in spite of being totally ignorant and oblivious to the underlying problem domain. Everyone is an idiot except themselves, who always hold the answer in spite of not even knowingwhat the problem is, let alone understanding it.
Ah thanks, we'll be improving touch controls soon (adding a mobile contrxt menu)
Embrace it. One advantage of being old is that my younger self was completely incapable of planning. Then sing along with https://youtu.be/GibiNy4d4gc while watching all the youngsters make the same mistakes.
What if I want different users locally?
Use text editor for the short list that must be done today/tomorrow. (These are my manager tasks)

Everything else I create tickets in our tracking system which is divided by client / project. (These are my technician tasks for the most part)

Things move fast, make sure your system works for you and not the other way around.

At times, I simply go by the idea, if I can’t retain it in memory then it’s not on my short list. Fancy to do lists seem logical but not practical. I spent my time managing a list rather than doing the tasks.
This hypothesis implies there is a God (our parent sim) and they have Gods meaning that they can interfere if they wanted and maybe they do pay attention to who is doing what or maybe not. But by all means the religion narrative is very compatible with it don't you think?
“most of the impactful engineering work done in large companies is performed by a small percentage of the engineering group.”

That is probably true. But we shouldn’t forget that these people can do these things often because they are supported by a large number of people who do the mundane tasks that need to be done.
A team fan of that game is making a game named "Ready or Not", I didn't played it yet but it has stupid high fan reviews... I saw it reach 98% of approval on Steam or something like that.
I don't really find it much different, but it might be because I've trained myself to read from a screen for long periods of time to do "real work".
> Go check Italy, and it will be for sure worse.

I live in Hungary, am Italian, Hungary is worse for most things.
Then why has the site become more annoying and less usable over time?

This isn't just a personal opinion. I've heard it spontaneously from various friends and acquaintances.

Granted we're mostly a similar demographic in a single market.

But even so.
If we're linking hundreds of individual files on a single large partition, why not make them hard links and avoid the clutter?
Thanks. I must have misremembered when I completed the survey
> I’ve been blinded to possibility by my own experience.

I think about that a lot when it comes to design especially. The ideas that come to me are constrained by own experience and knowledge of what's simple or complicated to implement. I will naturally steer clear from anything that is convoluted to implement.

Meanwhile a proper designer will come up with incredible ideas without worrying about "is it hard to code this up", they're not constrained by that at all.
Evolutionary biology as a profession is probably difficult to be a bill payer, it's afaik exclusively an academic exercise. Sure they need IT people (for bioinformatics, genome informatics, data science, etc) but you are almost 100% certain to be entering the academic "rat race". Which can be nice, if you're into it.

You could make a start by offering your IT skills to an evolutionary biology professor? Why not invite yourself for a coffee? Biology is IT-ifying at a very rapid pace (I sequenced 200 basepairs in one experiment in 2003, last week we did 120.000.000.000 on our midrange NG sequencer, the human brain is pretty useless in dealing with that raw data.)

Oncology has aspects of evolutionary biology, every tumor is in a mini evolutionary arms race with the host and its defenses, and Hospital Informatics is booming. It's an interoperability mess, they are struggling to "unlock their own data", let alone collaborate effectively. People with the right skills and fitting interests (like evolutionary biology) are really needed. But target the research side of things, or you end up what we sometimes call a "data plumber", you're just struggling to bring data from many legacy systems together when the professor or MD/PhD student asks for it... I heard from Data Scientists that are lured in and realize they are employed as Data Engineers. Which can be nice, if you're into it. But it's far away from biology. You could also go for healthcare companies like Illumina, Roche, Sophia Genetics, Philips, Siemens, etc. They all have hospitals as customers.

Anyway, I guess once you in the right environment you can start to move in small steps towards preferred positions, say you start as a data engineer but work your way up the IT chain and soon you're talking to Oncology professionals trying to understand their problems. But give yourself 5-10 years I'd say, it's not something you can do fast, you have to prove yourself at every little step.
The obvious thing you could do to start with is review books on a blog. Use the book reviews as a way to explain yourself as a person, find your own thoughts, and as a pre-fabricated context to intersperse your own pieces.

Apart from that, more generally:

If you are writing at the moment, keep writing.

If you are not writing at the moment, start writing again.

Anything.
I still have mine - it came with my 9800 XT. The last AGP card I ever owned.
I love the way they teach and break cloud concepts in a very easy to understand manner.
Hi, I am not sure if the product will support formulas. I 'll let it depend on popular demand. For now, DataGridXL does not support it.
Their support for the latest Canon RF lenses (some of which need heavy adjustments by design) is lacking, made worse by them being completely silent about any planned support.
Amazing initiative for those who want to learn Cloud Native!
> Some devices just aren't suitable for some types of content

I think that’s rather dismissive when said content is simple text in the browser. Easy solution: don’t use fixed navigation - it is a very bad UX pattern for content/informational websites. That’s why scrolling exists. I assure you that users don’t require access to your menu 24/7 when reading through your website.
This way of presenting facts is a bit odd, as it makes it sound like someone will have to try to kill themselves 25 times before they succeed.

In reality what this means is that a mere 4%-5% of suicide attempts will actually result in a death. If these people were to go via the official medical route, the percentage would be 100%. Is that a good thing?

In my opinion, most of those people don't really want to die, which is part of the reason for the 95% survival rate.
They are desperate for something, but that something isn't death. They are very vulnerable and we ought to protect them, not kill them, even if this is what they say and think they want.
> It's very easy to get a visa if you're involved in the tech industry

I'm interested in more info on THAT!
Lessons from a failed startup (podcast from a YC founder)
Both of these are proprietary, I assume that's why they're left out.

Lastpass is tied to a third party service too, which seems like an odd compromise for the security of secrets. It also bundles a lot of trackers. I'd suggest people move away from a proprietary security tool that bundles spyware.

What's special about Google Auth? Why would you ever recommend that over any other alternative?
This would be a good idea if I could read my own handwriting.

I get this works for some, but never has for me. I have never been a notebook type of person.

I love your general approach and very similar to a digital version I use.
Thanks, I was expecting to have a German subsidiary eventually. Also considering Netherlands
Let's not resort to personal attacks. To be honest the majority of chinese are not even Han. It's a generic label taken on by the Chinese to better create a nationalistic ideal in an ethnically diverse region. Especially so when the real Han people for the most part do not exist in China.
They could just give support staff a proper break and let them do whatever they want with that break (including playing the games they want to play if they deem necessary)
Which means it effectively makes no difference (for Alacritty) whether they use it or not.
If you knew you could double your upvotes and praise by including that phrase why wouldn't you? I mainly write Go these days but when I submit my next tool to HN I'm just going to name it YadaYada Pro Written In Rust and retire on all the resulting upvotes. Its a foolproof plan and don't you dare judge me for it.
AppleTV has universal search and playlist w/ up next across all brands mentioned in Plex’s writeup.
> Don't you also have to maintain a German presence basically?
Probably easiest, with all the required trips to the notary

> And what are the implications in regard to exit taxes?
No idea