skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> protecting civility over truth is wrong, imho

I think at least part of the rationale is that civility is more likely to lead to the truth.

Emotionally heated debates on the other hand induce multiple negative effects which can obscure truth:

1. Causes people to “dig in” in defense of their position, and become less open-minded and able to change their mind

2. Increases emotional investment in a position (pride, ego, etc), which induces bias and misjudgement (see Munger on the Psychology of Human Misjudgement)

3. Degrades into flamewars, kills the spirit of collaborative and mutually respectful search for truth

4. “Tramples curiosity”. (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)
I dont know about electric cars, but what Elon did with space x is simply incredible.

Commercial space flights were becoming rarer and rarer out of the US, and now it is the most common.

The price of space flight while still high, was reduced by a huge percentage.

I’m sure he told many lies to get there. But economics and physics don’t really lie.

I like him for the reasons I like Kanye, Bernie Sanders, and Trump (though I only voted for the first). Just says crazy things, but some of them are just truths that we’ve all chosen to ignore it don’t like to accept.
I program, compile, etc. and run 2 external 4K monitors off my M1 Pro. It's been the best MacBook Pro I've ever owned by far.

You don't need the M1 Max unless you have a real need for the extra GPU (daily video editing, 3+ monitors, etc.)
Related: "n-1 and n-2: Should we really trust in you?" by the same author https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5KUvgXHOFU
It's a french book. "mathematiques au concours de professeur des ecoles" (Hachette editions 2006)

For instance the numbering system chapter mentions non roman numeral symbols, babylonian, egyptian up to indian of course. Then various ways to multiply numbers. As a kid everything was pruned and we only saw one thing.
You can only get a Mac Studio with an M1 Max or an M1 Ultra, not the M1 Pro.

Other than that, this is probably what my future setup will look like. If I knew the Studio was coming I might have held off on my M1 Pro MBP.
Never saw the trading stuff... As my son showed me this, I just started running & shooting at red players... Awesome game!
Monitors that required a special video card to use with a PC. At least the 1600sw did. IIRC it came with a Revolution9 card or some such.
Same here. I was 55, when I was looking.
That depends on the individual. Some FAANG employees are used to functioning in the highly structured environments that FAANGs provide and may not adjust well to the more freewheeling environments that startups operate in but others may adjust just fine.

That's not to say that people who function well with a structured environment aren't useful. Structure is necessary as the business grows out of the start-up phase and bringing in the right ex-FAANG employees at that phase to can help build that.
I will continue buying refurbished LG V35s until they either become impossible to find, or carriers stop supporting 4G LTE.

Not that I've needed to buy a refurbished LG V35 yet- it's going on 3.5 years without missing a beat. The only bloatware was LG's personal fitness app, and a handful of carrier stuff that was easily uninstalled or disabled.

My old V20 was similarly durable, besides OLED burn-in after about 3 years. I still keep it by my desk in case I need to use Find My Device.
So what you're saying is that the point of the article is in the title, and the title is not click bait because the point is reflected in the content? Sounds like circular logic.
That is a kumbaya care bear concept.

If you are in a tiny percentile of people who can do that,
you are most blessed and prlivliged.
A member of the neo aristocracy.

(Or you are skilled at deceiving yourself.)

That "doing what you love" intersects with "what will get paid
for" is rare as well.

For the vast majority of people working is a nessescary evil to survive.
If they made such a choice they would starve.

If they are lucky they try to find small things that makes it better.

All the major global religions have teachigns that life is suffering.
(exactly how you will suffer, why and how varies more)

Not getting to do what you want in order to surive has been around
for a very long time.

Currently I want to a be a philosopher.
That would be me doing what I currently love.
There is nobody dumb enough to pay me to do so.
Esp. since I have no academic background, no credentials,
I have not devoted my life from an early age to absorb
thousands of years of teachings and writing.
I am a neophyte at the very bottom rung.

I can play around once my work for the day is over and
write uneducated rants on the Internet trying to force a
semi captive audience to read the garbage I type out.

"The I only want to do what I love" is the new "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche" [1]

A different way to get there, or at least closer to it,
is to go through something so drastically awful that
whatever you do subsequently will be better.

Every since I left the army, I try to be thankful
for a roof over my head, a bed (dry bed),
a shower and dry clean clothes.
The rest are bonuses.

To clarify being in the army is nowhere close to an
objective "drastically awful". but it was a taste.

[1]
WIKIPEDIA:
"""
"Let them eat cake" is the traditional translation of the French phrase "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche",[1] said to have been spoken in the 17th or 18th century by "a great princess" upon being told that the peasants had no bread. The French phrase mentions brioche, a bread enriched with butter and eggs, considered a luxury food. The quote is taken to reflect either the princess's frivolous disregard for the starving peasants or her poor understanding of their plight."""
>I'm not even sure you could build a $31,000 desktop

A decked out Mac Pro can reach over $50,000 and it's not even that powerful as your 2x 3090Ti example, but that's the Apple tax for you.
This is kinda the point of smalltalk. It's a radically different programming model _and_ paradigm than most C-derived languages. If you're looking for a language that feels comfortable to developers with a background in [insert widely-deployed language here], there are better options for you.

Smalltalk has been around for over 40 years, which makes it a contemporary to C. Just like FORTRAN or COBOL, there's a corpus of deployed code, and institutions that are invested in a maintained runtime, but that dosen't mean that you would necessarily want to use it for a new project today.

A lot of the great things about smalltalk, such as block syntax for anonymous functions, have been copied into many modern programming languages, and we probably wouldn't have them without smalltalk taking it's unconventional approach.

> The paradigm they're going for is TDD for everything. Personally, I feel this is a big step backwards from most mainstream scripting languages adding on type annotations.

So, the push to add types to JS, Python, Ruby and other dynamic languages is largely from developers accustomed to Java, C-Sharp, and other enterprisy languages who would probably rather not work in a dynamic language at all. Put another way, it's a concession of these languages to try and be everything for everyone. But statically typed complied languages do not provide an inherently better programming paradigm than dynamic programming. Smalltalk commits further and deeper to a live, dynamic programming experience. It's different, and I don't feel like saying that it fails to conform to expectations brought in from other, very different programming paradigms is a meaningful criticism of the language.
Context is important.

I've heard young people argue that the Beatles weren't all that great, and then go on to name modern artists who would have never existed without them.

I'm late Gen-X and my wife is late millennial. We watched Pulp Fiction together and she didn't get it. I realized then how much of it was groundbreaking because of the time of its release. Someone watching it now just won't be blown away like I was when I first saw it. I imagine if we went back and watched Blade Runner it would be another forgettable movie to her and not the groundbreaking masterpiece it was when I saw it for the first dozen times.

Reminds me of the Steely Dan song 'Hey Nineteen'...
In a McLuhan sense, I'm not sure the "message" of the medium of the Internet is one that's compatible with free society, ultimately, once we get past the idealism and look at how it works in practice. Which is... not great.
> I've spent my whole life trying to find my purpose

I've always been puzzled at how so many people expect to find "purpose".

Nobody has "purpose". You weren't placed on Earth for a reason. You only exist due to the luck of your parents getting laid. And quite frankly, 99.9% of the population will be unremarkable, even if you restrict that 99.9% to first-world countries. I don't expect to have an impact on the world or even get my own Wikipedia page that doesn't immediately get taken down for not being notable.

> Basically, I want to grow old doing what I love, not feeling that I am working.

Not to pry, but I'm curious how much money you have. This is an easy decision to make once the stock options you earned at a startup make you a multimillionaire once they go public and you not longer have to work to earn a living. Much harder for someone stuck working minimum wage at two jobs 60 hours/week just to pay the rent.

> More specially what that means is: building solutions that solve problems (help people) and improve how things are being done (innovate).

Ah, the old "Making the world a better place" trope that the show Silicon Valley made fun of.

...

God dammit when did I become such a cynic.
A better way to put it is, its a tax on desperation.
I own the Pixel 4a 5G, it's a solid phone but it's 2 generations old. In comparison, the new iPhone SE is in a league of its own, at least for now.
He got a lucky break with payments that allowed him to try his luck on the other two
"From a purely business perspective, this project probably cost the company money."

This is only true in a narrow time context. If you broaden the context, then you can see where it falls down. The missing element is that people who can solve high-ROI problems are not willing to be cut off from work like this. If you don't let good people help their co-workers, then they'll leave and find a more hospitable environment. When that high-ROI problem comes along, that really would pay off quickly, then there won't be anybody like Olaf around to tackle it.

Think about a non-technical example. You probably have insurance of some kind, on your house, car, or life. In a narrow perspective, this just costs you money. A tree doesn't fall on your house, nobody rear ends your car, and you don't get hit by lightening. But in the long term, one of these sorts of things is bound to happen. The care and feeding of talented engineers who "lean in" is like an insurance policy for when a high-ROI opportunity presents itself.
I really like this idea and the idea of knowing exactly where all the rarely-used possessions are. Admittedly, this is a little bit outside of HomeSheet's use case, but I'll certainly keep this perspective in mind.
you can’t get the required tps for this. observability would also be bad between blocks and you would also have states where you could end up with different pixels based on the block that won.

so nope. wouldn’t work with blockchain
the emotion is, or what you learned from that time?
> Why not just like, exercise properly?

Why do you think walking isn't exercising properly? Exercise doesn't have to be weight-bearing or high-intensity to count. In fact, since those types of exercise increase injury risk, moderate exercise is probably better. Study after study after study - which I can cite just as soon as you cite some of your own - shows that walking or similar exercise captures practically all of health benefits without any risk (even to those who are older or who have already had heart attacks etc.) and with more likelihood of people sticking to it. Why go harder? And yes, when you dismiss walking as not exercising properly you are suggesting that.
> Walking actually helps pump blood, so you're actually letting your heart rest a bit when you do it.

That's surprising, because walking increases heart rate significantly compared to sitting/laying.

Switching from sitting to a nice walk with my elderly parents makes me go from 50-60 BPM to 90+

What kind of rest are you talking about ?
Get a dog, 10k becomes very easy when you have to walk the dog a few kilometers every day.
You're assuming that the battery needs to store the total energy requirements of a house for the entire year. Much of the time the energy needs can be met by conventional energy generation (wind turbines, solar, hydro, etc) and the battery is only called upon when there's a shortfall. So you'd only need a fraction of the annual consumption to make it useful. The whole idea is to make renewables more effective by storing the excess. Grid storage will be an important part of the transition to renewables.

But yes, it is expensive, but it's only at the R&D stage. I'm sure could be made cheaper, and the article mentions reducing the cost to $6/kWh.
The Hottest NFT Marketplace Is Mostly Users Selling to Themselves
WWDC22
The A6000 has ECC memory and the 3090 does not. I think that's the chief differentiation between workstations and any other kind of desktop computer. Like a server, they will have ECC everywhere.
The company will still be ideological, but will simply follow Musk's ideology. Whether that's good or not depends on if you agree with him - I don't.
If only there was a way to filter the signal from the noise. Maybe if we locked them in a room together?
The Source? Compuserve? AOL?

Those three come quickly to mind that were certainly trying very hard to be the " publicly accessible global information network with visual representations of corporate presence" you are speaking of.
Disable every Firefox anti-feature using https://ffprofile.com/
I participated and constantly had to fight against flags that keep severing and overriding our artwork and coordinators threatening to erase it entirely. We managed to make do, but the white only pixel at the end felt like a slap in the face after all the effort.
Because blogs and websites aren't getting blocked in Russia or what? The only way content can be a little more resilient against blocking is P2P hosting. But even that can be made hard to access by blocking the on-ramp ( websites, app for the tools to get access to P2P ) or the protocol.
They probably have some sort of development test server. That what I'd do.
>> Cyberpunk as a genre stems from xenophobia, ultimately. There was a pervasive fear in the 1980s that the Japanese were "taking over".

I strongly disagree. The core elements are transhumanism, post-liberal capitalism, high tech and low lives with a lot of pulp and noir: sex, drugs and violence at the street level. There are no heroes, no epics, just deeply broken people getting into a mess of intrigues as everyone just tries to fill their own egoistic needs, deal with their personal demons, or gets dragged along a path of least resistance. Claiming this is fear of xenos taking over is to close ones eyes for the very problems of our culture in favor of blaming someone else. The dystopian future has been there all along, you are just to sheltered in your uptown community to know about the perils of addicts and the girls that grew up in the house of blue lights.
> There is no alternative to having Firefox. I'm using it as my primary browser and so should everybody else.

Nope. Mozilla has proven to not be so privacy-friendly after all or even serious about it these days.

At this point, one might as well just save yourself the pain and use Brave instead.
More jobs = better options = less people working shit jobs. Also, lower labor force participation rate due to deaths and retirements.

John Oliver just did a video on the topic of how terrible being a truck driver is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phieTCxQRLA

And The Guardian from a few months ago: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/dec/27/us-truck-dr...

US BLS: https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2019/article/is-the-us-labor-ma... ("Is the U.S. labor market for truck drivers broken?")
>I will continue buying refurbished LG V35s

What's so good about them?
What specifically has Elon buying shares in Twitter done to use it as his personal sandbox that has ruined America? Give examples.

I'm beyond tired of the hyperbole and hysteria any time <personal internet doesn't like> <does thing>. And I can back my assertion up with an example: you.
Nifty. Will use. Thanks!
The SEC has been asleep for years now. Every week we see market whales pulling gamma squeezes and pumping tech stocks higher and higher. The market is a joke at this point.
Knowledge Management will always be idiosyncratic to the organization and individuals inside of it. I used to think differently early career, but twenty years in content systems has changed my mind fundamentally.

Over the decades, there have been so many attempts to augur "inherent" underlying "types" of natural language, and all of them are, at best, moribund. Outside of those that have gotten regulatory buy-in, of course, but those too shall pass as the enabling technology (and its users) age and depart..
Same here, for something that they pitch as being so self hosted signing up without using your own email was really weird to me. Still haven't signed up....
Hey guys, we built this for an upcoming podcast and just thought we would post it online if anyone wanted to use it. Let me know if you would like to see any changes to it.
Has anyone read his Bridge trilogy?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_trilogy

> The trilogy derives its name from the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, which was abandoned in an earthquake and has become a massive shantytown and a site of improvised shelter.

Seems sadly two heartbeats into the future for today’s Bay Area
But was it broadcasted to the workers when the tornado warning happened?

Site safety plans typically include things about tornado warnings particularly in Illinois, where tornados are common. It's also common to have a site wide announcement system in case of fire or tornado warnings instructing people where to go and what to do.

Site safety plans typically exist to prevent lawsuits in the first place.
Good thing cars that aren't from Tesla never malfunction in lethal ways.

If you ignore the 89 deaths from Toyota vehicle acceleration issues, 271 deaths from Ford's faulty tires in the 90s, 303 dead from GM's faulty ignition switches, 478 deaths from Fiat's engines exploding, and 823 deaths from Ford's Bronco tipping over at speeds as slow as 20MPH.
I will also add that, for photographers, there is bundle from Adobe that I consider to be a tremendous value. For about $10/month (where I live, it's easy to spend more than that on a single drink in a bar), I get access to both LightRoom and Photoshop. I've tried open source alternatives, and they are good, but none of them are necessarily better than the Adobe product.

I hate the fact that I am paying for yet another subscription, but in this case, over the course of 5 years, I am just barely paying the retail price of the old CD-based product. So (a) I don't feel like I'm being fleeced, and (b) I get to spread the payments out without really paying more.

Every time I've tried moving into the world of FOSS photography, I've wasted dozens of hours trying to figure out how to do relatively simple things, modifying and tweaking configurations, or completely removing and reinstalling because an update broke something that should have never broken. I work in software, so I'm not exactly a dummy on this stuff; and I know that sometimes that's just part of the deal - especially in a world where you get what you pay for.

In the end, I had to decide whether I wanted my hobby time to be focused on working with my photos or working with my software. And that is why I happily pay.
Another aspect of Apple processor updates is increased battery performance per unit of work.

Battery in SE 2 compared to 3 is 11% larger (1821 mAh to 2018 mAh) but advertised "video playback" duration is 15% larger (13 h to 15h). This is unlike the comparison of SE 1 to 2 in which an 18% larger battery (1624 mAh to 1821 mAh) was entirely eaten by screen, etc. for no improved playback duration.

13 h
15 h
Is that a failure or a success?
> Thank you for the reply.

You are welcome and your response has been extremely helpful as well.

> I think at the core a comparison to Next is still apples to oranges imho and unnecessary here.

I agree it is probably an apples and oranges thing from a tech perspective, but clearly this isn't the case from a marketing one. I responded because somebody had concerns about the health of Redwood compared to Next.

> "Is PR A of greater quality or value than PR B?"

This isn't really want I want to do. Understanding how a PR affects a project isn't so much about quantifying value, but rather, it is about quantifying effort. A single line change can take takes days or months to get right and I want to better capture the effort required to make a change.

The questions/metrics that you raised are quite good and it is something that I will be working with Open Sauced (which you know I believe) to surface. The pattern that you've described is something that I wish to confirm as the goal is to find a way for maintainers to easily identify contributors worth nurturing and for contributors to find projects worth their time to contribute to.

> Is this for the org or the repo?

Below is a combination of all recently active repos from Redwood

https://oss.gitsense.com/insights/github?q=merged%3Atrue%2Bp...

Below are recently active repos for Next

https://oss.gitsense.com/insights/github?q=pull-age%3A%3C%3D...

Redwood had 79 unique contributors with one or more merged pull requests and Next had 214 unique contributors with one or more merged pull requests. If we ignore the merged criteria, Redwood had 96 unique contributors and Next had 350.
> To become one with God

That happens in death. Until which, we are human and by extension imperfect.
Folks at PARC designed and built their own PDP-10 clone to get around internal politics. It's hard to overestimate the amount of talent concentrated there at the time.

It always looks like all the low-hanging fruit has already been plucked. So, stop looking for low-hanging fruit.
I have to read his books twice. The first time I just plow through, confused the entire time. The second pass is where I can enjoy it, but there are still a lot of times where I read a sentence and struggle with parsing it.
Yeah - this peer dependency thing always makes issues, when I try to upgrade a big Ionic project...

Peer dependencies added more problems than they solved in my eyes... Most peer dependencies warnings come because some maintainer forgot to update the package.json and not really because two packages don't work with each other...
Off topic: is “open-core” any different than a “Freemium commercial product you can self-host”?

I don’t want this question to sidetrack into a heated debate about open source vs commercial. But I am genuinely curious if there is a difference between the two.
For a “sovereign” nation Germany is awfully dependent on Putin for energy and the US for defense.

My position is not that Germany has no agency it’s that it traded away it’s much of its agency to appease the Greens.

These opinions come not from American TV but from my relatives.

Freistaat Bayern uber alles!

Sorry about taking over Europe again, hope you are enjoying the EU dictating your countries economic fortunes.
If you think the BBC is anything like RT you ought to read about the BBCs reporting during the Falklands War.
To be honest, the descriptions of the metaverse are the parts of Neuromancer that hold up least well. The dirtbags, crime, sex, and drugs are all still perfect, and I imagine will remain so.
> I dont know about electric cars

There was that time Tesla bought Musk's cousin's failing rooftop solar company.