skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m against lowercase -h for help (pretty common, but not universal, like in -h for human-readable sizes in GNU coreutils) for the same reason as lowercase -v for version (very rare, uppercase -V is more frequent, but the Lua interpreter does use lowercase): it hogs a valuable mnemonic for a case that doesn’t really need to allow for muscle memory to develop (the best motivation and use case for short options IMO): if you are reaching for help or the version number, you’re likely already out of the flow and are actively thinking about what you’re typing, and these options don’t need to combine with others anyway.

Allowing -? would be nice, even if only to make life easier for recent DOS/Windows expatriates, but for C programs there’s an unfortunate historical accident making this awkward: POSIX getopt(3) returns the next option character on success and a question mark on error. No reason it couldn’t return something else in principle, but realistically it’s not going to change at this point in history.
So, I always invert the mouse scroll wheel on Linux now, because the Mac scroll direction just feels right to me. Which is sort of the problem here: macOS’s UI works really well if the paradigm makes sense to you and long-time Mac users often have the same problems “backwards” when they use Linux or windows.
Since the dot clocks are identical, it's feasible to implement with an amount of latency measured in lines, not frames; in fact I'd be surprised if there even was a frame buffer involved.
Well, if you built the contraption yourself, repairing it wasn't a problem...
Open Refine – working with messy data
It sounds like he's saying the solution is middle of the road centrism? That's not very convincing. Centrism is what we've been trying since after the civil war (minus FDR). The government can do nothing when things are going great. But when purchasing power is down, wealth inequality is high, healthcare/education/everything is more expensive, you can't just sit on your hands and do performative politics.
Arabic sources say Euclid was born in Lebanon and lived in Alexandria. Amusingly these were Greek “colonies” both, but I don’t think that’s the colonisation that people care about these days.

The formula for the length of a hypotenuse of a right angled triangle is attributed to Pythagoras, not that the identity of the discoverer changes the truth of the mathematical identity one iota.

Itoa derives from the ancient Phoenician unit of measurement, which was “nobody cares, shut up already”.
My son also manifested these symptoms since he was 6 years old. Now he's 14 years old, gladly, he functions well at home and school. Though, extreme emotions always shows every time he is mad after consecutive losses on online games or if he doesn't get what he wants. With lots of patience, it also help a lot that me and his older brother treats him as if he doesn't have ADHD. Outdoor activities like sports and exercise can maintain your focus and concentration too. So just keep up doing things you deem necessary to become more responsible and a person one can depend on. It's a matter of mind-setting.
A lot of what you said is reasonable, but I think you're really stretching your argument when you say that 1) liberals refrain from advocating for the "two-parent family" because to do so would imply pushing back on workplace equity and benefits for single parents, and 2) support for fathers' inclusion in paid family leave is proof that liberals care about two-parent families. I think you are seriously underplaying a very real strain in left-wing thought, which views the "traditional family" with extreme suspicion, and associates exhortations for couples to marry before they have kids, to stay together for the sake of the kids, and so on, as essentially patriarchal, religious encroachments on personal liberty.

Since you want hard poll evidence, I browsed Gallup and found a poll:

41% of Republicans vs. 61% of Democrats think having kids outside of marriage is "morally acceptable". [1]

61% of Republicans vs. 73% of Democrats think divorce is acceptable. [1]

Interestingly, you can look at [2] and see that these issues fall pretty neatly into OP's argument about "luxury beliefs". For instance, on the "having kids outside of marriage" issue, only 38% of black Democrats think it is morally acceptable, but 64% of non-black Democrats think it is morally acceptable. The black vs. non-black numbers for sex outside of marriage are 46% to 68%. Given the prevalence of exactly these behaviors in the black community relative to the white community, I think that this constitutes pretty hard evidence that OP's "luxury beliefs" hypothesis has a lot going for it.

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/137357/Four-Moral-Issues-Sharpl...

[2] https://news.gallup.com/poll/112807/Blacks-Conservative-Repu...
One wonders how practical this would be given the huge G forces involved, especially so for large complex satellites.

However, electronics have been subjected to such high G forces as far back as WWII but on a much smaller scale when the proximity fuze was introduced towards the end of the War (one of its first uses was at the Battle of the Bulge, Patton waxed lyrically about its high effectiveness): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximity_fuze

When I first heard about VT Fuzes years ago I didn't really believe it because it didn't use solid state devices, transistors etc. but rather a 'ruggedized' vacuum tube (this was several years before the transistor was invented in 1947). At the time I couldn't see how glass vacuum tubes could withstand ≈20,000Gs when fired out of a gun barrel but somehow they did.

Therefore, I'd imagine that upgrading to solid state devices would allow an even higher scaling in the G department (i.e.: relative to the VT Fuze), so it seems highly possible (perhaps the SpinLaunch idea actually originated from VT type Fuzes, I'd not be surprised).
A theory of why we’re all going nuts online
It doesn't know what you're trying to do, it can just make a best-effort guess, which may be wrong. Maybe you are deep inside a session, trying to inspect a variable or function called `exit` that just doesn't happen to be in scope like you expect? Exiting the process at that point could be terrible and the impact of the lost state exceed the lifetime-accumulated lost seconds that would have been saved by being "helpful".

If you really want this, consider using ipython with %autocall as your Python REPL.

https://ipython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/interactive/magics....
Hardware is hard, if only because the revenue model is problematic unless your margins are really, really good
> and the government ends up with exactly the same amount of less money.

Minus overhead
Oh cool! A friend worked at Pebble and I volunteered to run a Pebble hackathon in 2014 (sticker is still on my old macbook) and for my time they gave me a Pebble Time Steel and even a little wood panel sticker for the front. I knew they ceased operations but I did not know about rebble! I will have to check it out. I think I know exactly where my pebble is.
You are, by design. Beeper gets around the e2e encryption by just running WA themselves on their side; there is no other way for them to be doing what they say they are doing…
https://github.com/mautrix/imessage

That's the bridge Beeper uses. I've got it running on a 2011 MacBook Air on MacOS 10.13, almost zero issues.
The color of their skin and religion are incorrect though, it doesn't matter.
This doesn’t detract from your point, but I find a lot of shipping from China sellers listing themselves as from/shipping from Australia when it’s just not true. Maybe it’s just Australia with this issue?

The way to differentiate in my experience is the Chinese sellers often won’t have a city or post code in their ships from address shown on the listing, and more obviously the postage times are twice as long (or more) than an actually local seller.
This was actually my path. I started working on side projects and picked Elixir because I had my eyes on it for a few years and wanted to give it a shot.
This is the problem at root, yeah.

Application switching makes sense in a world where the application is the locus of interest and you tend to spend a long time in each app, only rarely switching to another. We haven't lived in that world for a very long time.
This article suggests that the “one video at a time” format makes attention metrics much more reliable:

https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2020/9/18/seeing-like-an-algo...
I wanted pixel perfect output. It turns out this is a very hard problem for SNES, probably due to the 256×224 resolution not dividing nicely with anything. I ended up with a "pretty good" output, then a few months later more SuperNTs went on sale, so I got one of those. :) Some of the difficulty could have also been sensitivity with my monitor or capture card.
I meant because your voice would be high pitched from the helium...
This is fair. Most of the bad mentioned can be worked around trivially, and even turned into a strength with third party apps (a lot of the window management stuff, especially, has more/better third party options than Windows), but Macs are total garbage as corpo machines. Pegging yourself to anything less than the latest version of anything (as businesses managing a fleet of machines are wont to do) is Russian roulette. It’ll work for a while then break with zero warning. You’ll put in a paid issue with Apple support and they’ll just throw their hands up and tell you they can’t help you unless you’re on the latest version.
Back in 1996 Switzerland and Germany signed a non-binding agreement (Vertrag von Lugano) to increase the capacity for freight trains. Now in 2022 the Swiss part [0] with two 34km and 57km long tunnels through the Alps is basically finished meanwhile the German part is expected to be completed in 2042 [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NRLA

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlsruhe%E2%80%93Basel_high-s...
> Ad comnpanies are the largest companies in the world, THATS NOT A CONINCIDENCE

Apple is not an ad company, Tesla is not an ad company, Microsoft mostly isn’t an ad company, Netflix isn’t an ad company.

There are very few of the large companies that are ad companies.
He's putting the cart before the horse.

The problem is the stupid bankrupt politics in the USA.

Social media is just gasoline being thrown onto the fire, with the billionaire class pumping as much gas into it as they can.

I think there's one throwaway paragraph in the middle of the whole article that addresses the political shift in the 90s that led us to where we are. That should have been front and center.

The USA needs universal health care, child care and college (and probably UBI) meanwhile the Democratic party has shifted to the right and fully engaged in punching left as hard as it can to avoid this happening, while losing elections to the right wing (which is on a slope towards outright fascism) because they can't deliver anything which significantly moves the needle for the average american. That is why the last 10 years have been particularly stupid. And the one thing that both sides pump up is the social wars and identity politics in order to avoid talking about the economic changes that have to happen.
For the plane, the start and end of the trip requires a second form of transport to get to the airport itself. So the existence of a plane does rely on some infrastructure. Some futurists are calling for aerotropolis to be built as new city models with the airport as the center of commerce, but most old world cities won’t have this.
Yeah, I checked on that website and my (somewhat shady) friend somehow got $42k PPP money, his wife got $41k and his mom got $40k.

None of them have businesses or employee paychecks of any kind to protect. I do wonder how common this is and if any of them will actually have to pay this back ever. (I also feel like a little bit of a sucker working for a living...)
Clang, swiftc, etc. would like a word with you... :)

(It bothers me too.)
"The stupidity of current discourse uses social media, of course, because that's the dominant media, but I don't believe they caused it. " And certainly based on past statements he's made, I took that the tech augmented the issue, but was not being posed as the root cause. Like you I think Turchin is on to something, but Haidt here is also largely pointing out a symptom that has immense influence in the current day.

To that, I'm not sure if he is as much "afraid/impressed with tech" as much as pointing the human inability to think remotely (or even care most of the time) about laws of unintended consequences, let alone how to address them when they inevitably arise.
The end game of bad faith communication is that noise begins to dominate the channel.

Humans, reacting to this degradation in signal rely less and less on channels that are dominated by noise.

This opens up opportunities for technology to build new channels, which accumulate users, engagement and momentum by supporting good faith communication (truth).

Thus the cycle continues.
I dont.

I would like to explain if they asked.
And give some comments on the code to tell what is the code doing.
The few times I've used a Mac, trying to use this workflow just leads to a lot of visual clutter. Everything sits on top of everything else, and every window is sitting somewhere on the screen, a constant reminder that nags at the back of your mind.
Not sure that's really true. Look at the low cost high speed carriers like Ouigo.
Most BBSes were single line systems. I ran a BBS throughout most of the 90's. Very very few local systems had more than 1 line.
I disagree: Travel time from Berlin to Munich went down from 6 hours to about 4 hours.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verkehrsprojekt_Deutsche_Einhe...

That is a massive change.
Subjectively, how a train trip feels on that route went from "quite exhausting in the end" to "oh I just opened my laptop, couldn't even finish what I had started".
The Sonatype Maven book isn’t actually that comprehensive, unfortunately.
They are but performance is decreased. In many cases transformers are encoding vast amounts of training data within the insane number of parameters.
To be fair, I can see this coming out of a strict reading of POSIX: it doesn’t say a single word about GNU-style long options (though there is an implied hole where they can fit), but explicitly leaves -W with an argument as a place for implementation-defined crufties when passed to Awk (I haven’t the slightest idea why).

(Honestly I’d rather not have the convention of programs themselves handling this at all and instead have this be `ident awk` or similar, but I understand this is not going to happen.)
Not to worry, if everyone in the world sat on a beach all day, most would starve and we'd return to pre-industrial population levels.
Yes, hence the semi-joke. But I actually do think it was a good feature and a bad idea to remove it.
There is absolutely educational pricing for boxed Office. It sounds like you might be upset about the choices your State made, and are conflating that with what is possible.
That's great. Though maybe the title should acknowledge that it's only for Google Cloud customers.

It's also quite odd that the article doesn't mention Let's Encrypt or the ISRG at all. I would have expected some sort of acknowledgement to their fantastic work over the years.
Companies are made of individuals. Who are these sociopaths that choose to believe that this behavior is anything but deleterious? Why does that behavior seem to be the standard means of achieving global “success” in business?
Cromemco Dazzler
> Move to anonymous or pseudonymous boards immediately and never look back except in grave,

To accomplish what you describe here, you need to go beyond "anonymous" and "pseudonumous" boards, to completely untagged boards. You don't know me, but you (can come to know) my moniker "PaulDavisThe1st". This is just as much of an identity to build trust upon as whatever may actual name is.
Intuit is indeed self-insured.
Yeah, still tripping
States of Covid Performance
It is hard to get it perfectly right yes , missing by small margins or even doubled/trippled the declared time would be reasonable if it is just prediction problem.

However going like 100x is not probably cause this is hard to get 100 % accurate it look more likely deleted data as being rumoured and more importantly not actually having functioning backups that were ever tested and manually reconstructing from logs and other sources.

More than just RTO, they are not going to be able to meet RPO objectives for affected customers , depending on how much loss that is going to pretty bad.
I have a RetroTink 2X and it's amazing for the price. In addition to the physical connectors you mention it can handle certain cases that are hard:

1. can switch between 240p and 480i

2. Can switch between notch and 3D comb filter

Certain "not quite valid" outputs will not work with a 3D comb filter, but will work just fine with a notch filter.

The only downside is that sound from some devices (most notably the Sega Genesis, but possibly others) doesn't work over HDMI; as long as whatever you are putting your sound through has an analog input that's a non-issue though.
What's the difference between "bad faith communication" and just plain old trolling?
Shirō Ishii
I'm curious to know how much your logic and position depends on you agreeing with the opinions being advocated for. You would, I suppose, equally defend a company in "especially welcoming applications from candidates who believe in Jesus Christ and a right to life"?

That's also just "being a good person" for people who face a certain kind of discrimination, yes?
"Corruption "at all levels" requires coordination and/or a common stance towards it."

No such thing is required beyond the common stance of 'venal self-interest' regardless of organizational mandate. Without checks and balances (and penalties) you can get a loosely coupled "corruption" at all levels with little effort.
For those who have not heard about Teenage Engineering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_Engineering with their primary product being OP-1 synthesizer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_Engineering_OP-1
Star Wars: Squadrons – “Hunted” CG Short
I can tell you #1 never happens. It will be a temporary effect of the management green lighting the years of neglected maintenance work until everybody forgets about it and it will go back to business as usual until the next incident happens and the cycle repeats.
As tourists, we got a Eurail pass, and international travel was as seamless as you could expect (at the time, the Italian trains were slow, the French trains stank, and the British ticketing offices were full of useless queues. The German trains were a little nerve wracking because the conductors were in a blind panic because the train was 30 seconds late).

Anyway, some computer figured out the transfers for us, and the itineraries were fine.

The only real problem was that we had to book weeks ahead. They physically mailed the tickets the US. I can't imagine it works like that now.

Either way, it's proof the patchwork of national operators can work well together.
Is this similar to .xcproject / .xcworkspace?
This is TMI due to the max, but it illustrates and I’m describing, it’s cost a good amount in opportunity cost too but whatever.

So I had IBS aka colon spasms to a debilitating degree and went to a couple highly-regarded doctors via my insurance including Kaiser and Blue cross in Seattle, but they said I was ok, and didn’t even do a referral to a gastroenterologist and just did blood panels. This destroyed my life and my relationship with my gf for a couple years and who I thought I was going to propose to, then it just mostly stopped.

I’ll have the odd spasm now and again but nothing like it was from 2017-2021. Now I’m in the other side of the country and it doesn’t bother me like wtf it just went away.

I’ve been screened for crohn's disease and ulcritive colitis and nothing came up. Sometimes our bodies are..strange.
> The west hasn’t seen proper austerity yet, just barely warming up.

European Troika (EC+ECB+IMF) debt induced Austerity literally _caused_ deaths in the heart of Europe. [0]

This pretty much seems like 'proper' austerity unless you feel that we need perestroika living conditions for austerity to be real.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/francescoppola/2018/08/31/the-t...
Because "free market" does not exist. In "free market" you will end up with few majors owning everything else and controlling people's lives. We have various regulations that among the other protect small companies to a point and are trying to keep the huge ones in check. Things are slowly deteriorating lately in favor of big corps as they have government in their pockets but hopefully it is not yet irreversible. There is much more to discuss about "free market" and that naive "survival of the fittest" look at it but I am in no mood and am not qualified to write essays about the subject.
But if the greed is not coordinated, it's not going to pull an organization in a unified direction.

Yes, I agree that you can see examples in some parts of the world and in some time periods (including today) where even uncoordinate corruption is very damaging to a society. But - and this is important given the context in which I started talking about this - it does not appear to be a pathway to regulatory capture nor the formation of giant corporations in the sense that was proposed up-thread, in which a powerful "federal" organization is used to enable such organizations to exist.
“Modern” displays are some combination of 16:9 at best (and even that is being supplanted by even more ridiculous aspect ratios), use fake 10-bit color mode, have terrible color gamut, bad viewing angles, horribly glossy, or some other incredible limitation. There is literally no “modern” equivalent for my barely ten year old ZR24W/ZR30W. It heats up my office in ways a new UltraSharp doesn’t, but that Dell wastes its retina pixels on real estate I can’t use. I say all this as someone that actually welcomes a hi-dpi, hi-fps, low-power, etc version of the hardware I’ve got.
https://imgur.com/a/ovjSzg6

„Astronaut riding on a horse“
Twitter is the meth of the internet.
A well-written article, especially clearly listing out the differences in the forms of communication helped make the point.
But sadly, the people most prone to bad-faith communication are also probably least likely to take this criticism and improve. I have also resorted to bad-faith communications in conversations where it seems like that is the only way to be heard.

Consider this example:
Person A, displaying some humility, says : "You might be right, there is a chance politician X is in the wrong".
Person A assumes this is interpreted by Person B as: "There is uncertainty about politician X being in the wrong"
Person B actually interprets this as: "Person A has admitted, without any doubt, to politician X being completely in the wrong"

If I ever find myself in a conversation where I'm in the shoes of Person A, using good-faith communication means actually risking a complete failure of communication. Why even bother to communicate?