skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Garret’s buddies at HandmadeCon gathered a group of devs from different games who all wrote some of the first software rasterization 3D games. The general theme was “We had no idea what we were doing. There were no references!”

https://youtube.com/watch?v=xn76r0JxqNM
One can be realistic and unnecessarily unempathetic at the same time.
I am not sure about your country but in India, RBI publishes Fortnightly reports [1] which provide various data on money supply. It provides data on "Currency with the public" which doesn't reveals much but it does give a rough idea of currency in circulation. Try to find something similar for your country.

[1]. https://rbi.org.in/Scripts/Data_MSupply.aspx
> The drug laws have race at their roots. If you don’t have time to look up the history I’ll give you an example: during the “crack cocaine epidemic” in the 80s and 90s the focus was on a version of cocaine mostly used by the poor and not on the use of the powdered stuff by the middle and upper classes — in fact that usage was celebrated.

I won't deny that there are racist reasons for that, but another part of the explanation might be that the poor classes commit more violent crimes, and thus focusing on crack cocaine helps fight violent crime more. Which then would invite the subject "Is focusing on violent crime (vs "white collar crime") better for society or another form of racism?". I don't have an answer to that one.
https://github.com/akosbalasko/yarle
This is an excellent evernote to md exporter.
Yeah, too broad. Licenses and copyright are a net negative in my view, but patents are far worse.
Here is a quote from said article, noting that while there are many techniques, all of them are about fostering awareness:

“Meditation is a practice in which an individual uses a technique – such as mindfulness, or focusing the mind on a particular object, thought, or activity – to train attention and awareness, and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodomy_laws_in_the_United_Stat...

just sayin'. maybe 1985 sucked a lot for a lot of people that weren't paul graham.
Oh you done did it now
Sort of. Social phenomena like the rise of Bolsonaro or Zemmour, or the gender wars currently going on in South Korea, might be influenced by culture wars in the U.S. but are also propelled by their own local experiences.
The model itself didn't take all those authors a full-time work year to build from scratch. They build other models and release other papers throughout the year. Of course those works build on each other, but that turns it into a much more complicated question how we account for the value and costs of prior work.
With some reflection, it's probably not the lack-of-blogging's "fault" that I feel like I lost my voice, and more likely parenting.

Going from knowing how everything in my world worked, to Googling every strange noise, getting third opinions on what's best, how to raise these squishy meatbags. If you're already a worrier, it can really suck the confidence from you.

Still, I do consider a return to blogging an important target. I enjoyed it.
Your autocomplete really shone today.
Trends in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
If you are on Apple, have you tried Bear app?
Can you say more / link to more info about these "bad guys in supply chains"?
The addition of 12 hours to a freight contract can cause a processing plant to require a shutdown. There is a reason for the penalties in those contracts. Worse, the people who show up to load a train and have a small window are now waiting for the train and stuck in a holding pattern. Disrupting the freight system when passengers in the US have multiple other ways to get from A to B is problematic. The whole idea that moving people from A to B is more important than moving cargo from A to B doesn't take into account the jobs and time required to maintain our complex economy. Delays will increase the price of basic goods which has a big effect on the rest of the economy. Look at what happens when energy is more costly then add other basic product building blocks to that rising price beyond just fuel. That person buying groceries is more important than passengers riding a train.
> the criticism deeply shocks and distresses them

This is a really good point. It's frustrating, though predictable, to see people arguing about the precise threshold of "harm" to which speech should be held in the comments here when the harm done to most people Graham seems to be defending amounts to "someone was mean to me on the Internet."

And - yeah! That sucks! People being mean to you on the internet sucks. But until people like this are defending every target of KF/ED/4chan/etc hate mobs just as vehemently, I'm not really interested in treating them like they're neutral, rational parties.
Nope.

Pioneered by the Japanese during World War II. Also no anesthesia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

Edit:
I would like to point out the reason why I said no based on this resource:

"Execution by organ procurement: Breaching the dead donor rule in China":
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30921371

The practices of Unit 731 are more well documented that some of the Nazi crimes.
language is simply a form of communication between 2 beings. If those buttons are pushed so that a specific outcome may occur through another party (human) I would qualify that as a form of language.
Such pragmatism left the room in February 2020.
I don’t know anything about Rose Pak but your rumor post feels so vile like political propaganda. Your links have no substantiation whatsoever and you’re comfortable with that?
ok. yes. we should certainly be cognisant that unless we are careful, our message might be not be received in the spirit that it was intended. and I am certainly running the risk of being dismissed out of hand by saying something that is unnecessarily offensive.

but these are pragmatic matters for people who are actually trying to proselytize. I fundamentally disagree that the speaker is somehow morally responsible to not violate the listeners preconceptions - that undermines the greatest tool we have as a society.
> I'll share my doritos with you, but I'm not interested in the pleasantries like your analysis of why modern doritos are terrible little crunchy cardboard chunks that mouthfuck your tastebuds into submission.

> But know this: Don't you even think about contacting me for anything.

This got angry and weird real quick.
Nope, by next winter we will have other sources of gas, maybe not countries will have 100% replacement, but some will.
Most other commenters hit nailed it, it sounds like you're being a little overly self-critical. I always say it took me 2 years to start getting useful in coding, and after those 2 years it only took a couple years for me to become a lead engineer, mentoring junior people myself. For some of us, once it clicks you really start gaining momentum.

As far as actionable advice goes, it sounds like you should be documenting most of the process things you're unaware of. This acts as a reference doc for you while you do things (checklists help avoid dumb mistakes, if you find that being common), an onboarding tool for future hires, and a consensus mechanism for your team.
Lungs? Do they have a buyer in Wuhan?
At the same time you're incentivizing capital punishment and perhaps incentivizing persecution of people of a specific donor match, so then magically sooner than later enough donors become available to fill the needs of a wait list until the desired recipient has the organ(s) they need - or they may simply need a single donor and get to skip any lines, if that level of corruption actually exists in that society.
> we'd have done fine without them

There should not be ongoing supply chain issues then.

> they would still have rotted

This sounds sinophobic. Your profile mentions you’re from London. Yes, China was doing fine for a millennia, too, then the British colonizers brought opium and drugged their people.

> have been forced to reform through economic failure.

Yes, they did that. It’s cause embracing capitalism and free trade.
I believe this will lead to anyone in China (Chinese or otherwise) to permanently leave the country if they are able.
How do we detect any self belief or self image? They don't show up on scans. You have to go by reported experience.

If you think that gender dysphoria is rooted in delusion, you should probably read into it. There's a reason trans people aren't treated the same as people with anorexia or schizophrenia - it's because trans people are normative outside of being trans. It's the same kind of situation as being gay.
It may just be a discovery issue. I hadn’t heard of your app before you mentioned it here.
Also very much out of left field. If this is as common as claimed, only one example would've been needed (and more examples could've been sourced with less controversial contexts). The second example:

1. isn't verified ("rumor"), and

2. mentions many points entirely incidental to the operation itself and doesn't materially contribute to the topic of organ harvesting from inmates.
For hunting house cats?
“Yanukovic was ousted by force”, does not describe the situation. Yanukovic tried silencing protesters using force, but they didn’t surrender.
I think execution is absolutely wrong and never morally justifiable. However I don’t see why execution + organ harvesting is worse than execution alone.
The FBI also found people planting bombs at the DNC building IIRC
Pot, Kettle, Black.
> For example, when someone calls a statement "x-ist," they're also implicitly saying that this is the end of the discussion

If that's how Graham reads such statements, isn't he basically saying "It's heresy to call a statement x-ist" in his presence?

What am I missing, this seems totally hypocritical given the rest of his argument?
That sums up my experience as well. I just spent 20 mins trying to make that go away in Safari, I was not able to get Tampermonkey working (possibly due to XSS headers) but Cascadea worked. `#karma { display: none !important; }`
Isn’t grouping people’s behaviour as heresy a start to look at them as heretic?
The visuals were excellent, but the gameplay and game design were imo what made the game special.

I played it new. I really felt the sense of tension and attention to detail of being stealthy, and the corresponding consequences of failing to be stealthy.
China's death row is shrouded in secrecy. It keeps its figures on executions secret, but Amnesty International estimates that it killed thousands of prisoners from 2016 to 2020. The US government, conversely, killed 13 prisoners during that time period following a 17-year hiatus that former President Donald Trump ended.

Inaccurate, of course; the US executed something more like 100 prisoners during that time period, since most executions are not carried out by the federal government.
That definitely happens.

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/18/1073846967/arkansas-inmates-i...

> Four inmates at an Arkansas jail have filed a federal lawsuit after they say medical staff gave them the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin to treat COVID-19 without telling them what it was. The inmates said they were told the medicines they were taking were "vitamins," "antibiotics" or "steroids."
> Yes. New Orleans to Texas cities like Houston can make sense but not Mobile.

It made sense until Katrina destroyed a bunch of the infrastructure and Amtrak had to stop running. The fight is to restore service, not create a new service.
This isn't news, recruiters have been doing this for years. You can tell what languages and technologies people know from their commits. It's a great idea for recruiting companies. Your Github commit email is public, there's not much to consent to.
> Language syntax is redundant so that compilers can detect errors.

Unfortunately, programming language syntax is not as redundant as we would wish. When the code is in the valid syntax, the compiler can parse it. When the code isn't in the valid syntax, the compiler doesn't even have a valid base to parse any information out of the code. The compiler writer may assume a common cause for certain parsing error and insert some "meaningful" error messages, but that is very different from the compiler knows anything. The "redundant" information is carried in the out-of-band channel (human vocabulary and common patterns) rather than in the syntax.
I agree with your last statement, good thing I am not the internet! The question of centralised sovereign banking was one of the first great debates of American politics/economics. For sake of not going into to much depth here, I will start and end with the Bank of Amsterdam, which is considered to be the first central bank. It became insolvent in 1790 due in part of its allowance for irriationally large sums of money to be loaned to big buiness such as the East India Company(the parent comment on CB's helping those closest to the "printing" spiggot). This, even as we say to this day, leaves the big players with assets bought with those loans and poor people with nothing and potentially no job until markets revitalize. Some solutions produced in my country's history includes the free banking system of Massachusetts, with the suffolk bank, and Andrew Jacksons attempt at decentralised sovereign banking. I am not here advocating for either btw. Hopefully this gives you a short, and noncomprehensive start on A: a cause for early distrust of central banks creating monetary favoritism to big buisness and B: the Americans who wanted different solutions. I might add, the parents statement about fractional reserve banking having been considered "fraud" is a bit out there, I'm with you on that. Ill try to scrape url sources later, watching the Masters today. Cheers!
On that topic, anyone know of an automated way to convert whiteboard text and diagrams into proper vectorized diagrams (ideally including anchoring the endpoints of lines and arrows)?
Weirdly I enjoy writing code but I don't enjoy building useful programs.
Notably, this model was repeated in East-Asian countries like South Korea and Taiwan. They managed to transition away from authoritarian rule and democratize without any excess of social tensions. More recently, Central-Eastern Europe has also been broadly successful following the fall of Soviet rule. People love to talk about democracy as if it's somehow in decline as of late, but this couldn't be more wrong.
That's important for poverty-stricken people (and slaves) to be able to accept crypto donations and payments directly... but what if it becomes a scam?

Even homeless people in the west should be able to get money that way.

So an .eth domain for every person?
Far richer, but with less plastic junk that has to be thrown away in a few months.
Perhaps I am alone on this view but I find it fascinating they are able to just pick up and move in convoy formation to their next destination. I would be really curious what an A10 pilot's take on this would be.
That's the trick: do something so horrendous that the natural response of normal people is to think, "There's no way it's actually that bad."

So then nobody asks questions.
I sign mine because though I do not wish to be contacted, I want to be able to verify that what I published came from the online identity I am using at that time for that project. I don't share keys, I don't want to be contacted, I also don't want to be impersonated, which is easy in Git
Ah, that makes more sense. (And "math is not racist" is usually said by people who are claiming that racial differences in average math test scores are caused by something other than racism in the subject matter or teaching style, such as disparate rates of poverty, quality of school districts, etc.)
PoE isn't used much in home networking.
Just as notable is that china passed laws to stop this practice in 2015 as the article noted. The same year taiwan stopped the practice of taking organs from prisoners. Yet the propaganda is rather one sided. I wonder.

I'm against all organ "donations". If it is your time to die, it's your time to die. Also, the biggest issue in organ donation isn't china or taiwan supposedly harvesting a few dozen prisoners' organs. It's the illegal trafficking of organs of poor and desperate people around the world which makes up almost all of the organ harvesting/donations.

I'm going to bet that almost all of the organ harvesting in china, taiwan and most of the world is organ "donations" by poor people. Now that's what people should truly be upset about. But I'd doubt we'd see much propaganda about that.
Totally plausible indeed! One of the recent (past decade or so) major mistaken discoveries in particle physics was a cabling issue.

And from a different field, but closer to the quip: semiconductor lithography lenses' own weight causes stresses that cause birefringence in the optics that has to be explicitly corrected for. And that was true 20 years ago already.

(Recovering particle physicist here and thinking about this even much later gives me mild trauma. ;) )
There's a perverse incentive, especially if medical tourism also exists.
> Historians would point toward a pressure toward democratization of states that occurs as the middle class gains more power.

Historians didn't have anything to do with all the decisions that were made by politicians making deals with China. It was the financial industry and the politicians they finance who came up with bullshit PR to convince the public opinion that China would magically become a democracy if the west started free trade with China. No historian was ever consulted unless it was to give credit to that PR campaign.

Now did a significant part of the chinese population become wealthier as the result? Yes, it doesn't change the fact that China was, is and will be a bloody dictatorship, for a long time, by western standards.

The west needed to outsource slavery for economic purposes, as always, the west got them slaves.
Now, wait a second - either it's bad that people get fired for expressing opinions, as Graham states in the essay, or it's not and people _should_ get fired for expressing opinions that you don't like. I don't think you can have it both ways. It's not even as if there's a conflict of interest here, as in the case of public officials being banned from certain kinds of political speech; these teachers are not hurting anyone or disrupting any civil processes, so under what principle is it acceptable to deny them the same freedoms Graham argues for in the case of corporate employees?
You have every right to think whatever you want. You, again, don't get to decide for them who/what they are.
It certainly could provide some perverse motivations.

Any effort to stop executions now includes the fact that potential donors recipients will die.
Eh sorry, currently on a long flight. I'm sure you're alright.

But don't you email me, you nice and wonderful person.
The challenge is every PM at the company thinks they can see a step function increase in engagement, retention, etc. if they just add the right features.
I think you should pursue this. Primarily because it will force you to structure your ideas and that will benefit you personally.

I don't think you should pay much attention to any feedback you get here as this isn't really the right forum for meaningful discussion of such topics.

Yes, this is an incredibly ambitious path to set off on. Yes, the likely outcome is that your book will simply be ignored. That's the most likely outcome for any book, and moreso for books on deep, serious topics.

So be sure you're ready for that, and do it anyway.
I’ll point out that saying true statements but framing them in a racist or sexist way is an extremely common tactic. In fact, it’s the preferred tactic of many bad actors because it’s very easy to hide behind the “but it’s true!” defence.

Something can be true and also presented with racist or sexist intent.
because it can be an incentive to kill people for money, due to corruption.
If you’re looking for an example of a successful small plane airline in the United States: Cape Air.
How is this a gen Z thing? Singular "they" has been around as a gender-neutral pronoun for, literally, hundreds of years.
I think you fundamentally disagree with this, but I'd say gender is your internal sense of how you align with societal constructs that we associate with certain "gender roles". In our society this is "male" and "female", but other societies have done different things here with the same underlying biology.

Trans people are, and I'm generalizing here, people who feel their biology doesn't match up with the gender role they identify with. They often then want to align their physical presentation with that associated with the gender role, on the belief that societal roles are more important than biology. (It's very transhumanist, in a sense.)

I'll note a fairly easy example of sex and gender differing even in our society, which is intersex people. I.e. those whose physical expression lies somewhere between male or female (which isn't super-common, but certainly happens). They're ambiguous physically, and we historically make them pick (or pick for them at birth) what gender role they'll perform.
At the same time I'm not wearing any clothes made in North Korea or Venezuela, same as pretty much everyone. How exactly is it making a difference on the lives of those people living under those regimes?
The nice thing about the Ukrainian war is that it's going to show how overrated economic boycott is in practice.
"a better, more protected, identity"

If you don't recognize that playing life as a middle class white, cis, male is still 'easy mode' compared to literally any other option... I don't know what to tell you.
I want to look at sprint progress by tickets marked as “complete” in a certain status.

But the reports only do it by open and closed. We only merge/close when we’re releasing the ticket.
> far richer

In so far that there would not be supply chain issues causing massive inflation?

How would Amazon, Apple, the world’s richest companies be so without China?
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It sets up weird incentives.
Certainly, but if you look at the percentages, the easiest way to get to consistent usage is to use commuter. "Business" can be considered as a superset of commuter, short irregular business trips, but that's harder to build an entire line on (it can certainly be an upgrade to an existing line).

The second easiest is feeder - for example if the line between cities includes the airport, etc.
This simulation does not involve an American strike at all. Some context: https://twitter.com/DavidTeter/status/1507813126288207872
I didn't say anything about genocide, I said they are facing down politicians in state legislatures who are passing laws that deny the rights of trans people to exist in public places and to participate in public life. These lawmakers use rhetoric that does indeed question the very existence of the concept of a transgendered person. They deny that these people exist, and claim they are in fact mentally ill and not trans at all. If republicans had their way it would be illegal to be trans. That's the erasure of a class of people, but it's not genocide, I wouldn't go that far.
It seems fairly cut and dry.
It’s important to note that Chinese students abroad are generally quite wealthy. On average, the system is benefiting them and hiding all the bad stuff from them. It’s hard to know if there is a lot of unrest within China because most of the people who would have a big problem with the regime can’t travel abroad.
I think by not mentioning examples he clearly communicate them to the people who are “x-ist”.
I think Java Script compiler will assume its guesses for the semicolon cases. Not every one is happy about it.