skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sort of a perfect storm from where I sit:

* Trump tax cuts contribute to deficit and demand

* COVID stimulus contribute to deficit and demand

* COVID causes supply shortages, with same demand, so therefore higher prices (see markups on cars).

* Putin has to go and make it worse with an invasion, pushing up energy costs, which are part of the cost of everything.
portability - vim works everywhere and my config is just a `git pull` away. VS code doesn't let you sync configs unless you sign in with github/microsoft account. Wack!

flexibility - vim integrates very nicely with my terminal-heavy workflow. Its extremely hackable. I can zip around and pipe contents between my shell, unix tools, and vim buffers. For example, I can run a shell command from nvim and have its output automatically pasted into my current vim buffer at the cursors location.

lightweight - It's a blazing fast tiny executable rather than a clunky resource hungry electron app.

keyboard-centric - I enjoy my desktop the most when I don't have to move my hands from the keyboard. This is really just a personal preference. Also the vi keybindings are ubiquitous in unix tools and even some gui/web apps!
The Curse of Systems Thinkers
Someone who sees a fundamental divide between Workers and Managers, and sees the job of the latter as being extracting the maximum possible work from the former. (And, based on my experience, sees the former as universally trying to do the least work possible for the most money, up to and including trying to defraud the company.)
Anger is one manifestation of fear--really they are two sides of the same coin. It's a question of if that fear is going to trigger a fight (anger) or a flight (being afraid) response. Fear, in turn, arises from a believe that we will somehow be "hurt" by some situation. Obviously these perceived threats may be real or imagined, physical or emotional.

If someone (including yourself) is getting angry when someone disagrees with them, the question is really "what are they afraid of?" The answer can very in detail greatly depending on the relationship to the person, environment, and all sorts of other circumstances.

However, much of the fears we experience stem from a fear of loss, or a fear or a fear of failure. [1] "The fear of failure is a fear of not being loved, valued, appreciated or wanted. The fear of loss is a fear that you won’t have what you need, want or deserve." That means that after sifting through the various situational specifics it will eventually boil down to either a loss or a failure. That doesn't mean there is a realistic/logic reason for why an opinion of "A" directly leads to the painful outcome of "Z". It does mean we, at some level, believe it will nonetheless.

Over years in management, I've found a lot of material support such a line of reasoning from all over, but I don't know where to give original credit to. I'll add a few seemingly respectable references that refer to similar sentiments that I gathered from a quick search.

[1] https://www.ksl.com/article/24314970/anger-management-ndash-...
[2] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hot-thought/201811/h...
[3] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mindfulness-practice_b_420856...
[4] http://www.psychologyineverydaylife.net/2012/05/29/masks-of-...
My guess is this is more a consequences of many prices in the economy exhibiting "rocket and feather" [0] behavior: quick to rise, slow to fall.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_price_transmission
I don't do this here, just a bystander, but you made me curious. I looked it up, and you are right, this is from their website:

"Transactions fees charged by Braintree will not be returned for refunded transactions. However, if you signed up prior to 1 August 2018, transaction fees charged by Braintree are returned for fully refunded transactions."

So my boss actually told them, we would use them only, if fees for refunds will be returned. And the deal was made this way.

So I encourage everyone else to do so...
Psilocybin has been in the news lately, but I'd say many drugs that cause a significant, immediate and forceful shift in thinking can work for depression.

From my own experience making and taking a simple drug, just experiencing good thoughts once in a while kind of pulls me out of persistent/chronic depression. I know I'm getting better when I start thinking "wow, trying to kill myself was actually horrifying yo!".

The trick, imo, is to take something that is guaranteed to make you think happy/different thoughts (not only feel good). Which is why I think there's better options than psychedelics that can cause bad trips, at least for some types of depression. Which is also why cannabis can work but is very hit or miss - it having short or long term negative effects is very likely.

Now if only it wasn't so fucking hard and risky to create and use your own medication. Alcohol is perfectly legal and absolutely life destroying. But God forbid you even possess something illegal - they'll make sure you don't end your years of suffering. Oh the Hugh manatee.
Lets look back to the 90s when it wasn't legally mandated: some people did just fine (those with a lot of cash sitting around), most people suffered worse than they do today and some people were completely screwed by the system.

If it was illegal to pool health prices via insurance (instead of just not legally mandated for everyone to be insured) then the effect would be that those who went bankrupt under the old system would instead be dead.
> the removal of those controls in 1945 would have seen that tie rapidly unravel

One might rationally assume that, but human brains are weird: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion
Probably because most of the "windows in the application" these days is just the web browser.
I don't think it was necessarily designed this way to begin with, they didn't really add these gestures until well into OSX I don't think.

But at the very least they have leaned very heavily into it. Considering they sell 2 devices to add gestures when you are not using a laptop.

I find myself very rarely using cmd-tab because it just doesn't fit my use. I can either more quickly do that my moving my mouse to the bottom and accessing the Dock or 3 fingers up and everything pulls out. Throw in hitting "space" to quickly zoom into a window if I just need a quick piece of information but not open the app completely.

I am largely the same with 3 monitors. At least 2 tend to be full screen apps with my center one being my mix of things, but it depends on what is happening. Each monitor has a desktop of scratch things (like notes) that I don't want full screen but just sits somewhere. The native tab support in the OS for things like VSCode helps a lot with this.
It's still asking employees to float their enormous mega-corp employer potentially thousands of dollars (each) in short-term loans.
That works... most of the time.
>Windows and MacOS don't have anything

Doesn't Windows have two official ones? Chocolatey and Winget?
In part it is about progressive complexity. The simple things are exposed, more complex options require extra effort to access. Certainly there are times when it would be nice to make it easier to discover the more advanced features but there will always be a tension between keeping defaults simple for new users and exposing advanced features for the more serious users. Often they do it correctly but sometimes there are misses.
M1 coming secong at 10 watts shortly after a Ryzen at several times that? Check out the reviews on anandtech.
I am a fan boy and did not find any of it offensive. Great write up, actually.
Windows simply does a better job at window management. I use full screen and three finger swipe between 5 separate desktops for work to overcome this weakness.
The flash drive did make me giggle... oh you poor windows laden idiot. Flash drives... like from 1999?
Most of your issues are just growing pains. I did it when I migrated about 10 years ago from my LeapFrog: no carry handle, screen too bright, no built in songs, ect.
I don't actually minimise windows on the mac at all. I just sling them on a contextual virtual desktop and then triple-swipe up when I need a different one.

Not once have I had to sit there mashing alt-tab and guessing then.
That meme also contrasts with the rise of modern ESG, where a lot of shareholder pressure on management teams has been in the direction of making less money. There is a lot of really interesting stuff out there done in the name of ESG, EXFY being a particularly good example.
Yep, as someone who's gotten really really dependent on app Exposé on macOS... it's hard for me to switch to a keyboard for things I'd rather do on the trackpad!

I do have to agree, though, that macOS window management can feel a bit clunky using a mouse and keyboard. That's a user story that the macOS UI/UX team ought to look into, it wouldn't be that hard to create some decent bindings in the OS itself.
> Thomann and the like killed my local music instrument stores.

I think that's a good thing. The business of "holding things in a building" that are occasionally purchased and don't benefit from last-mile caching should go the way of the dinosaur. It will be good to get the space back. The thing that's really needed is a community space but the economics of it are hard unless you're selling stuff. My city tries to promote this stuff with arts council grants.
I've not used macs for a few years, but has homebrew become a lot better then? Because my recollection of it is that it worked fine for small sets of well-maintained packages, but it's much, much slower than the linux package managers, and there were tons of compatibility issues once you even slightly left the beaten path. Also, I remember fighting with many apple CLI tools; they seemed to be wildly out of date with the comparable linux tooling, to the point that you sometimes needed to homebrew something technically already part of the base OS just to get other things working (e.g. IIRC bash)

Incidentally, on windows there are the beginnings of package managers nowadays, e.g. chocolatey. They're nothing like as good as those in linux, but better than nothing. Chocolatey's focus isn't quite the same as homebrew, however, so they're not strictly comparable.
Most people who read science books (eg your average student) are not looking up the authors and calculating how often they make corrections, etc.

It is faith.

A good rule for whether something is trust or faith is whether you can make estimates on how wrong they are. Faith demands obedience, trust expects mistakes.
If I understand this correctly, it's basically transmitting database changes over a websocket? If so, how does that work re: performance when it comes to something like live cursor positions?

Writing to the DB every 50ms for each cursor on the screen doesn't seem great for performance...or am I missing something?
One new thing we know is that Amazonians were actively breeding plants at least 10,000 years ago. (The Amazon basin did not experience the Ice Ages the way temperate places did ... which is not to say nothing happened.) Five hundred years ago, the Amazon supported a population of at least tens of, and as many as a hundred, million people, mostly wiped out in a stroke by European diseases.

This was a society that had time and numbers to develop deep sophistication. Did they use our scientific method? Obviously not. But that does not mean they could not have come up with their own, perhaps more-or-less equally effective and reliable system. (Ours is far from perfect; the best that can be said is that it often works.) Theirs certainly established facts ours cannot, and vice versa.

Use of curare embodies a similar mystery, and ayahuasca. Certainly hundreds or thousands more secrets are forever lost. We will never know a hint of what almost all held. It is a loss easily rivalling the fabled Library of Alexandria.
You're effectively making every variable volatile if you do that, and you lose nearly all optimization potential.
Shortcuts are maddening when you just switch. But then you realise how much of the keyboard is underutilised in Windows. Linux uses the Meta key, but IIRC it was very app-specific, and not as comprehensively used.

A lot of MacOS is keyboard driven [1][2], but it takes up to two weeks to get comfortable (it took me at least that long when I switched to MacOS in 2008).

[1] But the new breed of "designers" at Apple no longer care about that. All new first-party apps that Apple vomits out are an abomination, UX-wise. And keyboard access there suffers as well.

[2] There are a bunch of shortcuts that will work the same way across most apps (such as Cmd+<comma> for settings, or text navigation shortcuts), and that is a blessing. You can also assign custom shortcuts to any menu item in any app if you need directly from settings. Or you can re-assign behaviour of Ctrl/Caps Lock/Alt from settings as well. There are small things like this all across the system, but it does take getting used to.
<< They end up saying "your company is the enemy".

I read the article and I disagree. It does not say it either explicitly or implicitly. The article only urges the reader to think of the benefits to themselves first.. like a company would.

I don't think it is an unreasonable approach.
Russia cobbles together supercomputing platform to wean off foreign suppliers
Check out the Mac app "Magnet" on the app store.
In Clampdown on U.S. Methane Emissions, Belching Cattle Get a Pass
THIS is for real. If I don’t have a job with good benefits, I can’t pay our medical bills anymore, and we could lose everything. So even though I’ve had the “team player” personality from birth, I cannot allow myself to put my faith in any employer. The moment they start turning the screw on benefits, I’m out.
Consulting: http://www.seliger.com.
That's totally fair but at what point are Etsy and <non-public-whoever> actually serving different markets -- and so not really competitors -- so it's not worth it for them to crush or acquire the non-public company focused on what is now a minor niche to the larger incumbent.

I'm not saying you're wrong, I very much agree that it does tend to play out like that but from the strike it seems like some vocal segment of Etsy's market is no longer actually served by Etsy -- and more importantly (all speculation) Etsy has determined it's not in the best interest of Etsy to serve them so there is some niche to now be captured.
Well, you made the case that police were previously privatized. I'm not sure that's true exactly. You also compare healthcare to police and fire services. I was just elaborating as to why that comparison may not be apt. Public health, insofar as controlling the spread of communicable disease, has always been a function requiring government authority.

The idea that people who set bones and cure cancer should be included in this category is a more modern take, one that requires much more careful discussion of what should and should not be a "public service".

> people feeling entitled to a service they previously resented as soon as it's useful to them

I think we should expect people to prefer suffering and death with dignity, rather than greedily and desperately peering into the pockets of strangers, but that's just my take.
Negotiating as an individual in a market made up by large blocks makes you very easy to ignore. If everyone moved off employer insurance and into the market then, assuming we didn't have massive market corruption (which I think is a pretty big assumption), we'd all be on an even playing field. Asking individuals to do this independently is just a recipe for them to fail.
Blows my mind that Apple doesn't buy up homebrew and turn it official. I use it for everything, even my web browser!
Guitar session player. To be known as "if it has strings, he plays it". I think I've been a hired gun in my career but as a guitarist people could relate... I ran my race career-wise and it's up to others. Back to hackin'.
>>At some point on of these companies is going to hit someone with enough power to force them to do a better job.

And then they fix that one situation and go on about their normal business. At least that is what it seems to me. I would wish for something more long term to happen but I am becoming less hopeful.
> Optimize for short term profits or be replaced by someone who will do.

No. Optimize for shareholder value.

Amazon shareholders, for instance, are happy to make little in way of profit because Amazon management has shown an ability to increase the value of the enterprise.

In general though, the market is legitimately skeptical of most managers which is not a bad thing.
> It sounds like you might want to slow down a bit and give people the benefit of the doubt, maybe take the time to read and understand what people write. I have the same affliction myself sometimes.

Thanks for the advice, but I re-read everything and verified that I understood. It's possible that we just disagree, or maybe your quoted comment removes all context from the discussion.

> Did you do any of those things, or are you just pointing fingers at people for not doing the same things you did't do?

Was this an example of you giving me the benefit of the doubt?
No question they've done some things that have had some impact on others in the industry. But none of them are particularly important. It's all relative. Companies like Twitter, Uber, AirBnb have all released open source projects or figured things out how to solve hard problems in ways that others have emulated.

But for every other one of the FAA(N)G companies, I can barely work a day as a developer without touching every one of their technologies. Yeah, Netflix got into ML years before most, but the netflix prize exists as a distant cautionary memory, and as an ML professional, I'd literally never heard of metaflow before. Just sayin'.
Germany’s Watergate: 1950s chancellor used spy agency to infiltrate rival party
I think it would be less likely than 1-in-500, because even though there are multiple solar eclipses per year somewhere on earth, you would need to look at a the likelihood of a solar eclipse at a fairly specific part of the Mediterranean.
The CADT cadre took over some time after Windows 7 and it's just been downhill from there.
I did this exact thing (bought privately) for awhile because I wanted to decouple my insurance from employment. It's actually very easy.
Learn to read manuals, not blogs or Q&A sites.

POSIX.1-2017
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/

GNU Manuals Online
https://www.gnu.org/manual/

Linux man pages online
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/index.html

Ubuntu Manpage Repository
https://manpages.ubuntu.com

Reading UNIX Manual Pages | Apple Developer Documentation
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/os/reading_unix_ma...

Windows Commands
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administrati...
Ping me at Joe.Drumgoole@mongodb.com and I can organise payment of all those costs if you want to continue.
Or used their quantum computers with trillions of qBits to be confident of the trajectory to the limit of their sensing ability.
Why would those people die? I don't follow.
In an alternate universe we have nice specialised GUI front ends on things like netCDF or SQLite that enable what you say. Or hell, just a spreadsheet-like view over a real database (but with actual names as columns). All the GUIs I have seen are really not up to the task for typical scientific data. They are clunky, heavy, slow, and difficult to use for visualisation. We are not writing new front ends for every type of data, and nobody seems to have written a decent one that could be universal.

Myself (not genomics, but Excel is also some kind of universal medium here as well), I store my data in SQLite files (extracts and summaries anyway; complete datasets take several terabytes), which makes retrieving complex information a breeze. But it needs to be documented and you need to be comfortable with the command line and do any kind of visualisation as a supplementary step. I know of a couple of colleagues doing the same, but we don’t use quite the same format, so data exchange is problematic. I use this setup mostly because I need it to work on remote HPC clusters in addition to a bunch of local workstations, and Excel is out of question there.
Which model is that? My 2 year old System76 Galago Pro gets 1 hour of battery life.
They're trusting the authors of the science books who are presumably experts, the same way we trust experts for everything we're not experts in. The books also tend to include at least a little bit of reasoning and evidence as well, proof if it's a math book.
Have you seen the prices of marketplace health insurance? Completely untenable for our household.
> the only way to 'offset' fossil fuel CO2 emissions is to bury an equivalent amount of carbon, extracted from the atmosphere, in a geologically stable formation or a permanently anoxic aquatic basin

Why would avoiding the same amount of emissions in a place where it's cheaper to avoid not help?

Let's say for each kg of kerosene you burn in your plane, you hand out a solar lamp to someone using kerosene lamps, accelerating solar lamp adoption in a way that causes 1 kg less kerosene to be burned by that person.

The total emissions without the flight + compensation is 1 kg of kerosene burned in a lamp (over the period we're looking at). The total emissions with the flight + compensation is 1 kg of kerosene burned in a plane (and 0 in the lamp).

That seems very much offsetting.
> Why should I as a customer go to Etsy if it's filled with knockoff crap rather than handmade things?

You don't go there. They aren't a curated product website, so why do you expect them to be one?

Let them fail. It's baffling to me why so many people are so heavily invested into that brand here...
You can add keyboard shortcuts to do that in settings if you really want it. It still does that. If you run apps in full screen mode it gives you a rudimentary tiling workspace on each desktop with a tiled app on it.

Just long press on the green button on the window for a tiling menu.
The popular association between psychedelics and jumping from a great height originated with another crusade by America's columnist Art Linkletter, and his claim that his daughter jumped from her window to her death because she had taken LSD 6 months before.

IMO it's the circulation of this trope that kills. People on psychedelics while having emotional issues and acting out know exactly how they're expected to behave.

And apparently, this guy jumped less than an hour after taking a small amount of them. I can't imagine he was feeling much of anything yet, although others' experiences may vary from mine.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/should-the-law-be-based-on-a...
>With "Zuck Bucks" (I still am not sure if true)
I expected more from this place than to believe every click bait FB news.
Of all the UX people and tons of money they throw to into research... Yes the best option was... "Zuck bucks".
Don't get played ffs