skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep! Now, I've primarily been travelling to Texas, Kentucky and Ohio. But things like most people mention bible study, it's assumed you're going to church on Sunday, more religious aphorisms and sayings.

Primarily, most of my interactions with clients are on a blue collar level, although an affluent blue collar level. Not sure if that changes the circle a number of HN readers might be in?

I also might notice it more because I specifically try to avoid religion in any conversation, it's a topic that really has no upside to talk about with clients.
Linux even allows filenames with end-of-transmission characters in them, which is a choice I'd question long before I start questioning newlines!
I have managed a number of small to large software dev teams in my career. And there was always a small core of developers who outperformed the rest of the team. Not by working harder, but by working smarter: focusing on the right priorities, reducing complexity, automating things etc.
Red state/blue state difference applies to religion. So much so that religion drives the politics of red states more so that money or even "them". Although they somehow bend religion to separate Christians into good ones and bad ones just fine.
I don't think he has a consistent ethical framework outside of, "I should be able to do whatever I want."
Forestry is a fairly low profile blue collar industry that doesn't get much mind share among the white collar people who think they're experts in how every industrial facility should run. You have the luxury of actually being able to make decisions by the numbers.

When you go into space numbers unfortunately tend to have to take a back seat to optics.

Someone crashes a log truck and nobody cares. Someone crashes a helicopter doing "space stuff" and suddenly every jerk who feels slighted that you didn't divert enough resources from your primary task (space!) to pander to their issue (your team isn't divers enough, your facility isn't environmentally friendly enough, your company vehicles aren't all EVs, etc, etc) along the way is happy to tell the news reporter or the Youtube head how you "have a history of playing fast and loose" or whatever. And then all the vultures who want to be seen "doing something" descend...
> you could perhaps reasonably criticize him if he were using, say, Emacs to do his presentation, and there was a bug preventing him.

Emacs doesn't have video conferencing yet?
No. Number 2 is negotiated settlement between Russia and Ukraine. Number 3 is a toppled government leading to a fizzled war. No settlement.
I don't get it either. Half of my family is Canadian. I've crossed the border my whole life... The only thing I can figure, is maybe they come to the US and don't get away from the border cities? They tend to be small and quite rural. I feel like those kinds of towns tend to be a bit more religious.
Vendors may be more incentivised to intentionally kill the Pegasus business model, which would have immeasurable PR value if executed well.
Or spend an hour on a Friday afternoon when you're still on the clock. Just goes to show how much work has invade/pervaded the lives of some.
It is why I think we need to explore new ways of democratic control and decision making! Through technology there could be different solutions to the problem of representation.

It is particularly interesting because twitter is so diverse, I think my point is mainly that there are no efforts put into turning making these things happen. And why would they be? The status quo works out very well for those in power.
That's great if you only use these drives on your big computers. Sadly if you do want a "universally" portable drive – usable on an Android phone and an iPad and whatnot – you're stuck with horrible basic filesystems like exfat :(
Ah you have never met my grandparents who have Fox News on just about all day in the background kinda like radio.
In the 1980s it wasn't even Mac OS; it was called System.
We leave resources unexploited for our own aesthetic or economic reasons- it's uneconomical to mine every ore deposit, and we might not want to, if we value pristine land.

Imagine you didn't care about the pristine land- let's ignore aesthetic reasons to hold back for a moment.

As technology improves, it becomes easier to exploit resources. You can dig deeper with automated robots etc. Now imagine a technologically mature civilization: one whose tech is pushing the limits of physics.

If our current ideas of physics are about right, you have to build things out of matter, and there's a finite amount of matter and negentropy out there. Conversely, right now, replication is cheap. Interstellar travel times are longer than civilisational lifetimes: ergo, most entities that arrive at other stars will have relatively mature technology.

If I'm a super-civilisation/large-scale AI digging in for the long haul (till the end of the universe), what do I do? I put out all the stars, if I can, because they're wasteful. Negentropy is finite: we want to eke out every tiny bit of use there, not let hydrogen atoms fuse randomly out of our control.

Large corporations viciously purse 0.1% efficiency gains because that amounts to millions of dollars at their scale. At the scale of the galaxy, 0.1% efficiency gains in your conversion of stars, planets, rocks and dust into things you care about is quadrillions of lives.

The high travel time means the dynamics are different. You don't have to move from star to star: you can just build (number of solar systems)*(safe number of sentient self-replicating factory probes per system) probes in your home system, and send them out all at once (or as they roll off the line). Every solar system is a massive prize, every star left burning a travesty. If I'm turning the galaxy into stockpiled resources, I'm not going to leave any out that are profitable- and with mature tech, it's all profitable. There's no labor cost, after all.
I'm sorry I just broke out into laughter... you have to fight the FARMERS for it. The people in those cities (with their green lawns, golf courses, cemetaries, and fountains) just get what's left. Maybe they get 10-20% of the Colorado flows?
Why would it kill the planet? The same amount of sunlight energy is already falling on it, so imo it’s just utilizing this energy more effectively to benefit life
They take out some of the lithium so the salinity of the brine is lowered a bit?
I was at Stanford for nearly 10 years. Not formally in CS or AI, granted, but SAIL doesn't ring a bell for me. Maybe it's just not that well known.
I know people who spend all their working life with some podcast going over the topics of the day ad nauseum in their airpods. Then they get in the car and the podcast is still playing. Still playing while at the gym. Still playing cooking dinner. I know a few people who have to hear podcasts playing on their phone to be able to sleep now.
Most U.S. College Grads Don’t Work in the Field They Studied, Survey Finds
I think there's a lot of unexplored territory in wild and crazy ("novel") ideas for software that prevents you from doing wrong stuff, like type systems and model provers, valgrind, ASAN, etc.

That leaves room for the software that actually does stuff to be boring.

These concepts are usually confused; even in the area of languages that supposedly you can't write bugs in, Haskell is too exciting in both directions (so it's too hard to use), but Ada/SPARK is too boring (so nobody wants to use it).
Please consider belief in $GOD as different from $RELIGION. Consider one the theory and the other the implementation, and the latter seems to cause way more difficulties, particularly with respect to the hardware.
Some specific numbers (2018):

Who doesn’t read books in America? | The Pew Research Center

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/09/21/who-doesnt-...

And the NEA offers some insights on the downward trend in reading (2007):

To Read or Not to Read | The National Endowment for the Arts

https://www.arts.gov/sites/default/files/ToRead.pdf
Same age, same boat but I wonder about two independent factors: how my cumulative health decisions have depleted my energy reserves, and if being lower on the Dunning-Kruger curve had some distinct advantages earlier in life (i.e. I expect things to be harder now which adds an additional mental obstacle and fatigue). I also gave a shit about far less thus further freeing mental capital.

Then again, outside of sports, nothing in my youth was taxing (particularly not school). The only real mental investment I had to make was verbal sparing with friends, and video games.

It was easier to do math in my head but I had been doing it regularly for years (full stack web apps call for very little), and it was much easier to keep momentum on something like Tolstoy (could also be health related though).

What about you? Any specific things you think you could incontrovertibly do better in your youth that aren't likely confounded by other variables?
I mean -- you've been in three of the most religious states in the U.S., and you're interacting w blue collar workers. There is a fairly tremendous sampling bias.

But I agree that very religious Americans do manage to work their religion into conversations in which you just wouldn't think it would come up.
Snaps and the continuous issues with them was the main reason for me to leave. I'm very happy with Linux Mint now. I'll use Ubuntu on the server but never again on the desktop. I get what Snap was trying to accomplish, but it failed miserably IMHO.
Your family or in laws maybe?
That's not what filter bubble means. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble

But even in the more generic sense -- they can't disconnect you, they can disconnect the account you have on their server -- and it's common practice for people to have alts on different ones just for different topics they post about.
What you mean isn't something many of the relevant experts would agree with, but the words in the second sentence aren't bad.

Similarly to biological evolution, on any sufficiently long time scale the descendents aren't more advanced, simply better adapted to different conditions. Our ancestors' societies reflected wildly different contraints and path dependence, not primitiveness.
To be fair, the word used was "control". The HN title is, once again, distorting the content of the submission. The author's discussion is focused on media consolidation and the slow death of local news, not Big Tech's control over what people consume. (Though she does cite Big Tech's practice of censoring independent news sources.)
It goes a little deeper than that. I'm not talking about running stuff somebody else built, I'm talking about using my own machine for my own purposes (i.e. writing a program for myself) which Apple have decided to make increasingly difficult. Examples:

Being forced to use XCode to sign .NET assemblies before they will run. You can build and run a self contained .NET program on literally anything from a Pi to a multi-processor rack server running Windows or Linux and it just works. Not on a Mac though, gotta jump through Apple hoops before that happens.

Apple deciding that your new iPhone isn't allowed to talk to your old Mac.

Being forced to use a Mac to do iPhone development, despite XCode being the runt of the litter of development environments.

Weird, old, crippled BSD for an operating system? Why not! Having to install a package manager as a seperate thing just to install boring stuff that comes with most Linux distributions. Why don't apple install Homebrew by default? Why do they pour so many resources into making the UI shiny instead of producing a modern OS?

Is your company using Docker for deployment? Why not give you a Mac which has the worst Docker development experience of any of the major OSs. What a wonderful idea.

They hate developers.
Or millenials listening to joe rogan at work.
There is a good case for holding diverse hiring practices in high esteem:

* Heterogeneity of ideas is moderately correlated to diversity of backgrounds

* Diverse teams are less prone to groupthink, more ready to acknowledge and correct for their biases, and they more readily challenge one another on a factual basis

* Hiring practices that try to offset structural biases and personal tendencies towards uniformity can access talent pools that others do not

To sum up, disregarding any political or social viewpoint, diversity is a strong value driver.

As for "intelligence", whatever that is; insofar as it can even be qualified, let alone quantified, this remains a minimal contributor to performance beyond the second sigma. Genius is contextual.

Source: me, have joined/managed high performance tech-sector teams, including extraordinary individuals from unusual/outlier backgrounds.
We can always bring back Operation Plowshare and try to connect the Salton Sea to the Gulf of Mexico.
Birdsite.live was exactly what I was looking for! I guess I'll have to set up a server of my own, maybe together with a private Mastodon instance, to get all the accounts synced without hitting the API limit, but this is very promising!
Do you want to accidentally spill water from the Colorado into it again?

https://allthatsinteresting.com/salton-sea-history
Don't worry, they'll be overtaken by a 1kg lump of computers, self-replication machinery, and propellant crewed by sapient AI/digitised humans and offered a pickup. Virtual passengers only, though, sorry...
False equivalency and you know it
Is there a less technical term for anisotropic? Polarized?
How Barnes and Noble Went from Villain to Hero
I don't know about Russia, but China doesn't let people from other nationalities to occupy positions of power especially in foreign policy, in which they're completely right. This is the main weakness of the USA and UK. They will let foreign born people to raise to power and dictate self servicing policies, many times in detriment to their own population. For example, take Henry Kissinger: a german born person, he spent his whole life influencing American policy to accommodate his views concerning Europe and the rest of the world. It is not a surprise that the Western world is in this situation.
Meanwhile the Buddhists are unattached about being left out of the survey. They don't mind.
As one who remains an Evangelical, I prefer to take the body and blood as symbolic, along with the Vine and the branches, the streams of living water, etc. On the other hand, I take Genesis 1 - 3 to be literal. In each case I am guided by what I take to be the authorial intent.
> We can see that the Constitution's usage of "regulated" is considered synonymous with "organized" and opposite to "irregular" and "disjointed". No such usage would make sense given the modern understanding of the words. But that is how the words were used at the time.

I don't understand this at all.

Modern usage of "regulated" can mean either "organized" or "under law". Indeed, in many cases it is just a difference of degree. Perhaps the more common usage is "regular" (as in "regular season"), but it's not some massive difference in meaning where they mean the opposite.
No this is absolutely Russian disinformation
Could this be used for CPU (or some other truckload-of-pins chip) "reballing"? Does it do well under a bolted-on radiator / pressure plate?

For instance, many old Playstation 3 systems go faulty because of the poor quality solder on the CPU/GPU that tends to crack over time. Being a normie, it's really hard to fix something like that at home. But this tape seems like it could save the day.
> It'd cost way too much to redesign the product correctly.

No such thing as a "correct" design: it's all about market positioning and design trade-offs. I'm typing this on a sub-$300 laptop, it's made of plastic, it bends and flexes, but it is very light, and has a 1980x1024 display, a 9-hour battery, and again - it bears repeating - cost less than $300 brand new. These factors may not be important to you, but they were to me as I wanted something I could bike with, and wouldn't be too stressed if it broke in a fall[1]. I also have a MacBook, but it's heavy and expensive to repair.

1. It is also something I would have been my dream machine as a poor student in a place with unreliable electric service, yet still attainable, unlike the other "well-made" laptops that have a premium on aesthetics & build-quality.
Learjet 23/24/25 models have a reputation for being very loud and very thirsty for fuel.
OK, in your hallmark #1, I suppose you're distinguishing between, say, topographic or land-cover maps that come from remote sensing and that might be useful in flood risk assessment, versus property-valuation or storm-drainage infrastructure maps that don't come from remote sensing and that might also be needed for flood risk assessment?

I.e., the value is in a complete "application" solution to a given problem rather than in hoping for a "killer remote-sensing data product" that would (in theory) solve the problem?

About your question, I'm on the analysis side, not the infrastructure side, so I don't know about the download metrics - they must be tracked but a quick search didn't turn up anything accessible. The download metrics aren't super-valuable because lots of people/groups do programmatic downloads -- the cost is zero.

I think the L0-L4 distinctions is trying to illustrate these points:

-- L0, L1 data are sensor-dependent and not really useful to solving problems

-- There's a lot of value in developing calibrated data (L2+)

-- Basic visual imagery often isn't calibrated so subsequent processing will necessarily be ad hoc and thus of limited value for any consequential decision-making
I still use lineageOS on my note 3. I always buy generational leaps, not incremental, Note 3 back in the days was a rare 3gb phone, 4k video and quad core, making it a little more future proof. it was a good call, subsequent updates were mostly about speed. Took several generations to gain significantly on image quality. I added a wireless recharge module, battery is easily swappable, I still plays clash royale on it, etc.

Now, I would like better night photos, and some zoom/wide angles, so going to go with the same approach, getting 12gb instead of 8. Only good candidate I see right now is a note 20 because I can expand it. Expansion is a must, I really hate where the phone market is heading right now with severely limiting repairs, gb premium with no expansion, Limited updates for an exhorbitant price and not controlling what I run and how I run it on top of it all.

Software like LineageOS are essential not only to reduce waste, but also to get a minimum control on our hackware back.
I feel like any discussion of him must include the controversies: He seriously damaged a rare and valuable IBM 7496 workstation, on camera, while trying to get it to work.

Personally, I find his particular flavor of pro-gun ownership to be distasteful, in particular, happily being filmed wearing an assault rifle slung over his back while ordering food. I know that's not necessarily unusual in Texas, but I think he should be more aware of his global audience.
Have the lay people really ever had a clear idea of what is true or happening? Information about the world has always ever been feed from the oligarchy down. People think the internet age shook that but here we are, some of the largest companies on the stock market are these internet companies controlled by the billionaire class.
Equity gives you a share of the money pie, but it doesn't necessarily give you a share of the decision making pie.

The problem that I raise isn't necessarily with the profitability of twitter, but with the decisions that are made about where the platform goes as it grows or gets older. I believe everyone who participates in the platform should have some form of decision power over where it goes, for such a big platform there are many different actors involved but how many of them actually get to make decisions?

Where the profits go is one of the many decisions that are made, as it stands now, people with equity get some of the profits and that's about it. How much is reinvested, how much is paid out, and so on are not really decisions most equity-holders make.
You're thinking too small. They'll come in and turn the solar system into a matrioshka brain.

The aliens don't hate you, they don't love you, it's just that you (and the planet you're standing on, and the star it's orbiting) are made of atoms that can be used to build computers/more aliens.
> does it have better content than Twitter?

That's a pretty low bar.
Attack surface reduction is the important part. I’m not in disagreement with what you said, but if you took a modern iPhone and removed all capabilities other than sending and receiving phone calls, it would be much more secure than one which supports mms, email, browsing, etc.
Minor correction op: in this case it's "Mac OS". "macOS" is for the post-Mac OS X.
IMO I find a lot of podcasts just slog the current mainstream narratives anyhow. They are full of the same dark patterns too attempting to monetize their userbase using the same techniques as the talking heads on cable news.
i dont actually know any millennials personally that like joe rogan much less listen to him.
Dont leave anything in your vehicle anywhere.
Looks like there is some kind of hopelessness that you feel. Probably will need more details to find the root cause because there is insufficient information at the moment. That will probably be a much longer conversation.

You can send an email. See past comments in profile.

To describe:

1. The writers block

2. Your ambitions, the projects and startups you dream of

3. Roles you took on in which you were the single point of failure

4. The first time you were burned out that happened earlier in life

5. What have you done about things, what worked, what did not work

6. Do you get bored when people talk gossip about a mutual friend, like new relationships started
I have seen a very clean example of this once -- we hired two people at about the same time, let's call them A and B. Both had about the same years of experience and worked on similar technologies in the past. Neither was familiar with our codebase.
Both got the same onboarding process (1-on-1 with experienced developers few times a week, simple tasks). Then both could choose tasks to work on from the same pool.

Two month later, A is done multiple simple tasks and in the middle of refactoring a tricky module to add much needed functionality. B is still working on their second simple task.

I would not be able to quantify difference between them, but it could easily be more than 10x.

(We later tried to see if B would do better at other projects -- a different programming language, a project that needed a small program from scratch instead of modifying our huge main codebase, etc... None of that did help.)
Also the treadmill of computer progress means that keeping devices for multiple years has significant costs in performance compared to replacing it regularly.

A good watch can be passed down through generations. A computer passed on from my father would likely just be a storage and disposal cost instead of any real use.

Outside of specialist enthusiasts and collectors, I suppose. But for every working Apple 1 there's thousands of c64s that no longer function quite right.
Just out of curiousity, how would it get much worse? I wonder if it wouldn't make it better since a lot of the water seems to just be so salty it kills everything.

Do you mean it'll just be drier and therefore suck more water out of the local ecosystem?