skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great question.

I'm sure others will disagree but I believe playing video games for hours is more infantilizing than hunting, fishing, or tinkering on cars.

The former is content designed by humans (generally working under the aegis of giant corporations) whose goal is to completely capture and dominate your attention to the exclusion of other things. While videogames certainly can be and often are art that tells interesting stories about the human condition, they also often function psychologically much more like junk food and drugs. They give you just enough serotonin hit to get you to keep playing but rarely enough to leave you truly sated. Many games don't want to satisfy because then you'll stop consuming the content.

Hunting and fishing require you to be in nature which has been proven in study after study to be profoundly valuable psychologically and emotionally. They are both boring in a deeply useful way that gives you time to reflect and process your own thoughts. Instead of doom scrolling social media which constantly fills your brain with new information, stressors, and problems that you never have time to sift through, hunting and fishing give your brain the idle time it needs to finally start defragging its memory.

Tinkering on cars forces you to solve difficult challenges. Unlike playing videogames where the stakes are by design relatively low—all you can lose is time—working on a car forces you to confront difficulty and failure where that matters. You can break parts that are expensive to replace. You can fail to find a problem and be left with a car that won't run. That's very helpful for training resilience, problem-solving and equanimity.

All three of these engage our entire bodies, senses, and hands in an integrated, much deeper way than a controller and rectangle of pixels does. The smell of oil or seaweed. The flash of a bobber. The way you feel the pull of the fish in your arms or the recoil of the rifle in your shoulders.

This is something we all know intuitively and it's the constant onslaught of capitalism and the ease of consuming media at home that makes us forget. Videogames can certainly have moments of meaningful joy. But ask yourself this: How often after sinking an hour into a game do you find yourself thinking, "Wow, that really felt like living!" Now how often do you feel that when you go fishing, or hike, or cook a meal for a friend?

For me, 80% of the time I spend playing videogames or watching dumb social media leaves me with the same lingering regret I feel when I eat a bag of chips instead of preparing an actually nutritious meal.
> What? The 2008 Mortgage Crisis was the biggest news story for at least a year.

It was an event that absolutely decimated MANY people in America financially. And for many of those people, their only fault in the whole thing was, I guess, being ignorant enough to be taken advantage of.

We spend a lot more time discussing things that are a lot more irrelevant than that.

> Comparing that to "inclusivity" is also strange because inclusivity is not an event. A single event has a natural decay of relevance, the further into the past it gets.

OK, then instead compare the general theme of the 2008 Mortgage Crisis / Occupy Wall Street. Specifically: how much time do we spend talking about a small group of powerful elites pulling the financial strings in this country? And how does that compare to how much we talk about "inclusivity"?

The money and power concentrated into the hands of relatively few is an issue that is _several_ orders of magnitude larger than the "inclusivity" stuff we're fed much more often.

That's not a mere coincidence.
Arrogant, but probably true. Most shows lose viewers as time goes on, even successful ones. People get momentarily outraged about losing a show they hoped to see more of, but they're easily distracted by a new thing.

Eventually some are gonna get tired of the rug-pull, but I think a lot will say "As long as I have something to watch tonight I have a reason to keep the service."
Its worse because suddenly 20 years worth of tutorials are slightly 'wrong' and will confuse new users even more for no reason.

"Why does my git say main and not master? Did I break it?"

"Why cant I push to master like the 100x tutorials show? I get errors!"
This may seem as bad in short term, but it's good in the long run.

As the share of ideologically-driven people rises, capacity to solve problems and create valuable stuff decreases. The organization will die inevitably.
I have a GUI example Knowledge Graph Navigator in my Lisp book [1] and I am separating out for a new edition the library code and the CAPI code. I also have plans to supply UIs written with McCLIM and Open Graphics. I am motivated because some readers said that having a CAPI example was useful to them. I write just for fun, and I tend to put emphasis on material where I get the most feedback.

[1] slide the price to ‘free’ https://leanpub.com/lovinglisp
I second Bletchley. Consider it your obligatory pilgrimage as a computing professional.
how do you propose we get to level 4 without a large number of humans collecting the data and providing real-time feedback?
HR department at a previous workplace was like that. All women, all friends, all worked with each other or were relatives of someone... their personal lives were entirely intertwined with work. Most weren't at work most days and this was when they had a no work from home policy years ago. Loud personal calls all day long.

I wasn't even in that department and the drama that came from it was exhausting.

They would often take longer than their allotted meeting time in meeting rooms because after their meeting someone in there was crying ... why? Who knows... it was only known within that group. It just kept happening over and over... Along with folks storming down the hall all upset, again who knows why. Now stuff happens sometimes at work, no big deal, but running into these exhausting people couple times a week really takes a toll on you.

When were moving offices the tech support team was seated next to HR. At one point HR invited the both all of tech support and HR (at least those at that building) to a meeting to discuss why tech support wasn't "social enough" and "spent all day in their cubes", I duno maybe they're working... Thankfully that got cancelled quickly after a number of people (me included) noted to a VP that "No matter what the reason, there's no way this meeting ends in anything but a total disaster."

Then came the litany of complaints that HR sponsored events (where HR planned everything to HR's preferences) were not attended enough by the tech support team and how much work they put into it and so on... I even left those events early because it's a lunch event and I don't want to eat veggie pizza only, I can only take lunch for so long.
If you want privacy, staying out of cloud, and interop between device vendors, the home automation for dummies approach is:

Buy devices from Eve, which works with HomeKit and other HomeKit devices.

Other suggestions here miss the privacy angle insofar as privacy also requires security.

> Smart home company Eve built its entire business model on local control. “Our privacy platform is ‘what’s at home stays at home,’” Jerome Gackel, Eve Systems CEO, tells me. “With Matter, you do not need a cloud — you can have one, but it’s not a requirement.” Its commitment to avoiding cloud control is why Eve devices have been iPhone- and HomeKit-only thus far. But with Matter, Eve can move to the other platforms while remaining entirely local.
GAAF
The crank isn't on trial here. I'm just glad the games can be ported.

>The tactility, precision, and control of a crank can't be matched by something that doesn't spin on one axis.

Have you gotten a chance to try it?
How smart do you want to go? I found that for my purposes all I needed was some occupancy sensor switches and plain old timed switches (exhaust fans).
If that is true, why does the rest of the world want it so badly?
This is exactly what I use. Throw all this on a good quality seed box and you have your own machine on the cloud.
> that somebody had to explain to them there are people in the world who are discriminated against, but aren't black

I wouldn't have believed you that there are people like this, but a few minutes after i read your comment, i saw replies (requires showdead) to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31123102 that said men cannot be discrimated against...
No, you are supposed to use gender neutral terms.
The same is true of Facebook, Google, Twitter and your ISP. The difference with Urbit is you can switch providers if you're censored, or reciprocally if you want a censored experience, you can virtually move to somewhere with a blocklist.
I flicked through a book on inside Marvel comics in the 90's. It really made them sound a bit predatory saleswise, I felt a bit of a sucker having bought them then. Holographic covers, pah.
Do they? They came through people who used a right-to-left script (the Arabs). But they originated in India. Did they use right-to-left?
Even just having a spare PC to run your media server is not normal. Never mind all of the technical knowledge needed to keep it all running smoothly.
Managing inhomogeneously bitemporal data with Datomic and Clojure (2014)
The only person who would gain anything by saying that would be a white man, who would just be told that his opinion isn’t important because he’s a white man.
By putting "toxic chemicals" in the title along with that sentence in the body, it sure seems like they're trying to have their cake and eat it too with this article. It also lists a bunch of negative things that are associated with PFAS levels. They're toxic, and associated with a bunch of bad things, but don't worry.

> apart from being identified as potentially carcinogenic, PFAS are associated with “low fetal weight, impaired immune response, thyroid function abnormalities, obesity, increased lipid levels, liver function alterations, and, potentially, an increased risk of some malignant neoplasms.”

I suppose that most blood recipients are probably better off with increased PFAS than going without the infusion, but the article sure presents the situation clumsily.
New to this planet?
I read the piece (despite finding him rather dreary to read, honestly) and that quoted section is theorycrafting what an ideal Trump figure would do to achieve its Trumpy goals.

I think the whole Curtis Yarvin is a Crazy Person stuff is a bit overdone, honestly. Had a couple of drinks with the fellow at the old Urbit place in SOMA ages ago and he seemed fairly normal. He's got these kooky reactionary ideas in his writing, for sure, but he's not this Hitler figure people make him out to be.

Anyway, not for me to defend him, just trying to insert some lived experience. I tried to like Urbit and Hoon and Nock but it wasn't for me. Perhaps for a better man.
On macOS just run `caffeinate` from the terminal (or `man caffeinate` for more info on the options).

I know OP copped to “various Caffeine/Amphetamine apps” but said they're often “overkill”. In this case I think a system-provided command is less overkill than a web page that either uses a browser API or plays an empty video.
Ask HN: How does more RAM and CPU increase website performance?
Hi all,

when typing this question in Google, the responses are quite diluted, with many results focusing on the RAM of a personal computer rather than that of a hosting provider.

I'm sure many of you here are good at SysOps and can answer this question better.

My website runs WordPress. I get around 30,000 visitors to my website monthly. I am curious on the technical parts of how adding more RAM/CPU is going to increase the performance of my website. At the moment, even when I have 50+ visitors on at the same time, my CPU usage doesn't go very high, and neither does the disk.

So, if I were to upgrade - is it going to be something that I can literally notice the moment I do it?
I think the T14 with Ryzen 5 was actually what I was after, but it was "6+ weeks" shipping with the configuration I wanted (maxing out the soldered RAM). I'm glad I went with the G14 as it has a much more powerful CPU and is actually smaller (but weighs a little more).
How you worded that sounds reminiscent of mafia "protection". I assume that wasn't your intention, but that's how it read for me.

It seems to me like piracy of shows is tangential to whatever the root of the issue is. Folk are becoming disenchanted with streaming services. Whether they pirate or just stop watching instead, the services have clearly changed in ways that make them less valuable to consumers. Unless somebody figures that out, it's not going to improve. I doubt DRM is the answer, although a combination of higher prices and consolidated content might be. Folk would pay more for Netflix if it was still a "monopoly" with all the popular shows.

I think accusing folk of stealing money out of your pocket for downloading a video is quite hyperbolic and isn't winning you any arguments. You're trying to make it a moral issue, but it isn't really a moral issue, and nobody outside of the industry cares. You could claim that it's disrespectful to you as a participating member of society, and it probably is, but yelling at people to respect you more doesn't work, and has the opposite effect.

I think your point, though, is that it's a tragedy of the commons situation. The industry works as a whole because people are willing to pay a premium in exchange for entertainment. If people don't pay, then there's no incentive to produce. If folk value new entertainment, they need to support the industry that produces it.
Yes - people don't get that most folks want to watch on the TV without involving any browser.
Wow it's actually somehow even worse, the LIDAR equipped car passed the test with a moving dummy from behind an obstruction. The Tesla failed with an unobstructed stationary dummy.

https://twitter.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/14785490274780651...

https://twitter.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/14787645152609116...

https://twitter.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/14787661657237790...
I don't think I ever noticed that period when I created my account here.
Could you just filter your blood externally, dialysis-style, and get rid of these chemicals that way?
>Many Google employees are just so out of touch with the real world that they believe it is the duty of Google Docs to change the English language to exclude the words "landlord", "motherboard", and even "mother" in most contexts (sub with birthing person).

It's frantic activity to avoid looking in the mirror. Making themselves busy fixing something massive and intractable to avoid having to think about the actionable items closer to home.
Therapeutic phlebotomy, basically bloodletting, is a common treatment for hemochromatosis, iron overload. It would make sense as a treatment if you've got too much of a substance in your system, that substance accumulates in your blood, and you're otherwise healthy enough to tolerate the loss of blood periodically. Depending on the substance, there may be other means that are more effective, or less invasive, of course; and if it's an urgent need to reduce the substance, bloodletting would likely be too slow.
Isn't this exactly the state of the internet today?
You may not like the US prison system, but calling it slavery is at the very least intellectually dishonest.
I have a similar experience with respect to watching foreign produced content. It's interesting because they present different approaches to the shows and even if they're using entertainment tropes they can be different enough because they're tropes of that nation.

But once I watched a few, Netflix filled my entire recommendation catalog with almost all e.g. Turkish and Korean shows. Pretty annoying as it's like ordering an ice cream dessert, then the only thing the menu ever shows is all ice cream desserts. It makes me think part of people feeling it's all the same is that the recommendation optimization is overbearing in shoveling too much of more of the same recent history vs presenting a mix of recommendation and discovery.
What if your 3) was in 2) pushing 1) only it backfired and people in 2) took it seriously?
You missed a part.

From GP:
>The recruiting team was all women

I guess this is what you get when you outsource hiring.
It's the natural outcome of far leftist ideologies. People need to wake up and start rejecting this destructive ideology where a person is evaluated only based on their identity. I think MLK had something to say about that.
Check out the new Harley Quinn. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7658402/
This is why I’m pessimistic about the West winning the second cold war. While Chinese engineers are working hard on world dominating AI models and other hard tech, Western engineers are wasting man hours on crap like this.
You still need to do KYC
This sounds entirely fabricated. I've been in the hardware department for more than 10 years. Maybe you put a word in a list. I've never even heard of someone considering this.
You can run a media service for example jellyfin on the same PC as the client.

Installers are a thing on windows, on Ubuntu you can install software with apt. It wasn't packaged for my distro so I downloaded an archive unzipped and dropped it in /opt

Not sure why anyone would absolutely need to understand Kuberetes or even docker.

Plugging a PC up to a display has been a better TV for a while now.
But any decent smart switch works as a normal switch by default, without any care or feeding. Sure, controlling them remotely and adding them to automation takes additional work, but that's stuff that is just impossible with the dumb switches, and not a requirement to control the light fixtures.
Somewhere I wonder if people have read too much of Orwell's 1984 and Iain M. Banks Culture series and have decided that between Newspeak and Marain is an idea that whilst we may not better the world today, if we can obliterate language we can obliterate an idea.

Sapir-Whorf hypothesis put to use as a tool to ensure that future generations of humans will avoid the problems that have plagued us for all time, because the ideas that perpetuate those issues will have been eradicated.

I'm left in awe at the audacity of it, the idea that human nature itself can be changed just by striking out words from the language. Seems implausibly naive and paternalistic.
As this is unfinished software which should have extremely high safety requirements: I would very much like for it to be stuck on minor bumps and whatnot. In fact, I would like it to stop moving the car, sound a very loud alarm, and immediately notify the operator on multiple channels if anything even remotely out of the ordinary happens. Tesla should devote as many resources to detecting abnormal conditions as they are on making the car drive in the first place.

The owners here are alpha testing a complex and dangerous system and they should expect nothing less.
I'm not employed. Not shopping for jobs either.

By the way, I'm available to assist whoever is a victim of these shitty extremist behavior. And I can do and say whatever I want. Everything I do is my responsibility and my property. Not my employer's, because I chose to not have one.
I have been a Netflix customer for 5+ years, and I've switched services to Disney+ for two reasons:

- Netflix with 4K and 4 streaming devices costs 17.99€ here ($19.50), while Disney+ only costs €8.99 with the same features.

- Netflix made and continues to make good content, but since major producers have been removing their content from Netflix and into their own services, Netflix here almost survives on old local shows and new in-house content. Feels like there's almost nothing new to watch. I have rewatched Gilmore Girls 4 times. Disney+ gets you Marvel, Disney, Pixar, FOX, NatGeo, StarWars, Star (lots of ABC content)

-Netflix decided to crackdown on password-sharing: my brother moved away some months ago and has been using our Netflix account, and we don't want him to pay Netflix for himself.

-There have been some rumors of ads on the platform to boost revenue. Hell to the no.
That's a good point, I didn't realize the Framework laptop was 3:2. I really, really like this aspect ratio on laptop-sized displays.
I have mentioned that possibility to my wife. I am well off financially, but I am frugal. I love my local library.
As a Linux user, this was my experience as well, going from hate/skepticism to full embrace.

Though I also buy from Humble Bundle and GOG. I prefer GOG whenever possible, if it's DRM free. Sometimes it's the most expensive option though.
Except in virtually all of this woke programming white male christians are deliberately and exclusively portrayed negatively, if their characters aren't outright replace with race and gender swaps. It's petty revenge racism.
I have observed some people pushing back, but it's rare. I know there is a fear of dissent to the DEI dogma. Particularly if you're a white man. If you're a minority you have more leeway to dissent and it will be fine you'll just be ignored or perhaps have someone read the pro-DEI talking points to you. After Damore firing most people just think it's not worth it I would guess, why risk it? And if you're a founder why risk a campaign against your company when you need to raise funding etc.
» I think the point you're missing is that often moderators are in that position because they specifically want the power that comes with it.

I love that you were courageous enough to say this because this is completely true and also why we say #ACAB. Most people who want to be police officers are absolutely unfit to be police officers!
It's particularly unbelievable because it's particularly false.
Our ancestors lived in extremely harsh environments, didn’t have modern medicine, and there was a very high infant mortality rate. The last one alone causes the average lifespan to drop, however many who survived past infancy lived to similar ages as today.
Yeah but they have absolute freedom of speech so they're better than us /s
Ask HN: Forty year old engineer infatuated with mentorship
Hi all,

Just posting this in case someone has advice they can share, or maybe this is just a cry for help and someone here can convince me to finally seek it.

I'm a 40-something year old engineer at an old and worn down tech company. I've worked at this company my entire adult life. The only thing that fuels me anymore is mentoring junior engineers. I like to believe I help them reach their maximum potential, but I've recently realized that all I do is impose myself, without letting them think for themselves. How do I get better at this?

Could there be a deeper issue here? Some people around me have been telling me that I really want a child of my own, but the thought scares me. I occasionally livestream myself coding and have been caught coddling viewers on more than one occasion. Sometimes I watch my streams a few weeks after they've happened and can't help but cringe.

I had a really bad accident a few years back and didn't bother getting mental help at the time, but I'm starting to regret it. Could this all be rooted in PTSD?

Any advice helps, cheers!
But that's implying that only mothers give birth, and erases those who don't identify as mothers who give birth.

That's how I understand their thinking, at least.

I agree with you and think anyone who is offended by motherboard is silly. I'm sure it was never even anyone that was actually offended, but a group of people sitting down and looking at any and every word that has any type of gender connotation and saying that's a bad thing.
Where is that data available? The study I found [1] does not provide a pivot by solely by ideology, only ideology+media source.

[1] http://publicmind.fdu.edu/2012/confirmed/
I have been enjoying Foot Terminal of late - minimal, fast, Wayland-first. Not sure about complete feature-parity, but I personally did not miss any feature of Alacritty.

https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot