skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'd be surprised how long oral history can live. There are people who tell the same cautionary tales for thousands or even tens of thousands of years. (We know among other things because they clearly reference landmarks that we today find geological traces of that help us date their existence.)

But yes, you're onto something with the neighbour hypothesis too -- egalitarian and hierarchical (or beaurocratic and violent) societies often come in pairs, right next to each other.
The only downside to a Matfer, or any other carbon steel pan, is that you need to be prepared to season it yourself. They do not come pre-seasoned like most cast iron pans and it is a good bit of work. Having said that, I absolutely love the one I have and plan on buying at least one more in the future.
I mixed my own batch of laundry detergent before the pandemic for like $30 and am still using that batch today.

It is shocking how much of our economy is unnecessary products designed to extract money from us.
I would try a good cooking book (one with measures in grams, etc) recipe verbatim, without any deviation. From there you can use that as the baseline and adjust/experiment everytime you cook it, or just stick with it.
I use millionshort to work past SEO glut: https://millionshort.com/ or use ddg bang !mill
I have a Chromebook (Samsung 4) with a Celeron N4020 2/2 1.1GHz ("up to 2.8GHz"), 6W TDP processor. It's not going to blow anyone away with its performance, but it's entirely adequate and I love that it has all-day battery life from a $100 device (mine was $92.44 delivered&taxed on sale; the typical street price is $119).

I don't want the lowest end offerings to become 15W TDP chips in $300 laptops. I think there's a perfectly valid place for 6W chips in $100 devices, which brings computing access to more people and places.
> Covid didn't work. Bring our Marburg!!

> Bring out Marburg!

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> Cooking equipment: essentially indestructible Cast Iron skillets transition into teflon pans. The newer pans perform worse, and must be replaced on a shockingly regular basis. They also seem to be poisonous.

No one should be surprised that people will pay more for the exact same thing over time. People want to get as much as they can as quick as they can. If you spend $100 for a cast iron pan now instead of $30 for a Teflon pan, then you have $70 less money to spend on other stuff. The average person doesn't care that over the long run they could spend $1000 on pans instead of a $100 pan that lasts a lifetime.
Impact at Startups vs. Big Tech
Open season to short em.
> In many cases these are high ranking government officials, and presumably if this flight didn’t exist, they might travel on private jets, which would be even worse; in order words, these people probably wouldn’t otherwise take a bus

Do MEPs really qualify as high ranking government officials?
Congrats on launching!
What was your tech stack? From app development to getting food truck data, what did you find difficult?
Elon Musk’s takeover financing deal could clip Twitter’s wings
They already can't give away housing in areas of rural Japan that are emptying out.

The value of land is socially created. When there's no one around, no economy, etc, it's basically worthless. Japan is rapidly approaching this point. You'll be able to get cheap land if you want to be a weird hermit, but everyone else is going to continue to flood to the cities, the only places where there will remain any sort of economy.

Not really sure how or why food would get cheaper with less people. If anything the opposite as it's more expensive to make it locally with less workers available.

Less people seems worse all around to me.
Is that what you tell everyone who looses a loved one? Don't worry now the planet has less overpopulation, it was for the better. Oh and plenty of new people are being born so don't worry about your loss.

It find it revolting all the people who seek to trivialize the effects of COVID19. If it didn't matter, I guess Mao and Stalin purges didn't matter either. Just piles of people in an overpopulated world right?
Marginalia search engine is worth a try: https://search.marginalia.nu/

It's a search engine meant to be biased towards long-form content with minimal marketing and javascript trickery
>if the source code is open for viewing by anyone

That would be _source-available_. Open source is well understood to also enable modification and redistribution - see Wikipedia's[0] or Merriam-Webster's[1] entry on open source.

Also, open source says nothing about using the code in a commercial situation to begin with. The most popular open source licenses (MIT, Apache, GPL, ...) don't distinguish commercial and noncommercial usage.

I agree that the situation with large companies is not easy. Either you pick a stricter license like GPL, and risk your software being left unpopular, or pick one that enables popularity more, like MIT, but then risk being taken advantage of by the lack of restrictions. I think it's a tough call.

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

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/open-source
How to Build a Technology Platform
It takes more than a syringe to grow mushrooms.

It takes equipment, time, effort, and knowledge -- things most people don't have and don't want.

This is the same reason most cannabis users don't grow their own supply, though it's supposedly "easy". Also the same reason most people go to grocery stores instead of growing their own food, and go to liquor stores instead of brewing their own beer.

Most people want to offload the growing to others, and prefer the ease and convenience of buying premade and prepackaged goods. The huge variety of preparations and (in an ideal world) quality of commercial products is unlikely to be equaled by amateurs who dabble in growing on the weekend either. Also, advertising and packaging is going to draw people to commercial products.

They might not technically "need" these, and maybe with enough time and effort the average person might be able to grow their own, but most certainly don't want that. They want a quick and convenient, commercially made and packaged product.
Fresh press has more and messier cleanup than other options.
I think even if we heavily narrow the prediction to AAA games only (ignoring not only the indies, but all the mid-tier studios like Larian or Obsidian as well), it won't be anywhere near true. We're already pretty deep into the era of the "live service" business model, and it's big but it's not all-consuming.

Look at everything Nintendo for starters, look at the Total War games, all the focused narrative action-adventure games. None of this is going in a direction which will exclude offline solo play.

If the prediction is just EA and Ubisoft and maybe Activision, yeah ok, that's a little more realistic.
The GGreg20_V3 is installed in Germany and connected to the radmon.org
Their founders lack of a third vacation home. :p

There are a relatively large number of companies that aren't really "solving a problem" but still making bank.

For example, what problem is Instagram solving? Giving advertisers an even easier way to target insecure teenage girls?
>when more memory channels will be added

Already happened a few months ago. DDR5 doubled the number of memory channels in a normal desktop from 2 to 4. That’s 2 channels per DIMM.

Of course DDR4 still has lower latency today, but that should change next year.

Today the only way to reduce latency is to overclock your RAM. It’s pretty easy to get a $200 DDR4 kit to perform better than what you’d find in $5000 prebuilt PCs.
This surprises no one. It's the whole reason statecraft is worthwhile (cause feudalism and being beholden to the local boss sucks).
I make espresso, too. The problem is the espresso machine cost and quality impact the final product significantly. A high-ish grade machine is $700 or more. You can froth milk with less, but the coffee extraction usually is subpar. And actually, people who are snobby about espresso roast their own beans so it’s hardly comparable in effort. Espresso is basically the hot-rod of coffee.
People in India just need jobs. It’s not even functional in many cases though the presence of a person feels nice in a lot of these places.
Well you don't have to use such a decadent encoding! If you aim to upload 10 seconds a day you could be done in a year and a half. 900KB can handle 10 seconds just fine, especially with a cutting-edge codec.
> it was a market led thing

It was a virtue signalling thing.
Here are some breakdowns of bytebeat compositions for anyone interested in their construction: http://www.sizecoding.org/wiki/Bytebeat
You can eliminate the oops shifting uphill entirely if you let off on the power the moment you shift. You need to get a feel for it but it will feel perfectly smooth like it does on flatground. I use some ancient shimano 2x8 brifters too mostly 105 some ultegra and dura ace components in there.
I recently bought a 300 pack of double edge razor blades for $31Cad. You get like the article says 3-5 shaves. Gillette is crazy if they think you can get 15 shaves; ya if you want a screwed up face and a breakout rash from the roughness of it. You still only get like 5 shaves before those too start to hurt. You can actually get a double edge razor blade body in the stores Walmart has them for like $20. They also sell blades but they are like $5-$6 for 5 blades it was much cheaper to buy a 300 pack off amazon. The thing is when I started shaving I didn’t even know that type of razor existed. I would have switched years earlier but just didn’t know they existed.
Here are a few ways to attract a bartender’s attention:

- Give a big tip, so next time they prioritize you

- Wait

- Choose a less crowded / with nicer bartenders place.

I don’t think this is a technical problem.
> At one of the meetings I was at, trying to advocate for a mixed use building

Thank you for trying to make the world better.

I try to make the same case as you. I think people get off on the controlling part (banning plastic bags) and just use environmentalism as a cover.
Frankfurt is probably the closest international hub airport for people flying in from other countries.
Change is the only constant in nature
They’re reaching a market cap where it would make sense to fire everyone but AWS.
If you really go by longevity, bacteria metabolizing sulfur compounds from hydrothermal vents is the default economic system.
There's this belief that if we come up with a problem hard enough for computers that humans can already do, where there's no obvious search or brute force strategy, we'll be forced to make something like a generalized human, and then have it solve the problem.

Of course, the issue is that the way we actually solve these problems is by coming up with a clever search or brute force strategy (chess, self-driving, poker), and yet we're no really closer to a generalized AI. Part of this is philosophical -- we can't define things like consciousness or intelligence in concrete terms, and so we have no real goals to work towards. We keep hoping that stumbling around in one of these other areas will lead us in the right direction, but so far, it just hasn't. The goalposts aren't moving, we simply haven't found where they are.

In my opinion, we won't ever have generalized AI. Or at least, we might not ever agree that we have it. If 3,000 years of philosophers bickering hasn't given us any true insights yet, it's probably not going to suddenly show up now. But for now, weeeeee!!! Enjoy the funding before the next AI winter kicks in! Look at all the cool new progress happening! But to paraphrase someone who's name I forgot, "If your goal is to drive from San Francisco to the Moon, making it to Boston sure looks like you've made a lot of progress."
Japan's public pension plan is not particularly generous, although it is pay-as-you-go, so less working people = a higher percentage of retirees, true.
You can't attribute all excess deaths to the virus itself. Covid responses increased poverty around the world and contributed to food shortages which itself caused deaths as well.

This is merely whitewashing the fact that Covid isn't dangerous for most people meanwhile tons of countries had extremely heavy-handed responses.

For example: https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2020/10/07/c...

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/26/business/global-poverty-covid...

https://www.cepal.org/en/pressreleases/extreme-poverty-regio...

https://reliefweb.int/report/world/first-crisis-then-catastr...
Movarec's Paradox (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox) states that things that we consider simple, like walking, is hard for AI whereas things we consider complex, like playing chess, is easy.
Good thing the United States has a constitutional amendment that totally protects us from having our location data harvested sold and deanonymized by thousands of data brokers!
Yeah, I've started buying some drugs and had to deal with actual "junkies"... and it's been rather eye opening. I can see why they just blanket ban stuff.

It seems many, if not most, people, just can't control themselves. Ironic, since I've got major self-control issues myself. But seeing someone use stimulants for relaxation, take a week's worth of it in 3 hours, then beg for more, that's insane.

And a few kept trying to give me advice on how to "properly" use them. It couldn't fit in their heads that I am not in it for the high (which is shit imo). I guess it affects "normal" people differently.

It is hard for those who can benefit from all the great medicine out there. I wish I could get a licence to use anything at my own responsibility, I don't use official healthcare anyway (I'm glad I can get treated if I break an arm or get into a car accident, but beyond that... useless). Why am I risking prison time for trying to fix myself and make my life better?
TLDR; It's a wishlist, not the current tech stack

Title is misleading
remind me of my old old abandoned side project where i tried to create a diablo clone in browser with scala.js

does not work in most browsers, think in safari it works :D

http://diablo-forever.com/
It's almost twenty years that I use Linux daily and the only thing I ever changed in .bashrc is the history size. What kind of customizations are we talking about? maybe I'm missing out using stock bash configuration and I should start customizing it to my liking it (serious, no sarcasm)
Are humans simple, or is your mental model of them simple?

Trying to reduce human character and motivations to something simple is essentially what modern microeconomic theory tried to do and it ends up having to hand-wave away so much real life behaviour that it started to call itself "prescriptive rather than descriptive".
I still really miss my dell mini laptop. It fit my small hands well and was easily lighter than a book.

I used to throw it into one of those mini fashion backpacks and bike to the park to write a bit of code on nice days.

Not much fear of breaking it because it was so cheap. Had external batteries too which I sometimes brought an extra of to swap out (which actually sounds crazy compared to how most laptops are now a days)
I started my IT career by accident on a mainframe system: JCL, COBOL, CICS, DB2.

When I made the switch to working on a JAVA application running on Linux I had a hard time accepting how easy a lot of stuff was.
I often pay with credit cards at food trucks and restaurants that accept either cash or credit cards. But if they don't take cash, then I won't give them either. If they refuse cash, I refuse to do business with them at all. Refusing to accept cash is antisocial behavior and I will not reward it.
> Late capitalism is certainly bad enough, with its explosive cocktail of climate change, inequality, police brutality and the deadly pandemic.

Climate change: The Soviet Union was a horrible polluter, and this was well-documented.[0] When adjusted for GDP, the USSR emitted 1.5x the pollution of the US. It was worse when adjusted per capita. The CCP has also been a horrible polluter, though has made some improvements after adopting market-oriented reforms. Capitalist liberal governments have balked at treating CO2 like a pollutant, but their economies have also done far more to advance technology like electric vehicles or alternative energy than their socialist counterparts.

Inequality: Yep, this one seems like a consequence of capitalism. Though left-wing governments that adopt market reforms see inequality as well. Inequality seems likely correlated with discretionary bureaucracy (particularly "clientelism"), a hallmark of socialist and progressive governance.[1]

Police brutality: Police brutality hasn't increased since 2015.[2] Even police violence (including incidents where officers were clearly justified in using force) is flat.

Deadly pandemic: Pandemics have been deadly throughout the history of civilization, long before the last couple hundred years of capitalism. Capitalism produced the vaccine in record time; many of the excess deaths were associated with central planning.[3] Scientific experts, the would-be rulers under progressivism, had an abysmal record at predictions & decision-making during the pandemic.[4]

None of these is a slam dunk the author thinks it is.

[0]https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/095937...

[1]https://www.edgs.northwestern.edu/documents/working-papers/h...

[2]https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/polic...

[3]https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56091682

[4]https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/03/18/pandemic-social-science...
We can keep infinite growth by being continuously clever and developing better technologies, methadologies, and sciences. This is what Japan did and is why their GDP keeps pace with other societies.
Does the government hire cyber criminals?
the road to hell is paved with good intentions let not forget SG is a sort of single party system with no real freedom of press.
I’m using a higher-end Panasonic I bought over ten years ago, which is a foil type rather than the three head. Works great. Still have to replace blades every so often - far less often than a safety razor - and the foil periodically/rarely. Electrics are never as close as blades (despite marketing) but far easier, far quicker, and amortized out over many years, pretty cheap. Cheap electrics suck, so prioritize best shave quality within the electric razor type (foil vs three disc) that’s most compatible with your face and get the functionally best example you can afford, ignoring add-on gadgets like cleaning stations etc.
almost all western countries appear to be flattening or decreasing in population. Even the curves in India and China are flattening out
It is hypocrisy because these trips are official ones, so they are essentially paid by us (the citizens). And these are the bureaucrats telling us to use clean vehicles.

It is not hypocrisy in the sense you state, certainly. It is the governmental one (do as I force you, not as I do with your money).
> When economic growth falls to zero the economy becomes zero-sum.

This is a bit of a fallacy since productivity and efficiency are just as important in a steady-state economy as a growing one, and perhaps more so. The inefficiency of large politically-enforced monopolies would merely turn zero into negative growth.
What about the 10x worse carbon footprint per passenger mile? At 2 flights per month it's a drop in the bucket so who cares. But replacing the trains with flights would be extremely wasteful.
Funny timing — I just spent 4 hours this morning comparing Xdebug, Blackfire, and New Relic.

After feeling like my SaaS application is starting to hit some scaling bottlenecks, I had a play with all 3 services to try and get some performance insights for a real-world application.

A brief summary:

1. Xdebug: Slow. Fiddly to set up. Fine for a development environment when you need to dig into low-level profiling, but not suitable for production, where bottlenecks can be quite different.

Developer-friendly tools like Clockwork[0] are, practically speaking, far more insightful for identifying most bottlenecks in dev environments.

2. Blackfire: Terrible UX. Difficult setup process. Their free plan is almost impossible to evaluate as it only shows you glorified stack traces, most of which are littered with vendor and framework files. Their live demo of the complete package is poor too. I didn’t want to commit to paying a full year of their standard plan (no monthly payment option, unless you go for the highest tiers), so I happily uninstalled and moved on.

3. New Relic: wow… one command and a server reboot later, and I’m seeing performance profiling, consolidated dashboards, error logging, FPM and CLI throughput and traces, MariaDB and Redis queries, frontend performance, and server metrics - with REAL data, on production! I’m very, very impressed. And it’s free for a single user…?!

[0] Clockwork: https://underground.works/clockwork/
I used to shave once a week. I bought a safety razor ($20) and 100 razors ($20) in 2015 and only ran out about a month ago. I ordered 200 more razors ($40) and decided to start shaving every day. I find a razor is comfortable enough for about a week, so I expect to get about 3+ years out of them. I have a pretty heavy beard with thick black hairs, I'm not sure if that has an actual effect on how quickly a razor degrades but, if it does, I expect it could last that long for most. I use hand soap as "shaving cream", which I buy to wash my hands anyway. I prefer the auto-foaming kind but liquid and bar soaps work just as well.
There is nothing inherent about wealth that grants the owner power over many other people. The owner, if very skilled in combat, might be able to physically defend their wealth against three? Five? Eight? Other people. Beyond that they have no chance.

In any system where wealth converts to power, it does because the majority of people implicitly agree with playing the game that way.

In a practical egalitarian society, if the person with all the furs decided one day to not share, then the people would stop sharing their food, tools, building skills, childcare, medicinal treatments, fire, feasts, etc. with this person. They wouldn't have any choice but to rejoin society or try to go truly independent.
The stars at night are big and bright clapclapclap deep in the heart of Texas. Sounds familiar.
Oh that's definitely true, even moreso for shitting on the company itself. Well I haven't encountered many MS employees, so I'm mostly basing it on the two who have been replying here. Extremely unscientific and probably wrong, but I couldn't help but dogpile.
Rapid Adaptation of Deep Learning Teaches Drones to Survive Any Weather
For tech specific: refined.blog is a good resource. Not necessarily sure it counts as a search engine, but definitely a good aggregation of tech blogs.
Ib4 some masochist makes a streaming platform that uses twitter as a backend.
Then the young will become the childless elderly majority in a few decades benefiting from policies that they enact.
Same for me; I've used Philips/Norelco rotary shavers for almost[1] all of my 45+ shaving years. As the battery technology has gotten better (NiCd: awful!; NiMh: decent; Li-Ion: wow!), the shavers last longer and longer; I bought a dup of my current shaver on sale for $20 as a backup maybe 5 years ago, but it's still unopened.

So the idea that "shaving is getting expensive" strikes me as silly; I'm sure you could spend thousands if you wanted to, but that's a choice.

[1] I tried a Braun "wet or dry" shaver, but one drop in the shower was the end of that "upscale purchase".
Tokyo regularly tops Monocle's most livable city list among other lists of best cities in the world.
Five frontier challenges to deep decarbonization
swing states, Pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, nevada, arizona, are some. Florida used to be one but they've gone full on red (boomer population % has increased drastically over the past 20 years). I hope there is a schism in the republican party soon over Roe and other privacy rights that are under attack by the Magas.