skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aldous Huxley’s perspective was that competition is driven by the desire to dominate. We can play games - like wrestling or war - that cause us to dominate other people. Or, we can play games - like rock climbing - that cause us to dominate ourselves.
My argument against minimally effective action is that it can make people feel like they did something significant, and therefore discourage further change. Those plastic straws effective function in our society isn't that it removes plastic waste, it just absolves us of responsibility by letting us say we tried
They're 90? I wonder if it couldn't be replaced by a weekly phone call.
It's a bad argument, it's a tu quoque logical fallacy.

You can be a serial killer and admit that murdering innocents is immoral.

The identity and the actions of the person making the argument have no bearing on the validity of the argument itself, it should be judged purely on its own merits.

Is that statement that "murdering innocents is immoral" actually correct or not, regardless of who makes the statement?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
The words: Scarcity breeds clarity
Maybe one video (Hulu or Netflix) is understandable. Maybe one Spotify if the person likes to listen to music without interruptions or non-youtube form on the go.

Anything else in this article is hard to believe/understand for most of us.
It is 3X, and when it's per can that does add up to a significant amount. That would add $1.20 to a 12-pack case, which usually cost just $6 here (admittedly a state that doesn't do deposits).
Kids do it for the same reason politicians do it - there is an entire social hierarchy and jockeying for the position of the top dog that lets you boss around others. All psycologically healthy people can easilly tell that apart from 'real' conflict, as most kids do not try to open each-other's skull with a rock.
I assume something like this https://i.imgur.com/wiNgg41_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&...
The last sit-stand desk I had at work used LIN to talk between the interface and the motor. We built a little injection board to program this in for us. If you don't mind hacking the interface, it would be easier to solder something directly onto the microswitches and control that from an Arduino or whatever.
$1,500 invested yearly, at 7% interest, generates ~60k in 20 years. So even at your inflated income estimates, this is definitely worth thinking about.
Why obfuscating JS when there is WASM?
> trying to build wealth

The reasoning behind many people claiming that ~$1500/year for software subscription services being "too much" is, in my opinion, not based on the intention to save money.

Rather, it seems to be the realization that these subscriptions cost way more than the perceived value of the benefits they bring.

In other words, spending $1500 a year for e.g. a health insurance might be reasonable. But spending the same $1500 for a year-long subscription of toilet paper might not be.
Isn't the proposal not to move your desk but to just get up and walk around? They specifically say simply standing isn't sufficient and the ergonomics of the standing desk isn't good anyways.
> I really do not suggest storing passwords and sharing them with family members in a spreadsheet.

Why not? Password-encrypt the spreadsheet if you want. The browser can do the "last mile" of autofill.

Realistically, a family's going to be just as safe with an encrypted spreadsheet on OneDrive or a home file share as they would entrusting their passwords to a centralized service that's highly visible to attackers.

Alternatively, just write them in a notebook. A family isn't webscale.
Just a bunch of fun math. Maxwell's equations can be derived from damn near anything, which is cool.
I prefer sitting on the floor, it keeps me repositioning regularly.

Except my current laptop, an X230, has the power coming out the rear. It physically presses the plug against with the floor when I have it tilted back partially resting on my shins/ankles while sitting cross-legged. The X61s was way better in this regard with its side mounted power jack. I should probably just upgrade to an AMD X13 already.
I don't know about other countries but in Poland we have subscription based phones for ages from mobile operators. You get the phone for 1PLN but you pay for it with the bill for 1-2 years, when you get another phone with new agreement. I don't know about you but I call that subscription for device.
How good do you need to grind to justify $675 to crush your beans?
They already get to though, so...
That is definitely not good wrist posture, FYI. You want your wrist to be straight when typing.
Is the Age of Fusion Upon Us?
"Import replacement" is the proper term in economics. It comes from Jane Jacobs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Import_replacement
A vaccine is a public health measure aimed at reducing disease spread through the population.

If you want kids to go to preschools, and not be little disease vectors transmitting infection between households, you should be looking for ways to avoid them acquiring the infection even if the disease has no ill effects on them personally.

Having their parents or grandparents hospitalized are also negative outcomes for a child.
Well, the article linked to implies that the reason for the flat aspect of the artwork was that they were more interested in strongly conveying themes and concepts than they were reproducing what the eye sees. The article compares it to a modern comic strip. Whether they "couldn't" draw perspective, or were just uninterested, I don't know. I believe it was the Greeks in the 6th(?) century BC who were the first to use linear perspective in their art.
Now I want to hear charts. Market crashes would be fun.
How is that cost effective? To me, it seems like something is wrong with our economy if it's cost effective to waste so many resources. I'm sure the cost to an individual to extract and refine those resources are low-- but the cost to society as a whole of littering those resources is great
Start typing a Web address, hit tab and search that website.

In Chrome it works reliably for me; in Firefox it works for a small subset of the sites that work in Chrome.
I read it as him pointing out that taking notes only helped him while the information was immediately useful and at this point he's forgotten it as thoroughly as if he hadn't taken notes at all.
Hitler was a nationalist, the Communists were internationalists. Communists wanted to improve the lot of people, Hitler wanted to improve the lot of the German people. A random German could become a Communist, but a random Communist would never spontaneously turn into a German.

So the same reason why all kings hate universal philosophies/religions. They bypass border defenses.
Am I doing something wrong? Every time I try to move something into a group, it just gets deselected and I have to select them again and then sometimes it works to move into a group.
> Absolutely not. Sports is competition through violence, as well. Watch a game of American football, or ice hockey

And golf, the worst one of them all!

Also horse riding, Javalin throwing, etc. Mixed bag
Around 2012 my 6GB Ram laptop was struggling with Chrome, I switched to FF and got much better experience there. Then with FF Quantum release I adopted it definitely.
Neural Network Loss Landscapes: What do we know? (2021)
To be precise, applets were an early application of Java. But Sun Microsystems actually developed it in the long-standing dream of the “universal binary.”

The project began in 1991 targeting set-top boxes. [source](https://web.archive.org/web/20100210225651/http://www.java.c...)

WASM is another iteration of the same noble idea done with different technologies at a different moment.

Java and the JVM have been incredibly successful. WASM has the potential to bring the dream of a universal binary even farther.
privileged solution. In many countries Facebook is the de facto communication infrastructure. They own four of the five largest communication platforms in the world.

The ideal solution is to hit them with the hammer until morale improves. Regulators need to wake up and just start fining them absurd amounts of money and keep it vague until Facebook et al. are scared enough to comply and then some.
Keep in mind that salary is top line gross, before federal/state taxes, retirement savings, healthcare deductions, etc. Then, you take out housing, food, transportation, and other more necessary expenses. Frequently, by the time you do all this, you'll find that small recurring discretionary expenses can make a surprising difference in the amount you have left. $1500 is a large percentage of many people's free cash flow.

If you're in a high tax bracket, it's a bit sobering to realize that a $5k/mo apartment in a high tax state represents ~$120k of pretax income.
People work hard to develop and maintain all of those applications, and other people find more utility in them compared to the free alternatives. What's the problem?
That $5 number is suspicious to me, or perhaps just geographically skewed. In early 90s, I went to the store and bought cigarettes for my mom almost daily and I remember it being about $2.
Browser password managers are probably fine for most users, but 1password is really good for specific use cases 1password works across multiple OSes, works in other browsers, allows saving much more than just passwords (ssh key management, API credentials). The ability to securely share passwords with time limited links is a big draw for me to use the subscription model. 1p cli is also seriously useful.

Also for those who are not aware, if your company uses 1p business, you get one FREE personal family account for every business user.
I guess that settles it - the Pomodoro is the correct work pattern. It's the only one that works in these breaks every half hour.
It already exists.

https://www.apple.com/shop/iphone/iphone-upgrade-program
Google also has a program for their brands
https://support.google.com/store/answer/3036017?hl=en
You might be happy to hear that the author of the article founded a company (Terraform Industries) that is working on making carbon sequestration and synthetic fuels economically viable.
My wife asked me if I would try and quit when she was pregnant. 12 years later, I’m so glad I did. For myself, for being an example for my kids…

My friends who still smoke cigarettes are now seeing the start of some of the typical health complications.
> The out of region TV is a use case but I wonder how long before this turns into a cat/mouse game between VPN providers and streaming services/content providers.

This cat and mouse game has been going on for a while. I actually subscribed to Expressvpn for my kid, who likes to watch tv in the languages he grew up with: he says their customer support is really good for this use case. (This reminds me he’s now old enough to pay for this himself).
An armed citizen and a citizen working for the betterment of society are not mutually exclusive.
I selected username www and it told me I would find my blog at https://www.prose.sh. Yet, I went to that URL, and found some other random persons content. Please remove that other persons content so I can display mine.
Science and Civil Liberties by Carl Sagan (1987)
I have no idea, that's why I asked the question. From what I can see on their site, the price is offered up front. I suspect that because this is worldwide, there will be downward pressure on price since lots of talented devs live outside the US, and don't have the same level of expectations salary-wise. So I'd imagine this would be most useful for non-US residents and more junior devs, but I'm definitely signing up just to check it out.
Why obfuscate, when you can just follow modern trends and use webpack (or similar) which gives you completely unreadable shit.
I paid three month for grammaly when I was writing my MS thesis. It was useful for the extensive usage. But I canceled afterwards because it is not worth keeping.
True, Orwell has a worldview (though it evolves over time) and it connects his thoughts if you pick up a collection of his essays and study them systematically. But one does not need to agree with everything to find agreement with some particular elements and thoughts.
Among others, but the thing I’d guess the parent was referring to is a specific kind of culture warrior who loses their absolute shit when anybody uses the term “people” in relation to any topic that primarily involves women; some trans men may menstruate or have done so in the past, for example, so there is a tendency in the field to avoid gendered terms unless it’s necessary.
Where do you live that you can pay $1,500 per month mortgage? I am assuming out of the states?
I have 10 to 15 family members in their 80s and 90s who use FB. A group has been set up for them, and they post photos and comments, and they chat with each other using Messenger. These are people who don't know of and honestly don't care about the difference between the internet and the web, and to them, "The Internet" simply is Facebook.

Using the tech is already hard for them. Some are partially sighted, some have mobility issues, some have arthritis, all can easily use FB to stay in touch.

And they don't use anything else.

It's just not an option to try to get them to change, it really isn't. Please, please do me the courtesy of accepting that I've done the analysis. Many times. It's simply not a reasonable objective.

And no, I won't squat on someone else's FB account so I can stay in touch.
If someone gets banned from google, they probably deserve it even though I have no idea why it happened.
Looking at the exchange rate, I’m paying ~£65/month for 1Gbps unlimited fiber in Canada, which is not exactly known for its cheap internet.

£20 a month for only 65Mbps seems not great to be honest.
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Do you get neck issues, though? Looking down at a laptop isn't a great position for your head. I usually use a laptop stand to keep my eye level with the screen.

Also, having a laptop spend hours directly on your lap may not be good for your reproductive organs. Not sure on this one, though.
Their main argument against sit-stand desks is that people don't actually stand much: "In our field studies of sit-stand workstations we have found little evidence of dramatic widespread benefits and users only stand for very short-periods (15 minutes or less total per day). Other studies have found that the use of sit-stand stations rapidly declines so that after 1 month a majority of people are sitting all the time, so compliance can be problematic."

While that's a consideration if the question is "should we install these desks everywhere", if you already use a sit-stand desk and know you spend substantial time in both positions (as I do) that's not a reason to switch to full-time sitting.
The dangerous chemicals lurking inside shipping containers
The GIMP's most brutal competition isn't Photoshop, but pirated Photoshop.
Do elementary school kids even understand what perspective is?
It's because everything can be seen at once. The feeling of "that's it?" when you realise the underlying simplicity. Most people think compilers must be incomprehensibly complex. Yet the truth is far from that.
See my reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32131180
> the style seems more targeted towards someone with a bunch of time reading through it slowly rather than gulping it down quickly like for most undergraduate courses.

Yep. That's intentional.

If you try to gulp this subject down quickly, you're much more likely to choke.
Strong or weak, in the long run all of them break down. All, that is to say, of those who are initially sane. For, ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity
It provides a security model that actually works. WASM code can't access the outside world, except for channels you explicitly provide to it.

Everything before it eventually let you have full access to the host file system, if you asked nicely, were given permission, or leveraged a bug in the system.
Why is this the case? I would have thought the opposite.
It does define the term later, and includes a breakdown.

'e.g., those on menstrual suppression therapies or postmenopausal people'

'This sample included 35,572 (90.9%) woman-only identifying and 3557 (9.1%) gender-diverse respondents'
I'm imagining Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C# Minor.
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Concrete: Homomorphic encryption library for non-cryptographers
I would argue that any language that you use for enterprise-y program will always result in similar code bases.
These always a lot of standards to satisfy and eventually this results in people coming up with leaky abstractions for incorporating those policies. All business logic cannot be nicely boxed into clean code as much as we would like to.
This is not quite the subscription based model I envisioned, but it is a big step in that direction. For example, you still need to make payments on the existing phone for 12 months before becoming eligible for a new device.
The counter argument to this is that developers requiring more and more tooling surrounding what is arguably just a text file with some code in it can cause friction, yak shaving, and cognitive load over time.

Listen, there's nothing wrong with IDEs, linters, formatters, test frameworks, advanced dependency management across multiple projects & repos, yada yada yada. But there's also something to be said for being able to open up a blank file in a blank folder, writing some lines of code, and running a command to execute said code. That's it. That's the stack.

Programmers are constantly tempted throughout the ages to overcomplicate and overburden language ecosystems and stacks such that a newbie coming in has to learn an inordinate amount of knowledge about everything surrounding the language before they can even learn the language itself.

I guess what I'm trying to say is I'll always push back against this idea of "progress" == more complexity. Tools, frameworks, languages, and ecosystem evolve over time. Best practices change and adapt. That's to be expected. Is it progress though? Is it actually better?

I remain entirely skeptical.
Your approaching it from the wrong angle. You need to narrow it down that a better qualified candidate was passed on for being white. The resume/recruiter stage would be the easiest as you have comparable data. But if it’s at the final stage and both candidates are equally qualified, a cultural fit, and can be taken either or, then it wouldn’t matter since it would be up to the hiring managers preference either way.
I am surprised no one has mentioned Paul Bloom's "Sweet Spot". He looks at the psychology behind chosen pain / suffering / struggle (e.g. running a marathon )
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/56922622-the-sweet-sp...
Not entirely the same, but since the pandemic and WFH, I've started doing a lot of my 1:1s while walking, voice only. I'd be really interested to know if anyone else has started doing this?

Typically, both people walk, using good Bluetooth headphones.

I was finding the combination of staring at the screen while coding, and then also during meetings, to be very straining.

Something about having to focus intently on the screen during a 1:1 was particularly tiring.
Maybe because it's socially rude to look away while the other person is talking, so you end up really staring at the screen?

Now, instead, during a walking meeting, I exercise and get to look into the distance.

The most surprising thing for me was the ability to have technical conversations like this. I expected we'd really suffer without a whiteboard. Sometimes this is true, but I find we can have a lot of very technical conversations with voice only, and actually it's often easier than with video chat - because with voice only, I can focus more on the technical issues being discussed.

Finally, there are some days where I have a couple of hours walking meetings scattered throughout the day, and this is a lot of extra movement, which has to be good.

I wish there were more employers experimenting with different communication modalities like this; I feel the pandemic for all it's costs, has shown there are some great opportunities for other ways of working which have been underexplored.
If that’s a Jobs reference, I don’t think so. He talked about hiring smart people so they could tell him what to do, owned his mistakes, changed course when things didn’t work as expected. He said making mistakes was good as long as you learned something. Yes he could be an arse, but he was no Donald Trump.
WFH is wonderful because you can go from sitting in lotus to standing with a gentle sway to lying down to barefoot yoga all without raising any eyebrows. Eg. I love lying on my belly with a pillow propping up my chest and my laptop in front of me. No way to reasonably do that at 99% of offices.
RoboCop is the greatest stunt anyone pulled on Hollywood.

It was supposed to be a movie about someone "part man, part machine, all cop" but it was in fact one of the most anti capitalistic movie Hollywood ever produced.

Verhoeven is a true genius.
Firefox is not doing this by default I'm pretty sure
Thanks for the kind feedback. I'm glad I could help!
You don't have to get on a soapbox and pontificate about the evil of Facebook. Just say "sorry, I'm not on Facebook."
These stupid things and fairly large Nox canisters (650g) are utterly befouling my locality here in London.

I despair. I really do.
While I do love the quote line-by-line format, you are splitting up sentences and completely changing my post, which is, at least, in bad faith.

> singular ... er, no?

Mass shooting and terrorism _rate_. Are you familiar with the concept of a rate?

Also, 'mass shooting' is very much not singular, unless you have an exceptionally short memory.

> So not growing, then.

You are, again, changing what I wrote. Here, let me fix that for you:

> Along with steady suicide rates despite massively increasing spending on it.
May be a NY thing. I bought Marlboros in Sunnyvale in 2016 and paid $5-6 USD per pack.
When it was released on PC I felt mods were essential. Largely because man that PC release version was a mess.

Now the Switch version is very bit of DLC or add on they've added and I can't think of anything I would want.
See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32131180
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v7 is created by AlexeyAB and WonKinYiu the authors of YOLOv4. Who took over YOLOv3 from the original author Joseph Redmon, after Redmon quit the CV industry due to ethical concerns.
Is there actually someone who builds the official source as is?

Arch: https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/tree/packages...

Alpine: https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/tree/community/rust?h=mas...

FreeBSD: https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/tree/lang/rust/files
Facebook is facebook.com, that's what the article is about. I don't know what other communication platforms aside from WhatsApp you're referring to, but they aren't relevant to the discussion.

If you think it's necessary to caveat that if you rely on facebook.com as your "communication infrastructure" (not that many countries would fit that bill) then you shouldn't delete it, I'm happy to do so.
there is no answer without the company, the legal obligations in your country and city, the existing team and their expectations, your leadership and their expectations, and your trade-offs between best performers, pay scale, availability, risk, internal culture and timeline, at least.

The whole collection there results in "a priori" conditions, legal Latin .. meaning "what has come before"
The ultimate state is Wolfram walking around in the woods with a laptop harness:
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/02/seeking-the-prod...
Wait are those things disposable? Vape sticks or whatever they're called? WTF!

I can't believe this is tolerated, that is a massive amount of environmental damage for an incredibly stupid distraction that lasts for a day or so.

Damn!