skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Many of the explicitly-labeled steelman arguments I’ve read lately are actually just strawman arguments, but the author tries to preempt criticism by labeling it a steelman and pretending it is the most robust counter argument that could exist.

Just means that they have limited imagination, no?

I'd hesitate to label anything as steelmanning even if I believed that was what I was doing.

Somebody else coming up with a slightly better argument than my labeled steelman would undermine my entire point.

That said, successfully presenting an opponents steelman argument as well or better than they would and then countering it is very effective.
My sense was that this interpretation of work on the “behavioral sink” is quite off. I think most reasonable biologists and ecologists would agree that density-dependent stress tends to cause the pathologies of the type that are described in Calhoun’s work.

The fact that there are occasional sparse zones in the pen is relevant insofar as it usually implied strong individuals excluding access to those parts of the pen; it’s not a very strong argument against crowding as a chief mechanism for the sink.

That said, there is probably something interesting going on right now with regard to density and abnormal behavior - I’m just not sure that falling birth rates will exacerbate that.
Your dislike for the source doesn't mean the information is inaccurate.
A counter example is a proof unto it’s self there is no need to derive it again, just verify the counter example is correct.

Many modern papers are of this form. If you have some specific data as recent enough to be valid I could provide one but I am not going to just pick a paper from 1990 and you say nope not recent enough.
I took that as more a way to reach those readers who already think this way. Kind of "If you are trying to reach someone who is under the influence of ideas you think are bad, try empathizing with the values that led them to these ideas."
I like "Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell", its good information, easily understandable because its targeted to general population including kids. Perfect watch for tired brain after intense working session.

https://www.youtube.com/c/inanutshell
Becoming physically active and pursuing a healthy lifestyle actually increased my output.
I love the idea of this but you read so many stories about the owners of open sourced projects not making a penny, whilst millions use their work and benefit financially.

It’s difficult to do this when there’s belly’s to fill.
You seem to have an answer in mind, perhaps instead of attacking everyone who has different goals to you, you explain what you what your end goal is.
Nations Aim to Secure Supply Chains by Turning Offshoring into ‘Friend-Shoring’
I'm a musician with a day job, as are most of the people I play with. The thing that's hard is coming up with the motivation and discipline to put a high intensity of effort into music, or any sideline, when a job is occupying the better part of your waking hours.

And not everybody gets a big bucks job -- many entry level and lower skilled jobs are not far removed from sweatshop labor, and involve work schedules that preclude being able to perform.

Notable in Gioia's History of Jazz is that quite a few musicians were mentioned as having day jobs. But while they got good enough to be recognized for their proficiency, the move that got them into the history book always involved quitting that job.

In my own case, I've never been recorded, except a few demo's that I've done as a favor for friends. I've turned down offers to tour with bands that already had decent album sales. My day job affords me those luxuries. But I also haven't developed any musical ideas that would be missed.
The Future of Generative Adversarial Networks in Deepfakes
Not Just Bikes. The Dutch solved a lot of urban problems that most other countries still haven. This is a guy from Canada living in Holland, talking about urbanism, mobility and all the rest.
I would never stop programming. It is a joy for me to do little utilities that makes my life easier. Even with billions of dollars in bank account I would still hack away at an ESP32 to stick it in a flying helicopter toy for example. And lucky for me this field is highly dynamic, I would never get bored learning new technologies. For me programming is like a kid with his shiny toys, every day another one. And I am pretty sure plenty of programmers feel the same way.
I wholly disagree as a person who worked in C#/.NET for over 15 years and recently waded into Node/JS/TS dev. C# and .NET are hands down the easiest platform to start on.
I'd also add:

https://www.youtube.com/c/CarlBugeja - Carl Bujega - Does cool things with circuits, including making robots out of flexible PCBs.
My career seems to be doing better because I'm crowding 50. I was expecting worse.
> I'd rather have something useful burning the planet...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
Here's some Portland OR, and Texas stores:

- https://www.powells.com/

- https://www.bookpeople.com/

- hpb.com (half price books)

At least in store, HPB sells at the half the cover price (modulo collectibility). This makes getting into 60s/70s scifi schlock especially cheap.
The human brain does what it does with roughly 20 watts, if we take the popular figure of the brain taking 1/5th the power of your whole body and the average human body burning 100 watts.

How much neural net can you run on silicon with 20 watts?
Backup programs (at least as early as the 90's) would get around this by creating index or catalog files for the backup tape, and keeping those locally. You could re-generate the catalog file by re-indexing the backup tape, but of course that took a considerable amount of time. If you were restoring to a new system and no longer had the catalog files, for example.

Another benefit was that you could quickly browse the contents of your backups without having to read or even insert the tape.
Make a lot of money, then maybe create a business.

If everything goes well I will be rich, and maybe one day go back to my home country to do politics, do business as well there, building the country.

The end goal, hmm, if possible, maybe I want to be the president.
Sunlight or a sunny day are incredibly bright, so you need a fair bit of power, even with LEDs, to get close to those brightness levels beyond some small area.
I second this suggestion since I heavily annotate my books. The free version has ads but can be blocked via custom DNS. I've written a bit about how I annotate here: https://randombutinteresting.me/2022/03/11/annotating-in-moo...
I hate that I had to double check when you said "GNS uses crypto" and realised you meant crypto as in cryptography, not the other meaning commonly associated with blockchain coins.
Why does making the world a better place make you think of Elon? I think of something much smaller scale. Helping my community, elders, people around me. Something at a much smaller scale where I get 1-1 human interaction out of it.

My passion is in fitness. I want to be active in my 60-80s (weight lifting / marathon running shape). I ultimately want to help others do the same and lead a better quality of life through their old age.
Eh, Frontier's still fairly 'major' and based on OANN's "where to watch" by-state listing[1] Frontier still carriers OANN on a bunch of systems nationwide. So there's still one big name out there in between all the small rural co-op IPTV systems that are still carrying it.

[1] https://www.oann.com/wheretowatch/
I was using these numbers that combined architects and engineers: https://www.businessinsider.com/the-jobs-with-the-highest-ra...
Technically just 2 libs are enough to produce the issue...
I want to be able to wake up every day and spend most of it making music and some of it working on personal software projects. How to get there I do not know.
Maybe in San Fransisco, US it's basic workplace training, but outside of very technology focused cities, people definitely don't know how easy it is to be compromised by a USB is.

Most computers in various places like hospitals, veterinarians, shops, gyms and more all have exposed USB ports where it'd be trivial to plug something in when the clerk/assistant is looking the other way, just as another example.
> gas taxes don’t come close to covering costs

You sure about that because when I did some quick math on US road spending I found it would require about a $2.50 tax per gallon to fully fund our yearly road construction costs with taxes [0] and Luxembourg charges $2.23 per gallon [1] which is just 10% shy.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29190632

[1]: https://taxfoundation.org/gas-taxes-in-europe/
It's not snarky. How many times do I have to say that it's standard practice on HN to put the year in the title of article submissions? There are literally 4 examples of this just on the HN front page right now, 2 of them from 2021:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32222683
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32219776
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32213825
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32202751

More examples on page 2:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32213468
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32217511
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32210438

Typically when someone notes the article year in a comment — which happens all the time — the year is added to the title of the submission, either by the submitter or a HN moderator (who are the only ones with the ability to edit the title), without complaint. These complaints here are really out of line.
$5.50 for a cup of coffee with a splash of cream and they can’t provide a restroom?
You can pretty easily empirically test this and conclude that your impression is not true, at least for GNU grep. :-)

$ time grep 'ZQZQZQZQZQ' OpenSubtitles2018.raw.en | wc -l
0

real 1.089
user 0.230
sys 0.858
maxmem 5 MB
faults 0

$ time grep -E 'ZQZQZQZQZQ' OpenSubtitles2018.raw.en | wc -l
0

real 1.094
user 0.210
sys 0.883
maxmem 5 MB
faults 0

$ time grep -F 'ZQZQZQZQZQ' OpenSubtitles2018.raw.en | wc -l
0

real 1.096
user 0.223
sys 0.872
maxmem 5 MB
faults 0
Genuinly curious - can locomotive run on batteries (which it drags behind it, in a form of a train car) for the tracks which are not electrified? Or is the cost (or sth. else) prohibitive?
The 5 or 10 years experience they might have is pretty thin unless they have had extremely good mentoring. It takes more than a senior project and a few years as a junior dev to be worth much. I consider junior devs incubation projects. Some of them turn out nicely.
Surprisingly green for so much concrete.
I like learning stuff and solving problems. And getting paid for it.

I honestly don’t know why I’d ever stop. I just try working with people I like or people who have good intentions.

Then again, I also really enjoy writing and teaching.
I doubt any maintainer of a sufficiently popular open source project isn't making a lot of money in tech. Open source can open a lot of doors for employment opportunities and greatly increases your marketability to demand higher wages.

Of course, don't do open source if you don't enjoy it - because I doubt the time spent is optimal for getting the most money, but if you do enjoy it then it can very much help increase your income indirectly.
If you have some kind of simple "big bucks" income like engineering, that basically removes the need to do unsavory things in order to make music.

Well, yeah, sure...but it shouldn't be that way. Labels have been the gatekeepers for well over half a century and have barely budged in terms of their dominance. It's largely like every other entrenched industry in the country: they're literally too big to fail. Any "innovation" is either sued out of existence or bought out.
Romanian

https://historia.ro/ - covering mostly historical events from past until now

Maybe others can add comments and replies by country/language, I will love to find more
my end goal related to programming is to never stop loving it(over long period of time).

It’s a thing that I like to do or come back to. If somehow I jeopardize that, my life will have a hole in it because I would lose one of the things I really like.
and you'll be in a nitch market as NO ONE uses F#
> I don't know what to tell you if you believe Thunderf00t's "debunking" is more valuable than your own viewing of any given channel.

I wasn't very inclined to view Matt Ferrel's videos much in the first place. I was too leery of the way they were presented to consider it worth my time to investigate further. I was wondering if I was missing out, but never decided to really try to find out first-hand as it just wasn't worth it to me.

It was at that point that I saw Thunderf00t's video, and I decided to see what his take was. As you note, I'm a bit wary of Thunderf00t as well. I don't watch his videos often and when I do I ensure to remain a little more actively critical. Based on what I saw there, I didn't feel inclined to further wonder if I was missing anything by avoiding Ferel's videos.

I'm sure that video, and the follow up, were probably some of the weakest from Ferel. However, it was less the actual content and rather the approach that didn't fit what I'd want to watch. Uncritical readings of pie-in-the-sky press releases isn't my thing, and the follow-up in particular made it clear that that was not where Ferel thought the problem was.

> Regarding Veritasium, that is an even weaker argument IMO. If we're going to try to pillory everyone trying to make a living off communicating STEM topics I'm not sure who we'll have left in the space.

Making a living is one thing. But that isn't my problem. I wouldn't recommend avoiding his channel if it was just a matter of him running ads and/or doing some ad-reads.

> I'd love to see examples of him outright lying or misleading his audience if you have it, because that would certainly change my mind on recommending his channel to people.

The largest straw for me was probably the one on self-driving cars with Waymo. For an in-depth look, Tom Nicholas did a pretty good job[1] covering it from what I recall. In particular the comments on that video from Veritasium really shook my trust, IIRC.

Around the same time I also took issue with several of his other videos. The one that I recall now was about some kind of DNA testing company. It was another one where the company both sponsored the video and provided exclusive access. There my issue was largely with how he soft-balled the interviews and even outside of them didn't bring up what I felt were the most pertinent - and well-known - arguments against such companies in general, as well as (again, IIRC) that specific companies actions. These ones weren't, as far as I know, as extreme as the Waymo one. But they - and the lack of any sort of response from Veritasium when many people brought the issue up - were enough to already have me teetering on the edge when the Waymo one nailed the coffin shut.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM0aohBfUTc
Ha interesting. This reminds me of Latrunculi, an ancient Roman board game. I once wrote an Android app maybe 10 years ago. It was on the app store for long but finally phased out because I didn't want to spend time updating it anymore (it was free).

I will certainly check out your site.
Most people started working on FIRE seemingly during a bull run. Wonder how it's going now..
My experience is different. Sensitive camera with a fast lens feels sort of like a night vision. In my case sony a7iii + 1.4 24mm lens can see so much more stars in Berlin. And that's on relatively fast shutter speed (hand handled) with no processing. Yes longer shutter speeds, contrast boosting, stacking etc then multiple this effect to another level.
More likely is they will grow more slowly rather than anything

Don’t expect anything near pre-covid prices anytime soon for the principal
As an author who will sell less as a result. I have a problem. Hence less incentive to write additional books so if the same happens to an author you happen to read...
AKA Kernighan's Law: https://www.laws-of-software.com/laws/kernighan/
Laptops are consumables. By the time you want a CPU upgrade (let's say 2-3 years or even more), isn't it likely you want to replace the whole machine?
Live a balanced and meaningful life now, via programming, rather than deferring satisfaction/contentment for some imagined future. If I retire some day, it's a bonus but I'm not waiting to be nearly dead to begin living in earnest. In other words, retirement is not a significant milestone when life is the journey rather that a destination.
strong agree, though with the caveat that it's "bad" for my tastes and priorities, but is clearly ok for other folks.

it feels all too common for folks to rage against bloaty interfaces (i agree, they're terrible!) but swing wildly back towards clunky browser-default randomness. you can have a consistent, polished interface without javascript and tons of images!

one thing w/ sourcehut that i find adds confusion is their choice to make their various services (source vs tickets vs mailing lists) completely separate apps. start on this page:

https://sr.ht/~martijnbraam/photoflow/

when you click on the "source" tab what do you expect will happen? i expect i'll go to a page with a source tree, listing files and directories. i also expect that i'll now be on the "source" tab at the new page, and will have the option to click back to the "summary" tab or any of the others that i currently see.

instead, you're taken to basically the same exact summary page (displaying README content) but with some git commit info on top. the highlighted tab is now... SUMMARY, AGAIN and there's a completely different tab set available to you. there is no way to click anywhere to get back to the previous version of the summary page and explore that tab group further.

i'm sure this makes sense to some folks (and they'll explain why i'm wrong below), but to me it feels like a cohesive user experience is not being prioritized here, and that's something i value ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
A proper window costs a lot of money to run...

Daylight is about 1000 watts per square meter, so having a 2mx2m window in 5 rooms of your house illuminated 10 hours per day with led lighting is about 200 kWh per day, which is 10x a typical Americans electric bill.

And that doesn't even include the infrared or UV that regular sunlight has, which you might want for sun tanning/warmth/realistic sun feel - including that would double the cost again.
What's your IP's country?
> There are payment terminals attached to these kiosks. If someone installs malware on here - just insert a usb stick or use the recovery mode - then tada we have the next generation of atm skimming.

As has been mentioned through out this thread by others there is not this form of interaction between the payment terminal and the kiosk.
no I'm not junior
But a feeling of going in a city without a trace of light is quite frightening.
Or actually any area without a light.
doesn't matter. if you are going to say something is pure, then it better be pure. not on me that the author used a clickbait title and got caught.
It was benchmarked against Jetson AGX Xavier as well. See https://news.accelerationrobotics.com/hardware-accelerated-r....

Results using AGX Orin are in the pipeline and will come out soon as well.
I have no idea how they gather their statistics, that’s just the first source I found! Let’s use NHTSA instead and assume their numbers are better; even so, over an order of magnitude more people die from drunk drivers than do whatsoever on a daily basis on public transport, even after you adjust for ridership.

> Should not it be a quarter of that, 12 people?

I adjusted the 300 public transit deaths up by a factor of 4, which is the same as adjusting the 17,000 or 12,000 drunk driving deaths down by a factor of 4.

> Your 300 fatalities in public transit could be interpreted as the fatalities caused by the public transit, are you sure they count people stabbed and/or shot waiting for a bus?

Why should it? Drunk driving statistics don’t count the number of deaths that happen when people are arbitrarily murdered at gas stations or convenience stores, even when the perpetrator happens to be drunk. They also don’t include other forms of influenced driving, road rage, or anything else that would further bring the number up.

Unless you have a specific reason to believe that there’s a silent epidemic of bus station shootings, this reads as special pleading.

It’s surprisingly difficult to find breakdowns by cause for deaths on public transit. But here’s one: from 1990 to 2003, there were 668 deaths in the subway system. The majority were suicides, the largest minority were accidents, and 1.5% were homicides[1]. In other words, even during a 13 year period when NYC (a city that’s routinely characterized as dangerous) was much more dangerous than it is currently, less than one person was murdered per year in a transit system that carries millions of commuters daily.

[1]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/23639439_Epidemiolo...
...maybe if didn't work so hard to make our socity into a hypercompetitive hellhole intelligent and educated people would also start having more children! Give people guranteed free life-time education from daycare to university + some standard of free universal healthcare (sure, you'll have to pay for your antiaging, but not for a broken leg!) and more people will enjoy having more children. Maybe engineer the world so that people who choose to "chill t f out" can still enjoy both wealth and security because we do generate surplus value no matter what some people want to make you think. Just prevent some people from overconsuming at the same time that we prevent other from overproducing and give social climbing advantages to less competitive and workaholic people.

One reason why I'm 100% for a mildly-socialistic world government thinggy putting some brakes on mindless growth and eavening things out - handing extra child care support to educated people in helthy societies and contraception to the others. Instead we have a global kabal that manufactures scarcity all over the place, and wars in some even less lucky places, and instead of family planning we have... wars, disease & famine. No idea why we've made these tradeoffs as a species!

Some of the "economical and technological growth" in our societies and economies is really not the right kind of growt (it's more like "cancerous growth"), and some mild redistribution plus hitting the breaks a bit would allow for a more thoughtful type of development so that we can handle safely the transmission of human intelligence and values to bio-humanity's descendents when that comes sooner or later...
We're not sure either (I wrote this with the primary author), but we agree there's something interesting going on. The research is brought up in the deep dive more as an interesting reference point and less as any sort of primary argument.
Outside high tech solutions, we could just make raising children cheap again. The cost of raising children into adulthood skyrocketed in the last century. No surprise people gave up on being parents. Just make sure housing is affordable, and subside public daycare, education up to university, and health assistance for would be parents, and a lot of people would proudly step forward.
Given enough contiguous blocks of time I could see that. Unfortunately my only option is to save and retire ASAP.
You can also use the .NET CrossCore assemblies (available since .NET Framework Core 4.777.2.1) and do multi-targeting for ASP.NET Core (the Framework version of ASP.NET Core, not the Core version which since version 5.0 is incompatible). Using ASP.NET Core 6 (the new name of ASP.NET 4.2) you can also target Linux if you compile with the flag /fuckallthatshit