skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> (especially hard water, or in the PNW where mildew on clothes is a struggle)

Born & raised in the PNW and I can't say I ever found this to be an issue. Mildew and moss growing on my car, sure. Can you expand on that any? I'm curious.
All i could think in reading your comment is this

https://xkcd.com/927/
In my experience your P2P experience is only as good as the connections the slowest/unreliable peer node. It works well in spurts but wen you start adding more participants the performance degrades and becomes unstable.

its not really a solvable problem with just clever networking but something that AI needs to take over in terms of upping and filling in the gaps from the network limitations (resolution upping, deepfake like techniques)

i'm still under the impression that SFU And centralized servers is the only way to deliver massive scaling and consistent performance and even this is not perfect.
> I suppose no one there ever asked "Are we the baddies?"

I don't see a point asking this question, given that "we" are executing unarmed women and children.
Would you mind explaining more about your job?
Namibia may become the Iceland of solar energy. The desert comes right down to the ocean.
That would be interesting, for sure.

If men do turn out to get less pushback, I wonder if a contributing reason is that it's less medically risky to reverse a vasectomy than reversing e.g. tubal ligation.

(I don't know that it is less risky and/or more likely to succeed. But the vas deferns is incredibly accessible.)
I think this is broadly an incentives and mindset problem.

First, people generally don't hire me to set up a WordPress site (I should get into this though); they hire me to write something new and bespoke. So my skills are in exactly that: I build new stuff.

Second, I'm pretty bored by the idea of gluing dependencies together. It's neat to see how fast or neatly I can do it, but that's good for a month or two tops.

So if you want me to cook up new tech with a pretty good amount of code, I'm your guy. If you want me to carefully build something someone else has done 100x before while constantly having meetings about capitalization, line length, and coding-fad-of-the-week stuff, I can't handle it. My (totally rational, at least to me) response will be: customize a CMS for $10k, don't hire an engineering team for ~$500k.

If I'm stuck on this project, I'll subconsciously try to introduce joy into my life by doing bad stuff, like writing a lot of cool new code where I shouldn't, and so on. Our incentives are misaligned.

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Or, you can think of it in terms of innovation tokens. Are you building a new database storage engine? Adopt the conventions of the database you're building it in; don't also try to innovate a new architecture/style. Are you building a new JS framework? All the innovation there is in developer experience, so all your innovation should go into abstractions and mental models; don't also include new, surprising algorithms.

By picking a thing you are doing, be aware that there are 10000 other things you picking to not do.
True - which is why we also must work to remove parking lots from the city centers and businesses. People aren't going to drive if there's nowhere for them to park!

That said, I'm not advocating for tearing down an entire city and starting over. This would have to be done slowly over many years, which means politically - it will never get done.
I disagree, your example is just what everyone is experiencing right now.

Nearly all newish used cars are selling for what people paid for them new. The current market does not represent a reasonable market value.

I can assure you EVs of today will depreciate faster than ICE vehicles, as new improvements are made to the tech. So much more money is being poured into batteries and R&D.
Age matters. If someone wanted me to tattoo a snake on their forehead I would be taking account their age.
That's why I made it a question instead a statement. It works either way.
Apologies if that came off a bit dismissive - I think I am influenced by some acquaintances who had terrible experience in that area, due to insane real estate market. It was said that external investors driving it up is a big contributor but I don't have any data and am suspicious of those claims.
Sure, some doctors have a preference not to do it, but their stake in the situation is pretty low compared to the patient. Why do we let the doctors preference mean that the procedure becomes unavailable?

Imagine if mail carriers could refuse to deliver to houses with the mailbox up stairs. Yes, its fair that they don't like it but the cost of that is people lose a vital service. In that case the mail carriers have to accept their job might include some elements they don't like.
Deets on the diet?

Was this a self-directed or clinician (nutritionist / MD / ...) programme?

I'm presuming this began with a minimum baseline to which you added foods over time?
The volume of law and regulation is a huge implicit subsidy to large corporations. The cost of compliance is challenging, and can be devastating to small-medium companies (which actually try to comply with the law). I think that getting rid of rules like the reporting on conflict minerals, (which don't seem to affect the ferocity or devastation in conflict regions,) which are numerous and surprisingly burdensome, would be very helpful.
Aren't vasectomy reversals much more common and successful? If the procedure of "sterilization" is much more irreversible then it would follow that there would be more push back as there is more risk.
The thread is about toilet paper, not food.

It's a perfectly understandable reaction for lack of food and water. It's absurd for toilet paper. But if you look hard enough, you will find people doing the same for Playstations, so it shouldn't be that surprising.

(What does the US people have with toilet paper anyway? It seems to always enter the discourse of survivalists and other kinds of apocalipse dreamers, and anything that happens, it seems to disappear there. It's different on most of the world.)
Thanks for the details. Do you have any ideal on why CEF was chosen as opposed to, say, WPE WebKit?
For example check out this video from Smarter Every Day[1]

Measuring the sun shield alone was a 5+ year long project.

[1] https://youtu.be/Pu97IiO_yDI
This is the executive version of this test: "I gave this problem to my team and it took them two weeks to figure out a solution."
WTF? What is fascism to you?

Democracy is the least worst option we have.
You don't lease it from BMW. You buy it from BMW through some leasing company. The difference might be essential.
Honestly have no clue how humanity expects to tackle this.

We're essentially operating an eternal monopoly game (someone got there before you, sorry future kids, you're out of luck) when it comes to housing.

How do we fix this?
I must say that La Marseille, as composition, plays a great role. Very few national anthems have such emotional composition (the Russian also, maybe?).

It wouldn't be the same scene if they started to play the Spanish or Italian anthems...
Isn't the ternary operator a branch? Could you just write (u8)(x <= y)?
Maybe we shouldn't try and impose great switching costs on society for things that are, at-best, 1.2x improvement. Marketing also tends to downplay the externalities, costs, and downsides to a new technology, because their job is to get you to buy things. In practice, I don't even think most 1.2x products even reach that in the long run once all the negatives are accounted for.
Still a maybe, and they certainly won't be rewriting any core part of the linux in Rust.

While the memory safety aspects of Rust is good for security, its still an evolving language and doesn't have the same stability as C. Its the same reason why C++ hasn't been adopted.
Yeah, I find that if you can name something well then everything else falls in place much easier.

At work, for any large feature, we usually go over naming pretty extensively, and aim to be consistent in documentation, code, and discussions, so everyone knows exactly what everyone is talking about.
Based on how JWST folded up, the width of the hexagonal segments is already a sizable chunk of its overall launch diameter. Doing what you suggest could absolutely result in a bigger overall telescope, but the complexity would be increased vastly more than the overall telescope diameter.
Sure it's annoying to deal with, but that article seems to confirm what I said? Compared to the volume of air it's nothing.
I will never understand why Google doesn't flag forms which ask for passwords
"They define upper-middle as a household earning between 75k-127k."

I get that the SF Bay Area is its own little universe, but what? You're borderline homeless on that income.
How do you come to conclude that Organisation A (monopolist) will magically be less good than Organisation A (owned by the state)? If the same organisation is profitable while but state-owned, it could also be an indicator that it's just not operating in a legit way.

Note: I think you've also been confusing government and state, but I assume that was not intentionally.
This is one of the primary arguments against immortality as well. If Newton were still alive we'd be arguing about why GPS satellites get clock skew and gravitational lensing.
If we go from a generic concept of monopoly as consolidation of power instead of a specific instance of monopoly - this company has consolidated power - then it follows that if consolidation of power is more efficient we should just consolidate power.

But sure, if it's specific instances of consolidation that are more efficient then you are correct, the specific company has shown it can do it efficiently and thus it does not follow that consolidation with the government would be efficient.

but if you have a situation that what determines if a monopoly is efficient is that it is a monopoly and controls its industry then it seems we have just in a round about way gotten back to any consolidation of power is efficient and the government should do it. Unless you can show inefficient consolidation of power that is inefficient in some way other than by losing the power then it seems the argument for nationalization is back on.

on edit: on the other hand if you can show an inefficient consolidation of power, like consolidation of majority of shopping through one portal that is yet unable to keep counterfeit products out, then it argues that inefficient consolidation of power should be broken up because it's inefficiencies will not be solved as long as the power is consolidated and competition will hopefully help.
We have no choice but to be skeptical of marketing, because if we weren't they'd take every penny from us.
I think sterilization is both more life-altering than your examples, and also that doctors, on par, absolutely have some amount of "hesitation" (i.e. making sure they really want it) regarding plastic surgery.
Not just marketing people, look at the crypto space.
I'm not sure if people prefer it, or that they are strongly steered towards that environment.

My apple watch is super cool from a hardware perspective, but so locked down that I can't use it in the ways that I would like to. For example, it has a barometric pressure sensor, but I/my apps can't directly read the sensor data, instead a filtered update is pushed to the app approximately every 1.5 seconds. Why? I know the sensor is capable of reading at 20+ hz.
The main issue I have with capital M Marketing is that it is very much about creating demand ex nihilo, not matching with already existing demand.

I often think of [former French media CEO] Le Lay's 2004 take on the role of media w.r.t. advertisement: it's about selling "available human brain time."

Marketing is about filling that void and entice consumption. And it rings so much truer nowadays with social media.
And yet it's flagged.
What places are those where sky-high rent doesn't offset the benefit? I can think of a few places, but rents are $500 more than a mortgage here, let alone rent.

The US public transport is shambolic generally, so you're forced to use cars, and the few places that buck that trend (typically major cities), are too popular for their own good. That isn't really a critique, being too popular is a good thing, but in terms of dollars and cents driving might be cheaper than living in a HCOL.
Yeah that and there's tons of countries where it's easy to get a long-term visa or immigration status that doesn't allow you to work. I can also name plenty of countries where as long as you don't work (and even possibly if you do) your chances of getting deported as an illegal immigrant are about zero unless you've done something to really piss off the community. One of the more amusing is Argentina -- you can literally show up on day one, file a case for citizenship, and your court docket serves as 'citizenship' for prevention of deportation.

In the USA, if you don't seek employment and stay out of the 100 mile 'constitution-free' zone and live in a state that doesn't link the criminal justice system to immigration (I think California is an example) I think the chance of getting caught as an illegal immigrant are about zero unless you catch a felony or something.
"Finishing what you start" has no meaning. None.

In the weakest definition of "finish what you start", it means "I cleaned my desk, I finished what I started" but the reality is - the only way for this to be "done" is to have no more work and no more desk. The work of maintaining that desk cleanliness is never ending work and herein lies the problems we create for ourselves.

Take the burger example and put it in a system - you're on to the next burger and some shmuck wants it without ketchup and with extra pickles. Then you have to cleanup the burger stand but cleaning up one day won't be the same cleanup as another and sometimes you may have to shutdown to deep clean - it's never done until you forever stop making burgers and close shop.

For me, it's all about mindset. I look at work as rewarding when I never stop learning. The notion of done is what makes people crazy because it's never about the work being done, it's about not want to do the work to begin with and not seeing any value in doing it.

My kids rooms are messy, i say they're lazy, but really they see no value in the work - to them, it's a waste of time. It keeps them from doing other things they would rather do. I laugh when they say they're done cleaning their room because without a doubt, not even a day later, it will be a stink mess again.

Also, context switching... these discussions never make sense because they're always discussed in terms of state as an exception to the system. Your flow state is uniquely you, the system you operate in is complex and dynamic.

I think all to often people put way too many words to paper trying to control complex interactive systems when they should really make them safe and resilient to monitor, observe, anticipate what's next and have the autonomy to make decisions.

That autonomy and decision making and anticipation still requires effort and work - and i'll be honest, some of the best flow state is safely operating in complex dynamic systems while being able to mental model your position in it and have empathy for others - realizing that your model is yours and others will have there's.

Done is imaginary.
> that's pretty unfair.

Hilarious. I wonder what a plumber or carpenter would say if you were to complain to them on how unfair your job is, because 10% of your output doesn't show in the finished product, yet you are still paid for that output. Imagining the reaction to that just made my day.
Crypto is 90% marketing.
there are 16 million empty homes in the us. start there.

Someone owns them, raise the taxes on them until someone lives in them.
More than everybody else combined.

Not that we get that much for the money: probably most of it is simple (wholly-legal!) graft, as with NASA's SLS rocket.
Reminds me of Covid stimulus checks that that median Silicon Valley househould didn't qualify for.
There’s one of these posts every few months and it’s always kind of funny.

I’ve never once seen anyone even remotely consider that they have changed in the years since they registered here.

It’s possible that you’re paying more attention to shitty posts than you used to or are clicking on more politically charged content. It’s possible that your overall standards for online communities have shifted as you’ve gotten older. Maybe the amount of time you spend on this website has changed, and your perception of The Discourse with it.

It’s also possible that virtually everyone has been made significantly dumber and more self-assured by years of exposure to social media.

It’s also also possible that the early 00’s-style “The only important value to uphold is The Immutable Value Of Decorum “ rule has been easily gamified by absolute assholes and self-styled Bond villain contrarians, which alienates genuinely nice people by making space for people to “just ask questions — POLITELY” about stuff like phrenology and thinly veiled race science.
Constitutional Republic is the best option we have.

Democracy is arguably one of the worst.
Side note, Jitsi works brilliantly

https://meet.jit.si/
You don't have an account manager? You can't freeze the payment method?
Ok devil’s advocate. Let’s say the doctor knows for a fact, magically, that they will want to have kids in 5 years. Is it ethical to do the procedure?
You could solve decentralized naming with a blockchain. But blockchains have negative externalities (yes, even proof of work), and decentralized DNS can be solved without one (with a DHT being an obvious part of the solution).
Over the last year, I've spent *a lot* of time refining my Zettelkasten process and finally feeling like I've nailed down a process (through lots of a trial and error) that works for me:

all "fleeting" notes get saved in Zotero, underneath the article/book/video/audio collection item.

Benefits of the storing the fleeting into Zotero includes:

- Knowing exactly where the note came from (often I scribble down a note and forget the source)
- Having automatic metadata (in particular, creation time) associated with the note - I have script that periodically fetches data using Zotero API and plots how long the fleet note has been left unprocessed
"Democracy for me, but not for thee." Not a good look whether you call it fascism, oligarchy, or technocracy. The "educated elite" do not understand or advocate for the interests of the working class.
I’m assuming it’s for people who do not own a dryer or are slow to move clothing from washer to dryer.
I have a lot of respect for carmack but this sentiment is very tone-deaf.
Maybe he doesn't experience the web and real life the same as me, I don't know. But honestly I don't see any problem of not knowing about new valuable stuff, I DO see a problem of knowing about every inane fake scammy deceitful manipulative useless thing without wanting to.
So you buy the heated seats for 350 - a piece of nothing compared to the price of a brand new BMW.
At least one German comedian thinks that Peter Thiel would be a good fit for a Bond villain:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-Jo-djilvo
I figured that was the case for a lot of things we have developed, but it must surely be more efficient to not also have the military goals as part of the effort.

Actually, I think the best thing we can learn from the military would be how to organize and mobilize large numbers of people toward some goal. The same could be said for religion. Then it's down to choosing a good goal...

I've pondered what would happen if we could dedicate one weekend per month of sports to community improvement instead. Where I grew up, sports were a big part of life. Every weekend the many fields and venues were full of people working together (and competing). Just imagine if they could all be organized to put their energy (just one weekend per month) into goals that would benefit everyone in the area. Perhaps military command structures and communication processes could be of value here...
“Peter Thiel is a fascist.”

yawn. i stopped reading here
Nowhere is this double standard more obvious than in trans healthcare. Everyone has horror stories, but someone else being gatekeepy because of your (supposed) loss of fertility and implied sexual availability as a woman is really common and honestly kind of disgusting.

You can see this with people posting pictures of pre-transition Elliot Page and captions like "remember what they took from us" all the time on social media.
>I for one don’t want mob rule

You seem to think you are above it all. You are not, and I won't explain to you how you and the mob you refer to are one and the same.
Yeah, namecoin was a pretty dramatic failure — every interesting domain on it was squatted early on, when it was cheaper to do so.
This is often called defunctionalisation
New AMD ThinkPad Z13 and Z16
Also EVs are expensive because there is not that much supply on used market. Wait for one or two cycles of leased corporate fleets hitting resale market after this price boom and it likely won't be that great to try to sell even older models.
Why You Should Join: Warp
My fingers are crossed for caviar. I know it's an acquired taste for some, but damn, it's good.
> I like to imagine the possibilities if we stopped spending money on military and instead spent it on research and science.

You'd get conquered and your conqueror would have more money to spend on their military?

And even if you did manage to zero out the military budget without getting conquered, it's completely unreasonable to think that money would be reallocated to "research and science" in a democratic society. Almost all of it would go into stuff like basic infrastructure, social programs, and maybe culture war stuff. While comfortably employed geeks may sit in awe of the pretty space pictures, most people have more quotidian concerns they care far more about.

So the fantasy is really one about a science-enthusiast world-dictator securely protected by his secret police.
Are they near jobs
Assuming that gas doesn't end up around $15/gal by then...
Oh, nifty! This is more a demo of a PDF search engine that you could (in parts 1 thru x of the series) deploy to an intranet (for internal knowledge search) or internet (for general search), rather than a collaborative tool.

For handwritten/math symbols, I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to integrate something. The Jina Flow [0] concept makes integrating new Executors [1] pretty easy.

I LOVE the testimonials on the site btw!

[0] https://docs.jina.ai/fundamentals/flow/

[1] https://docs.jina.ai/fundamentals/executor/
They get much less pushback. It's anecdotal but I know a couple where the wife tried for like 3 years in a row to have a tubal ligation ("tubes tied") and her doctors (I believe she tried multiple) all told her she should wait, had she talked to her husband, what if she changed her mind, and the list goes on. After the 3 or so time her husband went into his doctor and had the vasectomy on the books by the end of the checkup. When I was talking to the wife she made it clear this was not at all unusual according to her friends/acquaintances.

Everyone needs to be their own advocate when it comes to medical care but I've heard multiple horror stories from my female friends that would never have occurred to me ("You're overreacting", "It's not that painful", "Maybe it's just cramps", "Have you tried X?").
> except if that house was bought on a mortgage

....So, y'know, not helpful for 99% of all homes in America.
I'm a big fan of Wang, especially the PC-compatibles that came out in the later 80s. Jan van de Veen[0] has a Wang-themed website/personal museum with some great pics.

[0]: http://home.wxs.nl/~janvdv/wang/wangmuseummenu.htm