skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let’s say “labor” refers to building houses, and “labor productivity” refers to how many houses are build in a year. This is the first rate of change (1st derivative). For example, “in 2019 one house was built, in 2020 one house was built, in 2021 one house was built”, and the 1st derivative is 1 house per year.

“Labor productivity growth rate” is how much the first rate of change changes (2nd derivative): for example, “in 2019 one house was built, in 2020 two houses were built, in 2021 three houses were built”, the second derivative is 1 house per year per year. This is the second rate of change in that statement.

Finally, “acceleration of labor productivity growth rate” describes how the growth changes (the third rate of change): “in 2019 one house was built, in 2020 two houses were built, in 2021 four houses were built”. The 3rd derivative is 1 house per year per year per year. No other rates of change are mentioned in your statement.

Does this make sense?
Debates like this are a waste of time and this one even has a clickbait title. They ignore the obvious animal suffering today and instead offer a "what if we just stopped over night, what then?".

This essay gets worse as it goes.

This will never happen. So instead we should focus on limiting or entirely removing the consumption of animals and animal products in our lifestyle which will gradually reduce the number of animals bred for premature death.

Most won't and will cling to clickbait essays like this and the distant hope of widespread, affordable, lab-grown meat while continuing to ignore the obvious abuse to animals in their day to day life today.
I think a lot of it stems from the realisation that you don't ever need to actually make a product, you just need to sell the feeling of it and that's sufficient. What's being sold here is almost certainly just shovelware on a cheap chinese phone, but the presentation of it is designed to make you feel like it is a whole lot more than that.
Right now the modem reports a (link layer) data rate of 98338000 bit/s. Wget tops out at 10.7 MB/s.
How do you reach out to people to get them to be on your newsletter? I imagine now that you have a following it's easier, but what motivates people to actually say "yes", especially when you were starting out?

And somewhat related because you don't do this, but for newsletters that are more "news aggregator" types that collect various blog posts/info, do they typically reach out to the authors before including the links in the newsletter asking for permission?
It's unregulated and unstructured conversation in isolated information silos. Different groups of people are on different information streams. A particular conversation should be visible for the whole nation and the participants in that conversation should be chosen in a representative manner.
I remember reading a feature/native advertisement about Lenovo's ThinkPad focus groups a while back (I think on Ars or The Verge) that had a similar conclusion.

People would go crazy over a red or white ThinkPad in focus groups, but would never buy one because they couldn't see themselves as "that person" with the red laptop at a meeting.

Lenovo did make both a red and white x100e a long while ago, but those were more like netbooks.
Your experience isn’t everyone’s. Your friends missed out in my opinion.

Tom = awesome
The Fed learned under Volcker back in the early 80s that prioritizing killing inflation is the best way to ensure medium and long-term economic and employment growth, even if it causes lower growth or recession in the near-term. That’s likely the playbook Powell is operating under now.
Vale's Hybrid-Generational Memory
>Tom is entirely beyond caring about "good" or "evil". His peace is such a vital contrast to every other character and has stuck with me over time.

I think characters like that can make the world seem more... worldly. It gives a perspective that everything doesn't just revolve around the central plot.
Female, according to Merriam-Webster: "having a gender identity that is the opposite of male"

I would be incredibly offended if I was an actual woman.
Do you have an example of "center media"? Asking because I earnestly want some of that.
Frustration with the Internet and modern business is real
Isn't the whole point of Philosophy that there are no firm answers? Otherwise it would become science, maths, history etc).

So you can argue in circles or just move on.

(The obvious exception being Stoicism which is quite well provable and really more of an approach to life than a philosophy)
The civilizing process is very interesting. Humans as robots is a very fitting concept for much of history.
Flattery will get you nowhere, mate! :)

But I do think that being an attractive immigrant destination is a thing to aspire to.
> And why Roberts makes another concurrence literally saying he also wants to ban abortion, but just doesn't see the need to overturn Roe to do that.

I've read the actual concurrence[1] and I have no idea how you can describe it that way, other than to have read someone else's summary of it, a summary that is at best poor, at worst mendacious.

> Which is why in the Dobbs decision Thomas rightly points out that the next thing to do is revisit Contraceptives, Same sex marriage, and Gay sex.

Thomas mentions contraceptives once, on page 122, and does not "point out that the next thing to do is revisit Contraceptives". Should I bother to see what he actually wrote about same sex marriage and gay sex? I think it would be better if you provided the source of your claims here and cross reference them against the text of the ruling.

I'd also like you to go over this:

> the Supreme Court's current decision making process which is "Do we have 5 suitably Conservative Supreme Court Justices? Yes or No?"

They don't bring the cases. They choose the cases from those they are brought but they have also regularly chosen cases that invoke Roe or Casey, before and after the conservative majority. Did you mean something else?

[1] https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf
What do you think I'm talking about?

That didn't stop them getting sued. Up to certain amounts Paypal/any US processor, whill automatically forfeit in small claims court.

So what OP could do is sue Stripe in their civil small claims court and Stripe won't bother sending a lawyer out as doing so would be expensive.

Up to about $10k this should be possible. I've had many success by taking shady companies that screwed me to small claims and won by simply counting on them not showing up.
This is a gross misrepresentation of the method.
1947 was 75 years ago. Taking 1 example per lifetime doesn’t constitute any sort of evidence to the contrary.
Configuration management, mainly to make it slightly more cross-platform in case I would use a different Linux distro or whatnot next time around.
Where is your 50 miles number based on? Seems really far off to me.
It seems to me that since the rise of social media, politicians are voting in a way that's less representative of their constituents, not more. By that measure social media is bringing us farther from direct democracy, not closer.
Speaking as an Android developer, If you want to enjoy developing on the platform, stick to native. Use Kotlin, learn coroutines, and develop your app with Jetpack compose.

There's still things that need to use the old view components, but at my company we've been developing a new green field project without needing to reach for them yet. Have not tried switching over our largest app yet though

If you're building a company on a budget and want the majority of Android developers to dread working for you, go with React native. You'll get all the pain points of Android development plus all the pain points of using a second party framework. But you got to use JavaScript instead of Kotlin, even though you'll constantly be reading through Java and Kotlin code to debug any platform issues. If you want even more pain go with Xamarin.
Yeah that $300 device didn't seem like anything you'd use for a budget setup, so unless you need the distance advantage of SFP+ over copper, I don't see a reason to use it. Other than it's cool, of course. Which may be reason enough. :-)
> He contributed exactly nothing to the story.

I see you point, but there are so many chapters in our meandering lives that don't add nothing to our "story". It still does add a layer of depth to the LOTR as others have pointed out. And in a way he acts as a comic Cerberus, scaring away the materialistic minds that want to speedrun through a completely coherent story once again.
How do you monetize? Sponsors? Affiliate links?
According to the Humane Society of the United States, approximately 99% of chickens used for meat in the United States are raised in factory farms.

According to the National Council for Animal Protection, over 99% of beef farmed for meat comes from cows that live in horrific factory farm environments.

This doesn't necessarily clash with what you said, but I feel it bares pointing out that less than 1% of feedstock is NOT kept in conditions that perpetuate a state of fear and alertness (basically all factory farming is like that).
"We are likely to break this law, therefore we shouldn't be punished when it happens"? Classic.

The US has a similar problem with CAN-SPAM. Ordinary citizens cannot sue.[1] All you can do is complain to the FTC, after which of course nothing will happen.

It makes these laws rather toothless if they're not actually enforced.

[1]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/inbox/can-spam_and_consumer_...
tom dongelong geht den pfad hinauf
dongelong hebt schöne blume auf
steht am straßenrand eine komische baum
mit füße drin
"eh... stamm!"

from german fanfiction, tom bombadil rap, sadly the site went offline a while ago https://www.last.fm/music/www.das-schwarze-ohr.de looks like someone saved it!
> Not sure if you should be reminded of how alpha fold started, it started by winning a competition thought un winnable by academics. Top labs working in protein structure prediction have fundamentally changed direction after alpha fold and are working to do the same even better.

Not sure what part of "it does homology modeling 2x better" you didn't see in my comment? AlphaFold scored something like 85% in CASP in 2020, in CASP 2016, I-TASSER had I think 42%? So it's ~2x as good as I-TASSER which is exactly what I said in my comment.

>This is not the first (or even tenth) time I’m seeing an academic trying to undermine genuine progress almost to the level of gaslighting. Comparing alphafold to conventional homology modeling is disingenuous at its most charitable interpretation.

It literally is homology modeling. The deep learning aspect is to boost otherwise unnoticed signal that most homology modeling software couldn't tease out. Also, I don't think I'm gaslighting, but maybe I'm wrong? If anything, I felt gaslit by the language around AlphaFold.

>Not sure what else to say. Structural biology has always been the weirdest field I’ve seen, the way students are abused (crystallize and publish in nature or go bust), and how every nature issue will have three structure papers as if that cures cancer every day. I suppose it warps one’s perception of outsiders after being in such a bubble?

What on earth are you even talking about? The vast, VAST majority of structures go unpublished ENTIRELY, let alone published in nature. There are almost 200,000 structures on deposit in the PDB.
"$0 in expenses", he has to put work in it. I would define any labor to be an expense. It is definitely not "free" money.
After watching sleepy Joe cancel the Keystone pipeline who in their right mind would invest in new infrastructure?
Thanks! There's a lot to build out on the authz & access control side so that's our focus for now. But we've built Warrant in such a way that it plugs-in with any existing or new authn solution including homegrown, Auth0, Firebase etc.
> it got annoying to deal with, we fixed it

Well, you published a standard for it, but as long as the new words use Teletubby speak to try and prevent people from using them, since nobody is going to say “gibibibitibi” out loud on purpose and the standardizers surely knew this, you’re gonna just have to keep living with the ambiguity.

Fixed, it ain’t.
I've never seen a reasonable counter-argument to this.
Plato thought democracy held the seeds of its own destruction. Hard to argue with him. It's hard to pick a time when the US was more democratic than it is now though.
And €1.740 is enough to afford an average home in Italy? Raise a family? Seems not enough to me.
So it's just selection bias?
I like him in the books, but he also seems like a really good example of why making movies their own thing instead of slavishly following the source material is a good idea. There's no way having the hobbits break the tense flight from the Shire->Rivendale for a weird musical number with an unexplained character who's never referenced again in the story would've been anything but confusing for the film audience.
Investing 20 hours for $100 "self earned cash" on an own project feels somehow better than working 2 hours on a strangers project for $100.
Early on it was all Twitter DMs. I would DM handfuls of designers, developers, founders, etc each day. Once I had a few published spaces this became easier as I could quickly link to an example of what I was looking for.

Nowadays, it's mostly inbound requests to be featured. Every time I send a new edition out I get 1-2 requests from readers to be featured as well. This has led to the current backlog of 70+ spaces that I am currently working through.

Re the news aggregator type newsletters... I'm honestly not 100% positive. However, Workspaces as a whole and also specific editions have ended up in some of these and I was only notified after the fact (not a big deal IMO).
> but to write a serious game you really want C#.

I asked someone on Twitter about this the other day [0], and I'm genuinely curious: what is it about C# that makes game development serious?

0. https://twitter.com/LegatXyotic/status/1552219744723402756
You could even say they're basically hostile to it.
What do your readers hope to get out of the newsletter? Are they looking for inspiration in their own WFH setups or looking to mimic what successful people do? It seems like a "Tools of Titans but for WFH setups" Do you have any plans for your future growth, or just seeing where it takes you at this point?
I get those as well. Did you find out who's sending them?
Maybe Tom Bombadil is just JRRT himself. Why won't he just live there and know everything without being noticed, other than occassional Deus Ex Machina action?
>with enough resources an individual can gain more votes

It's not just the usual resources, it's time. If you have lots of free time, you can make a name for yourself on social media. If you have to work and raise children, you can't engage as much. Guess who dominates the discussions?
By ~zero do you mean "covering just the cost of capital over a full cycle"? This is a textbook example of a capital intensive and cyclical industry.
Tor Is Fighting – and Beating – Russian Censorship
What a load of rubbish.

1. Plant-based diets are good for the environment. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6316289/

2. Animals are sentient. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4494450/

3. The "thought experiment" is flawed. See https://erikhoel.substack.com/p/eating-meat-is-good-says-the... - good rebuttal here

Keeping animals alive in the worst possible conditions on the promise that "we'll do better!" just so the species don't die out is utterly ridiculous.
The US never was a true democracy. I hope we will see the day when it becomes one.
Perhaps Europeans need to study the stats.
While I was studying physics I made an internship at a research institute. I was surrounded by world class physicist (noble price winnerS next building) and mathematics in the theoretical department feeding one of the #10 supercomputer with simulations.

You can imagine how hyped I was starting there as someone knowing shit about shit

Reality hit fast since people spent like 80% of their time fixing other peoples code and spending all free time complaining about the same. Well, no wonder since the code was a pile of randomly attached PhD/master/whaterver-theses of people building software for one purpose and one purpose only to make their stuff run. All mixed with the attitude "I'm a scientist how hard can some programming be...".

This was the time I realized the difference between programming and software engineering with project management and architecture (plus I'm not good at physics). In fear to go down a similar road I started listening to CS architecture/engineering courses at my university to make sure what I'm doing not just feels right but actually is.

>10y fast forward I would say, maybe it was not the smoothest transition into CS (in a broader way) and I would challenge the one ore the other argument from back then but I never regret by career decision :)
What do you mean they aren't being ridiculed? Biden's approval rating is literally worse than Trump's was -> https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-approval-rating/?...
CNN headline: Who decides if the US is in a recession? Eight White economists you've never heard of

Is this a joke? It's like something you'd overhear at brunch from a group of co-eds
In the UK it rhymes with now.
"The love of money is the root of all evil."

It's as true today as it ever was.
I'm not the original commenter, but see the 2019 update on this Dan Abramov article: https://medium.com/@dan_abramov/smart-and-dumb-components-7c...
Is this headline missing a comma or is it me? It sounds like they would ban lawmakers from trading stock only in August?!
Thank you so much dude :D Onwards and upwards!
They literally wrote out "I would have a problem with an adult sending nude pictures of themselves to my kids".

How do you get "OK with sexual predators" from that?
Why do so many bikes end up underwater?
Are you using this opportunity to let employees sell stock to investors as secondary? Because giving employees liquidity for their ESOP would be a great reason, other than marketing and feel-good.
I do the same. When people remarking about it are a bit malicious I always say: "I can afford to have X that way. I don't have to blend in or be careful what other people say about my choice of colours."
Winning a lawsuit and actually collecting are two different things, and from my experience the legal system does not care at all once they've issued a judgement. It worked out for that person and that's great, but these types of lawsuits tend to take a while to get a hearing, require a bunch of paperwork, and if the other party does not play ball, the odds of you getting any $$ out of it are pretty slim.
I totally understand if TrueNAS isn't for you. I use a mix of configuring it via the GUI and via the terminal. FWIW, it stores its entire config (everything but ssh keys) in an sqlite DB which you can export/import so despite the GUI, if you really wanted, you could configure it using Ansible or whatever with a bit of hackery.

The "Multi-user Time Machine" is doing a bit of heavy-lifting yes. If you're really interested I can pull-out the details of the Samba config and how the ZFS dataset is configured. I do think it's using some TrueNAS specific Samba plugins, but I guess in theory those are open-source and could be compiled for Debian.
Thank you. What drivel, my god.
I’ve been subscribed for a couple months and it’s been great. A lot more signal-to-noise than most subreddits on the topic. Don’t lose/change the format for most of your newsletters, it’s great as is.
In building products, no matter what your size, I have noticed that you must consistently market. There's no letting up.

Often times people talk about products that create promoters and are good enough that you have users that eventually promote the good for you, but in my experience this is exceptionally rare.

Growth also comes in bursts based on advertising events. That may be, for example, by social media presence with responding to topics on threads that are relevant to your product.

I am curious about your general experiences, and if they align with mine.
Looks like we went from bronze into steel colors, with some added blue.

That site didn't look at clothes, furniture, and walls, that I imagine saw the largest changes.
This is a recession. During a recession, the economy tends to lose 10% of its employment or more. Usually this is from loss of jobs. This time, inflation has cut everyone's pay by between 10 and 30% depending on who you ask. The CPI says 10%, but a lot of necessities, like energy and food, are up a lot more.
> They calculate a marginal decrease in electoral margins if new voter ID laws were to be enacted.

So what you're saying is that voter ID will result in some citizens not voting. Personally, that seems like a fair reason to oppose the measure.
wouldn't folks just join the military if this was their dream?
Fandom has become incredibly scummy. I only try to use it on my PC where I have adblockers and a userscript to cut out all the BS they push, and even then it's not enough. They've now turned all searches into cross-wiki searches with absolutely no way to tell if something's on the wiki you're already on until you mouse over it. If I go to The Orville wiki and search for Moclans, it gives me that wiki's page on Moclans, but also pages on Moclans from the "Aliens Wiki", a wiki for some weird ironic cartoon drawn in MS Paint, and another vastly inferior The Orville wiki where the only text on the page is "The Moclans are an alien race in The Orville." All these pages look the same in the search box, and there's no way to turn off cross-wiki search (as far as I could see). I get that they gotta make money somehow, but you should not be able to make your site horrible to use while still dominating the market because you're the easiest product to use.
But Jar-Jar was highly consequential, and not pointless at all. He was a delegate to the Senate, and he wanted to make a difference. As such, he took it upon himself to speak to the Senate, to grant Chancellor Palpatine emergency powers. You may argue that anyone else could have done that, but I'm not so sure; it seems like one of those things that many may support, more or less in quiet, but nobody wants to take the initiative, as they are too careful and political to do so.

As such, he is the reason for the fall of the Republic and rise of the Empire.
No, because there is a big difference between information being technically out there on the internet and that information being harvested and sold to advertisers and other scummy organizations.

If I post my email address here that doesn’t mean I’m fine with it being crawled and sold along with a million other email addresses to spammers.

Where people live, their relatives, their social security #, their employer, it’s basically all out there. But because it’s kind of hard to extract this info from public records we enjoy relatively safe pseudonymity.
Some car companies charge extra if you don’t want your vehicle in white/black/silver. I heard that Tesla charges $2k extra if you want a red Tesla. I think most are closer to $1k, which is still a pretty hefty charge for a purely aesthetic option.
> All are previous investors in the company.

They already were investors from previous rounds.
We aren't really "made to eat meat" though. Humans have evolved to be omnivores because it is the most efficient way to get the nutrients that our bodies need. With a varied diet, we can get all of the vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients that we need from the food we eat. That may or may not include meat, and in a modern society you can easily get by without ever eating meat, from a pure nutritional standpoint.
I hated redux until I started using this.
Employment has fallen slightly recently: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CE16OV

Not dramatically though, a more charitable view would say that employement levels are fairly flat.
Wrong Patrick: kalzumeus is Patrick McKenzie. Patrick Collison's site is patrickcollison.com, and he's 'pc' on Hacker News.