skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Keyword here is "once", kids love it _once_ they're there. The point is that -at the time when the parent is asking the kid to stop what they're doing and shower- they (don't want to / don't understand why they should / etc...) stop what they're doing.

Yeah but that seems like a completely different concept from delaying though, they're not any _more_ gratified being in the bath than they would've been playing tag or whatever they were doing before. And again it doesn't apply if you make it not something regular they have to do, getting kids to change what they're doing like swapping games isn't anywhere near as hard as getting kids to swap games where one of them is a bath.

> Take a look at the Stanford marshmallow experiment[1].

I know all about the Stanford Marshmallow experiment, it's a miserable abortion of an experiment that everyone talks about like received wisdom when every attempt to repeat it's long term findings has like half the effect if you account for even the slightest confounding variables.

(Sorry I'm dunking on it so much, I had to write a paper on it during my degree, everything they found about the kids doing better in life because they could delay gratification completely disappears once you realise that the kids who could wait were just the kids who grew up with more money and never had to worry about food at all, and once you account for parental income and stability you find out the differences in life outcomes are entirely caused by familial wealth.)

Read the follow up studies section if you want to know what I'm talking about, some of the confounding variables they didn't account for include "early cognitive ability and behaviour, family background, and home environment" but also trust in the researcher, if the child had had a promise broken by an adult even _kind of_ recently they were far more likely to fail the test.

Also having read a lot of those studies for that paper, I can say that even the Wikipedia article feels a bit generous to it.

</rant>

> There's nothing inherent in what the word discipline means that signifies anything regarding doing what needs to be done. It's more about doing what you understand to be good for you later, even if you don't fully (or irrationally) don't want to do now, specifically if it's a small sacrifice now for a greater reward later.

Yeah that sounds right actually. I never thought of it like that, thank you.
Walmart has solar panels over its parking lot, here.

If the parking lot and building belong to the developer, they can put up the solar farm. Besides pocketing the extra revenue, they can attract better tenants or offer better prices than the competition.
Thep problem with Market Extremists, is they they are so high on their own supply, they do not notice when they make statements that outright contradict the real world we live in. They live in a separate fantasy land, just like communists do.

Fist falsifiable statement about e-waste policies - if it is so easy to read a company's e-waste policy, could you tell me which companies had policies that said "we will ship this waste to Indonesia and Africa, where it will de dumped without reprocessing and poison children'? If companies are so open about this information, and they want consumers to have a choice, then why do they send armed goods to beat up journalists investigating E-waste supply chain? If I buy a phone from a company that says 'we fully reprocess every single atom' and then it turns out they don't, why do they not go to jail for fraud?

Second falsifiable statement - 'people find having sealed batteries "acceptable" - this claim is not difficult to check - have you ever asked people on the street what they think about this? Have you looked at polls? Majorify of people prefer removable batteries.
Do you listen to audiobooks and podcasts while working? I code for work and I actually find myself increasingly doing this. Sometimes when I really have to focus I stop it but ultimately, it doesn't feel so bad.
I broke my phones screen the other day & decided not to install Facebook and other apps like Reddit on my “old” backup phone, so far I’m liking it.

Certain communities on Facebook are quite interesting but my main feed is filled with so much viral junk that I end up scrolling through crap for hours a week.. Once I start, it consumes me for a while. Kind of sad really, I would rather spend time doing other relaxing things offline instead.

Just came back from a 2 hour walk outside with my son through our local park and farm, usually I'd of checked Facebook at least twice, I enjoyed it a hell of a lot more without “having to check” this or that.

I miss the simple days of just having forums and IM.
My first attempt to GM Skyrim was also the best one https://pastebin.com/ZTsnMWPi
On the github.io landing page there is a link to https://wiki.freepascal.org/CudaText#Advantages_over_Sublime...
To quote the article "red meat (burgers, steaks)" - one of these is not like the other. Even so, there is a word of difference between the meat of an unhealthy animal (especially the fat) and a healthy one.

It does seem that anecdotally a meat-only diet resolves chronic inflammation: reddit.com/r/zerocarb
I wonder if the founders realise that "dolt" is slang for a "stupid person"?
> I'm neither interested nor disinterested

For someone "neither interested nor disinterested", you're making a lot of posts about this subject matter.

Don't you think that if you're in a topic posting about the Twitter vs Elon Musk court case, that you should at very least _PRETEND_ to have interest in this case? Or what are you trying to do to me, just waste my time with these replies of yours?

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I'm not saying you have to be _correct_ in your posts. All I'm asking is for you to be interested enough to seek the truth in the case before you write up a post.
"Other people have it better than me, I want that too, if I accept innate differences being the cause then it means I'll never get there which is unbearable. If all humans are born the same then I can declare the others malicious oppressors - which is a powerful moral weapon - and work from there. At least I'll have a chance to get some of what the others have".
For me, it comes down to what's usable to do my work.

Today, I can pick a regular Windows laptop and have a decent experience with it on Linux, whereas with FreeBSD it is likely that WiFi/BT won't work, GPU acceleration might not work, software is likely to be out of date compared to rolling release Linux distros, then there's the whole WireGuard fiasco[1] and an apparent disregard for code quality, no Docker, no k8s, slow boot times, no ability to play AAA games, non-declarative init etc. etc.

If I were to run a BSD on a server or a router, it would most likely be OpenBSD as that at least has the security aspect going for it.

FreeBSD seems like Linux, but from 2006.

1 - https://lwn.net/Articles/850098
My instinctive response: if the parking lot is too large to generate power that will be consumed at the source, it is yet another reason to consider parking lots as inefficient land use.

My second response: if society considers the electric automobile as an acceptable substitute for efficient land use and transportation infrastructure, perhaps we should be mandating this form of in situ power generation for automobiles so that people who make more environmentally sustainable decisions and those who cannot afford an automobile do not end up subsidizing power for those who choose to drive.

EDIT, just to be clear: I commented on electric cars since they are a way to consume power at the source.
Back in the day, expertsexchange was a paid version of stackoverflow. Needless to say, it was not as successful (their awkward name did not help)
On one hand, I hate Uber/Grab sham financials. And how it pretends it’s “car sharing” and not just regular taxi.

(Also the Grab/Uber deal was explicitly illegal and was even ruled illegal in Singapore. Note that Grab and Uber are both owned by Masa and own each other.)

And their explicit business plan of “losing on each sale in ordering to monopolise and then increase prices” is idiotic. (People always cite Amazon and their razor thin margins, but… Amazon never lost money on every sale.)

On the other hand, they vastly improved experiences of both sides of the taxi deal. That’s just the truth. And articles like this pretend the state before these apps was beautiful pristine state of perfect taxis and public transport and they destroyed that. No? They didn’t.

So… I’m glad that those apps exist, even when their economics make no sense.
> more like I am reverse engineering something rather than using it

Perfect description.
That's probably not what they meant.

What I interpreted it as was that the current iteration of machine learning will not be able to satisfactorily solve full self-driving cars.
So is “git” — that’s the joke.
Desert is a dumb place for a solar farm. Far from users, damn hot, and collect dust.

Farm fields, pastures, canals, lakes, and reservoirs are smart places for solar.
If you're open to it check out the zerocarb / carnivore community. It's extreme but it does work.
> We have very high winds in my area

Here's a point that worries me slightly. With climate change comes
more turbulent weather, and increased winds everywhere. Surely the
first casualties of a gale or hurricane are panels. The bigger the
area, the more vulnerable the installation.
> That said, prison labor is quite common across the globe and considered rehabilitating.

I cannot speak for Finland specifically, but in many places prisoners are taught and can earn qualifications while in prison. If they can leave prison with qualifications as a cook, car mechanic, car painter, carpenter, electrician, or even locksmith (yes, I've seen that, as ridiculous as it sounds), that might actually help them.

However in the US prisoners are often exploited to perform utterly menial tasks. Forget any formal training or earning qualifications. Even if they would perform the same task outside prison, they probably couldn't compete with $0.10/h prison labor. If that cheap human labor didn't exist, those tasks would likely just be automated.

So there's a bit of nuance there and I wouldn't consider all kinds of prison labor rehabilitating.

The philosophy in the US seems to be that you just have to change people: Instead of giving people opportunities to lead a normal life after prison, options are actually taken away from felons. Most other western countries recognize that many crimes are also a result of circumstances and lack of opportunities. The easiest way to get people to follow your rules is not punishment, it's making them want to do it because conformity is the path of least resistance.
Yes, Michaela Peterson's TEDx talk is very interesting.
The Apollo On-Board Computers
You are misunderstanding his point even though masklinn explained it. It's not about the specific point of operator precedence. It is about designing something that has internally sound logic but is very unexpected by a typical new user. And he provided the example of time package patterns in Go which imho fits very well. Yea it makes sense but I'm sure there are hordes of users that think "why doesn't this work like in virtually every other language?".

It's probably good to not take the "typical" too literally and more as a "Rob Pike has done a few designs in the past that have this quality".
More typical lately is three years. Panels are way cheaper than before.
For those curious to see the language in action, Russ Cox recorded solutions to many of the AoC 2021 challenges in Ivy.

https://www.youtube.com/user/rscgolang/videos
I think nix could learn a few things from rust (maybe I’m out of date with nix, it was a while back when I tried it).

Rust has few things that makes it outstanding against other languages (in this context in particular):

- Tooling: I think nix needs an lsp (if isn’t any yet).

- Static typing: In this particular case might work better the typescript route, where you can gradually add typing (to not break old nix code).

- Docs.rs and documentation: In particular it is very powerful to have a centralized documentation that isn’t ambiguous and also this forces the packages to document themselves, so you could access that documentation directly from the source code and the tooling in your text editor.

This is just something that for me will make it easier to use, I think the days where you write text without help are over, it is much better IMHO work with rust because those points (there are few others, but besides those) for me is so important, and also ease the learning curve of nix language in general.

The other thing is the ecosystem, iirc you need some other packages or helpers to make nix work, there are also cases where you want to setup something and the official docs tell you that you need some package first, then you go a step back and try to figure out what’s that, and the same if you want to install another package, it requires you another package to setup first, I don’t remember exactly but in macos you needed some packager or darwin packager, I really don’t remember, and that was a huge set back, besides other issues with newer macos changes that did nix a PITA to install correctly.
Are you saying that you find Cursorless easier that emacs/evil? If so, can you elaborate on what it is about Cursorless that you find reduces cognitive load?
I'm glad you brought this up! Every time the subject of transfer of consciousness comes up this is a drum I beat endlessly. We need physical continuity for any sort of meaningful transfer to happen.

I think that it actually could work as long as the parts that we are integrating into our physical brain are able to be integrated naturally by our neurons and glia and allow our networks to begin offloading computational work to the new parts. Doing this slowly over time to ensure full integration should work as long as the new pieces are designed properly. It's really a matter of how our brain would offload what it currently does to the new hardware, which we know it can do within itself thanks to the study of plasticity mechanisms

If we go the Ship of Theseus route, that should theoretically be a way to preserve our awareness, our "self"

Some sort of transfer of data or copy wouldn't work because our awareness is still with the original
According to https://www.researchgate.net/publication/356705078_Zero_air_...

"Transitioning may create ∼4.7 million more permanent jobs than lost and requires only ∼0.29% and 0.55% of new U.S. land for footprint and spacing, respectively, less than the 1.3% occupied by the fossil industry today."

So getting rid of fossil fuels infrastructure in the USA and replacing it by renewable would give back 0.45% of land.
Fyi: the cron.it domain appears to be available
I have to disagree with this guy.

Sure, the corruption can occur, but if the memory is not faulty, ZFS will detect data corruption in-situ during a scrub. It's just that ECC errors can introduce their own corruption that is separate, during write operations only.

I believe if you have no choice but to use non-ECC (e.g. existing hardware that is limited by Intel's stupid design choice of "ECC is only for servers"), ZFS is still much better than using ext4. It still protects against a different class of errors which is HDD degradation. When used in RAID-Z it can even recover for them.

For perfect protection ECC is necessary. But this is not always possible financially. I think it's a bit of a wild statement to say that if you can't afford a server with ECC you should forget about ZFS entirely.
You're off by a factor of 10 :-).
At ~20kWh/100km, 20MWh gives us 100000km !
Unix Epoch and NTP Counter
"Lunchtime banter"? You mean ya'll don't use lunch as the daily progress reports meeting? So inefficient!

The place that did that was a bad work environment; shockingly enough the "working" lunches weren't the worst habit they had either.
Uber will learn to satisfy riders' preferences: Some riders what VIP treatment, others want the fastest possible service. Some riders live in a bad neighbourhood and want a driver to take them there.

Uber is also learning which drivers are not trustworthy and removing them from their system.

Over time users will have bad experiences with competing apps and delete them from their phones.
ZFS dedup made that a thing but it's almost never used by consumers.
There are people who like structure in their life. Working from home every day is not what they want. But, then, in the office one needs to work, hence some space that allows you to focus is a necessity.

For the record I do not like going to the office because of the above mentioned reasons. Furthermore, my home office has better equipment. My wife on the contrary loves going to the office although she could work from home.
Can We Throw Satellites to Space? – SpinLaunch
I do too, but if I have to learn something new or step through complex logic, then I have to pause.
Jails was actually committed to the source tree in 1999… so almost 25 years. You should read phk’s article - Jails: Confining the omnipotent root. It’s very good.
> somewhat decimal

That sounds very suspicious.
You get 20 kW by covering just three spaces.
Presumably Google benefits financially from the Android ecosystem. Play store if nothing else.

You can imagine a different world where many mobile OS providers exist, charge you for the system, then comes out Google with free Android, kills the competition and then milks monopoly pricing.
>(the AirPods are amazing)

>can they really be nimble and agile enough to come up with the next big thing?

Evidently, yes

https://www.reddit.com/r/headphones/comments/n5m5vz/oc_airpo...
I fixed the computations, the 15k km was about right but I messed up intermediate computations.
Object Technology Licensing Corporation
A lot of good questions to ask yourself here. But,

> have you ever used/applied "internet slang" (cringe, based, cuck, chad) in/to real-life situations?

I take slight issue with this one. To me, there is no difference between “internet slang” and just “slang”. The internet is ubiquitous and the language we use online and offline is largely the same now.

Didn’t always be this way. I still remember the first time I heard a friend say “epic fail” in really life circa 2005 or so, and it was like some sort of glass wall had been broken between our real lives and our internet lives. But that wall is long gone, and I think that’s probably okay.
Car parts fail reliably enough that the manufacturer tells you when you should replace parts of the car at regular intervals. They don't tell you the car will last forever, it's clearly in a constant state of breaking down. Electronics manufacturers should be just as honest.

I think it's pretty funny when people pay more for an electronics gadget than for a used Honda Civic, and the Civic outlasts the gadget by 10 years (with maintenance). And the Civic's electronics, ironically, usually don't need maintenance.
I got myself Pinephone (not Pro) in December 2021. It was mostly unusable but very basic functions (make calls, send/receive SMS) out of the box at the time. Telegram client was very slow, Firefox had screen size problems, notifications were a mess. I think I should've tried to install another OS/env image, but alas I had no time for it. It was a nice try though, and I was impressed how far things got in mobile Linux ecosystem. Maybe something changed from the time, maybe Pro version is somehow better, but for now I think I'll abstain from experimenting for another year. Also, Serbia, where I am in right now, is notoriously bad with the procedure of receiving goods from abroad.
I far prefer to pahk my cah in the shade. Putting solar panels on the top is just a nice bonus.
Modern transmission lines lose very little power, and anyway the marginal cost to produce is zero.

So, no, there is no problem with shipping power around.
Russ Cox (who worked together with Rob Pike on Go for a long time) solved several of last year's Advent of Code puzzles using Ivy. Here's a YouTube playlist where he has recorded himself doing so: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrwpzH1_9ufMLOB6BAdzO08Qx.... I don't think he's solving the problems for the first time in these videos, instead merely demonstrating how they can be solved using Ivy.
The important point is that each monad (e.g. list) corresponds to an algebraic structure (like monoid). To study the set of algebraic structures, you can also study monads
Yep. Uniformity and control. Most are against any "non standard" paint colors, flowers in your lawn, etc.
In the 1990's, Sun changed from an engineering-driven company to a marketing-driven company. When marketing takes over a company and starts to monkey with the product, that is the beginning of the end.
Understandable, but by telling people to just forget ZFS and use EXT4 instead, you're getting them to leave both doors open.

Also, bitrot is not like burglars. Burglars try one door and if they don't succeed they will look for further vulnerabilities. Memory and disk corruption is random, it's not trying to attack you.

In many cases ECC is just not possible without buying expensive new hardware (with possibly higher power consumption) due to intel being so precious with ECC as a 'server feature only'. Data protection is not absolute, protecting against one class of corruption is better than none. E.g. one of my NASs is a low-power NUC specifically chosen for its power consumption.

Of course both is even better but not everyone has the financial resources for perfection.
> Please, tell me what is the point to go physically at work in an open space instead of doing remote work...

Exactly, there's no point going to work physically together unless you're building something physical.

Interaction with colleagues works extremely well using technology: text messages, emails, conference calls, one-to-one video calls, and even the "metaverse" if you're into cutting edge stuff.
Concern trolling.

There is absolutely no need to site on undeveloped land or to take land out of production. Solar coexists well with most uses, as with parking and roofs.
Author hears the bells, but can't quite put a finger on it.

If a highly successful company is not profitable, then it usually means only one thing - they are very good at tax avoidance.
Profit attracts Corporation Tax, so big corporation use creative accounting techniques to transfer it somewhere where they don't have to pay tax or it is very very low.
There are other reasons why one would want to pocket the profits / hide - for instance when a salary attracts very high tax - paying a CEO level salary may seem like a waste. So what often companies do, they are signing a contract with a company indirectly controlled by a CEO level for services that sound legitimate and pay the fees. Then that company is doing it's own creative accounting.

People forget that a company does not have to have profit to be healthy. Profit comes after all obligations and investments are paid. It is actually in the company interest to not have any profit, so they reinvest money and pay good salaries.
Only people interested in profit are shareholder and usually it comes at the expense of people who actually do the work.
> Programing languages require precedence rules

WUFFS doesn't have operator precedence. https://github.com/google/wuffs/blob/main/doc/wuffs-the-lang...

As its designers explain: A bare a * b + c is an invalid expression. You must explicitly write either (a * b) + c or a * (b + c).

Why doesn't WUFFS have precedence? Because it's focused intensely on solving its specific problem, Wrangling Untrusted File Formats Safely. Having solved the buffer problem (you can't write buffer[oops_too_big] type mistakes in WUFFS, they will not compile) and the integer overflow problem (likewise, it doesn't compile) they wanted to also solve that problem where the programmer thought there were making one calculation, but due to precedence rules they were actually making a different calculation.
> My wife on the contrary loves going to the office although she could work from home.

Does she go to the office for the actual work? Or because she is social?
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