skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another HN trend applies here: the most upvoted comment being a middlebrow dismissal based on a wrong argument, which is still popular with HNers despite most of the replies to it politely pointing out why it's wrong...

(GDP is calculable via an "income method", differs from Gross National Income only in excluding net transfers of incomes overseas, and per capita GDP is routinely used as a yardstick for income comparisons)
which explains consciousness: both why we are self-aware (because we're modelling ourselves) and why we aren't more self-aware (because the model is only accurate enough to be effective)...
You're in luck: https://github.com/victorqribeiro/retroSynthwave

This plus the macos app Plash makes for a sweet desktop wallpaper.
Wait, there are still people defending liberal arts degrees as "rounding out a person" in the age of the internet? How quaint. Your children will know more about the humanities, history, natural science, and the arts, and they will do so from watching videos on the internet for fun at no cost... or they'll be absorbed into either the vacuous consumerism of pop entertainment or the indoctrinated pseudo-intellectualism of academia. Personally, if I had to choose, I'd take the former, because at least those idiots aren't insufferably arrogant about their stupidity. The dumbest people I know have PhDs.
UCIe Consortium Incorporates, Adds Nvidia and Alibaba as Members
Another important aspect of suitability is the building time for new ships, in most cases you will only be able to fight the current war with the ships that you already have or are currently under construction. So having ships survive is important, and it is why so many of the WW1/2 navies were so afraid of using them.
Yes but more scared than repulsed. It made me feel scared for some reason.
How feasible is it to just cut everything with a wet blade?

Stone cutting is almost exclusively done with a wet grinding tool, and that is very effective at keeping dust down.

I know water damages wood, but by merely wetting the saw blade, and then immediately drying the cut wood afterwards, it would seem like a good way to keep workers safe (either instead of a dust extraction system, or in addition).
IIRC from reading some WWII pilot memoirs that the recommended procedure was to pull up (to bleed off speed), unbuckle, and then push the stick forwards, and the negative G would throw the pilot out of the cockpit.

Might be a bit more difficult in reality with the plane on fire and missing control surfaces, though.
Well, the maintenance cost is always higher for vintage cars.

I am pointing to the fact that it's quite unique design that I, personally, subjectively, think has a potential to ripe over time, just like some other older Citroens.

I don't mean it as everyday replacement of modern car, I agree that doesn't work. The development in car industry is actually so fast, that a new car is infinitely better than a 10yo car.
That's basically $20K for an idea.

That's very good money if you already have the right idea.

Or can come up with one real easy.
The program that can be written
is not the eternal program.
The script which can be run
is not the eternal script.
Alt + SysRQ + b
This https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/defense/penal-code/459/ says that just entering a building with the intent to commit a crime counts as burglary even if no force was required.
A 1923 aerospace engineering degree probably is less useful than a 1990 Computer Science degree because more time has elapsed, but I imagine that both would confer useful skills and fundamental knowledge still relevant today. The notion that computers are so fast moving that everything from more than 5 minutes ago is completely irrelevant is only true if you're working with technology at a very shallow level (e.g. "the buttons moved and I had to relearn everything!")
Ah, but the seeds were there. He already liked the idea of using bulk user data for analysis purposes
Thinking about ASSERTS
FILL-IN-THE-BLANKS requires more meditation.

You have not yet reached enlightenment.

A koan is incomplete.

Please meditate on the following code:

File "koans/asserts.lisp"

Koan "FILL-IN-THE-BLANKS"

Current koan assert status is "(INCOMPLETE INCOMPLETE INCOMPLETE)"

You are now 0/198 koans and 0/31 lessons closer to reaching enlightenment.
Flagged for racism. You can’t justify it by saying “oh it’s well known”. If we listed all the other “well known” facts about other races, things would get abominably racist real quick.
PS. Archer St's history is fascinating, too. I've heard so many stories from the old jazzers about what this was like: https://www.muhistory.com/from-the-archive-4-archer-street-l...
> elasticity

these are human beings you're talking about.

> most contractors (i.e. those hired via agency, not self-employed) see employee status as a coveted promotion

there are non-hire agreements between vendor and the clients.

whatever kind of euphemistic spin people want to put on it, it's a form of exploitation.
I appreciate the enthusiasm, but as the EU shows (and the US in its Confederation incarnation in the 18th century), creating a super-state is not easy.

I wish them luck, we badly need a large and developed country in Africa.
>Britain's descent from the powerhouse of world-changing ideas to one giant housing estate and Tesco superstore is almost complete.

In my limited foreigner's understanding, Britain was "the powerhouse of world-changing ideas" during period that has fuzzy limits but starts maybe around Newton and continues until maybe Turing -- but after WW2, what was left the powerhouse was certainly eclipsed by the US, and after the 1980s, Asiancountries.

Maybe one can stretch it bit further after the WW2 if one thinks that popular culture production like Beatles is a worthwhile substitute. [1]

How was the education in Britain organized during that era?

[1] I don't; AFAIK income distribution in popular culture production is very winner-takes-all top-heavy, much worse than the software income distribution often denigrated as favoring the 10X developers. 10X coders may make much more than a marginal software developer (I am imagining soon-to-graduate CS student who would-be entry-level dev who has difficulties getting the first interview), but I believe it easier for the marginal software developer land a software job that pays the bills than for a marginal would-be musician to land a music job that pays the bills.
> it should be exactly equal to the cost of carbon offset for the amount emitted

If it's to fix an externality, then it specifically should be exactly equal to the cost of that externality - that is, sufficient to compensate for all damages (and repairs for said damages) resulting from that externality. This should be right around the same as a carbon offset, but it's worth remembering why a carbon tax is necessary: not for the mere sake of punishing some dirty activity, but for the specific sake of compensating the victims of reckless negligence.
> Why should a random citizen get paid more just because in their country there's heavily polluting industries? It makes no sense.

I'm not following. Random citizen also pays more in tax.
Ha ha almost. It should be:

Because project managers, who invent these things don't want to make themselves redundant.

It's only by pushing the falsehood that the team is so incompetent as to require handholding from someone who likes moving tickets around that they're able to stay in a cushy job.
> Disguised as: ‘I need to learn just a bit more and then I am ready’.

Not relevant to me (OP), as I have already started multiple endeavors (and failed most of them).

So any decent books recommendations are still welcome. Thanks.
As another anecdote, IIRC the Avro Lancaster crew escape hatch was found to be too small when wearing a parachute. Probably a non-trivial number of crew met their end trapped inside the aircraft.

There were IIRC plans to fix it, but they didn't want a hiccup in production due to implementing the fix, so it was never fixed.
Someone has to be able to maintain it. What happens when the one person who understood it leaves and it needs to be modified or upgraded, if they're lucky they can hack it into working and even that's not a good thing as the build has now been modified in a way that is not understood and possibly broken. If they can't figure it out and the need is not that strong they'll leave it as is and just not change whatever they originally had wanted to, ultimately limiting themselves and their solution in someway. The last choice for them is do the only thing they should when there are components that are not understood or can't maintain and rip it out and in the process lose many days or weeks replacing it.
I really like Jimmy Akin for his podcast, "Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World". It covers various mysteries topics, from the cause of inflation to remote viewing and parapsychology. Jimmy does all of this in a non sensationalist way while retaining an interesting story-like format. As a Catholic, Jimmy gives both the reason and faith perspectives.

https://youtube.com/user/JimmyAkin
Everyone can, but why would anyone do? Our default state is "I don't care what you do, that knowledge is a distraction detrimental to my own work. Ideally I'd want you all to work, if you have to, when I don't". The rituals exist to break down those walls, even if just a little.

It's best illustrated by the author's failure indicator "If the manager or “scrum master” can’t show up, the stand-up doesn’t happen". That's so very telling.

The alternative approach of the chat reminder tries to minimize friction (short writeup is so much easier to consume than trawling The Board) instead of forcing everybody to be present (and presumably listen, which does not necessarily happen)
Commodification of culture brought on by rampant capitalism ruins everything.
Hated? Wow. Pretty bold thing to say. I have a feeling that every boy gamer had a sister who played Sims on their pc back in the day. Sure, if you're identity is "hc gamer" you wont play "casual games" like Sims but I really feel like what Candy Crush is today, Sims used to be. Of course, the whole market was smaller then
I personally mostly worked under SDLCs were the developers have autonomy and do task breakdown by themselves, rather than by being assigned by PM/SM (except bugs/support tickets).

If that's a psychological issue, not sure daily standup can help here, unless the PM/SM will try to interrogate that person, or try to guess if somebody is blocked.
The Tory ministers consist overwhelmingly of PPE grads, I don't think they are truly anti intellectual.
I don’t see how memory allocation is relevant for that. I have seen spaghetti C code (everything is a function pointer) and beautifully readable C++, and vice versa.

After a point, it is just personal preference, but in my opinion good C++ code is much much better than good C code. The former actually has tools to express many things about the code.
> Dreams are inherently sexual ...

To me, that's a really weird statement.

Perhaps it's more a reflection of how you dream?
> Why should a random citizen get paid more just because in their country there's heavily polluting industries?

Because everyone - including that random citizen - experiences harm from said heavy pollution. That's my air being contaminated, my water being poisoned, my planet being wrecked; by what rationale would I somehow not be justified in demanding compensation for that harm?
Are function tables really all that cleaner? Honest question. If I can offer a counterpoint a function table requires us to code some function dispatch routine that looks at the intention (keywords in function table), then looks up the function, then finds a way to bind the arguments to the function (language specific) and finally call the function? Isn't this more complexity in code?

Isn't switch-case simple because it is available as a construct in the language?
No your comment is pure propaganda.
Alternatively, books can be entertainment, and that's fine. This I think is a difference in the types of books read. I generally don't read self help books, my experiences in the past with many of them leaving me uninterested in the genre, and instead tend to mostly read novels, especially sci-fi/fantasy.

It would rather negate the entertainment value, and would feel more like work, if I had to take notes for a book club style experience, though as evidenced by the popularity of book clubs, there's plenty of people who feel different.
That's what I do as sort of scrum master. Meet Tuesday and Thursday and if people don't show it's fine.
There's a big difference between "I struggle to use a new technology" and "I am familiar with this technology, but it's built to serve its own ends over mine"
I believe that the difference IS obvious, but it's the "absolute" difference.

The relative difference may very well not exist between the two scenarios. If I can't just go to the beach with my wife, if I can't go walk the dog in the farther-away park, if I can't play an online game that lasts over 40 minutes per match, if I can't schedule a music lesson - then if the above is my definition of free time, then it's going to be difficult to convince me that there's a difference between "you can't do this because you're working" and "you can't do this because you're on-call". All it takes is that I take "can't do it" seriously enough.

If your typical day-off is filled with "short" activities, if you being on-call doesn't affect plans of other people close to you, if you plan your month so that you do all the housework & chores on your on-call days, then you'll probably be OK and will testify to the huge difference between the two.

The perception of this difference will thus vary from person to person, from circumstances to circumstances, from lifestyle to lifestyle.
IME whenever an organization like that hires an agile coach they either get a jaded cynical jobsworth who powers through the motions implementing some process heavy thing or an idealist who ends up clashing with managers who definitely want "agile", but with status updates, quarterly planning and accountability metrics and all the other shit that makes it impossible to be agile.

The latter will typically get managed out or even fired.

There doesnt really seem to be a way to square this circle.
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They might be confusing Tao Te Ching with the I Ching.
The Ford Focus cars from back then seem amazingly robust and reliable.
Yep, exactly. There are very few codebases that can actually write code directly to the optimizer and they are usually developed very closely with a specific compiler. For other cases usually you can trust that a number of basic optimizations can be performed and then be cautious about what the various compilers can do. As you gain more experience you can slowly expand the set of things you would expect to be "easy" for the compiler–when those passes don't run, they're generally considered to be bugs.
>... in the age of the internet? Your children will *know* more ...

Facts vs thinking. Where do you go to learn how to debate and how to structure knowledge?
Median income of the total population or "the labor force" or of the "potential working age population"?

With barely over 50% of the population working in most countries [1] median based on population will be skewed too.

Then we have to agree on working age population.

Then we have to measure unmeasured income (ex. providing child care, teaching at a home school, preparing meals, cleaning, maintaining your own car, repairing or upgrading your residence, etc.) oe you lose all of this in the data.

The real challenge from my perspective is trying to boil down something as complex as a population into a single stat.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_force_in_the_United_St...
> Don't most engineering managers get paid more than most IC engineers? Doesn't the move to management progress all the way to the C-suite? If so, then how is moving to management a lateral move?

> Don't most engineering managers get paid more than most IC engineers?
Nope, about the same if not less!

> Doesn't the move to management progress all the way to the C-suite?
Also the IC part can take you there (Managers have a hard time becoming CTOs)

> If so, then how is moving to management a lateral move?
Because it's a different role (in most companies) and there's no direct connection between technical level and people management
Inflation, recessions/depressions, and other economic maladies do indeed suppress carbon emissions, but I'd hope you'd agree that a more precise and direct lever (like a carbon tax) would be vastly preferable.
Rust Code for the Linux Kernel Updated with More Features Implemented
Yes in a period where Tesla's main factory is forced to shutdown, and then shutdown again for upgrades, you could understand Stellantis briefly moving into the lead.

Pretty sure it isn't going to last. Shanghai being back now, and Berlin increasing volume, no way is this happening again.

Awesome to see a growing competition in BEVs though. Very cool!
Hands down the best post-pandemic discovery has been Martijn Doolaard: a Dutch gentleman that bought a pair of old houses in the Italian Alps, and with a lot of patience, DIY and elbow grease is turning them into an off-the-grid home.

No music, no sponsors, no ads, just nature, ingenuity, long shots, some conversation and (small spoilers) heartwarming human collaboration.

Warning: you will get an itch to leave the city behind, for a better life close to nature.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL32DhVYS_cmGlvtY5UzdVVMI3...
Wow, there are lots of interesting settings on old.reddit.com. I didn't realise that I could hide comments with a low score for example.
I'm the same. I've always worked in C and would've naturally assumed it would've executed as a jump table.
Do you need Elasticsearch when you have PostgreSQL?
indeed. If you get your "facts" off of YouTube, critical thinking skills become ever more important.
The compiler writer is probably a fine developer. You just can't 10x everything.
Was Agile invented by PMs?
I've said it before. I'll say it again (and get downvoted heavily again, because fanbois...) but

BMW is an Intelligence Test.

If you bought one, you failed.
>The stupidest aspect of this is that... he's going to trash arts education funding.... The UK arts sector... one of the UK's most profitable export industries. For every £1 of government money going into it, roughly £5 in foreign earnings comes back.

Is there any relationship between arts education funding and the 'arts export industry'? The arts existed long before university and the most successful don't appear to have been trained in a university. Stross himself went to CS and not the arts.
Having had the experience of having read on my own time as a younger teen a book that was on the school curriculum in my later teens, I will say there is something about dissecting a book so you can write essays on it that is pretty effective at removing the enjoyment.

I wouldn't take the unpopularity of school-assigned reading to indicate much about how people would actually feel about reading, but of course there were plenty of classmates who only read the books assigned in school where it would have coloured their opinions on reading as a whole
I know several people who are experts at reverse engineering, obfuscation, and runtime patching solely because they did Minecraft mods.
Maybe good technology shouldn't require (even tech savvy) users to struggle with it. IIRC Motorola (or someone else, maybe Braun, I can't remember exactly who) originally had a philosophy, which Apple later also adopted, but seems to have forgotten about lately, which stated that "if a user actually needs to pull out the manual in order to figure out how to use the product, then the product is a UX failure".

Like I said before, and I'm saying it as a fan of your work, but your viewpoint on the OS has little substance in it and can be shortened to "I just like MacOS and I really hate Windows, period", which would have been fairer to say than your original one liner which seems heavily biased, as you did not provide any arguments to why one is better than the other. Not saying Linux or Windows are better but at least I gave you precise example from my personal life where MacOS just bombs new users completely and I can in no way crown it a great UX example that gets out of your way and lets you get work done.

Each to his own of course, but for healthy debates it's good to provide some arguments and comparison points when picking out winners over losers instead of just throwing hot personal opinions around as facts. Like, you say you "refuse to go near Windows", which is fine, but how can I trust your unbiased opinion on it when you didn't go near it? Would you believe a car review from someone who didn't actually drive the car?
I'm almost 40 as well, with no kids, and I'm never bored. Sometimes I wish life slowed down enough to allow me to be bored, but there's a neverending stream of entertainment, information, and educational materials to draw from
The burnt out rooms will be available for extra £ or used as an art installation for visitors to ogle at.
Muscles and flexibility.

It won't increase your lifespan per se but it'll vastly increase your quality of life.

If you were to die at 80, you'll want to be able to do something else that sitting your last years.
> Bedsides, In most places birth rate is already below replacement level, so longer lifespan is necessary to prevent population collapse.

No, it's not. Current estimates are that population will stabilize around 10bn people, not collapse: https://ourworldindata.org/future-population-growth
There indeed are here in the US, including quite a few of my family members.

That said, the people who live in such places (including the aforementioned family members) tend to be the hardy and adaptable sort, and would readily figure something out should carbon-emitting transportation become cost-prohibitive.
> To approach his work with the epistemological presumptions of the scientist or
historian, necessarily precludes philosophical skepticism.

Yes, and that doesn't just exclude dyed-in-the-wool "scientists".
Quite extremist forms of positivism prevalent today cast-out valuable
works more widely. Certainly such works are filled with speculation,
imagination, half-bakery, and emotional polemics, as has been the
vernacular writing style for thousands of years. By scientific
standards they are 90 percent rubbish. The baby lost in this bathwater
is the ten percent of absolute genius that more patient, curious and
open minds can digest and drive science forward at a different level.

Another difficult book that complements bicameralism, again by a
discredited researcher R.D. Laing, is "The Divided Self" It approaches
the experiential modularity of mind from a different perspective, a
top-down descent into mental illness, namely schizophrenia. Laing's
methods were, to say the least, controversial. Taken with J. Jaynes'
bottom-up genealogical/developmental analysis Laing's is another piece
of the jigsaw of the mind.

Moreover, it is interesting just how many psychologists and
philosophers who challenge the "unified" individual hypothesis, Freud
included, are deemed "discredited" in our milieu. Works like those of
G. I. Gurdjieff and P. D. Ouspenski, which roams into mysticism, seem
entirely lost today. Surely the problem is this way of thinking
conflicts with modernity and capitalism, whose atomic unit is the
singular rational individual.