skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never much enjoyed "intelligence" as a way to box groups of people. Everybody knows something I don't, can do things I cannot, solves problems in ways I would not think to. I would not call a math professor who does not know how to fix a car dumb. For me, the line between a lack of skill and a supposed lack of intelligence is too blurry. Of course all of this may be some sort of cognitive dissonance about myself probably not falling particularly high on an intelligence curve.

Either way, if joy and happiness is the goal, than a lot of adults are morons measured against trying to do that. We isolate ourselves, allow stigma and bias to push our choices, and ultimately worry so much about happiness that we do a poor job being happy.
You buy an Italian car for their looks, not their engineering.
I'm not especially smart, or happy, but, personally, I don't know how to be it, or what it feels like. I know pleasure, but being in a constant pleasurable state is not what is meant by happiness as far as I know.

Slavoj Žižek (someone who does seem to be especially smart):

“Happiness was never important. The problem is that we don't know what we really want. What makes us happy is not to get what we want. But to dream about it. Happiness is for opportunists. So I think that the only life of deep satisfaction is a life of eternal struggle, especially struggle with oneself. If you want to remain happy, just remain stupid. Authentic masters are never happy; happiness is a category of slaves.”
Eh we are around for few thousand of years and we have been through worse.

“And if your right hand should be your downfall, cut it off and throw it away; for it will do you less harm to lose one part of yourself than to have your whole body go to hell.”
While I appreciate the hacking potential here .. I fail to see the point beyond it. You won't save any money over buying the salad at an expensive organic store. You won't help the environment (all the plastic and heating and electricity for artificial lighting won't ever be compensated by you saving on pesticides). You won't scale this up to become self-sufficient.

Just get a garden and put the plants in soil. Sure, they may not be as "perfect". But you can have more of them to compensate. Sunlight and rain will do most of the work, use some home-made compost for nutrition, done.

So, what's all the fuzz? Feels like hydroponics, especially with all those 3D-printing gadgetry, is bringing you further away from nature, not closer.
Netflix never gave me a popup or played recommendation of anything between two episodes of a series.

I think that's what most people mean. They want to listen to an album/several/playlist and not hear anything else. (should add: and also not see any popups. Netflix doesn't give me popups, the only place I see stuff I do not want to see is the landing page)
When I used to battle my depression I came across an article/paper that stated that smart people are more prone to depression. Same with "creative" people.

I have overcome depression and I am "satisfied" with my life (I prefer the word "satisfied" to the overinflated one: happiness). And now that depression is in my past I think that was a puff-piece article, and so is this.

One could say that more intelligent people tend to overthink things; then again someone even more intelligent would know better and not overthink things.

Mindfulness is a big component of my new Life.
As gravity is a signed integer it overflows when it gets big enough and turns into a negative number.
Question for physics types: in a hydrogen atom, each quark feels a force from the other two quarks. But if the force really is constant over all distances, would it not feel an equal, or even greater force, from all the other quarks in the entire universe? If there was any imbalance, even one more quark on one side of the Hydrogen atom than the other, wouldn't the quark be pulled toward that?

Or does the strong force go back to zero at distances say larger than an atom?
I liked the big about granny.
I also like Navals take on this, he asks a similar questions 'if you're so smart, why aren't you happy?'.
I think Navals conclusion is that smart people take to things differently, they try to use the same tools that they've used in their lives such as logic and math to try get to happiness but its not physics, its more like philosophy.
I’d rather be happy and completely forgotten than unhappy and loved by all for eternity.
Being smart isn't a factor. You can be perfectly happy with a rice bowl and a robe, what is the intelligence supposed to help with?
We're doing that with cloud functions, pubsub and pulumi, the infra code to set that up is trivial, and it is actually a lot easier to maintain since it's fully serverless & you get retries and parallelism 'for free'. With cronjobs on vms the job itself might be a bit easier to code, but everything around it is a lot harder. (What happens if your 5h job crashes in the middle, who restarts it ? How do you manage locks to prevent concurrent execution ? How do you prevent that job from overloading the system ? etc ...)

just to clarify our setup:
- 1 pubsub 'job' queue
- 1 cloud function triggered by a scheduled event populates the job queue
- 1 idempotent cloud function to handle a job, triggered by events on the queue.
Not when it's in bad faith.
The thing I learned from working with EntityFramework (aspnet) and Django ORM is that people don't really care to learn how those ORM work, they (the devs) ended up generating utterly unoptimized queries, from adding unnecessary inner joins to loading a ton of nested tables. I'd say for both ORM I mention you can pretty much have total control to tailor your sql to your needs (and still have the benefit of easier refactor).

Ofc in the end a raw sql string will always give an edge (see Dapper).
Shouldn’t the real question be “why aren’t more people happy”.

Lack of happiness isn’t relegated only to “smart people”.

My observation: managing stress related to ever growing amount of responsibilities (as comes with age), finances, and spouse can have a disproportionate impact on one’s happiness. None of which are tied to intelligence.
> But _all_ EVs are crazy reliable too.

The presenter in the linked video argues that all cars - EV or ICE - are getting both better and worse. Better in purely mechanical terms where technological marvels enable them to achieve great durability... worse in overall terms where some electronics is going to fail somewhere and suddenly the entire car won't start.

So i don't think you're wrong to say in specific benchmarks EVs are crazy reliable. But from what i've seen and understood of modern cars, complexity and interdependence of secondary subsystems make them super brittle and very highly likely to end up in a landfill under a decade after leaving the factory.

In fact we already have stats on that where car recalls keep on increasing (more than x4 in a decade), and EVs are not exempt from that as they seem to have ~2x more probability to be recalled (on average) than an ICE car.
The smarter people see the truth of the world and the universe. If the truth was good, that we lived in a wonderful society with wonderful people in a universe that cares about us, smart people would be so happy.

But being smart just means you know the awful reality of things. Congrats, you learned about all these awful things you can’t do much to fix, and the reward is you get to experience existential dread. Congrats, you have learned the history of humanity and how our society functions, and your reward is you get to be angry at the vast amount of injustice.
Link to preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.01169
I'm not sure theres such a thing as smart people to begin with. Plenty of people know their own domain very well, but it seems only a few domains are arbitrarily chosen as intelligent ones. Seeing as we're still struggling to define what intelligence even is, I don't see how we can start labelling people as intelligent or not.

At that point, the question is just "why aren't people happier". I doubt theres any one answer, but a lot of the responses in this thread seem to point to some of the possible reasons.
With templating, you treat the yaml as text with a yaml-unaware templating engine (like golangs text/template). You need to make sure that the end result is valid yaml.

With rendering, you use something that is aware of yaml, and you feed it data and it outputs valid yaml.
What is qty? Quantity of people? Quality of signal? Something else?
Given how complicated life is, „living life for it's own simple satisfaction“ frequently involves freeriding on people around you.

Being happy, possible with substances involved, is not exactly inspiring to people around. And, usually, people try to keep away other people from such... inspiration.

Of course, you can be „simply happy“ and a productive member of a community. But usually happiness comes as a byproduct then. And there're lots of other emotions aside from „being happy“.

Maybe it's worth to optimise around reducing misery around or being a net-positive on society where the life satisfaction will eventually come. But happiness may be out of reach due to stuff you can't unknow.
> "It would be illegal in the EU!" aside from being wrong as pointed out by others

what on Earth are you talking about? The most commmon "at will" limit in Europe is 12 weeks. The ONLY countries with more than 17 weeks gestrational limit is the Netherlands, Sweden. The UK, Chezhia, and Finland do not even legally have "at will" abortions, which might differ in practise. So while we can say that MAYBE UK is 20+ weeks that is still the ONLY country in Europe.
Criticism of that article in the comments: https://pubpeer.com/publications/2F26A22D54A2032B460B3037AF2...
You can be really intelligent without knowing much, and you can know tremendous amounts without being intelligent, at least up to a point.
Exactly. Here in Ohio I have the "privilege" of paying an extra $200 a year on my registration because I have an electric car that doesn't give Ohio revenue from the state tax on gasoline.
Most people in Europe don't use iMessage though.
Those who achieve a lot professionally/outwardly are more often than not lacking seriously in some personal aspect. Most often messed up childhood with wrong/missing father figure, unhealthy competitive. I am sure everybody knows them - never staying at one place too long, never happy with anything they have/achieve, always chasing next challenge... no, thank you. Life ending in regrets later on is practically guaranteed.

Long term happiness is an art these days, being too smart is definitely not a prerequisite (more like the opposite of it). Also, I think we lack proper definition for it so people take it as some sort of nirvana levitating a meter above the ground type.

For me personally, living life that I will judge positively and without regrets on the proverbial death bed is form of long term happiness.
Everyone seems to have missed one subtlety: the article only states (with references) that smart people are not happier.

At no point does it say that smart people are less happy (it does mention two studies where in one "lowest scoring" were a tiny bit unhappier, and in another "highest scoring" were happier): the overall tone is that they are equally happy regardless of their intelligence.

And then it wonders why the familiar trait of intelligence does not translate to those people setting their lives up for happiness?
It is indeed a fact we have to face, and the best way to do it is to stop eating fish, if you have the luxury to be able to do that and other foods are available.
But do people have to stop accepting the paper ones on a certain date?
> You seem to be under the common misconception that it's the energy density of batteries that make them unsafe.

not at all. in fact, i said their (comparatively) low energy density is what makes them safe. that low energy density is a problem for range, places a lower bound on the size of vehicle, and somehow fixing that issue will make battery storage a far less safe option.

> There's nothing inherent about battery energy density that makes them more dangerous.

yes, their absolutely is - gasoline requires air to burn. batteries store energy, and they can discharge that energy without any other materials: a battery could burn in space.

> What makes LiPo/Li-ion unsafe is that they have a flammable liquid electrolyte in the middle.

well its the combination of the electrolyte and the metals that make the battery the battery, it wouldn't be battery without it.

> EVs, even with LiPo/Li-ion, are FAR safer than ICE vehicles, there's just no competition.

indeed, and i don't disagree. i think you may have misunderstood what i was trying to say about about safety here: i'm not trying to suggest that gasoline vehicles are inherently safer, at all. i'm saying that if you were to create a battery technology that was even 10x more energy dense, i.e. 10MJ/kg, you'd have great difficulty in making that vehicle safe.

> But the fire department here in Norway say they already have the needed training/experience, and make it clear that EVs are far better for fire safety in general.

once the battery has started burning, it has basically inextinguishable. "clear the area" is the only option you'd have.

> As for your points on whether they're better for longer distance, personal journeys.. I mean, yeah.. at some point they are. If you're driving 1000km in a day I'd definitely agree. But how many people do that often?

in Europe? probably not much. in the US? India? Pakistan?

> [...] For most people the range of EVs is good enough, even for long trips.

likely true, and, as i mentioned, EVs have a place.

> Almost every single road-trip charging session for me has been: 1. spend 30 seconds plugging in and beeping the payment card (with Tesla you don't even have to do this). 2. walk into a restaurant/cafe/grocery store and take a pee, drink some coffee, buy groceries for the trip, etc.. 3. come back to a fully charged car

well there's a couple of issues there - adding 30/45 minutes to a journey like that might not be suitable for everyone. traumatic charge rates (above 4C) are not good for the battery, too.

> The only reason you need that expertise with ICE drivetrain is because it's so hard to maintain.

well even the linked video states that this isn't really the case these days for ICE vehicles, a point i largely agree with.

regardless, if gasoline could be recovered from the atmosphere - closing the CO2 cycle - what would be so bad about this? as it stands, with EVs alone, we're pushing the costs of a complete infrastructure change over to individuals. sure, government assistance might help us here in the west, but that's not the world a lot of people live in.
Solid points.
Stringbike: Benefits (2020)
I don't think our society has any focus on happiness, it's not easily measured or produced and there's little proof that it'd benefit the economy..

I mean..
What if people suddenly discovered that enough food and shelter is available, that they could do maybe a days work a month and just walk around to smell the flowers the rest of the time?
I imagine interstate highways have slopes and curves that are too extreme for train. Specifically for high-speed rail.
An artist who hooked British rock royalty on her revolutionary crochet (2021)
> wisdom allows you to understand that it isn't really worth it

Ah, what a relief. Phew!

(I'll choose to believe you, short of understanding this, but this is probably enough to be happy)
so live in your world with spam and green text bubbles and blurry images.
>These things feel like they'll be market-sorted in the future

Only for people who own something prolific enough for it to be worth the aftermarket's while to support.

Look at the state of tuning for first and early 2nd gen fuel injection systems. It's basically trash unless you own one of a few supported platforms
this is built in on Mac
It's still alive, but it's not the culture IMO. Which is sad.
Would it be possible to artificially create a seed that grows into a house or building?
In a fast reactor neutrons are a few thousand times faster than in a slow one. They are more likely to zip by a nucleus than to interact with it, a few hundred times more likely. But when they do interact, they are very likely to just trigger fission, rather than be absorbed. For example a U-235 has a chance of about 82% to be fissioned by an incoming slow neutron and 18% to become U-236, which is a very nasty long-live waste product. Pu-239 has about a 30% chance to become Pu-240. This itself has a 99.9% to absorb a thermal neutron rather than undergo fission [1].

When the isotope 240Pu captures a neutron, it is about 4500 times more likely to become plutonium-241 than to fission. In general, isotopes of odd mass numbers are more likely to absorb a neutron, and can undergo fission upon neutron absorption more easily than isotopes of even mass number. Thus, even mass isotopes tend to accumulate, especially in a thermal reactor.

Bottom line, in a thermal reactor a lot of neutrons get absorbed and transuranic elements get produced, which have a tendency to have very long half lives.

Thorium, being lighter than Uranium, will produce less of those, because it takes more successive neutron absorptions to become a transuranic isotope. So, yes, Thorium has an advantage over slow Uranium reactors.

But fast Uranium reactors produce much fewer transuranic isotopes to begin with, plus they can burn U-238, which is plentiful. Slow Uranium reactors use Uranium that only contains about 5% U-235, and they only burn a part of it. Fast reactors can burn a copious amount of the U-238 they have, and so they produce much more energy from the same amount of fuel. Which is a different way to say, they produce much less waste for the same amount of delivered energy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium-240#Nuclear_properti...
Playing devil's advocate .. it will also get the kids more disconnected from the natural environment that we're embedded in, after all. You know those statistics of so-and-so-many kids out of 100 don't know where beefsteak comes from, where milk comes from or how potatoes grow? Since all they see is the result in the store? This gets worse when the kids change from lack of knowledge to thinking plants grow in glass pots without soil.

Hydroponics may be fun for hackers. But it's a bastardized form of growing plants, that happens to work, but it's a terrible way to convey science (if not taught very carefully and embedded in a much larger picture with actual nature).

Schools should visit more farms instead.
The sweetspot secret sauce is for leadership to superposition the talent's output in the product. I don't know if ever Microsoft's ecosystem did this. While watching Google's acquired Deepmind defeat China's Go-champ I was playing with everything top of the line from Microsoft's ecosystem and the whole was less than the individual parts in quality, design, etc, put together. Apple has at times achieved this while under Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs's vision was decades and decades ahead of the curve if you go through his interviews. You get this sixth sense is in Elon Musk.
So we're on the road to creating "droplets"? (Dark Forest reference)

Offtopic: Can we please bury the phrase "only time will tell" already?
I did actually use this debugging technique while making a couple of the effects of Area 5150 (the lake effect at the end, and the one two effects before that).
I think part of what makes someone a good problem solver is having an affinity for problems.
Uhuh. Because traditionally, the Web existed
Happiness is not getting what you want. It is wanting what you get.
What is NaN+1?
>In France, rivers are too warm to cool plants. There needs to be water AND it needs to be cool. There is no nuclear power without water cooling.

Just for clarity for others, the reason the water needs to be cool is so that after being used for cooling it doesn't come out too hot and kill wildlife. French plants have applied to temporarily lift these restrictions[1] (which also is not great).

If this becomes a problem longer-term, it might be possible to build larger cooling reservoirs for the water prior to being released back into the river.

1: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/frances-asn-nuclear-reg...
Compare USDT Gas Fees in BEP20, ERC20, TRC20 and Polygon
I think there's a lot of truth in that.

Also, at least for sustainable, healthy activities, there may also be some difference in the kind of life that a person in the bottom 10th percentile and a person in the top 10th percentile of the scale will find gratifying.
Francis Fukuyama: Paths to Depolarization
Could this not be a complete replacement for Next, Nuxt, SvelteKit, ... ?

https://docs.astro.build/en/comparing-astro-vs-other-tools/

"Both XXX and Astro are frameworks for building websites. XXX does best with highly dynamic websites (like dashboards and inboxes) while Astro does best with highly static websites (like content and eCommerce websites)."

This explanation is used for every XXX framework, but i can't really see why. With components you can show high dynamic data, so for me there is no difference if i use XXX or Astro.

Did somebody has some real life examples, that could explain the difference?

Or why it could be better to stay with XXX and not use Astro.

Currently we want to switch our svelte project to SvelteKit, git rid of our custom fiddle (router, etc.). But when i see Astro now, i think about what speak against using Astro? But at the moment it seems that it has many additional benefits?
Nothing like a really cold shower at the end of a really warm one to make you appreciate both the heat and the cold.
At work we make plentiful use of Lua on our telephony backend. As part of many dial plans we need to invoke certain "scripty" functionality - stuff that runs top to bottom to do one thing and then return - which may require e.g. database access, RabbitMQ interaction, Memcached key wrangling etc., and Lua's fast start-up and executional speed facilitates this for us on large scale better than almost anything else.

We initially began with Python for some of these things, which quickly became an untenable and elaborately consummated performance disaster. There are plenty of techniques to get around its slow start-up and performance issues, but they come with a slew of new complications compared to the simplicity and ability to quickly deploy/update/execute from local file system.

Lua for us makes the difference of being able to, on one and the same piece of hardware, manage a thousand simultaneous phone calls instead of just a few hundred.
We were using LuaJit which is a whole other beast.
My pet theory for gravity / general relativity (which is probably completely wrong, but fun to think about), is that space itself is created through particle interaction. Space will thus be denser and create a gravitational effect in places with lots of matter.

That means space also has to decay. And unless you want space to become non-existent far away from matter, the rate of decay must also fall off somehow as you get further away from matter.

I wonder if you could get such a space creation/decay process to match a curve that's 1/r2 at short distances and 1/r at long distances...
The demo is about 500kB at the moment. We're hoping to fit the final version onto a single 360kB floppy but didn't quite get that working in time for the party. A 3.5" floppy should work fine.
What a great quote. I fully agree with the part that we don't actually know what we want most of the time. I have begun to ask myself exactly this question if I feel unhappy about something vague. Often I cannot really answer my own question.. or lose myself in if-then scenarios or plain uncertainty.

I guess my own realization is that there usually are many satisfying goals or outcomes and those change more often than you'd like. That's why "the path is the goal" is also a great quote.