skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The trouble here is that now we have two opposing anecdotes.

Makes me think there is more to this. I suspect there are other major variables in play. I get hopelessly lost. My brother is exactly the opposite. He has special awareness and a sense of direction that is natural and innate. I think my issue is Aphantasia.

This makes me think the training is both reasonable and natural for some, and extremely difficult for others.

Pre-technology, tracking/navigation was a highly valued skillset, and seemingly evidence that some people were just much better at it than others if accounts of famous trackers/navigators are to be believed.
> The recipes themselves are usually more than just a list of ingredients, there's some originality in how the recipe is laid out, how to prepare it, and something else.

You can't copyright the "how to prepare it" part either.
Despite having the advantage of an extra 19 years, I don’t think this essay offered any new insights that weren’t already in Clay Shirky’s 2003 essay on power laws and inequality:

https://extremedemocracy.com/chapters/Chapter%20Three-Shirky...
One year I prepaid an entire 12 month lease in cash (well, a wire transfer). They didn't run my credit or request income verification. Did you try this?
If I handwrite a letter, I'm filtering before and while I write to reduce all the nonsense that might pass through my head down to something I hope will be of interest to the recipient.

If I tweet, I can shoot out all of that nonsense to the world, secure in the knowledge that the filtering labor will be done in combination by some subset of potential recipients (whose choices to engage or not will provide the fodder that the Twitter feed-building algorithm can use to determine whether it's passed the filter).

This might then indicate that a skill that might be atrophying is the ability to filter one's own writing for relevance/value, not just to produce it in cursive.

I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to determine what other signs they would look for to confirm or disconfirm this hypothetical atrophy.
It exists under a more sensible copyright regime.
Cmkr: Modern build system based on CMake and TOML
>I bet a 50s fridge is pretty efficient because they are manual defrost only

That doesn't seem like a fair comparison. It's like saying a bike is "pretty efficient" compared to an e-bike because it doesn't consume any energy (infinite efficiency!)
Domino is patented at the moment. But the patent expires very soon, in 2024 or so since the first domino jointer appeared in 2004. Soon after that similar devices should appear from many manufacturers, even China brands could join the fun.
It can totally be altered further. Just print the altered version and take a picture again.
If running a webserver was as easy as

./nginx.bin

and you could rest assured that there would be no library errors, then Docker wouldn't be as prevalent as it is.

People go to ridiculous lengths just to avoid the shared library mess, and it only makes the argument against shared libraries stronger.
You’re onto something. BaasAI is the new leader in pushing paperwork through administrations. It can untangle form dependencies, schedule reminders and even imitate a friendly voice after waiting 2 hours on the phone, searching through the database to find what topic will make the clerk laugh.

Only large corps will be able to afford BaasAI. The ground is still level, but peons won’t be able to have any paperwork processed because the services will be saturated with thousands of bots which do their job better. This is the future.
Because how can you tell apart a brand that makes durable appliances from a brand that merely claims to make durable appliances? Not to mention that any money you invest in making durable appliances will give you better short-term results if you just dump it in some advertising & marketing, and short-term results are all that the current "system" rewards.
GE Cafe line. Now you can be broke like everyone else but your appliances won't
It did quickstart the Nuclear revolution after the WW2, look whos still burning coal nowadays ;)
The only person I know who majored in Egyptology is now a pediatric oncologist making probably half a mill a year in Manhattan. I agree — it’s about the person, not the major.
I remember someone who bought a low-mileage used car under warranty. The transmission started acting funny and making strange noises, but the dealer wouldn't do any repairs because it worked. I think he was about 8 months into a 12 month warranty.

He drove in such a way as to make sure it didn't work before the warranty was up, and then they fixed it.
Yeah, except that you're not getting your money back because almost nothing has a warranty that extends nearly to it's reasonable lifetime, so the manufacturer has no particular interest in stopping you from buying another one.
It seems common all across Europe, maybe the whole western world.

Here for France: https://www.60millions-mag.com/tests-comparatifs

(I just laughed as I see they even review fries brands, and sex toys...)
You are right, but does it need to secure absolutely every single aspect of the situation ?

If an official agent takes a picture with it at an office and saves it to that person’s file, having a stamp saying it comes from the right camera and wasn’t altered post capture is good enough in 99.9% of the situations.

Proving that person is actually who they say they are can be dealt with in other means.
I often listen to movie or tv series tracks. Recently that's included music from Hans Zimmer (Mission Impossible [1], Rush [2], etc.), Calm with Horses [3], El Chapo [4, 5], and The Kingdom [6].

I sometimes listen to my favorite bands (Tool, Porcupine Tree, Dream Theater, etc.), but like OP, I'm mostly biased towards non-lyrical while working.

[1] https://youtu.be/3Rmn8HGGFj4?t=677

[2] https://youtu.be/3Rmn8HGGFj4?t=967

[3] https://youtu.be/85Byny4WRLU?t=89

[4] https://youtu.be/BBqgevV5JhQ

[5] https://youtu.be/wVDzx9zM0Nw?t=35

[6] https://youtu.be/zA5kgZvRBaE
China's nuclear efforts have nothing to do with Capitalism

It is communism/socialism, government funded effort, government funded universities/R&D

Just like this US's record
not to be "that guy" but comparing something with moving parts to something without is not exactly a fair comparison.
I think the poster is interested in this case as an example of how delegating a task to technology leads to skill atrophy. We do it more and more every year. Technology may be making us stupid. It all leads to WALL-Eesque retardation and decadence.
This is the core issue that prevents reliable consumer products from becoming more widespread. Even if demand exists for more reliable consumer goods, consumers don't have the ability to actually evaluate reliability at the time of purchase.

Manufacturers can't justify producing a more reliable product at a higher price point, because there isn't really a way to get consumers to trust that it really is a more reliable product worthy of the price.
> They are designed to die just slightly past the warranty,

Or more likely, they set the warranty period to be just below the MTBF
Nah, that’s for normal consumers looking for a good value. If you’re rich, whoever buys your appliances for you will get them from the local Viking/Sub-Zero/etc dealer.
This comment is pretty ironic given that Aaron (the person you’re quoting) didn’t go to college at all.

Source: https://blog.thirdyearmba.com/not-everyone-should-attend-col...
> > The market is not working, we just have the tools to realize how badly it's broken.

>"The market" is not a single thing.

Who seriously think it is? I think most people here knows that "the market" doesn't refer to an actual thing or place, just like "the internet" doesn't refer to an actual actual thing or place.
I sent you an email with details of the CPU usage but just got an unfriendly "550 spam detected" from your MTA!

The mail system

<marty.alain@free.fr>: host mx1.free.fr[212.27.48.7] said: 550 spam detected
(in reply to end of DATA command)
Whirlpool's top loaders are nothing like the ones made 20 years ago. They've gone to fully electronic controls, and switched from direct drive to a belt drive (which means they can't really do an agitation cycle either)
Plenty of planned obsolescence. I won’t go into my rant but my brother is an engineer who is paid very handsomely to make sure that products outlast their warranty period but then fail predictably. He engineers special plastics that degrade rapidly after 5 or 6 years, gears that fail after 10th no later than 12 years, bearing assemblies that will leak but not fail between 4000 to 5500 hours, etc.

Often the components he designs cost more to manufacture that components that would last much, much longer. . To build a pump that will 99 percent make it to 3000 hours, that means half will make it to 9000 hours or more. Unless you really, really make sure that 90 percent will also fail by 4000 hours. It’s not easy to do.

Some products actually incorporate extra parts such as batteries that serve no other purpose than to cause the unit to degrade after a certain time (honeywell thermostats I’m looking at you … their round thermostat includes a lithium cell. When the lithium cell degrades, the at328p processor switches to a limping mode that regulates +/- 10 degrees, but never less than a little over freezing. The (soldered) battery just goes through a resistor to a GPIO pin. It’s just a chemical timer. It serves no other purpose than to make the unit need to be replaced.)

I could go on and on and on, but stuff is definitely designed to fail in predictable ways in a predermined timeframe. Considerable expense is invested in this behavior.
Where I work we don't do any "agile" and I always have some fun explaining that to would-be hires. I think the overall reaction is generally positive.

Lots of awesome software was written without:

- Unit tests

- TDD

- Agile

- CI/CD

(to pick a few random practices). ... or in Agile terminology "there is some value in those set of practices".

The sad thing about Agile is that it reflects a certain naivety on behalf of its founders. That somehow we can encourage better software (and arguably corporate) practices through a set of principles (that aren't that bad). It's literally the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
I just joined a few weeks ago, so I am still working on getting my karma above 100.

At what point do you get the red pill that breaks you out of the simulation?
Ya but wouldn't that be because in medicine, the initial degree is sort of arbitrary as long as you place very highly and cover some core subjects?
> We would never accept this in other fields. Would you live in a house built entirely by junior carpenters in their late 20s who built one or two houses that barely stood up? Would you drive cars designed and built by junior engineers?

I find that observation interesting. I can actually tell, when reading about project failures, that no one with any real-world experience had a hand in it. Someone came up with a hare-brained idea, froze out anyone who would dare to say "yeah...but," and went full-throttle.
> There is no hope. America can’t even agree on giving community college to poor kids,

Working on factory production lines does not require a bachelor's degree. Germany isn't assembling cheap power tools either. One reason is that labor costs are too high, and requiring low skill jobs have a college degree does the opposite of helping that.

> let alone training a generation of toolmakers, electronic engineers, programmers, and every other profession involved in making things out of atoms more complex than a handtool or a radiator.

This isn't true. USA has some of the best EEs and programmers in the world.

> This country is dying and wildly unstable politically.
Some German-manufactured goods have earned their price premiums with a track record of quality products.
I think that there's always an element of survivor bias in these stories; everyone remembers the relatively-new appliance which broke and had to be returned, but not the many similar appliances which hum on for years. To draw any broad conclusions from a small sample size is silly.
It’s been made clear to American oil companies that they’re in the buggy whip business. What sense does it make for them to make new investments increasing their buggy whip production capacity?
> A real American manufacturing renaissance would be German, with high skilled trained professionals designing, building, and operating advanced machines to create complex products.

So like Applied Materials, Lam Research, and KLA Tencor? The global leaders in semiconductor machinery are predominantly American, with honorable mentions for the Japanese (Tokyo Electron, Dainippon Screen) and Dutch (ASML, ASMI).

Most of the equipment is made stateside, e.g. Applied Materials manufacturing is in Austin.

> America can’t even agree on giving community college to poor kids, let alone training a generation of toolmakers, electronic engineers, programmers, and every other profession involved in making things out of atoms more complex than a handtool or a radiator.

The "America is doomed!" rhetoric is older than the hills and, while we are in decline as the global hegemon, economically we are still as vibrant as ever. Last year KLA Tencor opened a second headquarters in Ann Arbor, Michigan... not in China.
None is a bit bold. My college buddies (& lots of people in that peer cohort) founded companies in their 20s and I think they tended more often than not to demonstrate lots of maturity and leadership skills. Certainly more than some stories I’ve heard leaders of bigger tech companies.
Circa Apollo 11 the average age of a NASA engineer was 28. In 2009 it was 47.

There is this constant infantilization of people where once you’re an adult you don’t think anyone younger than you is capable of anything. It’s a big problem that this has been creeping into how we treat people like children at continually older ages.

Nobody knows how to do things when they start doing them, and they won’t until they do start. Delaying this to an older age makes this harder not easier.
You mean it's market demand and manufacturers are competing on price to maximize sales and not some conspiracy about planned obsolescence and "things were better in my day!"?

i refuse to believe such a logical argument
Orienteering is a sport, people do it competitively.

That implies that, while talent for it varies, it's difficult to do well.
Ads in Gmail exist under the Promotions tab, a few emails below the top, at least in France. In my day to day usage of the app, I'd say i even open the Promotions tab once a week, at most? So pretty low impact.
PAIP is full of practical programming techniques and advice that are not at all specific to AI or even Lisp. Other commenters here have cited Norvig's retrospective on his book at

http://norvig.com/Lisp-retro.html

The next to last section in this, What Lessons are in PAIP? comprises 52 numbered sentences of advice, cross-referenced to fuller explanations in the book. Many (most?) of them apply to any programming or software engineering, not specifically AI or Lisp.
But I saw on your YouTube channel that.. do your research man...

/s
Reminds me of the cellphone induced lack of ability to focus for long timespans. Seems a lot of things are use it or lose it
back again, hey? /s
This means I can spare my future kids all those old yeller knockoff twist endings. Many of my school friends got hit by Marley and Me back in the day and I am not letting them get away with that cheap tactic again.
Yeah no kidding. I've met some people who even use their GPS to get to their local grocery store. I wouldn't trust them to self-navigate out of a cul-de-sac.
I figure this is just one of those "do you want it" things.

I want to speak German, I don't want to use Google Translate.

I want to know where Hackney is, I don't want to just plug it into Citymapper.

Works for me. Some people don't like self actualization, so be it.
Do you have an iPhone and if it’s jailbroken; if Yes. Do you want to implement some of these ideas into Apple lockdown mode Api? Let me know if it’s something you are interested in?
Their conclusions are somewhat suspect sometimes though… with weird qualifications for “best” that often barely effect actual functioning. Like, heavily weighting quietness over power.
Fantastic you could 3D print the part. That's beautiful. That's how you fuck their business, and good that you did, they should sell quality.
My 15 year old Sony LCD TV is built like a brick, and has never had an issue (nor a firmware update). Meanwhile, my 6 month old Sony OLED Smart TV has given me nothing but grief. Recently had to replace the entire OLED panel — understandably it’s not a repairable part — which is 80% of the TV itself.

In another example, we replaced our 20 year old microwave with a modern LG (we moved house and the old microwave didn’t fit). The LG faulted within 15 months of use.
> CC is another one for most C build systems, goroot.

The benefit docker provides here is giving users a simple, reproducible, downloadable environment with no external dependencies.

I'm not saying Docker is useless in the current build environment. On the contrary - Having a convenient way to sandbox, ship and execute arbitrary execution environments and statically linked executables is really useful.

I think this is such a great idea we should make debian work closer to this model. Nix is a fantastic step in this direction and it'd be great if more distributions followed suit.

Debian and friends fill your hard drive with of weird, non-reproducible versions of various dynamically linked libraries. The fact I can't take a binary on my x86_64 linux machine and run it on your x86_64 linux machine is an embarrassment. Moving toward static linking and fully reproducible builds would be a tremendous help here.

Docker feels like a kludgy hack. I'd love a world where docker isn't necessary because its best ideas have been lowered into the OS itself.
Multi-generational cyclical migration blows my mind. It seems like the insects must either (a) be following some environmental signal in an algorithmic fashion, or (b) have some kind of navigational knowledge encoded in their DNA. Perhaps a bit of both?

Great to see more study in this area. Truly one of the marvels of the world to me.
I almost got water up my nose, you ass.
I had no idea there was an API to modify the content of existing e-mails.

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but doesn't this open up the ability alter e-mail history at will? And so alter e-mails you'd received and/or sent?

Is there a record of this somewhere? What effect does this have on using e-mails as evidence in court cases, for example? Or is there a technical detail that necessarily gives this away?
phones are great untill you drop them on a rock trying to take a photo.
Good luck explaining to a judge that the .eml backup you have on disk, with no chain of custody is just as good as the original.
Mises proposed that in a planned economy, there is a fundamental flaw called the economic calculation problem: essentially, it is almost impossible to calculate optimal resource allocation because doing so amounts to knowing every single person’s needs, and every detail of every factor of production, at all times. The information is too hard to get. Only markets can sufficiently simplify the problem by providing price as a universal point of comparison. That was his theory.

Unfortunately, the success of price as a simplifying mechanism also hides all of the information from which the price emerged. This makes it almost impossible to determine whether the price is low because the materials are poor quality, or because the labor was underpaid, or because environmental standards were bypassed through offshoring, or because the manufacturing process was particularly efficient. Clearly we hope it is due to the latter, but determining so amounts to solving the economic calculation problem.

But, rather than abandoning all hope, I believe the answer lies in consumers demanding supply chain transparency. This isn’t going to enable an efficient planned economy, but it might enable individuals to make better decisions about the purchases for which they care most.
Omar Hurricane is a top-notch name.
I still use Apple computers for design work, properly monitored by Little Snitch and some modifications on my router.

We all have opinions. And I have invested a ton of money in Apple products in 20+ years of usage. Constructive criticism is not "Bashing".

CSAM was a blatant attempt for breaching user privacy and classification with third party agency hidden criteria. We live in a surveillance economy and ads are the highway for privacy abuse. Apple argument: "We don't share the user data" has no ground for me.

In the increasingly connected world, with billions of data points, trusting a big tech behemoth is a suicide act. Allegedly. :)
A musical performance is copyrightable because it’s an artistic expression of the actual musical instructions (sheet music).[a] It’s why Beethoven isn’t copyrighted (despite many ContentID claims), but performances of Beethoven’s works are.

Choreography instructions are also likely uncopyrightable, but the performances of one would be.

Since recipes are just instructions, they’re not copyrightable.

In short, if it’s data/instructions, it’s likely not copyrightable. But the act of using said data, however, if done “creatively,” is. That distinction is very murky though, and there’s over a century of case law to go with it.

[a]: EDIT: I was wrong, sheet music is copyrightable. Beethoven is just out of copyright.
Isn’t the fissile material the only reason there is residual radiation/fallout from fusion devices?
> There's quite a lot of developers at stodgy Fortune 500 non-tech companies that are sort of forced to use Windows for development.

In that sort of company it’d take 2 years to get approval to install it anyway. If you submit the paperwork now there’ll probably be a windows port by the time it’s approved.
Mother Lisp
They are also incorruptible.

If they give your product good marks, you are not allowed to mention it in your marketing (Not sure how they enforce it; maybe they stop reviewing your stuff).

I worked at a company that regularly got top marks from them, and our Marketing folks would have fits, because they couldn't mention it.
if you have that much merit in tech at 30/40 and not working pro bono, you already have enough money to retire, or work on whatever you want/own your own company, instead of slaving away for a megacorp.
If something needs to be taught in class and practiced several times annually, it is a relatively expensive skill.

A lot more expensive than using a GPS.
Not unrelated: the entire comment thread is about developer process.

And retrospectives were useless in the most literal way. The time spent every week going over "What worked well? What could have gone better?" did not materially improve the team's effectiveness.