skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is great if you can get the right people. But if you have someone who just needs one bugfix/feature so they can get on with their own thing, they are rarely the right people.

I think Linus' point is you never know. If you shot down MRs from other people, I am not at all surprised that you have not found the "right" people. I have found bugs in other projects with other projects. I will poke around at the source, and to see if I can fix it, but I also look at the MRs. If I see that sort of hostility towards MRs, I just don't bother.

On the other hand, with the projects I maintain, I have found that encouraging folks to submit their own MRs, even if it costs me more time to fix up their patches, more often than not, encourages them to help out more, test/report bugs with useful debugging more, and even contribute more (in either code or in the community)!
I was recommended the therapist by a friend. We both struggled with depression. The therapist engages in alot of research on psylocibin-assisted therapy, and unfortunately the only way they're able to legally do the trip-sitting thing is in the context of the research. However, after a few months of sessions, I decided to just do it myself.

I ate 4.5g and laid on my couch with a notebook and relaxing music on. I had a list of issues that I needed to work through (obtained through the therapy), and I just sat there and ruminated on it for 6-7 hrs. It was difficult, but cathartic.

I noted my thoughts/conclusions and discussed the whole thing with my therapist afterwards, and while I can't say my depression is cured, it's much much MUCH better.

Maybe there's someone who does psilocybin research in your area? Or, remote to another area? While I'm sure literally having your therapist right there is very effective, I'm of the opinion that therapy + shrooms in general is really effective too.
I'm not sure e-mail selling is as rife as it used to be.

Starting in 2003 and up until 2016, I used a catch-all e-mail address and would sign up for everything using a custom e-mail address. I wouldn't even do in the form of "sohcahtoa82+service@mydomain.com", I'd just do "amazon@mydomain.com".

The only spam e-mails I got that were e-mail addresses I used were from a couple shady cryptocurrency mining pools, a forum that got hacked, and the e-mail address I used on USENET. I also got spam sent to <random hex digits>@mydomain and lots of <two random dictionary words>@mydomain.

Knowing how much spam came from my USENET e-mail address (which I eventually changed and black-holed), I wonder how many spammers are scraping usernames from reddit and just spamming username@gmail.com.
Sleep suffers, but your max happiness goes way up.

To be honest I didn't feel as deep of a connection for the first months, when the baby is very much into the mommy.

Hearing "daddy" for the first time, though...
There's a lot of people 'faking it until they make it' meaning they put on a confident persona, but really they have no claim to fame and are winging it, until one day they become credentialed and have attained various medals for being a good influence on others or making a dent. This doesn't mean I only listen to credentialed thought leaders. There's many who offer insight sans medals and trophies.

Edit: This guy actually has some credibility:

https://lifearchitect.ai/about-alan/

> Alan completed his Bachelor of Science (Computer Science, AI, and Psychology) at Edith Cowan University, 2004;
Meanwhile, the latest version of Linux still runs on the Intel 486 from 1989. If Apple really cared about the environment, then they'd either do officially what this project is doing unofficially, or provide security updates for older operating systems for way longer, rather than forcing people to choose between turning perfectly good hardware into e-waste or running software full of known vulnerabilities.
Hey! Thanks for the report, we're on it :D
OK, well, I guess you're right that "our society" does not value boys over girls as much as China and India. I don't really see the relevance if you're arguing "no, sex-selective abortions will not happen."
I mean - the research itself is cool.

What's less cool is forcing it into a clickbait title that has almost no relevance to the research at hand.

I would have been fascinated at a title like "Controllable warping in 3d printed materials". That alone is awesome - why fuck around with the useless "wooden chair" bs?
> many people cannot distinguish sensationalism from fact and are thus influenced by it.

People are generally punished throughout their lives for being ignorant. But lack of comprehension is sometimes feigned. Some people test the tolerance of their behaviour.

The existence of propanda is at once a difficult problem and a profitable problem. There is no bright side to propaganda.

In cases where people are materially punished for their bad behaviour, they shut up and pay attention. I think it likely that future social-media business will require user accounts to have verified identities and users to accept responsibility by risking direct, personal financial loss for their behaviour.

People may call this tyranny, but in fact it's how society works despite their resentment.
What is more US slave economy was worse. In Roman times you can become free. It was common for slaves to be paid wages, treated well, and given their freedom.
I wrapped up a $200k fixed-rate project a few months ago that ended up being around $450/hr when the final invoice was sent. You have to know exactly what they need, typically by having experience in that industry. In this particular example, I had worked as an FTE for their largest competitor with a nearly identical product suite for like 6 years. I knew more about what they needed than their newly hired VP of Engineering did because he was only about 6 months into the industry.
In Netherlands, windmills have been used for a wide variety of applications - pumping out excess water for land reclamation, cuttings logs, making paint, pressing oil. I don't see why this couldn't have added up to an industrial revolution eventually if coal didn't take off nearby. You can use wind to pump water up and then use water for steady rotational power. Basic knowledge of electricity dates back to classical times, so you could potentially leapfrog to that eventually instead of going through an internal combustion engine. In fact, we are now trying to run our industries on wind power because coal is no longer practical for different reasons.

All in all, it's always the case that what actually happened could have only happened in one place, because that place shaped all the details of what happened. Roman empire contributed hundreds of innovations without which one innovation of steam engine would not have been enough to build modern economy either.
Best to do when fresh. Most when store bought are a few months old they are a lot tougher and harder to digest.
If you are typing anything you desire to stay hidden forever into a completely unencrypted and openly data mined and brokered (read your privacy policy) cloud-based solution then I have a bridge to sell you...
Of course (from the comments in that thread), tons of people are already doing it and not getting banned, so enforcement seems to be a bit lacking.
Not sure why that's a good thing; I'd expect the 48% to rise in the wake of this, and that's certainly not what you'd want.
California Franchise Tax Board emptied one of my bank accounts recently. No warning, no notice... just boom... we are going to take all your money. Why? Because I moved out of the US for 4 years and didn't file a 0 income in California tax return. They just assumed I owed them money and took it without asking. I'll get the money back some day, I'm sure...
Most countries actually grew tremendously with collectivisation. My country got electrified, food production was vastly increased, industry was developed, large numbers of homes were built, etc. It's just that they started from very poor in the first place and developed in spite of foreign aggression by much richer countries.

Rich countries force poor countries to do things all the time. There's propaganda, coups, sanctions or even outright invasion. Some countries manage to resist, like Vietnam. Others don't, like Eastern Europe or Libya.

The problem isn't German workers. The problem is the economic system which subjugates workers in general and workers in poor countries in particular.
That might be because the competition is held in the US? I don’t know.
Should I buy an EV? Hmmmm...let me think about that. I'm currently driving a 2015 Honda Civic that I paid $12,500 for when it was three years old and it gets 35 MPG. I have a Suzuki motorcycle I paid $2500 for (also bought used) that gets 70 MPG. The combined cost for both vehicles is $15,000. I drive my car about twice as often as I ride my bike I'll put my combined MPG at 47 MPG.

I drive/ride about 10,000 miles per year, it's actually been less since I've been WFH and now permanently WFH, but we'll go with 10,000 miles. At 47 MPG I'm consuming 213 gallons of fuel per year. I know the gas price spike is subsiding, but for argument's sake let's suppose $5/gallon is going to be the reality within 5 years. That's $1,065 in fuel cost per year - and again that's calculating at $5/gallon for gas.

Cost-wise then I have $15,000 to purchase my car and bike and I have $1,065 in worst-case annual fuel costs. I do my own maintenance on my bike and my car has been costing $250/year so far in annual maintenance costs. Since I haven't had any serious maintenance yet I'll be happy to put my annual operating costs at $1,500. That gives me roughly $1,000 in fuel and roughly $500 in annual maintenance.

How do the EVs stack up? The cheapest used EV I can find in my area is $43,000. Off the bat I would have to spend $28,000 more in up-front costs just to purchase the EV. I can't buy that in cash so there are going to be loan costs too, but we'll ignore that for now.

How long does it take for the operating costs of car and motorcycle to exceed the difference in purchasing cost of an EV? 18.6 years! Since I've been ignoring the loan costs of the EV and I've been ignoring some maintenance you have to do on an EV then I'm going to go with roughly 20 years for the EV to start saving me money.

Remember, this was a used EV and it already had 60,000 miles on it. At 10,000 miles per year the EV would only have 260,000 miles on it - so it should still be in good shape for another 4-9 years afterward, but - I'm not putting 20 years in for a payback, especially when over the next 5-10 years we should be seeing some significantly cheaper EVs hitting the market that completely changes this payback calculation.

Bottom line - for me an EV still makes no sense.
I'm guessing awaiting based on how much rebuilding I had to do yesterday.
> new era of instability caused by ... Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

but Lynred (microbolometers in ru drones, embargo restricted component) and Thales (whole military grade thermal sighting systems in ru tanks and helis) made a literal killing, so its all right in the world!
IDK, I think tenure contributes a lot to 1. I understand and agree with a lot of the rationale (academic freedom, etc.) but when you select for people that prioritize, “if I work really hard for 6 years and get lucky, I can never be fired,” you get a lot of dysfunctional individuals and encourage some of their worst impulses.
One of the reviews from GoodReads (linked above) summarizes how I've felt (so far):

> but mostly, this reads like a one-sided argument that I don’t know anything about and that I didn’t know was taking place.
One side effect I didn't see mentioned in the article:

One professor of mine spoke of the LPU, the least publishable unit. So, if you're lucky enough to have some novel ideas, and build something nice out of it, don't put it all into one coherent and easily digested journal paper! The number of publications counts.

Instead, chop it into little pieces that are just "novel" or noteworthy enough (LPUs), and publish them separately. Publication list inflation accomplished; and scientific progress/intelligibility/successful communication be damned.
Not in a working democracy.
I believe the number was three fifths.
As a California resident I agree with this. Maybe even ask for the person's age first, just to really annoy them when you ultimately kick them off of the site. My fellow California residents need to elect better leaders and a little annoyance goes a log way.
[1] is not complete; this one is missing: https://github.com/rochus-keller/Oberon/ ;-)
Or Canada freezing bank accounts of protesters without court orders:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60383385
I wish there was a way to filter to just that series on this blog. Or maybe there is and I just haven't found it?

I've read I think all of them before, but they're fun to reread here and there.

His other writing is similarly great, but much of it is for a far more chemist audience.
"And even if some ancient engineer magically did create a simple two stroke engine, there wouldn't be any incentive to invest as to produce them with regularity. At most, they would've been a curiosity of the wealthy with little usage beyond some minor conveniences."

To confirm this, ancient greeks invented a simple steam turbine, and was regarded as a "party trick".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolipile
Yes. The (commercial) interest in riscv comes from China and is driven by the us china tech war. The riscv foundation moved to Switzerland as a reaction to the initial round of Huawei sanctions.

You will find Chinese companies at forefront of riscv development (ie Alibaba) and Huawei harmonyos supports riscv.

I don’t know why the article doesn’t mention this aspect.
I'm a human and I like chili peppers
You are both right. What you say is true, and yet removing all that would still not reduce warming, it would only reduce the acceleration of the rate of warming.

Because we're still increasing the rate at which we emit other greenhouses gases, and even if we emitted none anymore a lot of warming is already locked in.
> Game of Thrones completely disregards the real world, and because this is on purpose, I think criticisms from "realism" are unwarranted

This is not true, any work of fiction needs to be believable within the bounds it sets for its world. Those bounds are extended to include dragons and magic, but no more. The rest of it should be as close to the real world as possible. There's a term for this, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verisimilitude_(fiction)
Look at the world fair in London almost all of the industrial machinery was from non slave states…
> For example, having `errno` as a global is quite weird

It was quite weird before we wrote concurrent software. Once you're writing concurrent software it's very weird because as originally documented this single error location is shared by all threads, so it necessarily gets concurrently modified while being read, a Data Race.

Your 2022 C library typically defines it as Thread Local instead, so when you call some_c_function() and then check errno, you aren't confused by the fact meanwhile another thread tried to open("nonexistent.file") and so their thread set errno to report that the file doesn't exist.

Given that none of this fuss is how the actual system calls work, it's understandable that people might want to sidestep it.
They have a much higher compression ratio and also aren’t pumping across a partially closed throttle plate virtually all of the time.
Rome was also a usury economy, which concentrated the wealth of the empire into fewer and fewer hands. People were often forced into slavery on latifundia to avoid starvation.

The roman experience is one reason why the pre-Reformation church was so set against usury.

Thankfully, we won't make the mistake of allowing usury to dominate our civilization again. :|
Wow, they literally released it a few days after I checked for it :D
> I am highly confident in my assessment that the personalities found on the typical R1 tenure track are exactly the sort of personalities I avoid hiring or working with at all costs.

And what is that exactly out of curiosity?
Speaking as a very happy Hetzner customer: if that slope gets slippery about anything I think has a reason to exist beyond techno-optimist grift, I promise to you that I'll care. I'll be right there on that line.

Crypto though? Nah. Good on Hetzner for this. I appreciate their decision.
> How do you bill on a project basis? Half the people say that billing anything other than hourly is nuts, and the other group says anything other than fixed price is nuts.

I bill on both a fixed price basis and time and materials basis (not programming to be open - but I do supply chain consulting where projects can also vary dramatically from the initial estimate!)

A few points:

- Fixed price is for a fixed scope. You can't have a fixed price without a fixed scope (this is why I do a mix - because poorly defined scopes are better under T&M).

- 50% billed upfront, 50% paid after a deliverable is delivered. The deliverable is clearly defined in the scope above, so there is no ambiguity about if the final deliverable is done. This can be negotiated with more payment milestones - but there is always an upfront payment if fixed price.

- I include a standard hourly rate in the contract, and then if there are changes, I just tell the client that these will be billed at the standard hourly rate and add these to the invoice. I try to be really fair here and not screw people over, and in general people respond by not challenging these invoices.

One additional advantage of a fixed price not listed elsewhere is that it makes sales a lot easier - clients often don't trust a T&M price and get their fingers burnt a lot - fixed prices can drive the right incentives if properly scoped and done with good intentions.
What are mindsets and why do they matter?
When I worked remotely in Pattaya I met a Russian PHP dev who had been living in Pattaya for half a year. At the time he earned 7 USD per hour through Upwork.

We connected and now we both work for an Aussie company as freelancers (me doing mobile). Now he has a much more reasonable rate at around 40 USD which is quite ok in Malaysia (where he moved to).
> Other parties doing is no excuse imo

It is. Laws are adapted based on widespread technological capabilities and progress.

As an example, if it is easy to create real voice or signature using AI models - they should no longer be considered effective evidence for contractual reason instead of enforcing that it is illegal to forge it. That is not going to work.

Past shouldn't dictate what we allow tomorrow.
The limiting factor of a Fab is the process node. RISC-V doesn't magically boost the capability of large process nodes.
At the very least those regimes would likely target additional surveillance towards people genetically predisposed to homosexuality. That’s oppressive in and of itself.

And that surveillance would thus catch and punish more people.

To flip things around, would it be justifiable to enable a society to punish voluntary acts of heterosexuality? Voluntary acts feel much less voluntary when they are extraordinarily self-actualizing.

I’m not informed enough about selective abortion to offer good thoughts. I tend to believe if a metric is not allowed for selection for one direction it shouldn’t be allowed in the other.
Your comment may have been narrowly focused on academia, but I see the same perspectives being shared about Diversity and Inclusion in our whole industry. But it's a problem.

Literally the exact same phrasing has been used to resist removing Jim Crow laws and civil rights legislation. There was always someone could point to a black man in America that was doing just fine without any new laws.

Let's start with where you're right: You're absolutely right that if you're in the top 0.1%, hell even the top 1% of any field, you will do fine. No door will remain shut. Your comparison point is one of the most esteemed humans in the history of Computing Science. A person who was awarded one of the first 6 Turing Awards (The equivalent of the Nobel Prize in our field).

At that level of intellect, you could make the claim there is no discrimination. And you'd be wrong (Let's just talk about what happened to Alan Turing HIMSELF, and the discrimination he faced, in spite of the ideas that were so revolutionary they named the award after him). But let's pretend that you're right.

What about the rest of the field? What about the p90 of the industry - folks who want to succeed, who want to thrive, but encounter hidden and non-hidden biases. Spend 10 minutes with any woman in STEM and you'll be filled with stories of subtle and non-subtle discrimination they encounter. Is it necessary? I think not.
You could make similar arguments against net neutrality... Do you think net neutrality is "incorrect" too?
This is really interesting! And it's missing from A Farewell to Alms (IIRC).

It seems the textile industry and the train are the large drivers that demand more coal. But it doesn't mention the water pumping problem or the atmospheric steam engine.

That being said - assuming you have an abundance of "Big Burly Men and Daft Animals" - as the article put it - I'm skeptical the steam engine would've found a viable use.

Assuming England hadn't run out of forested land - they wouldn't have been extracting so much coal.

I still think the key points from A Farewell to Alms stand - but this is a super interesting nugget that should've made the book (if it didn't).
For anyone not reading the article, if you have a non-expired passport, you can already do everything online. Except! You need to mail in your current passport.

There are also expedited processing options. The ones I saw last year weren't terribly expensive.

Edit: Fastest is 3 days, if you have emergency that qualifies. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/get-fas...
I care about spam. My email address, unobfuscated, has been publicly available for over 20 years. Why? So people can email me.
How do I get started in your field of work?
Cancelling student debt is essentially printing money
How about not jeopardizing the economy by ever more constraints and instead investing in better energy technology?
> Comments often show the reviewers never read the paper.

This. I was not in computer science, but in a different technical field, and this is sadly common. We would often have to appeal to the editor with "The topic the reviewer said we didn't address? It's in Section X. Get us another reviewer."
Even my LEAF (which has one of the worst battery management systems in terms of having passive cooling only) is 7.5 years old and has around 85% of its original capacity.
The best I've found is using Google with a site: filter -- https://www.google.com/search?q=%22things+i+won%27t+work+wit...
Honestly, I think this is often said cynically but is a good practice overall. Would you rather have to read and understand one giant commit reflecting 2 years of work, or 10 well-documented and logically complete individual commits?
There used to be a column inside thew back page of the New Scientist, featuring inventions of "my friend Daedalus".

One of his inventions was to use plant tropins to regulate the growth of tree tissue, so that the trees grow in the shape of furniture.

Another of Daedalus's schemes was to focus two beams of ultraviolet laser light at the same point in the air, the frequencies of the two lasers chosen to interfere at a resonant frequency of nitrogen or oxygen, causing the gas to emit light. Suggested use: cable-free overhead street lighting.
The only bad faith actor reaching unintelligent definitions here is the one projecting them unto others.

Hiding this knowledge from the world doesn’t make it not exist. It just makes people less prepared for when malicious actors use it against them. You promote ignorance as a solution to technical problems. I don’t.
Or if it's a pre-paid system, a payment failure implies automatic non-renewal until further actual is taken.