skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think there’s a good chance it was ghost written by a content farm for someone who wanted to publish a book in a popular category to make a quick buck.

The article literally says

> My first theory was that the writing must have been outsourced to a content farm, where multiple individuals worked on portions of the text without caring to understand the context. But the explanation had a flaw: there’s nothing you can find on the internet if you search for “NFP chemotherapy” or “NTF Strategic Development Group”. The text didn’t merely describe a garbled version of our reality; it invented its own.
> What about your children's social/well-being from not interacting with their peers?

I don't know. It seems like there's plenty of kids suffering at school precisely because they have to interact with other kids. Getting bullied at school is probably something almost everyone's experienced at some point.
Absolutely! I am not a mathematician but enjoyed Maths thoroughly during my school and college. Especially differential calculus and discrete maths during school, and probability & statistics during my college.
Falling over can do a lot of damage :D
I think he mentioned in the foreword that there’s no need to remember all the names.

The important ones are going to recur over and over again. No need to pay much attention to the identity of minor Gods.
Wow. Yes, the style decisions on that page should be dialed back but otherwise you've got me super intrigued to try this over Notion, and I love the pricing model.
Thank you! Yes I've shamelessly ripped off Notion in many ways :)

My family are also into every kind of quackery [1], which is one reason I felt comfortable taking the piss out of homeopathy. Maybe I'll change it to a course on flat earth instead.

[1]: https://jameshfisher.com/2019/01/20/my-parents-are-flat-eart...
Part of that destitution was people attempting to move to SF simply because of the frankly insane salaries. People would sooner move there and live in a '72 camper shell on the side of a busy street than live in Arkansas in a mansion, simply because they can make like 90k a year doing stuff that would net 40k or less in Arkansas. What happens to all the people that cant handle that lifestyle, and don't save enough to bail themselves out before they crash and burn? Homelessness.
So do Android phones.
> When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

Yeah, but then again, when you visit Rome for a short vacation as a tourist, the English versions of menus and such help, no?

Just saying, some degree of consideration for non-natives is a good thing, as it will help the tourism business generate more revenue. Same for OSes: give me at least an option of staying with my old habits until I get used to the new ones, then there's a higher chance I'll switch.
My studies on the subject, that is observations, experiments, exchanges with experts and reading of the relevant literature, have led me to the firm conviction that the normal case is the exact opposite.

Most people who appear to be conscious are not, for most of their lives.

However, I am also a cynic who threw away his lantern some time ago.
> " I soon discovered that all the books leaned on the same central argument: value is an inherent consequence of scarcity. My rebuttal to that was simple: it’s an exception, not a rule. My kids’ doodles are scarce, but in a gallery, they wouldn’t fetch much. "

There isn't really a market for kids doodles, and with the barrier to entry being really low the supply is many orders of magnitude higher than the demand. So the central argument stays.

Not a great start of the article this.
I love this guy. On a slightly related note: I'm thinking of starting a newsletter where I send one "public science" video out every other week. This will include speeches and discussions by people like Carl Sagan, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Fry, etc.

Would anybody be interested in this? If yes, you can already send me a quick email and I'll add you to the newsletter when I start it: canolcer@hey.com
I agree with this. One of the big things that always kinda "hurt" me as far as modern planning is concerned is the mostly "death" of the business-home duplex. You own a building that is business downstairs, house upstairs. Look at a place like SF and you could have a single building with 30 businesses and 30 homes, and it would fit into a standard commercial slot. That makes for walkable cities, if nothing else, and a short commute to work.
There are other options than ECT which may have fewer side effects.
This might make sense if:

1) I hadn't heard people making exactly the same argument since I was a kid in the 1970s,

2) I've read even older accounts making identical claims,

3) there was no correlation with covid,

4) western society hadn't actually had many changes over the last 150 years in the way learning is done. (My grandfather's high school education was very different than mine, as I describe out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25574534 .), and

5) education in the US, except of the children of the rich, has always been intimately connected with politics. If there were a golden era where education wasn't ruined, then it was because of politics.
> To everyone replying “aerodynamics”, I’ve had the same car for about 9 years now and the drive along the 5 from Bay Area to LA feels like there’s fewer bugs on my windshield (granted not recorded diligently for scientific purposes but whereas before I’d need to scrub the windshield at least once halfway these days I can drive all the way and still don’t need a wash at the end)

Hasn’t California had extremely climate events over the last decade (wildfires, ongoing drought)? Given that bugs tend to be sensitive to air quality, this would likely local population decline which would then lead to the effect you’ve observed.

I welcome anyone to come to Prince Edward Island and enjoy the many, many mosquitos and midges our Island has to offer. They can be heard as small “pops” while driving.
Wouldn't it be far easier to colonize Earth ocean floors than to colonize Mars? Both are seem similarly hopeless, but ocean floors seem easier, just because of transportation difficulties alone.
Yes, for users who weren’t scared of .ssh and even edited its contents from time to time. Because these were just their files, not “junk from apps and configs that hurt my sense of beauty”. Those who want to live in a clean folder - mkdir it.
Yes, I am talking about very large (Fortune 500) companies
Someone needs to put this on a headset and translate irl.

I will buy it.
With support for wifi. Very cool. I was looking at tinygo, but unfortunately it does not support wifi.

The issue even refers to this Rust project: https://github.com/tinygo-org/tinygo/issues/1427

Edit: added issue link
I suspect the first few chapters were well-written and researched with the rest slowly filling up with bulk filler; I find that with a lot of books, I read the first few chapters, get the gist of it and stop reading. I suspect a lot of people do that.

That said, there's a few books in my library / to-read list that are great content cover to cover. Timeless classics, etc.
It's quite ironic too, for a site that advocates prose over video.
> Johnson ... shouldn’t even be given any credit or blame for Brexit

That is certainly an option, but is not a serious one:

> Get Brexit Done was a political slogan frequently used by the British Conservative Party and former Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the run up to the 2019 general election. The slogan reflected the party's pledge to, if re-elected, facilitate the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union by the end of January the following year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Brexit_Done
Star counts on a repo are both essential for devs who need to assess a range of libraries/products for possible use in their own product (as indirect indicators of support, community, etc), and yet also toxic for anyone trying to build a new library/product in an established niche (everyone ignores repos with low star counts).

Clearly if I was serious about marketing/promoting my library then asking people to star the repo would be high on the list of asks. Sadly I am not that person.
The -00 draft[1] did not require the +srv. I would guess the blame lies with security problems when user agents with support for the SRV record see one thing and those without see another.

(The drafts go up to -05, though this is not apparent from the posted link.)

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-jennings-http-sr...
> Disputing that feels more and more like disputing global warming being a thing.

There's a reason I started my comment with "I do not claim that evolution is the reason for the reduction in dead bugs". I was just nitpicking and not trying to be the devil's advocate.
Where does this appear in the article? I think you're not answering the proper article or I am veeery confused
> Many smart people we spoke with, including entomologists and wheat farmers, speculated that maybe the cars have changed, not the bugs. As vehicles become more aerodynamic, the thinking goes, their increasingly efficient airflow whisks the bugs away from the windshield instead of creating head-on splatters.

> But when we called experts in the arcane art of computational fluid dynamics, they sounded skeptical. Yes, today’s sleek sedans can have half the drag of the land boats that ruled the road just a generation or two ago. But that improved airflow won’t do much for a bug.

> For starters, many aero improvements happen on the rear of the car rather than the bug-hitting front. Consider the optimally aerodynamic teardrop shape, with its blunt, round front and long, sleek tail. But more importantly, it’s just surprisingly difficult to use air to push a bug out of the way of an onrushing Buick.

> If it were possible to design a bug- and debris-proof car, then Kevin Golsch probably would have done it by now. An auto-industry veteran, Golsch has spent decades around wind tunnels, both real and simulated, and is now vice president for strategic fluid design and simulation at Altair, a global tech company that makes simulation and AI software. Altair’s customers include massive automakers that would be thrilled if airflow could protect both windshields and the delicate sensors on self-driving cars.

> “From an aerodynamic standpoint, I’ve done a lot of studies on contamination of sensors, especially for autonomous vehicles,” Golsch said. “And I think most everybody’s given up on trying to influence what happens at the vehicle level for dust and particles and rain.”

> Consider raindrops. They’re about the size and weight of a larger insect, but nobody thinks fewer raindrops hit our windshields these days. Any forces that cleared our windshield of bugs would presumably do the same for rain and road debris, Golsch said.

> To be sure, one element of modern auto design could be reducing bug spatter. Windshields today often have a lower slope than the more-vertical front windows of yesteryear, and while the broader shift to SUVs and trucks with bigger, steeper windshields will negate some of that, it might reduce splats for people who are driving similar vehicles.

> “If the windshield was laid back slightly more than another windshield, that bug may have a chance of just skipping off and going up over the windshield rather than hitting the windshield,” Golsch said. “It might be a glancing blow at the last second rather than a splat.”

> But we also saw 60 percent declines in insects between 2004 and 2021 in a British study from the Kent Wildlife Trust, which built on a Royal Society for the Protection of Birds effort in which thousands of people used “splatometers” to measure bug splatters on license plates, which aren’t much affected by aerodynamic advances elsewhere.
If they're low hanging fruit why not implement them yourself or put up a bug bounty?

If even a fraction of those with limited vision did this the problem would be solved.

And if its not, then it's probably not worth making it accessible (e.g. if it would cost £10k to make some obscure game accessible that would probably only have a half dozen vision impaired users that's just not worth it, the time of the developers is worth more than the hypothetical users enjoyment of the game).
Not a stupid question! Google site:tigyog.app is your best shot right now. In the meantime, have a course on French grammar by my wife: https://tigyog.app/d/C-TK1S4pd2rm/r/learn-french-grammar-wit...
Have you ever used something like Wardley Mapping to do the analysis?

Most on-prem solutions I've seen aren't sustainable, massive Capex costs, teams of people that could be better used in other ways just to keep trivial things applications running
How to hardened Linux and maintain a proper white lab, way past QubeOS, past Whonix, past SELinux, GRC …

- First step, ditch the systemd

- second step, replace the glibc

- third step …

- Profit!?
> I don't understand why they don't fix this problem.

Because they act as a platform an the platform makes a living by its transactions and not by the quality of the content.
> It's also counterproductive to let humans learn a language of limited content resources and use cases.

Taiwanese/Hokkien have limited content resources because of conscious decisions of previous governing bodies in China, Singapore, Taiwan (not sure about Malaysia). If they had been allowed to flourish, actively promoted and native speakers were taught how to write, it would be a lot different today. The premise of the article is false. Taiwanes/Hokkien has had a standardized written form since the 19th century. The problem is most native speakers do not know it, so really what it suffers from are low literacy rate. I communicate in written Taiwanese via text quite often.

Over the past ten years or so, the government in Taiwan has been trying to promote native language literacy, but with so-so results due to what I see as poor pedagogy.

> I don't know how to express clearly in Taiwanese

Many heritage or home speakers probably feel the same way. There are strong social stigmas against using Taiwanese in academia or people seeing it as a crude language. But if you are a native speaker of both Mandarin and Taiwanese, it isn't too hard to learn the written form if you want to.

I'm not a native speaker of Taiwanese, but I can make somewhat intelligible translations of them. A native speaker who has learned to write Taiwanese and knows English could do a better job.

> GPS in my neighborhood has a 100x lower accuracy because of radio interference

Tī goán chhù-piⁿ in-ūi tiān-chû kau-jiáu só͘-í GPS ê cheng-chún-tō͘ khah pháiⁿ chi̍t-pah pē.

> move this MOSFET up by 15mm to balance the PCB thermal stress

Chit MOSFET ūi-tio̍h chè-ap PCB ê on-tō͘ ài khǹg kòe-khì siōng-chē 15mm.

> Even Japanese, a language used by 125 million, has similar issues, my Japanese coworkers frequently switch to English during technical discussions.

That's interesting. I have only experienced preference for English technical vocabulary, but never switching of languages. Even for native English speakers they need to have familiarity with the subject or those technical words are unintelligible to them.
Wouldn't you know, the very next time I check HN there's another post starkly backing up the thesis: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33313253
[duplicate] Photomicrography Competition 2022
TSMC: The Taiwanese chipmaker caught up in the tech cold war
What happens when wordpress starts using DRM for images, or even text? How many websites the browser "won't force you" to visit then?
DRM is now one .js link/plugin/dependency away from any website.
pun :]
I've definitely seen and experienced this. Yes I changed jobs three times in the last 7 years but my compensation went up 3x too. It might have done had I stayed in the first job, it might have not. I would certainly have missed out on all the experiences and adventures of the other jobs. Things do stagnate when startups mature.

Now I'm a director of engineering at a massive (not faang) tech company and it feels like a longer tenure would be better - it takes time to sink in, develop connections and get high impact things done at this level. But I'm not sure I would have gotten here without all the variety of experiences that I gained in the last few +-2 year stints.
Can't understand the appeal of Fry. I had to bail from this talk around 20 minutes in. Even at 1.5x speed, it was tedious.

I've tried his technology talks and he waffles on about generic sleepy things. So why would I make such a critical remark? Because I always see comments specifically praising this man as an intellectual giant we must listen to. The comments under the youtube clip are a good example. He could sneeze and people would say "I could listen to this man sneeze all day, you must listen to his sneezing podcast". No thanks!
You should def release it, what else can you do with it? Just let it rot and fade away?
Building Mathematical Intuition. We live in a time of expanded access to computing tools which can be used to build intuition for various mathematical subtopics. Admittedly, 3B1B and similar channels do a great job of this already. My only addition would be to approach a set subject (e.g. Linear Algebra, Statistics, ...) using computational tools with an aim to demonstrate "how" the theorems work and "why" those are useful in real-life situations.
You said "Teslas growing stock price basically funds all of spaceX" and now you're completely changing your story to something else which is also speculation based on nothing. It would be appreciated if you actually admitted that to yourself and perhaps in an apology here.
"as anyone can dream of"

Viking warriors and co would probably disagree. Not the gloriest way to Valhalla..

(personally I rather care how good I live, than how I die)
When I stop learning, I leave. I might stick around longer for extra compensation, but there’s not usually an incentive retention. I often don’t want to leave, but I have to keep my skills sharp & I don’t want to slowly become irrelevant because there’s limited opportunity to try new things.
From this specific data, this viewpoint is hard to justify, because the scores were at or near their highest in 2019, and the data shows modest improvements since the 90s
Phones are much more than most fiction ever dreamed. I feel like they're one of the few fulfilled promises of tech.
I appreciate your outrage. Its absurdity casts much of my own internet commentary in a new light.

Every internet comment I’ve ever made in anger or snark, I hereby renounce.
Bear in mind that every car over a certain age has to have an MOT once a year yet many people running older cars often skip on servicing, preferring to rely on a wing and a prayer instead. I believe regular servicing will have a much greater effect on the longevity of an engine, irrespective of size?
The commenter does have a point though; there's a lot of low effort high volume spam on the internet that reinforce certain narratives that cause division, on subjects like gender identity, generational differences, favorite TV shows, wokeism, Brexit, classism, racism, etc. There's actors on both sides of those debates, not because they're particularly leaning towards one or the other, but because the division is causing political shifts and internal strife.

This has already led to the EU starting to fall apart - the UK is out of the EU, Hungary and Poland no longer meet the criteria for having backslid into totalitarianism or at the very least, no longer having a division between the legal and executive branches of law. And it's causing lines to be drawn in the US as well, with calls for secession rising. But the US has been an "us vs them" type of "democracy" for a while now, it probably didn't take much to entrench the sides more deeply.

Anyway, that's online discourse, I'm sure it extends to books too, just less obviously.
What if another user wants to keep their personal files on a computer too? Create /data2? This is what /home/$USER/ is for.

Also, /home may be mounted anywhere, including some NTFS partition.
I've open the project link, scanned the docs, I could not figure out where do find a general description of the problem it tries to solve, and the solution advantages.

You made me curious and didn't deliver ! The anguish !
One glaring omission from that article is any mention of per-capita emissions. The author keeps asserting that US-based measures to combat climate change are ineffective because China pollutes more, but the US (and all Western countries) have a far larger per-capita footprint than China. Policies to reduce this footprint could have a huge effect on emissions globally, even though the US isn't the total biggest emitter in the world.
‘I have a million TikTok followers and only make €50′ (per month) - https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2022-10-22/i-have-a-...

"In a good month, I can make €50 or €100,” [Patica] says".
Eternal techtember
Ask HN: FIRE People, how has the market affected you?
We all knew that a downturn would happen eventually. As a regular wage earner looking in (and hoping to make the leap some day), how have you been able to deal with the stock market decline? Are there any tricks we can learn? And, does your FIRE lifestyle still seem sustainable long term?
Apparently it's to dislodge painful parasites.
My mother says "tigyog" is what I called "yogurt" when I was a kid. I chose the stupidest possible name for my side-project. That side-project is now my full-time work. You can decide what the lesson is here.
Completely anecdotal, but this does seem to be a North American issue, I did a two week roadtrip through Croatia this year and I had to stop just to clean bugs off the car more often than stopping just for gas. I've done quite a few roadtrips in America and never once had to stop just to clean bugs off the windshield.
Ask HN: Who is building secure open hardware?
Some recent threads (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33308167) show that there are a number of independent SoC machines on most motherboards running without the control / knowledge of the main OS. The security threat is obvious even without considering supply chain.

Oxide (https://oxide.computer/) is making some running in this area, but I am wondering if anyone on HN knows about anyone (else) trying to re-think the whole thing?

I imagine that a government funded open spec that basically says "ok chip speeds are fast enough, what we want is to be able to put things into missiles / airframes / boats / desktops in the MoD without worrying".

Russia apparently runs a 286 (!) fab just for this purpose.

Does this exist ? is it a good idea? What's the difficulties?
No one leaves a job that’s interesting & lucrative. How many companies make it a priority to make jobs interesting & lucrative? Very few.
Just watching regular TikTok for a few days was enough to make me feel depressed. I can't imagine seeing the dark side of it.
That's exactly it, it doesn't hurt them enough that the products they sell are low quality. For every one person that returns a book (which costs Amazon money), there's a dozen that just won't bother, it's not worth the hassle for them.