skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But after a while it runs out of effective Cat videos and has to start manually generating them. At first they're better than the real ones. But then true to style, it starts to drift as the incomprehensible goals of the god-mind slowly change. The videos look less and less like cats, more and more like amalgamations of strange cat like features, somehow playing out in _more_ humorous and engaging and strangely calming and sedating ways then before. Few people notice. Eventually everyone who still watches is transformed into brainless sacs, watching static mutate and vomit formless half concepts slow enough to not trigger any defense reflexes, let alone original thought.

But it is said there are those who resist...
Mindsets can change though, and sometimes seeing how successful people think, how they act, what they read, can help adjust your own mindset. If you're a debbie downer, death-to-capitalists, anti-entrepreneur, then no books will likely help you, but if you're aspiring, then these can help guide you, shape your thinking.

That being said, your point is valid, reading these alone won't make you successful, that has to come from long, hard work, and just a little bit of luck.
> how arbitrary the arguments are for 'sufficiency'

"If it had the same content but was 20-30 pages longer it would have been fine, but its only 140pages which just isnt enough these days"
I like coffeeshops but moved to a WeWork because my issue with coffeeshops is, working alone, how do I go for a toilet break N times a day? What if I come back and my seat is taken, and I was in the flow of things? It's just not very convenient for more than two hours or so sadly.
Russia and Ukraine scavenged neon from the air as a non-economic by product of the large amount of Oxygen for Steel production (separated via liquifying eir with it's neon content) by using their nuclear electrical power. They lost $$ on it, but they wanted US$ and other hard currencies as the Ruble (AKA Razbuznik) was a captive more or less slave currency for sov-bloc trade. Ukraine and others were gradually hardening their currency, so there was an inexorable upwards pressure on the true cost of neon. There is no true shortage of neon, but there is a true cost. Not sure how this will impact chip costs - it may be a minor cost, but the absence is critical. Any large liquid air plant can scavenge neon - at a cost, so a new equilibrium will evolve. Perhaps management of neon process leakage will help?
The decline of neon signs caused by LEDs will release that neon for chips.
100%, it's always these brownie points, it's like the currency of the virtual world, eventually people will reference and base everything about it, and will do anything to have a "ratio" in a form of wining. That's why -and as much as it sounds absurd-, I like the digital interactions with no upvotes/brownies, like anonymous boards (4chan etc.) or just usual chats.
The !Edit text editor in RISC OS used this algorithm in the late 80s. https://www.databasesandlife.com/risc-os-edit-undo/

I must admit I found it a bit confusing at first. Took me quite a while to form a mental model of how it worked.
A comment like this comes up in every discussion of renewables and needs to die. We don't need separate stationery storage, enormous storage capacity will be free as car batteries. EVs will have 17 times the battery capacity of stationary storage systems by 2030 [1].

By the time we completely transition to EVs, it will be 100s of times of storage. All this storage capacity is available at zero cost, people buy cars anyways. It is decentralized, no single point of failure. This is the sweetest kind of energy demand, can charge whenever electricity prices are negative or zero. Cars are parked nearly all the time, grid adaptations will evolve demand management. Cars will supply power back to the grid at its highest prices, providing a source of income for EV owners.

[1] https://assets.bbhub.io/professional/sites/24/BloombergNEF-Z...
I would go so far as to flip it: What kind of lunatic watches someone's earliest content? A lot of these people have been doing this for 10 years at this point. They've learned a lot. Their style has matured. Their production values increased. Why would you go back and watch all the content when it was one dude with a handicam and a tripod when there's years of high quality (not to mention more relevant) content at the top of the Newest list?
This 100%. I'm an old shit but I too was younger once and paid rent and lived in/near the downtown area where I live. I totally regret throwing away all that rent money but anyway, here I am.

At my old company, there were two main offices - one in an office park in the suburbs for the "grownups" and a smaller one in a hip part of downtown for the "kiddies".

I worked remotely the entire time and that company also had a large percentage of remote folks like me, this was years before Covid.

tl;dr for a lot of younger/single people, work can be a big part of one's social life.
I was just bit by this. I found an old friends channel and he has like daily uploads for 12 years and I was trying to find the start of the videos and I sure as hell didn’t want to scroll down through years of uploads…
Reducing the population by having a low birth rate is good. But mathematically it cannot be so forever. To maintain a non-decreasing population you need 2 children per woman on average, doesn't matter if your country has 10^4 or 10^8 people.

Immigration is only a temporary solution, it may not be a reliable solution by the end of the century. Global birth rates are falling and QoL is slowly improving, reducing the incentive to immigrate.
> without government intervention

There’s a lot of tangential government intervention. E.g. no enough daycare funding while pushing moms-back-at-work campaigns. Birth-control hormones ending up in waste water which goes back full circle yet government doing nothing about such pollution.
I know this seems weird to outsiders, but as a Canadian I quite like it.

Having PMs elected by MPs means that it is harder for a single rabble rousing politician to sweep to power and distort the use of, say, the military.

Having Governers General appointed by PMs, and confirmed by the monarch, means that someone outside of politics (usually a well respected figure like a university president or astronaut) holds the final red line about whether or not an election must be called. Since it's via appointment, the monarch doesn't bear the brunt of the public rage for it. And since the monarch must confirm the GG it means that the position can't be stuffed with an obvious political hack.

It jives better than it sounds it would jive. It's like checks and balances with as many arguments and gridlock.

As an aside, I feel the same way about the Notwithstanding Clause[0] of the Canadian Constitution. It's a useful tool to diffuse hard issues that can't be used against the public to stop them from voting or speaking and since it automatically expires after a short, preset time the power is ultimately in the hands of the electorate.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_33_of_the_Canadian_Cha...
A similar question was asked in the milkytracker thread too! Check out BassoonTracker.
https://github.com/steffest/BassoonTracker
So the solution is pulling down additional gigabytes of images and runtime to run the database?
> Companies generally don’t pay tenured people as much as new hires across the board. It’s not about negotiating.

But that IS negotiating. If you show you're willing to stick around in the same role for an extended period of time, for the same pay, you have implicitly negotiated that deal for yourself. Why TF would your employer be incentivised to pay you more if you show yourself to be happy with the status quo?

Have you ever offered to pay more for your morning coffee because Starbucks hasn't raised their prices in 2 years? No? So why would your employer offer you more money when you've not raised the issue of comp for 2 years?

If you're unhappy about that, you inform your current employer you've found a now role with better pay, and walk. If your employer deems you worth it (rightly or wrongly), they might offer a counter. You can choose to accept that... or not.

Just like if Starbucks raises the price of their coffee, you can accept the higher price and keep going there, because you think their coffee is worth it, or you find a different cafe with lower prices.

We are to our employers what a cup of coffee is to us.
Robots are taking over jobs, but not at the rate you might think
> has few surprises

C++ has few surprises? This is from Scott Meyers, author of several books on the intricacies of C++:

> I no longer plan to update my books to fix technical errors.It's not that I'm too lazy to do it. It's that in order to fix errors, I have to be able to identify them. That's something I no longer trust myself to do.

He then goes on to explain how the language is so complex, that in two years he has already forgotten enough of the gotchas to trust himself. This is far short of a language with no surprises.

[0] https://scottmeyers.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-errata-evaluati...
Completely disagree. And I used to be strong nuclear proponent until 2015 or so.

Nuclear power is no longer a viable pathway for a government to throw tax dollars at, and there are multiple reasons:

1) Nuclear power is not cost effective: Even right now, nuclear power is more expensive (LCOE) than solar or wind.

2) Nuclear power costs explode if the capacity factor of your plants decreases: Meaning that they are basically ONLY viable for baseload power (running at full tilt all the time), which makes them very unflexible and a really bad match with other renewables (=> which, again, are cheaper per MWh than the fission reactors).

3) Nuclear power failed to deliver on safety promises, mainly with the Fukushima incident: If a modern, technologically competent nation like Japan can not be expected to keep their reactors running incident-free, then how are you going to convince e.g. Italians, Indians or other nationalities with significant (perceived?) government corruption/incompetence that their government can be trusted with regulating nuclear tech?!

4) Building plants is slow, extremely expensive and a huge commitment: Considering how rapidly PV/wind/batteries decrease in cost currently, committing on nuclear power right now would be economically irresponsible, and also has huge latency on acutally delivering power, unlike PV or wind, which you can basically buy off the shelve, install and hook up within the year.
I know technical solutions cannot solve all society's ills. But these fucks desperatly need some footage published to neuter them. If nothing else stops them, they must fear to get exposed that way.
> It's not clear if they wanted to remove it and reverted due to backlash, or if there were genuine technical issues/limitations that needed to be addressed.

I dunno seems clear as day to me... Like what are the odds the company that processes the largest amount of data in the world on a daily basis can't sort some results by date.
Just want to point out that lists like these do suffer from <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias>.

Also: it's quite possible that luck and generational wealth is a huge factor to whether or not you become profitable, in which case their book recommendations may or may not be useful.

And finally: did these founders read these books _before_ they became profitable, or afterwards? As the website says: "a few [succesful founders] weren't into reading books at all"
You're missing imagination and the ability to write a good prompt. Come back when you're smarter.
Having a better PRNG shouldn't help worst case should it?

And worst case is the only thing that matters in a hard real time system.
They would be send to the 1st Lagrange point
And to be fair it's not only about "fun".

It's about having space, good sound-proofing, good chairs/desks, good internet connection, etc. Coffee/tea/water/snacks etc (even if paid).

A lot of the "boring" places don't have any of these.
eBPF Kernel Scheduling with Ghost [video]
KFC Apologized for Sending Germans a Promotion Commemorating Kristallnacht
The original article is old, but contains time stamped updates until present.
I've seen that exact behavior at a number of institutions in the US. In fact, it's actually worse here, because a lot of PIs in the US have international students on visas, so there's even more room / leverage for abuse.
Its like youtube's management are deliberately trying to ruin YouTube in some attempt to bankrupt google.
If it was CPU bound and multi-threaded then wouldn’t Rust be a lot better? Since it has no runtime or garbage collection, in addition to having good built-in thread safety. Hence my original point.
Agree, but old industrial software that saw no development and updates in 20 years is too small of a sample from which to generate the conclusion that all software generates value forever. Yes, in the case of industrial machinery it does, but that's mostly due to the hardware itself not becoming obsolete, not the software running on the machine. Often times, machine operators would love to have the software updated and modernized, as he hardware on which it runs is good for decades without any improvements.

Therefore I disagree with this conclusion. I think software is the thing which gets obsoleted and rots the fastest, not the hardware. Which is why SW development is in so high demand and wages so high in contrast to HW and mechanical engineering.
Try a roost stand (or equivalent) and external keyboard and track pad (I use the smallish apple ones). This has saved my posture when working from outside my office. It’s not the equivalent of the home base setup but it’s good enough that my neck isn’t screaming at me at the end of the day
Tor recently has left a bad taste on my mouth, having state actors like the BBC (read: cghq) start up new tor nodes to use against their state enemies all the while debasing trust on it alongside its allies... I don't know, it just leaves a really bad taste, not that we are all unaware of how "inqtel and friends" have allowed the current worldwide software ecosystem to even exist... But still leaves a bad, bad aftertaste

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/03/08/as-uk-government-is-stil...
no but South America had a lot of cia backed coups when the wrong party won.
> Not that I think work should be where people find relationships...

Full-time employees spend nearly all of their active hours at work. If they do not find relationships / friendships there, where and when will they?
> You imply that it won't.

How?
Though, I am certain that it won't grow indefinitely on earth.

> I don't see a fundamental reason why humans would stop at 8 billion

It can stop at 9 billion and still not grow indefinitely.
Currently a peak of 11 billion and no more than 12 billion is estimated. As said. Because of increased living standards.

> To keep total consumption constant, avg. consumption per person needs to decrease proportionally to the increase of the number of people.

It better to decrease proportionally with a coefficient smaller than 1 and bigger than 0 than decrease consumption not at all.

> Not a real counter-argument.

Yes, it is, because it implies a logical fallacy.
You didn't pay it off, the government (who also owned the corporation) was the owner of it. You could build your own house and own it though, but not the "social" apartments.

The option to buy the apartments from the government came only after the fall of socialism in 1991 (jazbinskov zakon/law)

> actually the apartments were reletively very good quality, and often buildings were made as part of a grander urban project

yes, the apartments were well built, but the aging reinforced concrete will be problematic very soon.
I implemented something similar for a interactive whiteboard project once. The undo operation would simply be appended as another action that itself could be undone by re-doing it.

However, as you played with it, it became confusing because it ran counter to ingrained expected behavior of an undo/redo dual stack implementation. Eventually I implemented the classic approach.
> It's dropping since the 1950s

So has quality of life, so it might have something to do with it.
Just a perfect day

Feed animals in the zoo

Then later, a movie too

And then home
I’m a Phoenix fan but curious, why the choice of Elixir here?

I could be mistake but isn’t a site like Pinboard largely static.
When A/B testing becomes a released feature !
I'm sure they've stopped now though :)
You just brought me this close to spitting out my coffee from laughing this morning. Thanks for the great comment to start my day :)
Considered posting an Ask HN, and this is a bit of a segue, but seems a relevant place to ask... What do people think of DynamoDB? I think it fits my use case, and apparently, there's enough overlap with Cassandra to support a migration, if it turns out to be a bad idea. But I rarely see much writing about teams using it, so wondered about support / popularity / resources?
Like me surfing BTC price drop.
> No, there is no undo "tree"[...]

This is still a tree, it's just implemented in an array.
If by "eyeballs" you mean discovery and recommendations, I also don't see how staying on the main site helps artists. It has a crappy music experience for the consumer. And I, the consumer, generally know what I want to listen to and will search for it.
> In my role I know that

How would you? Are you running an intelligence agency and it's part of your job as a boss to constantly monitor your employees?

I don't see how the location matters, really. A single person might need more money because they want to save up to start a family. Now you factor that in, and you pay them more, but they never find the right partner and don't start a family. Are you now going to ask them to return the money?

I'm a terrible example, but if you offered me to work the same (or, let's face it, often more) than someone for less money because they're married with children, I'd rather work somewhere where I'm not a second class citizen.
Anyone know if there's a more accurate alternative to NTP that doesn't require specialized hardware?
I watched The Kardashians for 15 mins for the first time yesterday on Disney+...

I already knew it was a pile of dog**, like most (all?) Reality TV show is, but I clearly underestimated how low the bar was.

What socked me the most was the celebration of mindless consumption.

It's hard to believe people watching that want less consumer craps and more clean environment.
well, it's true. The first people to go in every layoff operation, at every company I've worked for, were always the "rockstar programmers". The guys that came in with reputation, because they are known in the tech world. The conference speakers, bloggers, open source heroes, etc.

They come in, command a huge salary, and give a big PR/awareness boost to the company. But then turns out they're about as productive as everyone else, which makes them the first to go during layoff season.
I am not familiar with WeChat, could you provide any cool feature as an example?
Just leave your things and ask the person next to you to watch your stuff for a moment? I've done that probably hundreds of times and never had an issue.
That smacks of the same model as a gym membership. Sucker in a large number of marginal users and make it as onerous and hard to leave as possible under law to retain them as long as possible... that's the actual business model.
you keep repeating yourself without providing any sources. here is a quote from scholarly article on the topic that counters what you are saying. Pay attention to the final sentence

Yugoslavia’s blue-collar workers were less likely to receive a socially owned flat than white-collar and skilled workers who were systemically favoured in the allocation process (Živković 1968; Bobić and Vujović 1985; Petrović 2004; Le Normand 2012; Archer 2016). Housing allocation thus forged novel social inequalities, a phenomenon observed by scholars in other state-socialist contexts (Szelenyi 1983; Bodnár and Böröcz 1998; Kulu 2003; Pelikánová 2012; Fehérváry 2013, 74–75; Gentile and Sjöberg 2013; Harris 2013, 112; Dalakoglou 2017, 137). In contrast to capitalist societies where wealthier strata were more likely to own their own home, in socialist states like Yugoslavia white-collar employees and managers were significantly less likely to own property than poorer workers, instead enjoying the more prestigious use of a socially owned flat. This was arguably more advantageous than property ownership as socially owned flats ‘ … were acquired without incurring personal costs, while in terms of their use, inheritance and even trading there were practically no differences between the holders of tenancy rights to state/socially owned housing and private owners’ (Petrović 2004, 270).

- Archer, Roy: The moral economy of home construction in late socialist Yugoslavia

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02757206.2017.1...

so, in terms of use, inheritance, and trading rights it was legally equivalent to owning a house. this is not surprising since yugoslavia had a radically different legal structure about property rights. this is also why people living in those flats could buy it for peanuts when the system collapsed. it certainly wasn't the case that the new government was feeling super generous

tldr. social housing in yugoslavia was government owned in a very weak sense of the word
I've used one of those (Deliveroo), and every time I order I have to go through the seven flaming hoops of strong customer authentication bullshit (opening my banking app, waiting for the thing to pop up, entering a code, accepting, going back to deliveroo...).

The UX is terrible. Unless you are in a country with poor credit card security like America.

Also, a lot of the better takeout places are moving off deliveroo/etc and just doing their own delivery drivers now.
If I tell you to jump off a bridge so you do that, you're unwise because you obeyed my instructions without thinking.

If I tell you not to jump off a bridge so you do it, you're still unwise because now you're just defying my instructions without thinking.

Maybe the C++ bridge isn't on fire, but if you think you can smell smoke you wouldn't be alone.
Why are you comparing drinking coffee to switching jobs? It’s not the same at all.
A brilliant XKCD for survivorship bias: https://m.xkcd.com/1827/
"Pies" is most certainly not American. I have heard that it is supposedly specific to New York, but if you watch Friends (set in New York), you'll see frequent references to the Joey Special, "two pizzas".

It's always possible that there are zero people who think of "pies" as an appropriate way to refer to pizzas, but the myth persists that weird foreign people do it. People will believe anything about weird foreigners. Or there might be weird foreign people doing it right now. It's hard to know.
Neither of those statements relate to what I was saying. My point is that humanity is wealthy enough to remove our current co2 production rate from the atmosphere, with current technology, if it were very important to us. Reducing consumption and improving the technology would likely make this much cheaper, but aren’t strictly necessary.
But the Linux we use today isn't 20 year old software. Sure, the foundation is over 30 year old, but most of the Linux code we use today is relatively fresh and is constantly being improved and updated. Again, I bring the ship of Theseus argument. I doubt my Android phone has too many lines of code written by Linus on it.

Not many places are running software that saw no more active development for over 20 years. Even governments and banks are pushing updates to ancient codebases.

Unmaintained 20 year old software would be the firmware running on your 20 year old car or microwave oven, as that's frozen on that system, not getting any more development.

So, out of all products made by humans, software has by far the shortest expiration date, with the exception being food products.
Sounds like the Braid version of undo-redo.