skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mighty as an idea was cool and interesting and I hope the tech survives and continues to be developed. Fat clients have their place in the world but a solution like Mighty allows for a lot of the benefits of a fat client without a lot of the downsides.

I think this is a really interesting decision from Suhail and one not taken lightly. I think this decision is another data point that AI-infused applications are a potential new “tech platform” and we’re at the beginning of a new “mega cycle”. I.e. web2 2002-2010, mobile 2010-2020.

Folks shouldn’t be spending much energy on thinking about how Mighty may have gone wrong (and seriously the negative analysis is so boring and lame), and instead think about the new AI opportunity.
Hey I did this. Sounds like you need to get out a bit. Have a look on meetup.com and see if there is anything interesting out there and just do it.

Can recommend anything involving social involving exercise i.e. hiking, playing a sport (I play tennis occasionally). Occasionally random eating out is fun (I ended up with a bunch of Googlers on one). Works wonders. You return with clarity.

I think I've done 390 meetup events now. I've met and made a lot of friends over the last few years, some have stuck.
> When we measure a culture, we must measure it against human nature

I think you hit the nail on the head here. So much of our society outright _denies the existence_ of human nature.
Population density through out history has been far lower with far fewer people around and much more spread out. People didn't typically live in cities.

Travel was difficult and dangerous. Frequently forbidden when not impractical (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_movement).

If you think lockdowns in say, China, are harsh:

Russian Serfs were only freed 1861. Less than a century after Joseph II decided to end feudalism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serfdom_Patent_(1781).

Some form of social isolation was the norm for most of human history. So I don't think you are doomed to grow crazy if you stay by yourself, we're just not used to it. No longer the norm.

Being left alone with a smartphone and "social" media apps however might cause a person to spiral.
Same error here!
It's still early days at the moment. So there is no import from other tools yet.
Given how short tenures are across the board, those of us who are even around to notice long term outcomes are sort of wierdos to begin with. Many senior and staff engineers, architects, directors, etc. have never seen their own work 2 years down the line. Even if they stay at the company they switch teams, etc.
But Jellyfin web client can't play a lot of common media file formats, because the browsers cannot play them.
Current research suggests that willpower is not a finite research and "ego depletion" was a spurious finding.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-do-you-know/2020...
Is anyone claiming people cannot hold differing views?

People can choose to not work or associate with others based on their views. We still defend their right to hold their views, just not the privilege of our company. This is technically intolerant. Still, even the law does not tolerate screaming 'Fire!' in a crowded theater.

In practice absolute tolerance will yield power to whomever shouts the loudest, or is the strongest, because it removes the right to not associate. (For fear of being called intolerant, on a technicality.)
Do you think it was a combination of the adrenaline and the near-death-experience aspect of skydiving that did it for you? Or something less obvious?
(author) I made sure the numbers were highly visible on the 5" screen.
> I had some free time this weekend, when I realized I could do anything, but there was nothing I wanted to do.

First of all, I think this is not so unusual for people who are very good at focusing on a particular problem area. See the cliché of the absent-minded professor. If you are constantly thinking about the same area, whether the issues are difficult or not, you cannot hope to just turn this off and immediately find something else appealing.

My primary advice is not to search for something new you want to do, but to apply an indirect strategy: Establish a weekend routine were you try to force any work-related thoughts out of your mind from Friday evening till Monday morning. So if you find yourself thinking about work at the weekend, stop that train of thought immediately and force yourself to think about something else, whatever that is. Do this a few weekends in a row and see what happens.
This is just another case of "We made it hard and annoying to do, so nobody's doing it. Let's remove it entirely.".

You need to start from the other direction. How many people are buying new devices every year? What would it take to get them to upgrade their existing devices instead? How do we prevent manufacturers from sabotaging this kind of effort?
That would require web developers to work with Apple.

glances at Apple's track-record with web developers

I don't think they're going to be very cooperative.
I am positive it can be implement in a business oriented app to the same extent I am trying to implement it in a personal environment. And if it doesn't fit -- surely there are other methodologies that both advance the field and fit the product.
Fair enough. I believe SpaceX is the outlier in that space, regardless. Pun intended.

Parabolicarc is now back online w/ a new site overhaul. This is the particular article that I was referring to:

http://parabolicarc.wpengine.com/2022/10/26/space-spacs-the-...
...and how secure is this?
Are there explicit processes or interactions involved in learning as a culture that one can use to identify if you're in a culture of learning?

Where would you expect "blame and punish" to come from? From authority, or from peers?
Hmm, I'm not quite sure how to interpret Jonathan Blow's tweet. You seem to be saying that he is saying that the Mighty project itself is embarrassing, while I took it to mean the fact that today's beefy computers, with all their CPU and RAM, struggle to render web pages to the point that someone is considering doing a rube-goldberg-esque solution of rendering on a mainframe-equivalent and then streaming you the results is the part that's embarrassing.
The vast majority of the people that hold that opinion have no scientific basis for the opinion they hold, nor do they have a seemingly have a clue about how dangerous pregnancy can be in some situations and that abortion is a lifesaving procedure.

It saves human lives to discount the opinions of the ignorant.
From Boyes and Melvin, Macroeconomics, 8th edition, 2008, pg. 135:

>The official dating of recessions in the United States is the responsibility of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), an independent research organization. The NBER has identified the shaded areas in the graph in Figure 1 as
recessions and the unshaded areas as expansions. Recessions are periods between
cyclical peaks and the troughs that follow them. Expansions are periods between
cyclical troughs and the peaks that follow them.

>The NBER defines a recession as “a period of significant decline in total
output, income, employment, and trade, usually lasting from six months to a
year, and marked by widespread contractions in many sectors of the economy.”
People sometimes say that a recession is defined by two consecutive quarters of
declining real GDP. This informal idea of what constitutes a recession seems to
be consistent with the past recessions experienced by the United States, as every
recession through the 1990s has had at least two quarters of falling real GDP.
However, this is not the official definition of a recession. The business cycle dating committee of the NBER generally focuses on monthly data. Close attention
is paid to the following monthly data series: employment, real personal income
less transfer payments, the volume of sales of the manufacturing and wholesale–
retail sectors adjusted for price changes, and industrial production. The focus is
not on real GDP, because it is measured only quarterly and does not permit the
identification of the month in which business-cycle turning points occur.
People are staring at their smartphones because there are less communal spaces than before and less energy put towards having them.

Read some Robert Putnam. This was happening well before screens could be blamed.
Don't worry someone is working really hard at making sure it will go away.
This seems cool, but I'd definitely focus on explaining the methodology a bit more. I'm not quite sure how I'm supposed to be using it...
GitHub's effective monopoly is the core problem, not its moderation policy. Getting banned from GitGud.io, an open-access GitLab instance won't meaningfully affect a person's ability to work in software development, but a ban from GitHub significantly limits one's options.

The same goes for centralized social media. Moderation on Twitter and Youtube has been politically important recently not because there aren't other options for microblogging or video hosting with adequate functionality, but because they have the vast majority of the audience for that kind of content.

I'm hoping people are starting to realize these monopolies are harmful and moving to more diversified options.

> why is it their place to moderate things from a social perspective?

The purpose of moderation is to prevent people from abandoning the platform because it's full of behavior or content they deem unacceptable. Most services don't want to take positions on social issues, but if discussions in open source projects on GitHub are full of slurs, threats, suggestions that people should kill themselves, and the like, people will stop using it.
WebRcade Adds Support for Playstation
Check this out: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CnUVCFdpVE4
I think indulging in onanism keeps testosterone levels alright. Am I right?
I'm stil struggling to get my head around why this works.
This idea sounded bad like a lot of ideas initially sound (insert ipod nomad lame meme). There was a case to be made that consumer laptop processing speeds had completely stagnated, chrome wasn't getting any lighter, and fast internet was more readily available.

But, Apple stepped in with the M1/M2 and totally obviated the need for any product like this.
Giving birth is violent, we should push for in-vitro birth as soon as possible

The only way to make sure we can safely reproduce during space travel / planet missions
is it interesting?
Helicopter parenting wasn’t as intense as it has been in the last 20-30 years.
How accurate is approximating earth as a sphere? (2012)
> Angry bees are to be expected after kicking the hive.

They may be angry, but newspaper coverage isn't supposed to be about settling scores and getting revenge on the companies that threatened your profits. It's supposed to be about reporting facts and making reasonable inferences.

I know that ideal isn't always adhered to, but let's not excuse the media too quickly when they behave badly.
In times of yore when salaries were uncertain and low people had far more sex than they have now. Things they did not have back then which may be part of the reason why they went at it:

- an abundance of electric lighting

- media to distract them and personal portable screens with access to such. Personal is important since even a television screen watched by 2 people offers more of a social experience than those same 2 people each bent over their personal screens.

- contraceptives

- state pensions

- education, for good and for bad

- a relentless drive to consume, consume and consume for the sake of it

- life success measured by the number of ephemeral gadgets you collect - your great-grandfather's golden pocket watch was a status symbol for life while your Apple watch is outdated in one or two years.

To be sure, there were some things which people had back then which they do not have now for the most:

- religion - many people met their partner while going to church

- marriage was far more common

- contact with their neighbourhood - people knew their street/hamlet/village, they met them on the street, in shops, pubs, church, at work, etc.

- public social gatherings of sufficiently large size to meet that girl from the next town and of sufficiently small size to meet her at the next event.
You need to stick to one activity for at least 3 months before deciding it doesn't really serve any purpose. Trial and error. Consistency is the key.
> But if someone only wants to get a well-paying job and be able to call their sprint tasks done, they probably want Python or Go, because Rust will make them cry

You can be about as sloppy in Rust as you might in Python or Ruby: the language supports dynamic typing ("Any" trait), reference counted objects etc. But that would involve a lot of boilerplate, so your sloppy code would very much stand out as non-idiomatic.
Not OP, but I can share my experience. Worked with two other people on a data lake project and their Python code was full of weird stuff, like if you just copy/paste SO snippets into the project. They eventually got outputs but the code was all-but-unmaintainable.

(For the record, I also copy SO code into my projects, but I at least leave a note on what specific problem I’m solving and a pointer back to the question.)
My local club does foxhunting activities but also has been trying to identify a set of transmissions meant to disrupt the repeater’s operation.

At least three members bought krakens at least in part to find the perpetrator. To me it’s a pretty interesting cat and mouse game. It seems like the illegal transmissions are mobile which has prevented success at stopping them.
But my source is also Tesla themselves - and yours is 2019 and mine 2022?
I haven't tried it yet. Will take the time to check it out. Thanks for your suggestions.
How does this occur in workplaces?
Not yet, but fairly easy to explain, in its current state. Nestful is a todo list app that can display items in Kanban or List view, and in which each item is also a board itself (hence the product name). That is it (for now ;))
> Guys, get your hormones checked. It will transform your life.

If someone is severely deficient, then yes.

However, a lot of TRT clinics will essentially give anyone who walks in the door a prescription. Going from low-normal to normal or even high-normal levels via TRT won’t be anywhere near as life changing as going from being severely deficient (like you) to normal levels.

It also comes with a lifelong commitment to TRT.

If anyone is not extremely deficient, they should be exhausting normal methods to improve testosterone levels (diet, exercise, reducing alcohol consumption, and so on) before trying to replace their natural production for the rest of their lives. Obviously it’s a different story for people who have absolutely crushed testosterone levels for other reasons.
Stadia failed too… but was that just google pulling the plug, or the whole concept that doesn’t make sense?

Personally I’ve tried stadia and ps now, and they both have noticeable artifacting, lower resolution, and input latency, on a 1 gig symmetrical fiber connection. The only streaming that’s remotely acceptable as a gamer is steam in-home streaming over a hardwired connection.
Metformin is well-understood, old, safe, and has various health benefits.

Surprisingly, metformin seems to be almost a pure win, even for healthy people: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/is-metformin-a-wonder-dr...

In contrast, GIP analogues like semaglutaide present real risks and are less well understood. For some people, with serious health problems, GIP analogues make sense. But generally you don't want to be taking them if you're healthy.
Would anyone have any recommendations on material for learning Rust? Is The Rust Programming Language still the best way to start?
Do you actually want to do this PhD or is it just the appeal of having a defined, long term target laid out for you?

From one perspective you’re in a pretty exciting position. You’d about to wrap up the study/formation part of your life. You’ve got a job that should offer long-term financial stability and a fairly clear career path.

You have spent so long getting somewhere. Now you’re there and you don’t know what to do with all the time you spent getting there. I think this “quarter life crisis” is fairly common among the graduate classes. What do you do when you reach the end of the process laid out for you?

The solution is to just do… anything. Try lots of stuff and see what you enjoy. Is there anything that’s ever tempted you but felt “not for you” or too scary to try? Now’s the time.
You say "what really happened" four times with four, to me, unrelated conclusions.
This is is a good case study in fraud that reveals the temporal structure

https://pacfe.org/images/meeting/100914/the_crazy_eddie_frau...

Like a lot of frauds, the ‘crazy Eddie’ fraud is periodized into phases were first they tried to understate income (to avoid taxes) and then later overstate income (to increase the value of a public company) and then had to work harder and harder to hide the fraud until…
read great books outside your professional world

join some real life groups outside your professional world, meetups etc.

cultivate something you like outside of work, movies, sport, cooking, gardening, travel etc.

kind of like Zuck's personal challenges, make a habit to do something annually, monthly
Ah the "Straw Man" fallacy.

Not addressing the argument, but pointing out a fallacy on Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
Sure, but the poster seemed to imply there as an asset class of “savings in things that the government can't print” which has done well lately. And I don’t understand what they’re talking about because cash is clearly the best performer.

It sounds like a goldbug/crypto argument, but gold is down and Bitcoin is down the toilet, so that can’t be it…
They're generally not actually, they just exist because playing wack-a-mole trying to get everyone to take it down is not worth the effort.

Fair use is a fairly complicated and nuanced thing, with several considerations for what's allowed and not. It's really not as simple as "oh that's parody", especially when it's...pretty obviously not. Memes are for the most part just plain jokes, not parodies of the work(s) being used.
DNS-over-Ping
Sure, it is available, but _why_? For years and years now, even low end devices are perfectly capable of playing media over a network without transcoding being required? Why do people think they need transcoding? Are they streaming to ancient video game consoles from their PCs? I mean, it was helpful when I was streaming to a PS2, but that's a long time ago, now.
I have a similar background and experience, but am probably a lot older. Eventually that emptiness led me to vipassana meditation and a realization that my mind is composed of the thinking striving mind and my sensate mind, but both are subservient to my awareness. My striving was driven by my thinking mind at the expense of my sensate mind. It also controlled my awareness. Vipassana meditation, over the course of a two years of daily practice, taught me how to assert the primacy of my awareness - which has no voice like my striving mind, or feelings like my sensate mind. This awareness mind I learned is the true mind, it’s where thought actually happens but the thought isn’t visceral like my other two subsystems. In drinking and substances and food I fed the senate mind, and striving at work and career I fed my thinking mind, and was unaware of my true underlying self that lurks in the awareness. Meditation helped me isolate these components of my mind and assert awareness over striving and sensing. My mind still thinks and strives and I still feel, but they are background processes and in general I am quietly myself now. My anxiety is gone, I know what I like to do, and I am not unhappy when I’m not doing what I like to do - I’m just aware of it, and acknowledge my thoughts and striving. I am probably more ambitious now than before, but it’s very narrowly focused on what I want to do and I know why now. I’m also painfully aware that I’m a baby in this experience and am not very skilled. Now I really truly understand why Buddhism is as influential as it is. But if what I said is right, and an awful lot of folks believe it is over many thousands of years, the emptiness you feel is because you’re simply not letting yourself be yourself, but are confusing the imperatives of your thinking mind with you - which makes you feel because it’s not you. While I said simply, it’s not simple to experience especially if you’ve been driven by ambition and anxiety for a long time like I was.

If you want a price of what I’ve got I suggest starting here:

https://www.audiodharma.org/series/introduction

Or if you prefer YouTube:

https://youtu.be/TALTfUxelAc

The master here is a guy named Gil. He’s very interesting and his style appeals to western style engineers:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Fronsdal

Good luck. The path your on can be extraordinarily painful.
I don't think it's M1 that killed it.

Probably high server costs and being a vitamin and not a painkiller killed it.

Also, people are not too happy about giving away their browser history data to server-side powered browsers.

That being said, it's still sad to see startups fail. Hopefully they'll have better luck with their new direction. Fingers crossed!
I had problems getting that running. So:

The easiest way to do this on a M1/arm64 macOS system that I found was doing a 'brew install lima', start lima, apt install picolisp+emacs, then set up plisp-mode.

This is a fast setup to run Emacs+picolisp in a Mac terminal, and file sharing between Linux and macOS is OK also.
About (1): May I request you to throw some light? Is your reference that the keywords are not synonymized to find equivalents within documents? Help?
I mean that’s business. Are you ok with superior products being priced less than expensive inferior ones?
If companies could identify “fat” with precision, they wouldn’t wait for downturns to cut it. Measuring SWE performance is fraught. These decisions are usually made without involving line managers and sometimes not even skip levels. Even if it wants to be, I don’t see how it can be a real reflection of performance.
Looks great!

I might have missed it but does it support flexible recurrence for tasks? E.g. "change furnace filters every 3 months" but not on a fixed schedule but 3 months from when I last completed the task?
Liberty Basic – Easy Programming for Windows
How Squid and Octopus Get Their Big Brains
I know, that's implied. That's why I said it's a cultural class; both parties are unable to co-exist.

It's nothing personal. It's just, outside of FAANG and fields with a FAANG-like culture, the expectation is generally professionalism. At least in my field, if customers Google a company they don't want to see posts by employees of this nature. This sort of thing just doesn't fit.
"literally anything" is here defined as tweeting once?
“Apple: Think Arrogance”
Mastodon for Brands
PipeWire Support in Firefox
Man, that's an interesting read

> For their recent study, the two men collected records on 404 men who belonged to violent Islamist groups active over the past few decades (some in jail, some not). Had those groups reflected the working-age populations of their countries, engineers would have made up about 3.5 percent of the membership. Instead, nearly 20 percent of the militants had engineering degrees. When Gambetta and Hertog looked at only the militants whose education was known for certain to have gone beyond high school, close to half (44 percent) had trained in engineering

https://web.archive.org/web/20220106004629/https://www.nytim...