skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you were to consider that in ye olden days the majority of things in the vegetable aisle would have been simply unavailable out of season, does it seem a bit less like price gouging? Transport is likely the most significant cost.

I suppose our food production has generally centralized over time to the regions that can grow these vegetables all year, and almost no vegetables are grown locally. So we end up paying the transportation costs, even during the four weeks in the fall when we could be overwhelmed by cheap locally-grown vegetables.

My ability to get broccoli in November in North Dakota is quite remarkable?
"Have we started the fire yet?"

– Elon's supporters maybe.
And this depends on the audience.

Sometimes the audience can make you bashful.
These are communication problems which often group together for engineer-types. There is a certain _kind_ of brain which finds engineering problems interesting and also tends to struggle to synthesize their ideas.

You could find another profession where the common communication problems have to do with getting upset and crying about interpersonal conflicts.

The useful insight is this…most people think they’re being clear even when they’re not. Their brain is making sense of the world in a way which may not make sense to you.

One quick hack, especially for engineers, is “I heard you say X…but I’m not sure that’s what you mean. Is that right?”

Most of the time, reasonable people will notice the communication gap and help close it.
What about simply "I had a mortgage to pay, we were going into a recession and all the other tech companies stopped hiring"? I've clinged on to crappy jobs out of desperation during bear markets. This should not be a red flag.
Well, they are learning from the “best”: politicians [1].

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/17/tories-swit...
I've programmed in C for 20 years and Rust for 3 and I'm a _much_ better programmer after using Rust. From experience, Rust doesn't make you a lazy programmer, it makes you a much better programmer.
Rest of the site is just catching up to this now.
Photoprism is good. Have you upgraded to NC 25 and photos 2.0? It is a massive improvement, and you can use Recognize app for auto tagging your photos using facial and other object recognition.
Here are a handful of answers derived from personal experience of myself and others:

* lack of practice; of reinforcing feedback in the form of pushback when not making sense and approval when making sense; perhaps because etiquette makes us too nice to respond in a tight feedback loop

* or a failure to learn from that feedback when provided, because distracted or not viewing it as important, or something to do with excessive dopamine-stimuli that makes longer-term learning difficult, or by nature.

* or, because communication is not so much about precisely expressing things as it is about saying enough to allow your counterparty to produce a mirror of your own mental model, a poorly calibrated sense of what other people know, due to mostly being around people who think very similarly to them

* an overactive mind that has a lot of different things to say—whatever comes to mind—and no particular training in how to organize all those things

I benefitted immensely from a presentation a coworker once gave on the "consulting pyramid" style of writing. In short, your thinking is constructed of "data > arguments > conclusion", and you actually come by those data and arguments in a somewhat random order; if you present an idea exactly as you came up with it it will be a complete mess.
Instead, always lead with the conclusion, then a few top-level arguments; then build on the arguments in more detail; then supply data.

This is amazingly general. In writing you can create your argument exactly like this, with increasing detail / volume at each level. In verbal communication, supply the lower, larger levels only if asked.

It seems that having somebody tell you this stuff one time is enough to shake a person out of the mode of "say whatever they're thinking as soon as they think it."

It also helps to recognize rambling and incoherence as confusion, and take that as a cue to go write the whole thing down and organize it.
It's such a shame when people aren't comfortable admitting they don't know something.

Often it's way more valuable to know that, and safer in many cases too!
This kind of product/service is launched every few years, but unless users hurry they find they typically outlive them. It would be very interesting to see a post-mortem of the various "schedule stuff to happen after you die" projects, at least one of which I believe was YC funded.
Every word of that is seething with a deep hatred for people you have never met.
Mohammed bin Salman: Saudi leader given US immunity over Khashoggi killing
During my first week at UNC Chapel Hill, I had an incredibly opportunity through the honors program where a handful of new students (including myself, an aspring CS student) got to hang out with Fred Brooks for an evening. I don't think I really knew who he was at the time, but I did recognize his name as the one on the CS Building.

When we talk about Fred Brooks now, we're usually talking about the things he's written (MMM, No Silver Bullet, etc.) or the impact he's had on computing (8 bit byte, founding the CS depts, etc.). He didn't talk about any of that with us freshmen. Other than a brief introduction, he didn't talk about any of that at all.

Instead, he talked to us about what he saw as the future. The most exciting thing going forward, as he saw it in August of 2011, was the development of the interface between biology and computing. One of the things that stuck with me was that he said he hoped students today looked at biology the way he looked at computer science back in the 50s and 60s, as a land of unlimited potential.
In my experience when somebody is pointing out flaws that they see in many, many others then it's often the individual that has the problem. Is that what's going on here? You don't appear to acknowledge it might be you are the issue.
Take ten moles of earth, fire, wind and water. What do you have? Captain planet!
3 Reasons Why OpenAPI Is the Best Documentation Platform for Your API
Yes, it's just one of the reasons.
There's been a software engineering labor shortage that's existed since the late aughts. The industry has made limited attempts to ameliorate this condition and instead decided it was just easier to pay people more and offer them perks. It's how the labor market works. There are alternative approaches, such as communism, that have explored alternative approaches to this labor phenomenon. But if you're a capitalist, you're making a school-boy error lamenting about employees being "spoiled". Markets are a thing. Nobody moralizes about a certain grade of steel having a fixed price per unit quantity.
Yeah, dead-man switches are risky when there’s a lot at stake and you forget your password.

An alternative we’re considering is the death files published by the SSA if you provide us with your SSN.
Working very hard is not well-defined in this context. What does it even mean? You can work hard when you have a clear goal, let's say put those 10 barrels onto that truck over there. Or, let's write a new web browser within 2 years. Putting out 20 papers per year can also be considered working very hard.

You don't want people who work very hard. You want people who will EVENTUALLY put out new, original, and truly interesting research. HOW they do this is not up to you.

And there is a difference between truly interesting research, and just busy work research. It's not that easy to identify truly interesting research without the benefit of hindsight. It is somewhat easier to identify busy work research for an objective subject matter expert (but of course this is not 100% either, and personal preferences can definitely cloud the experts judgement).
Since Microsoft has been outsourcing development and QA for some of their consumer products quality has gone downhill.

The picture browser is barely usable. Keeps scrolling back to the top. The iOS file provider sometimes doesn't respond. Downloading 500 photos locally on an iPad results in a unresponding app.
Those teenagers will grow up to be the leaders of tomorrow, and shit they liked or interacted with on tik tok is blackmail material.
Yes - you raise some good points.

It's not really about health. In this day and age you can be healthy with or without consuming animal products.

It's really about cruelty towards sentient beings and is the biosphere destruction really worth having a strip of bacon or a steak?

Are culinary pleasures more important than not inflicting all this cruelty and damage?

Pigs pass the mirror test and can be compared to small 2-3 year children when it comes to intelligence.

Cows are such gentle and curious animals.

And yet we treat animals as inanimate objects.

As Carl Sagan said 'They are too much like us'

If we ever achieve a Star Trek like society - those future humans will look back at this time the same way we look back at the times when slavery was fully accepted by society.
When the fishy balance sheets leaked I wondered who the CFO was who signed off on them. There was no CFO.

Beyond any regulation or regulatory failure it’s shocking the investors let this happen. You shouldn’t give someone billions of dollars without an adult in the room ensuring there are adequate processes in place to track and manage that money.

The GPs at the various VCs investing in this should honestly be fired.

But as story goes on the story just gets so much worse. This is theft of company and customer assets pure and simple. SBF and his cohorts are about to discover just how far reaching the long dick of the US government really is.

Like how can anyone think blindly spending customer assets wasn’t going to end in spending the rest of your life in prison or on the run? Because that’s where this is going.
Is anyone seriously using prefixes above Giga, besides for counting bytes or boasting numbers in popular science articles?

In physics, in practice you either state the number in exponential notation and don't care abut it or for brevity introduce a more appropriate unit: barns (10⁻²⁸ m²) and electronvolts (10⁻¹⁹ J) in nuclear physics or solar mass (~10³⁰ kg) in astrophysics, etc.
It's probably worth separating slaughter and processing from raising.

In the USA, my understanding is that even small farms, using humane and environmentally friendly practices, still generally need to send the animals to a larger commercial facility for slaughter and processing. According to what I've read, this is largely due to USDA and/or FDA regulations that are cost-prohibitive to implement at a smaller scale.
VST Inc, from FireWire to expresso coffee
Not to mention that humans induce the creation of these lifelong sufferers. Animals in the wild do no such thing (or at least nowhere near the scale that humans do and certainly with nothing close to the cognitive abilities of the animals we do it to).
That's always been the assumption, but a lot of people are trying it anyway.
It's not weird that you like the taste of meat. But being unable to empathize with the sentient animals that we kill so thoughtlessly, and at such a scale, even when you're confronted with that fact in this poetic yet concise fashion is more than a little callous.
If you have or had elevated blood sugar, also consider combining that diet with a regimen of metformin. It's cheap, it reduces blood sugar, and it helps with weight loss. It's a prescription drug, but it's long since off patent.
Not as bad as processed carbs and sugars that's for sure.
Not op - think it’s more along the lines of “humans evolved with nature as a constraint” and industrialization has the ability to remove that constraint.
Here are some altruistic reasons these events might occur:

> - don't directly address the point of your question / provide a much complex answer (or even worse, a non-answer) to a simple question

> - don't stay focused to the point of the discussion

I often dive deeper if the question itself raises suspicions that the question asker might not fully understand the topic. For example, if someone asked: "can you unbatch those 1k RPCs?", I might go into more detail than a "yes" or "no". I do it to spare the question asker from making a bad decision, without wanting to embarrassing them by saying that the question is too simplistic, or makes no sense.

> - don't some level of clarity in their train of thought and speech

You yourself are missing words in your communication like the word "have" in the quote above. Also, I don't know enough linguistic rules to correct you, but colloquially at least your title is better understood if you write it as "Why do some people not communicate clearly?" So some compassion when others misspeak might be good. Often it's possible to read between the lines.

> - generally over-complicate matters by wandering off to other related subjects and extending the scope of the discussion

Creativity is often the expansion of a topic, or the merger of multiple topics. Maybe your question sparked their creativity and they're taking the opportunity to show you some of their creative thought process.
"Discussion" -- sounds synchronous af, lol
Money worshippers worship money.
Besides the obvious problem of WHAT should I eat there is the problem of HOW MUCH should I eat. And in general we eat too much volume wise AND at inappropriate times relative to our circadian rhythm. CLOCK genes exist! And eating changes your genetic expression.
managers tend to /want to/ over-simplify things. SWEs have to bear the consequences of every exception to an over-simplified rule, that non-experts did not want to know about. Yeah there's a 1% problem, complex, unrewarding, but we'll spend 90% of the total effort on it because we can't have our system crap out once a month
https://www.google.com/amp/s/finance.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/...
Why only 90 degrees?
I think the complaint here is not about the moment of death, but about the literal lifetime of torment and agony leading up to that moment. Death probably comes as a relief for animals raised on factory farms.
What do you mean by "information complexity"?

Quantity of information absolutely does follow conservation laws, at least in quantum mechanics.
There was one huge part of twitters culture that I liked. It was a place where I could I read less filtered thoughts of influential people and get news that hadn't quiet met the standard to publish in reputable newspapers. It's a fine line. I just like the bar lowered slightly, not all the way so it is mental diarrhea or completely unsubstantiated rumors. I had to be careful about who I followed and keep a critical mind about what they posted.

I think a big part of what "Twitter culture" is it was many things for many people. Some people use as a place for weird shit posting, some use it for porn, some enjoy bias confirmation, some enjoy the drama and beef. I guess some people enjoy anime avatar reply-guys since some of the new offshoots seem to be catering to maximize them.

For me Twitter would have been better if it didn't have any of that but I get that using it as basically a shitty, short-form substack isn't the most popular usecase. So what I liked about "twitter culture" is that all of these things could co-exist on one site and just curating who you followed could dramatically change that experience.

With a lot of the current drama some of the more serious people are leaving. I'm not sure how it will all shake out in the end, but I don't expect my use case to stay intact.
4.4BSD-Lite2, the Last Unix from Berkeley
By all means! The GitHub repo is linked on my site.
People think every one shares the same definition for words like a dictionary, but people don't learn words from the dictionary they learn them from context of other peoples speech.

The fact that context is communication seems to be lost on most people and in an effort to be efficient assume every one else is using and understands their definition.

The examples you give could all be caused by this. They could be trying to establish context or gain understanding of definitions. As in they are talking in an attempt to understand you rather than answer the question.

Is clear communication answering in the least words possible or covering all possible interpretations of understanding? Annoyingly its both.
I installed TikTok on an iPhone, provided no personal info, and used Apple Login as the ID (which conceals my email, right?). So I assume I’m relatively safe from surveillance… but am I?
Where are you hosting that still offers CPanel on a $5/month plan?
This is the cause of situations I find myself in regularly.

Some people seem to think that spewing a stream of nonsense is superior to admitting that they aren't omniscient.

I respect people more when they can confidently say "I don't know".
“The fish rots from the head back.”
Honestly, when I see this kind of story (and I do see it a lot), the confusion is typically more on the side of the person insisting on a yes or no. I had a conversation once with a customer who demanded a yes or no answer to the question of "is your system in-memory". They didn't want to talk about what was in memory - they'd just learned from Oracle marketing material that "in-memory" was faster, so they wanted to make sure we were faster.
I think it's a figurative way of saying that our tastes developed in a natural environment where the things we crave (mainly sugar and fat) were limited and packaged in healthier forms (fruits, nuts, meat).
"China views all trade as a zero-sum-game war"

No, they don't. That's an absurd statement. China has become a great power by virtue of engaging with the global trade system.
Maybe also related to the ad accounts hacks
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/11/small-businesses...
All i see is he started a wait list.
Seems like the common denominator is the K here!
You talk as though it was one study done 60 years ago.

My understanding is that they've done a wide variety of studies continuously over decades.

They observed only, people with higher cholesterol were more likely to die.

They fed various animals high fat diets, the animals died sooner than control groups. The animals who are a lot of fat had higher serum cholesterol.

They tried diet interventions, no medicine, just getting people to eat different, those who ate less saturated fat tended to live longer. Saturated fat is correlated with cholesterol levels, as shown in other observational studies.

They created medicines, did trials, some of the medicines tended to lower cholesterol and extend life, others lowered cholesterol and didn't extend life.

It's complicated, but there's a wide variety of studies that have looked at cholesterol from different angles and taken all together paint a crude but coherent picture.

Today, we know that total cholesterol is quite crude, looking at LDL is better, and there's other blood markers that are even better than LDL.

It's complex and beyond what can be discussed effectively on HN, but there's a lot behind the conventional wisdom on cholesterol. Dismissing it all as "bunk science" is dismissing a strawman.

Furthermore, mainstream recommendations are completely reasonable. Eat a variety of food, avoid processed foods, limit saturated fat but some is ok, only give statins when cholesterol is very high or their risk for heart disease is high. If more people followed the guidelines, the net effect would mostly be people eating more whole fruits and vegetables, hardly the great evil the industry is sometimes accused of.
One reason was to get political backing for the DoD project he co-enginered with this guy,
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Griffin#Career
The 7% is how often it ends up helping after all the traditional IPv4 traversal tricks.

We race all the options and see which works & is fastest. It's likely it's more like 16% or more (I don't have that number handy) in practice but 7% is just how often it would've not worked at all and had to go to DERP relays if it weren't for IPv6 being an option.
Unless you're paying EU100 per litre, your "balsamic vinaigrette" isn't made with proper balsamic vinegar. It's made from regular vinegar mixed with colouring agents, flavouring agents and preservatives.

Proper balsamic vinegar is made using a solera system, and takes a number of years. I doubt any restaurant chef would use real balsamic vinegar to make a "balsamic vinaigrette"; the real thing is for sipping.
IRC forever!!!
DekaDeciFail.
Who is currently writing things that might end up having the impact of the MMM ?

It's Friday, and I'm grumpy, so I could very well argue that the age of the "thinkers" is dead and gone for software, and that everything that comes from now is just rehashing old good ideas (at best) or propagating new bad ones.

Let's be charitable and assume there is still 1% a good stuff among the junk. Who's writing it ? Who's on the good side of the tar pit, and has the potential to lend a hand ?
Many people seem to totally lack the capability of understanding simple questions. I often have to ask yes/no questions, and even then I have to say "please answer yes or no". Then I have to go beating 1 bit information at the time...

In my experience of sometimes being on the other side of these conversations, the problem is that the person asking for ‘yes/no’ answers is exhibiting a lack of understanding of the subject being discussed. They are asking questions that are not relevant or perhaps even misleading. I’m struggling to get them to stop focusing on irrelevant or wrong things, and listen to more background information that’s required to reach a base level of shared understanding.
That's incorrect. A reduction in suffering is preferable even if it doesn't result in the absence of it.
What evidence is there of this?

Elon Musk's first company was actually called Zip2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk#Zip2

In 1995, Musk, his brother Kimbal, and Greg Kouri founded Zip2.[44][45] Errol Musk provided them with $28,000 in funding.[46] The company developed an Internet city guide with maps, directions, and yellow pages, and marketed it to newspapers.[47] They worked at a small rented office in Palo Alto,[48] Musk coding the website every night.[48] Eventually, Zip2 obtained contracts with The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune.[39] The brothers persuaded the board of directors to abandon a merger with CitySearch;[49] however, Musk's attempts to become CEO were thwarted.[50] Compaq acquired Zip2 for $307 million in cash in February 1999,[51][52] and Musk received $22 million for his 7-percent share.[53]
Talk about testing in production. You have to die first to see if this triggers, and if not -- your automation becomes the ultimate in legacy code.

Seriously, this is a very interesting idea. However, after losing both of my parents in the last 4 years, there's a sad but legitimate intermediate state between alive & well, and deceased. People lose their ability to function and make decisions on their own, might not be able to renew your service.
The effect of statin drugs on your cholesterol would utterly swamp any putative effects of dietary fat. Also, how is dietary fat bad but the fat synthesized in your body from excess carbs good?
Is there an explanation somewhere on what the plans for ABI are? Are they exporting just pure C functions from the Rust code?
Lighting it on fire will make it leaner, but I’m not sure that’s a good solution.
Also

> don't some level of clarity in their train of thought and speech
I think (I'm no expert) 1000 made sense at the time. All of measurement seems to be more or less made up on the spot, and everybody agrees to stick with those units. Nice short writeup of the history of length here[1]. I'm not knocking metric, and I agree 1000 is nice. From our current understanding of everything, it all holds together really well. But I think that was pretty true of all units of measure that lasted any length of time.

1 https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/inches.html
Terawatts come to mind.