skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...well the brexit vote was split nearly 50/50. The brexiteers were "counter establishment". Do you think the vote would have been 50/50 if better together had run a campaign that was basically "We're Oxbridge-educated economists telling you that brexit is a folly, and Hannan is just a muppet whose wild claims it would be beneath us to respond to"?

I'm not even saying that debate is a fruitful way of deciding anything. For me, it's a framework that frequently makes relevant information come to light. I also enjoy it as a kind of exercise regime to strengthen my intellectual muscle.

Also: What's the alternative? If upvotes/downvotes on HN are just a "popularity contest of opinions", where's the fun in that? Popularity contests are an even worse way than civilised debate to decide anything, or to expose me to information it would be useful for me to get exposed to, or to help me exercise my intellectual muscle. They're just boring.

And it's what's wrong with social media today: If HN is a popularity contest, and HN's majority opinions line up with mine, I will then be an HN-reader who enjoys reading on HN all the opinions I already hold. If they don't line up, it will be a frustrating experience for me to read HN, and I will then no longer be an HN-reader and find another online community whose opinions align better with my own. Where's the fun in that?
According to wikipedia:

There are 2,360,821 total speakers of Sanskrit in India, as of 2011. However, despite attempts at revival there are no first language speakers of Sanskrit in India. In each of India's recent decennial censuses, several thousand citizens have reported Sanskrit to be their mother tongue, but the numbers are thought to signify a wish to be aligned with the prestige of the language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit_revival
So What Happened to the MOOC?
The sooner we can fully automate competitive programming away from the standard interview process the sooner things will improve for all software devs, imho.
It probably can, but it won't run in polynomial time.
I'm also an old hardcore user of xfce (xubuntu) but I can't live without https://ulauncher.io/ or similar projects.
We’re witnessing the brain death of Twitter
I got my first c++ compiler for windows practically free with a book. I think full version of visual studio was $100 when I was first learning to code in early 90s. There were tons of free ware compilers for dos. Unix was basically impossible for anyone without a corporate job
Practice breaking things up into smaller tasks. It's a life saver.

Starter tip! Any task can be broken into:

1. Look at the task.

2. Figure out the next step.

Nonono don't wait with step 1 until you feel you have a plan for step 2. Forget step 2. Do step 1 first. Then do step 2.
Comparing SBF and Musk does not seem right. For all his faults, Musk has actually created real products.

SBF on the other hand seems to have been really good at raising money. Much like Elizabeth Holmes.
1 is the loneliest number.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33998438
What you are witnessing is the weaponization of social media.
Lots of scientists have done gain of function research I am sure then you would like to investigate all of them and not just Fauci?

That will take a while to compile the list. And I assume you really understand what it is. So what is your exact problem with it.

Based on your answers to questions so far I am doubting you even know what it is. Someone just told you it was bad and now you want to draw attention to yourself.
My points of comparison are the macOS versions, where the difference is staggering. Architecturally macOS and iOS are very similar and it’s traditionally been quite rare for either engine’s team to focus squarely on improving efficiency (it’s always speed or features instead, with efficiency as a trailing afterthought), so there’s no reason to think that Blink and Gecko for iOS will be any more efficient than their macOS counterparts.
To me it's terrifying and gives me a bit of panic playing with it. This is still early stuff, like dial-up or 100Mhz processors. We all know the trajectory tech takes nowadays, and the writing on the wall here is an event horizon where it's impossible to see the full scope of how this tech will change the world.

We're like people getting the very first electric light bulbs in their home, trying to speculate how electricity will change the world. The pace of change however will be orders of magnitude faster than that.
I absolutely agree with you. I think anti-fossil-fuel activists extrapolate how easily somebody could switch their ICE car to an EV, or better yet change their lifestyles to one that doesn't need a car, to the orders of magnitude higher energy requirements behind the scenes that support modern life that cannot feasibly be run on alternative sources any time soon -- construction, shipping, agriculture, mining, etc.
I do find it funny that artists are complaining about things like AI generated art clogging up art sites/reducing commissions/etc. because my particular artistic outlet of choice is writing and visual art has completely overtaken text based content online, particularly for anything fandom or nerd adjacent. The visual artists are also responsible for the monetization of fandom to begin with which I'm still pretty salty about. We moved from discussions and fanfic to 500+ 'commission me to draw your OTP!' and 'Look at this skimpy character art!' daily posts.

Shoe's on the other foot now and they don't like it.
My thought on this was, "You could go your whole career without getting to write a headline like that."
The title is confusing and sounds like just PR. I thought they mean "Z-Wave project is Open Source now" but looks like source code is still in private github repository and you need to be a "member" to get access.

What "Source Code Project" supposed to even mean? Any source code is part of some project(s).
DMV is maybe not the best analogy since it’s more or less mandatory and people can’t choose to invest more time/money to do it better.

How about car repair? As a car enthusiast, I think anyone who fails to invest time and energy to really understand how cars work, from cv joints to TPMS systems, is putting themselves at the mercy of repair shops that can be capricious.

And financial planning, and yard care, and zoning policy, and. . .

Point being, life is too complex for everyone to be an expert in everything they depend on. And we all depend on things where we’re not even expert enough to know the implicit assumptions and dependencies we’re taking on.

I don’t think we can break through that. I’d love to be wrong, but I just don’t see a way for people to have deep understanding of every tool they use while still doing the stuff they want to do.
In this same theme, I've found three things that really help solidify a wanted habit that is spawned from motivation. Removing the personal option of choice, removing as many small obstacles as possible before the thing that you need motivation for, and taking baby steps.

What Removal of choice in practice looks like is going to the gym in the morning isn't a choice, it's just what I have to do. In the same way that going to work on the weekdays isn't a choice, it's what you have to do.

As for removing small obstacles, getting to the gym early in the morning is hard. When you wake up early it is extremely tempting to stay in the comfort of you bed or scroll social media while you have your coffee, or [insert easy dopamine hit here]. I have my gym bag packed, my coffee machine set so all I have to do is hit the brew button, my whey/creatine powder is in the mixer bottle, and (recently) I've cleaned the snow off my car, in the evening. This is so when I wake up weak willed, it's as easy as I can possibly make it to follow through on my intention.

For baby steps, when instituting a new habit from motivation, make it easy, like really really easy. The gym habit is a new one for me this year. I started building it by simply setting the intention that I would show up to the gym for a couple minutes. No pressure to work out, no pressure to get fit, the only requirement on myself was that I spend 2 minutes at the gym on my 'workout' days. This helped build and lock in a routine and notice the small obstacles that I needed to overcome to get to the gym. As the habit of going got locked in, it became trivially easy to be like well I guess while I'm here I'll do some curls.
Lol I learned about 'screen' (like tmux) from running a server.

I would ssh in, start it up, login with the game, certify everything was working, then kill the ssh and be confused the game dropped.

The instructions mentioned screen but all it seemed to do was break the scroll buffer.

Eventually I learned. That was fun.
Yes. Your opinion is irrelevant if you're not contributing to the whole in some way (no matter how small). It's beautiful and immediately removes the potential for parasites to thrive. That's why government/statists hate it so much. They can't just steal from people under false pretenses and have to actually provide value or something of merit (which they can't do, because they've invested their entire being into parasitism).
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But what if millions start losing their jobs because hundrends of millions aren't leasing a new car every 2/3 years anymore? This would be a disaster for our planet, GDP would collapse. /s
Since this sort of coding is exactly what FAANG interviews test for, maybe FAANG engineers will be some of the first coders automated out of a job. That would be an interesting irony.
That money doesnt dissapear - it is still avaliable for lobbying, hiring staff and doing many other things.
And there goes unreal master servers
The important distinction is that you cant spend those non-profit funds the same way you could cash in your pocket.

It is under your control, but you can't use it to buy a Hawaiian island vacation home.
A quarter of Americans don't have a 401k, and most of those who do aren't maxing it out. If you're doing all of the things you've listed you're not really a "regular" anything any more. You're rich. Which is fine, but you should really recognize the fact.
I am writing a Python AI book right now and I am using version 3.11. Since I am a patient person, I prefer conda to avoid dependency issues, so: conda create --name py3.11 python=3.11 -c conda-forge

Being a Lisp developer (for 40 years), I am finally developing some love for Python after years of having to use it at work for deep learning.

For me the better performance/lower resource improvements in 3.11 (looking forward to 3.12) is a big issue because I compare to Common Lisp performance, which can be very good.

Off topic, but my new found love for Python comes from realizing that many programming tasks can be done so much faster in Python.
Correct, after you give billions to a charity the incentive is to extract that by the owners. It suck, but humans are assholes when you dangle large sums of money money infront of them. The route is administrative fees.
Difficult to accomplish when your work is on the computer and the entire entertainment of the world is also on the computer.
The work describes a room temperature battery that uses an electrolyte of Na (sodium) in a propylene carbonate liquid carrier with electrodes made of graphene flakes with Mo and S embedded in the graphene framework. I don't know what the author of the article posted was trying to say when referring to molton Na-S, since it is not part of the battery described in the research, nor part of the manufacturing process. Probably the author did a search on Na-S for background, and not understanding how this differed, stuck it in.
Implementing Digital Sufficiency
For super common stuff, I have icons in my panel for them and I use the mouse. I open Terminal so often that I gave it its own global keyboard shortcut.

For less often used things, I use the xfce program launcher, which I think is what you're looking for. I have it mapped to some keyboard shortcut (the muscle memory is so automatic I don't even remember what the shortcut is and I'm not at my PC at the moment). It automatically focuses the text entry box, so no need for the mouse at all. Here's a screenshot from the linked article: https://alexxcons.github.io/images/blogpost_8/appfinder.png
You don’t have to be felon to be in jail/prison. There are a lot of people locked up that didn’t commit felonies.
Modi seems to have given it more attention than before. And it does dovetail with his nationalist bent. It's a lot easier for practical and symbolic reasons to drive nationalism when everyone speaks the same language. A bit like how Israel adopted Hebrew.
Just that in this case the players are so powerful they can use their wealth to define the rules themselves.
Men without college degrees dropping out of work; viewed jobs as status threat
Meta Stops Planned $342M Data Center Expansion in Denmark
Pretty sure they made x86 machine so close to their death it didn't matter.

Also the machines only ran windows not Irix (their unix)
Yes. Billionaires do this all the time and many of the Musk rent-free brigade on HN are realising and admitting that this isn't the 'gotcha' many of them had hoped for.
He is merging in public data and private surveilliance data from personnel at airports, and then publicizing it.

It is stalking.
Why Should You [Still] Choose Ruby on Rails to Develop Your Product in 2023
With 2023 approaching, Ruby on Rails is becoming an even more mature technology, since its initial release occurred 18 years ago. Having emerged as a white knight for the area of web app development, Ruby on Rails is still in use, but concerns about its relevance and popularity are rising more and more often. So in this article we will answer the following questions:

- Is Ruby on Rails dead or still alive?
- Why leverage Ruby on Rails in 2023?
- When to use Ruby on Rails and when to shun it in favor of more competitive technologies?
So I’m a writer with a deep passion for tropical fruits, and I want to start a blog. How do I find your setup app, or even know that I need it?
I remember paying $100 for a 128MB Sony memory stick for my 1 megapixel digital camera in 2001. Adjusted for inflation, that would be $168 today.
Loom gives you the PIP, I didn't think of the clever hack that codazoda came up with. I'll have to give that a shot.
Scanning printed material probably, newspaper photos are made of dots... Printing + scanning artifact -- https://www.scantips.com/basics06.html
https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/70139/what-caused-...
This is solved with two set points, 68° for heat and 78° for cold, and appropriate clothing.
From someone who struggles with focus, here are the strategies I use on myself (some subconsciously now, because I've been doing this for 15 years). They don't all work 100% of the time, but I haven't been fired yet ;)

1) Know myself. So much can be unpacked here, but this boils down to a couple broad categories. First, I need to be realistic with myself about what I am capable of, what tends to distract me, what my needs are, etc. Second, I have to be in tune with myself in the moment. Am I drifting? What do I need to do right now to stay on track?

2) Have a plan. This isn't so much a commitment to "prep" for each day as it is being willing to learn and employ strategies that I can combine with #1 to meet my needs and accommodate for my weaknesses. Sometimes this means having a way to limit noise around me. Sometimes it means ready access to coffee or a snack. Sometimes it means turning off email/chats/etc. Sometimes (ironically) it means taking a break.

3) Have a "why". I am the sole income-earning in a family of 6, so the "why" for me is pretty strong. If I don't make it happen, we all suffer. I have to be careful, though. Workaholism isn't that much better than being a chronic procrastinator in terms of its ill effects on my life/health.

4) Eliminate distractions. Sometimes this means using one of my strategies to find a quiet place. Sometimes it means going and doing that chore my wife keeps bugging me about so I can just focus on my work.

5) Don't white-knuckle it. In other words, don't be religious about work. Usually when I'm feeling burned out or unmotivated it's because my mind and body are being deprived of something. It's better for me to understand what that is (even if it means taking a day off) than to keep pushing myself. That just leads to more burn-out. It's important to have grace with myself so I don't just feel guilt and shame when I need a time-out. Feelings of shame often perpetuate procrastination anyway.

6) Make healthy choices. This is touched on in several of the other points, but it's important enough to be its own bullet. Sometimes it takes effort just to know what the healthy choice is. Having someone who can help you (like a spouse or close friend) is huge here. This also covers everything from sleep to eating to other things you consume, screen time, social time, etc.

In my own life, lack of motivation and my mental health are closely connected. I could write on this subject for a long time, mostly because I've spent a lot of time studying the nature of mental health and addiction in order to help myself. Hopefully this helps someone else add to their own regimen.
>since when has physics ever been about "proof"

Literally since inception.

Re your later comments: perturbation series that converge aren't considered physics by default. I'm not sure what you're suggesting there.
Hmmm. alpine.js does complement htmx very well and is pretty popular, so it is a great choice. I liked _hyperscript when I saw it when assessing htmx so thought they might play better together since the author is the same for both. But I don't know if that is even really true actually, and alpine.js seems to be just fine. Honestly, it may be because I used AppleScript back in the day and _hyperscript reminded me of it!
"we're all doomed"

"wait, there's a new battery tech that could solve some of the long-standing problems with moving to a clean-energy abundant civilisation, and yesterday they achieved fusion ignition for the first time"

"bah, these are all rubbish and will never make any difference, we're still all doomed"
ACA plans don’t have lifetime or yearly maximum payouts. As long as the services are covered services, they’re obligated to pay beyond your out of pocket maximum.
Had a similar but simpler experience with Telegram's Lumberjack game [1]. Wrote a small Python script that scans a few pixels of screen and sends arrow key signals when sees a branch. The game was gradually speeding up to the point that script was not able to keep up yet it was beating any human easily.

[1] https://telegram.games/telegram-games/lumberjack/
The core metric for TypeScript's success was to be able to put an IDE in a browser able to run and compile TypeScript itself, which is what the TypeScript team did with the Monaco (and Visual Studio Code) editor in 2011.
Finding traction without a product: Our process
> and these "charities" can pay out to their owners from tax-exempt gains on the back-end.

I pretty certain that legally these charities can only give to causes that furthers their exempt purpose. [1]

E.g. a charity claiming to be devoted to saving children's lives in Africa can only spend money on exactly that, governance costs and fundraising.

The charity may be paying the owners as employees, and/or the owners may twist the spending to pretend it is in line with the purpose, but I don't think they can literally give the owners the tax-exempt gains.

1. https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/charitable-organiz...
> it is difficult to state how much worse things could be

Because there's no proof. The only thing we know for certain, is that a lot of money is being spent on it, and that some of the mechanisms that are supposed to work can't work (i.e. in the case where people look at and trust preprints anyway).

There will definitely be anecdotes of peer review having caught things (though it'll be harder to show that that prevented harm). But likewise, there are also many, many anecdotes that it has been actively harmful.

No proven upside, limited anecdotal upside, and proven downside. If peer review as a publication gatekeeper hadn't already been a thing, we wouldn't introduce it — that would be considered unscientific. Sounds like something that's ripe for reconsideration.
Try eating healthier. And I really mean healthier, not just a salad occasionally, you have to change what you eat on a daily basis. It helps a lot, anecdotally. If you're eating something terrible like the Standard American Diet you aren't giving your brain the nutrients it needs to work ideally, and that can cause motivation issues.
Yeah it’s hard to use. It’s hard to drag parts around in 3D space with a 2D mouse. There are tons of ambiguities about targeting/accordances. A 2d orthocam view looking down on the bread board would be much easier to see and manipulate. There are several posts outlining issues with usability on this thread already. I think that the product is compelling but the interface still needs some work if it is going to be an improvement over 2004.
Wow, diffusion could be a game changer for audio restoration.
Bezos and Gates Back Synchron in Drive for Brain Implant Breakthrough
I've studied this extensively - best book on the subject was "Solving the Procrastination Puzzle". The main take-aways are:

1. Just Get Started. One common cause of procrastinating is avoiding negative thoughts. "This will be too complicated", "This will take too long", "I'll have to make all kinds of compromises on the design", etc. If you Just Get Started then you'll likely find out it isn't as bad as you thought.

2. How You Feel Doesn't Matter. Procrastination often continues because you're waiting until you feel like doing it. We lie to ourselves, "I'm going to goof off now, but wake up at 5 am and I'll feel like doing it then". Then 5 am comes around and you feel even less like working on it. We need to stop fooling ourselves that we will feel like it at some point.

3. Pomodoro Technique. This works pretty well for me. I'll do 4 sets of 25 minutes of focused time separated by 5 minute sets of whatever I want time. When I think, "Wow I have a lot of work to do, I have to focus for the next 8 hours" I just dread it. Instead if I reframe it as, "I just need to focus for the next 25 minutes" I often blow right past the timer because I get so interested in the work.
Because if the problem is unchecked power, and any checked power is checked by a power that is checked or unchecked, eventually you either get a loop or an unchecked power, which can then do whatever abuse you're worried about.
Yes, I believe this is something Sam Altman is predicting will happen.
I don’t really see why this should be punished more harshly than stealing $18 worth of goods from a store.
Brilliant. I love this. Thank you for sharing.
Support the “Stop Cop City” Protestors
The city of Atlanta plans on clear-cutting hundreds of acres of old-growth forest on unceded Muscogee land to construct a massive militarized law enforcement training center, referred to as “Cop City” by protestors. As part of a broad movement with nationwide support, activists have bravely put their bodies on the line in tree sits (Chatelaine) to protest racism and environmental destruction and stop this monstrosity from being constructed.

On December 13, law enforcement conducted a brutal raid on the protest encampment, unleashing the very violence that protestors are fighting to prevent. Five arrestees are facing charges of terroristic acts, which are politically motivated and far harsher than the act of protesting deserves (Atlanta News First).

If we wish to meaningfully protest racism and environmental injustice, we must stop Cop City. Below is an exclusive interview with one of the forest defenders, Paul, about the current state of the struggle to defend the Atlanta forest.