skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What people describe as "tech addiction" is I think better described as "consumer product addiction".

Technology has created an unprecedented opportunity for us to turn the world into a human friendly imaginative playground.

That opportunity is squandered by people who think in the short term about control and money and status and grievance.

Call me what you will, but I have a hard time watching old videos like this and not getting emotional -> https://youtu.be/Uz__bJTlOjk?t=37 Great engineers using the most advanced technology of the day to make childhood fantasies a reality is one of the most beautiful uses of our time on Earth I can think of. Tech could make the world the ultimate fantasy adventure. We have so much capacity to alleviate material want and create amazing dreamworlds and make people happy, but laziness, greed, ego, jealousy, and resentment all get in the way.

Technological complexity obfuscates and entrenches a lot of existing problems and creates lots of room for abuse, but at root most modern problems are not fundamentally tech related. They're rooted in our difficulties cooperating with each other.
Not true at all. The only person who can better yourself is you. I became a much better person because I decided to put in the work. Nobody did it for me.
> irrigated feed crops

Simple solution - those who believe that is the problem can offer to buy the water rights and then let the water flow.
It would take about 6000 3 GW(th) plants to supply the world's current average rate of primary energy consumption (18 TW). And if these were today's thermal reactors we'd run out of the current estimate of the global resource of U (at < $260/kg) in less than a decade.
You don't need Canary, there's an origin trial for WebGPU. You can ship to users on Chrome Stable today.

BTW WebGPU 1.0 now has a target date of May 4 2023 to be enabled by default in Chrome Stable. But with the origin trial you don't have to wait.
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There are really no options outside of Element, unless you're a Linux user - then maybe you have a few ones.

All alternative clients on iOS, macOS, and arguably Windows are an absolute clusterfuck of UI/UX, broken features, and varying stages of completion. I say this as someone who wants Matrix to work: people need to demand more from client apps, and client apps need to stop being okay with barely hitting the bar.

Element also needs to set the bar, which I frankly don't think it currently does - but that's supposedly being rewritten, so I'm hopeful for what they produce.
That was a piece of tempered glass, as we can tell due to the way it broke into tiny pieces. Due to the tempering process, where it's heated then quenched by large fans, the glass is under stress that's concentrated at the edges, and especially the corners.

This is why it explodes when they break the edge the way they did. Ordinary annealed glass would've broken into large, sharp shards, whereas laminated glass would form a break pattern like annealed, but would stay in one piece due to being attached to the plastic inner layer.
I did try mmap, both with the plaintext binary search, and with the binary file (you can find a note about it in the HTML source :)

I ended up not mentioning it because for some reason, it was ~twice as slow on my mac... I'm now curious to try it on a decent Linux machine.
I think you're lying. checkmate.
> I agree the first bit is true; I just don't think it guarantees future success. Looking at the top 25 vehicles in 2021, Tesla only has one on the list, and that's way down at #17. They have a lot of climbing to do to get to #1.

That's true, however the majority of people still purchase non EVs, which is not the market Tesla is in. As multiple parts of the world are moving to ban sales of new petrol cars (UK 2040, EU 2035, Chili 2035, Hong Kong 2035, India 2040, etc), there will be an interesting point where most new cars purchased worldwide are EVs.

I don't believe Tesla are the ones who need to catch up to the petrol manufacturer market - the opposite is true. The traditional manufacturers have about 10 years to catch up or start bleeding, as laws will force purchasers to buy an EV.

RE the value loss argument, it is certain that the overvalued Tesla stock is dropping, however that 52% is during a period that tech stocks (which I would argue Tesla is one of) have been dropping like crazy. The NASDAQ is down almost 30% from the start of the years, mostly pulled downwards by tech stocks:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fallen-faangs-nasdaq-wipeout-...

I don't think they're in a worse position than any other tech stock, especially with global legislation effectively guranteeing them a long term pay off.
I know next to nothing about OSs, but I'm a big fan of your talks by the by.

"Coming of Age" and the "Don't Anthropomorphize Larry Ellison" talk are especially great.
Would anyone be able to provide a summary of the players and funding for the w3c? My only exposure is the 3p cookie deprecation working group which has had a lot of work being done by companies google/Fb/etc and I assumed they provided some funding to the project managers.
I actually like the idea of becoming a public servant and bringing innovation to places that really matter for basically everyone around me, but salaries are not even in the same ballpark even with IT-Zulage.
Here's what I have found helps:

1. Mute any channel that you don't absolutely need to have active.

2. Use the slack-calendar integration if it's available for whatever calendar solution your team uses.

3. Add meetings in your calendar for yourself for doing work. Many people at my company will label these as "focus time", "Heads down on project work" or the like.

Depending on the slack integration, it will show that you are in a meeting. If not you can set your status to something like suggested above, and you can mute your notifications for the duration.

I'll often additionally let the people I work closest with know how they can get hold of me if something is truly urgent "Hey, I go super heads down on project work from 12-5 most days, if something super urgent comes up you can call me at ###-####".
I lived in a dome we built out of a kit. It was made of aluminum tubes squeezed into a tab at each end. The tabs of the 5 or 6 tubes were then overlapped and connected with a single bolt.

It had 4 pine trees fall on it during a “microburst”. It ended up deformed and some of the tubes bent but it held up pretty well considering the impact.
I agree. But am I the only one using an Android phone from 2017 that hasn't been able to update its OS for a couple years now? It's also cracked and I lost it yesterday.
Exactly. If you’re constantly available you’ll spend all your time on Slack fielding unrefined queries. “Hey did someone on your team touch X recently, because blah blah blah.” Just turn off notifications and ignore it. If it’s important for you personally, it will eventually end up in your email. Let all the people who (for whatever reasons) want to be constantly available be your low pass filter.
Definitely felt like a pretty low cost. I've worked with their support briefly also which helped me resolve an issue I was having (been so long ago now I honestly don't remember what it was). I'm literally typing on my Windows PC from my Mac laptop right now. I used to use it a lot for testing Windows browsers (less needed now that IE is dead and Edge is Chromium).

The only issue I really have now is once in a while I can't use my keyboard on the client computer(s), and that is because my server is currently my work Mac, and the terminal will occasionally request secure lock (probably when I use sudo) and as part of that, the keyboard is not allowed to be accessed by programs like Synergy until the lock is released. But Mac gets kinda buggy once in a while and doesn't properly release the lock.

Most of the time it just works though, and I've gotten way more than my $30 worth at this point.
wework is cheap for us - a great deal - love the product
I largely agree with you.

Its interesting to see what I believe to be a generational divide in these comments.

I'm 28. My parents limited my internet and gaming time when I was younger and it mostly just caused resentment and anger at what I believed to be their controlling behaviour. I couldn't wait to move out. When I did move out in University the freedom I spent too much time on the things I wasn't allowed to do before and my grades suffered for it.

I think a lot of comments here have very draconian policies that aren't going to work out the way the parents intended it. I think the harder and more desirable way is to somehow teach them to manage their own time but I have no idea how.
The more accurate term would be muncipalisation.

This is commonly practiced in various city and county services: fire and police services, ambulance, public transit (virtually all extant bus and rail services began as privately-owned companies), school bussing, schools, childcare, parks and recreation, utilities (water, rubbish, electricity, gas, Internet, sewerage, ...), etc.

There's a long history of this, in California and elsewhere.

The Wikipedia article unfortunately doesn't dive much into the details of mechanism though it does point out numerous instances and issues.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipalization>
The experience curve for PV follows a power law, where a doubling of cumulative production reduces cost by about 20%. At that rate, when the world is powered by PV, the PV would be producing energy at < $0.01/kWh, and even less in the best locations.

With that cheap solar, it would be better to just heat up a big pile of rocks with resistive heat and use that to drive steam turbines, instead of using nuclear fission to make the steam. Artificial geothermal.
Code quality will be an issue since these apps are using existing code as the model. They are the very definition of trash in, trash out.
"I certainly do."

Yeah, that sounds like something a p-zombie would say.
Absolutely no problem, really hoping for the best for you and your daughter.

I hope you can find the right lawyer with the right tone and touch to make a difference here -- it's both a business and personal issue.
The scars of WWII have well and truly healed if people are comfortable with this technology. The 1900s accrued a lot of experience with where this will go.

Usually I'll argue for market efficiency over other concerns; but in this case the Europeans are on to something with the GDPR. The role of government is to make this sort of personalised identification hard - not to enable it. The end game is going to be hard times and mass discrimination against minorities.
http://web.archive.org/web/20221216114058/https://www.nytime...

https://archive.ph/d44DF
Assuming that you got some nootropics working for you...

1. Virtual Desktop workspaces
2. Good set of noise canceling headphones(no, not listening all the time just as important to drown out noise)
3. Turn off notifications everywhere, yes even email.
4. Investigate and find good fidget music, mine tends to be music scores and classical music.

Oh, yeah, welcome to the ADHD club. The secret handshake is we do not give a flying fuck.
I think the huge masterpieces of cinema were told in only ~180 minutes (give or take). If you’re creating a more than 8 episode production you’re either:

a) not good enough to condense and keep only the best, the most important pieces.

b) your story is VERY unique and it does require 8 episodes.

It’s highly unlikely that b) happens. For example, the Lord of the Rings only took 3 really good movies.

So that leaves me with a). A bunch of the modern productions are just filling the show with low-relevance stuff just to keep people plugged at their TV.

There are exceptions to this, of course. Friends was very good in 10 seasons, but it’s just a sitcom. A documentary can be longer. Again, the bulk of productions, IMHO, should be less than 5 episodes (Chernobyl for example).
Sounds to me like that younger teen needs an intervention, i.e. more oversight. I wouldn't grit my teeth and bare it on that.
Guy is a total quack. Literally vitamins to cure cancer.
Please ignore if you're already doing this and/or know this stuff.

I strongly advice behavioral therapy. Not any therapy, this is crucial. Find yourself a therapist that focuses and is an expert on behavioral therapy and work with him to build up the tools you need to survive in this work environment with your condition.

They can help you build healthy habits, drop destructive behaviors and give you several tools to organize and monitor yourself. Basically, build up your brain muscle with the skills it naturally lacks due to your condition.
Is it safe for children to live with cats?
Are images really this expensive to resize?: "it is $5 per additional 1000 images transformed.". Perhaps then we should ship a WebAssembly module for image resizing to the client and only validate image sizes server-side.
- Turn your sound off
- Change how you get notified
- Set your editor to fullscreen - give it its own virtual desktop
- Learn the keybindings to be able to switch back and forth very quickly
An interesting new material

https://scitechdaily.com/ground-breaking-new-shock-absorbing...
I am a subscriber and really enjoy John's work
AIX on POWER hardware, because it runs SAP, and between IBM and SAP they provide all-encompassing certification and support. Swapping out the OS would invalidate those assurances. Yes, modern SAP runs on Linux. Yes, it would be a good idea to migrate off AIX. But the system has been in place for 20 years and it will be another 5 years at least before that migration happens.

There’s a bunch of enterprisey technology that is not yet dead, but dying very slowly.
> I think this self-betterment I keep reading about online is nonsense, maybe we aren't talking about the same thing tho.

Not at all. It is very much real. I used to lack confidence as an overweight shy teenager and decided to start doing kick-boxing. It completely changed my life. Not only did I loose weight but I also learned that I can do so much more than I ever imagined. Walking into a ring to fight a 6’3” bouncer and realising that he was afraid of me blew my mind.
"Living in an urban environment during childhood or as an adult has consistently been found to increase the risk of schizophrenia by a factor of two."[0] While city life is as complex of a confounding factor as anything, the fact that they found hunter-gatherers have practically no incidence of SZR is interesting. Is the modern megalopolis simply too intense of a stimulus for the minds of the sensitive to handle without splitting into pieces?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia#Environmental
Many / most plants need some darkness to keep internal clocks properly functioning.

So maybe the effective day could be extended a bit, but likely not a whole lot; IDK if the increase in growth would be worth the LEDs.
I guess I should have phrased it as "we _should_ require strong ID'ing".

Absolutely agree that currently you can get away with faxed signatures, photocopies of IDs, and all manner of incredibly "weak" ID'ing.
That's what I've read, ironically on Twitter. The JoinMastodon account definitely did.

This article from TC confirms:

https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/15/elon-musk-suspends-mastodo...

Also I get journalists are feeling threatened, but it's a shame to see such a clear emotionally charged article from TC, I used to trust them for unbiased tech reporting.
When I was a teen in the nineties it was the teens who really got computers and the adults who were the luddites. Being into computers wasn't cool but it was exciting to understand something that most of our parents didn't. Seems like things have come full circle now! As much as I admire the rejection of social media I hope this generation can still be fascinated by the possibilities computers can bring.
Bleeding Edge is a cool snapshot of the pre-9/11, cooling off period for tech and what ny was like at that time. Strange how small a window that was.

At some point, I will get through whatever journey Gravity’s Rainbow is taking me on.
Sub-token manipulation is a known weakness of the models; they are fed blocks of characters, not individual characters, and so they underperform on tasks that require fine-character-level manipulations.
This is magical thinking. No, nuclear light bulbs would have made absolutely no sense for use on Earth.
Wonderful!

I've worked in the mental health field for years and when it comes to treating diseases like schiziphreina the go to model has been to give drugs to manage symptoms. There were a bunch of models for what _could_ be happening but there was no solid etiology for what is actually happening.

Gut inflamation along with a bunch of correlations with infections and autoimmune issues have been noted for years. Yet, there hasn't been a foundation setup to truly answer what _IS_ schizophrenia etiologically speaking.

Schiziphrenia is a heart-wrenching disease both for the people suffering from it and for their loved ones. Seeing papers like this give me tremendous hope.

:)
"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel".

Please explain how you make that imagery work in a way that's accessible to the old-school 80's crowd along with the younger folks who have no clue what that reference means.

They absolutely have to get that right. No one wants to see Johnny Mnemonic again. In the first chapter, Case can't jack in because his brain was wrecked by the Russian mycotoxin. The lazy thing to do is explain that by having him dump expositiory dialog out of his mouth. The hard thing to do is actually show how jacking in works, but you can't just rehash the classic 1982 Tron style visuals one more time. A fresh approach is what's needed, a vision that's futuristic but also gets the retro part right.

So yeah, good luck with that.
If your suggestion is that a $39 billion utility filing in federal bankruptcy court means that an unsecured counterparty would be given enough “wiggle room” to insist they be paid before secured creditors on the theory that they owe the utility subsidies, then no, we definitely can’t all agree. No bankruptcy would be that abnormal because that wouldn’t be a bankruptcy; the goal of a bankruptcy is to preserve the estate for the creditors, while the model you seem to present destroys the estate for the good of the debtors.
When I googled that I was 80% confident that you were trolling me and I was falling for it. Nope.
So Ivermectin for everyone?
> Even with Chernobyl only 100 deaths are directly attributed to the disaster

It was the same liquidator dying 60000 times. Just one death, but slipped in a banana skin and then fell from a window.

Put it in the box next to "Holomodor was not a genocide", "No hospital has been bombed", "it is just a special operation" and "we always tell the truth and never hide anything inconvenient".

> and there hasn't been any statistically observable rise in effects like cancer since.

That lie was easy to debunk...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30137557/
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Jesus, that's not how I use self-reviews at all

I keep my own notes over the year from 1:1s and so forth and use those to build the review.

The self-review is a way for me to get my staff member's perspective and to identify gaps so we can talk about them.

If a manager is so lazy they need the staff member to remind them of what they did, they shouldn't be a manager.

Edit: to be clear I am not a fan of yearly review cycles, but we aren't always in control of how reviews are conducted. But if I have to do a yearly review, I'm going to take it seriously and do it properly.
OCaml syntax is a little hard to read for plebian like me.

What is the use cases for OCaml?
And here I was thinking you linked to a vegan alternative. While less cruel, I wouldn’t call murdering an animal to satisfy your tastebuds cruelty-free.
Put it this way: we are not clear really on what the difference is between ‘experiencing qualia’ and ‘receiving and responding to external stimuli’

Like, you might be convinced you possess ‘qualia’, and you might believe the same applies to me, or a dog, or a mouse… or a fish… but what about an ant? A plant? A bacterium? A neuron? A piece of semiconductor?

Somewhere along that continuum you probably say ‘yeah, there, that thing is experiencing qualia’. But why there? Why anywhere?
I pretty much agree though I’m not sure I’d trust the fanatics to educate film-makers on what elements of a novel could or should be changed when telling a story in the very different medium of moving pictures. There are too many purists in the world; I probably was one when I was a teenager / young adult.

> you have directors who pride themselves on having never read or seen the original.

That is indeed mind-boggling. I’m curious which directors have taken this approach. Also, if they haven’t read the actual source, what do they use as their source instead? The Wikipedia article, an outline written for them by someone else?
Myomatosis from the album hail to the thief
This could be a game changing blog post for self taught devs like me who are just getting into profiling code for improving it and such. I’m still reading it but I’ve already bookmarked it for further study.
I completely agree with the suggestion to use SQLite for simple projects, or even larger projects that need to be more portable.

Recently I've had some really great success using SQLite on an embedded project with decent enough support for concurrency using busy_timeout [https://www.sqlite.org/c3ref/busy_timeout.html] and WAL [https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html].
Freedom 0 of free software, use the software for any purpose, includes commercial usage. There's nothing anti-business about it.
fair enough. I didn’t quite make it to the end
I wrote an article about migrating to Fly.io and using Tailscale to continue connecting privately in production to a Postgres managed database on DigitalOcean which saw some interesting discussions.[1]

Really cool to see the same tools being applied to improve the developer experience as well!

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33235042
> It is therefore possible that the behavioral changes induced by Toxoplasma in humans, including suicidality, are a part of its adaptations to increase the probability that our ancestors were eaten by lions or leopards

What the what
You can, see the next paragraph, "also narrow down around the estimated position iteratively..."

I gave up because I was too lazy to think how to do the "precompute the maximum +/- error bounds" jiggawatts mentions in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34021826
Fair enough, I was alluding to the fact there's 100% less feeding funnel shoved down their throats daily.

Here's a photograph of the production process from Wikipedia, but I'd probably avoid it if you're feeling hungry. [1]

Personally I don't mind killing animals for food, I'd just prefer to avoid torturing them first.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foie_gras#/media/File:Mulard_d...
I'm not thrilled with the plug but he makes sense. It's good advice.
They are pulling a TikTok. When they got caught red handed and called out they moved their privacy goal post to "Oh... well... your data is safe with us! The CCP will never see it. We promise"
> it's not humans that are consuming the vast majority of potable water, but companies and industry that are depleting what's available for the rest of us.

companies only make what they can sell. The sell what consumers want. So it is humans. Humans want meat. If they stop wanting meat companies will stop making meat.
> Zigbee on steroids

It's definitely not as proprietary, which is probably relevant to a lot of potential implementers. There's close to no public information about Zigbee implementations while Google invites people to implement Thread through OpenThread.

Thread likely has more features with some pretty fully featured networking support, which some may consider positive, but some negative.