skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It won't be people like us going.

Is it gonna be disposable lower-class people?

In age of doscovery shipowners and governments assumed a 50% death rate from scurvy for their sailors on a major voyage.

TThe past is fireign land, executions were a public holiday and children came to watch. We used to gove cocaine to children to stop them crying.
I don't think a grass roots movement to ask people to
date shorter has any real chance of changing the total height of the population, even if it got traction.

You'd need to directly appeal to tall people to stop having kids. But that would make both the ridiculousness and futility of the approach too apparent.
> This article is a bit comical to read and is more of an opinion piece then facts.

The article literally says "opinion" at the top, in the HTML title, and in the URL.
>> First of all with motors on each wheel and no communication between front/rear in many cases, the distinction becomes blurry.

Which cars have motors on each wheel? That is maybe 0.01% of vehicles on the road. (Electric busses?) And even then, AWD/FWD distinctions can matter in how those motors interact. Electric or IC, so long as power is delivered through four wheels there will be different styles and techniques for balancing that power for whatever reasons occur at a particular time.
A lot of stuff is known about it. Both the US and USSR first operated long-duration space stations nearly half a century ago.

Gravity and radiation are well understood and we can definitely build machinery that can tolerate them well for many years.

> we have never entirely isolated a group of humans from the biosphere for even a year, never mind indefinitely. The times it was tried, it failed.

Why doesn't the ISS count? It gets resupplied every few months but a Mars base would be resupplied every two years so systems only have to scale to last 10x as long.
You can advertise on other peoples' trademarks, as long as you don't misrepresent your software as being 'official' or otherwise confuse users via your ad. The ad in the screenshot says "Best alternative to Kdenlive" so I doubt anyone's going to think Filmora is an official product of KDE/Kdenlive.
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'Backend' work has had longer to be refined.

Backend developers are much more likely to pass leetcode and algorithm questions and have decades and decades of material and languages to draw from. We don't use 1st generation stuff to build anymore.

Once 'frontend' (i.e. browser dev) has close to that much time to cook we'll have a lot better experience with typed language support native in browsers and/or a proper green threads.

I mean, just look at everything that came out of the past ~10 years alone: Coffeescript then Typescript, LESS, SASS, most bundlers, push notifications, webworkers hot reloading, websockets, webrtc, SSE, free/default-on certs, all the component frameworks like bootstrap, tailwind, material ui etc...

While browsers have been around for a while, the ability to use the browser as a full-featured UI is pretty recent and most people working in this area seem to be pretty young.
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For anyone interested, there’s a neat HACS integration: Better Thermostat [0] that simplifies some common usages: Auto off on window open heat to room temperature (as opposed to TRV measured temperature) are the big ones for me.

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I'm pretty confident on their soundness, they're publicly traded and I check up on clients lodgings when I can, to manage my exposure, they claim to be sitting on $400M in cash and $200M in minerals as of a few months ago.

Option 2 seems plausible, a couple years ago they had a bit of internal politics that we were caught in the middle of, the end result was changing the engineering requirements going forward over purely cosmetic issues, doubling the price of materials. One particular job we did in 2019 for $30k, was $150k in 2022, for the same exact end result for the workers, at the same site, right next to the previous one. The site manager complained, and I said if he got it in writing that they wanted to use the old engineering and disregard the cosmetics, it'd be $30k and take 2 days less, and he said they needed it done ASAP, it'd be faster to convince capex to pay the $150k than it would be to start another round of discussions on the engineering.
No, regular qwerty. Is there a tell from how I was writing?
Kdenlive is their trademark, competitors are using it to sell their products.
See: microfrontends
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What do you mean as you recall? Did you follow the project updates on their issue and bug tracker? If you're not happy with it you know you can fork it and create your own derivative, right? Oh, so you just like to complain about how people spend their free time and want them to work for you for free?
Transpilation.

Imagine if TypeScript/JSX was available native in the browser requiring no transpilation step, and we dropped support for any package requiring some exotic transpilation.

You could easily step through your entire codebase first and thirty-party without battling source-maps or minified files.

Libraries that required adding a compilation step and a complex dev server would be shunned. Having this compilation step in place means it's easy to just pile on tons of functionality, import hooks, AST transformations, etc. which causes the complexity.
The default list is created at the marketing department, not the usability lab.

Actually it does follow the faux usability trend where ”options confuse user”, and the perfect UI is just an uniform off-white screen with no controls
While I don't blame you for purging it from your memory, you seem to have forgotten about Windows 8. It introduced the Settings concept and who can forget that start menu!
> self-debriefs via voice memo

Can you go into a bit more detail about this? It's not something I've heard of yet.
I think the problem is the contract behind what you're getting for the software.

For me personally, I'm more than happy to pay for software if it's clear the developer has _my_ interests in mind when building it (think IDEs, CAD software, even stuff like Office or the Adobe suite). I'm also OK with using software that's free and dealing with dark patterns (shareware, online tools) or bugs (open source stuff).

But paid software that somehow still tries to bilk me for even more money? (See all of the ads that have been built into Windows these days, or various Android phones and bloat)
I will be more than happy to go out of my way to crack and get out of paying for it, for nothing but to spite developers of such things.
You can't have your cake and eat it too!
I’ve seen the tech distrust with landscapers (who were also permaculture enthusiasts, but I’m not sure what that does to the Venn Diagram). And protest all you want, but this is a group that is exquisitely sensitive to UX concerns and we are barely adequate at managing UX for moderately tech savvy people, let alone technophobes. The Hands in Soil community needs an Apple serving their needs, but as you say they can’t afford premium products, so they will continue to be underserved until there’s a glut of empathy, and… well, don’t hold your breath.

It seems like the likely route is a combination of adaptation of Open Source and some amount of more humane freemium model than currently exists.

What’s the Open Source Equipment community been up to lately? That seemed like a promising direction but I haven’t heard a peep in a long time.
The dark side of setting goals (2009)
What is "optimal hydraton" here?

From the article:

> People whose middle-age serum sodium exceeds 142 mmol/l have increased risk to be biologically older, develop chronic diseases and die at younger age. Intervention studies are needed to confirm the link between hydration and aging.

I'm not really sure about how high that level is (relatively, are we talking dehydration levels or are we talking that you have to be a top 1% "hydro homie" to "not age too much").
Thanks for the links!

But the two bigger projects don't contribute to the argument actually.

This flecs (which looks very interesting on first sight!) is a C project with C++ API bindings on top as I see it. The other one is a Godot library (which I have to examine closer as I'm specifically looking into Godot).

The collection of GitHub project looks mostly like engines. So not really games as such. (Also I'm not sure how recently those projects where started. There was no real alternative to C++ for game engines for a long time. So all older projects are likely C++. This does not prove the point that anybody would grab C++ today).
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This is what success looks like! Congrats Kdenlive devs! And thanx for a great video editor!
> What's the point of a "backup plan" when the primary plan isn't even working?

The whole point of a having a backup plan is for when the primary plan isn't working :S
Yes, it does. Just because one of them matches your personal anecdote doesn't waive the requirement for actual evidence.

I'm glad to hear you had a good school life. Most people aren't that lucky.
Yes, and Point 3 is a fancy version of the broken window fallacy, while Point 1 is a BS "appeal to nature" that can be used to justify anything, including some of the worst things.
Thanks for sharing! Especially day 13 is really compact and elegant. Do I understand correctly that you define parser combinators to parse the packages? (I'm not really familiar with Haskell nor parser combinators)

For me the parsing was the hardest part when trying without mutable state so this helps a lot.
It actually isn’t, but I wouldn’t blame you for thinking it was. It’s now an icon of a text cursor and a tiny text box.
Based on previous experience, I concur. There are businesses with a culture of 'pay late no matter what' and this becomes the norm, regardless of logic.

I had a manager who could buy just about anything he wanted with no checks as to why he needed this stuff or where it went. The only control was the time period between delivery and payment.
I'm in favor of smaller classes, but still. In private schools, a teacher can count on the parents' backing. In private schools, the teacher can count on nearly all kids coming from stable, economically secure families. If worst comes to worst, a private school can expel a kid who is causing problems.
A similarly priced Windows PC is expandable and upgradeable while also being faster than a Mac Studio.
Why don't you? Is it something you'd like to do or think could be helpful/valuable?
There's a lot wrong here:

1. Don't conflate business interests with the interests of the population of a city. I don't doubt there is rising demand for private armed security from the 1% of Portlanders who own businesses, that does not reflect on everyone.

2. Portland has seen rising violent crime but this is part regression to the mean (Portland is the safest city of it's size, even after the 2020 spike) and part of a larger trend (crime rose everywhere in the U.S. since 2020). The assertion that policing has broken down and the city is lawless is laughable.
“The hair of the dog that bit you.” Sometimes a Bloody Mary or mimosa is enough.
I took my GPA off my resume as soon as I graduated, since it lost me so many interviews prior to that. I literally had recruiters at job fairs (which had not listed a minimum GPA in the requirements) hand me my resume back and say I should save this copy for a company that will call me back.

About a month after I graduated, I interviewed with a company (white board and actual coding); it went well, we were talking when I could start and salary range. Then someone from HR showed up with forms to fill out:

"Are you from industry or straight out of school?"

"School"

"Okay we'll need your GPA"

As soon as I told them my GPA, the interview tone changed and I never heard from them again.

At the company I did get hired at, they said they normally ask for GPA and it was an oversight in my case. They would not have flown me out for an interview had they known what it was.

Also, while on this topic the recruiters at CAT are incredibly rude about this; I didn't even go to their table at the job fair since they did list a 3.5 minimum GPA. However, I overheard them yelling at someone with a 3.4 GPA for wasting everybody's time for daring to show up with something below the minimum requirements (as if other companies don't use the "minimum requirements" as a "wish list" field).
Not the poster of the comment but I'd like to hear from the downvoter why this was downvoted.

As a Rust novice, interpreting the comment GP made (from the perspective of, for example, C++ calling Safe Rust core or stdlib) this seems like a valid response.
>You could even have "UI themes", tell the AI to re-render in Windows 2000/XP/11 style.

I love this idea! Having the ability to choose from decades of UI design would absolutely be a feature. However MS needs to fix all of these UI inconsistency bugs first. Second, don't use AI. Just consistently apply the UI to the OS.
You can't wreck a wreck. Mars can only be improved by humans.
Lmao, this article is a bunch of hogwash. Can’t take any of it seriously.
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It seems easier because Mars proponents often focus on the technological challenges (which are indeed great, if not insurmountable), while ignoring the human challenges. The challenges from human nature are going to exist on Mars just as much as they do on Earth; things like warfare don't suddenly stop existing just by shifting people to Mars. People act like Mars would be a place to keep people safe from nuclear war, but destroying a Mars colony from Earth is trivial compared to creating one.

If one looks at the history of colonies (attempts to colonize the new world, for instance), we see that they often fall apart socially even in situations where they're in a place with much more resources than they had back home. Humans aren't dwarf fortress type automatons that can simply be handed whatever necessary job is needed and mindlessly go about their day for the rest of their lives.

No one has been able to manufacture a functioning mini-society, and every attempt has ended in spectacular failure. It seems crazy to think things will suddenly work if we drop the people in a place devoid of almost all resources and entirely hostile to life from Earth.
Whenever someone makes an interesting case about returning to the Moon, there is always someone else arguing why that would be boring or ininteresting or "we already did that".

I find that quite odd, since there is still so much we don't know about the Moon. If we have the technology, why wouldn't we send someone there to explore and make way for making of a lunar base?
There are many things one can do, while I don’t manage mental health, I find exercise to be extremely helpful in maintaining an even temperament. Even if if it is just a daily walk. I also find engaging in hobbies, sports, music etc brings balance to an otherwise crazy routine.

However, I believe, the ultimate answer to mental health is about turning inwards and understanding who you are. Being able to differentiate between what the mind is creating for you and your real self. Understanding all things worldly are utter nonsense, be it relationships or friendships or religion, and then accepting them for what they are.

It is simple, but hard to do for most. Teachings from Osho may help get started. There is also a book called ‘Direct Truth’ that may help get started on this journey.