skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I often wonder the same thing. A similar aim was expressed in at least one of RMS' essays.

The other comments here remind me of how pessimistic and lacking in imagination the tech crowd tends to be.

Because earlier attempts failed, does that make an endeavor "impossible"/"naive"?

People cite "human nature", but forget that there exist and have existed systems of living, radically different from what they are used to, which gave rise to completely different "human nature" - or perhaps merely gave it a healthier environment, so it manifested very differently. (This "problem" is frequently refuted in anarchist texts.)

I'll leave some links which I think are relevant to this quest. I hope they provide some answers, or at least provoke further searching.

1. https://donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-t...

2. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/the-anarchist-faq-ed...

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7TONauJGfc

4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_Te_Ching

I hope we find a way. And for those looking and trying to move beyond the status quo, I supply a maxim to bear in mind when facing the unimaginative and the complacent - "It's always impossible until it's done."
Yep, especially since leeches come asking for more and more.

And I understand if it's a sick kid or some other kind of an emergency... but people overstretch for luxuries.
You know far more than I do. From what little I understand the specialness of a Turing machine is that it can be used as a universal calculator, not that it can be used as a universal calculator fast.

I guess the point I was trying to make is that even if CPUs only use a Turing-complete set of gates on the fine scale, the way they are arranged and connected (for things like massively parallel operations) is what sets a modern CPU apart from a basic Turing machine. Allowing it more computational speed than an equivalent number of parallel basic Turing machines.
I just read someone posting in the Intel subreddit who was concerned about the temps he was seeing on his 13900k that was being overclocked and was hitting 100C on an All In One Water cooler. Someone chimed in for the amount of power it was consuming (350+ watts) that it was normal. Yikes. All that power for a few extra FPS.
My understanding is celebrities have a a different legal standard than the public.
Quite a few according to this list: https://www.hirten.com/the-pipe-organ-on-film/

The Abominable Dr. Phibes is an absolute classic.
This feature is back in YouTube Music but it seems that uploaded music is fairly separate from their library. I don't think for example mixes and recommendations use your uploaded music.
What happens to with the people who do come back? Let's say you loan me $5k and I come back and ask for another $2k, what's your response?
Well, it's 4 days later and we're still here...

I suspect mostly this means some amateur radio operators were annoyed for a few hours.
Nah, that's baloney.

Marion would be dead and the Ark would've been in Berlin where the baddies could keep trying after getting it wrong the first time.
This serious analysis is stupider than the entire plot of Idiocracy.
Doesn't Indy say exavtly that in one of the original three films?
I was trying to be funny
I have seen two team leaders to step down from their position. In one case to be developer in different team and in other case he stayed in team where he was.

I had friends who said they don't want to be teamleader when changing companies, tho I did not worked with them.

So, the point is, telling that you don't want to be lead is an option.
The B650 motherboards are starting to show up at around $165-170 (though plenty that are $230+)

https://www.newegg.com/asrock-b650m-pg-riptide/p/N82E1681316...

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/products/Motherboards/ci/1986...

https://pcpartpicker.com/products/motherboard/#s=41&c=160
> or, ideally, store the last seen commit hash for each reference and only fetch if it has been updated.

Isn't that exactly what "git fetch" is doing already ?
Never knew it was that old. Sure, watching it nowadays, it's obviously not done using modern technology, but a compelling story and acting instead (which is often lacking in modern blockbusters). I'd have put somewhere in the nineties maybe, not '81..
There are two takeaways from this story:

(1) always know the risks you are getting into - while she was an experienced outdoorsperson, the author clearly had little to know awareness of the dangers of moving water.

(2) statistically, things happen outside your control - and our natural response is to pretend it can't happen to us because we follow the rules, but that's not true. Sometimes lightning hits you, or the drunk driver slams into your car, or your foot slips in a place where there's no margin for error.

To me, (2) is the more important point, and can be lost in the harrowing story that she uses to make point (1). You can do everything right, whether that is in the outdoors or driving on a highway, and still become a fatality. When we pretend it couldn't happen to us, because we are better prepared, respect the environment, etc, we are kidding ourselves.

The outdoors may bring this into starker focus because the margin for error is lower, but the point applies throughout our lives.
> What an interesting idea to combine both a standard 12-cup percolator with the "pod-based" single serve option.

Oh, no, it's the coffee equivalent of the combo DVD-VCR.
Right there with you. Went from 205 to 185 with the same method. I'm also running longer distances than I did when I was eating more carbs. Did a half marathon in November for the first time in years and felt great. Even beat my previous time (43 now, was 32 last time).
According to the NOAA Space Weather scale[0], we get about 15 of these R3-severity events every year. Is this one notable in some way?

[0] https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation
Comment appreciated. My wife, in the front seat next to me, and I were certainly in shock. We pulled over and had a 15 minutes rest while the adrenaline wore off. We breathed deeply and talked about what had just happened.

I used to commute in London for many years on a motorcyle and also raced them for a few years. I've had my share of near misses and ended up in hospital once. That was all somehow different - it was only me in danger usually and at least when racing I was always hyper aware that things can go bad fast.

This was a totally different experience. Completely innocuous one might think, on a road regularly traveled, at legal speeds. I think having my family with me made a big difference to my reaction. It wasn't just me in danger any more.
Seems like the case of wealth that cannot be hidden from one's circles (and the outside world) due to him being so well known as a person in tech at the time of Doom's cultural zenith and being in the news cycle so often.

I wonder if most often the smart move is to make sure that one's sudden acquisition of wealth (say the sale of a startup-now-a-successful-scaleup) is hidden from one's even closest circles to avoid the curse of the lottery winner as well described in the famous reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24vo34/comment/c...

But I also wonder if trying to hide one's wealth that much comes at the price of social isolation, where you have to reduce your contacts with the outside world to avoid flashing the new possibilities that your wealth opened to you. Or you make sure your lifestyle doesn't change at all, but then you cannot take advantage of your wealth either.
> Does it matter whether the light was switched on?

Depends on how it is wired. Sometimes lights are wired so that the switch comes before the fixture, sometimes after. One of several reasons you should always turn power off at the breaker when fiddling with the wiring, instead of assuming it won't be hot if the switch is off.
Do you often consider friends and family as rich saps or marks?
This logic also explains the disparity in pricing of sending money abroad via conventional methods vs. via crypto.
There are millions of people practicing outdoor activities without problems, you would do fine if you don't do something stupid for getting views on youtube or tiktok.

(and cooking a meal on a camping stove is just cooking, nothing magical)
I use ledger-cli as my double-entry accounting system. It's been really helpful to have an Org file with literate programming blocks for the kinds of reports I regularly run and the TODOs to check various accounts' statements so that I don't have to remember things. =)
It’s definitely dumb.
> Intermittent fasting is so over-hyped. What it means is usually skipping breakfast. Big deal.

Not quite. Intermittent fasting is, typically, eating in a restricted time range in the day, usually an 8 hour period. As you point out, most practitioners skip breakfast. As you also point out it's also possible to overeat.

Eating between 11am - 7pm works well. You can have a late morning snack, a mid afternoon snack, and a normal dinner. No snacking at night. No consumption of alcohol outside of this eating range.

What IF isn't about is gorging yourself during the window when you're able to eat. The goal then isn't just about when you eat, but also paying attention to what you eat, and how much you're eating.
They wouldn't recommend users getting the data directly from them if the user traffic was the problem
Sounds like McGee might not have got his fair share of Id's success. Maybe Carmack felt bad about that.
I’ve seen many couples where the woman is a nonsmoker but the man is a relentless chain smoker. Does second hand smoke play into this statistic?

I know second hand smoke has been downplayed in recent years, but in this case we’re not talking about occasionally being exposed to smoke, but rather sharing and breathing the same smoke filled air with a smoker.

This also seems to depend on country and culture. In some cultures, it seems most nonsmoking women would instantly disqualify a smoking man as a partner, but in others it doesn’t seem to be quite the same dealbreaker.
Instead of rewarding the antisocial behavior and therefore causing it to happen more frequently, albeit to other people, I would recommend one of these:

- "I'm sorry but I've lost my job. I cannot afford this."

- "I'm sorry but no means no."

- If they insist: "Which part of the two letters in 'No' do you not understand?"

You aren't the jerk. Someone who doesn't accept "no" is the jerk.

There's places to go to to lend money, they're called banks. If you're not a bank it's not your job.
relationship dynamics change in many ways when you have disproportionate amounts of wealth
I think the assumption is that the developers already manage deploying as well, but it's manual.
We covered Baby Rudin in college. That book is so dry and clinical it simply must have something worth learning inside (if you can navigate it).
There exist sociopaths and utility monsters.
That's pretty much always been the case (at least since the mid-20th century). The difference is that now people are aware that most of what appears authentic, whether art or information, is carefully manufactured to appear so.
> How can one not be guilt-ridden until their deathbed?

Well, some most likely are.
Not to mention, it's likely a quite impactful form of marketing / developer relations gain for them. I think so because when I talk to people who start to learn Go, I usually see a transfer of positive feelings and excitement from Go itself to Google as its creator/backer - one of the clearest examples of "halo effect" I've seen first-hand.
A few hundred or $1000 dollars is a small price to know that you have a trustworthy friend
This completely overlooks many things such as logs used as metrics or even just using them to reason about the state of your application. What if your application isn't throwing errors but some thing is still broke Or you're shipping bad data?

IMO, the entire point of logs is to be able to ask questions of and reason about the current state of your application. If you're only logging errors that you can't recover from you may as well just throw and exception and restart.
That's rather stretching the definition of benevolent.
It was a different era. A more civilized era.
Hey all, I made this post to show a technique that I'm using in my keyboard-centric flowchart editor [0]. I really love urls, and the power that they hold, and would love to see more apps implement little hacks like this.

Also, another shout out to mermaidjs and flowchart.fun for also implementing similar url-based sharing.

[0] https://www.knotend.com
If you’re into RotLA, I definitely recommend reading the transcripts of the brainstorming session Lucas, Spielberg and Larry Kasdan had in Jan 1978: http://maddogmovies.com/almost/scripts/raidersstoryconferenc....

It’s fascinating seeing the ideas that will be in the final movie take form in real-time
But what does it smell like - Southern BBQ, fish, lobster, shish kebab, etc.? mmmm!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aT7mnSstKGs

Old defcon talk on this
Sprinkle in some deepfake on top and you get a killer combo.
As others have already touched on, it’s rather disingenuous to pretend that you are “picking up where he left off” after copying his title and labeling your article as part 2, no? Especially considering the first author made it very clear he intended to publish further work on the topic. Further, this article reads a lot like an attempt to beat him to the punch and to hijack his series. But correct me if I’m wrong?
I have a 3200G and I limit it to 35W(of 3 built-in values, 64, 45 and 35) since I run it off a picoPSU. Haven't done much testing without the power limits, but it's plenty peppy at 35W.
Heavy drinking.

Usually they're choosing between a set of bad options.
Could you recommend a good entry-level book on evolution? Nothing pop-science though, please.
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It's very generous of you.

I'd like to point out my experience of taking the loan and never repaying it. I felt guilty for decades and more distant from the loaner. They never brought it up but my guilty mind did.

So I'm not 100% sure it was a net positive for our relationship.

If I was to do loan money and they didn't pay back in some reasonable amount of time I think I'd tell them explicitly it was a gift. Though I'm not sure that would fix things in the guilty person's mind (yea, I get I'm projecting my feeling on guilt on them. They might not feel any guilt at all)
They should also ask their mortgage and auto loan provider. I was running a consultancy when Paysa came online. We were surprised to see it knew a lot about compensation and titles of most of my employees. But not all of them. We found that the common thread was employees who had recently applied for loans/mortgages. They had submitted paystubs as part of the application process which were then sold.
Not all technical people have the temperament for management. Some do, but many do not, and nothing you can do can really change that for them. It's similar to looking at something like Sales - some people are born to sell, other people will never excel at it (I am in that boat!).

It sounds like you are one of those people who's brain is not wired for management. That's OK. In an ideal world, you should seek out a company that supports career tracks for pure-technical roles (like the old Bell Labs did).

The problem of course is that it's not an ideal world. And that's where you have to dig in deep and decide what's right for you. Some people are able to stick it out and vest and manage to be so-so managers. For other people, that would be soul crushing.

The start is to be honest to yourself about who you are, what you enjoy, and what your goals are. And be realistic. If you shoot for the "perfect" job you may end up unemployed or miserable in serial job hunts. Find out what your "really good" job looks like, and what warts you can live with and what are deal breakers, and evaluate that against life stuff like finances, family, retirement, etc.
People are lazy. If they can't get the information a very large portion of them will rubber stamp it or just ask you if it's true, possibly to provide some evidence which they will be to lazy to verify as authentic.

>it can take a few days for them to call the business and confirm employment directly with someone who works there

If you hire out this kind of work, half the min wage slaves getting screamed at with hot breath down their neck for "low productivity" are gonna call once at most and likely not at all and then check it off. Speaking as someone who has worked at a call center along with the populace which was basically people on work release/probation.
minority opinion!
That is not how the psychology of that interaction would work. If someone doesn't want more than what they asked you for they wouldn't accept it. If they did want more then they aren't going to stop asking because you gave them extra.

This is an obvious fabrication by someone with little to no actual life experience.
You mistake idolization and fascination. People (myself included) are fascinated by his calling to quit society and to act on it, but I never saw someone idolizing him
If you’re in the Swiss Alps, have the REGA app installed and active, pay the incredibly reasonable membership fee, but for goodness sake do not treat it like your personal helicopter rescue service.

It’s a classic case of moral hazard [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_hazard
Every year I watch as more entitled people cause the state and national parks to restrict access.

Someone doing something dumb, going where they shouldn't, taking something, saying something, posting something.

The majority loose out because of the selfishness of the few.
Then there's The Abyss. Where the Director's Cut is pretty much a completely different movie.
I hear exploding e-bikes are the coming thing in the Ukraine - and you're already halfway there!
There's a pretty big difference in the odds of a house mains electrical shock stopping your heart compared to the 1 in 6 chance of the bullet being in the chamber that lands in alignment with the barrel.
> I think you actually need to be pretty unlucky to die from an electric shock at home.

Though if there's one thing we've learned from the article, there will be plenty of people waiting in the wings of the Intenet to sputter "Karma!" and "Darwin!" when you do.

Aside, if you ever feel like saying that sort of thing, take an idea, principal, or religious icon that has a deep meaning to you, or in the latter case, someone whose work you think was influential and great. Fix that image in your mind, think "serves you right, asshole", and scream the word or the name out at the top of your lungs. Then reflect on how fucking stupid that was.
Every Cloud Architecture
Imho the fact that a Turing machine is capable of universal computation is surprising/insightful. I'm not sure the fact that other simple systems are then also complete adds much more surprise/insight, even if it's difficult to predict which ones will be.

What I think people often miss is the difference between computational completeness and computational "power". Yes rule 110 is complete, but what that means in practice is that you've shifted most of the work (for solving a real problem) onto specifying the initial conditions.

Maybe Tetris is Turing complete but it's still a lot easier to compute 2+2 on a pocket calculator.
> [1]: https://www.slideshare.net/dberkholz/assholes-are-killing-yo...

This is the kind of thing I'm asking about. Lots of numbers are trotted out but where's the actual data? Where's the methodology?

The blurb says, "This talk will teach you, using quantified data and academic research from the social sciences, about the dramatic impact assholes are having on your organization today and how you can begin to repair it."

Social science research has a dramatically poor replication rate, so on that basis alone I'm skeptical of the numbers even if he did interpret them correctly.

That said, I agree asshole behaviour has to be reigned in, but exile is pretty dramatic if you really think about it. It's super easy and I think that's why people do it, but that doesn't make it good option.
HR Departments debate how to lay off workers
Is it that lightning strikes twice, or that most events are not as rare and in need of as much setup as a lightning strike?
Let's sacrifice all for production. The author is obviously responsible for Universal Paperclips. https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/
Sounds like you would enjoy Assault on Precinct 13. It came out nearly a decade earlier and is basically that police station scene expanded to 90 minutes. Cameron is an exceptional director, but when it comes to horror, it is hard to beat Carpenter.
Not specific to alzheimers, but complicated disease where noticable problems don't happen for decades makes finding a cure time consuming.

Recent discovery on non-human alzheimers : https://www.sciencealert.com/stranded-dolphins-show-signs-of...
I left various projects due to rudeness. I joined other projects as they felt welcoming.

In my (limited) experience, naming projects you left due to rudeness or bad behaviour tends to lead to that bad behaviour noticing your message and pestering you with questions about exactly why you left, and arguing that you are being unreasonable -- which is why I'm not naming those projects.
It almost always makes more sense to just give money (or frame it as a "payment" for something) than to loan friends / family money. The usual thing I ask is that people do it for someone else later in life if they can. It just makes everything less icky if there's no nominal expectation of repayment. Occasionally I've had things repaid anyway.
It borrowed hugely from a 1950s movie, Secret of the Incas

Earlier comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28151759
BMW Doubles Up on Paid Subscriptions in the USA
I was laughing my ass off when they started reading that self-help book like it was gospel.

It does convey an interesting idea though -- that if you knew nothing of the real world, even something written by that benevolent doofus brother-in-law would be emotionally impactful. I think I get what you mean by genuine authors.
Likewise, the french press and moka pot are extremely simple, easy to use and require no electricity to operate.
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Pretty much.

There was no CME associated with this flare, so it didn't cause any geomagnetic effects-- just HF radio interference. If you were trying to listen to your shortwave radio in Australia at the time, you might've been annoyed.

Nothing about this particular event is still impacting us now, although the same sunspot is still active and could produce another large flare or CME at any time. And there's another very active sunspot emerging from the far side of the sun now too.
Since that isn't the case, and never will be, the solution is really great.
that's not really infinite, though, and other pages do describe it as truly infinite, e.g.:

> When a newly spawned piece falls, it never gets closer to the floor due to the nature of infinity.

i'm nitpicking, of course. everything described is possible with a sufficiently large board. you'll just have a time constraint to place each block.
American non-fiction books seem to have a third dedicated to "the author is awesome and valid in this field, because he or she did this and that talk for this and that person". Very bloaty, indeed.
>The only advice I can give to designers is this: try not to add to the problem.

I agree with this a lot. But one difficulty in adhering to this lies in our ability to process the additional cost beyond initial implementation.

It seems easy, even to engineers and builders, to add something small. But as the author points out increased complexity leads to fragility.

It may be easier to convince product managers and designers of product minimalism when approaching from UX angle: keeping features as bare bones as possible makes it easier for people to figure out how to use the thing.