skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a podcast to go with that: https://podcast.clearerthinking.org/episode/138

The perennial issue for competent organizations as they scale is the quality of the middle management. Alex didn't write anything about hierarchies of molds (because it most certainly isn't moldy all the way to the top and never was). His pithy slides also don't discuss hiring practices at Google for managers. [We all know how they grill us poor doers.] He also failed to mention our dear friend Peter of the principle fame.

p(goal) = f(p(planners), p(managers), p(doers)) is a more realistic equation. What that f() looks like depends less on organizational structure than on the quality of the workers that mediate planning and building.

https://hbr.org/2021/06/the-real-value-of-middle-managers
Search is a disaster now, with the screen resembling a late 90’s teenager’s website with ads taking over everything visually. They’ve increased noise at the cost of signal and that itself will be the downfall. Now they are letting the ad cancer spread to YouTube with multiple unskippable ada before each video.

Ads will go to wherever they are most effective. Google to Facebook, then Tik Tok, etc.

Android - does anything about Android these days seem like it is a driving ambition for a company the scale of Google? And what does it contribute to their bottom line apart from ads via the platforms above that are eating themselves?
Whether the acting party is a friend or an enemy distinguishes the guilty from the blameless. Anything can be rationalized post facto. It’s the bedrock principle of contemporary politics and it’s breathtaking to witness.
How to think well and understand things
As far as I know, the main thing is to do a lot of it, and with purpose.

Depending on your personality, this may be a big ask — if you get discouraged or distracted easily, for instance.

On the other hand, it's a very accessible skill: pen and paper are easy to come by.

Personally, I've always felt rewarded by doing it. It soothes something in me, so I haven't had the struggle with self-motivation that some report.

I think that's a key to getting good at many things, really: find some emotional satisfaction from what you're doing, and the motivation will follow. As opposed to simply saying "I want to be good at X" and mechanically pushing yourself to do it. If you don't have some baseline love for the activity, you may learn to dread it, by that approach.
That isnt the problem he is describing tho, it is that you have no primitives in emacs that correspond to a rectangle of text entry boxes like the semantics of csv. You only have sequence of chars.

The author wants people to rewrite emacs as a design system for arbitrary structures of data, with hooks for moving around the structure and editing the structure and i guess contents
I do appreciate you linking to articles but these articles are pretty terrible.

re #1: The WHO adding internet addiction reflects the amount of sway China's political processes have over WHO declarations more than anything else. Their internal political narrative is that this is a problem and the WHO is being used to support that. The repetition of the falsified blue light hypothesis re: sleep is also informative re: the quality of citation #1. As for "changes in glutamatergic and gabaergic" signalling... if that doesn't happen when it means you're brain dead. Glutamate or GABA expressing neurons literally make up ~3/4 of the neuronal cells in the brain. And both are regulated extraceullary by glial cells too. You cannot do anything without changing this. If they'd done fMRI or PET or something and could shown long term abberant changes in the glutamergic signalling in the shell of the nucelus accumbens then maybe it'd be saying something. But they don't and I'm getting ahead of myself.

Citation #2 shows that when people are doing something relaxing and then they stop doing it they aren't as relaxed. That's hardly surprising. The arguments seem to be pop-sci level characterizations of the brain where any change is seen as significant or having a valance, good or bad.

And then they go and cite obviously false out-dated concepts like the idea of dopaminergic cells being neccessary or sufficient for expressions of pleasure/reward,

> Dopamine plays a critical role in this circuitry, for the subjective pleasure associated with positive rewards, and the motivation or drive-related reinforcements associated with eating, drinking, or drugs [73,74]

>The initially pleasant, so-called rewarding effects of the drug are relayed by the release of dopamine in the nucleus accumbens (NA) by the synaptic endings from the neurons of the ventral tegmental area (VTA) of the mesocorticolimbic circuitry [79,80].

It's actually glutamergic cells in the shell of the nucleus accumbens that are necessary and sufficient (but not all encompassing) for pleasure expression in mammals. Dopaminergic neurons can be blocked off with antagonists and the expression is still complete. The modern understanding is that mesolimbic dopaminergic populations encode for wanting and reward prediction. Glutamergic cells encode for reward/pleasure. I'd hope that someone writing a policy paper like this would cite up to date knowledge but it is excusable and a side point.

The real problem with #2 is that it doesn't actually talk about withdrawl symptoms in "digital addicts". It talks about widthdrawl symptoms and neurochemistry known in actual drug addicts and then just implicitly applies that all these statements must apply to the behavior "digital addiction" too. They don't show data about "digital addiction" withdrawl.

The third article is behind a cloudflare wall and I cannot access it.
A few years ahead of me in high school, the wrestling team had a one-handed wrestler. A friend of mine on the wrestling team told me it was because the guy was helping a guy make a pipe bomb, using a hammer and a wooden dowel to pack match heads in a pipe. One guy was holding the pipe, and the other was swinging the hammer.
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It was Microsoft that holed IBM below the waterline. IBM's slide had already started by 1989.
> Risk sharing is best done through insurance. The government has no need to be involved in healthcare, beyond subsidizing premiums to some extent for those who are too poor to pay the full cost.

I disagree on the basis that insurance skew to not having to pay as much as possible. This conflicts with healthcare because if Insurance companies are able to determine that you are high risk for something, they would either outright deny you coverage or give you a price that outright means denial anyway.

The only entity capable of stopping this is one with the monopoly of power, I.e The Government.
It's faster and cheaper to use an off the shelf framework and template than building something original from scratch these days.
Is the Fed hiking too fast?
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Yes

Just because you have staging doesn't mean you don't need unit tests. Similarly, test in stage, then test in prod. Ideally in a way isolated from real prod users (eg, in an insurance system we had fake dealer accounts for testing)
There was also the Jolly Rodger Cookbook (http://www.textfiles.com/anarchy/JOLLYROGER/) that was thee first set of "philez" that I read as a kid. Finding more like that led to me frequenting a bunch of interesting BBS, then learning how to, um, creatively pay, for those international calls and later into setting up my own board. It all kind of died off as the web became a thing but it was still a lot of fun.
Countless species of life have come, changed, and went over billions of years. But we arrive in the last few hundred thousand years and declare, “stop the cycling!”

I completely see (and share) your reasoning. But I think it’s very anthropocentric.
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Nice work. How about X12 to XML and X12 to JSON?
NI3 isn't hard to make, there are only two ingredients and I also made it in chemistry class by pouring ammonia on the crystals which we left on filter paper. The real 'trick' is not to use that much iodine crystal so you don't get a huge bang. You want to stay under 0.1g of crystal.

There's precious little you can do wrong with the synthesis other than using too much iodine to make too much of it. It won't become particularly unstable until it dries a bit, but after that, yes, it may just go off on its own.
Damore did much more than simply present the best available data regarding various personality distributions between men and women.
Approach has helped:
- RSS Feed. Check only once a week
- NextDNS block distracting sites during the week
It is all about people. When company grows, there is a choice needed to be made between holding the hiring standard and maximizing short term revenue, for public traded companies there is little chance of choosing the former. And it is always exponentially harder to get rid of bad hire than hiring bad people.

For google, at least before 2006, I did not know personally anybody does write bad code got in there. Until I start to see someone will always copy and paste code from internet and try to make some code barely works made to Google by just consistently practicing coding questions, the trend is quite obvious that none of stuff coming out there has a distinct quality differences compared to other technology companies.
Like anything else you need to diversify your risk. Have multiple payment processors running so that an outage at one, regardless of reason, doesn’t take you down entirely. These days there is really no barrier to doing this.

Reversing all of your charges is pretty extreme, I suspect there is some detail being omitted.

A polite - and brief - letter to the CEO can work wonders. I had a problem with my Goldman Sachs once where they locked my account, their security people blew me off for three weeks, I sent an email to David Solomon and an hour later the issue was resolved. David Solomon probably never saw my email but it got routed to someone who could help.

If you e-mail the CEO of US Bank it gets routed to a review committee, they investigate and respond in ten days.

Again the key is to be polite and brief. If your in full Karen mode or sending three pages of text then you will get passed over. Include enough information so the issue can be routed to the right person, please help, thank you.
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Lame. These are scared opportunists who are going to screw things up for everyone because they are afraid of the unknown. Seriously, do something new and creative if you are an artist. Design your way into relevance.
This has "it's our planet to ruin" vibes
The ones in Indianapolis suck because heavy traffic flows can blow through as a train, completely blocking entry from other directions.
And it would be bad for a submarine salesman to go to people that think swimming is very special and try to get them believing that submarines do swim.
So? Do you enjoy it? Because that's how it is and that's how it is going to be. It take hundreds, thousands hours and even if you make progress, it will still feel like you don't know enough.

If you enjoy it, just give yourself more time. If not then...
The “starting line” was a long long time ago.
I use a stepper while working on my laptop, outdoor in the garden. When trigging a compilation/build I do a couple of situps or pushups. Standing up while working keeps me active and alert. I get more work done sitting down, but love the outdoor sessions better, especially for work that doesn't require extensive typing.
Probably useful for moving materials between stations and delivering supplies to worksites on the tracks (which they always seem to be repairing).
ATI's Imageon was sold to Qualcomm and renamed to Adreno, Falanx was acquired by Arm (who still develop Mali), and Imagination and Nvidia are still around in some form. I wonder what happened to the others?
wonder if could also also assume that their vaccine related death are under-reported, or reported at all?
OpenWRT here... it's much better EXCEPT for Broadcom devices.
I see. I thought the rant was a mess, personally, so I stopped reading it. Theres some irony to be found in an unstructed rant about... structured editing.

Anyway, if that's the point, then maybe tree-sitter can help us get there in the future? I still fail to see how this is an Emacs problem to solve. The vim/neovim model is also using what are essentially string dumps in the form of buffers. I'm sure every other editor is, too, but without going as far as actually having buffers, though I'm not invested enough into anything else to know what it's doing.
Meh, if I had a dollar for every time someone said "this time Microsoft is gonna fail for sure", I'd be richer than Elon. People were singing Microsoft's funeral at every new Windows or product launch and assumed it would burry them for good. Turns out, despite many failures, Microsoft is still among us, still growing, buying new companies and IPs, branching in new areas and firing on all cylinders despite all the haters and doomers predicting otherwise for the past 3 decades. Maybe individual products will die, like Windows, but Microsoft as a company will survive, as it grew to be a lot more than the Windows/Office company.

My point is, people are generally bad at making accurate predictions into the future and competent CEOs are good at turning things around.
We run canaries in Prod, it isn’t as extensive as our integration tests that run in our test stages but it still tests happy paths for most of our APIs.
Bottom line: Why didn't stripe detect this business wasn't "legitimate" sooner?
I love this line of thinking. It gets me excited about Sci-fi. But I think we may already have the technology to seed life elsewhere.

We won’t do it though because it’s unsatisfying to our narcissism. Imagine trying to sell the world on a trillion dollar project where we shoot loads of bio-goo out into the cosmos in thousands of directions, knowing it’ll take eons to maybe have an effect that’ll then take billions of years to produce a result we will never appreciate.

I think if we do any sort of proliferation of life, it’ll be of us, by us, for us.
For near-simultaneous arrivals the right of way goes to the driver on the right.
In electronic trading, most new systems are tested in production by running with smaller capital allocation first. It is hard to flatten out all bugs unless you are on the real market with real money and real effects (of course, simulations testing and unit testing are heavily employed too).
Here's what I'm using to strip all metadata except photographer-relevant stuff:

exiftool -all= -tagsfromfile @ -AllDates -Make -Model -LensModel -Artist -FNumber -ISO -ExposureTime -ExposureProgram -ExposureMode -ExposureCompensation -FocalLength -WhiteBalance -Flash photo.jpg
given that people generally don't spin their tires off the line from a stop sign, it's fairly safe. If it's obvious that two people are going at the same time then one that has advanced less far in that time will generally ease off the throttle and let the more advanced party continue.

there are accidents, of course, but i'm not sure of any 4 way traffic junction that's infallible.

and as others stated, right-of-way rules are observed atop the social norms.
... except when those payments that stay paid were fraud or theft, then we have a problem
It will never be a popular way to use Wayland because its just a worse design.
In highschool we used an air hockey table to come to the same conclusion: the laws of Newton are valid.
No, the point of Copyleft is for you to not restrict the freedoms you got when you used the software when distributing it to others. You can use Copylefted software in any way to your heart's content in combination with whatever other software you want, you can just not distribute it using a more restrictive licence.
30 years?! Wow, the first time I ever heard of it was 15 years ago. And even then I thought it was some weird university group project that gained internet infamy.
I think one of our greatest flaws (and possibly main reason we are here today) is that we’re so self-centered.

Why do we monoculture if it will kill us long-term? Because it benefits us short-term. (And hey, maybe that gives us runway to solve the long-term problem).
In general, the more inert a chemical is under ordinary conditions, the more reactive it becomes when it's eventually forced to react.

For a very long time, a "halide torch" was the commonly used method of detecting refrigerant leaks, based on the change of colour of a flame. The amount of phosgene produced must've been tiny, or that method would've quickly fallen out of use.
Complexity is interesting.
> This was unfortunately picked up & RTed by Gebru & the mob responded by name-calling, threatening DMs accusing me of racism/misogyny etc, and one instance of a call to my employer asking to terminate me - all for that one single tweet.

Wait until an LLM flags your speech and gets you in trouble. That'll be a real hoot compared to random individuals who likely have been chased off Twitter by now.
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If the universe causes an asteroid to hit earth and make all life extinct or let's new life flourish, us saving the earth from said asteroid is also an outgrowth of the universe.

We are not separate from nature and protecting the earth is only natural for a multicellular intelligent species like ourselves.
Has Dakar spent dramatically more money on (social media) marketing this year? Seems like they are popping up all over the place in a way the didn't in the past... I very much doubt its all organic
Was looking for build one, but kinda disappointed by the state of the art. I assume many things are going to happen on this page

As a referral, interesting https://www.ornithopter.org
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> Balavoine […] once in a generation talent […] right next to Goldman

That’s a very loose definition of talent you have. There is a reason people think the 80s is a lost decade. We are talking about a terrible period in a country known for the general awfulness of its pop music.

Still a tragic and very unfortunate event.
I think that is a very fair argument. It may win in court it may lose. I’m excited for the precedent either way.

That’s said, it does raise the question, “should this precedent be extended to humans?”

i.e. Can humans be taught something based on copyrighted materials in the training set/curriculum?
It's more about handling production error quickly, than testing in production. Feature flag is a good way.
OpenGL ES 1.x doesn't require an FPU. Compared to standard OpenGL it makes fixed-point required, removes double-precision floats entirely and adds optional single-precision float support. By the end of the 2000s there were definitely phones with FPUs though (e.g. the iPhone).
If every app held open a truly idle TCP connection, only exchanging data when necessary, you're right. Open idle connections are pretty lightweight.

There are a number of problems. One is that apps weren't doing that. It's too tempting for app developers to do things like HTTP polling instead. Then you have apps all polling at different intervals, and then on average the phone's radio is constantly in an active state even if the user isn't doing anything.

Even if apps correctly used persistent connections, it's actually tricky to maintain a persistent connection. There is a balance between reducing traffic and detecting that the connection has failed (using keep-alives, etc.). After a network transition, connections must be re-established. Doing that once is cheaper than doing it N times, once per app.

XMPP servers do support push notifications (e.g. via Apple/Google), though they aren't usually necessary on Android unless you have an overly aggressive one ( https://dontkillmyapp.com ). On iOS they're practically essential.

It makes less sense for XMPP clients to use UnifiedPush, because if you're in an environment where you are able to have something constantly running as a UnifiedPush distributor and maintaining a persistent connection, you might as well make that something be your XMPP app, which can reuse the same connection for more than one thing.
Really I think we should go a step beyond this. Being able to go to some new planet is not guaranteed or that planet may even be inhospitable to us.

What I think is more feasible and more benevolent than preventing a mass extinction is we should slowly expand our orbit so we can survive the brightening sun for at least a while longer. Basically, all we need to do is increase our planets speed over hundreds of millions of years. A certain mass of asteroids with steerable self correcting orbits could push small amounts of speed into our planet that would build up over time.

Even if we don't make it, we at least give life more time to do it's thing.
> Imagine trying to sell the world on a trillion dollar project where we shoot loads of bio-goo out into the cosmos in thousands of directions,

It's funny to imagine that this might be not how life on Earth started.
Homebrew isn't perfect, but I've never seen a security dialog triggered by a brew operation.
I think a lot of what you wrote are possible signs that programming isn't for you but it depends. What you listed is aimed at frontend work. Maybe you should be setting your goal somewhere else in programming. Especially if you have the learning resources for the frontend stuff but you're still failing to make progress with it. Although learning sometimes can be best at a job that's forcing you to make progress everyday. I personally don't think programming is for everyone and I think that some people just push themselves into the career for financial reasons. They're probably going to live a life of despair attached to them for it. Unless they eventually switch to management.
I'd be curious to see how fast mold can link Blender.

Which would also be a good test of how good of a "drop-in replacement" mold is given that the Blender build process isn't trivial.
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> I see the logic here.

There’s no logic there. Just a faith in “potential”.

It is arguable one way or the other whether civilizational humans have caused more happiness or more suffering for Earth (all of us lifeforms combined). So the only way to call such a thing “morally reprehensible” is if you assume that Civilization will eventually evolve into some awesome, fantastic, space-faring, all-needs-met, stewards of the near solar system fantasticness.
Does not phoc / phosh work like that?
That aspect is unusual, but I don't see how that affects whether or not it would be license extortion.
For sure! And if a meteor is heading our way, I’ll be on the top of that hill with my Louisville Slugger.

I just think we shouldn’t pretend that we’re being altruistic.
You're very good at rationalizing. I don't think it's a grift. You don't need to get money out of this for this to be a plug. Personal satisfaction, pride, whatever. I think it's misguided to offer apps and websites to people complaining about addiction to apps and websites. At the very least shows lack of empathy and a fundamental misunderstanding about the nature of the problem being discussed.

Do what you want with the information that a perfect stranger saw what you did here and was irked.