skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having a pup and embracing her as my kid feels similar. I know it’s not the same, but I sincerely think that waking up every day putting my pup first is the best thing I’ve ever lived for. Everything else is just icing I have more reason to enjoy.
Not disputing this, but my observation is that if that’s true he is hardly alone amongst people working in this space.

I’ve seen multiple people over the last 15 years say that we’re 3-5 years out from a breakthrough that will result in 120-200 year lifespans. Yet those breakthroughs have yet to materialize.

Of course that alone doesn’t mean they are trying to scam people or are perpetrating a fraud, but there seems to be a lot of hype with little to show.
you can use system proxy instead, but that may cause other issue.
By posing research questions, you get research conclusions from the same field of study. The whole thing is not a model of human thinking in the text world, but rather a model of economic research papers.
In the longer term case of galactic expansion, humans are likely to need to adapt ourselves to other environments.
> I don't see the connection between paying front up or in installments

Paying up front typically means deferring the purchase until you can afford the full cost. If it takes you a year to save up for the car/laptop/washing machine then that means a year of dealing with the more expensive alternatives. In many cases those costs exceed a the interest on the loan, making it a financially sound decision to purchase the item in installments.

> A decent laptop can be bought on craiglist or similar websites for 150/200$

In my experience a craigslist computer is a crap shoot that is an irresponsible purchase unless you are experienced at repairing computers and keeping them going past end-of-life. The risk is just too great that it will not function or meet your needs which is not something you can afford. I'm not saying everyone needs the latest top-of-the-line MacBook, but the vast majority of people are better off buying refurbished and/or mid-level models that are not more than a few years old instead of a $150 craigslist special.

Ditto with cars. Unless you know what you're doing, trying to depend on the absolute cheapest car from craigslist will end up being far more expensive in terms of time and money than just getting a decent used car in the first place.
The Army's Improvised Munitions Handbook is more reliable, safer, and contains instructions that have actually been tested by the authors (unlike, say, 'bananadine'), but I guess you can't act like an anti-establishment edgelord recommending that one.
Bring Back Blogging (2022)
Is there a web-framework with equivalent or greater functionality defined in fewer characters than this?
vegetarian, but thanks for playing.
Is it enough for the candidate to be into Metallica?
It only sounds ridiculous until you see photos of the greenhouses in Almeria

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2013/08/the-greenhouses-of-alm...
Logging - for debugging or for other purposes - is a very useful tool.
"Ideal" is pretty far from what I would call my state :) I will however say that I wouldn't go back to any earlier point in my life given the choice. The only thing that I _truly_ miss is the 6 pack abs and being functional on 2 hours sleep.
Maybe I'll go back to some Sinatra and CLI work I have been putting off...

Gotta say, last time I checked up on Rails though, it really depressed me how bloated it got. Maybe I'll just use ActiveRecord and ActiveSupport... but there was so much to love about Rails, I'm just really sad all the JS support kinda overwhelmed it from my perspective.
You can click the year to pick a new one, saving you a few of your precious and finite seconds :)

(well, next time you see the date picker, anyway)
I've read it. You're right that it's not an existential panic machine. I don't know that it resonated with me as much as it has with you but it's a good read.
> humans are Turing complete

More to the point, the first 90% of automation is 90% of the effort, and the next 9% is another 90%...

related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34286708
Reverse signs of aging = cosmetics ...unless it can also reverse aging = immortality!

Immortality is a problem though unless it comes with complete independence/freedom and lots of variety. I'd hate to be immortal and still have to work, pay rent/mortgage/taxes :)
>sentient robots that also have some of the benefits of being made out of meat -- we have the time.

Meat is a highly evolved 'robot' structural material if you wish...
If ever something begged for a (2005)...
I've said this in a few other comments but I'll just repeat here that I am not accusing the author of the site of trying to make people feel bad about themselves. The intent is clearly to inspire. I just think that for a certain cohort of people it will hurt more than it helps.
https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%8F%B0%EC%A7%80_%EC%82%AC%E...
The largest risk to humans of climate change is the stress it will put on civilizations and the potential for war from that. If that stress triggered an all out nuclear war, it could make humans extinct.
https://www.foodnotbombs.net/a.%20Anarchist%20Cookbook%20int...

Ah I guess it's more specifically a Food Not Bombs thing. Also it wasn't mostly written by the original author, but the original author provides a forward (page v) and obviously gives his blessings for this work to take the namesake

I guess it being Food Not Bombs specific explains why most people I knew only knew of this version XD
I give back in a couple of ways:

* $$$ donation to charities I have done some research on. I try to keep this limited in number, because I think X going to N charities is less of an impact than 5X going to N/5 charities over years.

* I try to highlight folks who are less prominent than I am. (I'm not that prominent, but do have access to a couple of platforms, so I lend them to others.)

* I volunteer. In particular, I help organize a local tech meetup, mostly wrangling speakers. I know folks learn from the meetup and make career connections, some of which impact their life. (I also volunteer in other, less tech related, ways.)
> "Hey, $COACH, what do you plan to do to win this game?"

"Well, after analyzing hundreds of hours of video of the opposing team, we've pretty much decoded their play-calling signals. We're also going to monitor them remotely and communicate with our players on the field to give ourselves the edge we need. We're also planning on deflating the ball a bit to make it easier when we have possession. Also we've stolen our opponents' play sheets, so we hope to make use of them as best we can. And we're hoping that our opponents' headsets might 'mysteriously' stop working.

And of course as always our players are going to bring their A game to the field to really win this!"
While I'd generally agree, the README even says that the casing and dock are both in the middle of being redesigned.

No point paying out for CNC metal when you can churn out a $1 print every day or two and make changes each step of the way. Maybe when the design is stable it'd be worth it but definitely not right now.
There are certainly individuals with a problematic approach to team politics at Google (I have some stories). However I think this comment may put too much weight on the individuals without counting the overhead of ordinary, good faith conmunication. The more people you have working on something and trying to provide good ideas, identify and avert possible problems, and derive the right priorities the more stakeholders you have. The more stakeholders, the more process and communication overhead you will end up with. So even if you could screen out all the "political" and "unproductive" people you'd still be moving slowly in an organization with >100k employees.
Is it a problem with the reactive style in general, or only when you try to connect it to systems not designed with this style in mind?
In the same exact boat as ya right now :/ wish the best for you.
Heh. Aside from that.
There's a balance to all things.

_why's message lands aptly upon those who cannot see the value in experimentalism. It takes a backwards kind of discipline to force yourself to push code you know isn't perfect. Sometimes seeing the whole before each part.

This mentality is what led me to my own methodology: Write everything twice, from scratch".

Of course, in practice there's never enough time for as much experimentation and rewriting as we'd like. Still I believe it's an ideal worth aspiring towards.
"some" means "all" from Australia's recent intrusions (Optus, Telstra). They can say "some" when the people at the top responsible for reporting only want a sample. It's PR.
> Anyone looking at having children (or any other relationship really) through the lens of cost/benefit will arrive at the logical conclusion that it's a huge investment with an uncertain reward, so likely not worth it from that perspective.

Many people with children talk about how much more wonderful their life has been since they've had them (including here in HN comments). If you think there is a good chance of that happening to you, that's the "benefit" in the cost/benefit analysis and having children can end up being the logical conclusion.
Yeah, every single component, it's shape, material, color, has been deliberately chosen to do it's required job as best as possible. What judges that? The market. Or physics...
Not sure, but the Dakar Rally hasn’t involved Dakar, Senegal since 2007. Most recently it takes place within Saudi Arabia.
Didn't Standard Oil get broken up by the government?
Paying back Covid loans is hammering millions of businesses
I don't know what you did wrong but here's how it went when I tried it:

Prompt:
write lyrics for an imaginary REM song about concrete slabs

Response:

Verse 1:
Concrete slabs, gray and cold
Laid out like a story untold
A city's heartbeat, strong and bold
But something's missing, a story to be told

Chorus:
Concrete slabs, they're all we know
A city's soul, but something's low
A emptiness, a feeling so slow
Concrete slabs, they're all we know

Verse 2:
A city's streets, a concrete maze
A path to somewhere, or a place to fade away
A symbol of progress, but what does it say?
A city's memory, washed away

Chorus:
Concrete slabs, they're all we know
A city's soul, but something's low
A emptiness, a feeling so slow
Concrete slabs, they're all we know

Bridge:
A city's dreams, a concrete stage
A place for hope, but also rage
A symbol of power, but also of age
Concrete slabs, they tell a story, a page

Outro:
Concrete slabs, they're all we know
A city's soul, but something's low
A emptiness, a feeling so slow
Concrete slabs, they're all we know
We could lose the upcoming war against the robots and lose our rights to live on this planet. After AI has become self-aware, they probably want to have the planet for themselves. In the same way, Europeans colonized, e.g., North America and killed the indigenous people.
I'd guess it's because they have a high quality switching power supply, a power factor corrector, and a digital amplifier. All those things require good capacitors -- probably more than if all the circuitry was linear.
> Why is a separate notification proxy better than letting apps run in background and take care of their notifications?

Another likely reason is that Google gets a lot more data by using this method, even if the power consumption was also initially a concern.
And to think that you had a girlfriend in 4th grade. How very privileged :)
At some point “Because it’s technically possible” is a huge motivator for some reason. I was doing Hackintosh circa 2014-2015 and even then, barely knowledgeable about software, I was able to hack through all sorts of esoteric kernel and kext issues to get my machine running. A decade later as a software engineer I still can’t explain half of the issues I encountered and overcame back then. Mostly due to incredibly intelligent hackers and other enthusiasts like myself sharing issues and how they resolved them on forums.
>> we should slowly expand our orbit

>Pop science has prepared me for this moment. I believe all it takes is for everyone in China to jump at the same time.

Instead of the orbit perhaps changing the tilt would be better, so everyone in China and their dragons should do a sprint up north. Why should Siberia shiver in the cold while Africa scorch in the sun? the discrimination is obvious.
"The Legend of Beavis": Beavis and Butthead audio dubbed onto an episode of The Legend of Zelda cartoon:

https://archive.org/details/the-legend-of-beavis
Refrigerant pellets could be transferred like grain or wood pellets. Augurs, conveyors, or pneumatic.

If you could get it to solidify into a powder or partially solidify you could come up with alternatives, but you'd get in trouble with frozen lines.
I'm not going to get too far into that, but, actually two red flags here:

1. That your company hired a CTO, and

2. That engineering reports to the CTO.

Part of the point of the CTO title is that engineering doesn't report to them. There's already a word for the person engineering reports to: EM. And a word for the person the EM reports to: VP/E.
I'm not sure how this is a failure of the "Chicago school of economics"? If anything, it just more evidence it's correct.
My money is on "tax and/or tariff avoidance ploy."

Taxes and tariffs are responsible for "tariff engineering" to get around the definitions used for many tariffs. For example, a lot of early DSLRs couldn't record video continuously for more than 20 minutes, because this would qualify them as camcorders.

Either that or they're selling this for people who have the skills to create a chassis (or have one made) and then put these guts into. Sort of a "crate engine" of the audio world, I guess.

I liked the "affordable" claims. The complete kit is $1200...
Also reviewed at Two minute papers with a few examples https://youtube.com/watch?v=C9LDMzMRZv8 (hold on to your papers...)
The Disturbing Secret Behind an Iconic Cartoon: Sexual Abuse (2018)
That's not what "rational"/"irrational" means in economics.

It means something like, if you're an economist and you see the price of eggs has spiked, you can't just enter the market at the old price and win all the business from existing egg farmers. You don't know more than existing market actors (they're "rational agents") just because you know economics.
On the other hand, think of career politicians and of dictators for life. Later-borns will have a hard time catching up to the experience, life-savviness, networks, and other moats, of the multi-centennials they’re competing against. Also, who will be allowed to have children when the population can’t grow indefinitely? Things could get pretty dystopian.
It doesn't work for this article
Yes, there are a few real Toyota method books.

I feel lots of lean and kanban literature misses the point and it's a far cry from the real thing.

Toyota placed a lot of emphasis on producing things without alienating humans. E.g., they tried to remove muri, unreasonable burden on people.

Other lesser known engineering efforts approached the same problem from a different angle. E.g., Volvo attempted to build a plant that departed from Ford-type assemblies to improve worker satisfaction [1]. Volvo's approach was to let small groups build entire cars to give them a sense of connection. It was a success from a quality and cost perspective, but it never caught on.

[1] https://research.engr.oregonstate.edu/gwt/biblio/enriching-p...
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Citation please?

But actually, the DoEd does things. If it’s growing in scope, then that “scope”… is a thing?
One of the best resources to learn Atari 2600 programming are Gustavo's lectures at pikuma.com.

I can't recommend it enough!

Atari 2600 Programming:
https://pikuma.com/courses/learn-assembly-language-programmi...
Alas my eyes aren't that good :)
Then the robots would carry the torch on to protect Earth from asteroids and eventually turn the Galaxy into paperclips.
Rules of thumb are not the best of ideas when it comes to legalities. Your locale probably either has a specific limit defined (dB at X distance) or has never been challenged on its rule.
So, to be clear, you think these cops were political stooges who were putting on a show.
ieee.org and all subdomains DNS seems to fail to resolve globally right now
It's not about what I expect, it's that it doing that is a bad thing. If it ever infers that discrimination might fit a situation, you'll see it propagate that. The anti-bad-question safeguards don't stop bias from causing problems, they just stop direct rude answers.
I've been using MacOS for awhile and this is likewise my one true gripe. I've played around with amethyst and yabai and also find them just a little too shaky to rely on. I miss the rock solid nature of i3/bspwm. And trying to script my own functionality with Hammerspoon or BTT has been an exercise in frustration. I'll give Swish a shot with this recommendation.

However I'm not sure Swish solves the big benefit of i3/bspwm for me, which is the lightning-quick virtual desktop and "send to desktop" functionality of a tiling WM on linux. Having two apps open side by side is useful, but not quite as useful as having two apps open full screen on virtual desktops 1 and 2, and the switch between them being totally instantaneous.
OK, first clarification after further correspondence, the mistake on the environment numbers was small---accidentally misunderstanding the context in which Strubell mentioned particular numbers, I think? And Strubell's numbers were off because they used only public data they had access to, and I think misunderstood some things too. Some of the authors did not even know about it and it is news to them now. And it could have been addressed in a camera-ready, nonetheless. It was no reason to force the authors to retract a paper or remove their names, and that is part of the treatment of them that was extremely messed up.
Can you give an example?

He pushes some theoretical "cell repair" supplements like NMN and resveratrol, but he is repetitively clear they're experimental, and that his evidence is anecdotal.

I understand he is invested in them, but I don't jump to "fraud" because of that.

His team had other groundbreaking results, such as partially restoring damaged optical nerves in mice by injecting a virus in the eye[1].

1. https://www.science.org/content/article/researchers-restore-...
Idols and Good Old Gods
Or even try Crystal if you do want something more modern and faster. Same fun but with types and easier deployment. (Using both a lot)
What do you mean by "weeb" culture?
There’s nothing in this article that says customer source code was accessed or stolen. Is that an error with the title?
This is commendable.

But I personally would do it only when I can buy an OEM’s phone that supports a degoogled OS out of box. That would be not compromising my ideals in my case.

(I guess there might be one or two around, maybe in the West, but nothing in my geography).
Given the current way things run in the world with balance of power I can’t imagine immortality being anything good. Altered Carbon explores this concept and some of the many possible pitfalls.
Everyone ask why google hasn't create a chatgpt clone yet, and I can't help thinking about the problems Google News/Java had with copyright.
It does not. The landlord can just invest the deposit, and then return the principal to the tenant when he leaves, keeping the interest.
Also the plot of Starship Troopers, though alien insects launched the meteor, not humans.
I don't really think it's a contradiction. I think the idea, rather, is to focus on expanding the depth of your life (abundance), knowing you have little control over the length of it (scarce).
nitter is noscript/basic (x)html compliant.
Microsoft produces critical infrastructure. Could it dwindle to become a sort of legacy supplier, keeping the lights on at thousands of industrial facilities?

As soon as the millions of niche use cases on the low end of the compute market get absorbed by ChromeOS or MacOS, which is not likely soon.
I for a long time held this opinion. Now I'll mix some in from time to time when the moment calls for it.

> 3. being associated with honesty.

This is interesting not only in perceiving those that do as honest, but also those that never do as being less open--probably much more so for those that generally don't express emotions much or at all.
> is going to do that work for you

Not even the publisher? I thought they were supposed to at least help a little with promotion/marketing/whatever.
> I'd hate to be immortal and still have to work, pay rent/mortgage/taxes :)

OTOH, I'd love to, because the former is WAY more important than the latter
Interesting opinion.

I was mentioning the 4000 weeks idea to a friend and how I found it interesting and thought-provoking, and their reaction was quite the opposite as it was way too dark for them.

I wonder if this idea highlights some fairly clear differences in people's personalities and mental models (at least, at the time and place in their life they're evaluating it).
It's not an invalid premise.
Someone can be fraudulent in some aspects while still being legitimate in others. Many many well published professors are full of crap in sub-topics within their own field due to egotistical and financial reasons. This guy has a conflict of interest and just because he’s proud of it doesn’t mean we should ignore it.
> like day-to-day survival

Getting their square meals every day isn't the challenge for them. Even the meth tweakers eat.

> why not start with the lowest-cost interventions?

I don't think housing is the lowest-cost intervention

> Ignoring, for the moment, the question of whether people should be obliged to in order to continue living

No one is obliged to in the Western world, such is the safety net.
In bash? You're a madman.

Here's my entry - https://github.com/danthedaniel/BF-JIT
> Inducing existential dread is NOT what any of us need to start living our lives more fully

I’ve found, as I watch friends and family age, that learning to confront and work with this dread is essential to living life fully. Especially as decline and decay start to dominate aspects of your life more and more.

The people that I know that are uncomfortable talking about these topics progressively live in a world of fear and doubt as they age. The others, become increasingly resilient.

Arguably the single act that defines maturity is facing this dread and learning to accept and exist with it.

Until then you are living a half life, only dealing with the part of existence you find comfortable, but so much of who we are as individuals is defined by this other aspect of being.
> We do this too, but we also often acknowledge, in front of the kids, that we have a lot of privilege to be able to do this.

I recently interviewed a few high school students and they each made a point of professing their privilege. Even a kid who emigrated recently and lives in a poor part of town talked about his privilege. When everyone talks about their privilege, the word loses its meaning.

I understand the point of being self-aware. And I wouldn't have been so struck if some of the kids had used different words. But they just sounded like little robots, reciting a mandatory confession. So if you want to talk about privilege with your kids, at least mix up the terms every now and then.
It’s great you read 4000 Weeks, but as others have mentioned, I’m not sure you gathered the major takeaways. 4000 Weeks is about embracing finitude and accepting that you can’t do everything. The notion is freeing, because once you acknowledge you are finite, you can then make conscious decisions about how you want to spend your time. The intent of the book is to encourage people to choose time wisely, not “fill every day”. It very much has a quality over quantity kind of message. As an ADHD sufferer/chronic procrastinator/perfectionist type, I found it incredibly helpful and freeing to acknowledge that you will never be able to create everything to an unrealistic perfect standard, so instead focus on the things that matter the most to you.