skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i don't think the critical resource was leisure; hunter-gatherers have plenty of leisure time, and the leisure time of chinese emperors and the roman élite was so notorious that it toppled a number of dynasties. john plant has had less leisure time in his life than almost any individual noble, scribe, sadhu, or other monk, in most civilized societies throughout most of history

and i don't think that we have good evidence that the wildly innovative hellenistic society was noticeably more sophisticated in these ways than the imperial society that ground the intellectual face of mediterranean society under its boot for the following 16 centuries, ceding leadership in math, science, and technology to india and china until the renaissance

i think it's a mistake to think of intellectual and technological progress as something that will inevitably happen at the fastest rate allowed by some critical resource; historically progress was the exception, not the rule, and that remains true worldwide today. it requires a delicate constellation of favorable conditions
I believe you need immense precision of tracking for it to look decent, cause brain notice all the imperfections and gives you motion sickness
“March of the Intellect” Cartoons (1828–29)
Just a guess, but I assume it's because of attractive UI/UX.

Notion templates, and general interface, guides people into presenting information in a fashion that doesn't follow the utilitarian manner and standard practices of business centric software like Microsoft Office.

Also, there's been a trend to "back to the basics" in information dissemination lately. Newsletters and static site generators have been making a comeback. In design, boutique firm architects I've spoken to have told me they've been moving away from fancy auto CAD renditions of projects to hand made watercolors and sketches. This unique approach has allowed them to bag contracts from under larger firms. In a way it mirrors the Arts and Crafts movement of the late 19th century as a reaction to industrialization.
>Buying him an iphone is probably the worst thing you could do

I'd like to point out this is correct, but also for another reason.

The child is being bullied, period. What they choose to ostracize him for is irrelevant. You cannot simply relocate the child in the social hierarchy by removing that single point of contention, because they will find another.
After all, if he was more well liked, would they still bully him for having a different phone?
It's a sad pill to swallow to realize that AI is coming for high end knowledge work first. A great irony to be sure.

I hope my mortgage is paid off before AI makes me redundant
Electricity utilities
My opinion: they're gonna bully him regardless. I remember going to school with a kid who was bullied for his shoes, though I don't remember the brand. One day he got new Nike to fit in, and they teased him for doing it, among other things. Then it was onto his clothes, hair, backpack, etc.

Kids are jerks, I honestly don't think buying him an Iphone will change a thing.
The solution is simple: an amendment abolishing (c)opywrong law: https://breckyunits.com/the-intellectual-freedom-amendment.h...
The fact that they studied infectious virus in the lab doesn't mean that every sample they studied was infectious virus.
SCO was just a sockpuppet of Microsoft.

They were providing the financial ammo.
Now we can all look forward to the day when websites refuse to load because they want camera permissions for fake depth, shiny buttons, and other random visual effects.

Also they'll analyze your face and send it to the ad tracking agency.
We need to abolish (c)opywrong law: https://breckyunits.com/the-intellectual-freedom-amendment.h...
At least they could explain this one away with "it's just a copyright issue, we're not censoring anything". Here it's plain and open censorship, initiated by the publisher.
That won't upset the plane-spotters (recreational and military) who work mainly from silhouettes and models.

You can't change a plane's shape without difficulty. It's also the reason that captured planes aren't flown safely anywhere near the front-lines. "Oops, sorry George. I thought it must have been Vlad and Ivan flying that plane."
In addition to the reasons others have stated, old games are designed with a D-pad in mind, not a circle pad/joystick, and the D-pad on the 3DS is in a slightly awkward position.
Weapons of control, shields of impunity: Internet shutdowns in 2022
Raising education and income levels actually does bring population growth rate to below maintenance levels. A wealthy and educated society tends to shrink.
Ancient texts shed new light on mysterious whale behaviour
> The parent comment is pointless intellectualism.

Someone posts a thoughtful and polite reply, with links to back up their statements, and this is your response? This isn't appropriate at all.

As to your argument in general — well, I'll just include this section from the Wikipedia article 'Criticism of Evolutionary Biology' because I think every one of the criticisms discussed below could be applied to your comments:

> Critics of evolutionary psychology accuse it of promoting genetic determinism, pan-adaptationism (the idea that all behaviors and anatomical features are adaptations), unfalsifiable hypotheses, distal or ultimate explanations of behavior when proximate explanations are superior, and malevolent political or moral ideas.
> The cancer is actually the fiat, soft money that’s improperly aligning incentives in the economy.

What a conclusion. Debt and borrowing exist in hard money environments too. Debt is as old as time.

Low interest rates reduce the threshold for what could be considered a successful business from a macroeconomic perspective, though, and can lead to misallocation of capital. Nothing to do with fiat.
Warren Buffett still lives in home he bought for $31,500 more than 60 years ago
> We've been to dinner before!

Great to hear.

> If your point is that this is noodly enough not to be interesting to anybody else: fair enough.

Not at all. Please carry on. It is a good discussion. I meant, I would enjoy hearing you guys debate this topic in person where you're not limited by text or latency.
Haha. They call your boss... This actually happens?

My Australian boss would impolitely tell them to go away.
I don’t mind coding on a 12 or so inch laptop screen. But editing a LaTeX file is kind of a pain, because it is nice to have the code and the document side by side, but half a screen is quite small. I guess people working on websites must have similar issues?
Completely unacceptable.

This is on top of them releasing "new" editions that do not feature the censorship changes, which they will gladly sell to you for full price. If you pay retail price again, we'll let you have the book you already purchased.

Utterly unacceptable.
Prop 13 limits property tax increases to 2% or less in California :)
Debt-fuelled spending binges were just as common before fiat. In fact, booms and crashes were more frequent and severe because there could be no central bank to turn the heat down under the cookpot.
https://github.com/meow-edit/meow/blob/master/EXPLANATION.or...
IMO that was another problem with the peak oil theory -- the obsession with EROEI. They would say that Saudi oil was, say, 30 EROEI and shale was 5. If you flip that upside down though 30 EROEI = 97% efficiency, and 5 EROEI is 80% efficiency. Of course you'd rather have 97% efficiency, but 80% works fine.
> Everything works… and works perfectly.

How can this possibly be true when Asahi Linux is still in alpha?

A quick trip to the project page shows lots of hardware features that are still not supported. [1]

It’s not a knock against Asahi Linux - it’s amazing what they have accomplished with a small team. It just seems so misleading for the author to claim that everything works perfectly.

[1] https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Feature-Support
It doesn't make sense to use GPG for anything because it's very obsolete. https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html
What would you propose doing instead? I don't see any other effective method of handling it (and no, I don't count "whine to a nameless underpaid drone working for a named overpaid drone that was assigned by one of the mega-parties to oversee your territory" as an effective option).
Now it's more like, "Cool Web Apps actually have internal URIs".
Then you need to stop reading Dahl, because he rewrote his own books as part of the culture war.

In his original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the Oompa-Loompas were African Pygmies. The NAACP complained, and Dahl rewrote them in 1973 to be white-skinned. In the 1971 movie they were portrayed as orange-skinned, and in the 2005 movie as brown.

Each of those falsifies the original literature.

And you're right - these changes affect the interpretation of the original story!

As "Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator" more clearly shows, the books are also commentary about then-current society. Post-war England opened the labor market and granted British citizenship to the New Commonwealth. Black-skinned Anglo-Caribbean and brown-skinned people from the Indian subcontinent moved to England, causing English people to protest how "white" English jobs were being stolen. It's not hard to draw a parallel between that and how the workers in Wonka's chocolate factory were kicked out, replaced by Oompa-Loompas who were illegally smuggled in to the country.

Rewriting the books and movies to avoid possible associations with African slavery obscures this interpretation.

Also, don't read Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None". Even though it's the world's best-selling mystery, it's also been rewritten, including even the title.
Yeah honestly a mobile experience in general could be more easily navigated.

Trying to click comments into a new tab or something is a struggle without zooming massively.
Really makes you wonder whether today's Science Fiction may be tomorrow's reality.
To the last point, I have a tiny Bluetooth mouse. Not much bigger than the single AAA battery that powers it. I don't know how I managed to use laptops without one before. (Usually with a full-sized wired mouse, come to think.) I also prefer a traditional keyboard and large screens and so I normally use a desktop. But if you need portable, you need portable.
SpaText: Spatio-Textual Representation for Controllable Image Generation
SRE in the Real World for Xooglers
Yes but if you're in a Jupyter notebook, you may not be directly connected to a DB. If you're using pandas, this unlocks some scalability before needing dask and a cluster.
The Paratethys Sea Was the Largest Lake in Earth’s History
Love it! I've never actually used Nix, as I fell right into Guix, and it's really interesting to see how this all comes together without gexps to simplify evaluation orders and dependencies.
No, the motive is ideology, not money. This way ensures almost universal replacement.

The default user action is null. If they had the new one released separately, nobody would have purchased it. By replacing the old one, few will buy the original.

The bleaching will be much more complete this way.
The rewrite of the Oompa Loompas is different for two reasons: it was Dahl’s own rewrite, not performed by a soulless corporation; and it made the text better, not worse.

Even an author’s own revisions can be heavily criticized when they diminish the quality of the original work. Witness the Star Wars special editions, which aside from making questionable edits to dialogue and pacing, also jammed in incongruous CGI effects that stick out like a sore thumb, making the films feel inconsistent, and though perhaps the CGI was cutting edge for its time, in retrospect those effects have not aged nearly as well as the original effects, which were cutting edge for their time.

The Puffin changes are similar in kind. Roald Dahl as an author is known for his dark humor and misanthropic themes. Throwing in a moralizing sermonette in The Witches (whose eponymous witches are bald) that “there are plenty of other reasons why women might wear wigs and there is certainly nothing wrong with that” is unnecessary and inconsistent with the tone of the original work. Meanwhile, Dahl’s own moral points are obfuscated or eliminated. Dialing down Augustus Gloop’s obesity interferes with his purpose as a lesson on gluttony; cutting out Mike Teevee’s obsession with guns dampens the consequences of his obsession with television. George Kranky’s grandmother was such an unpleasant person that she was never really missed after he murdered her—well, that point’s not made anymore.

Then there are more minor changes, unremarkable physical descriptions that are apparently no longer acceptable coming from a mainstream publisher. Describing Miss Spider’s black head, or Earthworm’s lovely pink skin. Scared people who are white as a sheet. Tall skinny Bean and dwarfish pot‐bellied Bunce. What once were colorful descriptions (often literally) are replaced with bland unremarkable alternatives, not because anyone of consequence took offense, but because whatever company the publishers contracted this “modernization” task to wanted to justify its paycheck.

And the worst of it is that the rightsholders are the ones doing it. The Bowlders who first Bowlderized Shakespeare were resoundly made fun of for their delicate sensibilities, but I don’t really take issue with them, because they were just a family sharing with others how Shakespeare could look according to their tastes. No adult was deprived of Shakespeare by the Bowlders.

The situation is different here because had it not been for the vociferous outcry you complain about, the originals would no longer be available to anybody. Due to the public response, now they’ve said they’ll continue providing uncensored versions (whether they’ll keep that promise remains to be seen). Had readers shrugged and moved on, the censors would have won, and we would see these changes more and more throughout the publishing industry. But now maybe there’s a chance that this trend will change direction: that the industry will regain its faith in normal people to read books from another era without having to be coddled.
So what?

Can I rewrite any book as I want and for any cries just say "Hey! I printed an original version! The whole 10 copies! Locked in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of The Leopard'?
> why not start with the places where the words actually mean the same thing

If a word describes a bad thing, that's a reason to get rid of the bad thing. It's not a reason to ban the word.

Because the latter doesn't help anyone with real problems. Wow, we banished "master" from git. Did that make the world a better place for the people described in these articles (see links)?

https://www.hrw.org/reports/2004/saudi0704/4.htm

https://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/news/WCMS_...

Did it positively impact any of these lives? Is it going to do so at any point in the future? If so, what specific outcomes can these people expect from it?

My point is, banishing words describing bad things, doesn't make the bad things go away.
OneMedical bills your insurance, so you're responsible for buying insurance plus all copays and deductibles. It looks like Galileo offers many services with no insurance required: https://galileo.helpscoutdocs.com/article/55-i-dont-have-ins...

Q: I don't have insurance, can I still use Galileo?
A: Yes! Your monthly or yearly membership fee will cover all the care you receive within the Galileo app.
When in human history have we ever been able to stop technological advancement?

> we need regulation

No, we don't. Regulation doesn't stop technological progress - it puts it in the hands of an elite few. And besides, there are 130+ regulatory jurisdictions. For example, the US government doesn't fund human cloning research, but that doesn't mean China won't fund it. Or perhaps you'd also like a one world government that can jail anyone doing wrongthink on their GPU?

Personally, I hope we get AGI (in the most Kurzweillian sense) as soon as possible. It will lead to a cambrian explosion of advancements across all fields of science. This is our best chance of cracking the secrets of the universe and answering fundamental questions, like whether FTL interstellar travel is truly impossible, or whether aging is really irreversible.

Imagine an intelligence unencumbered by the "technical debt" we've accrued over centuries of building our scientific model of the world. AGI could simulate infinitely many novel paths through the "tech tree" of human history, replaying our scientific discoveries and trying different assumptions. What if we had 12 fingers and mathematics started from a base-12 system? What if we could see in infrared? We would have followed entirely different scientific paths; AGI will be able to find what we missed.
I bully iPhone users with their inferior photo quality, inferior hackability, battery life.

Just to balance things out.
Same thing happens in a paid off house if you don't pay your property tax.
SecureDrop is evolving: We want to hear from you
Every graphql API I've ever seen returns JSON. It's definitely the standard. What are you referring to?
> Want to write a program that targets MacOS? Expect a cumbersome CI/CD experience because Apple expects you to manually compile distributables.

I'm not sure this is true anymore. I download source and run "make" and the Xcode compilers all do their thing and entitlements are applied and so on. I haven't tried to do any store submissions or anything but it all seems like Apple are aware that CI systems are a thing, now
I have found a bit of counter bullying solves a lot of these issues.
Yes. We have a no apple house but I bought my kids iphones because of the iMessage monopoly. It's not that they are looked down on for blue bubbles but that literally they CANNOT participate in group texts! Apple should burn in hell for that....

I wish US kids would move to Whatsapp like the rest of the world but that's what we have here.
Tenure does not disallow being let go for redundancy or financial reasons.

Full time permanent employees have more power than limited term contractors. Isn't that kinda normal in every workplace?
>Third, and this may be controversial, I would get your son an iPhone, I assume the dependence for cell phones has only gotten increasingly higher post-covid and feeling left out at that age can hurt pretty bad.

We've definitely made some of these concessions with our kids more lately. They don't have phones yet, but they do have iPads, and it is already apparent how pervasive the iMessage ecosystem is. If they were on Android they'd be the only ones not in their friends iMessage and Facetime groups, which would be pretty isolating.

Another commenter talked about spending $300 as a targeted fix to a problem. The idea that just doing the simple thing is sometimes the best choice resonates with me. I recall being bullied in a PE class in highschool. After so much uncomfortable intervention by teachers I was like, "oh ffs can't you just move me to the other class so I'm away from these assholes?". And they reluctantly did, and things were better. No it didn't address any root causes, but it make my life much nicer for 4 months which was very appreciated.
:rolleyes:

Okay, in the next installment you would be fine to watch "Amazing Huggy Wuggy against Teletubbies". Because you know, spiders are scary and gremlins/mob bosses/mad scientists are scary too.
Funny that I can get a paper copy of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, for which I own all the rights, in perpetuity, and can resell or gift it as I wish, for $5.94, but a digital "license", which gives me no rights and can disappear at any moment, and I can not do anything with it, costs $7.99, or 35% more. You literally are paying for your rights to be taken away, isn't it marvelous?

Oh yes, and if I'm ok with a used copy, it's $2.15. Would I shame anyone (including myself) if somehow, by an unexplained miracle of nature, it happens that a DRM-less digital copy of the same book appears on their hard drive? No, I won't.
It works both ways, very similar bug patterns can be strong indication of copying does it not ?
Ask HN: Poor Performance Due to Deadlines
At work I always seem to focus so intently on when my assignment needs to be done that I end up implementing it in the quickest way possible just so I can get everything working ASAP with plans to go back later and clean up / fix bugs.

What ends up happening is that I usually discover that I could have done something differently which would have resulted in a better outcome but it’s too late and too much work to go back because of the deadline, which leads to me kicking myself at the end of the project because I know I could have done better.

I previously thought the answer to this problem was to plan more carefully at the beginning and have a very solid idea on how to complete each step of the project before writing any code, but even after meticulously planning, weighing pros and cons, doing small POCs I still have tons of nervous energy to make progress, and if any problems start to arise or something isn’t working as expected this anxiety quickly gets out of control. What if I don’t finish on time? What will I say at standup tomorrow if I don’t make any progress tonight? What if this is the beginning of me discovering I don’t have what it takes to do this job?? These all sound very irrational now, but these thoughts really do cross my mind when I’m doing something at work and it’s not going as expected.

I know that it’s almost impossible to give an exact estimate of when projects will be completed, but I somehow feel ashamed if the project slips in time estimation (mostly because I am the one that said how long it would take me to complete the work)

I don’t have this problem when working on side projects or when I program things for fun in my spare time obviously because there is no money on the line, no deadline to communicate, etc… so I would really like to try to calm myself down more at work and be able to produce better work because of it. Some people seem to be able to separate the anxiety of getting things done on a timeline and the problem they are solving and seem to enjoy their work much more than I do.

Can anyone offer any suggestions that may have helped them achieve something similar?
Personally, I'd go for "forums." (I don't actually think I've ever actually heard "fora," so I'm skeptical that it's even used enough to qualify as a "valid" English word...)
The Supreme Court May Force Us to Rethink 500 Years of Art
The final demo was so slow and unresponsive compared to the 2007 version
I wouldn’t be surprised if eBay and Amazon refused to sell the old versions.
Asking for a parenting advice on HN seems more like asking for more tools to win "Android vs iPhone" battle. Just let your kid have less painful upbringing. Let him learn about peer-pressure and other things on his own. Stop making yourself right at his expense.
Bipartisan bill returns again in US Senate for permanent daylight-saving time
A privilege to temporarily view the content on devices that the seller approves, as long as they approve. This privilege can be revoked at any time, including for reasons having nothing to do with you (such as the seller having a fight with the copyright holder), and the content can be modified or removed at any moment. And you pay for that more than for the paper copy, because it sucks to be a sucker.
Says growth is bad, layoff sucks, then:

> If you agree and you’re looking for a technical lead in your company, “check me out on LinkedIn”

I mean, what company is gonna want to hire someone who thinks growth and expansion is bad.
Paris is almost 49 degrees north. Even Ottawa is closer in latitude to Milan