skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a reasonable question.

It gives him a connection to the world. He spends a lot of time watching YouTube videos about art and music techniques but he’s much more comfortable using his phone than computer. He’s been casually teaching himself Danish for a few years using Duolingo, also on the phone.

He takes a lot of photos when he’s out, usually trees so he can study them for paintings or drawings.

My mom died about ten years ago and he lives by himself in a sleepy neighborhood. He’s in an apartment building and his neighbors check in on him but he tells me that if I didn’t call daily, he could go a week without talking to another person. A dumb phone could do this but we FaceTime nightly so he and my daughter can talk.

He frequently looks at photos and videos of his granddaughter. He loves getting updates about her and goes back through his archives frequently.

He goes for long walks to the grocery store or to run errands. I think he’s started using Maps on his phone. I enabled location sharing so I can see where he has a habit of walking too far on too hot days with too little water, so I worry.

His hearing aids (Starkey Evolv AI, I think?) connect to his phone. He can control them from the app. This is also a constant source of frustration but he’s gradually getting better with them.

Most of these things could be done with single-purpose devices but that would be more complexity, more things to carry, charge, lose, break, etc,… He likes his phone. It helps him feel independent and connected.

I do wish there was a more scaled back version of the iPhone that was friendlier for the tech-averse, something closer to an Apple-improved dumb phone. He’s using an iPhone 8 Max now and if we had to replace it, we’d be forced to go to the smaller iPhone SE because there’s no way in hell that the buttonless iPhone would ever work for him. The tech keeps changing and he really needs stability and simplicity.
Okay but - and I can't believe that I actually have to say this - it is pretty clear that they _haven't_.
The problem is, like any good government agency, they don’t stop when they’ve succeeded fixing their original problem. What started with catalytic converters and OBD-2 is now preventing me from buying sub-freezing temperature windshield wiper fluid, and my BBQ lighter fluid is so watered down I have to use 2x to get it to do anything useful.
I have been saying this for far too long. Surprisingly, after many legal battles the big chems like DuPont still grows every year. Guess that most people pay no attention to these subtle killers.
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Note that signed overflow is still UB in c++ even with 2-complement being guaranteed for signed types.
It is a very poor argument and ignores the fact that the lives of people, institutions and countries are not just about (the very important) jobs and economics.

I, who have lived in the United States for decades, cringe when English words are used instead of those of my native language to give a sense of respectability to those words.

A global culture and a world homogenized in ways of living is a much less interesting world.
“Arguably then, from a truly omniscient perspective, nothing, not even the physical world, is truly random”

Super misleading statement, especially with the accompanying footnote. Quantum physics indicates there really is true randomness in the physical world, but let’s just ignore that, stick to Newtonian physics, and throw in a quick footnote to cover ourselves.
People who make $400M have a financial incentive to convince people who make $40K that people who make $400K are actually the rich, privileged ones.
Man, I have to fight people in bakeries because the majority simply ignore my repeated requests for skipping the plastic bag. Some are fucking mental and simply refuse to comply. Most are incredibly stupid and will never get it. Very few understand immediately.

I think that yes, the main problem is all the entitled fucks demanding "what they paid for"
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He was Saudi, not American. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamal_Khashoggi : “Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi … was a Saudi journalist, dissident, author…”
Many have higher expectations of adults’ self-control than of schoolchildren.

For most professions, that seems to be upheld.
I use a stainless steel baking pan, line the insides with a foil square, and spray it with a little PAM. Put it in an air fryer for 10 minutes at 178C flip it and do the other side for 2 minutes at 160C.
It certainly is not an evolution, and makes no sense if you understand TCP which is the basis for HTTP.

But I suppose it's common for web people to have no idea how networking actually works.
What good is a job, if it doesn’t cover your expenses, doesn’t allow you to save any money, is located in an area where there is no affordable housing, and restricts you from doing normal, societal things like having children.
I think we (Americans and Europeans alike) wholly underestimate how Americanised European culture is becoming.

This is an observation rather than a criticism as I don't know whether this is 'good' or 'bad' but it is noticeable phenomena manifest through language, and probably an unintended consequence of the dependency of Europe on US communication technology, leading to the import of US communication styles, political priorities and cultural values.

France have always been conscious of this, no doubt as a result of their centuries old conflict with England, but it is interesting now to see Italian nationalists responding similarly. It's futile of course, as neither Italians, French nor any combination of European countries can or will make an internet independent of the US
> The government is very good at filtering that money through processes and contractors that extract as much of it as possible. The main benefit of reducing the safety net to a basic income is the elimination of a massive amount of administrative overhead.

This isn't really a benefit though, as the administrative overhead costs a lot less than the alternative of giving everyone money.
This is one of the craziest, most convoluted approaches to randomness I've ever heard of. I love it. Personally, I would've just had a third-party roll a die to establish the order. If there's a tie, roll again. More than 6 siblings? Two dice. Fun for the whole family! (and would take just a few minutes)
We use one cast iron pan and just leave it on the stove. It's basically self-cleaning if you use cooking oil, just a wipe with a paper towel will get the burnt bits out from the previous meal.
Just because there are other problems that are more pressing or severe doesn't mean that the proposed solution to a particular problem is not worth pursuing.
It's exponential back-off. It's three months the first burnout, six months the second, one year for the third.
If something broke, then please open an issue on GitHub or ask for help on the Caddy community forums.
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Yeah, how the heat shield holds up seems one of the most interesting topics. But they only have very limited options of investigating damages on their first attempt, since they won't recover the upper stage. So they have to rely on sensor data and possibly photo/video. More recent prototypes don't even have a heat shield anymore. The heat shield will probably come into focus when they try to recover the upper stage. But initially their focus will be on recovering the lower stage, since it has way more engines, which makes it more expensive.
Now do startups. But seriously, while I have not got to investment stage, I have been in shitty bands in the early 90s where I know the names of the people in the article, had partners in the model-acting-whatever game, written as a freelancer and lived with authors and publishing people, and then also worked on hopeful startup products for myself and others, and even sometimes help VCs choose decks from the slop pile. It's the exact same grind across all those industries.

Reality is, you are either money side, or talent side, and there is almost nothing in between, other than the "judas goat" roles of the A&R guy, writing course adjunct, model scout, VC associate, where you get a job bringing talent into the funnel.

If you thought your dev job was different, your recruiter is probably getting compensated with 20-30% of your first year's salary if you persist in the job for 6mos, and if you are in the contracting game without negotiation skills or leverage, the company you work for is paying anywhere from 20% to 100% premium to your agency where you do work, an they did their work.

Around the time of this article in my late teens or early 20s I was sitting beside a pool at the vast country estate of a friends very wealthy parents, and I asked him, "How do I get this?" He told me something along the lines of "the reason you don't make any money is because you want money for what it gets you, like freedom, approval, acknowledgement of your talent, status, appreciation, and maybe some nicer versions of what you need to live. You don't actually want money, you don't make it for its own sake, and you don't use it or manage it to make more of it, you use it for these other things." I responded, "Of course, why would I want to be a slave to making money? What an empty life. I don't want to be some douche bag bridge and tunnel tourist working at a bank." He said, "If you want this, you need to only want that. You don't get this from what money gets."

The lecture didn't land at all. I was always a bit of a punk ass. I went on to do some really interesting stuff, where decades later I make a passable living having done some interesting and even legendary things I get to dine out on the stories from, but while I don't have many regrets, I am conscious of the attitude in this article and how it plays out. If you want money, make money. if you want something else, own that. Thinking you're going to be wealthy from your talent and efforts is practically the definition of magical thinking. Money is made by managing it, which means getting some, leveraging and investing it and extracting value from the risk and growth.

There's nothing wrong with not being wealthy, I do it very well, but attributing our ignorance about money to injustice, as a way to protect our magical thinking about the untested value of our talent, is to be stuck in a kind of adolescence.
It depends on what you call realistic. If your objection to realism is that it's hard to convince politicians to act on this topic, then 2° is still not very realistic, and the future is likely going to be very bleak.

If it's about having the understanding and technical means to define new targets for our economy in order to reach that goal, even if it means reducing our consumption, then yes, it was a reasonable goal back when we started considering the issue seriously.
432 was a pretty interesting flop, but surely the ia64 has to rank up there.

it would be interesting to try to chart some of the features that show up in various chips. for instance, 64k segments in both 432 and 286+, or VLIW in 860 and ia64.
Out in the park today I heard a bird call I didn't know. Turned out to be a macaw someone was taking for a walk. Most people around were unaware.

So, very rarely.
As a Philip Glass listener, I found the clip kind of funny. But also because they took one of his better pieces and just straight out missed it.

I don’t know what to tell you about loneliness and solitude. The most lonely years of my life were the ones I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area. The year during the pandemic that I lived in the Lost Coast was pretty good by comparison. So I will say that I hear you, wherever you are in Kansas.
This isn't "my point," this is how the field of evolutionary biologists look at traits. If what I said was false it would mean there's no such thing as natural selection. We may not understand how a trait is beneficial, and we may be incorrect about why a trait is beneficial, but if it has a cost and lasts through evolutionary time then by definition it has a benefit.

>it could be explained as the incomplete or nonexistent development of something that is complex that is beneficial.

If it has a cost but doesn't have a benefit right now, it's going to get weeded out via natural selection in favor of variants of the organism that are not wasting the time and resources on that trait.
I don't see the fiasco, most of the time, the human answers are wrong, and chatGPT answered one is right. I just run/test the code and review it.

This extension does not post your LLM generated answer, and I usually don't post it back tbh, it's just a nice shortcut from google > SO > ChatGPT. Have the same for google now

The extension Im talking about in case someone cares to try it https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chatgpt-for-stacko...

It excels when SO questions have no answers, ChatGPT will readily generate one for you. It's up about to the human to use that answer or repost it or not, I personally don't but I don't see why others shouldn't if the code works its not like its real magic
Lately I've found a lot of practical comfort in the ideas of Stoicism (tempus fugit, memento mori, etc)

Somewhat orthogonal (and thus compatible with) any other faith/religion you may have.

I've found The Daily Stoic to be a good accessible on-ramp for these ideas:
https://dailystoic.com/stoic-response-grief/
https://dailystoic.com/how-to-cure-anxiety/
To provide some more context/motivation for why you might care, I write safety-critical code. I'm often advising people what they need to do for certification, etc. If all you need to do is ensure that you never execute undefined operations and knock out the list of specified UB, that's totally, 100% manageable. Throw some sanitizers on, provide realistic input, and test the hell out of it. Normal stuff.

If the reality is that any UB can invalidate the entire program (as is the interpretation taken by other standards re: C), then that's not remotely sufficient. You have to ensure the complete absence of UB.
What a great question and rich topic. Thanks for asking. I'm in the same boat with mom. She lives alone and is a very high trust person so she picks up every phone call and reads every email with uncritical optimism. I'm horrified every time I see what new apps she has installed and truly have no idea where she finds them - "It just popped up!"

I've done a ton of things here but the latest that has actually given me some piece of mind is setting up a financial aggregator app with all her accounts + some basic notification rules for withdrawals >$X connected to my email. Obviously this requires a lot of trust from your parent, a lot of trust in Plaid (which I hate and worry about), and doesn't fully protect against the worst cases since it's reactive not preventive. But it's felt like a good backstop at the very least.

This entire process has been so frustrating and nerve-racking that I'd happily pay quite a bit for a "digital security for seniors" service if something like that existed.

Good luck!
If a server refuses to process N concurrent requests per second with HTTP/1.1 but happily does so with HTTP/2, the problem lies with the server, not the protocol.
Simple clay and glass would work better but cost more and require more careful handling. Both of those prevent cost optimizers from considering them
Your comment makes no sense.

The tariffs boosted domestic production of solar panels.

The tariffs also increased the cost of solar panels, so they slowed adoption of solar.

You can have Made in America, or you can have cheap, but you cannot have both.
I’m a huge fan of his works and this made me chuckle. Great parody.
> at a certain point the incidental complexity is eating you alive.

I had a similar deep insight when studying both theoretical physics and computer language / compiler design: for some areas of human endeavour, the only limit is the human brain. The machines ceased being the limiting factor a long time ago, but the human brain is essentially unchanged over the timescale of millennia.

In areas like this, incidental complexity is the key limit holding us back.

Once you've reached 100% of the brain's capacity, the only way to "get more out of it" is to waste less of its capacity on non-useful things.

You mentioned pi as a significant advancement. Yes, it is. But tau would be better. Every time I (or anyone) mentions this, there's dozens of people coming out of the woodwork saying that it doesn't matter, that it's just notation, that there's an established standard, blah, blah, blah.

Meanwhile, basically nothing in trigonometry really clicked for me until I saw Vihart's rant about why we should use tau. None of it. Not really, because the pi notation is nonsense, an accident of history, nothing more. It filled my brain with incidental complexity: that factor of two everywhere that made no sense to me.
I have heard at least one reason NASA doesn't work as well as it should is because its methods are dictated by politicians who know nothing. I think the shuttle program is the common example of this - it was selected by the VP at the time and there were a lot of detractors in the industry saying it was a bad decision. In retrospect the detractors were proven correct.
It's meaningless to discuss tax in isolation, you have to discuss it holistically. Saudi Arabia, for example, could have a tax rate of 0% and still provide for all of their citizens because of the oil they are sitting on.

USA has some similar advantages in resources and arable land which Europe lacks. So comparing like for like tax rates makes no sense.

Or things like conscription, for example, allows the Government the power to spend arbitrarily, since they can set whatever wage they want for the conscripted citizens, in theory (thereby controlling their own cost). This may not show up in nominal numbers (since they're reporting a cost that they themselves set) - for example, see USSR in WWII. If reported in nominal income, the cost of the war would have been 3x as large as normally reported.
You can’t really raise a kid in the city without private school. Large school districts are super inefficient and have to spend lots of money to bring up kids from broken families. High quality schools cheat that problem by excluding poor families through expensive real estate thereby increasing the number of resources per student. It’s not fair but that’s how the game is played
Did you read the second link?
Good. Americans are usually not aware of the extent of american cultural imperialism which is basically everywhere, not just in Europe but you can see it very strong here

I'm not saying it's bad or good. But I wish we have less Hollywood, less Netflix, less american music, less american videogames, less imported american culture topics etc when actual local music, movies, books, games exist.
Interesting to see where the world is moving towards.
To make fried eggs in a non-nonstick pan? Of course you do. You need enough so it doesn't stick. There no technique that can rescue egg stuck to a pan.

The thing is, any more oil than that just stays in the pan. Fried eggs don't absorb oil.

So put plenty of oil in the pan, because it won't wind up on your plate. There's zero reason to skimp, otherwise you'll just get eggs that stick.
> They are more likely to act out in anti-social ways.

Sounds like a healthy reaction to a society, that puts its media presence ahead of actual wellbeing.
The other female dominated professions are service staff, receptionists, cleaners. Majority of people in lower paid positions work out of home due to nature of the work.

I don't know how to guess which gender among them works from home more. But people here underestimate amount of blue color female workers.
Would you rather spread all the pollution sources over the world as opposed to keeping them in one place (wherever that may be)?
if canada banned single use plastic, why doesn't that include fluoropolymers?

does the legislation have a formal definition for "plastic"?
I don't understand your reasoning at all. I was a consultant for many years and had to do projects in many states. Each state wanted us to pay income taxes for the wages we earned in their states. At the end of the year I would have to file multiple state income tax returns, thankfully my company had a team to help us do this.

So to me this seems very reasonable. You live in a state, even if you are working remotely, you would owe income tax in that state regardless of where the company you are doing work for is located. My guess is there are people living there but claiming residency somewhere else and thinking that they owe no taxes to Alabama.
To be fair any time Elon gives an estimate, people retcon it as a concrete promise and then bitch when things shift less than his competitors' estimates.
I recently learned I have - at best - 2 years to live. Prognosis is fatal in 100% of cases, no known cure and only weak compensatory treatments of any kind.

I'm in my 30s. Not religious either so I don't have the comfort of expecting an afterlife.

I've been through a lot of hard things but I was always taught how to be resourceful and make it through hard times to the other side. No one teaches you how to die. There is no other side to make it to.
You're lasering in on the word "simple".

Human civilization is full of optimization gradients. We choose to spend our time and money on certain pathways.

OP was musing that amid all the things we spend money and effort on, cancer seems to get too little. If only we could choose to "simply" devote more of our collective energies to it. It's a mere musing, nothing more. We're kind of powerless to these forces of how people choose to spend their lives.

Solving cancer itself is by no means "simple". But neither were a lot of the things we've accomplished. We'll get there in time, but it's easy for the brain to imagine a faster path if we had more institutional funding and minds on the task. That's what's simple.

You're correct that we won't get people on board with this. We don't consider the recruitment of support or the opportunity cost losses or the myriad of other changes necessary. But this is all just an intellectual exercise in wishful thinking anyway.
One example for using algorithmic over true randomness comes up in games. For example, if the entire map generation is driven by a single RNG instance with a user-chosen (or, initially chosen off of true randomness), players can share seeds generating interesting worlds. Or, even more interesting, folks are brute-forcing Slay the Spire seeds in order to find cool seeds involving a relic called Pandoras Box, which replaces your entire starting hand.

From there on, it becomes a very conscious decision how many RNGs to manage in an engine. Unpredictable things, like UI or random animation choices and such tend to have their own RNG, so something like the AI or story-driving systems can have their own, more predictable RNG.

However, this again raises a tricky follow-up question: Do you persist the RNG state in the save file of a user? The answer here isn't as obvious as it seems, as it allows different kinds of save-game abuses. Re-initializing the RNG on load allows players to reload in order to get different results from actions. Persisting the RNG allows players to start testing and predicting actions after loading the game. It's a tricky question.

Another really interesting tangent to go on here as well is how the NES and similar old consoles handled randomness: They didn't really. The randomness was based on player inputs. This in turn gives raise to a great TAS technique: RNG manipulation. Carefully crafting input sequences can optimize the random results you get later, which results in entirely crazy runs.

It's a very interesting topic overall.
> But then the nations that were the last to start switching will find their economies too inefficient and expensive to run with the fossil fuels while everyone else is using much cheaper renewables, and will probably no longer have money for the switch, ending up in a major predicament.

If all the fossil fuel is burned, we will probably never reach that point ; society breakdown will happen sooner.