skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me the money quote is this one:

"The underlying reasoning here is based on the idea that people – you and I – are nothing more than means to an end. We don’t matter in ourselves; we have no inherent value of our own. Instead, people are understood as the ‘containers’ of value"

This is the central problem with any kind of utilitarianism: it gets things backwards. People are not means to an end; they are ends in themselves. Any kind of "value" (which, as the article notes, utilitarians, including "longtermists", basically equate with hedonistic pleasure) is a means to an end, with people being the end.
For shelves, he's using a track system from home depot that I was looking at for a different project - it has 16 and even 20" deep shelf options.
I would guess that semantic similarity would be the stronger training signal than distance once you go beyond a sentence or two away.
"Displaced workers get new jobs at the only companies still hiring."
The most enlightening things to come out of the crypto craze:

1. There is an overwhelming abundance of rich idiots in this world. Wealth-merit determinism has been publicly dealt a serious blow that I hope people will take to heart.

2. Finance is a mature and ever-evolving complex technology in itself that has proved why it is the way it is, and no amount of idealist nerds and their "investor" fools can possibly knock it down. It must be humbling to rediscover every regulation and facet of finance, one crypto-blunder at a time. Finance as an industry attracts some of the world's most intelligent and most ruthless individuals, but you think they're somehow leaving money on the table? You think you can do better because you know python and cryptography 101? Really?
Dr Oz and Jordan Peterson are doctors too, but that doesn't mean I'm not going to flag their quackery and words-shaped toxic waste every time I see it. The ability to receive a doctorate and publish a paper does not preclude a person from being an acidic blockhead or from receiving a thusly befitting amount of attention.
Generally, employers want to screen out apathy, which isn't conducive to creativity, productivity, ingenuity, and worst of all, is contagious.

I agree that asking that question in an interview probably isn't the best method of screening out apathy, but that's why they ask it. I don't actually know what the best method is.
What's to say they have "something" to waste on making a foolproof way of getting started for people who aren't even curious?

They're not selling a product here, they're releasing software they've written in their own spare time. If you can't spare 30 minutes for running through the tutorial, why should they spend more time catering to you rather than spending it on more interesting problems?
there's a lot more than I would have thought in the US.

Railroad deaths totaled 893 in 2021, a 20% increase from the 2020 revised total of 744 and the highest since 2007. Nonfatal injuries totaled 5,781, a 4% increase from the 2020 revised total of 5,544.
This one has revealed the secret.
While some of what you say is correct (e.g. about the scrolling text and the messiness in parts of the Payload site), overall your criticisms show that your view of what's easy to follow is pretty out of sync with developers here. What you perceive as "bad" isn't really taken as bad by most others here, and I'd guess they're more likely to have positive impressions of Payload than Qbix.

The Qbix Communities page is definitely cleaner and more linear than the Developers/Platform page, no doubt. But it still looks very basic and again doesn't give enough focus to specific features. Instead it presents two videos (which aren't necessarily a good way to get people interested, since they may not even click on them). And at the bottom, it has two dense columns of smaller text packed together, which doesn't really invite people to really think about the features. Would be better if the text points were spaced out, given larger header text sizes, and accompanied by representative icons or even screenshots.

I also watched the first video, and the example Yang 2020 app you demonstrated also looks cluttered and squeezed due to the similar text sizing and lack of spacing things out. To me it looks like it's from 10+ years ago, before flat, material design really took hold of the mainstream and became consistent across many web apps and SPA. (Pity about Yang 2020!)

Sometimes it's best to question why others are having such a contrasting response to you. It does mean something. Letting go of your own opinions and preferences can be helpful for finding greater success in a wider community. Seriously, think about getting opinions from a few UX professionals, and give them some weight when you evaluate them, even if you disagree with them.
Yes indeed. Without boundary conditions, they would grow indefinitely. Imagine a 3 story (and growing) cauliflower.

There are fractals that simulate tree growth. Even they have boundaries to stop them from turning into a giant fuzzy ball.

Also, unlike mathematical fractals, nature has limits as to how tiny things can be. At some point, it becomes quantum effects rather than fractal ones. Fractal math doesn't usually bother with that distinction, and will happily drive towards an infinitely small point, which in nature would be meaningless.

Hell, even we can only appreciate mathematical fractals if we zoom in digitally, meaning the numbers are reset to larger quantities than they were before the zoom. That effectively makes the digital zoom a bit of a mirage.

Nature doesn't ever have to do that, because of natural constraints. Once you reach the quantum level, things start to look really similar to each other, which never seems to be considered in mathematical fractals.
DockSTARTer: Get up and running with Docker quickly and easily
The headline is a bit of a misnomer. This happens in large businesses all the time (which isn't to say it's "good", hardly is, but it suggests the causation is incorrect here, which then indicates the conclusion is entirely off-base):

1) We have sexy new product! Everyone use it so we have some use-case stories to tell and we look credible! Who cares if it's not the right tool for the job! We need a splashy way to use hackneyed business speak like "we're eating our own dog food" at the next user con so all the IT middle managers there will fight over early access and adoption. PROFIT! (Screams of technology teams in the background of "a knife is the most expensive, useless pry tool you can buy, but whatever, you are not listening, mmmkay").

2) A few quarters/years later (if you're lucky and you made it or someone with enough gravity in their title finally saw the light): Why is expense so high in this business unit? This is insane! Let's go back to a more sane architecture. (Screams of technology teams going back to what was working in the first place, but was not sexy nor necessarily new now that no one is watching and hype cycle is over)

Does this mean that serverless is useless? Dumb? Uneconomical? No way. For bursty, very short running workloads, it can be GREAT and INCREDIBLY economical.

What is useless and "dumb" is whomever thought that Prime Video's encoding workloads were going to do anything but increase cost and were somehow a fit for a system whose business case specifically necessitates bursty, shorter workloads that are primarily scale-to-zero for significant periods of the day/week/month.

It was a marketing stunt gone horribly wrong: intentional or not, but that doesn't repudiate the value of "serverless" for the right workloads, it just proves you better really understand the technology and the business case and the scale economics, and that goes for any technology.
Some parents going too far in exploiting their kids' fame has been a serious problem since at least the 1930's.

A bit of background, in the context of child actors and Hollywood - https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?art...
What I think you're getting at - and please correct me if I'm wrong - but we should only protect citizens from external health risks greater than the most healthy young adult can bear. If you are disabled, ill, or otherwise more at risk for illnesses, you are not worthy to protect. Certainly not as much as a young adult.
> an overwhelming abundance of rich idiots in this world

One of the smartest things I heard said about crypto is it’s an unvarnished metric of the animal spirits in our world. Its optimal price isn’t zero. But somewhere just above it. Enough to inspire productive work, but not enough to gain animation of its own.
I would like to see more celebration of the employees who confronted SBM and were then fired for "performance" or "culture fit". That behavior needs to be rewarded, not forgotten.
The UK government publishes data on this:

From https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/energy-trends-secti...

Energy Trends March 2023 - https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
Vaguely related anecdote, an acquaintance was playing with his kids at a playground in Central Park and ended up chatting with DeNiro on a parkbench for an hour. My buddy had no idea who he was talking to, which apparently was refreshing enough for DeNiro that he proposed setting up a playdate (which didn't happen though).
If you bought a license and then "just a few weeks later a new version was released", then you were eligible for a free upgrade. And you can still get it; try writing to 'sales@barebones.com' and asking. (Odds are that your free upgrade email was sent and you didn't see it, or it got spam-filtered.)
From the neuroscience side not that I'm aware of. Getting old is basically the process of your body not being able to repair itself anyway.

I think the apparent conflict resolves if you consider that you have learned to be a better problem solver, a better learner, such that a small decrease in some 'raw ability' is completely overshadowed by gains from learning.

For a concrete example I'm much better at close reading now. Even if younger me was 10x as intelligent there are problems he'd bounce off that I wouldn't simple because I now know how to slow down and read thoughtfully.
Software engineers have been re-inventing concepts again and again since the 1970's. It isn't that much of a stretch to believe that they would do the same thing to finance.
To be fair, so much of the C++ standard is literally just being explicit about what the standard does not define and often who defines it instead. But to be fair, it would probably be entirely reasonable to categorize that as essential language knowledge and a "part of the language."

Meanwhile, the ECMAScript spec really does not leave very much wiggle room. It (like every other web standard) is almost just documentation or often even pseudocode-ification of an actual implementation... Certainly makes you think.
> To retire in 10 years you're going to have to be able to live comfortably on something like 1/3rd of your take home pay.

That's very easy if you don't have kids - just don't get on a hedonic threadmill (and, if you're already on it, start gradually getting off). I'm not a parent myself, so won't speak about the "with kids" situation.
The point where the diminishing returns start happening is actually quite high however. Especially if you don't earn a US salary.
I haven't seen such complaints about basic stuff. Maybe it's just my own bias, but whenever I see people complaining about "regulations" choking out The Way Things Used To Be, it's usually actually about cost to the producer, whether houses or soda or anything else. See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35894852

Everything that made century homes desirable isn't mass-producible, and therefore untenable.
Well noted, added it to the title.
> If someone taps you on the shoulder, they are performing an immoral action by grabbing your attention?

My boundaries aren't so strict when it comes to my personal space. People usually have good reasons to call my attention when they tap my shoulders. I just don't get advertised to when I turn around to greet them. Usually they want to ask me a question or simply socialize.

People don't like to be rude. They don't like to bother others without good reason. They want the social activity to be a positive experience so that they will be accepted by others. That's the social norm and it protects me from abuses such as random people tapping me on the shoulder for idiotic reasons such as advertising. You'd have to be some kind of sociopath to think it's okay to tap someone on the shoulders and start pushing products at them the second they turn around. Mercifully, people that bold just don't seem to exist in my social circles.

> you have an irrationally radical take on this

Radical? OK. Nothing wrong with being radical. Compromise is the root of all evil.

Irrational? No. I spent a lot of time thinking about this. If you want to claim I'm irrational, you need to refute everything I've said to the point it looks like I'm babbling incoherently.

> But to say that advertising as a whole is immoral seems overblown.

Not at all. Advertising is by definition information people didn't ask for. It's noise, to be filtered. It's audiovisual pollution.

> What constitutes an ad?

Information I did not seek out. For example, when I open this web site, it's because I want to read and post comments. I don't come here to look at products. If HN starts sending me ads for products I'll block them.

> Can I put a yellow label on my can of beans I sell, or is that too vibrant and might catch your eye in the supermarket?

If I go to the supermarket, it's because I want to buy products. If I open an app store, it's because I want to see apps. It's okay to show me the stuff.

The key point here is I asked for it. I don't even consider it advertising in that case. It's just the information I wanted.

> Show Should all products and signage be black/white to protect your delicate attention span?

In my country there's laws in certain cities to that effect. I think it's pretty great.

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/clean-city-law-secret...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cidade_Limpa
I did email them, and I was offered a discount, but not a free upgrade. I was already checking out CotEditor at that point, however, and liked it, so I just stayed with that.
As someone who runs an University electronics lab I'd recommend to instead get on or more silicone mats (they come with slots for small parts and such). They withstand heat better (curtting mats can deform permanently when heated wrongly), prooved to be more durable and are very easy to clean.

If you need a cutting mat for actual precision cutting of paper, get one and treat it carefully.
sure! https://matrix.to/#/#thirdroom-dev:matrix.org is the right place to discuss - custom shaders would be awesome :)
It's not the currently comfortable who push back the most, it's those who don't have much and hear that they will have to lose even that (even if this is not true).

Constraints on the rich are popular even among some of the rich. Shared suffering is something the poor, rightfully, don't believe.
Bench meters generally have higher precision that handheld units. For voltage and current that doesn't always add much value but this is particularly useful on the Ohmmeter where you can track down shorts by small changes in resistance that can't be detected with a low precision device.
The Icon Sets Proposed in the Icon Contest – Haiku Project
Have you considered the posibility of doing a rewarding job (other than money). I think is possible sometimes, often it might be less money involved, but imagine that your work allows you to work in what you enjoy and in your free time, er r …you just rest or do more of what you enjoy.
Uncle Sam is the ultimate repo man.
From the perspective of economic and defense strategy related to chips, keep an eye on TSMC's efforts to expand cutting edge process development beyond Taiwan. They are building new leading-edge fabs in Phoenix (@ 5nm) and Kumamoto (specialty processes). 2-3nm R&D will stay in Taiwan[0], but I'd expect TSMC has plans in place to rapidly evacuate their technical teams to the US and Japan if the political kitchen got too hot.

[0] https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2022/08/31/200...
IRS gets priority over creditors but what about the users of the platform that? Are they categorized as creditors?
Dart appears to tick some of those boxes, but probably not the big package ecosystem and sum types boxes. I'm considering building something with it at the moment, but I'm hesitant to commit much brain power to something Google has a lot of influence over. Yet, Go has been awesome and I don't regret learning it. In some ways, Dart looks a bit like what I wish TypeScript could be, though not exactly.

Something I use a lot in Rust is exhaustive matching and sound types, which Dart now has. It's a somewhat specific thing, but I like designing finite, well-scoped systems which can be handled and tested almost completely. Doing this in TypeScript is kind of possible but can be incredibly verbose and difficult to navigate for less experienced programmers. While the design patterns aims to simplify and eliminate errors, the type system can easily complicate it and introduce mistakes.

That's such a drag in my experience. For example, stuff like this can happen in TypeScript: https://www.typescriptlang.org/play?ts=5.1.0-beta#code/GYVwd...

However, TypeScript has come a long way and it gets better in this regard all the time.
pumped storage hydro, while really cool, are absolutely massive and complicated multibillion dollar infrastructure projects (which California lately has not been particularly famous for)
Not really. The dangers of hydrogen are exaggerated. The famous one is really more about burning fabric than burning hydrogen. It's no more worrisome than large quantities of gasoline, which we deal with all the time.

And even if there is a problem, it's a weather balloon. It's designed to be disposable. It floats away from people. If it is anywhere near people, it's because there's a leak -- which means the gas is already escaping, and will rapidly be gone.
So...
Because someone else who clearly doesn't like the guy put words in his mouth sans any citation, you think that

"expat white South Africans the more I think they shouldn't be allowed to be in charge of... anything."

How is any of this thread reasonable?
I feel like it's telling that everytime this question gets answered, I learn about different applications. They don't seem to have much of a lifetime.
This touches upon something I've noticed lately, people skills are at least as important as technology and raw intelligence.

I'm 46 and have been writing code pretty much every day since 8yo.

I used to think code was the greatest thing, and would gladly write it for free.
But I was also very arrogant, too impatient to negotiate, and didn't really give a damn about the team as a whole.

These days I find writing code pretty boring, I've already solved most kinds of problems in several different ways.

But putting all the pieces together, finding optimal strategies, negotiating with stake holders and making sure the team works well as a whole; I find those very fulfilling and exciting.
I think you are nearly intentionally misreading the conversation then. "They are competing in a way that seems like EEE for Mastodon because it feels like an open source bait-and-switch" can be a very useful, actual conversation. The conversation premise starts from a presumption "it's not EEE, but it feels close, let's discuss why/why not because it can help dispell fear, uncertainty, and doubt or sand-bag the FUD with reasons". FUD on its own isn't the problem, it's what you do with the FUD. People telling you that they feel FUD about a project can be a useful gut check and a place to examine what missing information or what missing evidence to go look for.

Personally, I believe that driving this towards meta-conversation is less useful to "promoting" mutual understanding than trying to use an analogy towards EEE as a way to describe feelings about a project. Analogies are useful constructs and dismissing analogies as "inflammatory and inaccurate", especially analogies involving feelings and opinions, is its own "inflammatory and inaccurate" move.
Omnibus (i.e. carriage) driver.
This is truly an amazing write-up, thank you!! I would love it if someone with experience in the bio lab scene (PCR machines, electrophoresis, western blot, pipettes, cell incubator, and so on) could write something similar.
I blog to clear my head. Usually at the point I write a blog posts it’s because I’ve had something on my mind and I know I won’t stop thinking about it until I write it down.

It works too. Sometimes other people even read it.
Thanks for laying the groundwork for us with Redis!

Before I moved on to working on our Ruby VM, I was doing the work on our Redis fork for Haplo. Robey was working on the routing middleware in Scala.

Yao would have taken over from me when the cache team sprang into existence around that same time, with the emergence of twemproxy and twemcache. Most anything written in C would eventually land on her team.
1KLOC full-fledged static tumblelog generator
Welcome, newcomer. As flattered as I am by your want to "like", my comment was not informative and even borderline trolling (by changing the subject). On HN, such comments are better to downvote. Please don't start upvoting comments that stray from the issue under discussion, funny as they might be.
Well...they do mess up group chats, and images and other basic features usually don't work the best, so...what's wrong with this criticism?

I'm sure Google could figure out how to make it play along nicer (they already implemented reactions, so don’t give me bullshit telling me they can’t improve it more) or - better yet, create a more solid alternative.

That's not really Apple's job. They made a superior piece of software and reasonably want to use it to encourage people to their platform.

You might not like it - but it is allowed.

If you'd like the features Apple offers, you're welcome to move to their platform. :P

No different than if you'd legally like to watch Star Wars at home, you'll need Disney+.

Disney isn't somehow required to also offer it on Netflix. :P It's called a feature of the platform. If you'd like that feature, use that platform.

Your cousin doesn't have D+? Well, I guess y'all aren't chatting about the new episode of 'Andor' that dropped that week.

They don't have an iPhone? Guess y'all have to deal with green bubbles.

That's part of how platforms - necessarily - differentiate themselves from one another to encourage users to them, just like console exclusives.

When I was a kid, if you liked Sonic, you had a SEGA. If you liked Mario, you had a Nintendo.

Nobody in the world in the 90’s was expecting a Sonic game on a Nintendo console or vice versa.

I don’t know what changed that people are suddenly freaking out about this, lol.

It shouldn’t have to be explained in a group as highly intelligent as this one that this is simply basic anti-competitive practice.

If iMessage was everywhere it would be a monopoly and y’all would be clamouring for some alternative anyway. :P

There’s literally just no pleasing some of you, lol.
This is what you often see LGBTQ+ (the plus means anyone marginalized). Yes, it typically has to do with gender or sexual differences but that is pretty much marketing. It is easier to organize if you have a relatively clear community.
What do you mean by “encapsulation” / “hard private”?
Good guide for getting started. I'd definitely recommend having more than one power supply channel.

I use a logic analyzer (and PCBite probes) quite a bit, but that'll vary depending on what you do.

Other tools tend to be more specialized. Function generators are useful if doing analog circuits, board pre-heaters are important for some rework operations, and of course RF circuits have their own set of tools needed.
I’d say Carbon but it wouldn’t work on macOS >= Catalina if it were true.