skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the record I'm fine with people telling me I'm wrong, I don't feel invalided or anything, it's simply that I don't agree with the perspective.

From what you said I think we probably have slightly different manifestations of depression. Mine doesn't seem to be as absolute as it sounds like yours was. I was happy when I was a kid, it was only when I reached adulthood and started to disliked the way my life was playing out that I became depressed. This compounded with knowledge that life is just a pointless struggle basically makes me depressed constantly as I see no hope in it ever getting meaningfully better.

If I could live my ideal life – one where I wouldn't have to socialise with people and wouldn't have to work for a living (I'm autistic) – I'm fairly sure I'd be fine with my pointless existence (although maybe incorrectly). I probably wouldn't be irrationally happy or anything, but I'm sure I'd feel mostly neutral between situational moments of happiness and sadness.

But as it stands it's just all struggle for me because I dislike my life and cannot fix the problems I have. So while I could medicate myself to make my life more bearable I know I find it hard to find a balance when I take that path. Whenever I've decided to "fix" feeling depressed I've always ended up in a hedonistic spiral seeking my own selfish near-term happiness at the expense of everyone I love.

The best answer I've ever settled on is to simply embrace the sadness. So while I may not be able to be happy myself, I can still make others happy. And I think in this way my depression may even serve a noble goal because I've given up on my own happiness so entirely that maximising other people's happiness is the only thing that matters to me anymore.

But getting back on topic, I think in my case you could probably argue my personality is "wrong" – an optimal me probably wouldn't be autistic, and I probably wouldn't dislike socialising or being forced to work as much as I do. But my depression in my opinion is "right" since it's just accurately describing how I intellectually view the struggles of my day to day life.

I wouldn't deny that I could medicate the pain away, but I'm not sure that makes it "right" either – even if it doesn't feel fake.

But if you're just saying I should give medication a go because it might make me feel better, then I appreciate you sharing your experience. I definitely found it interesting that you described your medication as not giving you a fake sense of happiness. For what it's worth I used to abuse alcohol and while I was drunk that's exactly how I remember feeling and why I drank. Perhaps the right medication would be sustainable though... It's a place I'm a bit scared to even explore again to be honest. Prioritising happiness has never served me well.
Imagine paying 60k a year (out of state) for this. Huge black mark on the reputation of Texas A&M.
Economists thought of that; the US is still very high income "after taxes and transfers" and most healthcare costs in the US aren't out of pocket anyway.
There are still many paths hardcoded into /sbin. /lib is expected to stay since the LDSO path for dynamic linking points there, removing it is not possible without breaking the ABI.
> You won't get better service – that's my point, the next guy who sounds like you will

Sounds like the same thing to me. Just playing as a team instead of an individual.
I feel the same way, I live in Austin. Where do you live?
Then don't, I'm not forcing you.

I use Medium because I can monetize easily the articles I write, though it's not much (currently around 10-15$/month).

I'm not doing it for the money, but it's still nice.
My point was that Matomo is PHP, but your website doesn't have to be on the same stack.

Normally the analytics platform should be hosted on a separate server for performance and security reasons.

For example, the demo dashboard of uxwizz.com runs on PHP/MySQL on a $5/mo VPS and it's faster than most analytics platforms, even those running on big cloud infrastructures, because for the low-traffic use-case the simpler the solution and technology, the better.
Retiring the AWS Documentation on GitHub
These are common enough bit of nonsense slung by the degrowth movement. A 1% economic growth does not at all correspond to 1% increase in resource use. Saying that something can't go on forever is an irrelevant non-argument (just about nothing will 'go on forever'). Even if these had any connection to reality, that still does not suggest steady-state (maybe we'd want to expand and contract based on energy/resource availability?).

In the 70s, the limits movement had measurable arguments - which did not pan out. Apparently their successors response was to renounce all measurement and make an argument about maybe the far far future. If we used that 'logic' in the past we'd still be living in caves.
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Just for the record, this will also bypass the monetization I get from my articles. But I don't mind, thank you for sharing this so more people can read my work.

I'll keep publishing on Medium though :)
This would assume they have no strategy and are just hoping Open AI won’t back out of any deal or somehow degrade their product and then they’d be left in the dark.

I would find this hard to believe.
What did it used to be?
https://archive.ph/jBnrP
In 7th grade, my class had Boeing surplus computers at each student's desk. Most were 386SX with 4MB. I remember getting a chance to harvest parts from a broken machine and mine went up to 8MB. That was enough to install and run Windows 95.*

* On paper

It was awful and while that CPU did no favors, it was swapping that made it awful.
5x9s is more than possible and has been done. not propaganda, don't know what you've been reading.
> What if the average Texan could use 1/2 as much energy as they do now and still have a decent lifestyle?

Does "still have a decent lifestyle" mean "still have just as good (or better) of a lifestyle" or "have a lifestyle that's only somewhat worse"? If the former, then won't basic economics make it happen automatically without needing to involve politics or force anyone to change anything?
I'm all for CSS getting more powerful but there's an interesting flip side: the increased expressiveness may make it more difficult to reason about.

Even an advanced use of grid is tricky to understand. Now combine this with the new parent selector, container queries, layers, and many other new goodies. There's a lot of (new) cognitive demand placed on already burdened developers.

I think this is one of the reasons why a lot of these features have very little or slow adaption. Even something essential as grid, usable for years now, is rarely spotted in the wild.
The author is living in the past. Car inventory are back to normal levels: https://www.kbb.com/car-news/car-dealers-have-almost-normal-...

It is very likely that a significant drop in car price will happen. It costs dealerships money to have cars just sit around with few buyers.
A big tell for me that a "conspiracy theory" might actually be true is when the only refutation is, "that's a conspiracy theory"/"you're a conspiracy theorist!"

Most conspiracy theories that are false are fairly simple to refute, and most skeptics can give a good counter example quickly. E.g. if you fly around the earth in a straight line, you'll return to your point of origin.

I noticed this myself in 2020 when I gently suggested that lab leak was an explanation for COVID worthy of investigation. The negative responses were swift, and all consisted of ad hominem & appeals to authority.
Self checkout in combination with a regular cashier is great. Not because I want to go through the person but because people will form unreasonably long lines to avoid self checkout. This means I can normally have a minimal wait as the self checkout is less congested.
Can you explain what it does?
School shootings are a rounding error in the youth homicide statistics, but they definitely make for good cable news coverage.

The elephant in the room is inner-city, largely gang-related violence. Stopping those kids from obtaining firearms by restricting legal purchases makes about as much sense as keeping criminals away from encryption by restricting E2E encryption on WhatsApp.

For some reason, Hacker News thinks the former is absolutely possible, despite knowing the latter is not. Weird.
>Sources would improve your claims.

As far as general sexuality, the keyword you can look for is 'sexual fluidity', and as far as pedophiles are concerned, Mashall's "Are pedophiles treatable?" covers current approaches that seem to be successful in attenuating or replacing attraction to children.

>Aversion conditioning is understood to change behavior more than desire

Behavior and desire have a complex relationship, it's not necessarily the case that behavior follows from desire.

>And many people do not develop a taste for leafy greens or heterosexuality after decades.

Many people don't, but some do, and my comment concerns the 'some', hence my saying 'occasionally'.
Find and install Nix Packages by version with Devbox
Not clear from the article how they're planning on implementing this but I would expect the bigger backlash will come from people who travel for work/want to use their own netflix account in the Airbnb they rented for their holiday/etc. I'd love to know what their plan for that backlash is, because it looks a lot less justifiable from that perspective.
> and is not being monetized

It seems to have a paid version with more data: https://docs.bigpicture.io/docs/free-datasets/companies/#fie...

(just the fact, I don't have an opinion)
> Do you believe that exponential growth can continue forever on a finite {planet, solar system, galaxy, universe}?

Yes, I believe exponential growth can continue forever, for 2 reasons:

- 1) because you assume the universe is finite. This is a very long shot, not supported by mainstream science or theories.

- 2) should the 1st point be eventually disproved and the universe has boundaries, I still do, because growth isn't only hardware. Software growth can leverage the increase gains from hardware (more storage density, lower power requirements etc)

What's more plausible is that the growth rate will eventually tend towards a much lower value when most of the human needs and wants are satiated.

Stagnation is implausible, because even if needs might be finite, wants are not.

What's totally implausible is degrowth.
> It could be an observer selection effect: if it had ever dropped too low in that time, we wouldn't be here now.

That’s evidence that it didn’t here, but not an explanation as to why or how.
> "Are we doing things that align with what we know makes humans happy, healthy, and prosperous, or are we being {driven, influenced, manipulated} to do that which is the most profitable to various well funded corporate entities?" I'll argue we're doing the second

It seems like people on both the left and the right (as well as the middle) are coming to this conclusion. There's widespread agreement about the diagnosis, but a huge amount of disagreement about the treatment.

> are people staring at social media feeds endlessly because they want to, or because well paid people have made it their career to find ways to exploit the human brain to keep us doing it, because it's profitable to their companies? I'd argue it's very much the second, and that's an example of "man bending to the whims of the economy," in my (admittedly short) phrase.

Exactly. The billionaire calling himself "a free speech absolutist" just wants to be able to do the manipulating more directly (as well as his competitors in that space).
I find it suspicious that legislators are jumping at this, even via bipartisan effort, while stuff like stingrays, CBP seizing and storing American's phone data, mass surveillance from various three letter agencies are only triggering small bouts of outrage in the news.

In today's world, I'm not even sure if I even care what the USPS does with my mail, I do most if not all of my stuff digitally (exceptions are stuff like license plates/registration which the state already knows about) so I wonder if legislators will finally tackle digital surveillance say 50 years from now?
Netflix ad tier has nearly 5M monthly active users
I think the issue is that with effective ad blocking, they have to collect money via the paywalls in order to continue operating.

It would be nice if there was a way to do a microtransaction instead. An advanced cryptocurrency could be perfect for that.

HN could automatically link to an archive service or have a button to generate a link if they wanted. But that is kind of antagonistic to the monetization of those sites.
That doesn't seem to match what's in wikipedia:

> Liebeck's attorneys argued that coffee should never be served hotter than 140 °F (60 °C), and that a number of other establishments served coffee at a substantially lower temperature than McDonald's. The attorneys presented evidence that coffee they had tested all over the city was served at a temperature at least 20 °F (11 °C) lower than McDonald's coffee.

Reading through wikipedia's discussion of the trial and verdict, it sounds like the case hinged entirely on the temperature of the coffee being unusually high, and not the cup design.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restau...
Yes, it is a new kind of war. War evolves over time and will increase in complexity.

1500-1600: Introduction of firearms
Rise of naval warfare

1600-1700: Artillery advancements
Professional armies

1700-1800: Linear tactics
Multinational conflicts

1800-1900: Nationalism in warfare
Industrialization

1900-2000:
World Wars
Technological advancements

2000-now
Rise of asymmetric warfare
Introduction of drones and AI to
Cyber warfare
What about a little bit of empathy here ?

It must be pretty hard to be a teacher at the moment. Imagine feeling like you’re just reading the output of ChatGPT for 8 hours a day on your weekend. I’d feel like quitting my job personally.
Tesla’s governance autopilot heads for disaster
As a fan of both drinking contests and chess, I was more interested in the Chess-but-you-can-make-your-opponent-undo-a-move-by-taking-a-shot.

A short term benefit traded for a longer term cognitive disadvantage in a mental game. Unfortunately, I could see it inevitably devolving into a straight-up drinking contest, with the actual chess gameplay only benefitting you by 1 drink (and maybe a longer clock).
Many ecosystems require fire. Fire is natural and plants and animals are adapted to it. So much so, that if you don't burn (or equally you burn too often) you can wind up making some species extinct.

"Selective logging" I'm afraid is not remotely an effective way to control fire. The fuel loads are often not the trees, but the leaf litter, shrubs, bushes and so on.
> Rust seems to be good for language designers thanks to a combination of features

Not only the type system is quite nice, the ecosystem is full of nice crates:

- lexing: logos
- parsers: rust-peg / lalrpop / nom
- utilities: string-interner / linecol / snailquote

I also wrote about this here: https://david-delassus.medium.com/writing-a-simple-lisp-inte... (friend link, no paywall)
The new logo and palette reminds me a lot of the recent ClickHouse facelift, https://clickhouse.com/
I just want to chime in not to disagree with anything you’re saying (for the record I think your post is thoughtful. I don’t know enough about the nuances to agree or disagree) and it isn’t even directed at you but to all of us and our discussion styles. I really hope that the collective We shift to saying something like “One of the many complications…” rather than “The problem” or “The biggest problem”.

When it comes to very large and very complicated problems we often get stuck arguing over which one piece is The problem or The cause or The singular thing. Over and over and over we get stuck arguing over which is the biggest or the only cause/solution.

A ton of the issues that we confront here are some of the most complicated issues that interweave technology, economy, ecology, humans, weird borders, power/influence, money, etc…

I know this is just semantics but I really do believe that for complex issues we’d get a lot further in discussions if we weren’t limiting ourselves to a silver bullet solution or the one cause.

I know it’s “just a casual internet forum” and i know we can’t (and shouldn’t) expect intense rigor on our comments, but i think the hn community has some good minds to discuss some of this and it pokes at me every time i see us (i do the same shit too) get bogged down with “well acksually the biggest cause” or “THE solution is…”

Sorry for the tangent poster and readers, but this minor quibble seems important.
I think part of the view on an authors/artists work schedule is naive and idealistic. But often times they are really just normal folks with mostly standard schedules.

I've known of few artist and one author, they all pretty much worked 9 to 5 with some small variation, but not much. Generally those types of jobs have the same flexibility as working from home, but also require more motivation, discipline, and time management to get works (book, commissioned art) out on time. I believe she alludes to this in her comment about being that person who keeps a log and tracks time and that its important within the context.

When I started working from home full time about 6 years ago, I relied on them to help me not get distracted and get my work done on time. I struggled at first because I model my time on freedom, the idealist view of artist in my mind. I didn't work well, time slipped away, then I adopted a standard schedule and was back on track. I also learned getting dressed like you're going to work helps a ton.

As for you schedule, its the word `need` that I would question. Do you `need` to do those things, or do you get meaning from them and so you make sure they done and the time for them becomes priority.

I realize a job is essential in some very real ways, but use of need is similar to management in the sense that people need to manage there time to get more out of it and should focus on time efficiency. Which to me seems like they point she is making.
Sometimes what's written on paperwork can be silly because it doesn't really matter and the cost to verify or correct stuff that is estimated costs more than an estimate. Other times it has to be more precise than is possible, so you have to figure out a good way to "estimate" it. Being inaccurate isn't always problem if the costs outweigh the benefits of being accurate.
I don’t understand the downvoted, you really can just make a pure JavaScript game. Pick up an easy rendering library like PixiJS and just start making a game loop, etc.
Even my own reading speed even varies by a factor of 5 day to day, depending on how much reading I've been doing, sleep I've gotten, etc.
We’ll put aside the material differences between the iPhone/Gawker case, for instance, the reporter having knowingly purchased an object the seller found on a bar stool. What forcing due process also does is create a paper trail. That’s how Gawker got the warrant rescinded. It’s also notable that these miscarriages are newsworthy. I understand the comfort of conspiracies, but in this case, the lie of a corrupt judiciary does more of a corrupt cop’s work than the system’s failings themselves.
It seems like a key factor is:

> Wilson told Grassley that this cup is specially manufactured to plug into aircraft systems, and because it connects to the aircraft, the replacements need to be certified as airworthy by the FAA.

I'm actually curious what goes into certifying the airworthiness of a heated coffee cup. Could faulty wiring in it legitimately damage the plane's power systems or something? Or cause interference of some kind?
ChatGTP defends ChatGPT … ;)

I can feel empathy but this was just pathetic, especially given how it has been handled.
Firefighter here. I support controlled burns because they're the only sensible way to manage large amounts of excess fuel in the western U.S. The problem is that there have been several occasions where frankly stupid mistakes were made by burn personnel and planners (e.g. not completely extinguishing previous fires [1] and going forward with a burn when the wind was clearly too high [2]) resulting in huge amounts of property damage and in some cases loss of life.

This is why we now have to deal with a ton of regulations. Some wildfires will always happen when controlled burns get out of control and it's nobody's fault, but we need to decrease the number of them that are the direct result of somebody doing something very stupid.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calf_Canyon/Hermits_Peak_Fire

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerro_Grande_Fire
Indeed, I believe MATE is still quite close to GNOME 2 which has launched in 2002 according to wikipedia. You can still probably run it in the low 100MBs of RAM comfortably :)
Radio, television, and print ads are "server side". Somehow they still manage to work. We don't have to lose all of our agency just because the jerks in marketing have no ethical standards and most people aren't aware enough to stop their excesses.
I'm trying to figure it out too. My initial assessment is that it's a service that gets deployed across a fleet of participating clients so they can easily communicate without the developer having to bootstrap all of that manually. However, looking at the docs so far, this is a much more complicated solution than to deploy a Wireguard mesh using docker-compose. Or something like NetMaker. I may be wrong about the use-case though. I'm interested in learning more about what problems this solves better than other solutions.
I would assume any high res asset generation would be best not done inline? Such that that makes sense, but is kind of unsurprising?

Is also unsatisfying as an explanation. Since none of the examples people show to get off TeX show that. Rather they imply it is the typesetting aspect that is slow.
In Bash's (not that strong) defense, it's a command language.

If you're reaching for fancy data structures in it, you've wandered off too far. You're trying to do generic programming in a command language. You're trying to cut a tree with a steak knife.

At that point, you should use Python or C or something.

It may be the case that command languages are doomed to be terrible general programming languages and general programming languages doomed to be terrible command languages since it seems like that's the case, universally. Therefore, they're totally different niches.
bun can run vite prod build at least and seems about 10% faster at it than node according to my testing.
Really a shame if anyone is fooled by this. It's just monopolistic behavior camouflaged as virtue signaling.
Misleading title: the study doesn’t concern the « human brain » but the neural system of a worm
Software engineers tend to be pretty anti-union (or at least, union-agnostic).

This is among the kinds of protections unions grant industry professionals in other industries.
I think it is fair not to care if it isn't making a difference for you.

“/usr/bin/env bash” will keep the shebang working between a Linux and FreeBSD (and probably other *NIX) machines. This bit me at one point, and it just became a habit since.

Bash (if installed) is in /usr/local/bin there. Other interpreters often are too.
That device is called capture card.

But Tailscale with an active exit node at the primary location solves this problem completely. You don't need a capture card for that.
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