skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thought experiment: someone is forced to work 23 hours a day with 1 hour for sleep, 7 days a week. They will likely be fairly productive the first day, but eventually their productivity per day will be zero as they are too tired to function. Over, say, a month, their productivity will be, lets say, 40 hours (wild guess, maybe 20 hours one day, then a scattering the rest of the month).

Now how about who someone works 4 hours a day, 5 days a week. They are likely productive those 4 hours, and able to sustain that the entire month. So they get 80 hours of productive work done, even though they 'worked less'.

Now those are extremes, but literally working less in this case results in higher productivity in the long run. Now where that point is depends on very many variables (including individual biology, social responsibilities, and type of work). But such a point does exist where working more hours results in less productivity.
That's similar to my experience. Not just React but across JS in general. Was super hard to keep everything at pace when it was and is moving so fast. I slightly envy the old COBOL people sometimes...
Here's something of a summary, with links, of the more admin-drama angle: https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/User_talk:Raidarr#c-Dmehus-20...

Particularly:

> earlier today Owen had assigned himself checkuser and suppressor rights for "auditing use of permissions" and left Raidarr a talk page message regarding an important email; sometime after that, Raidarr removed all advanced user rights from every wiki in which he held them before removing his local Steward group and making the log summary you're inquiring about. I assume it was the email or maybe a resulting conversation that caused Raidarr to resign; however, this is just speculation

And this specific Discord conversation: https://discord.com/channels/407504499280707585/615786602454...

Which help in translating these otherwise cryptic board minutes: https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Board/Policies/20230607-Minut...

in which the dissolution is discussed as an alternative to training volunteers on legal compliance with the UK Data Protection Act:

> OB clarified both proposals are mandatory under Information Commissioner’s Office advice – we need to ensure we train people appropriate and audit their access and usage of personal information inline with Data Protection Act 2018.

> TH raised a counter proposal of dissolution of the company.
Logseq mostly does this, I think. Rather than starting with a table and adding objects to it, you start with the objects in your database — pages and blocks — and then form tables by querying your database for those objects based on their attributes (tags, contents, etc).
Do you feel the same way about public posts on social bookmarking sites?

(If yes, you might want to update your FAQ and privacy policy.)
Uber warns drivers against avoiding ‘disadvantaged’ areas
It matters little that on many devices battery is always engaged, even if device is plugged into a wall. My Dell's laptop battery died even though I probably used the laptop disconnected from external power source for less than 10 hours over its lifetime (two years).

Interestingly, I had to physically remove the battery to be able to use it again when plugged into a wall, it wouldn't even turn on with a dead battery, even if connected to power source.
"It's so difficult for legacy car companies to get software right. You'd be surprised. Let me explain it quickly. To save probably 500 per vehicle, or let's say 350 quid a vehicle, we farmed out all the modules that control the vehicles to our suppliers because we could bid them against each other. So, Bosch would do the body control module, someone else would do the seat control module, someone else would do the engine control module, right? And we have about 150 of these modules with semiconductors all through the car. The problem is, the software is all written by 150 different companies, and they don't talk to each other. So, even though it says Ford on the front, I actually have to go to Bosch to get permission to change their seat control software. So, even if I had a high-speed modem in the vehicle and had the ability to write their software, it's actually their IP. We have 150, what we call, a loose confederation of software providers. 150 completely different software programming languages. All the structure of the software is different. It's millions of lines of code, and we can't even understand it all. That's why, at Ford, we've decided in the second-generation product to completely insource electric architecture. To do that, you need to write all the software yourself. But just remember, car companies have never written software like this. They've never written software. So, we're literally writing how the vehicle operates, the software to operate the vehicle, for the first time ever."

- Jim Farley

https://youtu.be/8IhSWsQlaG8?t=1476
I’ve worked for a decade in academic labs where 90 hour weeks were normal and you get two weeks off in a year. Not just grunt work but reading writing analyzing complex experiments etc.

I then came to tech and started coding. It was a breath of relief. I didn’t know what you’re supposed to do on saturdays!

But when you get in the zone and start writing a large amount of non-crud code, seven hours is kinda the max. You’re totally wiped out. Coding a complex application is quite unlike anything except writing a complex novel or technical document. No one, I mean NO ONE who writes well writes for 11 hours a day lol. The most prolific writers average an hour.
It appears someone is using a LLM to make pro-Reddit (ie anti-subreddit-blackout) posts on r/programming. The accounts are all under 30 days old and the posts have that classic milquetoast ChatGPT vibe to them - utterly bland, inoffensive, “safe” posts. If you’ve used ChatGPT you’ll immediately recognize the style.
There exists a good chunk of people who for some reason are completely credulous of anything Elon says. If Elon says he's been making great improvements to Twitters business they are going to buy in no matter what we think the evidence shows
I plan on passing the location down to my descendents. Each generation is to warn the next to not disclose the location, and to be patient as this is a long term plan. In a thousands years or so my clan will start digging at the exact location. They will venerate me and build temples to my memory.
IMHO releasing full hardware documentation is far better.

Incidentally, a lot of cheap Chinese phones based on Mediatek have plenty of leaked documentation available, and a thriving aftermarket community as a result of that.
Like, literally

You can be ordered to take chemicals or medications which have not been FDA approved, and you can be put in jail for refusing.

You can under certain circumstances be compelled to testify against yourself (5th amendment waived).
I do this too. From what I've been told, this may be a symptom of ADHD, namely hyperfocusing [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperfocus
Agreed! Thanks, very much for that link!

Youtuber "But Why?" has a great video with animations on core-collapse supernovae:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt-SBT7nNfU
This makes zero sense. It's like saying giving the owner a steering wheel they can use to crash their car into a pedestrian is going to be a liability for the manufacturer when the obvious happens and it's used as a murder weapon.

That's ridiculous. The person who is liable for the murder is the murder, not the car company. It's a transparent excuse because they want to force people to have their car repaired at the dealership. Nobody's buying it.
> Technically 1 million monkeys with 1 million typewriters could type for a million years and yet still not produce a work of William Shakespeare

You have to calculate the probability of a monkey coming up with a work of Shakespeare, and then subtract that from 1 to get the probability of a monkey coming up with anything other than a work of Shakespeare, and then figure out what power N to raise that to (N attempts) for it to cross below some confidence value, like 0.05 ... then subtract that from 1 in order to get the probability of a monkey coming up with a work of Shakespeare after that many attempts.

(no matter how high N is, you will never get 0, so no matter how many times you attempt, you always "could" still not produce a work of Shakespeare, because there's always a chance that none of those attempts worked)

Then calculate how much time that might take (actually, you might even have to account for failed attempts that are shorter or longer than a work of Shakespeare, so you might even have to start with time rather than number of attempts, but I digress) and you have a possible figure for "how much time it would take to have a certain probability of a monkey having come up with a work of shakespeare" and oh dear I may have missed the joke
No real issues i think, but take this HN input box i'm typing in now. It's .. okay, like.. it's about as barebones as you can get. CSS has seen a ton of advancements in just about every area (it feels like atleast. As a backend dev), but yet this HN box still feels them same as it did in 1995 heh.

I see so many huge JS beasts with WYSIWYG features that i'm unsure what advancements, if any, have been made for CSS to provide something nice. Something that a user would feel it's more than nothing done at all.

The HN box feels like nothing at all. Just a plain HTML input text area.
Yo, I have lots of opinions and strong feelings about reddit and spez right now, but I don't think that's accurate.

Afaict/afaik that was from a time where anyone could be annoited to a mod position without their consent.

I'm happy to have more pitchforks, but I also don't (1) like lies being spread or (2) want to distract from the "righteous" cause with something that's not true.
In: O2

Out: CO2

That extra C atom comes from your metabolism. If you're in a calorie deficit, it has to come from your C atom reserve storage.
Thats fair, sorry I sort of looped in your point about UI vs text unfairly into the designer vs non-dev bit. Thanks for the kind response :)
Michael Jordan selling Charlotte Hornets after 13 years as majority owner
This is true. Friends who learned to delegate faster than I did and focused on the harder problems “made it” much earlier than me.
I was hoping to go there for an in depth discussion about the merits of Granny Smith vs Red Delicious
-multiple integrated compilers for vital-logic systems, plus a runtime/simulation engine

-video-based traffic counting
> The solution is more competitors, which requires fiscal policy to move people from producing for consumption to producing for investment.

This generally sounds reasonable.

It implies, that there are some (unnecessary) bottlenecks somewhere in the production chain of highly requested goods that can be alleviated by shifting workforce and capital from somewhere else, where there's overproduction or superfluous capacity to where the bottlenecks are. The allocation of resources isn't optimal. Right?

So which are these obvious misallocations of resources/workforce that ought to be corrected by suitable fiscal policy in your opinion?
The xnu source code on github. The rest of it… well you just did read about it. There's an older book called Mac OS X Internals that covers some of it.
Does anyone already rely on LLMs way too much? Yes, but nix is a lot more predictable than LLMs are.

It's not for everyone, but when you work with infrastructure and can guarantee that the software the developers build is the exact same version you're running for them it feels good to have that conversation out of the way already.
> Everything can be stored in pie

Isn't this where the old meme of a hacksaw inside a cake came from?
It’s not the file system, it’s the file system filters which is what DevDrive attempts to address.
From 2016, when Gottlieb published his memoir, here's an interesting interview:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/sep/27/robert-gottlie...

The essential quality of an editor, he told me, is sympathy. “You don’t take on books with which you do not have a sympathy,” he says early in our conversation. “Only trouble can arise if instead of wanting to make a book that you like even better than it is, you want to change it into something that it isn’t.” The most disastrous thing that can happen in an editing process is for an editor to insist on making the book their own.
This is not an America thing. Even in Spain which by all accounts of my friends is considered the most laid back place in the planet, top academic labs do the grind you mention.

This is not new either. Top Academia has been like this for a century. I’m not completely sure if this is a good or a bad thing. Perhaps it’s a necessity. Maybe it’s not. But it is universal.
> And for the record, there are extremely easy ways for anyone, not just a troll, to tell if they're shadowbanned. Shadowbanning is Security Through Obscurity, like changing the ssh port on your firewall to 54804 and thinking you can then leave password login enabled. It's pretend. Once I noticed three posts with zero engagement all I had to do was log out in order to check. The only thing it offers is conflict avoidance in the moment, and will only make people deeply angry, and in some cases, more determined than ever. Me, once I see I'm not wanted I'm gone on my own steam, generally.

If the user doesn't post, then shadow banning is much harder to detect. I regularly see comments from users who were shadow-banned by Reddit; it can take months for them to figure it out. We use shadow-banning only on spammers and trolls. Our process requires peer approval and evidence; there's also an audit trail. We used to ban these accounts, but shadow-banning them instead substantially reduced the amount of harassment we receive. Conflict is inevitable when moderating a subreddit, and we'd rather spend our effort on users who participate in good faith.
Excellent Question, Tagami. First off the site has build in features that protect our customers, both buyer and seller from exposure to fraud and E@O. The customers work together because they both want the same thing - a successful transaction. They share the same information -transparency. Unlike the real estate industry that keeps them apart. All we do is introduce them and give them information that is generally available from public sources. we empower them to make their own decisions. 10% of the total market is the FSBO and we hope to capture a lot of them. This is simply an alternative choice to FSBO or a real estate company. I hope this helps. Thanks for the question. Richard
Welcome, it's very nice here. You need karma > 500 to downvote, you can't downvote direct replies to your own posts and you can't see how many votes other people's posts have received. It's pretty reasonable in my opinion, downvoting is much more rare on HN in my experience. I think it's best to just ignore things instead of voting.
I haven’t felt attracted to someone without her own career goals since college.
> called a dictator, fascist, silencer and worse by his coworkers

That company's HR department must be fascinating

> to take political discussions

I'm really curious what you're considering "political discussions" here, and if it includes "please stop using ethnic slurs in git commit messages" or something like that
I'd rephrase - Ellsberg is a more thoughtful person than you.
>Please EU, behave rationally

that'd take actual work from the EU.
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I see that implementation now says "Site is closed as of 2023-03-01". Do we know of any alternatives? Ideally I'd like to see if my HN handle brings up my reddit handle, or other cross-site linkages.
His records tend to be extremely "loud" too in a "pushed" or "squashed" sense of the word. Add that to the shortlist of his sonic signatures.

Not that loudness is a defining quality, but it's (in my opinion) a short-sighted trade-off for short term impact at the expense of long-term listenability that his records subscribe to.
Highly recommend the audio book version - the combination of his tone of voice and the content feels magical.
Hi, jagged-chisel (love the handle) thank you for spotting it. Great find. Richard
Same reason why people may get hooked on some fp library can lead to them trying Haskell.
The FBI plants group leaders. It's always the same pattern. The Proud Boys leader also was a FBI informant.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-proudboys-leader-excl...
If they had colored film, why couldn't they do colored monitors?
We will fix it right away.
Are you sure he can pay? https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/06/judge-ruled-twit...
Long time lurker, I checked my old account that I had used scripts to EDIT and DELETE every post, I used this script 3+ years ago and my 4+ year old comments are BACK. Only 2 of them were visible from my user page but ALL of them are back on subreddits. I had to go hunt one down and BAM, there's my comment and name etc. This is CRAZY!
Try not to crash your car on the public roads. The injuries might prevent you from having fun for the rest of your life after that. And I know a couple of people who were involved in crashes when they were young adults who are obviously mentally scarred (bring it up all the time) by seeing their friends die or feeling responsible for strangers dying, and they were not even driving.
Knowledge degrades unless maintained, so you are often losing principle.

You will undoubtedly find more valuable knowledge the more knowledge you expose yourself to though.

The only way this isn’t true is for people who are lucky to have really good memories.
I think you are reading too much into it. All I shared is something that helped me find a partner who enjoyed who I am and understood my priorities. I was hoping to help. The advice sure would have helped me earlier in life.
> If you can tell a difference when you take it then it's a small dose, not a microdose.

Objectively scientifically measurably false. Typical microdoses have a noticeable effect.

https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12...

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/microdosing-lsd

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/adb.13143
Is that your home address in the ToS?

If your company is in Wisconsin, how come it references the Department of Consumer Affairs in California?

Governing Law section has some blanks not filled in.

If you copy/pasted a template from somewhere else it might be worth having a lawyer do a quick review to make sure it meets your needs.

Would also be nice if the hyperlinks on that page worked.
The head moderator of that subreddit was violentacrez aka Michael Brutsch, a troll prolific to have articles about him in The Guardian [1], The Atlantic, [2], and The Verge [3] among others. It's well within the realm of possibility that he added spez as a joke.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/oct/16/reddit-vi...

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/10/what-...

[3] https://www.theverge.com/2012/10/18/3523434/violentacrez-mic...
Sorry but I still don't agre with you - actually from what you described here, it sounds like Chappel and the FBI are doing their job properly in infiltrating terror groups
Are you genuinely trying to sell the hyper-capitalism-turned-up-to-11 that is crypto as a better alternative to…capitalism?
>Ellsberg disagrees with you:

That doesn't make it right, it just means he can empathize. MLK, in his Letter form a Birmingham Jail addressed this very clearly:

"I hope you are able to see the distinction I am trying to point out. In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law, as would the rabid segregationist. That would lead to anarchy. One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty. I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."

Disobeying a law and accepting a penalty is to protest the unjust character of a law. Disobeying and fleeing means disregarding the law altogether. Not only is that wrong, it's also going to greatly diminish whatever goal you had in mind with your protest in the eyes of others.
> Just add a CSS stylesheet which turns <textarea> into something half-decent, put a note that markdown is supported, and make a plain text editor.

Any examples that you can think of which make a plain text area half-decent? So many sites go with heavy-JS options that i'm not sure what is possible for a good (half decent) visual editing experience in just CSS
> media wiki's a particularly complicated thing to host

Is it, though? Like it's a directory of PHP and a MySql database.
I have screenshots of the pages where I've designated beneficiaries of my tradfi accounts with non-trivial money, just in case.

My parents and brother have an envelope containing instructions on:Bwhere my private "pass" repo is hosted, my yubikey pin, the name of the entry containing my bip39 key, and a list of coins to activate in ledger that contain balances.

Luckily my ex-teacher, non-techy brother is more into crypto than me and will know what to do.
But can you believe that these are the correct explanations? Perhaps it just confabulated an explanation that sounds likely given your prompt, and is not the actual reason it told you what it did?
This explanation (suspected deception/trickery) is mentioned in the Wikipedia article, after the "info-gap" explanation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellsberg_paradox#Possible_expl...

However, it does seem plausible to me that people would prefer the first urn even if they didn't suspect any trickery.
tailwindui and tailwindcss, vue 3, and bunch of js libraries :)
This seems like we're now arguing the mythical man hour.
The paper has a fundamental flaw, which can be seen if trying to reverse the reasoning to look at the past, rather than trying to predict the future.

If you used today's level of computation with 2012 era models, then you wouldn't have the error rates of today's models, you would have much higher, much worse errors.

The single biggest bottleneck in deep learning is not computation, it's the ingenuity used to devise new structures and new optimizations that allow for scaling.

For a given structure, with given techniques, you can throw more computation at a problem to decrease error rate, but the gains scale poorly with cost. Cost improvements only come with new techniques and structures.