skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree.

Also, cognitive decline has been studied intensively enough that if there were a single mechanism responsible for most human instances of it, the science around that single mechanism would've been settled by now. Instead what we seems to have is a disease where toxins, chronic infections by bacteria, viruses and fungi, cardiovascular health, genetic variability (e.g., apoE4) and metabolic-lifestyle factors like insulin resistance and lack of sufficient exercise are all important.

But HN likes to upvote these announcements written by PR departments at universities.
> Except that the threads share the exact same virtual address space, and processes do not, which makes the thread context switch faster

That's what I said. But it's really not much. I'm afraid we will need numbers now to continue the conversation. If I measured would you be open to changing your opinion? Or are you committed to this topic, so that it would have no bearing?
Sure, but that doesn't mean you can't do anything either. The inability to achieve a perfect result doesn't matter.
Source? I don't find this true at all. People simply don't want to do meaningless, consuming or alienating work.
At the end of the day, aren't we all just hoping a special plane or balloon doesn't visit our city?
Hacker News reacts to JSON5 (2012)
While writing a quick JSON5 parser, I encountered this old thread of incendiary takes from the HN community on the initial JSON5 proposal. Make of it what you will.
> India and China having 4x the US’s population doesn’t mean anything if the top 5-10 productive percentile of their population emigrate to the US.

The richest, in India, China, and the US are not the "most productive" by any means. They're the most extractive. If we were immigrating hard workers, we wouldn't have labor shortages. Instead, we're immigrating investors who drive up real estate costs.
Women entering the formal workplace and gradually more and more jobs becoming available to both genders has also inflated traditionally “female” occupations like teachers, nurses, and childcare. When someone who could have trained as a lawyer had to instead become a teacher that kept teacher salaries lower. Nuns serving as teachers made Catholic schools affordable. Now many Catholic schools have a one two punch of the economic opportunity cost of becoming a nun being higher than ever and declining enrollment.
They don't necessarily stop the reactions that started the fires though. If intense heat starts the fire, you likely need to cool it down and continue cooling to prevent reignition, while allowing the reaction to run its course.

It's basically a hypergolic fuel once the cells are ruptured.
This is great news all round. Following Fukishima they're probably taking inspections more seriously, so the fact that they've prolonged the operating certificates of those reactors to 60 years is great and only validates that reactors have drastically longer lives than conservative estimates at construction.

Therefore at the country level, they're a very good, stable, and ultimately inexpensive (over a 60 year lifetime; if it's a private entity looking to make money as quickly as possible, of course, they aren't worth it).
Mine often does as I'm not at home during peak hours. Around 1pm I get about 200W currently and the only things running is my router and a tiny home server, and occasionally the fridge kicks in at about 100W. I could have installed about twice as many panels, but why should I?

I already schedule my washing machine to run around that time, but that's like once a week, and the dish washer every two to three days.
Does a weaker US conventional military make nuclear war more or less likely? Does it make the world more or less stable. Does it cause alliances of democratic nations to strengthen or weaken, particularly in countries like South Korea?

These are questions worth asking as one considers priorities.
I find it fascinating modern humans are thought to have evolved 300k years ago, but we haven't got any idea what happened before last ice age. I find it hard to believe people would just "stay in Africa" prior to last ice age (120k years ago and before) when the moment climate allowed it (~10k years ago) they spread out all over the planet.
Well let’s see. Right now they’re working on a new anti-encryption bill to chase tech industry away from Britain. That’s right after they withdrew from a huge trading bloc.
Privileged? I worked very hard to get that point of "privileged" to have had two single-job families. In the beginning I worked at different jobs out of necessity and in part, to see what suited me and what suited the work. I learned many different skills that helped me in my personal life - construction, housebuilding, coding (since 1978), electronics, welding, machining, technical diving, industrial rope access, organizational risk management, and leading large teams on world-class, one-of-a-kind projects. I was raised just below or at the poverty level.

I believe the level of lifestyle you may want precludes you from making a single-income household. I am very content with few things even when the times are good. A hike or walk with the family outside doesn't cost much unless you're shopping and eating out all the time while sipping $5 lattes. Plus childcare would cost a pretty significant chunk of rhe second household income, so why not let one parent be with the kids fulltime?
Work from home is literally an employee subsidized office. Who pays for the internet? You do. Who pays for the electicity? You do. Who pays for water? You do. Who pays for the ac during the heat of the day? You do. Who pays for square footage dedicated to a desk? You do. Who fixes networking it related issues? You do. Who is the custodian and building maintainer? Also you.

Companies save money hand over fist by shoveling all the above costs that they previously paid for onto your lap. If you think this is all free then you need to reevaluate what your employer is really asking of you in a work from home situation.
After reading the comments here I first looked up the authors: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Bo_Winegard (there's also one for the second author, his brother). And then I took a look at the headlines here: https://www.aporiamagazine.com/archive?sort=new

At least for me that speaks for itself and supports what is written in this thread.
Super interesting. I recall a company in Thailand doing that for scooters. They had a wall exchange where you just drop in your old battery and get a new one. Real plug and play. This is obviously way more intricate though.
That makes a lot of sense when you think about it. Container ships are always stopping to load and unload containers in ports. Both the ship and the port already have infrastructure for handling containers. They also have infrastructure for handling refrigerated containers which need electrical hookups. This likely needs more specialized electrical hookups for charging and discharging, but that’s an incremental change rather than a whole new thing.
The Endgame of SRE
Those anchors don't work on Firefox on Android. The author is losing... I dunno.... 1e-20% or whatever of the browser market share among my fellow Android FF users.
I enjoyed that video, as well as this rebuttal (specifically to his arguments about China) from Money & Macro.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=s1iv0q_SW3E
Nobody wants to work anymore [at terms that are only beneficial to me]. The worst jobs pay the lowest salary. Employment rate is low enough many don't have to put up with it. So we now have immigration, legal and otherwise. Jobs have to be done, so either raise pay, hire desperate immigrants or go out of business.
Eyedrop Recall 2023 and Infections Were Result of Lack of FDA Regulation
Depends on at which level you need atomic updates. At the entire document level or at individual property level
If it's 3000 times sweeter, you still have to modify your usage of it in a recipe, even if the texture is the same. So your end product might have a different texture because of that quantity difference during the substitution.
I knew for years that AMD’s development model leaves a lot to be desired.

They like to throw big balls of source over the wall, and very soon after the bugs that keep haunting the previous generation of hardware just stop getting fixed. You’re SOL unless Dave Airlie himself runs into identical problems on his personal gear and gets angry enough about it to make a fix.
It can’t know you are planning to drive over a mountain unless you put that in the nav system.
Regularly labor shortages, depending on where you are.

Depending on what you do, probably also want to aim for a slot or two higher than "just walked onto the team laborer".
> Can you actually give examples of competent public spending?

You have to weigh that against the negative effects of profit maximisation of commercial entities for the consumer. To what extent is "Can I get away with making this product/service shittier and increase profit margins?" cause of a life getting more expensive and difficult for the average person? Take healthcare. It is getting more expensive with an aging population needing more care. But also large chunks of the healthcare supply chain become ever more commercial, with companies exploiting their cozy niche for every penny.
We might not be able to force a cure, but I can think of a multi trillion dollar industry (or two) that’s undoubtedly pushing the opposite. Maybe we should start there.
This is another reason why the "X" rebrand of twitter is not only a good idea: I've already pressed the "X" logo to close the window.
Binary search only works in 1D parameter space
I'm a sysadmin, but not the one who pays bills at my job. It drives me crazy when a service doesn't have separate technical and billing contacts.

And it wastes my time when I get emails about billing renewals. And the billing person at my company doesn't see the email unless I forward it.
"Fragility" is a *feature* that is engineered into the TX grid by right wing politics.

1) No connection to outside grids for backup capacity. Have to maintain that dream of seceding from the union.

2) Their "free market" real time power auction punishes any provider who tries to plan for reserve capacity and extreme events. They are sure to lose out in this auction to those that don't.

3) During extreme events, power prices spike through the roof so people couldn't pay their bill even if they had power. But now government has interfered in this "free market" and set limits on this. Communists!
I wouldn't take the word privileged personally.
> Interestingly, ╳ is no/◯ is yes only on Playstation games released in Japan.

Not anymore as of PS5 though, not sure why they chose to change it.
> This is the problem. You have consistently said in previous comments that taking higher upfront cash is less risk

There is no inconsistency. When you negotiate your compensation you consider the risk/reward benefits of your decision.

If you rank different scenarios as far as risk reward with some being theoretical.

1. Least risk/least possible reward - work for AWS all cash - no risk of downside. But no upside potential

2. More risk/more potential upside - cash + stock. Amazon isn’t going out of business. But the stock has gone from a high of $150 split adjusted to $90 and now back to $130. It could go up. But it definitely won’t go to zero (my choice)

3. Working for a small consultancy and getting paid a cash salary - the consultancy could go out of business. But I also could get paid more.

4. A completely made up scenario: a managing partner in a consultancy where I own a share of the company where I would be promised dividends (ie residuals) of any future growth potential in exchange for lower cash now.
Background on the authors:

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Bo_Winegard

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ben_Winegard
I was about to start psychotherapy last month, I ask my family's friend therapist If he could recommend me where to go. So he interviewed me for about 30 mins and ask me about all my problems.

A week later he send me the number of the therapist. I didnt write her yet, I think I dont need it as badly as before.

Those 30 mins were key. I am highly introspective and logical, I only needed to orderly speak my problems.
Stem fields increase in popularity as interest in the humanities slips – Newsday
These modern useless scrollbars really anger me.

I can theme some things (unless some modern packaging tech makes the app ignore my theme), I can make the ones in Firefox usable but ugly (with widget.gtk.overlay-scrollbars.enabled and widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.style), and so on. But I can see where we are heading. Scrollbars are one of many UI features that were too useful, so they must be destroyed.

I did not expect to feel so old at such a young age.
I always wonder if any of the US intel agencies have reached out to Rainbolt for consulting or recruitment.
Yep, for cases like Boeing where their criminal negligence killed 300+ people, the CEO retired with more than a hundred million $ for that, and the chairman of the board replaced him.
The curious will seek information wherever it may be.

Kids are naturally curious about the world, but keeping them engaged with learning and growing through exposure and study largely falls on parents and teachers.

We're living in the Information Age (for better or worse), and my kids have been exposed to far more topics than I came across in libraries. It's easy to keep them interested, but I feel like the disappearance of libraries reduces the accuracy and quality of Information.

I've seen mine and other's kids rattle off a crazy amount of "facts" but still fall short in problem solving, applying knowledge, etc.
It’s specifically dismissing the idea that the problem is new. That this is the first time kids have been different, that workers wanted better conditions. Nobody wants to work “anymore”… The kids “these days”
Regulations such as CFR 21 Part 11 have a known quantity of dead people behind it. It is not regulation for regulation’s sake.

“Move fast, break things” is not how healthcare infrastructure should work.
Unfortunately unless you are doing something like working on your property or helping a neighbor, thats most work in this country.
Cross checking work doesn't scale. That'll only become more of a problem as your business grows and you have more important concerns that pull you farther and farther away from the actual hands-on work being done.
When you see everyone in a Corn Flakes commercial eating Corn Flakes does it make you think that omnipresence of Corn Flakes is a broad social trend?
Help-CLI – generate FFmpeg commands in the terminal, using ChatGPT
I started using chatgpt a lot to come up with FFmpeg commands for me.

I made a small cli tool so that I can do it right in the terminal: https://github.com/alexkrkn/help-cli

And made a video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOda6TDBqcY

Hope someone finds it useful as well!
RationalWiki is a highly biased cancel community which has attacked people like Scott Aaronson and Scott Alexander before.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_magnetic_energ...

..but SMES has low energy density (but high power density).
I don't know why the invention of node.js tickled me so much but here we are. Thanks for writing this comment. Paired perfectly with my morning coughey.
How many cubic feet of water would a 5 BTU battery be able to bring to a boil?
Loosely,
Hairy ball theorem is about the derivative of a mapping at a single point in time. (Imagine slowly deforming/mixing the input configuration t to obtain the output configuration.
Brouwer's theorem can be thought of as being about the integral of a continuous family of hairy balls over a time interval.

It's not exactly the same because the assumptions about differentiability are different.
They do work, just poorly. The text opens, but it scrolls you down to the end of the text.
Apparently we should add "in mice", "single study", "small study" and about 14 other disclaimers to every HN title about science.

If you care desperately about "in mice" find a less "general interest" news source.
I'm going to go on anyway. 50 whales got beached and couldn't be returned to the water and so had to be mercy-killed. The UN secretary general said that the era of global warming is over because the era of global boiling has arrived. I'll keep you updated as long as the post remains open for comment!
> Your enemy is a wolf of size Earth
You are a rabbit Transform lemon into Jupiter and throw it to Wolf
and you win with 49 characters

Hmm, there are no constraints.
I think people are coming up with this assumption just to have an argument for no reason - I'm replying to an individual comment on HN, not giving advice to every single worker out there
More so that ICE has really bad efficiency at city driving due to lack of regen braking and engine idling.

EVs (and hybrids) with regen braking remove this lost efficiency in city driving, leaving you with an energy usage curve that scales more directly with aerodynamic drag due to speed.

EVs are more efficient at low and high speeds than ICE, they just have small “gas tanks” so the high speed losses are more noticeable.
That sends me down a rabbit hole ... https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/90246/
I know several people very well who have struggled immensely to get helpful therapy.

I myself have tried going down that route several times and come away disgusted by how bad it was. At best… at best it was emotional intelligence and self care at a grade school level. Talking to the provider was like talking to a robot or someone reading a script in a call center. The providers consistently effected a tone not unlike how one patronizes an unruly toddler. It was impossible, literally impossible to get them to switch to speaking to you like a person.

I have known several people who went into to psychology mostly to serve their own navel gazing. Have heard several explicitly say the opportunity of manipulation (yes using that word) excited them.

I’ve studied the history and present level of knowledge, the quality of the science backing it, and come away more concerned the more I know.

Folks generally need people to talk to about the difficulties of life.

The medical profession on that topic is… not that great. You don’t have to be a political whackjob to have serious concerns.
What do you think the US will reach for if it cant make ordinary supplies? The nukes. We don’t want that. And even if we did who says China can’t shoot our nukes down? All our eggs in the nukes basket is not a good strategy. It doesn't work in Civ either fwiw.
Beyond the usual rationale of I don't want to work for pennies, I think hard work as a cultural vibe has fallen out of the times. It's also what we have designed our reward systems around.

Today's reward systems are tuned not around hard work, but around being smart. The disintermediation of media makes it feel like we are all in a celebrity lottery and we just need a lucky break. We don't need to compound our skills or put in the grind.
When you're in vi (or vim) normal mode, x does delete characters.
Finding historical quotes seems like a gotcha, but stating the actual conclusion that's implied makes it appear much less plausible:

> The level or kind of work ethic in the population has been about the same over time.

Or

> Children have been about as well behaved over time.

Can anyone justify why these things should remain identical? That would suggest that environment is not an input into that equation.
And you happen to be in a field that boomed (several times) during your career and was (and to some degree still is) a quite dynamic environment.

I'm glad it worked out for you (and me) but we must acknowledge that luck is indeed a significant contributor.

Let's imagine that instead of getting into programming you began working odd jobs in a field that is generally low income. Some would make it to the top but most will not move forward despite working hard.

From a personal anecdote I have a close relative who is an incredible hard worker in a job adjecant to elder care. As far as I can tell their work ethic is higher than my own (no time for water cooler talks or "code is compiling") but unless things change drastically they will never make more than minimum wage.

It's fair to say that natural skill plays a big role. Despite best effort they wouldn't be abel to get a programming or othe office job because just finishing their apprenticeship took increadible effort and diligence.

In their mid twenties their parents still support them (a little bit) and being anything close to a sole bread winner is highly unrealistic.

There are economic reasons why some people are paid better but I'd say "pure luck" is a larger portion then most of us would like to admit.

Some people get a yacht and a nice holiday home for their 12 hours shifts and some get to pay their rent.
A more accurate representation of the conservative position is that they just don't want to be forced to pay for psychotherapy for others, especially since there is very limited evidence that it actually works better than other treatments for certain conditions. I haven't seen any principled conservatives object to other people paying out of pocket for their own psychotherapy, even if they consider it ineffective.
What specific regulations are you referring to, that apply to EHR software and the like? I know things sold as medical devices/appliances require FDA approval, but for general electronic healthcare record systems (e.g. Epic), what applies other than of course the security/privacy provisions of HIPAA?
How do you connect the available rewards to extra effort made? — do your team members trust that you’ll follow through?

In my experience, that behavior happens when rewards aren’t clear and/or don’t happen: when you fail to reward or even punish an animal for putting in effort, they stop. If being “hungry” is exploited by businesses but doesn’t result in rewards, why would sane people continue? — there’s productive areas of their life they could invest that same effort.
Yes, this was my point, but not articulated as well.

I think it would be hard to expect compensation for the expenses when coming to the office, when the savings (for them) by working from home aren’t also passed onto us.
I walk my dog two hours a day.

I just work around my meetings (sometimes can take the meeting whilst walking) and ensure I still work 5-8hrs on tasks.

Is your gripe that you think she should be glued to her desk 9-5?

I don’t know what her role is, but as a software engineer I can’t say I’d ever be interested in a job where someone wanted to micromanage me like that. As long as the work gets done why care?
Thats a funny way to say that.
> have tremendously improved our standards of living

Maybe in the short term, but they're shaping up to be a bit of a problem in the long run. The humans of this planet don't want to destroy it in exchange for a quick buck, but it's looking like they're not in charge anymore.

If we don't find new ways to leash our monsters they're going to continue killing us.
why cant i downvote the post itself? is there a karma requirement for that?
I'm not saying you have to find it persuasive. I agree with them, you don't have to. But the guidelines don't demand that they say more than that, especially when the thread already makes it pretty clear where they're coming from.
>Many Ethiopians speak a Semitic language (Amharic) for reasons unknown to us.

Amharic isn't the only Semitic language spoken in Ethiopia. We have other Semitic languages spoken both in Ethiopia and Eritrea. It is just the Red Sea that divides these two countries from the other Semitic speaking countries. Yemen, across the sea has other Semitic languages other than Arabic. Also, just like Indo-European is a large grouping of languages, the Semitic languages are ordinarily grouped under Afro-Asiatic languages. Thus, besides some of the Semitic languages spoken in Ethiopia and Eritrea, we also have two other subgroups of Afro-Asiatic namely, Cushitic and Omotic languages that are also spoken in Ethiopia. Amharic thus is well contextualised for Ethiopia.