skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're hitting on some extremely key insights IMO. Insights grounded in abstract fundamental principles useful all the way from the "hardest" of sciences (physics and even maths, arguably, as a formal science) to the much "softer" (human psychology etc. - where it's far more difficult to be directly quantitative for a whole host of reasons).

First, when it comes to engineering, the absolute best test is running the actual system. The "acid test" of a rocket is the launch of that rocket. And, even for all of our "computer-aided engineering" progress over the decades, a wind tunnel is still often a key step and can provide "better" and more reliable info regarding some characteristics of, say, rocket body shape performance, than Pro/ENGINEER or etc. can*. So, the best test when it comes to ADA-related issues is to engineer yourself, to the degree possible, into the position of someone with a "disability". The best work in these areas has involved people tying their limbs down etc. - because, even if you consciously work to not use one arm, say, you'll still involuntarily use it in many ways. For example, it'll naturally come up slightly to help regain balance in some situations.

Second, and this is actually, I'd argue, simply a more complete perspective partly covered just above - understanding critically depends on the degree to which one can be in some "position". Often enough, our minds can be adequate. In particular, we can "understand" abstractions that can't necessarily even have obvious "instantiations" - e.g., mathematical abstractions come to mind. There may be "exemplars", but, you can't literally "show" me "the number 3"**. That written, there are many cases where we CAN 'experience' some form of direct 'instantiation' and, for reasons both experiential and even statistical / logical, such an instantiation is pretty well guaranteed to do a better job of producing understanding in our overgrown monkey minds than any amount of sitting around and daydreaming can.

So, really, when it comes to the "hard(er)" (e.g., engineering) and "soft(er)" (e.g., psychology - including empathy, say), there's no substitute for "the actual launch" (to circle back to the language of the rocket example, above).

* Though, there may be cases / "regimes" that are too difficult [at least practically] to test, even in a wind tunnel, and where, especially these days, CFD modeling can at least give some info and potentially be even entirely adequate)

** Can't wait to see the replies that just say "3", kek
Ah, ok. Yeah it works great. When you said emacs, i assumed you meant long term stable, libre philosophy.

Orbstack is what docker for Mac should be.
One thing I have found being poor is that the poor pay more for absolutely everything. It's insidious. Everything is affected by it. Even buying a hamburger at McDonald's - it'll say "You can get two-for-one if you use the app". But app requires phone. And phone requires plan. And you need a debit card too. Or I'll regularly see "Buy one, get another 50% off" on something essential like soap, but I can barely even afford the one, and certainly not the second one at 50% off. Most of these offers are out of reach for those that need them most.
Couple points I thought of:

“how do you know they're "qualified"?”

Interviews? Resumes? References? Same as any job in the market today?

“I don't know how you could know "it's very likely the people in those roles could make multiples more at private organizations.”

They’re providing free legal services to the homeless. I’m assuming they’ve hired lawyers.

Looks like average total pay for a lawyer is 150k in SF?

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/san-francisco-attorney-sa...

“ What incentive do these orgs have to actually solve the problem, when their very existence depends on it continuing?”

You could ask this of any charity. What incentive does St. Jude have to cure childhood cancer? At some level, you just have to trust that the people involved in these organizations have altruistic motivations as a guiding principle. If you don’t trust them, you don’t have to give them your money.
Yes it’s easy to go overboard with it. I don’t have a clear recipe for which parts it makes sense, except that it emerges from hand written code.
that is why you have to first verify whether they have a master's in CS, if your requirement asks for that. you call the university and find out. if they don't, you can discard the candidate. then, you can filter on the visa requirement etc, and only after doing all these obvious things you go on to your requirements.

this also means you don't need to do leetcode interviews. anyone from a decent university with an actual degree will be able to code, or quickly learn how to. you said it yourself - too many candidates, so no time to do leetcode BS.
> For years, the Europeans 'scholars' have dogmatically asserted that 'Aryans' were European. That Indian culture, and thus all of its achievements were brought in by the 'mighty European white-skinned warriors' who 'by their grace' not only conquered them violently, but also 'graciously' brought everything valuable in Indian civilization, which of course was then 'corrupted' by the despicable dark-skinned natives.

That is not what Western science claims. You seem to be describing a garbled version of some junk pseudo history that the Nazis spouted decades ago but that is not at all representative of any reputable modern science
Actually a lot of politicians and media were talking about something like the EFTA (Norway, etc) arrangement with the EU--and this is what a lot of voters wanted. So they ended up with something vastly different from what they wanted [and would have voted Remain if they had known what the final result was going to be.]
Some beekeepers where I live put strips of rhubarb stalks in the hives to treat varoa. Not sure how effevtive it is though.
Reading this made me extremely uneasy. My impression - perhaps it's just being hopeful for a material solution for a psychosis of the mind. But when I think on that impression isn't a pill just about any fleeting vice the same as what these men have suffered. Maybe I'm not better. We need avenues to help each other. To talk with another. Maybe there's an opportunity to create something?
The real problem is that banks, the 0.01%, and megacorporations have effective rights and representation in government, but the people, as in the Spanish word “pueblo” do not.

Short of eliminating FPP voting and overhauling campaign finance and government-industry revolving doors, (which we should do but will not because the current issues are a feature, not a bug, for the people in control) we need some kind of a people’s mega-PAC to wield effective power in the government and restore some sense of actual democratic control.
TeX and LaTeX are pretty close to 'done'
I use Doom Emacs with the Yamamoto port of Emacs [1] on MacOS (M1) and the startup time is quite slow: it takes around 6-7 sec. for the editor window to show up. It doesn’t bother me too much since I usually start it once a day and just never close it, as you mentioned.

However, I also have many plugins installed, so it might be just that. I wonder if it is possible to install a separate instance of Emacs, then I would be able to test the performance without all the plugins and configuration.

[1]: https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport
The chance of being caught is more deterring than the punishment severity
Thank you for this comment, sums up my thoughts perfectly.

I fear a regression of society to the days of zero-sum games. As an example, even though folks may say "open source models" are the answer, the only way to run said models at scale is to acquire physical resources such as electricity and hardware, and physical resources, by their very nature, are subject to zero-sum games.
Job insecurity encourages people to live where there's a high density of jobs
Well he has a point: at least the fallout of the financial crisis was somewhat quantifiable, whereas the fallout of the climate crisis is not because it is wholly dependent on theological exegesis of the fear du jour; if there is one thing solved there’ll be the next thing at hand to continue the program.

If there was even a quantum of honesty from the climate fear mongerers they would first and foremost insist on significant tariffs against the polluting nations.

But all they insist upon is lowering the living standards, purchasing power and upward mobility of the masses within their countries.

Gee, who would have thought that upper class kids could have something against the plebs surpassing them on the social ladder?!
There’s some consensus that the results can be questioned based on:

- Lenz’s law applying to copper (Lenz's law - Wikipedia 7)
- Copper phosphide (“Lanarkite and Cu3P were uniformly mixed in a molar ratio of 1:1 in an agate mortar with a pestle”). Pretty high copper content.
-No Meissner effect just standard copper-related phenomena based on Lenz’s law.
Yes, I was thinking of that. Zell is also great. But it's still not a drop in replacement for cards, we're still aways from that.
Gotta imagine the cost per square foot is significantly less in LA than Amsterdam. Obviously depends where in "LA".
> Why settle for an extra layer of indirection that makes interactively working with source code more time consuming?

I understand what you mean. But it never seemed to be a problem for me. Anyway, the real reason why I ended up with org-mode is that I heavily customize Emacs. The only way to be able to handle that much configuration was to split it up into a dozen or so elisp files. Org-mode's biggest advantage (for me) is that it can manage complexity very well. The org-mode configuration file is neatly divided into topics along with their documentation. The topics are also folded up - so it's very easy to find certain configuration segment.
Any recent example?
To some degree yes,

However living in the same city is only one aspect of substitutability.

There’s also specialized skills, organizational tenure, time zone, how easily legally a company can hire in a country, language barrier and many others.
See last point about backwards compatibility. Arrays did come later.

The array style probably should always be used nowadays (don't forget you also need to insert it into the command like ${args[@]}), but I learned before it was common (possibly before it was a thing, I'm having trouble finding exactly when basic arrays were added to bash) so I still use the string style when I know I won't need it.
In general, you want to do one-hot encoding whenever your number doesn’t really represent a quantity.

For example, for the current state of a rolled die in Yahtzee, ‘2’ mostly (see below) isn’t smaller than ‘3’, isn’t between ‘1’ and ‘3’, and isn’t closer to ‘3’ than it is to ‘4’.

So, ‘2’ isn’t a quantity there; it’s just one of the markings on the dice.

About that ‘mostly’: the straights require the ability to order the values on the dice, but even then, it’s just an order, not anything about them being equidistant, or about (2,6) showing more eyes than (3,4) (again, there’s an exception there, with the ‘Chance’ score)
> This has been an issue plaguing Alpine for years where the musl maintainer basically said the standard says may fallback, not must fallback. Let the rest of the internet change, we don't feel this is important. We're standards complainant.

I've never really understood the underlying mentality that causes maintainers to bend over backwards to _not_ provide popular functionality like this.

Reminds me a bit of the strlcpy/strlcat debacle with glibc.
DOSfetch, a Neofetch Clone for DOS
>"As long as people vote right/conservative this is all going to tank. Right will never care about anything but themselves (and thus, money and power). You see it everywhere they are and where in power. Which means we have huge issue as the underbelly votes right and the right vote right"

I do not have any sympathy to right but I have big doubts about left being those warm and fuzzy creatures that are "for the people". I do not think they give a shit. Only difference in my opinion is whom do they fuck the worst.
Damn 14 million ARR that’s pretty impressive
The key to understanding our (apparent) disagreement is:

> that when the business rules change

Yes, when things change complexity has a cost. The inverse is also true however, if nothing changes, it has no cost. If class A, B, and C do almost the same thing, then nobody cares because the computer will gladly execute almost the same thing in different locations in memory. The modern computer built today is essentially perfect. It will execute the same thing every time, it will not suddenly require changes because there was some degradation in an adder, and no cogs need changing. All the maintenance is stuff we make up because we want it to do something it never did before.
> Web dev has so thoroughly revised the definition of 'API' it's not even funny.

What leads you to believe that a HTTP API does not meet the definition of a API?
But low power/idle efficiency will be awful using the desktop Zen 5 CCDs, if they are anything like the 7000 series.

They are optimized for high clocks, and the interconnect burns tons of power, especially with 2 CCDs (which reach into each other's L3 over the link).
For an interesting example using ancient Egyptian, see https://youtu.be/J-K5OjAkiEA
Given your comments you need to try xonsh - this is a python shell.

You can call pure python plus it has the simple running of command like other shells.
> though many of [Liz Truss's] proposed solutions were flawed

Good old British understatement there. Her proposals were so utterly unhinged that they would either prove the entire field of economics since WWII fundamentally wrong, or meet with abject fail. It was - predictably - the latter.
Blasting the panel with a fire hose? Lol
Hm ... how about we tax work from home? Like, tax homes for doubling as office space. I think it's a brilliant idea
The median US adult only reads at an 8th grade level, so that's actually not terribly surprising.
It sounds like they were simply using Teams for remote video
Of course they won’t admit they made a mistake, they’re watching a career-making paper become a retraction (especially with the training data contamination issues).
> I want inline images. Can I put those in an .el file? Links. Tables. Bold, italics, etc. For many, this is more important than the code in the config.

Thanks for adding this. Literate programming with org-mode is indeed one of my favorite from Emacs.
To add to your point, I think the article highlights one reason to be interested in the procedure that is not about body obsession:

> after five kids, their wife couldn’t feel them anymore

Seems like today this can only be remedied by a woman with kegel exercises, and if she is not up for it, there is nothing you can do as a man to shrink the size gap.
It’s not just a British problem. Climate change, war, population growth, all play a factor. America and “The Wall”. Britain and the “mass refugee immigration”. Italy and theirs, Greece, the list goes on. People want to live, in security, and prosperity for their children and in some places of the world that’s not possible. So they migrate, immigrate, or become refugees of a war that only makes sense in the nonsensical. I’m not saying there aren’t problems, there are, but to put up walls and restrict humans and deny empathy is not the answer.
Kind of surprised nobody's posted this in reply yet (or that these aren't linked to from anywhere I can find in the UI), but:

on ZObjects: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/ZObject

on human-readable equivalents to the above: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Canonical...

It's all so very utopian.
With men it may be hidden, but it affects "measuring up" as you say in exactly the way that matters to most straight men: having more (or even any!) sexual partners, especially as supposedly they're having less sex than ever[0]. It's one of the many factors in the toolbox fallacy: "If only I was 'big' enough, I'd be more confident with women".

[0]https://www.healthline.com/health-news/young-adults-especial...
So renaming all the symbols in your whole project with just one command is not for you ?
Navigating to declaration/searching all the usages of a symbol etc. All that isn't for you ?
And these are the two most basic features
You make it sound like LSP is a small gimmick that appeals to less experienced developer while it's actually a huge productivity boost that has literally no link to being experienced or not.
(1) I definitely hate using email for this, it’s now become the place where spam is crowding out important things like invoices, business opportunities (like 1 in 1000 is real) and notification that a friend I haven’t seen in three years is coming to town.

(2) The last thing I want to hear is that you are using “A.I.” in that it makes you sound like just another bullshitter (much better than “blockchain” though and even more some than the “blockchain and A.I.” combo that proves you don’t know what you’re talking about.)

If you leave out the word “A.I.” and get specific about what you’re doing I might get interested.
I really hope it does some things differently than glibc: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19643

In any case glibc uses NSS, so what glibc does depends on the configuration. It may well just forward the request to systemd-resolved.
I had a whole folder of videos I wanted to convert to 720p, asked chatGPT and it gave me this:

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "" -exec sh -c 'pv "$1" | ffmpeg -i pipe:0 -filter:v scale=720:-2 -c:a copy "${1%.}.mp4" 2> /dev/null' _ {} \;

Not sure if it can be improved but it works well
I don't think I've ever had this kind of stupid error in a script that Shellcheck accepts, by the way, which is a more principled way to pick up the problems.
>Similar to those who were all-in on Eclipse, Atom, Sublime?

But all these (except sublime) including vscode are basically the same type of IDE. Yes, implementations change, but their share of the "market" remains about the same.
Yes, side X hates us and only cares about themselves. You must vote side Y if you care about other people.

I suppose the first question is, why are people voting for your opponent? Probably because they don't like you or your solution.

That's the whole problem of democracy to some people - you have to actually convince others and get them onboard instead of forcing your way.
Aren’t game programmers just using something like unity and writing scripts? I feel like that’s probably getting automated away. At the end of the day video games are a corporate beast that prints money. Indie games are like 1% and most people including me have never played them and don’t want to.

Very few are actually making unity or “game engines” from the ground up, like Jon Blow.
I would love to shoot you an e-mail but I cannot find it on your profile.
NEWS: <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/etc/NEWS?h=...>

Official release announcement: <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2023-07/msg00008...>
You keep repeating this as if it was actually an easy feat. No, aside from already famous established actors you won't just "negotiate a way better perfect contract upfront".

This is where the capital power imbalance cannot be defeated. They always have the upper hand against any single individual.
A lot of people here are questioning how this works. Vitalik went through a pretty good analysis of the mechanics recently [0].

What is it with founders named Sam who are scammers?

[0] https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/07/24/biometric.html
This image (FTA) is straight out of some insane dystopian nightmare:

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_pr...

That the photo represents a real event in real reality is absurd o_O
Heck, it’s already catching up with me in subtle ways. For instance, scroll bars constantly mess me up because they keep making such low contrast between the slider and the background (I don’t know the technical terms). So sometimes I can’t even see where I am on the page without scrolling to see the slider move. But lately when the slider is small enough, I can’t even see it when I’m moving the page! It’s practically invisible to me.

Like, why does it have to be light gray on slightly lighter gray? Whose 20 year old eyeballs decided on this?
The guy who famously received safety for himself and his family in Britain during the war, what a thanks indeed... Believe it or not I've heard this anecdote told as a projection of anti-European sentiment, have you considered what might have been for the Anglo-European relationship had he not felt France was the centre of the European project and portrayed the UK this way?
(2023)
Oke then, where is the source for your claim that the average non-gifted person contributes equal or more more to society then the average gifted person if the gifted person was as supported as the non-gifted person?

Or rather the core of the argument: Why is a single dollar better spend on a non-gifted kid rather then a gifted kid in terms of societal outcomes.

Non-gifted meaning in this case someone who get's a lot of support through government intervention like for example no child left behind.
If you like it, you should check out era X Windows managers with a multi button mouse. Same hierarchical start menu, but bring it up from any location on the desktop with right mouse click! Then most simple apps don't really need menu bars or windows controls, just maybe small resize handles at the corners, use right click to do the rest as well. Once you created a perfect arrangement for each virtual desktop, save it and have it perfectly recreated on startup. With not a pixel wasted and apps themselves not wasting much white space, it becomes possible to have all the tools you need for your workflow side by side rather than constantly hunting for the right overlapping window. Plus, workstations had keyboards with dedicated copy/cut/paste keys, rather than remembering to press Control-Shift-C in Terminal and Control-C elsewhere and half of the time killing your current command by mistake.
"This is discrimination. I don't know sign language and I don't have text relay. I can't use my voice."

This his reply to instructions telling him he can ask for sign language or use text relay if he cannot use his voice. I hardly see this as discrimination. This is in no way different from a perfectly able person saying it's discrimination to expect me to read and write! Sign language is the language of the voiceless.

Life isn't perfect. Of course we should do as much as we can to make life for the disabled easier. But seriously people feel so entitled and expect so much from everyone. People need to accept that not everyone can accommodate 100% of needs. Governments should, but not private entities.
You might be joking but we already tax the extra space you need for work from home because the larger amount of space results in a more expensive home.
>>entirely on the country and region.

Very true...

My home when I bought it was about 2x my annual income, my home today is worth on the market about 2x my current annual income.

The average factory worker (or teacher) in my area could easily afford to buy my home in a standard 2 person income situation.

Now if you go into the new construction area's of this city, the houses there start at 2x the price of my home. I am a relatively high income earner though that is offsite by the fact I live alone so no dual income. On paper I could afford one of those homes, but I would never go that far into debt, which is why I own the home I do. I bought in a modest neighborhood and a modest home.

Currently average home prices in my area are 3.5x median household incomes, which is up from 2.25x in 2016... This is largely drive by the new construction of these high end homes fueled by low interest rates.
You play League of Legends while on a pitch call with them
Turns out that you get at most one of "readable" and "correct" with shell scripts!
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