skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People without internal dialogues (I'm one myself), don't require "thinking out loud" at all.

Internal dialogues aren't even thinking... it's when this particular faculty of your mind, the "rehearsal simulator" is overactive. Functioning correctly, you can bounce questions off of a fictionalized version of someone and get back replies that can be a useful prediction of what they might say when confronted in reality.

Those whose rehearsal simulators malfunction end up simulating themselves, who then goes on to start jabbering constantly, like some documentary narrator on crack, until they can no longer think at all.

We (those of us who can actually think) have a pretty good idea how this faculty even works. The principle seems rather similar to the LLMs we've all been talking about... it just predicts the most likely word that comes next, with some pseudo-random seed to start it all off. People with the "internal dialogue" only seem able to "think" of things, once everyone has talked about it enough that it amounts to training their LLM with it. When people without internal dialogues try to explain a new idea to them, they tend to respond in ways that indicate their thinking is much like how the LLMs function. Irrational, confused, denialism.

I don't particularly trust self-reporting, but maybe MRIs can empirically measure whether someone has an internal dialogue or not? I would be curious to see the IQ differences between the two groups. It's probably a massive gap. The rehearsal simulator starves the rest of your brain of resources while active. If you ever learned to turn yours off, you'd probably never want it turned back on again.

For instance, someone who does the internal dialogue thing may not even be able to correctly report their emotions. They may not recognize them at all. Instead, that little LLM in their skull is just "hallucinating" for them, coming up with plausible sentences for how someone might feel, based on training data they've accumulated over the years, but having absolutely nothing to do with their emotional state. Anyone who accepts their self-reported emotional state as correct can be very confused by it... visibly, they're in one emotional state, but verbally they're reporting something completely different. There's no reason to suspect dishonest reporting, but also no real way to reconcile the contradictions.
What I have found is this inherently means re-wiring an organizations culture around async communications and trust. The biggest hurdle that I think many aren't able to get through is that remote work doesn't have the same "allowance" for ad hoc calls / face to face meetings like offices did.

Not that those were great, by they are incredibly prevalent in an office setting and there was never enough industry wide pushback to these interruptions to really put a dent in them. Remote work has allowed workers to put some boundaries up around this and made their "tax" much easier to feel and quantify by workers in general.

This is where I have found in a nut shell is why communication breaks down without re-wiring it from the ground up and ingraining the new remote work into the culture of the company. You can't just lift and shift the methods from one modality to the other
Just an interesting first person anecdote: In the south of Brazil (close to Argentina) we normally have well defined seasons, but almost like clockwork we always had a famous "mini-summer of May", an unusually warm week in an otherwise cold mid-autumn. Well in the last decade the new concepts of "mini-summer of June" and now "mini-summer of July" started entering the popular parlance, as this abnormally warm weeks during a cold season are becoming more numerous and coming later in the season (late Autumn and even Winter).
Because people on HN love to hate on Elon.

"Elon bad! Twitter bad!" It's uninspired and tiring.
China wants to limit minors' phone use to 2 hours a day
Neat! Its pretty fast and restarts when you press the opposite arrow from where you are going - nerve wracking..
> Its difficult - yes. But not impossible to handle.

The problem with “difficult but not impossible” is that it requires special personality types to handle it.

Some people can do it, but now you have a secondary problem in that you need to find a way to filter those people in the hiring pipeline. You also have a risk of hiring people who can’t handle it and having to cut them and re-hire.

This is why most “difficult but not impossible” conditions are reserved for special exceptions but aren’t useful for general policies.
Still dont get it. Using a 4K LG display with a Macbook and everything works as intended. Whats your specific issue? What does "tiny widgets" mean?
Not only does it say barely nothing, this is a surface-level misinformed take with no references for most of the claims and references to maybe 5 studies. Reading a handful of studies in this field is completely meaningless. If you want to actually learn how to build muscle you can consume say Mike Israetel's content.
As for "good genetics" in the article; Top bodybuilders generally mean with "good genetics" that your body's response to steroids is good. It does not mean that you naturally are an average person and by some magical reason respond incredibly well to training and eating because your genetics are "good".
Are we going to store our bodies to preserve our minds? Most of us wouldn't really want our old bodies back after the tech appears to create new ones. It would make more sense to store our consciousness and then duplicate a body based on the stored DNA in which to imprint into a new mind.
Frackers use dangerous chemicals without disclosure due to Halliburton loophole
It's not HN that put the link there :)
Also to note a majority that do support Intel macs are 32 bit so don't run on modern mac osx
it's manipulation if it disagrees with my very strict opinion of how society should be
Thanks for pointing it out! I checked the Gelbe Liste but must have missed that.
It doesn't have to be this way though. This sounds to me like a huge gap in communication and on-boarding process, which indirectly is a cultural problem, its not a remote work problem.

You can solve this, and many organizations have. It does mean re-thinking expectations around onboarding and the role of mentorship in the company though
> Constitutions are meant to last for centuries, right?

Apparently, according to a study[0], the average life expectancy of a constitution (I presume it means a written, codified one) since 1789 is around 19 years. So while I'm sure the writers of constitutions envision them to last for centuries, in appears that they don't in practice.

The world's oldest written, codified constitution still in operation is the one in the US.

[0]: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511817595.004
these "hot takes" pick one job role and base their thesis on it. I work 100% remote, and I'm in meetings 25 hours a week. my job relies on other people doing theirs. but what can you expect from a 200 word "article" (with a TL;DR no less!) except click-baiting HN to reply with "Well at my job...". like i did.
You haven't known discontentment until you've seen an elderly couple like my in-laws who live in the same house while despising each other, yet refusing to divorce because it's against their religion. They don't do anything together, they don't speak beyond the absolute necessities, and they don't sleep in the same bedroom. The husband has been openly cheating on the wife for years (and she has evidence, because the husband of the woman he's cheating with tracked her down and mailed her photographic evidence). She calls my partner all the time lamenting how awful her life is and how she can't wait for him to die so she can be free.

Don't lecture us on the contentment of marriage without acknowledging what the other side of the coin is. This was the reality of marriage before divorce was normalized.
The Disney USA logo vs Disney China logo meme is always relevant

If you are ok with being a hypocrite, you can push a strong narrative in the US while challenging literally nothing in China/Saudi Arabia.
> "Capitalist" has a definition that does not mean "something I don't like."

“Something I don't like”? Don't be a child. Capitalism is a mode of production. According to Marxism it could be state-lead, which the Soviet Union pursued because they wanted to move through capitalism into socialism (and then communism).

Of course one can disagree with Marxism.

Go grind your axe somewhere else. The topic is climate change.

> But you aren't, are you? I don't expect people to completely detatch themselves from society, but you at least need to commit yourself to that lifestyle of a certain extent if you want me to consider you a real anarcho-primitivist as opposed to simply a contrarian. At the very least, you should be able to survive with minimal support for a year before you make the conclusion that this is the way you want all of humanity to live forever.

Have you heard of the phrase “e.g.“?

And also, not really. I could be an anarcho-primitivist who claims that industrial society has made such opt-in lifestyles impossible. For one, someone who happened to be born into industrial society might not have the skills to live in the wilds since they weren't embedded in that kind of environment from birth. Second of all, maybe industrial society has already forced former hunter-gatherers into society as wage workers and whatnot. Then what chance does an “Internet Contrarian” stand?

Third of all: the goal for someone of that ideological bent might not be to convince some Internet Contrarian of some opposite persuasion. In fact, it is mind-boggling how arrogant it is to claim that such a person would first have to prove something to you, who—considering how most Internet Contrarians are like—is likely to be so ideologically possessed that any evidence contrary to your own beliefs is likely to make you dig in your heels further (backfire effect or something...?).
The classic 1980's "Waldsterben" meme photo was a strip of dead forest along the Czech border near the Fichtelberg though, this was most likely caused by dirty coal power station emissions from across the border, at times the air would reek of cat piss which we used to call "Bohemian Air".. or maybe better translated as "Bohemian Wind" :)
R2DBC 1.0 goes GA
My perception is that this figurative use makes for a sensationalist headline.
'Oldest' computer music unveiled (2008)
Sure:

- "Winter" in the headline makes it sound more extreme. It’s information-free, because winter and summer temperatures close to the equator are very similar.

- Numbers are given in absolutes when convenient to paint a picture and are without meaning without a proper reference.

- References are sketchy: "in winter as hot as Europe in summer". "This would be weird in New South Wales". Ok then.

- Color scheme of maps made to look extreme.

- Map on top and mid don’t match.

- Map on top apparently has "precipitation" selected?! Does the range on the right even show temperatures, especially since this map doesn’t match the second map?

- Cherry-picking most extreme ranges: 10-20°C in some areas. But Buenos Aires is only 5°C hotter. Btw. Germany where I live, is 5-7 degrees cooler than usually in August. Doesn’t matter though.
One difference I’ve found living in the West and China is that being academically successful often gets you made fun of in the US but adored in China.

There’s quite a lot of anti-intellectualism in the US. Therefore, there’s an equal amount of anti-science.

Meanwhile, every Chinese I’ve ever met is pro-education and thinks highly of science.
the world is not ending.
Women prefer attached/promiscuous men. Women's attraction is largely influenced by social signaling.

https://www.businessinsider.com/women-are-more-attracted-to-...
I’ve noticed it has become trendy to yell “capitalism is bad” because monopolies have been allowed to form and fester. It is interesting that the trend is not to point at the regulators who have utterly failed to do their jobs. And it is concerning that the subtext is that we should centralize even more power on the structure that is failing us.
Please. I know lots of folks here live in Silicon Valley and are breastfed with this kind of fantasy, but making our species multi-planetary isn't just a matter of energy availability.

Plus, and most importantly, trashing our one and only planet "because we are not bound to it" is just one of the most unethical and most dangerous plan one can think of. And I know that there are plans to become a multi-planetary species without making Earth inhabitable in the first place, but I think the quote "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face" applies beautifully here. And the fist of climate change combined with biological collapse will hurt badly.
Python 3.11 asyncio.TaskGroup: Does it obviate the need for Trio?
Yes, we will do this next and address this in the post. We wanted to validate the approach first using the best model available but using another model is just one endpoint change away in the codebase https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill/blob/8d550a7ea5708...

As an open-source project ourselves, it is pretty obvious next step!
Any time the material exhibits a properties inconsistent with superconductors, the to-go explanation is that it's supposedly extremely difficult to manufacture. Not to mention, the original instructions include stuff like "The sealed tube containing the mixed powder was heated in a
furnace at 925°C for 5-20 hours." which sounds a tad bit imprecise.

Don't you think in those conditions it's at least a little bit reasonable to demand samples?
The library of congress has a duty of archival, but public libraries are there as a service to the public. So, what the public wants from them is actually the only driving factor.
with the new wave of languages emerging, and now the return of Rich being active with Clojure, I'm super excited and welcome back :)
OK, in the entirety of my computer usage, I never have had a need to render of unicode in all of its oddities. I would love to have a setting that just turns off all of Unicode permanently. If something arrives with unicode I'd rather it didn't render than to have all this user-hostile behavior appear. I think this one setting would significantly reduce the risk surface area of computers I use.
No, once written to USB stick, ISO image is not a file anymore, it is a sequence of blocks outside of any filesystem. This means you need to use special raw disk tools (like dd) to modify it, and you can no longer operate on it using file managers, "ls", "mv", "rm" and all the related stuff.

You are correct that in black hat scenario, one could rewrite ISO image on the fly - after all, that's what I do when I upgrade my bootable USB stick to latest version.

But while ISOs are not perfect protection against malware, they are _great_ against accidental modification. On my PC, when I insert USB stick, the window pops up right away, and it takes 1 (one) mouse drag to make drive unbootable. No such problem exists with ISO images.
I think there's a general consensus that finance is squarely on topic for HN.

Not to mention we end up talking about politics all the time too because hackers are people (for now! :P).
>> recently a famous politician in the UK got de-banked partly out of his political views

As a person in the UK, who is fairly in touch with the media industry.
This is such a non-story. I just want to do my bit to fight disinformation with the real information here :

That FORMER (not current) politician is a TV personality, who works for a TV channel called GB News [1]

GB News is directly managed by Paul Marshall, in a personal capacity (who also operates a hedge fund). [2]

That hedge fund took out short positions against the bank (which means they made bets that the banks share price would fall). In fact they had the largest bet ever against the bank, since records began of short positions. [3]

Coutts is a private bank that is exclusively for high net worth individuals [4]

The TV personality withdraw money from his Coutts account and fell below the minimum balance requirements needed for an account with this private bank (which is £1million or $1.3million in dollars) [5]

The TV channel then made a big splash by announcing that this man's account got closed due to his political positons, rather than the reality of his financial withdrawals. Which cause the banks share price to drop due to the negative media attention.
This made a large profit for the hedge fund that had bet against the bank and was managed by the person who owns the TV channel that ran this story [6]

[1] https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-business-government-...

[2] https://www.gbnews.com/about-us/our-investors

[3] https://www.investmentweek.co.uk/news/4111886/hedge-fund-mar...

[4] https://www.coutts.com/private-banking.html

[5] https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/revealed-the-real...

[6] https://www.thenational.scot/news/23683277.nigel-farage-row-...
I love ideas like this, actually seems easy to implement too. I don't know how well the science checks out but I suspect things like this would be better than spray aerosols into the air.
There is a particular problem with that statistic...

It is most likely when you think of 100 individuals and see that statistic that 40 of those individuals are getting divorced.

Instead it could be something like 5 of those people were responsible for half the divorces.
The problem is vocabulary.

There's no mistake that there's a lineage from, say, C to JavaScript. Nor the lineage along the line of S-expression languages.

But when folks speak of JavaScript, or Java, they never refer to them as "C" or "a C". But when something is written in a S-expression language, suddenly it's all Lisp.

"3D graphics is Lisp!" is the headline, then you learn it's some S-expr language that is not Common Lisp.

Common Lisp is a Thing, much like C is a Thing. There are several implementations that call consider themselves compatible with Common Lisp. It has the closest ties and heritage to Lisp 1.5 ("the" Lisp).

Scheme is a thing. When it comes to the "family of languages" idea, Scheme is most certainly practiced that way. There are a LOT of Schemes out there, all with various levels of compatibility and conformance to the assorted Revised Standard documents, but at the same time they all solve different problems.

At a time there were several Lisps, but they were all essentially merged into Common Lisp. Now, we have "one" Lisp, and Scheme. Scheme forked off down its own branch, making conscious decisions to differ from the Lisps of the day. It's fair to point out that two Lisps survived that time, the other being Emacs Lisp.

Then there's things like Clojure, AutoLisp, or even this PicoLisp which are S-expr based languages, but that's about where the similarity ends. They're as much the same as Java and C, and probably not even that close to be honest.

I ported some simple C to Java. It was a fairly trivial mechanical conversion, but 80% of the code just drag and dropped across. But I would never call Java a C or vice a versa.

Pascal is not an Algol, despite the heritage. "Structured programming language" is the vernacular. All of them are that: Algol, Pascal, C, Common Lisp, Schema, Java. But, of course, we don't disuss the s-expr languages in those terms, even though they are, indeed, supportive of "structured programming".

When I see "Lisp" I think Common Lisp. Lisp == Common Lisp, Scheme == (one of the) Scheme, Emacs == Emacs Lisp (we almost never hear of someone doing XXX in "Emacs Lisp", it's almost always just "Emacs"). That's how I divide up the world.

PicoLisp is as much a Lisp as Java is a C.
Vegan Food Revolution – Why Food System Transformation Is Closer Than You Think
Anything involving electricity or magnetic fields.
Yes, it looks like whatever they used for testing HTTP/3 took just as long. If you're taking that as a conclusion of the relative performance between HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/3, don't. There's nothing there that suggest it's a benchmark.
Very ambiguous reply. Which host? The remote or the local? What do you mean "has no v4"? No A record? No v4 address on an interface?

Which hardware and OS are you describing? Clearly the blog post illustrated some examples where switching to v6 was not happening, so it seems to contradict your comment right off the bat. There are many implementations of dual-stack IPv4/v6. In fact, they are more divergent than IPv4 implementations, because the latter often derives from the BSD-RENO codebase, while IPv6 was introduced after Linux became King, so Microsoft, Apple, and Linux (and lots of router/firewall vendors) have ostensibly developed IPv6 stacks separately, some being more open than others. They're not all going to work the same way with fallbacks/failovers.
law and order will fix everything in Austria !
After looking at a few photos of the author via Google I am unimpressed by their physique.

This article could've been written by ChatGPT. I would advise anyone reading it to heed the warning at the bottom:

> You are not on the website of a medical doctor, nutritionist, or registered dietitian.

Importantly, they also are not a certified trainer. You don't need to be one, but if you aren't one I'd expect you to at least look the part. I'm not one either, but based on a lot of the information being far too surface level to be useful this is a cleverly disguised ad-rev cash grab.

I especially enjoyed this note:

> But here's the tricky part: “Natural” doesn’t always mean you can’t take other substances like HGH and insulin

I know of no standard body (USADA, etc) that allows these. Some may allow it with a Therapeutic Use Exemption. You are not natural if you take exogenous hormones. A diabetic taking insulin will not realize the same effects as a person without diabetes when doped with insulin. The amount of insulin bodybuilders and athletes take is insane. You can tell the author has never taken part in a sport where this is wildly common. I competed with a few people who doped insulin so heavy they nearly were hospitalized.

Call it ad hominem but I'm not going to take advice from someone who does not appear to take part in any fitness whatsoever. Put it into practice, set some decent PRs, and then talk about it. Otherwise this is no different than any one of 1,000 fitness spam sites talking about the same information.
This is a key difference. Even though the trail down the Grand Canyon has a lot of elevation change, it's well maintained and pretty smooth. I went about halfway down in sneakers no problem. Rocky stuff, even a little, are ankle twisters and having support is important. Back when I used to hunt, it was mostly flat but sometimes rough terrain and walking along/up/down rocky slopes. Sometimes there is no trail, you're crashing through brush. My favorites were LL Bean boots - about 6", laced a little loose so there was some freedom of movement but support if it was needed. Leather because snakes.
GPT answer. Stop that.
I certainly would not mind similar provisions in law in the US.

I agree.

Every time I see a sign that says "We're cashless!" I read it as "We're racist!"

If the very minimal burden of handling cash is going to ruin your business, you're not a business. You're a hobby.
Just a shorthand for the world becoming miserable. The world as we know it ending.
Even the founders of the US did not expect the constitution to be used so long.