skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are conflating two concepts, sin as religious concept and sin as “morally transgressive” concept. Because much of what you describe regarding guilt, OCD, depression arise from morally transgressive acts (eg regret for treating loved ones poorly) that nobody denies the existence of; what people increasingly deny is the spiritual concept of sin, which depending on the religion often includes things that aren’t unambiguously morally transgressive (all cultures consider stealing and unprovoked murder wrong, but breaking kosher is only a sin in Judaism because it’s a rule they think their god commanded of them).

I do think it’s true that many cultures have some kind of ritual by which you can absolve yourself of sin (be it religious or areligious), though not necessarily sacrifice. For example in Christianity the act of confession files the role. In the secular world this role is mostly filled via therapy, but a lot of other people choose to fill it with things like volunteering (someone who did a lot of bad things during their addiction may get involved in addiction outreach or speaking). I suppose given the time or financial cost of these activities they do represent a sacrifice in some way though.

Anyway, I agree that everybody has some concept of “moral transgression” which you as a religious person might call sin. But I don’t think it’s denied in contemporary culture at all - to the contrary, with things like cancel culture and such, we are much less willing to allow many sins to go unpunished - nor do I think “sacrifice” is necessary to mentally recover from the guilt it induces.
> most junior devs I encounter seem to barely use pipes at all

Is popularity among junior developers the right metric? Aren't most junior developers permanently junior? I see the movers and shakers of the industry writing shell scripts all the time, probably still too often relative to, e.g. Python scripts.
Well since Apple Pay Later is only available in the US I fail to see your point.
> The other unresolved problem for me is that it still requires the assumption that light is parallel i.e. the sun is (relatively) incomprehensibly far away, and that was not established fact at the time afaik.

It seems like it very recently had been:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Sizes_and_Distances_(Ar...

There are some Stack Exchange questions that give more background:

https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/38892/how-did-...

https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/14722/how-did-eratos...

Pretty clever to use the illumination of the moon to figure it out!
Why would you want that when Python is ubiquitous?
i know people who only do screens, they cant have a conversation anymore, if you say something they don't hear you, if you poke them they say they are busy. seems reasonable until a year goes by without any conversation. then its fair to wonder where they went.

i don't normally keep talking if people rather not listen or participate but if i force it they produce short sentenced, then long ones, then dialogs and stories, make jokes, have a laugh. they stay that way as long as i maintain the effort. skip a week and they forget how to talk again
If this is the case, then it would seem to me that the ability to produce modular e-ink displays, where segments are individual, independent displays, would be an option.

This is most tenable for large-scale displays (e.g., wall displays), and we're already used to segmented "television walls" in which borders between individual displays is strongly evident. The trick would be for such compound devices to both match one another's display characteristics (brightness / shading / hue), and for borders to be made as undetectable as possible (several possible mechanisms suggest themselves to me as I write this).

Given the sweet spot of 8--10" displays, compound devices made of multiples of these would seem to be at least a conceptual possibility. 16x8 displays would give 32" diagonal measure, 300 dpi, and assuming 50% BOM cost might run less than the 25" Onxy BOOX Mira Pro ($1,750).
added raspberry pi's results too
When I was in school everyone hated word problems, but to me, they were the most clear examples of the answer to "when will I ever use this". Sure, maybe you don't care that a train leaving New York traveling at 55mph while a car leaving Philly traveling at 35mph did any thing, but they were definitely real world examples.

I had a physics teacher that had a unique way of providing examples that always revolved around a little monkey that he liked to draw on the overhead. The monkey was usually on/in/near a tree, and we had to use those dreaded equations to figure out whatever was being asked. As dorky as it was, it definitely helped illustrate in way it sounds you never got. I always enjoyed his class, and he is definitely one of the three teachers I had that was on a different level from the rest. Each of those three teachers set me on a path of where I am now that none of the others did.
>isn't this just the normal enshittification cycle that occurs with all Internet products?

No! Stop diluting this word.
Having been on the other side of a messy ruby project, which had large parts of itself overridden by some addon scripts, maybe that's a good thing!
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Well, even many of the “poor” are spending $35 a month with one of the MVNOs and getting a cellphone bundled with it.
Agreed. I feel like I'm there as a side-quest for them and them learning from each other is the main point of the "game".
With 8 billion in revenue it hit differently I guess, yeah.
Come on, be serious. No country is going to carry out a significant volume of international trade by bartering metals. If that is done at all it will be token amounts for propaganda purposes. Despite what might have happened centuries ago there's just no practical way to do that at scale. If some countries can't use USD for trade settlement then they'll use one of the other major fiat reserve currencies (and not this total joke of a BRICS currency).
Mexico's plan to offload containers onto rail cars and then reload them back into ships waiting on the Atlantic side might make more sense financially. Anything heading to US East coast ports could be railed directly saving reloading.
Your dream is an interesting thought experiment. Let's reflect on if Apple would provide all these experiences.

0. 360 MX. This is the least likely. I'm sure Apple has been testing flippable hinges for decades at this point, but even if they could make the best one, they need a marketing reason for users. What's the point in a flippable laptop if you can't use everything when it's flipped like Windows?

1. Running iOS apps. macOS with an ARM chip already runs iOS apps, the problem is that most developers are chickenshit and don't allow people to run their apps on macOS. Apple needs to reverse course and remove the ability to deny running on macOS.

2. Cellular data. By this point, Apple would have done it. There's a valid argument that Apple doesn't want to even entertain negotiations with Qualcomm about how much it would cost them to put modems in their laptops, so I believe our last hope is that the modems currently in development by Apple themselves are someday destined for Apple laptops.

3. Excellent touch response. Every Macbook already has the best touch response in any laptop. Their trackpad is best-in-class. I don't know how Apple could even fail at that.

4. Lidar. What? Why?
Some CPUs do have non-constant-time multiplies.
No, 2022 was 20% from Niger [0], and EU is 25% [1].

I'll also correct my stats for the latest 2022 year, in which 64% was outside Africa. It fluctuates moderately, like Namibia greatly increasing last year.

[0] https://www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decodeurs/article/2023/08/04/h...

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-sees-no-immediate-ri...

GP is right that France is playing plenty to keep things smooth with Niger. Niger's entire export economy is based purely on uranium. Meanwhile, to France, it's just the 7th largest global supplier of one commodity. What we're seeing is the foolish hubris of certain people in Niger trying to crank out more profits (the only ones they have), failing to realize that there are six other bigger suppliers in this market. The prices get set fairly, they just don't like it because they have nothing else to further their standard of living, until they actually build a functioning economy. They're antagonizing the hand that feeds them, and if you don't do mutual beneficial trade, France will seek stable supplies elsewhere, while Niger suffers the opposite of what they unfairly wanted.
> To be honest, I've grown overall highly skeptical of CoCs, and believe they've become tools to push specific political views instead of foment a friendly and inclusive environment. (Yes, I know some will say "duh" but I used to be very optimistic.)

At least you got there eventually :) some still think they achieve something.
As per the paper to express it optimally in c++ it requires the compiler to special case +=0. I don't think any compiler does ot yer unfortunately.
> I get that we don't all live in rich countries, but still.

And I'm one of those people (there's dozens of us!), hence why I said it's a bit steep for me.

I can afford to spend some money on subscriptions (~$70-80/month last time I summed it up), but that sum means a lot more to me than it does to someone earning six figures. I have to budget it between dozens of different services that all want a small amount on a monthly basis.

But you're right, I do use it every day, which is why I have decided to allocate some of that amount to pay for a feature that I can absolutely replicate without paying. Similarly, some of that amount goes to NGOs even though I also don't get anything tangible out of it.
I am shocked that such technology was used in the past in the EU, isn't that illegal?
Appears that the first programmers being replaced by AI will be Cobol developers as they have gotten too expensive due to their rarity.
Coalton is used in production at HRL Laboratories for quantum computing software. The language still needs work (especially DX) to reach a comfortable 1.0, but it's powerful and correct enough to displace otherwise difficult-to-write Common Lisp code.
which is all fine, desirable, and ultimately necessary.

that doesn't mean that they make good arguments that help us try to decide what to do, convince other people, or even underscore the potential value of those opinions
Seconding Zola. Fantastic project. I built a site with > 200 pages (including media) in 90ms on an M1 MacBook Pro.

There is no plug-in ecosystem unfortunately.

Shortcodes are nice and a modest replacement. Missing any headless CMS integration naturally because it's statically typed and compiled.
But the chain rule for ordered derivatives is exactly the backprop rule. It's just the mathematical representation of 'the simple implementation' I mentioned.

I think what you're saying is that you find the process intuitive. I don't have much of a way to argue with that. But I think it's important to note that we're dealing with two things: 1. a process that we follow (backprop), 2. a true answer that is obtainable using only the chain rule. And yes it turns out that (1) and (2) both give the same answer. But (2) requires much more work, and I question anyone who claims that (1) is 'obvious' from (2): getting (1) from (2) requires work.

I'm guessing you'll agree that using only the chain rule takes much more work, but in case you don't: consider a fully connected graph with at least 5 variables, say a = 5; b = 2 a; c = 2 a b; d = 2 a b c; e = 2 a b c d. If you use backprop, you can compute de/da rapidly. If you use only the chain rule, it will take a long time to compute de/da, because the number of terms you have to deal with increases exponentially fast with the number of variables.
You can't even turn off the touch screen when in laptop mode, so every time you brush the screen when typing (it happens a lot, the device is tiny) you end up messing up something.

Microsoft, for all its qualities, truly does not care about the finer details.
Ive seen flat structures also fail to be able to actively address issues. For example the leader has decided they actively dont want hierarchy and the things they see it bringing with such ability to sack low performers, deal with hr issues, define company policies for the most basic things, etc.
I am shocked that this technology was used at all in the EU, isn't that predictive policing illegal Here ?
NYC has a population of 8.8 million people and only 300 sq miles of land [1], which works out to about 30,000 people per square mile, or 46 people per acre. That's about 90 sq ft per person. Sounds tight to me.

Seems like the problem is that the land is pretty much full. How is that the housing markets fault? How many people should NYC be capable of handling, and who gets to decide that?

Can't NYC be free to decide it's big enough? What's preventing people from moving elsewhere? Plenty of land in this country.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_New_York_Cit...
If the value of one thing is somewhere in the range of $1-$100, then its value is hard to quantify.

But if you have one million of those things, you can still say "it's very likely I have value in the millions of dollars or more here".

The same logic applies here. All that has to be true for "we have millions here" to be plausible is that (1) the value of each individual, unquantified contribution is positive and probably >$1 (2) there are probably millions of such contributions. You don't have to be able to quantify with any precision any individual contribution.
Stolen Focus is an interesting book and worth your time, but it's absolutely set on making the case that governments need to intervene on social media and I don't think it did it very well. I wrote a longish review digging into why back in June but it will probably only make complete sense if you've read the book. https://thomask.sdf.org/blog/2023/06/08/book-review-stolen-f...
All of these supposed revelations that companies try to make products that people will use were supposed to empower people to break free from these addictions

Yet anecdotally, these narrative seem to give people more excuses to engage further with their addictions of choice.

I’ve heard so many variations of “It’s not my fault I use so much (Facebook|TikTok|Reddit), don’t you know they have people employed to make them addictive!?”

The people I know who best moderate their usage are the ones who own their own choices, not the ones who blame everything on corporations.
"For example slack is an incredibly successful product. But it seems like every week I encounter a new bug that makes it completely unusable for me, from taking seconds per character when typing to being completely unable to render messages. (Discord on the other hand has always been reliable and snappy despite, judging by my highly scientific googling, having 1/3rd as many employees. So it's not like chat apps are just intrinsically hard.) And yet slack's technical advice is popular and if I ran across it without having experienced the results myself it would probably seem compelling."

https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/on-bad-advice/
>you know it well that you can't upgrade from php 7 to 8 without the site crashing

This is not unique to WordPress, this is how most any software running on an interpreted language would behave if you updated the interpreter by a major version and did not update the software to a supported version.

Major version upgrades in PHP are the only time BC breaks are allowed, for example.
Yes; that's what we call "civilized society".

Humans take care of each other. It's what makes us strong.
Doesn't "earliest" already imply "earliest known"? Since obviously we can't assert anything not known.
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I like the part where he says companies should spend money to give him something that'll be less secure (because it'll be a redundant implementation) to satisfy an aesthetic request.
Yep.

Some industries, at this point in time, should be using the same compute and toolkit in 100+ years.

My mechanic is using software he bought in the 90s, in an emulator, becuae why change? What's the point?

He enters customer names, he books appointments, he inputs inventory, he bills. Nothing has changed in 30 years, norhing will change in another 30.

It's barely a gui by today's standard, and works wonderfully.

Why transition to another POS system? Why worry about conversion of current data?

And the stuff he has is rock solid. All the new stuff he tried has bugs, and the bug fixed versions have different bugs.

You wanna be a hard core dev? Develop stuff that will be written to floppies and pressed to CDs, with no internet for updates.
And it is precisely said safety net that holds you back. Yes you are safe, just kind of like a sheep or cow can be safe. You are not free.

Few paths to FIRE in the US? Well definitely still more than in the EU.

The primary reason people aren't all going FIRE in the US is stupidity. Seriously, how can some people make 300k a year and not be a millionaire within a decade, then retire for the rest of their life in some LCOL place at 35??

You would have to force me to somehow blow that much money on retarded nonsense, as most of them seem to do.

For anyone who is not completely clueless about money FIRE is relatively attainable in the US.
What he said is the cornerstone of socialism.

There isn't a way that it is incorrect. It just isn't. It is like asking "how is it incorrect to say Wubble Bubble Jibble Quibble." It is a bunch of words placed together to form nonsense. He didn't give any reasons to support any of what he said.
One you're already in the crush zone nothing is going to help you, not even blaming the event organizers for lacking proper crowd management in the first place. Once you're in that situation, your life remains imperiled no matter who or what you point your finger at. The solution is to avoid getting into that situation in the first place, and until public places are fixed that means not being where a crowd is. Not going to the event in the first place is the best solution, but you can also leave early (my preference) or leave late, or leave through a lesser known exit.

Counting on organizers to fix it with policy is a bad idea, the physical structure of public places needs to be changed to prevent it. Policy-based solutions are great as one layer of defense, but if that's your only defense in a structure that is otherwise prone to crowd crush, you're better of not being there in the first place.
The words you're looking for are procedural and declarative.
I would not marry anyone who given the option of buying thing A @ X units of currency/kg and a chemically identical version of thing A @ 3X units of currency/kg would pick the option which is 3 times more expensive for the sole reason of "status".
I had the reverse of that happen.

Was looking for advice on farming Aeonian Butterflies in Elden Ring, but delightfully stumbled across the fact Aeonian butterflys are actually a species of South American butterfly apparently.

https://gardeninginside.com/where-to-find-aeonian-butterflie...

I couldn't stop laughing.
Yes you are. You are choosing where to put your money to generate the best return.
If it's too painful, a one-line read macro on % (or so) can make it simpler to type.

(set-macro-character #\% (lambda (s c) `(coalton ,(read s))))

Then one can type

%(f (g x))
It didn't always go that way - I understand that tuna developed a breathing apparatus with kelp, they were able to trap certain amounts of oxygen. Not going on land for days at a time, an hour, hour 45. Enough time to establish a beachhead and aggressively hunt cats and their family.
Are they targeting EU citizens or doing business in the EU? If not why would the bother trying to be “compliant”

On the other hand why do they want to steal your personal data?
Not if you include entropy: the universe heads towards a simpler lower energy state much faster with life in it then without it.
I don't have Facebook or Twitter installed any more (and never had Instagram or TikTok - I'm too old). I log on to their websites on my phone if I want to see something. It's a good amount of friction.
At least there is some aesthetic difference between a Swiss watch and an Apple Watch.
Not on this topic, but I wonder why on your cell phone you have to opt-in to safe battery/energy.

Like what amount of energy could you save with the leverage of iOS/Android if people were to opt-out of energy-saving mode
> The people I know who best moderate their usage are the ones who own their own choices

Strikes me that this is true of any addiction.
> Couldn’t you just preprocess the edges and normalize their weights?

How exactly?
Employers and employees are not opposed to each other, and nothing would ever get done if they were. They have a symbiotic relationship.

Employers are, contrary to what you have implied, not permitted to band together to negotiate as a group. That is called wage fixing.
I don't see any correlations between your comment and mine. I never claimed they were not oppressed, I just said that they did commit terrorist attacks in the past (and the media that talks about the Uyghurs issue, never mention it).

I don't believe in the "if you are not a minority then [...]"

This seems like a strange rhetoric to prevent people from debating anything.

I am not a Uyghurs, I have talked with Uyghurs in Beijing, I did not visit the Xijiang region (and never claimed it either).

My comment was clearly a : "From my own experience" it's literally the first words.
The long history and dominant ecosystem on x86 makes containerization more seamless today. ARM64 support is evolving quickly but still has maturity gaps that can make safe and efficient container deployment more challenging. Careful testing and validation is required.
CNA?
> Linode had the slowest cpus at just under 2Ghz

Uhh, a statement like this somewhat hurts the ability to trust the other claims of the benchmark. Sure, Linode has the lowest clock speed, but you're comparing Epyc Milan which is almost a decade newer than the Sandy-Bridge EP of Cloudfanatic for example. Unsurprisingly, this is even reflected in the one cpu benchmark run, geekbench, which Linode comes first in.
"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."

"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I hope this is satire. Slack is one of the slowest work tools I've ever used. Every interaction and click visibly lags.

It's a sad state of the world that almost every application now is written in Javascript and deployed with Electron, and massive memory usage and slow UIs have become accepted as the norm.

Try any IRC client and tell me, with a straight face, that Slack is just as responsive.
I don't extensively follow the news, my long time girlfriend is Chinese, so we talk about it randomly, but I don't live in China at the moment.

I am planning to move to China next year, will likely spend 4-5 years there, but China is becoming more hostile towards foreigners compared to when I was living there (2016-2017)
> It feels like it's always on the US to accept them all.

Your feeling is not backed by actual data.
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What is it about nuclear that keeps it from coming online quickly?

Is it solely regulatory red tape? Do we not have off-the-shelf designs (i. e. from when the French built scores of plants), or are they dependent on a catalog of no-longer-available parts?

I was hoping for modular reactors that were neighbourhood-scale-- the size of a a small shipping container, and able to be delivered rather than site built. Maybe RTG instead of steam-turbine for mechanical simplicity.