skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of those people are you to live somewhere and that is going to require building and gathering raw materials. This is true no matter where they live. Those raw materials are getting used.

Given that people in cities live in smaller homes without yards, drive less, and are also more likely to not own a car, it’s gonna take some evidence to prove your hunch here.
Recent database engine designs tend to be bandwidth bound. The difference in bandwidth between memory and modern storage hardware is much smaller than you might expect. Really taking advantage of that storage bandwidth is more difficult than memory, as it requires some top notch scheduler design.
Some 20 years ago, I worked at a moderately large software company that sold a desktop application for Mac and Windows. The team had mostly Mac experience and they were just getting their feet wet with Windows. So naturally the Windows version had some problems.

At the time, I was known as a "Windows expert", so they hired me to help improve that version and help the team get more familiar with Windows programming.

I would often spend the first part of the day on what I called "house calls": visiting other developers' offices to either pair program or troubleshoot bugs or just talk about Windows API best practices and the like. (Yes, we all had private offices!)

After a while, one of my colleagues asked a question that stuck in my mind: "How can you afford to be so generous with your time?"

Sure enough, a few months later I got a review with a mediocre rating and a comment: "Your productivity hasn't been quite we hoped, especially considering that the rest of the team has gotten more productive lately."

Which was exactly what I thought they had hired me for!
> birds are divided into passerines and everything else

Not quite. Aves is divided into Palaeognathae (which includes Ostriches, rheas, kiwis and emus amongst others) and Neognathae. Passerine is the largest order within Neognathae, but sits along side pigeons, ducks, flamingos and some others.

(source: someone who is trying to learn the complex classifications embodied within 'raptor')
Can you reassure me then with the data that backs up your claim? Because in my very long career I've seen a lot of people use heuristics when deciding who to follow up with.

"According to a 2018 CareerBuilder survey, 70% of employers check out applicants’ profiles as part of their screening process, and 54% have rejected applicants because of what they found."
> I feel like at some point we should be holding Amazon responsible for deliberately creating a situation where it obfuscates culpability as much as possible for the fake quality of its products.

You mean, like traditional chain-of-commerce liability for defective products?

AFAIK, despite trying repeatedly, in different jurisdictions, to use the “we’re just a marketplace where buyers meet sellers, not a real retailer” defense, they’ve pretty consistently been subjected to exactly that kind of liability when the issue has arisen, at least in US jurisdictions.
If our current scientific understanding of cosmology, quantum mechanics, biology, etc. doesn't fill you with awe and humility, I don't know what will.

If it doesn't fill you with gratitude that we have even the slightest ability to exist, and to experience and understand any of this, I don't know what will.
> can't live in your stock portfolio

Of course you can. You sell or harvest dividends. The same as living in an investment property forces you to give up its cash yield.
We will spend $26.1 billion on pork in 2023 (https://www.cagw.org/reporting/pig-book). The budget is $6.4 trillion.

You wouldn't notice 0.4% lower costs (not to mention we are hugely in a deficit this year so there wouldn't be lower taxes anyway)
Starfield review controversy traces game journalism's orbital decay
> I literally could write a WordPad clone in an afternoon

You might be able to make a Notepad clone in an afternoon, but not wordpad.

Creating parsers for all the formats it supports (rtf/doc/html) as well as the renderer/wysiwyg editor would take anyone several days of either coding, or stitching libs together.
Wonderful. In rowing there is a practice called “seat racing” where different combinations of people are rotated in and out of the eight positions to determine the combination that is the fastest. Individual strength is an indicator but it’s the team speed that determines who is in the boat for races. The inevitable result is that the fastest combination rarely includes the eight strongest rowers. There is very often one or two “magical” people who don’t look better “on paper” but make almost any boat faster when added to the mix. They have subtle ways of improving the set, rhythm and power of others. Not all coaches take this happily and resist it, with the obvious result of fewer wins.

This is very, very analogous to software teams. It’s the mix and results that matter most.
video is a year old, at the time big corps started dumping anything they felt like a risk. curious if this still true today. they might not be selling, but also not buying at the moment
It's completely unrelated. The tax code can be as complex or simple as desired for any number of other reasons. The government already knows the vast, vast majority of information required to determine what's owed, and we know that because they catch you when you screw it up. Obviously we can have processes for appeals or amendments to an individual's return.

Nevertheless, do absolutely agree with getting rid of corporate subsidies and pork, and simplifying the tax code, if for no other reason than to close the innumerable number of loopholes abused by corporate entities and the wealthy.
The only 10x coder I knew was the one that managed to deliver stuff (almost) on time but also took the time to explain things to other (junior, me at the time) programmers. Such Tims are sadly rare and I think I should start working towards becoming like one.
I don't understand your point? The article sounds reasonable:

"If you are in BRC, conserve food and water, shelter in a warm space,” warned festival organizers according to the Reno Gazette Journal. The news site reported that 73,000 people (a larger population than the city of Santa Cruz) are currently at the festival."

Which sounds like a reasonable reminder to not dump your water jugs and toss your remaining food in trash bags when you're packing up your camp because you may be there a few days longer than expected.
Fair point that you're just making a prediction about future capabilities. I'm not convinced but time will tell.
I'll remember to skip the "mushroom delicacy" when I visit Finland :]
Webauthn is a dumpster fire to implement compared to passwords or totp.
"This is illegal."

Is it only illegal for physicians and not sanitation workers, baseball players, or actors?
There is the countervailing influence of social media upon attention. One area we overlook, however, is the affect of maturity on available attention. We mature, we assume the responsibilities of profession or parenting or homeownership or elder care… it adds up. Many of the “distractions” you mentioned were tasks that somebody needed to tend to. You’re probably just as capable of focus when you have available time, but now you have more to be accountable for.
In context the user meant:

>>It's a bad argument because it's a bad argument[, not because it came from Cato]

They also imply the bad of the argument is obvious. I do not entirely agree and believe their comment would be improved with just a bit of work.

They did not seriously intend to present a circular fallacy.

Just saying.
> rather than as some hacked on process of continually regenerating summaries.

incidentally, this isn't far off from how the human brain is believed to work (at least with long term memories).

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2012/09/your-memory-is...
True. I am used to wheel building so it was no big deal to me.
you can collect dividends on it and allocate some of that cash flow to renting while the stocks grow in value. I currently have an 8% yield on cost that I am living off of and renting $1800/mo in Palo Alto. Been there for over 5 years and they aren't raising rent on me. The game with renting is not pay current market rates.
I thought recursive would be more than just a chain.
Don’t worry buddy I don’t think mud physically moves roads further away.

A couple miles of hard-to-navigate terrain and a bit of hubris is plenty to kill someone.
If you already have Postgres as a dependency, then adding a second is almost always more complicated than just using your existing one.
yeah, it's a bit of fusion but for computing.. always 50 years out. Some day! Maybe.
All they figured out was that the smart people hung out together.
The Supreme Court overturned Roe because it was a deeply flawed decision. Even former Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg disagreed with it.

https://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/justice-ruth-bader-ginsbur...
I think I'd implement Serialize on a different type and implement conversions from the foreign type to my serializable type.

That would mean that the locations where I want to serialize the foreign type would have to be marked with `.into()`, but that would be the sole maintenance overhead.
“If you choose the right frameworks” is a big if. Even within a framework, there is versioning and dependency management to account for. Consider the log4j vulnerability. The cost and risk of patching something untouched for 10 years is higher than something touched more recently.

In part, this is due to the risks inherent to change have been spread out over 10 years instead of backloaded to the end.

Practicing mitigating risks by proactively taking them has value of its own. The parable of ergodic cakes shows this.[0] What % of cakes will fail if 10 people each bake one, versus one person baking 10 over time?

https://luca-dellanna.com/what-is-ergodicity/
The game I've spent 3.5 years on has been rejected and retired by Steam today
Clever Hans is just a proxy. ChatGPT and other LLMs obviously can process information on their own. These two have nothing in common, even GPT-3 would have noticed this.
Let's Encrypt for taxes. I'd love to see the day.
Wild! Thank you for fixing it. I wonder why it was originally banned. If it’s something I can fix to avoid in the future, I’d like to address it.
IIRC the only opportunity was Obamacare, which at the time made sense since the abortion was protected by SC precedent.

Unless they eliminate the filibuster (which they don't have the votes to do) the Republicans will always block such a bill.
What do you mean by "check its own output"?
You should do some reading about Grover Norquist, his organization Americans for Tax Reform, and the Taxpayer Protection Pledge that most Republican politicians are pressured to sign. I think you’ll find that your assumptions about what political operatives are willing to do are wrong.

A very large part of the current craziness has been enabled by people so incredulous that nobody would “stoop to such a level” that they ignore the topic completely, only to find out when it’s too late that they do, in fact, stoop down to that level and the damage has already been done.
The live webcam from Burning Man is still up.

https://burningman.org/live-webcast/

The camera rotates randomly once in a while, so you can see everything. Not raining much, if at all. Some mud. Overcast. Maybe 75 people total are wandering around in the mud. A few random art installations. Everybody else is probably in the big RV park.

Looks boring, but not dangerous.
Commercially-available sport drones fly at over 200 MPH, which is more than fast enough to overcome any human's reaction time, are too small and fly too low to detect via radar, are more agile and maneuverable than any plane or missile ever designed. Their biggest problem is that they are trivially jammable (which will be overcome via autonomy) and operational range (which is doubled for suicide drones).

Drones are about to change operational doctrine in all areas in the same way that aircraft carriers obsoleted battleships. Any military that fails to adapt to this new reality will be absolutely destroyed in the field. Defenses against overwhelming autonomous drone swarms are possible, but not via current missile defense platforms.
You’re right - it’s a great option.

But you can have multiple notes, and as soon as there are lots of notes to look at, I won’t do it every day.

With my .rtfd file, there is only one file with one todo list, and that’s it. I can never lose it or get lost in it, or spend time finetuning it.
I've been hearing about this influence for,"years". But if you were to ask any of my classmates, co-workers or the guy who lives up the road from me - they'd laugh in your face.

Rastafarianism may have been influenced Indians - but it sure isn't now!

Rasta has always been a Black Power movement that takes Haile Selassie as the reincarnation of the Black Christ prophesied by the "prophet", Black Nationalist Marcus Mosiah Garvey.Think the Nation of Islam, but less dogmatic and centralized . Garvey is in other respects, Jamaica's first National Hero.

The ban on cutting hair (Leviticus 21:5, Numbers 6:1-5, Judges 13:5), vegetarian/pescatarian diet and the smoking.(not all Rastas are ganja smokers) are features of the Nazarite vow. No one is mentioning Indians when they're that Nazarite vow to join the House of Nyahbinghi or Bobo Ashanti
Interestingly, the current administration was one of the previous spying targets. AMLO definitely came in as an outsider and had much of the same problems trying to unseat the "deep state"/institutional ruling powers of Mexico as Trump had when he became president in the US.

However, AMLO has been much more effective in transforming the state to his liking: he purchased the loyalty of the military with infrastructure projects and he's completely gutted the civilian federal law enforcement apparatus and re-hired all the federal police into a new agency with management loyal to his political party. The security organizations of the Mexican national government are effectively under single-party control at this point.

But when it comes to pesky journalists asking questions, the new party has the same (if not less) patience than the last one. Expect to see more spying in the future on anyone who isn't towing the party line.
Yet despite all these shortcomings it, and its descendants, were, and continue to be, wildly commercially successful.

I genuinely don’t understand all this looking down on what, in hindsight, clearly worked.

NT was always marketed and priced for the professional & enterprise markets, so the whole “but what about home computers at the time” rings hollow.

NT ushered in a new era of business computing and networking, and more importantly a new era of thinking about and working with technology in the workplace, something its competitors at the time couldn’t manage. Even Novell netware, dearly missed, got steamrolled by NT. You can pooh-pooh NT all you like, and talk about what a shitty clone it was, and how poor the technology was.

NT clearly won, at the time.
Have you spoken with Roman Mars yet? I hope this will be a 99% Invisible episode soon.
The comparison is made to force the reader, who may very well believe in a moral right to strike, to find the fundamental principle underlying it. If there is no fundamental principle then all the moralizing of striking is just opportunism justifying itself after the fact.

Qualitatively, the two scenarios are the same, they differ only in degree. The action is the same, the outcome is only more destructive in one vs the other. But if there is a moral right to strike, it applies to both professions because a right is universal and absolute.
The examples on this blog are really quite neat. Can I download the software being shown, or are these just recordings of the author's private experiments?
This is not an argument on the merits of story points or metrics but Tim could have just put his name on the stories alongside the folks he helped. Problem solved.
I'm getting there! bear with me...

Edit: done. Sorry we banned your site (ergh) and I sure hope you write more in the future!

Edit 2: if you'll excuse the morbid aspect, your article reminded me of one I read this year about a long-unsolved murder that took place near where the author grew up, somewhere in the midwest I think. Unfortunately I can't find it right now (maybe it will ring a bell for someone) - but it was also super-well-researched (though less in a first-person voice and less cheeky), and maybe I'm wrong but I think the author has a similar sensibility to yours. We need more writing like this.

(Edit 2a: I found it: http://www.codex99.com/unclassified/patty-and-michael.html. I ran across it because of awesome things previously posted to HN from that author's site: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=codex99.com. "Along the way I’ve learned more than is probably healthy about Canadian quintuplets, murdered teenage cheerleaders, young stage actresses, middle-aged academic cartographers and elderly Victorian taxonomers." - http://codex99.com/about.html)

Edit 3: oops I didn't answer your question. I'd say the thing to fix in the future is the insufficient number of awesomely-written, intriguing articles by you. This kind of thing is so hard to come by!
Why are America's politicians so old – and does age matter in politics?
> Professor Vitaly Melnikov, 77, had headed the Department of Rocket and Space Systems at RSC Energia

Was that department responsible for the Luna-25 lander/impactor? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energia_(corporation)#Deep_Spa... doesn't say explicitly.
I think what the GP means by “gaming” the system is that the teams did all the technical activities of scrum without providing much or any business value.

The issue with scrum or any process that involves estimating is that every software project will inevitably have some risky element or difficult to estimate task that is essential to the execution of the project. Scrum will incentivize teams to avoid the essential work and guide them towards work that is easier to estimate.

Certainly having a good product owner can mitigate this because she can do the work of identifying and breaking down the intractable to something more actionable.

But in that case you’re depending on the people on the team to make good choices. Smart people can do that regardless of the development process they’re using. It’s unclear what value scrum brings to teams at all. It doesn’t make bad teams work any better and it restricts how smart teams can operate.

One thing that scrum does give is it provides management metrics they can use to measure performance.
IMO, very unpopular opinion, it's not because governments are not allowing more houses, it is because of mortgage.

People who bought 10 years ago for 200k do not want to sell it for 250k, because they paid more interest, let's say "initial price + interest = 300k" today. If anyone wants to sell, they want to get at least 300k, buyer again gets a mortgage and in 10 years same house costs 400k or more.

rinse and repeat, houses will cost double digit millions. See Seoul for example, avg house costs around 1M$, while average salary is around 35K$/year (30x difference)
In 1997, everyone knew we'd be switching to client certs/keys for authentication real soon now.
I specifically didn't mention WebAuth...

U2F(Yubikeys utilize it) and TOTP are both great options.

even push to login is quite common these days.

You have great options.
So a right is only a right if it is not illegal? I'll inform the lawmakers, they will be very pleased about this.
Which tax app is that?
It's paying tax most people hate. The tax prep companies just make it a bit less painful for a fee. We have the complex tax code we voted for. Simplifying it is great - just don't take away my deductions!!
Yeah, there should be a filled-in form option (where you can make changes) but the reality is that if you have a W-2 with maybe a 1099 or two (with no cost basis complications) and standard deduction, it's really not that complicated today.
He's probably dead this time. He was a dead man walking after his little rebellion anyway. Also, most of Wagner leadership died on that crash, including Utkin. He'd have to fake everybody's death.
It is illegal for anyone to use force in this way.

During the baseball strike of 1994-95, MLB teams hired replacement players. No one used force to prevent it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_...
I remember very much how XP was universally panned versus Win2k when it arrived, but XP just boots significantly faster even on the same hardware. I think it's the first one who really had any chance to replace 9x/ME.
That's what happened to me. I had a few health issues and surgeries, and suddenly some of my life goals weren't possible anymore. My brain knew about it and got demotivated. Never completely recovered. I might try to self brainwash into the "it's still possible" mindset, but my rational layer is stubborn and keeps saying to myself "I have to face the truth", even if the truth means less productivity. :/
I wouldn’t be critiquing their choice of words if I didn’t know what they mean. In general flippant is a word that describes attitudes or actions, not a toxic death cloud.
In the UK it happens automatically for the vast majority of people. You don't even need to think about it.
> I guess some interesting anecdotes have resulted in the post, but the message of the article itself doesn't seem to share anything particularly new or enlightening.

Enough commenters here on HN are disagreeing with the article's conclusion that I think we can infer this is not a point everyone here agrees on, and the article was needed after all...
Hmm, I’m still not following exactly what you’re pointing out. What’s the model you mentioned about variance in dice rolls? I assumed we were talking about the coin flip model where all individual payoffs go to zero with probability 1, so no one has any expected income to pay an insurance premium out of.

The article is pretty pointedly about wealth redistribution, i.e. pooling of windfalls rather than of risk, but I don’t think that was lost on anyone... are you talking about a different model where there’s some sort of insurable situation?
If their product is better than the free government app, and users find the government app not good enough, they will win anyway. If it's not better, then they will not. I don't see a problem here.
Attacking the messenger and not the message is probably the easiest way to avoid addressing the message itself, and also the most tired and transparent.
why not combine the two different algorithms?

f.e. scrypt(argos(password)) ?
Obviously, there are additional computing costs, but if they are tolerable what are the downsides?
It's not hard to re-integrate trees into pasture, agroforestry is a thing and it can provide cattle with shade, limit wind and water erosion, support wildlife diversity and provide an additional source of lumber.

I'm glad we can at least come together on wanting the cost of industrial meat to be represented in its price.

We could make meat "affordable" with only sustainable production, small local sustainable farmers can make a decent living if they cut out most of the middle men, going straight from the processor to local restaurants/butchers/direct sales. More people would need to be involved in agriculture to make it scale, and meat wouldn't be cheap like it is now, but it will have the upside of converting a lot of marginal land to beautiful mixed pasture and forests full of life.
We have a few other categories to fix first.
> Does not sound like what an AI would write. AIs don’t make obvious spelling mistakes like that.

Token-based LLMs like ChatGPT don’t. Character-based language models probably do make spelling errors.

I don’t know why we expect that scammers seeking to minize costs to produce, at the lowest cost possible, things that superficially resemble human-written books without much concern that they pass even the most cursory review of the contents would be consistently using best-in-class commercial models for that purpose.