skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing wrong with experiences like what are called ego-death and dimensional transcendence if it doesn't involve paranoia or distress. Especially with dissociatives these are often the goal, and are quite pleasant.

The THC induced paranoia and distress are usually due to effects like time-dilation, memory impairment, depersonalization, thought loops etc, which I'd put into more or less same category as you get from psychedelics or dissociatives.

Plenty of bad trips with quite low doses of THC too: https://erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=70884

I think the "hardness" of different drugs, especially in how strong the effect is, is mostly a cultural and legal artifact that doesn't really correlate that much with the actual experience.
If there were a lot of applicants then maybe the Secretary problem would be applicable, but considering how few there are that can decrypt it i doubt there's an optimal split to be found theoretically. It probably comes down to how greedy or stubborn Stefan is, since theoretically he would profit even if he only kept 1%, but I doubt he would agree to those terms. 50% sounds reasonable to me.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem
The muslim generation (of which you can count the majority of immigrants to) is immensely more likely to be socially conservative, be it negative opinions on women's freedom or the acceptance of queer people and the jewish.

Why you think they would change their opinions just because they migrate to western countries is beyond me.
> Execution is the whole thing. [...] ideas are cheap and not worth much intrinsically

That was literally the gp's point.
It's all relative; Irish Rail makes DB look very good, say. I gather the British rail companies are as bad or worse these days.
What if you think you know, and are certain that your testimony is correct, but are wrong nonetheless?
Totally agree that a valid approach is looking at what should exist. I also agree that the issue with that is that your conception of what should exist needs to be grounded in reality. Ensuring you're focused on problems is that "contact with reality".

To that end, I would contend the examples you give are absolutely founders that wanted to solve a problem (or realised very acutely that they were solving a problem as they built something new)

Facebook's core problem was figuring out if that person you met at a party was single without being creepy. A problem that Instagram now solves much better (coincidental acquisition? I don't think so).

The 2 Steves initially met and solved the problem of long distance phone charges by building legally questionable "blue boxes" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_box. They later united on the problem of bringing computers, which they had a passion for and knowledge of, into the homes of everyone.

Amazon is an interesting point - Bezos saw the clear trend of increasing internet usage and realised there needed to be commerce online. He was certainly smart about the type of things that could sell well on the early internet. I would argue it solved a problem - long tail commerce (i.e. bookstores can't stock books about any conceivable topic) - but I'd concede that perhaps wasn't the primary initial motivation.
For what it's worth, the "Twelve Principles" document [0] is both more explicit and constraining. As you say, though, it is a framework for change (a goal to be incrementally approached), not a brand.

[0] https://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html
Much like any complicated system, free market capitalism tends to have some emergent properties in the absence of regulation. You can see monopolies, monopsonies, cartels, and fraud. These corporate forces often have disproportionate control over the markets and can engage in anti-competitive practices that result in sub-optimal practices.

Sub-optimal practices at 40,000 feet means people die in a way that would cost pennies to prevent. Lots of people.
Show HN: Discover new Music Artists
Enter some artists you already know and get recommendations for other artists you might like. The app aggregates ListenBrainz users who frequently listen to the artists you entered and outputs other artists that those users also listen to. You can click an artist to open a YouTube search and listen to some of their work.
Show HN: Beating GCC 12 – 118x Speedup for Jensen Shannon D. Via AVX-512FP16
In fairness, it worked (quite well) for Typescript.
> Most these ads are for operators, not gamers, that's why they all talk about earnings. (I still don't know where you would have seen them though..)

I used to hang out at my local arcade after elementary school. Your basic 1980s latchkey kid, who grew up in shopping malls. If you've seen "Fast Times at Ridgemont High", you have the general idea.

I've seen a ton of these ads, because I used to annoy the people working at my arcade, so they'd let me read their monthly copy of "Replay" magazine. A trade journal aimed specifically at arcade operators.
Looking at how Germany's population after WW2 peaked three times already (in the early 70s, at the turn of the century, at the end of the pandemic), the environment there doesn't support having a growing population.

Moreover, the usual source countries have a below-replacement fertility rate, so the number of prospective immigrants is dwindling.

I don't see how this could be sustainable in the long run.
Link to NASA's blog post - https://blogs.nasa.gov/osiris-rex/2023/10/20/nasas-osiris-re...

Two screws are stuck, and it sounds like their sterile tools can get the job done. They don't want to drill out the bolts and contaminate the samples. It looks like it will be a few weeks before they have new tools approved and sterilized.

I wonder if they screws being stuck has anything to do with their exposure to space?
Bird strikes from wind turbines is another. Does the person making that argument know or care about other major sources of bird death - cats, window collisions, habitat loss, pollutants etc? Usually not, it's just a convenient one to bring up to discredit the unknown.
Also Facebook and Amazon started by taking advantage of computers to change the magnitude and affordances of something that already existed (freshman picture book and book shops respectively).

I don’t really get the “want to start a business, don’t care about what” — I’m more in the “want to work on this problem; business seems to be the best way.”

But this kind of framework could perhaps be useful for operating businesses too.
I use dnscrypt-proxy in the default configuration and let it choose what's best for my current network.
Interesting to compare the optimism in the article and comments with a recent video by Peter Zeihan: The End of Germany as a Modern Economy.

https://youtu.be/xmEhTFjQB1g?si=C02yoH1nFWmzWPlQ
Why hand over your browsing data to Google?
We got married, had kids, and a pandemic. Though under utilization was a long running problem before all that.

As someone who spent many years as a volunteer at a couple spaces, there were a lot of lonely nights of nobody showing up. Getting adults off the couch and out for an evening of nerding out with free access to laser cutters, 3D printers, and well equipped electronics workstations is more challenging than one would imagine.
I deal with ISO all the time, they’re cutting you a “deal” there.
'Magnificent Seven' tech stocks drive US equity domination to new highs
https://archive.ph/bIDxh
>That's made up word.

Are you literate?

> It's actually competition and everyone has right to compete.

Ah yes, the "free market" argument again.

You see, when you can't afford a house anymore because the central bank and government fucked you over and your wages are stagnating thanks to unfair competition from migrant workers, then there's nothing we can do about it it's just the "free market supply and demand".

But when workers' wages start getting too high for employers' linking as he can only get a platinum trim yacht instead of the diamond one, then it's no longer the hand of the free market working in the workers' favor but it's now called a "labor shortage" so all unions must be defanged and immigration barriers must be removed to ease the so called "labor shortage".

Now that's propaganda.
Interesting Lazard study. First time I see such investment guys so optimistic about grid-scale storage beyond the currently supply-limited pumped hydro.
So whose fault would it be? Let me rephrase the question: who is picking strawberries from the fields in the UK now?

I recommend everyone to watch the series called "Benefits Britain: Life on the Dole" (mostly available on YT). I don't even blame these people, they are just doing what the system lets them get away with.
The US refer to them as "multiethnic democracies" (2008), I wonder if they'll be split at some point (too big), it's already kinda happening in Brazil, Lula ordered to protect the amazon and "its people"

There was a map shared during the CSCE that pictured the different regions of Russia, I can't find the article anymore.. sad
Wait, what? This wasn't in the US I presume then?
Debian maybe, but then again maybe not. The distros don't like supporting a lot of separate arch revisions because they tend to behave like different arches. That is why most of them have dropped 32-bit arm support, it was from a distro perspective a completely separate arch despite being able to run on much the same HW as the 64-bit arm distro. Given most arm devices made in the past ~decade have been 64-bit it was an obvious choice. People with 32-bit binary apps can run them on the 64-bit distro, and the maintainers don't have to keep building/testing/fixing an entirely separate set of machine images.

So, if someone forks the arch such that two different distros are required based on HW, its just going to fragment the distro's too because some of them will just pick one or the other profile.
It is almost never a good idea for the general population to read a list of symptoms to watch out for.

Many of those are so subjective that just posting it here is almost guaranteed to lead to people freaking out and seeking unnecessary treatment.
What if this is a problem with usability, and have nothing to with personal preferences?

I imagine that for a tight pair of jeans would be pretty annoying put and carry things in pockets. You may even need both hands to put something in your pocket if your pants are tight enough.

This means that even if you had large pockets in tight jeans you would probably not use them anyways.

And looking at the data provided this seems to be a probable exaplanation, as skinny jeans generally have a smaller pocket compared to their straight counterparts.
Then it's mostly a matter of insurance, so problem solved I guess
My understanding is that the philosophy behind robots.txt is owners not wanting their content automatically included in someone else's product, if not duplicated and recorded wholesale. The important idea seems to be ownership, not the ability to browse. If OpenAI had two agents, one with no memory, and one with a memory, that would be better: you could disallow ChaptGPT-storage and allow ChatGPT-user, for example. Barring that, I'd be afraid allowing ChatGPT access to my website means my website is now part of the ChatGPT corpus.
Maybe Volkswagen et al. didn't innovate early enough in terms of electric cars, but it gets more interesting every day (to the point that I would by German instead of a Tesla).

But where the country is spectacular: in charging infrastructure. It has one of or even the densest high-performance-charger network in the world. 350kw chargers: world leading. Sure, the network is not finished yet. But having to actually have an electric car, Germany is one of the best places to be.

Few people noticed: Germany has also the leading hydrogen-fuelstation network outside Japan and South Korea.
There's a significant amount of people who take the same approach to cancer as they do to diseases such as covid, such as:

* Pray

* Fast

* Take some essential oils / sugar pills

* Eat way too much vitamin C

* Protest against nearby 5G towers

* Take a lot of niacin and figure out what you did wrong in this or a past life while going on a former cruise ship that is filled with asbestos
In latest version you can annotate (highlight, underline etc.) and create a few other annotation types and move them.

More / better annotation editing, signing, redaction is something I want to do.

OCR - I don't have a good handle on how important that is.
Laser Blast was also a great arcade in San Bernardino CA :)
Those links aren't great. That second link even outright conflates residential living versus industrial production, when the latter is more appropriately attributed to where the goods are used.

Obviously public transit uses less energy. But city dwellers go out much more, whereas rural is more likely to just stay home. Even a basic framing that recognizes telecommuting might not be enough to capture this - if farming and factories are generally not in cities, then having a bunch of people living in cities just to do reverse commutes to less dense areas is going to be worse.

Single family detached dwellings most certainly take more energy to heat. On the other hand if the heat is coming from burning wood, that's renewable in both energy and carbon senses. Modulo particulates of course, but that points to an advantage of lower density.

Urban living also results in much higher rents for housing, with that now-centralized wealth being more likely to be squandered on the upper classes' hedonism landfill.

I'm certainly not rejecting the idea that urban living uses less resources. The hive intuition is quite compelling, and the not-city not-rural hour-plus SUV-commute to a suburban office park lifestyle is clearly terrible. But such comparisons are going to be highly dependent on framing, and those links haven't even done the basics of it.
> The number might become higher but if the economic output stays the same relative to the population the compensation doesn't become higher.

You're using the word compensation ambiguously. Your sentence is thus nonsense as I cannot parse what you meant. Was that your point?

> You are not going to be better off if you you are compensated better due to staff shortages and then pay more due to staff shortages.

Are you saying that keeping payment low is good for people because it also keeps inflation low? I'm sure everyone will agree and take a pay cut any moment now :)
Having recently watched Sentinel and Jack Ryan, and previously The Expanse and TRoP (it's most certainly not LotR), it looks like Amazon is trying to replicate the same formula over and over:

1. Cliffhangers at the end of each episode.
2. Multiple red herrings and 180 degree turns.
3. One *huge* reveal towards the end.
4. A mixture of grim realism and cynical humour.
5. Dramatic and often extreme action scenes.

It works for some series, and combined with good writing/acting/directing can result in a solid product (see Jack Ryan, The Expanse); but in other cases it either fails with bad filmmaking (see Sentinel), or simply doesn't fit the underlying material (see TRoP).
I think it's very easy to over-index on this point. Indeed I think it's now super fashionable to do so. The whole "ideas are cheap, execution is everything" argument.

Ideas aren't everything but they are important. The crucial distinction is that the initial idea isn't that important, iteration to an idea you can scale (and the execution that follows) is.
Cool simulation of the July 10, 1958 Lituya Bay tsunami in Alaska, mentioned at the top of the article:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cegaVqMvvvQ&ab_channel=Surfe...
Voyager Backgrounder (1980) [pdf]
I played around with bitcoin early on and tried mining just for fun. Had 52 bitcoins.

Then the price hike in 2013 came and I was reminded of bitcoin again. Sadly the wallet was stored on a harddrive that was wiped sometime in 2011. 52 bitcoins had basically no value when I got them, but that clearly changed.
I feel like eventually this will put billboard sign replacers out of a job.
If you're fetching 128-bit cache lines, you're already "wasting" cache. Further, decoding 1-3 NOP instructions isn't much different from decoding 1-3 extra instructions except that it adversely affects total code density.

If you don't want to decode the extra instructions, you don't have to. If the last 2 bits of the jump are zero, you need the whole instruction block. If the last bit is zero, jump to the 35th bit and begin decoding while looking at the first nibble to see if it's a single 32-bit instruction or two 16-bit instructions. And finally, if it ends with a 1, it's the last instruction and must be the last 15 bits.

All that said, if you're using a uop cache and aligning it with I-cache, you're already going to just decode all the things and move on knowing that there's a decent chance you jump back to them later anyway.
> Any wing will agree that Germany's energy policy has been bad.

Very true.

> They shut down their nuclear production and replaced it with lignite.

Not really true and often a bad faith argument. While it is true that some of the output has been replaced with coal, it's a) not everything; having the coal power on unscheduled has been deemed unnecessary (with the benefit of hindsight). b) ignoring the fact that the scheduled shutdown of coal has been rescheduled to be earlier, resulting in net-savings over the original plan (which was admittedly still a massive policy failure).
Ya makes sense, with Berlin essentially being an international airport in terms of demographics. I suppose knowing English would suffice.
Running my own doh-proxy, so I use it for my android phone, and firefox browser.
Having been in both, they are worlds apart. Sure, those descriptors might be tossed around, but that's a short commming of English to properly convey experiences.

Its distressing to spill your coffee. It's also distressing to have your house burn down. The difference is large.
Automattic is becoming a real interesting collection of well-liked/useful/underdog services: WordPress, Pocket Casts, Tumblr, Texts. Here's to hoping they continue to do cool things and have some success. The world needs some scrappy alternatives to unicorn-scale enshittification.
I know a 26 year old guy who died of heart failure after getting his. It was a huge shock because he was a really healthy guy.
While I think that ASCII including a specific record delimiter character (0x1E) that isn’t used is a missed opportunity, I actually think the lack of a set interchange format is a benefit.

No format will work for everyone and if there was one set format, we’d still have people complaining about how it doesn’t work for their usecase. We'd also have had to (finally) answer the question of how to send the schema with the data.

JSON (and XML and YAML and…) are all methods to try and adapt a text based data interchange format. And they all work roughly the same. You ultimately need some kind of processing library to full read them. But working with the data in any sort of structured context requires specialized tools (ex: jq).

Or you can still grep it, just like I do to manage my tab delimited data, and get part of the way.

I think the chaos of having no standard is kinda the point. Text is the lowest format that is easy for people to work with. We can visually parse it pretty easily, so the tools that support text can be pretty universal. Grep, sed, and awk can do a lot.

But to do anything more, you’re always going to need some kind of specialized parsing, even for tab delimited or CSV data. So, let the terminal work with generic text and be “good enough”.

As an example: you mentioned JSON and YAML and suggested a slimmed down YAML might be more powerful. I deal with columnar data with tens to hundreds of columns and thousands of lines. This wouldn’t work with either JSON or YAML… it’s too verbose. Instead I use (compressed) tab delimited text files for their ease of parsing in many languages. But those won’t work for many other use cases.

With data exchange, there is never going to be one right sized option for all needs. If you can accept that, then the “right” option is to choose none of them.
Please do not spread these unscientific falsehoods here. We are interested in keeping this a space for civil, courteous, and curious discussion.

Whosoever seeks the truth will not proceed by studying the writings of his predecessors and by simply accepting his own good opinion of them. Whosoever studies works of science must, if he wants to find the truth, transform himself into a critic of everything he reads. He must examine tests and explanations with the greatest precision and question them from all angles and aspects.

Ehsan Masood, Science and Islam p: 169
Yes, I know. I've been listening to podcasts about how to setup a company and create a product for some time. I have an idea about creating a physical product with software (customizing a physical product, it involves using Blender). To test the product market fit I setup a fake webshop where the customers could describe in a textarea how they wanted to customize the product but when they clicked add to cart button, it threw an error. I logged all these clicks. I advertised it on FB, only at a limited region and I could get people add the product to their cart. The cost of getting one user clicking on add to cart button was way-way-way below then the expected profit margin so very likely I can make money out of it. So now I'm 1000% on it. If I'm lucky I can make at least as much as I make now and can leave my day job. I know it's not a full sw company but a sw enabled one and that would satisfy me. I want to go live with an MVP but later on want to make the customization process fully automated -> the users would do it, I'd just create the product and ship it. My goal is to make the UX so good that it would limit others to replicate it. Later on I can think about building a real sw company. Or not.
> You can't measure any productivity that has any cognitive component.

Are you able to elaborate on why this is true please?
This. Once you've spent enough time on the other side of the hiring process and/or in a leadership role, the reasons behind aspects that seem annoying and trivial as a job candidate become clear.

Any interesting technical position posted by a company with a good reputation gets so many unqualified applicants that I wouldn't believe it if I hadn't seen it over and over myself at different organizations. Every HR department I've worked with has done a good job of filtering out the ones that didn't even look good on paper. Out of the ones that get past that stage, I'd estimate maybe 1-5% actually have the technical qualifications for the job. Of course, even if they have the technical qualifications, they may be lacking in other areas, like professionalism.

The last three companies I've worked for have all used a custom CTF as one of the interview phases, and it's been invaluable at screening out people who were good at talking about the work, but not good at actually doing the work. So, superficially, I'd love to be able to use something like Starfighter instead of having to maintain one in-house. But how likely is it that a company like that would build truly unique challenges for every customer? IMO it would cause cheating to be easier, because people doing the CTF in bad faith could just work from lists of known elements used in previous CTFs from the same company.