skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is surely the strongest endorsement of education. Einstein nails
what Emma Goldman said, "The most violent element in society is
ignorance."

There is such straightforward simplicity to his writing that it is
over-interpreted today. Chiefly, Einstein's writing is compassionate,
often comparable to Erich Fromm. Here we take him as an "elitist"
insulting "the masses", who are by our definition today "poor".

He often calls people idiots and is scathing about the uses to which
we put technology;

" I fear the day that technology will surpass our human
interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots."

"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a
pathological criminal"

Albert Einstein would not survive for one moment in what we call
"Academia" today. One of my students once remarked that he'd have been
a Ted Kaczynski, only he built bigger bombs.

Yet my favourite, which I'd hope people of the 7th Millennium will
read and nod at:

"In any conflict between humanity and technology, humanity will win."
When I saw that I immediately cancled my the "new outlook" tryout and wrote in the feedback form I don't want my mails in the microsoft cloud.
It's because IMAP is not very good for disconnected or mobile operation, and if you're willing to put a server between the on-device client and the IMAP server you can do much better at the cost of sharing credentials and content with the server. Not a new idea, mobile mail systems going back to Danger, BlackBerry, Good, etc have done this and probably there was precedent before that.
This Pepe Does Not Exist
> to which you don't even own the copyright

To be fair, I do believe the Bored Apes collection does also grant you the copyright.

Of course, this can be done just as well without NFTs on good old "paper", especially considering the concept of copyright is enforced off-chain anyway.
FWIW, this is also how Metal and OpenGL work on macOS. It's hard work, for sure, but it's also a pretty common pattern.
I love typing - it just makes a little ping in my little lizard brain. But if one of my jr teammates are typing out every single character of their code I will slap their ass and teach them about autocomplete and github copilot. So much faster to have jr type their code (as in define the types) and leave the typing (as in the writing) to the editor.

That still doesn't stop us from having typing (as in writing) races at the office which is a fun thing.
Realistically "getting away with doing nothing" would mean a lot of going to meetings, monitoring some obscure systems, writing reports, etc.
It's based on the videos from Jon Gjengset from 4 years ago and he used RFC793. RFC9293 has a publish date of August 2022
I doubt it's about last century media, "youth have no respect these days" goes literally back to before Christ, we have ancient Greek texts that say this, and probably older still.

I do agree kids _seem_ to be more risk-averse these days.
Unfortunately Microsoft won't bring it to market (and tbh I didn't think they would be the ones to do it anyway) but the idea is there and they've contributed a lot to the tech. Maybe this is going to be like the virtual boy, we're gonna have to wait 20 more years before the tech is viable and someone decides to make the thing.
> officially labelled generation

can't find "un office of generation labels" please advise
Would this be any different from a barber just increasing their prices by 20% and not accepting tips?
Junior developer fired because he dropped production database
Not all abuse is physical, and not being physical doesn't necessarily diminish the trauma the survivor has experienced. Why is 'survivor' not apt here?
That's use, not abuse, it's 2 chars, but 1 symbol, so it makes sense to use 1 symbol to represent it. That's the fundamental benefit - matching meaning to representation

Another way to fix the inconsistency is for the language designers to get unstuck from the past and allow literal ≠ in code
Its ok but instead of uneven spacing you get uneven character widths.

It might be ok but there is a reason why type designers make every character to be the same and try to balance everything including spacing.

Monospaced fonts designs are dictated exactly by that limit of fixed character+fixed space.

But maybe the “healing” might not be verydistracting.
To be fair, not many games stay engaging after 85 hours. I think the most hours I've put into a game was playing Monster Hunter, but that's mostly multiplayer it's probably not directly comparable.
Ask HN: What would it take for you to accept Bitcoin as useful?
Over a decade since Bitcoin was invented.

Meanwhile, it amassed a market cap of half a trillion. Volatility is steadily going down. If this continues, Bitcoin will surpass gold in stability and market cap. And if it continues further, it will surpass bonds.

Let's make a Gedankenspiel and imagine that this happens.

Then, at what point would the hostility on Hacker News towards Bitcoin subside? Or will it be seen as an evil scam forever? Even when everybody here holds their life savings in it?
I'm not familiar with Common Lisp or its systems programming features, but they can access any C API through LuaJIT FFI: https://luajit.org/ext_ffi.html

LuaJIT is so good that it is actually able to inline calls to C on the generated native code
Previously laws of motion were proposed by Aristotle, Newton only did better quantitative analysis of observation and proposed more precise laws.
> To your point, the system favors revenue over efficiency. Profits over prevention.

We live in the present tense, not the future.

Hence the primacy of the tactical over the strategic.
The site is awesome, but in VSCode it looks messy, and the characters are too wide. Sticking with Victor Mono.
Generally speaking, defense prefers older, reliable, and well understood technology rather than the cutting edge stuff. It’s cheaper, easier to mass produce, and less likely to fail under extreme conditions.
I would assume “props it up” like: readies it, positions it.
Indonesia launches Southeast Asia's 'largest' floating solar plant
Steve Wozniak says he's back home after having a minor stroke in Mexico
> the only real fix for me was going to the gym a lot.

> Strongly recommend.

It fixes most modern afflictions of sedentary < 60 years old people, very very strongly recommended indeed
I did not know about this project, I will look into it, thanks for linking :)

But, from a quick peek, I think my motivation is different.

My intention when creating this was not profiling exactly each operation, but understanding the logic (what each function calls do and what parameters are passed).
I see that this, apparently, does not capture argument values and return values (I may be wrong).

If you are profiling, that makes sense. Calling toString on every argument obviously affect the performance.

Another thing is that this is pretty simple, there are not many tweaks you need to do, as the goal is just to glance at the values being passed around at runtime.

If you look at the example page, with the sort algorithms, you will see that you can follow exactly how each one works by looking at the values being passed and returned. You don't get this from only looking at the calls.
That a curve of intelligence across human groups exists at all, and that it’s shaped pretty much like a bell.
Feels very hacky.
If you have large mailboxes, this would steer you toward paying for cloud storage at Microsoft, which might be a surprising bill to face.
Foreigner living in Poland here, I feel that qualifying Poland as a "poor country" is kind of dated and less true with each passing year.
Americans wanted this. A huge chunk of the population has fought tooth and nail (to their own detriment) to:
- Prevent the use of Automation (Robots taking jobs)
- Prevent Outsourcing (Mexicans taking jobs)
- Prevent Unions (Don't collaborate)

So now they got what they wanted? pre-revolutionary manufacturing? low pay, low responsibility, little growth. Uncompetative(in a bad way)! Way to go.
They can, this one project is just the exception, it was a failure since the start (collaboration between France and Germany, Germany later ditched it in favor of their solar panel projects.. )
>Divorce? That's not a fractured family, it's an extra household of goods

Said no one ever. Also, are we just going to ignore the entire industry trying to fix marriages? eg. marriage counselors, self help books. Sure, they might be of questionable usefulness, but solving relationship problems is hard. I'd hardly characterize it as "solving for symptoms, not root problems".

The same applies for your other examples. For obesity: turns out getting people to voluntarily eat less is hard, so we have an entire industry devoted to losing weight without the suffering. We might actually have finally solved it with GLP agonists. If it worked and made people lean, is it really "solving for symptoms, not root problems"? In the end you still lost weight. Who cares if you needed to use willpower or not?
"In any conflict between humanity and technology, humanity will win."

Yes, because there is always hope ;)
This is probably a bad example, in that is this is an old, _old_ piece of bad history. I think it's probably Victorian at least? "Oh, in the Middle Ages, Europeans hated/feared cats" is one of these untrue factoids that's been doing the rounds for ever; it's part of the general set of "dark ages" fantasy about the Middle Ages.
Can I ask if you investigated any Emacs solutions?

Were they bad, or did the VS code solution just seem much better?
Is there some domain specific meaning to the "knowledge file" terminology?
If you're just hanging the exercise/stretch is often called a dead hang
Allright, my comments still stand. Your statement is still as outrageous and wrong even with those two words replaced and my comments still stand the same.

How did Einstein "support" those genocides?

Define the "Intelligentsia" that supported those genocides?

How did "Intelligentsia" support those genocides?
Cool new font features, though hopefully we get a chance to get proper proportional fonts insead of this hack in the next decade or two
that's true, but you can expose SOE's to national free market, then global free market to weed out those who fail. State intervention needs to be seen as a temporary step to (re)build an industry, once it is strong enough, you can set it free.
Bah! Down votes, sensitive googles afoot.
The competition is similar to Upwork and other freelancing websites. The few times I bid for a mentorship, it was me and a dozen other guys.. I've given up on websites like these and focus instead on local connections.

I've tried to build webapps, websites with content, lots of other things, but I always ended up demotivated by the lack of feedback and interaction. The internet is a very crowded place and there's too much competition. You're either very very good, or lucky (or know how to play the algorithm's games).

My realization is that one should either find a (quite) smaller niche, or it's better to focus in the people around you, where you can engage personally (i.e., in person or email/phone/chat/whatever).
As someone who programs both Python and Rust I found the Rust version very clear. And I would not use Python for this kind of programming.
At a datastructure level, perhaps, although functional datastructures are pretty fringe. (cf. Okasaki)
In general, they can still be implemented by traditional imperative languages (obviously).

At the type/variable level, it's the opposite. We see it with const. Once it's in here, it's in there.
Personal/anectodal/non-scientific: having read his book, I understood that in my specific case my wrist pain was psychosomatic in nature and the pain itself could be caused by blood flow restriction. Just being aware of this and what may be causing it (stress, anxiety) helped alleviate the pain. I imagined the veins in my wrist expanding and allowing more blood to flow through it.
On MSVC: `/GL`[1], and `/LTCG`[2]. Former implies latter.

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/cpp/build/reference/gl-who...

[2]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/cpp/build/reference/ltcg-l...

These two options also control profile-guided optimisation.
You're looking at it wrong. As an email host, you surely have an agreement with your clients that they will keep their credentials secure and not share them with anyone. If you discover that they have, then they have wilfully compromised the security of the service you are providing, and you should immediately invalidate their credentials and contact them out of band to explain that you have acted to protect their account.
How is that remotely even legal? That's actively malicious behavior.
Right exactly. The author implies that Elixir isn't an "OOP language" but I agree with you that (AIUI) it's almost the opposite -- it's descended from Erlang whose, AIUI, entire raison d'etre is programming in a style that is strongly oriented around objects (i.e. instances that usually represent entities in the application domain, and communicate by message passing). Immutability is orthogonal.
Same experience. I know one example of "oh yeah, he had been here since the creation of the company but he became a drag and his departure was welcome" for each 10 examples of "development speed, reliability and talent retention dropped after this person left".

And it doesn't happen just with software development, both as individual customer and employee I have cut ties with companies of all kinds after they lost their most valuable employee and the replacements would need years(if ever) to provide equivalent service. Probably most people have done this after service greatly degraded without being able to pinpoint it to an specific employee (e.g. the cook in a restaurant).
why do we have to limit ourselves to earth?

It is like people can't look away and look at billions upon billions of galaxies clusters and could only see the limits of the Earth. The Earth is finite! we can't grow exponentially forever!
> you're not bogged down by a static type system

Maybe it's just me, and I'm not even specifically referring to this particular post ... but why is there so much "debate and discussion" (flamewars?) over static typing recently?

I am guessing this is due to a large influx of people into IT, many of whom got hired because they knew some JavaScript, "React a plus" a lot out of bootcamps and similar programs. As that sizable group ran headlong into static typing, usually via TypeScript, then the debates began.

All over Reddit, Twitter, even HN. People insisting that the verbose and confusing syntax was a "bridge-too-far" and one they would not cross, even if the reasons came down to "it looks weird" or "don't have to 'compile' JavaScript".

Maybe, spending too much heads-down time over the last ... whatever decades at this point ... I simply don't get it.

Don't get it similar to what I quoted here ... "bogged down by a static type system". "Bogged down", in what way?

I spend my days mixed between everything from C# to JavaScript, almost polar opposites. And the rest of it usually in TypeScript.

I do not get this feeling of being "bogged down" by static typing .... ever? I don't recall it being an issue, even though I spent hours in statically typed lanagues yesterday alone. Maybe if you are the author of a complex JS library that has to be shoe-horned into TypeScript ... yes, maybe.

What I did experience recently was being able to remove a parameter from a function, actually compile with the intent it will fail, see it fail, double click on some things and fix the 17 callers to that method I just changed the signature of, and then a minute or so later after fixing those call sites, I was back to work.

Yet, over on the social sites, the debate rages on. Open source projects removing TypeScript practically overnight for "reasons". Questions such as "how many type issues did you run into before switching to TypeScript", leaving me to wonder if that is even a rational question.

And then on the flipside, "TypeScript is the greatest language ever", heart emojis being sent to it, "If you are a JS dev you need to be using TS".

It's all strange to me, having used JavaScript for the first time back in 1996.

I'm convinced it was this wave of JavaScript devs crashing into new requirements to use TypeScript that started it.

It will sort itself out here at some point.
My Favorite Language Isn't TypeScript – An Interview with Jose Valim [video]
it's not the integration that is perfectly fine for you, but the lack thereof since you simply don't use it
(1) you initially seemed like the above-mentioned "contemporary authors", and I wanted to push back on the (suspected) inverse misconception.

(2) the very idea of ipn is a wrong framing. The proper name for non-consensual sex is rape, no matter the time, culture, legal framework or absence thereof.

No further points, this is going nowhere. We are in agreement.
Apple M3 Pro Takes the Throne of the Fastest CPU in PassMark Single-Thread
and one more ;) offset back to zero to prevent google bias.
Home row mods is a superior solution but not every Emacs user is tech-savvy enough to know how to get home row mods. Emacs users come in all forms. There are authors, researchers, people from humanities who use Emacs. Only a few weeks ago I was reading about someone in the fashion industry who uses Emacs. I don't think most of them would be interested to figure out how to get home row mods.

Replacing CapsLock with Ctrl works for many Emacs users who cannot create mods or carry around an external ergonomic keyboard with them everywhere they go. I know it does not work for all but it works for many.

What really is a bad design is to have precious keyboard real estate wasted by the CapsLock key. Anything that changes that is some improvement on it even if that is mapping CapsLock to Ctrl and using pinky sideways. We use the pinky sideways anyway with Shift, Enter, Tab, ... Adding one more key to sideways pinky does not make it a "bad design".
My remedy for the RSI in my right hand (stiffness and pain in the fingers and knuckles) is gripping as hard as possible. If I work out I remind myself to grip everything as hard as I possibly can, and I add light dumbbell exercises so I can specifically focus on gripping as hard as possible. If I'm at my desk or wherever I also occasionally make a fist as hard and tense as I can. The pain has gone away and my hand has its full range of motion again. Of course, for all I know I could be doing something wrong and my hand will blow out in a few years. Just adding my anecdotal experience.
Maybe not, but it's still a valid analogy to what Apple is doing now.
As another commenter says, Poland is not at all a "poor country" anymore, and it's migration balance has been positive for the last 7 years or so, including a (slight) positive immigration of native Poles into Poland. I.e. people who left when Poland was indeed poor, are returning in larger numbers than those of new emigrants.
I genuinely don't understand how you can come to this conclusion.

If I open the door to someone and allow them to take picture inside my house, there is no legal understanding that they are now allowed to make and keep a copy of my keys.

The understanding is that I allowed to take the picture (make the sync), through the access that I gave (door opened / imap connection made). And the underlying understanding is actually that I remain in control of access later on, meaning they can't do it again without me opening the door / connecting again.

Microsoft knows that, because they buried that information inside the webpage that the consent dialog links to, except the dialog doesn't say "important detail there" but "for more information see there" aka pretend the dialog's summary is correct.

If anything, coupled with the awkward Outlook (but not Outlook) naming this is one more of their modern move that will piss off entreprise IT admins. Your employee opens the "wrong" outlook, type his office credentials and then Microsoft now has outside of your corp account a copy of all data of that employee AND its credentials. If there was any actual real competitor in their field they would never be able to pull such crap.
Fintechs Look to Cost Cuts and Layoffs
But why can't it start at $1600 with 16GB? For hundreds less you can get something like a Surface Laptop 5 or Asus Zenbook with similar builds and hi-res screens with 16GB RAM.
The title is a bit provocative but the overall video is nice :-)
Yep - I have several family members that work in primary care - many patients have filed formal complaints with the practice if the provider calls attention to the fact that someone is obese or is making unhealthy lifestyle choices and should make changes if they want to be healthier - one even threatening to sue if the office didn't take references to her chart that said she was clinically obese - so more and more providers are simply not broaching the subject and instead writing the prescription for whatever the pill-de-jour is.
Biden is definitely printing money, but to be fair that is what the US has been doing for the past several decades. What is different with Bidenomics is the allocation of that money - the attempt at least is being made to convert excess capital into productive economy. Will surely be massive wastage though - probably up to 90%. Point is though, some SOE's might succeed, particularly if they are early to emergent economic niches. One legit criticism of Biden policy is that it is playing catch up rather than looking around the corner
This has just been my experience with RSI (now recovered), so please take it with a grain of salt.

I used to have debilitating RSI when typing. I tried everything and it just got worse over time. Stretches. Typing a certain way. Taking breaks etc. My wrist would become locked after 10 minutes of typing and stay that way for the rest of the day.

I then read a book claiming that all pain is just based on expectation, so if you think it'll be painful it'll be painful, and get worse overtime as the expectation reinforces.

Quite literally within the space of 5 minutes, it all went away. All gone. That was around 8 years ago and I've not had it since. Doesn't matter how long I type, in what position etc. Doesn't affect me at all.

As per Acceptance and Commitment therapy (not the book, something I discovered much later) this can be defined as "the solution is the problem". When you focus on the solution, it defines itself as the problem and it simply becomes worse (think for example, someone who's overweight so eats to make themselves feel better, thereby becoming more overweight and the cycle repeating itself etc.)

Interestingly, the only time my wrist gets sore is when I get really stressed. So I think there's some merit to it being a response from the brain.

I think a large part of it has to do with the eastern idea of letting go. The basic idea is that suffering is a result of holding on too tightly, as opposed to observing intently. Once you observe, the suffering goes away.