skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My parents infected me with the same disease -- an intense conviction in the nobility and virtue of individual hard work -- and it led me to a terrible place, the physical sciences, where I received a harsh lesson in the nature of capitalism. It's not about creating value, it's about capturing value. In a low-leverage situation, when everyone works hard you are simply paid less. Surplus is captured through ownership and ownership is concentrated at the top. In low-leverage jobs, this system transforms hard work from a noble individual value to a collective curse.

The explosive growth of the software industry over the last few decades has led to an abnormal situation where regular employees have enough leverage to capture a substantial fraction of their surplus. Most people are not so lucky. For most people, the system looks more like:

You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me, 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

and having experienced work environments that were low leverage through no fault of the employees, I understand this, I respect this, and I did not forget it when I left for software, where we have it much easier not because we work harder but because we are in a growth industry.

I too found it easy to climb. I too enjoy the "free" money from real estate investments and a stock portfolio. But I know where it comes from. I do not pound my throne and launch spittle as I demand for those beneath me to work harder for my benefit.

You shouldn't either.
That’s just Goodhart’s law.

"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure".
If you don't have time to concentrate and learn something new then spend that time reviewing what you've already learned.

Create flash cards (either physical or on a personal git repo you can access with your phone or computer).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition

Don't put the question and answer on the same side. If using a website, require a click to see the answer.

It is temping to be constantly learning something new, but if you don't reinforce what you've already learned, then you're wasting your time on things you're going to forget.
Bodyweight exercises

Then listen to podcasts at the same time.
Since then a single farmer feeds thousands of people. We are producing more and with much less effort than we did before we have started farming and had to post the guards.

Yet the guards remain and insist that they are still needed.
Well, yes, except that this is the language (and its rules) that is taught as school.
First change your browser to one that respects your privacy. https://restoreprivacy.com/browser/secure/
The North Americans got their own back on me on one trip when I asked for a glass of 'water'. I increased my southern English accent until I was saying 'wart-er'. I then realised that I needed to say 'wadder' and then it worked; service with big smiles all round.
Wow thats crazy most refunds here (UK) take 1-2 days max
Any more details on what Hasbro's "Entertainment" division does, and why it's lost more than $800M this year?
A primary difference is that cats were introduced into environments as a non-native species and have become the apex predator. This is especially true in New Zealand and Australia. Unlike native carnivorous mammals such as the Tasmanian Devil, Quall's, and Bandicoots, cats hunt for food and sport rather than act as scavengers. Cats in Tasmania have no natural predators other than humans. I've had many cats for pets and yet in an unbalanced environment short of predators, they really can cause tremendous damage.

Short of an all out ban, keeping them indoors or in a catery or controlled in some manner seems reasonable.
> I actually admire G. W. Bush's speed of thought here...

That's a novel interpretation of the gaffe. So you're saying he repaired the expression mid utterance because it was better to sound like a bumbler who couldn't remember a common expression than to utter "shame on me" and have people play it out of context. Maybe? If this were the only instance of him mangling an expression, or all the other instances could be interpreted as rescuing him from a sound bite, this might be more convincing. Try these:

> I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family.

or

> Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?

There are more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushism
Management is also incentivized to sell research that aligns with their own agenda to the board, rather than research that says maybe what they've been hired to burn money on for the last couple years wasn't the right direction at all.
I'm not the parent poster. But someone can appreciate aspects of Musk's business decisions while simultaneously agreeing with you that there are counterexamples and may dislike those. I don't understand why that would be difficult to reconcile. Real life is cloudy and murky, and that doesn't mean people can't acknowledge the times someone gets it right.
I am very much for any SWE or Eng. Mgr taking responsibility and spending as much of their time as they see fit on anything they see fit to build a great product. Not only that, but I will encourage them to continue doing so and give them a great review score and potentially a salary bump!

> Performing the duties of a PM rather than those of an engineer.

The duties of an engineer are to know what to build, prioritize it against their other work, and build it, alon with the other engineer in their team. If you consider the "knowing what to build/prioritize" as PM work, so be it. I consider it engineering work.
Expanding on one point - not just market size, but the amount of competition. As you said upthread, there's no shortage of reasonably popular [1] modern abstract games, there's plenty of other options for people to play. It might be possible to try and promote Quoridor more broadly, given how simple its rules are, but that'd be tough (and marketing it more yourself, beyond just providing an implementation, would probably cause issues with Gigamic).

[1] Popular within the modern board game community, at least.
Learn Bash the Hard Way by Ian Miell
https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/7631

This is a long-standing issue with zvols which affects overall system stability, and has no real solution as of yet.
Sounds like a gift to short sellers.
Feels weird to get into a high-school debate about capital punishment here, but in essence:

(a) Sometimes the wrong people get convicted. In this context, irreversible punishments suck.

(b) “We’re going to kill you because killing people is wrong” is a weird look.
For the chemists here, I have a question I’ve always been curious of.

Would you eat/drink out of glassware that had been made “quantitatively clean”?
Spot on.
I am surprised that such a topic has been made an article about given that language mutates 100% of the time as soon as leaves its place of origin for whatever the mean, from accent, to colloquialisms and to slangs.

It happened to Spanish, English and to other languages.
> I'm not an expert on this, but my understanding it's all the extra judicial processes that end up costing a lot. The cost of the poison used to kill the person (or bullet, or however it's done) it's probably just a rounding error in comparison.

I would wager you're probably correct. One substantial cost for the death penalty seems to be just paying a public defender for that whole time because the average person on death row cannot afford their own representation. This would not be the case, however, for company executives in the context we're discussing here at least. I'm also curious if these studies accurately pull together all the costs for life imprisonment, such as the guard staff, infirmary staff, cost of food consumed, cost of clothing, etc. There are probably other costs associated with imprisonment that I'm not even aware of because I've been fortunate enough to avoid prison so far.

> ([...] why invent these macabre Rube Goldberg contraptions for killing people? Just put the person up against a wall and shoot him, FFS.)

On this, we agree. Frankly, I'm fine without the death penalty too, though I'm not certain that it's a fair and just punishment in every case, and I would assume the potential for capital punishment would be a major deterrence for people looking into committing "white collar" life-ending crimes.
Hard to believe that this would be caused by two cats. I live in a village (south east Germany) which had plenty of free-roaming and stray cats for decades (or rather, centuries I'd guess) and wildlife seems to manage just fine.
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people will keep stooping to lower and lower levels for views, likes, etc. If it gets them money in the end there will be people who will try to grab it.
You think it's an "informed opinion" to eradicate two species from nature?

You said that "we need to phase out cats and dogs completely". This is the most extreme solution I've heard in any debate about household pets.
In my custom instructions. I ask it to always reword my question better and then answer that instead. It usually works quite well for me.
That’s what dividends should be doing, right? Or do you want the holy grail of percentage of gross revenue which is so outrageous to everyone only payment processors charge it because they can?
Ah yes, the classic the only way to save it is to kill it plan.
Sometimes that makes it very easy, but misspellings or too common names often makes it annoyingly hard. E.g one of my great grandfather's is an August Magnusson born on the September 9th 1842 in South West Sweden, who then moved to Norway. Seems simple. Only there were two August Magnussons born on that same day within walking distance of each other, who both moved to Norway around the same time. Many more during the same month. I eventually managed to disentangle their records, but many people have the wrong one or a light mix in their trees....

That's to say, be cautious about relying only on the names without ruling out other persons who shares it.
I'm not sure.

Regular people make, logically, truly horrifying decisions constantly.

I bought some wine for a friends get-together. That's pretty normal.

But in doing so, I chose to have wine rather than vaccinate some children.

I chose having a drink over the lives of deprived children. Am I not a monster?
Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus
The problem I see here is that one of the functions returns a pointer and it doesn't use the usual pointer syntax.

I see no *, no & and no -> in the code. So I would assume everything to behave as if it was owned or even copied. Had it returned actual pointers, or pointer-like objects like iterators, it would have been more obvious.
now it's back up! yay!
This is just the same thing you said before worded differently.

What different cooling paradigm and what information leads you to think that it's a reality?
I think you've never seen a tiger up close. The largest tiger on record reportedly weighed 423 kg (933 lb).(wikipedia).
Any exception thrown with -fno-exceptions results in std::terminate. The behavior of std::terminate is unspecified.
Wait until they learn about chocolatines.
This was my first reaction as well, but after thinking about it more I wonder why my brain went to “these people need to stop” instead of “we should address what they’re filming.” Maybe because the problem feels unsolvable and difficult to assign blame, but it’s easy to blame tiktokers. There’s probably some fallacy in here somewhere.
In Ontario (perhaps other provinces as well), train drivers (engineers), and operating engineers, are allowed to continue using the "engineer" name for their jobs, but not "professional engineer". Those two were well established uses of the word engineer before engineering professionalized and became regulated, so they are essentially grandfathered in.

Operating engineers are probably more tightly regulated than professional engineers in Ontario. I'm not sure how the regulation on the train drivers compares to the other two groups of "engineers".
Do your research on European Portuguese vs Brazilian Portuguese, and you’ll realize that the latter owns its own version and defines its own standard without needing the consent from any other country.

So, there is nothing France or any institution can do about it.
Learning French while exploring West Africa was enormously good fun.

For most people it's their 3rd or 4th or 5th language, and they were always so full of joy and happiness than I was trying my best. Nobody ever corrected my pronunciation or criticized me for my bad grammar and lack of vocabulary. (Cough, France, Cough).
Thanks to all the encouragement and positivity I picked it up pretty quickly, and thoroughly enjoyed conversations with random locals all over the continent.

Actually, it was just as much fun as learning Spanish on the road in Central and South America.
Was 4 really worse than 5? Everyone I've heard speak on it is pretty hesitant to say 5 is better, and that a lot of of great design choices (martial classes not being completely outclassed, less frustrating saving throws, rule clarity, better handling of numbers on enemies, better rest mechanics, etc.) were thrown out in 5 because 4 caught so much shit for being "not 3.5".
I'm curious what is even being discovered with H bomb simulation work these days. I thought we figured out already how to glass the earth in 15 minutes by the 1960s.
Twenty years ago I couldn't even imagine that I would find smartphones to be somewhat boring.
Twenty years ago, I was finding GameBoy color to be the coolest stuff in the world.

PsOne's Tomb Raider seemed hi-res,
Hi-res didn't even exist,
I thought we were at the peak of gaming.

Apple Pro One wants to make computers spatial, we find telepathy cool.

I would love to code by the sole action of my mind while running in the forest or scuba diving, 10 seconds here and there.

I would love to receive a drawing made in the mind of someone else, to see it appear in front of me and to be able to share it with others around me :
"-Hey, look at what Julia did."

And again, that's exactly what happens already but in a more immediate manner; replace smartphone with mind, screen with environment and you're in that futuristic world.

It feels like this is cool because of novelty, but then wouldn't it be cool to go back to punching code on cards, or writing lines with ed on a terminal ?

A few years ago I went from music production in a DAW to ten synthesizers (70-84 era) with a tape machine : way cooler, never going back.

But do I produce as fast as before ?

Nope

Here is what I think : I want the possibility of writing code with my mind and virtual floating screens only because of _one thing_ (apart from the initial first few days of new=cool).

I want this to work less, or more exactly to be less at work.

But you know how it will be; you will be asked to produce more work. And this will become mandatory to work by the sole power of your mind, with 5 or 6 virtual screens around you.

And that's all, until a new invention seems cool to you.
Singapore is a really nice place to live.
I dove into the science of psychopathy a few years ago after a family incident where my father imploded his life and much of the family's through self-destructive activities and there is actually a bunch of smart people studying the neuroscience of pyschopaths.

Two great books to start with:

- The Science of Evil: https://www.amazon.com/Science-Evil-Empathy-Origins-Cruelty/...

- The Psychopath Whisperer: The Science of Those Without Conscious: https://www.amazon.com/Psychopath-Whisperer-Science-Without-...
I agree wholeheartedly.

What if one or both political parties spoke out about campaign finance corruption? What if they refuses corporate donations, and made direct appeals to their voters to chip in (YouTuber style). I'm trying very hard to not be partisan here, but why doesn't either party take a stand? Don't they share responsibility for accepting the money?
Perl Poetry Generators in 256 Characters
Systems over 10KW require a $1m Personal Liability insurance policy if you want to participate in Florida’s (relatively not very generous) Net Metering program. These requirements are “controversial” and don’t exist in other states with much larger and successful net metering programs, which is code for “they were invented by power company lobbyists to discourage solar installs.” And that’s why a state with almost unlimited free solar has almost no panels on its roofs.

(To clarify: the insurance is to cover your liability in case your solar system electrocutes someone or starts a fire, a set of concerns that basically don’t exist in other states. It is explicitly not insurance to protect you from your system being destroyed by storms, the concern that the GGP poster outlines. You have to have frankly broken critical thinking to look at the $bns spent on roofing and houses and think that the small-percentage additional hurricane replacement cost facing rooftop solar is somehow the reason people aren’t installing solar. It’s explicitly policy designed to make solar installs expensive and inconvenient for homeowners, end of story.)
Go to Singapore.
I personally am a wayland (hyprland) user myself. Still I'd say only the security part seemed reasonable enough. You're comparing seems more like this was made for linux but doesn't run on windows so windows suck. Hyprland, waydroid, ydotools aren't made for x11 so you shouldn't have expectations it'll work.
Use whatever tools you like it's the beauty of linux why bother fighting over it. heck I'd use tty and still be happy.
By my understanding, the definition of granary has changed since.
While sometimes eradication is in fact moral (hey smallpox), it’s not one of those solutions you want to look to without a truly thorough understanding that probably isn’t possible for non-pathogens.
Productivity Killers in the Engineering Industry
I'll call it "AI" when prompt engineering ceases to be a thing.
It's high time for government to act and regulate social media platforms more - and not just TikTok, but also YouTube and Instagram, where similar content isn't moderated either unless it generates public outrage.

The list of "internet challenges" [1] alone should be enough to warrant serious crackdowns across the board, and that's just dangerous challenges and doesn't include other noxious effects of social media like hordes of Instagram followers ruining flower fields [2][3] and tourist destinations [4].

And hell, not just the platforms should be held accountable. Track down and arrest every single one of those utterly vile people exploiting the suffering of fellow human beings. Just because they're doing it "on the internet" shouldn't mean immunity from the law.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_challenges

[2] https://mashable.com/article/instagram-ruining-california-su...

[3] https://matadornetwork.com/read/instagrammers-destroying-sib...

[4] https://qz.com/quartzy/1580867/all-the-tourist-destinations-...
This part is very interesting. "Even now my voice is reaching millions"

Chaplin knew this message was for future generations. When he says "even now" it means, hey im long dead but this message is finally being herd around the world.

Chaplin & Nikola Tesla were friends. Tesla told Chaplin what was to come down the line like the internet, what he called "the transmission of intelligence" I honestly wouldn't be surprised if Tesla himself didn't write this speech.

"The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter — for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way." - Nikola Tesla
You’re correct and I’m mistaken. The execs were only jailed for 5-15 years, Sanlu's general manager received a life sentence, and the farmer and salesperson who were directly involved with the knowing adulteration of the product were executed. I’ll update my top comment accordingly.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/nov/24/china-executes...
Most standard containers have no way to communicate allocation failure to the caller in the absence of exceptions (think of constructors that take a size). Worse, the implementations I’ve seen would eventually call operator new, assuming it would throw if it fails. That is, subsequent code would happily start copying data to the newly created buffer, without any further tests if that buffer is valid. In the absence of exceptions, that won’t work.
> But some in France are slow to embrace change. Members of the French Academy, the 17th-century institution that publishes an official dictionary of the French language, have been working on the same edition for the past 40 years.

Lmao, no, they don't. They actually pay other people to do that work.

People abroad don't seem to realize that the academys, most notably the french academy are mostly a retirement scheme for elder conservative members of the establishment. When you're no longer relevant, you go there to earn a fat paycheck doing nothing, and occasionally rant about how it was better before.
Yes, and only politicians that do truly know to lie are elected.
I have to disagree if someone knowingly poisoned my baby then if death penalty isn’t imposed I’m going to attempt to get revenge myself. The death penalty was probably effective at calming the entire country from rage.
FamilySearch.org linked above is one of the LDS sites. They've also done a whole lot of work on scanning church books, and whatever isn't yet online is generally available to look up on microfiche.
This is why I am against feeding wild cats (usually by well-intentioned people). They are ruthless predators and enough of them are around.

Cats can slaughter bird colonies (though somehow they never slaughter the ugly pigeons, nor the invasive parrots in the area I live in) so they are best left to themselves instead of going the "beautiful kitty that is starving" way and artificially growing their population.

Finally, I have a stray/rescue cat at home that stays at home (not interested in going outside), just in case someone though I was promoting the dog league.
Which law does this violate?
> A table is an artificial object.

Does it have to be? If a natural rock formation or horizontal tree root with a flat top is used as a table, then it is a table, is it not?

Tables are anything humans use for the purpose of a table.

Their manufacture or lack thereof is immaterial.
More than that! Fascism was deliberately, consciously anti-rational. "Reason over feeling" was always the liberal and communist line, not the fascist one, on WW2.
Finally Platon's "King" is an AI.
At least six babies were killed; that's mass murder. It was done in cold blood, planned out ahead of time. The death penalty was the only fitting sentence.
> I wonder why my brain went to “these people need to stop” instead of “we should address what they’re filming.”

IMHO we should go for both at the same time. In a society that deems itself developed, there should not be homeless people shooting up drugs on the street, and in a society that deems itself civilized, there should not be internet-randoms filming and publicly showing people who are clearly suffering.

The latter should be left to actual journalists who at least usually take care about some basic privacy-preserving mechanisms (e.g. blurring faces and identifiable tattoos).
> 2captcha gives you $0.50 per "1-2 hours". Is that really worth all the work?

That's rough, but you could scale it up I guess. Didn't know that about dbc, thank you.
That's fine, but we can still benefit from the records they've digitized.
Worked my way through college on semester breaks on farms in Oregon and Germany.
I can totally relate.
The camaraderie of showing up at the shop with the other hands on a frigid morning, working until sunset, sometimes longer.
Watching crops grow.
Harvesting.
It also helps that I grew up in the last great generation of feral children.
We were outdoors all the time. Rain or shine.
I get depressed if I'm not outdoors enough to this day.
Outdoor living (as well as hard work) seems lost on so many people today.