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Lead by example. Demonstrate what putting in effort looks like, be passionate about the projects, and inspire others to be passionate about them.

I've made a very conscious decision to not work on weapons, but if I dedicated my life to making weapons then I would hopefully have a core drive to cultivate. Give meaning to the work. The security of your family and way of life are at stake.

If that isn't gaining traction after about six months then try to shake things up with the stick. Put middle managers on alert that failures without improvement won't be tolerated.

"A" position of power is insufficient here. "The" position of power is necessary. It's a big ocean and one person needs to have control of their section to be able to affect change.
My shopping list is sequential by aisle, so I don't go down the aisle if it's not on my list.

I wonder if shopping online for delivery helps curb impulse buying
Is "sensor just no longer responding" a failure mode which could trigger the alarm?
+1, also look into Huel. I personally like it better than Soylent.
Ultima VII: Part 2 was my favourite of the series as well. The world of Serpent Isle had such a rich setting, and folklore. There was something really haunting and beautiful about the world they created. I feel like they really took the things that made U7 great, and perfected it. In case anyone hasn't read it. Here's a great interview with one of the lead designers that explains why the story pivoted in the way it did:

https://ultimacodex.com/interviews/bill-armintrout-si20/
The conclusion may not be defeatist, but the conclusion is different from the subtitle of the article (and the title of the submission):

> Studies suggest that relying on will power is hopeless

Which would indeed be extremely defeatist.

Willpower and better strategies can both work in conjunction. Willpower is not entirely hopeless as a strategy.
> Train yourself to think “I am just not the kind of person who does x.”

We are rarely who we really want to be. Yet, here we are. I’ve been trained, literally since infancy, to obey bedtime, but I’m writing this response an hour past my bedtime.
And what happens when education stops getting better or is unattainable for a lot of the population, and material wealth stops increasing per capita?

And because labor is so expensive, it’s hard to live/get things done?

Like….. has been increasingly the trend?

We have a ways to go, but population decreases leave a vacuum - and nature abhors a vacuum.

Birth control allows us to resist nature, but at some point someone is going to come up with something that neutralizes its effects (ideological, I’m guessing), and that person/group is going to reproduce to fill the vacuum.

LGBT doesn’t need to materially impact the numbers to be targeted - they just need to be clearly having an easier time while the other groups are ‘working harder’. That is more than sufficient to get demonized/‘other’d’/targeted, etc.

However, if left ‘unchecked’ (in a religious/societal sense), I’d be shocked if LGBTQ didn’t move the population growth rate needle at least 5-10%. Maybe as much as 25% if we count bi/trans/aro/childless by choice/BDSM/poly in the mix - anyone not producing children in the socially ‘right’ way.

Society wide? That is huge.

At least based on all the conservative sex scandals, and wives who suddenly learn their husbands have a side boy toy (or are going to the nearest public park or gay club at 2am), and women I’ve know that suddenly realize they’re actually lesbians when they’re 40.
>To me "will power" comes from precisely the process you are describing, the self interrogation into the source of these negative behaviors, examination of how they hold you back, and anticipation of what you might be able to achieve if you master them.

That may be how you describe it, but just hop into any discussion on Wegovy here on HN (or anywhere else) and observe the number of people who "don't get why it's so hard to just eat less". Or again, look at the entire war on drugs.

Willpower defined as a deep interrogation of your incentives and psychological state and making fundamental changes not (just or even mostly) to your behavior but to the environment around you and the incentives you are responding to, possibly and including accepting that your are unable to change your current environment and incentives and are therefore also unlikely to make the change in behavior you are attempting, is definitely not the norm.

Or to put it in a way that might make more sense to the HN crowd here, not deleting the prod database is as easy as making sure your not on prod when you do destructive things. But putting your prod stuff behind a VPN, having different logins, sanity checks and non-destructive capable default access to prod are all things that will make the chances of you never deleting prod a lot higher than just "be more careful". Yes, putting those systems and blocks in place is being careful in a sense, but it's not the same sense people mean when they say "just be careful and you won't delete prod".
Check out the Jung/Pauli letters.

https://www.themarginalian.org/2017/03/09/atom-and-archetype...
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why omit the last part?

> Studies suggest that relying on will power is hopeless. Instead, we must find strategies that don’t require us to be strong.

nothing defeatist about it.

not to mention, why judge such a long article which is summarizing a long book by the subtitle which generally isn't even written by the author of the article...
Are you sure about that? I'm not a UKian but the rules seem to imply that you have to give easy to pedestrians at roundabouts
>Words are important in IT and if everyone would just think a bit more about terms they use we would have way less friction with business and less business logic bugs.

I wish you the best of luck in your quest to make the English language follow rational rules.
What am I going to do with all my identical shirts now!
I haven’t compared it with killing someone’s puppy. I just think that it would genuinely be helpful to explain a little bit of the rationale and any insight gained from the totally predictable but apparently “unforeseen issues” [1].

It’s the world of worse is better and they’re going for the widest possible area of effect. Should we crucify these guys? 100% not. Part of this is on npm’s design and implementation. Part of it is cultural.

But these guys owe the people who were needlessly “inconvenienced” a little more than just the word “apologize”. Not their first born but some rationale which justifies or reveals that they realise it was a bit pointless or stupid.

[1] https://uncenter.dev/posts/npm-install-everything/
This might be a stupid question, but what is "identity" in this context?

I ask because when this subject has come up I realize I don't seem to be able to think up theories about myself so easily
That is a commonly observable post-willpower attitude. Unfortunately it doesn’t help those for whom it didn’t work. It’s like saying get up and live to a depressed one.

Saying that as a guy who punched evolving clinical depression in her face without medications with character-intrinsic anger. The problem with that approach is that not everyone has anger as a reaction so default that it still remains in a depressed state.

That said, glad you’re fine.
Anybody here go through the DFW airport about 20 years ago? That airport has had moving walkways for 30+ years that I’m aware of.

In 200X, there was an IR sensor at the end of each walkway that would trigger a male voiceover warning about the end of the “moving walk”.

There was a Starbucks in one of the terminals, right at a dogleg where a section of the walk ended. I had to listen to that announcement fifty to 100 times in a dozen or so minutes, and between recording, playback, and audio compression quality, my partner and I both swore he was saying “the wooing walk”. Like a ventriloquist trying to not get caught subbing out consonants - and failing. The Wooing/Mooing Walk was a running joke the rest of our relationship.
> Instead, you need to realize that you've been deceived and maybe even brainwashed into thinking that this vice has any redeeming value.

This has been 50% of my approach to trying to (almost entirely) give up drinking. I realized that (a) I rarely, if ever, get the happy buzz any more (b) it doesn't get me the sex that it once did (c) it doesn't actually assist with being emotionally open with my wife the way it once did (d) it contributes to weight gain (e) it probably has other negative health effects (f) it costs quite a bit of money.

All that's left of the positives is that I really, really enjoy the actual taste of the wines I love.

The other 50% was being told I had high blood pressure, and realizing the alcohol can play a role in that too.
Because that bit is not in the title
I'm pretty much with you. Originally I qualified my post with some remark about not heaping trust on a 1910s understanding of the occult - but cut that out for brevity.

I bought an 80's ed of TSTAA when I was big on spiritualism - and even then I approached it like an art piece. Maybe the sampler format didn't inspire seriousness.

Or maybe it was Manly Hall's glamour shot. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/Manly_P....
It's kind of a miracle this person wasn't almost immediately detained by US gov agents. Possessing this kind of hardware as a civilian especially if you import it from an active war zone is potentially a huge ITAR violation.
What is the value you've had in return from being connected with your previous employers there? I'm connected with my closer colleagues through normal messaging apps.
Can't claim to have solved the desktop when your text rendering looks so blurry even in screenshots.
Accelerating escalators are both fascinating and absolutely terrifying to me.
Exactly. One day I decided to beat Magnus Carlsen at chess and I just did it. It's all about hard work, you don't need good genetics or supporting family, or a bit of luck with being at the right place at the right time. Just iron will, which BTW is also 100% a genetic trait but that simply doesn't matter!
Several, including recently Toyota and Subaru who have been making cars for more than half a century.

You just don't hear about them because negative news about Tesla is heavily amplified on HN, Reddit and in the media, and bad news about other carmakers is buried.
This reminds me of the old mattress store scam, where each mattress store has its own slightly different SKU of basically the same mattress purely to make it harder for the customer to compare prices between stores.
The basis of the civil rights movement and the LGBT+ community is not, to the best of my understanding, that these characteristics are immutable on the basis of genetics.

In fact, this breakthrough research is the first to link human bisexual behavior to any gene. Which actually should have been the focus of the article.
Iceland to tunnel into volcano to tap into virtually unlimited geothermal power
I have watched it (the movie) after the first season of the show and I don't regret it.
YouTube star MrBeast rejects Elon Musk's appeal to share content on X
It's not using hashes.

(OK, well, it is maybe using hashes for the per-SST Bloom filter, but that's not what's interesting here. It's maybe also using hashes in the memtable in which case they're using it very inefficiently since the key encoding is not prefix-scan-friendly.)
“Well, it feels like I am, kid, but I’m really just a bunch of ROM. It’s one of them, ah, philosophical questions, I guess...” The ugly laughter sensation rattled down Case’s spine. “But I ain’t likely to write you no poem, if you follow me. Your AI, it just might. But it ain’t no way human.”
Yes. They did just under 2 million this year, and the goal is 20 million annually by 2030.

Even if they don't hit it by 2030, based on everything else they've done to date, I think it's likely they will eventually get there.
Congress will be happy to replace “Boeing” with “American companies which manufacture all of commercial and military aircraft, satellites, and space vehicles and launchers”.
Oh yes I am sorry; I didn't mean to imply that I thought that the DB was throwing an error. What the filing process email message body stated looked something like approximately "Form line xxx violates schema requirement such and such: <more gibberish>".

I was thinking when I scanned the message was that I bet I could reverse engineer the problem from this back end generated text but why not do what the instructions say and just feed it into the parser box? And every time the next email message gave me exactly the thing I needed to do. It was cool, for a weird sort of nerd.

So no, I was casting shade where the process was right in the sunlight: I made the mistake, and the business logic caught it, and told me correctly every time what I needed to do to fix it. I liked the whole process a lot.
Did you "rely on will power" to do that? They're definitely not saying people are unable to change habits!

And it's more about how rare it is than saying it's actually impossible.
That would be a very efficient way of running things under a cost plus military contract. For a single contract win they're able to spend four times as much money on salaries and therefore earn four times as much profit.
Something I've been exploring for the past year or so are means to increase biological energy, and brain energy in particular. If one finds themselves unable to escape their routine, brain energy could be a bottleneck.

It seems likely to me that some point along the lines of "sane diet" increased your brain energy, which gave you the presence of mind to do all those other things.

Really, I think that the premise of the article ought to inspire hope, by suggesting that simple materialistic interventions alone could be sufficient to produce change.
Seems to work on Firefox for me so you may not need to write a firefox specific version!
I did have luck once by keeping some candy I didn't like all that much on my desk at work. It was ok, but not great. I think my thought was generally "I could go get a snack, meh, I've got this candy right here! Double meh, doesn't sound that good back to work."
And that should motivate the authors to put the models on bittorrent?
You do realise avahi-client is a standalone CLI resolver, and Avahi is what both Gnome (gvfs) and KDE (kio) use to find mDNS clients on the network?

There's also nss-mdns at https://github.com/avahi/nss-mdns but it is mostly unmaintained.
These threads always bring out a whole bunch of people who confuse confirmation bias with population-level statistics.

If you kicked a heroin habit, good for you! Societally we still can’t use “suck it up you pansies” as a drug rehab strategy just on your say-so.
The only remedy at this point is to hold executives financially and morally culpable.

Anyone opposed to seeing the entire C-suite and board of directors having their bonuses clawed back and sent to jail? I'm not.

Let the guillotine come out, I want to see heads roll.
If nobody ever negotiates the terms of a pre-fabricated contract, then there is no freedom of contract going on, as a matter of common sense.

Have you ever been part of a corporate re-org where you were technically laid off and rehired and thus were legally forced to sign a new agreement? Such freedom!

All "contracts" that fit a pattern of take-it-or-leave-it with a zillion provisions should be negotiated by the government, a union, or some other collective entity with a reasonable claim to protecting the interests of the side that has no leverage alone.

Plenty of agreements are heavily constrained by regulators, (think insurance for example) and we take it for granted, so I am not suggesting any radical idea, just pushing back on the weasels who are always working at corrupting things.
Yes, there is one for business too.

https://www.irs.gov/businesses/business-tax-account

How do we know that your list better matches the most common desired/needed features than the initial implementation by the IRS?

IRS business features:

Sole proprietors with EIN

A sole proprietor who files with an EIN can:

View business balance due
View business tax records
View select digital notices
Request a tax compliance check
View business name and address on file
Give account access to your employees
Register for clean energy credits (if eligible)

Partners and shareholders

An individual partner or shareholder with access can:

View business balance due
View business tax transcripts
View business name on file

Access for more business types and roles coming soon.
> It pointed out that those problems have less to do the certification of the design and more to do with a manufacturing defect.

You might really enjoy a book called the The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman. He covers your comment here in detail.

One of his key insights is that "human error" are far too often weasel words that prematurely end a conversation (or investigation) into root cause. He goes on to detail a whole tree of "human error" so we can speak about mistakes, lapses, and errors that humans make.

The meat of his point is that some types of human error are very hard to design out of your system, but _many_ types of human error can and should be expected by the designer (or engineer), and appropriately handled.

In this instance, if a human (or perhaps a few) can make a single error when affixing the door plug to the aircraft, like improperly torquing a bolt. And that simple error risks a catastrophic loss of the airframe, then you probably have a _design_ issue and not a "manufacturing issue caused by human error".
Didn't Mark Twain say "I don't know what all the fuss is about quitting smoking. I must have done it a hundred times"
I'm mostly wondering if they could have kept it as open as they do to non revenue generating users or would they have had to do something like Vimeo where after a certain number of views they come asking for money or would have had to limit the quality/quantity of uploads from small creators due to the costs of storing and serving their videos with limited ad returns.
About the author: https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/jerome-groopman
> what changed in Boeing's design, testing and/or manufacturing processes

My theory is that this is not limited to Boeing or even aircraft design, it's a much deeper and systemic problem affecting all kinds of fields. We've had a lot of industrial accidents lately.

When aircraft manufacturing was an emerging industry there were tons of undocumented safety margins and "slack" in the design and production pipeline.

Over time, the beancounters start optimizing stuff, so these undocumented safety margins are eroded in the name of efficiency/profit (and sometimes even documented safety margins too).

Furthermore, workers back in the day had a much better life when it comes to purchasing power (especially when it comes to property), and so could actually "give more fucks" about the job than they do now which is a compounding factor. You used to get a lot of implicit quality assurance back then which you don't get now.

We've now reached a stage where these undocumented safety margins have been eroded enough that it actually starts to cause issues, and the safeguards that are supposed to catch them aren't good enough, either due to 1) they've never been good enough but just weren't really needed before or 2) they too have been eroded in the same way for the same reason.

This also applies to software - software quality nowadays has gone down the drain for the same reasons, and even brands that were built on quality and polish (Apple) are now churning out shit (see the endless calls for another "Snow Leopard" bugfix-only macOS release).
> It probably exists or someone made it before but I couldn't find it

https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news#readme
Sorry, I meant the dot product distance. For vectors A and B it's equal to 1-AB. ...ripped it out of my vector search library :)
Recent and related:

Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after mid-air window blowout - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38889774 - Jan 2024 (324 comments)

Alaska Airlines 737 Max makes emergency landing due to depressurization - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38887840 - Jan 2024 (330 comments)
Eh, considering wind speed and direction (and its differences at different altitudes), varying pressure and inherent aerodynamic properties of the door plug itself, it's hardly a high school problem. They'll find a decent estimate, but they'll have to search some area unless a person on the ground finds it first.
Misunderstanding. Claim here is that some techniques don’t work as well as others. When I was young, someone told me that if I lifted with my back I’d injure myself. I lifted with my back and didn’t injure myself. Now I know it’s a probabilistic thing. So I lift properly, force through the legs, back straight.

I’m no more a victim now than I was before and I’m not weaker for using the better technique.

But everyone can try what makes it tick for them. Once upon a time, I stored a big tub of ice cream in my freezer. Avoiding it gave me a dopamine hit. So for months I’d eat well and my identity of being someone who could resist it made me eat well. Now I don’t have that identity so I use other techniques. That’s just how it is.

No need to be a Luddite. Science gives us tools to be better.
I was at a research colloquium once and this came up in the context of dieting. The author of that research was making similar statements, although the focus of the research was different.

The problem I had with what they were describing was that they basically defined away willpower. That is, it felt like they basically said "once you control for all the downstream effects of willpower, willpower no longer has an effect." If you think about it, what's really the difference between saying "I'm not going buy cigarettes anymore or have them in my house" and willpower and environmental control?

There was more to it than that but that was the gist of the thing. They defined willpower so extremely narrowly that it didn't have the same meaning anymore, and it wasn't clear what would be left.

But it was several years ago and I haven't followed the literature closely.

I can see how just willing yourself to not do something, in itself, is probably not enough, but I'm also not sure how you can do that without it resulting in a whole set of things that collectively probably define the consequences of willing yourself not to do that thing. That is, removing something from your environment, or removing yourself from the environment, changing your attentional focus, finding something else to occupy your motivations, and so forth.
I've chewed my fingernails for pretty much my whole life. In 2004, before my 2nd marriage, I manage to resolve to grow them out for the wedding. I succeeded, but a couple of months later they were all gone again.

This spring I cycled from Santa Fe to Seattle (18 days). Pretty hard to chew your nails while they are down the handlebars all day. It was the first time in 20 years, and only the 2nd time in my life, that I had fingernails.

It's now nearly 7 months later, and somehow I still have them. It's pretty awesome having actual fingernails, although it's a ton of work to keep them in shape (which is what prevents me from chewing - I would never chew a perfectly good nail, only a damaged one). Scratching my own head (previously something I would have to rely on intimate partners to do) is so awesome, and this keeps me going.
These kits are awesome, but these vehicles are quite literally death traps.

Once the gasoline engine in my VW starts to kick, I'm very tempted to do a hybrid compressed natural gas upgrade. Potentially down the line a full electric upgrade since I'll still have a manual transmission.
> One has to ask: where did the cost cutting go?

Stock buy-backs, executive compensation, and lobbying. That's where the cost cutting goes.
Better yet, get rid of your car, too. 25 miles of trekking will offset any calories intake if you happen to actually make it to the town