skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meanwhile in the US ...

a) Real economic research funded by Koch brothers and other fossil fuel companies write all policy: trickle down economics, no taxes on rich people, billionaires must become trillionaires first for us to see the trickle down effects.

b) Tobacco cartels funding scientific research purporting the health benefits of tobacco[1], a playbook now employed by all industries.

c) Lead is a gift of God and is healthy funded by auto, fossil and chemical companies which poisoned the world from early 1920s to early 2000s[2]. Though its banned now, there is lead everywhere on the planet now and is only banned because of the work of Claire Patterson[3].

"After Patterson completed his work with calculating the age of the Earth, he turned his attention to a problem he had discovered during his research. He was perplexed at the amount of lead contamination in the atmosphere. Furthermore, he was surprised that the general population was not aware of the effects of lead on the human body. This was mainly because for the last forty years, all studies done on the effects of lead had been done by doctors with no specialized training in chemical pathology and who were primarily funded by the manufacturers of lead additives, notably the Ethyl Corporation. One of these doctors hired by the Ethyl Corporation was a man named Robert Kehoe. His job was to perform scientific research to raise doubt in the public that lead was poisonous. Some of his reports stated that there was no evidence that lead was toxic, that since it was naturally occurring it could not be deadly, and that if workers are overexposed to it, then it is simply an issue of regulations within a company. Kehoe was able to persuade the public that lead poisoning should not be seen as an issue.": https://publish.illinois.edu/clair-patterson/fighting-for-a-...

d) All chemicals are healthy until proven harmful, anything can be added to food, and the environment polluted with no consequences. And there is always industry sponsoring research that whatever substance is in question is in fact healthy. Well know harmful substances take at least 3 - 5 decades (or never!) to be banned or regulated! (a) above gives the foundational basis to let rich people (aka companies) do whatever they want with the same playbook employed by tobacco and lead.

Europe is better in terms of food regulations compared to US: https://wellwithrae.com/food-chemicals-in-america-vs-europe/

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c25mqFtg6AA&t=218s

[2] all research on TEL’s health impact would be underwritten by GM, Standard Oil, Du Pont, Ethyl and lead-industry trade associations: https://www.typeinvestigations.org/investigation/2000/03/02/...

[3] Clair Cameron Patterson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clair_Cameron_Patterson

[4] Lead a gift of God: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2023/jan/12/the-gi...

[5] The Secret History of Lead: https://www.typeinvestigations.org/investigation/2000/03/02/...
The goal of anyone contributing something useful shouldn't be to immortalise one's name. You, by defending this practice, give yourself away by having similar ambitions.
I love what he's saying because it completely aligns with what Steve jobs was saying in the 80s, a computer is a bicycle for your mind. Of course in the interim perhaps it's premature to not learn coding at all. And perhaps coding is the most optimal way of exercising the mind bicycle. But I see a world where the future has star trek like computers that simply aid in the creation of whatever investigation or art or experience you can imagine.
From a linked post in the blog:

> One of the things I have found throughout my career is that serious programmers pretty much stick to one of two (arguably three) editors: Emacs or Vi(m), and on OS X, TextMate.

That says it all
Yes by most normal countries (North and South America, Europe, Africa, Middle East ) and even broader French (outside of Paris) standards 30 meters square feet (320 sq feet) is called a tiny house, and is even illegal for families in some part of the world.
The whole point is « if you’re alone »… is that a life frankly ? So you take a shitty salary because you’re alone or do you take money to progress in your personal life and build something like a family ?
Oh yeah true you don’t need a car because life is so miserable driving and parking here, but public transportation is a total disaster when it comes to safety (ask pretty women how they feel there) , quality of service (summer transportation is a disaster, strikes and regular failures), cleanliness (piss, rats and bedbugs and vagabonds every where). And yeah the SNCF trains are also the preferred homeless shelter and very unreliable during every public vacation time. So you’re totally right, the car is something of the past… unless you live in a crappy suburb you can today totally forget about the less than 1000 rent.it is around 1500 minimum, and in this paradise that means earning 4500 minimum because waiting lines are in average 15 to 20 candidates per rentals . And you better be a white colored person with a European name and face. So with 3700 net salary you simply not qualify. You end up like most people looking for a partner officially and counting on your partner salary plus yours just to get a chance to live in that tiny flat.
Telco is 50 euros min without Netflix and football and Disney or Spotify . If you have a family and need to dream because of the gritty environment you leave in , you can add 30 / 40 bucks and you end up with 70 to 100 bills depending on the number of persons in your household . And you didn’t pay yet the flat tv nor the smartphone.
Believe people earning less than 4k net a month in the Paris region do look at the prices today.
HN should change the title guidelines to include renaming click bait.

"Mexico City may be months away from running out of water" is a better title, and it is, surprisingly, the title of the HTML page this links to.
I didn't agree on it. It's like stating the principle of procreation and someone quoting a pornstar, and now we name it James Deen. Hope this helps, mrn.
If you trust old Usenet threads it's dying for at least 40 years.
Aren't STDs at an all time high? How does this relate to low levels of sex?
I matured a different, if not opposite viewpoint: every entity acts in it own self interest, so if the incentives are not aligned, things will tend go south. It may work for a long period of time because of sheer will power and commitment to a greater good from the people involved in the organisation, but over time, everything will follow market incentives.

Public health care seems to be a primary example (and my family has been in the sector for more than 40 years); HC was good for a long period of time then it got progressively worse and nowadays it's just an item in your tax bill. If you literally don't want to die you better know someone on the inside which can push the right buttons or go private.

The money spent on law enforcement had a reverse effect on crime rate, the police actually got less efficient the more money they manage to extract from public funds. They got really good at getting more money from ridiculous speed limits and automated systems though.

Looking in the private tech sector my experience has been similar: the larger the organisation the more it resemble a government and the more inefficiency is tolerated. Within layers and layers of middle management it's easy to waste plenty of investors' money - albeit not indefinitely, like a government would.
Emacs is certainly "dying" in the sense that I don't see any undergraduates using it. 20 years ago students were mostly split between vim and emacs. As time went by, both have dropped. Vim has picked up again in the last 8 years or so, helped by neovim, but I don't think I've seen an undergraduate (out of 100 students per year) using Emacs for about 5 years.

My belief (from listening to students) is that vim using highly non-standard keys is seeing as a worth-while tradeoff for the extra editing power it provides. With emacs, it's not clear there is any advantage to emacs not using the standard ctrl+x,c,v,n,s,f, etc.
You've provided no reasoning to support your claims, even when I asked you to. I therefore dismiss your claims as an arbitrary opinion.
> (1) Lunar holidays for the ultra-rich

An incredibly small market given the cost of getting a human to the moon and keeping them there. There will be no economy of scale here for quite a while so this is an unlikely driver of any revenue. Tourism is barely a thing for orbital trips and not even close to being sustainable for such a small energy expenditure compared to a lunar visit.

> (2) Entertainment industry–reality TV shows filmed on the moon.

Never going to happen. Chicken-egg problem here and a complete fantasy.

> (3) Professional sports

So rediculous it does not even rise to the level of fantasy.

> (4) Oh no, China's lunar base is bigger than ours,

Possible, but not quite the national motivation it was in the midst of the space race. In the 60s and 70s existential conflict with a competing super-power could barely get flags and footprints on the moon. What passes for modern nationalism is not enough to sustain a lunar presence.

> (5) Scientific research

This is the most likely of any options presented so far, but is still completely reliant upon the government teat to drive action. This is the exact same revenue model we have now and mining government contracts and lobbiest-driven funding is not exactly fertile ground for a 'gold rush.'

The point remains that there is no revenue model at all for this, no is there likely to be one within our lifetimes.
To put it bluntly: Kids are expensive, marriages are mostly for kids, so if you can't afford them why bother?
It seems to me that you guys inadvertently expose a kind of fundamental selfishness when you post like this. Like, it sounds as if a significant part of your reasoning on having children is the belief that you are creating a person who will be biologically obligated to like you and fulfil your emotional needs - thereby saving yourself from being sad and alone.

I don't think it's common for child free people to share this belief. I would even hazard a guess that for many this train of thought is more associated with how they feel about pressure from their own parents to fulfil their emotional needs by creating more new people.

That kind of self-interested argument doesn't land very convincingly on people who feel that their future state of being sad and alone or not is their responsibility and nobody else's.
After 25 years of coding primarily in emacs, I switched mainly to VS Code for larger, more complicated projects last year. I did it mainly because it eases navigation through large code bases and because the visual debugger is so easy to use.

I still use emacs in the terminal for scripting and for smaller coding projects, for anything over SSH, and for blogging and fiction writing. It's a distraction-free editor that has very powerful features when you need them, but doesn't shove them in your face. It's also nice to be able to do everything with the keyboard and not have to keep reaching for the mouse.
The rich hoarding all the wealth, means everybody is too busy trying to make a living and too tired.
Agree up to the last paragraph

In the genius funnel, the article argues to increase intake, you are arguing to enlarge the 'goes to school' step.

Porque no los dos?
Huge genome study confronted by concerns over race analysis
> All of these facts are grossly obvious if one’s emotions do not happen to be involved: but to the kind of person named in each case they are also intolerable, and so they have to be denied, and false theories constructed upon their denial.

Note that TFA clearly distinguishes between patriotism/partisanship, and what it labels as nationalism, which is (even —or maybe especially— in cases where the "nation" is not objectively definable?) so excessive as to cause the valence of an argument with respect to the "nation" to become more important than its actual plausibility.
question :1. How did they hit 3 trillion with incorrect people making decisions ? 2. and is satya worse than steve or bill ? there seems to be a lot of praise about how satya saved microsoft.
Lol for both the gatekeeping and TextMate (does anyone uses it still beyond authoring grammars?)
There could be a technical reason. At this point, Google's search ranking algorithm is probably a pile of interrelated heuristics designed to maximize revenue without sacrificing quality too much.

It would not be simple to integrate another algorithm in a revenue neutral way. The signals may be missing, and the new algorithm may overlap or interfere with several other rules, either negating or over promoting their effects.
I've heard from women that it's low quality in men that wants them to not have sex.
https://archive.ph/B29Rb
vim, emacs are the editors you can use both on desktop and remote via ssh sessions.

Then there is the individual preference between vim and emacs

other tools like Eclipse and bash have emacs keybindings to repay the muscle memory investment
> This kind of crap's even worse than when you get a 'stale' tag for inactivity. Sure, true, nobody else has said anything, but why does that discount my buggy experience or whatever? I would understand if it was because I didn't reply for so long after a maintainer response, but when it's just because there hasn't been any update it's just annoying. Nobody likes '+1's, so don't force even more notifications from label added, pointless comment added to bump, label removed!

I absolutely hate repositories that do this.

You're sending a clear signal that you don't care about bug reports from users. I bumped one issue for about a year (I seem to remember it was security-related too, to make matters worse) whilst the bot repeatedly tried to close it. It never got fixed.
> "And if yes, who cares?"

One of my managers used to say that the only reason people write software is because there isn't already an emacs or Excel macro to do what they need.
The difference being that the majority of people were married and having kids decades earlier, so people were still having sex, just in the boundaries of social acceptableness.

My own grandmother told me how she married my horrible grandfather at 19 because she was 1) Horny and 2) Was not allowed to have sex with anyone until she got married.
It's the examples curated for RLHF. Not its autoregressive nature.
In the nineties, emacs used to be the #1 text editor. On Unix. Which reached a tiny fraction of a percent of programmers. In that community, it felt overwhelmingly popular (competing with vi who was in a close second).

Ironically, of the two, emacs was the user-friendly alternative.

Today, Linux is the most popular operating system on the planet (if you don't believe me, count up those Android phones, network routers, and embedded devices). Even so, emacs runs on Windows and MacOS. That market is many orders of magnitude bigger. It has a tiny fraction of a percent penetration in the market of "devices with a CPU." So it feels very niche.

There are no figures I'm aware of for number of users, but it's not at all clear to me how to compare:

(tiny market) · (large percentage)

versus

(huge market) · (tiny percentage)

Even as estimates. Qualitatively, it feels different. The level of "emacs community" has gone down, but "community" isn't about quantity, and can be reached with a dozen tight-nit users.
The power of emacs is not the default keybindings.
Who decides if something is "important for humanity"?
A Lot of academics already today are just trying to keep their job, and don't keep up with innovative teaching methods, they don't record their lectures, cause who would pay them if there's a video about it ?

So in reality we would be fine, if we focus on doing the job not keeping the job.
I use VSCode sometimes to click through a new codebase, but its memory consumption can be hard to swallow particularly when various LSP servers are running (looking at you terraform-ls).
If you forecast the future, growing populations are a problem, shrinking populations are a problem and steady-state populations are a problem too.

So it is a problem, but it isn't obvious what solving it looks like. Even if it is irregular, it might actually be a win for humanity.
Emacs could be much more alive if it actually had good documentation.
Leaning Vim is also painful, but compared to learning Emacs it's a breeze.

I've tried learning both. I'm currently a Neovim user, and every now and then I revisit Emacs in hope of learning how to unlock its (alleged) powers. I give up every time because it is just too frustrating to even get to the point where I can smoothly edit a .c file.
To me the popularity of vim is also due that it's a small and fast editor to be used in the cli with more featires than nano, while emacs mostly is a gui application. This makes it ideal to edit configuration files or small scripts on a server. I use it mostly for this reason, and my coworkers use it for the same reason, while I use vscode for programming.
I’ve worked as a web developer for over 10 years, eMacs is one of those things only strange people care about. Never really cared what text editor I use, seems really strange and time wasting.
The hype is insane. Listen, I think LLMs still have a lot of room to grow and they're already very useful, but like some excellent researchers say, they're not the holy grail. If we want AGI, LLMs are not it. A lot of people seem to think this is an engineering issue and that LLMs can get us there, but they can't, because it is not an engineering issue.
If a model can say ‘I don’t know’, then the hallucination problem would also be solved.

When we say “know” it usually means being factual. For an LLM to ‘know’ it doesn’t know, it would have had to move away from pure correlations on words, and meta processing about its own results.

I can see this happen with two LLMs working together (and there are Evals that use just this), however each LLM still has no self awareness of its limits.

This was a terribly convoluted argument to make.
Well, if they change them, we can buy used solar panels for dirt cheap. Many already do.
One source of stats is the 2023 Annual Rust Survey. The question on text editors allowed multiple responses (so percentages naturally don't add up to 100%), but 5.5% of respondents reported using Emacs for Rust vs ~30% for Vim/Neovim, vs ~61% for VS Code. I was shocked that Emacs and Vim weren't closer. https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/02/19/2023-Rust-Annual-Surve...

Obviously, it's possible this is a quirk of the Rust community. Though the Go survey shows similarly small Emacs usage numbers https://go.dev/blog/survey2023-h2-results (3% Emacs vs 16% Vim/Neovim).
clever! will have to see if this works with tqdm progress bars, has anyone tried that?
the space problem is a bit different. we probably don't want to turn the whole planet into high density housing, even if we could energy wise, but the only thing getting in the way of solving the problems we have is politics as in unwillingness to cooperate for the greater benefit of the world instead of for selfish reasons.

People don't have a good grasp on the space issue because they hadn't play with the math, or investigated our terribly inefficient and often ugly land usage pattern.

When I think of space, I think about acrologies, hardly high density dystopian hellscape. We would realistically construct them over time in module instead of trying to do monolithic designs that I often see proposed.
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I also grew up in the 90s, and I spent time reading books. A lot more fun than most shows you can find on Netflix today
Possible, but you'd still have to prove it.

After all, buildings and higher density is possible, transit is possible.

Where I live (sao paulo) there are many people on the streets. However, there is housing for all of them. That just lies empty. For speculation and seeking higher rents. For airbnb and skirting renters protection laws.

We don't have too much people, we have capital that is too accumulated at the top and that expects too high returns
FYI, switching to dark mode makes the post unreadable ;-)
> Companies with lower parasite load operate more efficiently, allowing higher production of goods and services for lower price, leading to a wealthier society.

This may be true. But I think it would be wise to consider an alternative:

Companies with lower parasite load operate more efficiently, allowing higher extraction of wealth from society at large to the owners and leaders of the company, leading to a more unequal and poorer society.

Probably not all companies are in the second way, but to think all are in the first way sounds naive to me.

> The alignment problem may actually be the hardest problem we have.

Hah, reading this makes me think you already understand that your assertion about companies operating efficiently is false. Yet you wrote it...
The existence of a genetic component is put into question by some, but by no means all.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ
We involved into a technological environment. Fire and rock tools were both used to create us.

No tech, no humans.

Modern tech is what saved us from the dour prophecies of the Malthusians.

A little bit of screentime sure does beat infant mortality, polio, hunger, and the global wars we used to have.
> We ALL need to go on a tech diet. Find the good stuff, and keep it, and treat the rest like junk food.. which is fine to have once in a while, but the moderation is key.

Not just the internet, but television as well.

I'm seeing a few signs that people are ripping themselves free of their screens and getting out more. I'll see kids on bikes any time the weather is decent, and on the bike trail more parents have their kids on bikes these days than in trailers.

> We lost all local communities from church, to the office.

If we do nothing to preserve these things, they will go away. Find a church that fits your beliefs and join. Get involved in the activities. Do you sing or play a musical instrument? Music has been a lifesaver for me.
Somewhat strangely, this makes me think of something Dijkstra wrote[1]:

Technology is expert at inflicting radical novelties upon mankind. Nuclear weapons and the pill are examples from the last 50 years; so is in my opinion the automatic computer, and this not so much in its capacity of a tool —in that capacity it causes only a ripple on the surface of our culture— as in its capacity of a challenge that is absolutely without precedent in the history of Mankind.

While no doubt screens and porn and so on are contributing factors, it’s probably worth considering the sexual impact of near ubiquitous intentionally taken sexual endocrine disrupters.

In my personal experience women who go off the pill have marked increases in libido. Of course that’s anecdotal, but the plural of anecdote is data.

[1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/E...
Can you send it to me? I have an iptv business and we have new customers always looking for FireTV 4K max stick.
Too many people competing for everything.
I thought this was going to be about Phoenix but Mexico city makes sense.
Pretty funny, remind me about of a shocker collar device somebody triggers when you do thing you want to stop doing.
There was a sort of pop-economics book titled after the paradoxical truth "More sex is safer sex".

It's about topology. Star topologies (e.g. one man and many women) are more spreading of STDs than graphs that have evenly distributed edges.

More total people having sex with more partners brings about fewer STDs due to diffusion.

https://books.google.co.ao/books?id=07sYZRyFXAAC&printsec=fr...