skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does it not occur to any of you to question the terms of this engagement? Introvert and extrovert are categories that Jung just made up in 1913, they are not scientific fact! Just because sometimes you want to curl up in the fetal position under a blanket for 3 hours and listen to a podcast doesn’t mean that you’re naturally inclined to an internal world, it means that you derive comfort from being alone like a child in their blanket being read a bed time story.

Even if the arbitrary division is bullshit, still Jung had a more compelling concept of the “introvert” than any of you: it was someone who was so deeply in touch with their inner world that they contacted horrors of their inner psyche, someone who was able to steel themselves and reconcile with the unknown in the deepest part of their unconscious: and since the unconscious was collective, therefore also the unconscious of the world and society. There is a movement both inward and outward. What people today call “introversion” is just another name for infantalization, of being fearful of exactly what Jung would’ve tried to drive us to experience. All this while the climate ticks up every day; how can I be convinced this is not just a retreat to safety in uncertain times?
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I agree they probably aren't going for world domination, but here is a nice video from Mathew Flatt where he says, "The point of Rhombus is to make Racket macro technology more accessible" and "removing an obstacle for most people":

https://youtu.be/OLgEL4esYU0

Having traditional infix operators, function calls, array subscript, and field access is a great start, but after that it doesn't look very traditional or familiar at all.

I hope they succeed, and I'll keep following their progress, but when I look at their if-statements, it's pretty non-traditional:

if is_rotten(apple)
| get_another()
| take_bite()
be_happy()

It looks like it has indentation-based grouping with vertical bars, white space, and colons implying different precedence, and that makes me have a lot more questions. I think my American macrobrew analogy above holds.

https://docs.racket-lang.org/rhombus/Notation.html
I also disagree with their lack of oxford comma. :)

I did lacto once because I had a bunch of habanero from the farmers market and wanted something that could sit around for a while. But I usually don't plan ahead, so typically it's habanero and a garlic clove under the broiler and then blended with some lime juice - a bottle at a time, as needed. A recipe I got from Rick Bayless.

The grocery store has been out for a few weeks, so I may need a different strategy. And I should branch out more.
I don't use an ad blocker, not because I'm not aware of them, but in order to support the creators of content I view via ad revenue, and to avoid installing a potential MITM vector directly into my browser.

If there's a site with a really bad ad experience, such as audio playing video ads with audio, constant pop-overs, or using an ad vendor that allows ads to redirect or run super-heavy scripts, I simply stop visiting.

Short term, sure, blocking ads would be in my interest. Longer term, having content producers I'm interested in be able to get paid, and thus be able to continue to produce content is in my best interest.

Installing software that puts me one malicious update away from surveillance and/or credential theft, however unlikely, is not something I want to do. Perhaps there are protections against such things in the browser, and perhaps there are workarounds against those protections. Keeping up with the latest security status of browser plugins isn't something I want to invest any time in doing, and not something the majority of people would be able to do.
iPhone is a choice.

Smartphones or digital literacy increasingly are not optional when it comes to accessing services in society including government.

Apple will have a bank account one day.

If X becomes the super app it’s aiming to be, it will be interesting to see how that plays out in North America.
There's no side where berating your subordinates in front of others is justified. That's unprofessional and childish. Always.
> Social ties are no more helpful in a famine than currency is. [...] Currency is fine in [a famine] scenario.

Social ties are more helpful than currency, even in a famine, because at that point resources are shared based on relationship rather than value. Triage, not optimizing future gain.

See also all the bits about why currency at that point was a terrible store of value.
It's specifically the fact that the network is directing its own optimization. Which yes, could then potentially be used to get more capability from the hardware, but that's true of manually optimized networks as well. Needing less human help is the... interesting part.
I think about this a lot. It should be really beneficial to have a progressive legal system for corporations where laws become more strict based on size or revenue.
Some of us have trod this path before, and recognize righteous anger when we see it.
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Udio is trippy in its own way like this.

Sometimes it sounds like every singers voice that can fit a genre can be heard at once unless you specify it.
I make my own hot sauce, but they were all kind of blah until I started growing my own chilis.

I grow the bird’s eye chilis (piri piri) that is an important part of a number of Portuguese dishes that I like, including wonderful piri piri oil that I drizzle on many things. I always have extra chilis at the end of the year so I make sauce.

There is a Portuguese sauce made from fermented red (sweet, large) peppers that I’ve never been able to get right though. Finding a recipe online is tough because this is a family recipe that gets passed down, many families have their own take on it, and I’m in California and don’t have any Portuguese relatives. If anyone makes massa de pimentão and has a recipe please share
The answer is just 26? That’s crazy.

Wonder if there’s any way to intuit this before working it out.
Dear god this is pretty much what I went through when I started taking over a company with a 35-40 year old codebase. Files spread everywhere, no consensus, and supporting customizations for thousands of customers who we didn’t know if they were even still using the system.

It took five years and the firing of the long-time “head” programmer until some meaningful change was made.
imagine a way of the sword and a way of the cloth. The cloth ways prosper while the sword ways train to fight. The sword way group then kills or threatens to kill the cloth way group, demanding payment. So it begins.

Later, roving hordes on horseback arrive without warning from far away, and simply take everything, breaking any balance. The horse masters are the new rulers. Later, the horse masters lose. etc
Is this like a Live CD?
> Whenever we interacted with them it would be a small chit-chat, exchange small updates (how's your son doing, is he married yet?) and then finally do the actual purchase. All of that is now gone. Every single interaction I have now with vendors is 100% transactional. I don't even know their names nor they mine.

Interesting note: economics would quantify this as a significant productivity increase. You can now get more tasks done per day!

Lesson: economics does not fully capture human values.
What Is Analog Computing?
Can you explain why it should never be used, beyond subjective preference?
> Firstly the 60% have chosen iOS. They are not "hostage" they can leave. And this is not new behavior- it has existed since the iPhone shipped. Consumers are voting for this. [1].

Are you assuming users would still feel this way if they were made thoroughly aware that Apple's intermediation increases the prices of app services by up to 43%?
You, like the author, are confusing introversion with failure to launch. I have yet to see any evidence that the two are correlated.

I know plenty of highly extroverted adults who still live in their mothers' basements, have no dating prospects, and are generally miserable. I know plenty of highly introverts adults who are happily married, have successful careers, and are generally happy.

Indeed, the very post-pandemic changes that the author bemoans have been an enormous boon for those of us in the latter category, allowing greater success and greater happiness for the truly introverted. I can now work from home and spend my limited social energy and limited capacity to deal with noise on the small circle of people who I want to spend my energy on—my wife and kids.

My life and my family's life has dramatically improved as a result of that change, and your condemning me and those like me for participating in a "digital hermit lifestyle" and claiming this is a slippery slope to a world with no sex and no children is laughable at best.
On my TVs that kind of adblock still works perfectly fine.
(Edit: I misread the title as “the open-source movement” instead of the “post-open-source movement.” I’m not deleting my comments but I recognize it’s fairly off topic from that misreading.)

A movement that does an incredible job when writing reusable libraries, and generally an abysmal job at writing full-size software.

If I had to pay a nickel for every time someone’s MIT-licensed library saved my life… I’d be much poorer.

However, I will never be able to convince any Excel user that LibreOffice is a viable substitute, because it absolutely isn’t. Forget about the disability slur compared to Photoshop. Darktable is not a Lightroom substitute. Blender’s the only bright spot - ironically because they decided ruffling feathers and redesigning it completely was the right decision.
Cholula is a fine hot sauce, but if you haven't expanded beyond it, there are sauces with a much deeper level of interesting flavors.

Don't get me wrong, I'll douse a chicken wing in franks quite happily, but when it comes to my bacon and eggs in the morning, I prefer something smoked and fuller.
Yeah, I would say that elite programmers are the ones who are able to do most value with the tools they have, so likely they would be the ones who would get most out of AI as well, since they know how to make it do what they want and understand if it's any good or not.
Nvidia is clearly overvalued though due to the AI hype.

On the other hand this would be a great time for such an acquisition, before the bubble bursts.
>a long border that can't be credibly monitored

Yep, quite different from Egypt-Sector Gaza border))
So this was published a year and a half ago? Is there a reason it did not catch on?
Why is Israel bombing and killing as it pleases, but then the US (and the UK, and other western countries) must protect it from the consequences of its actions?
If they scraped the internet for sentiment proactively instead of reactively they could have avoided this mess.
This is pretty neat! I was toying around with the problem and it appears you can use generating functions to derive the same sequence of operations. If you start with:

G(x) = 1 + x + x^2 + ... = 1/(1-x)

The coefficients of this polynomial is the sequence (0^0, 1^0, 2^0, ...)

If you take the derivative of G(x) and multiply by x you get:

x * G'(x) = x + 2*x^2 + 3*x^3 + ... = x * d/dx 1/(1-x) = x/(1-x)^2

The coefficients of this polynomial is the sequence (0^1, 1^1, 2^1, ...). If you repeat this step, you get a polynomial whose coefficients are (0^2, 1^2, 2^2, ...) and if you do this operation N times, you can get a closed form of a polynomial whose coefficients are (0^N, 1^N, 2^N, ...).

The infinite sum converges for -1 < x < 1. If you set x=1/c, you get the infinite sum

0^N/c^0 + 1^N/c^1 + 2^N/c^2 + ...

which is exactly the sum we are trying to solve for. This means you solve any infinite sum of the form given by taking the derivative of 1/(1-x) N times while multiplying by x each time. Then plug in x=1/c at the end.
Seems to not really have worked for Boeing and McDonnell Douglas though.
My understanding is that current hydrolysis systems are pretty inefficient (single-digits efficiency) and even worse once you factor in the cost of storing and transporting cryogenic hydrogen. That doesn't make green hydrogen a bad idea: it just means the main application for it should be industrial feedstock (for e.g., making steel) and not energy storage.
The absentee voting process is still audited at every step. They even have observer areas in the ballot printing facilities now. How would a party ever subvert the process that exists to stuff ballots at any scale?
Yeah I mean just have less stuff happen at the state level.

Like state welfare kinda boggles my mind. Won't rich people gradually leave states with strong welfare systems for states with cheaper taxes? Isn't that why Elon Musk left Cali for Texas?

How is welfare viable at anything but the highest level?
really curious why I got downvoted 3 times for my reply, but whatever ...
It would seem the best way to put an end to the ES fiasco is to simply release what you have (and post the update to Kickstarter)?

If the engine and tools are 90% complete, it's better to release 90% of something than nothing at all. The backers would no longer be able to call it a scam. It's probably the only way to put it all to rest.
> Does anyone know what "best in class" small-scale farming or gardening projects are?

I think you're misinterpreting the criticisms. It's not "this particular product is a bad implementation compared to other one-size-fits-all tech-solutionism products", but rather "a one-size-fits-all tech-solutionism approach to this problem space doesn't make any sense"

This is a very typical tech-industry "everything looks like a nail" type issue: going into an area you don't understand with a solution to problems that don't exist.

A small subset of problems here:

1. A robot should automate things you do often/regularly - developing complex machinery do to one-off seasonal steps steps like seeding & pulling is immensely wasteful - that's going to raise the cost of the product a lot just in order to automate tasks you rarely do.

2. It doesn't do those tasks well: the pulling examples are contrived & the failure rates look high.

3. The watering mechanism is developed to suit the robot design rather than designing the robot around optimal watering strategies - this completely ignores generations of optimising watering approaches. The watering mechanism is actively harmful to many crops.

4. Very unadaptable to different plants' needs.

TL;DR: There is no best of class product in this area because only someone who doesn't understand the problem space would try to develop a product to do this.
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You leave out the bit where the sword way freeze to death because they have no technology to deal with the harsh weather (which obviously is present because there's a need for cloth in the first place).
Yeah. It's really really hard to prevent actors from coming up with clever ways to circumvent the automatic checks. But that just means that apple needs to play the cat-and-mouse game. That's what they always say their cut is for, no?
> That article really overestimates the desire of suicide bombers to survive their attempt.

The article addressed it pretty well. They have a fairly strong desire to not blow up in the taxi to the airport, so you can't carry premixed TATP around. And it won't work to just dump it into the toilet or sink and let the reaction rip, you won't get enough TATP out of that to matter.
Google used to have superior translation but that hasn't been the case for years now. Based on my experience DeepL (https://www.deepl.com/) is vastly superior, especially for even slightly more niche languages. I'm a native Finnish speaker and I regularly use DeepL to translate Finnish into English in cases where I don't want to do it by hand, and the quality is just way beyond anything Google can do. I've had similar experiences with languages I'm less proficient with but still do understand to an extent, such as French or German
Until you need that person, then they're a life saver. People often can't see beyond their own nose.
They wouldn't but they could let some go.

On the other hand they'd purchase the most common desktop ISA and a lot of IP. It would make so much sense.

But like the OP said, antitrust is surely why they're not even trying. They already got slammed with ARM.
haha never!
Yes, but I’m annoyed with the low-effort use of science-based metaphor, and taking it more seriously leaves an opening for someone who actually knows something to elaborate.
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Thank you, I wanted to express this but you did well already.
I think before people would actually be "replaced", the productivity boost might actually cause more work since all of sudden, the development costs go lower which means that new things that were too expensive previously, which there are tons of suddenly become low hanging fruits. I think it's hard to predict what happens after that though.

> One thought -How are juniors turned into seniors? Lets say that we solve that with some yet to be invented educational solution, and then companies that arent code heavy would hire them for much less money or something like that.

In theory there are already many occupations like medicine where you have to study for years before you can do actual work, but coding wise it will still be easier, since people who do it as hobby will do it as hobby and become good enough on their own.
Damn, am I the only one that used M1 to go forwards?
It's a guilty pleasure, I don't like that Sanderson belongs to the Mormon church (they believe weird things and I think have too much political power in Utah) and I just couldn't get into the rest of the franchise. (I partly liked Final Empire because of Vin)
I elaborated here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41153987
You see this in cross-Atlantic history education too. In US and European history, everything seems to flow out of Europe, or at least the Mediterranean. Menes becomes king of Egypt around 3150 BC. Then we fastforward to Honer and the Olympic games in 7th century Greece. Then there are the Punic wars and Rome wins the Battle of Cornith in 146 BC. Then the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and so on. With some things like the revolts in Judaea against Rome as a kind of dialectic counter-narrative.

If we look at what was happening in India, in Mali, in Japan and China, in Tenochtitlan or Caracol or Cusco, we see a different history happening.

From the failure of the siege of Vienna in 1683, to the end of World War II, Europe and the US did dominate the world. That has been fading, and the narrative is facing too.
The article links to an attack that extracts a 512-bit secret key in 5-10 minutes:

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I vacuum the bag with a Foodsaver but the displacement method with a ziplock bag probably works too.

I’ve only ever had to vent ferments with lots of fruit sugars like blueberry habanero. I just cut the bag, force some of the air out, then fold it over and use a binder clip. I don’t reseal them because the salt pulls out their liquid and I don’t have a chamber vacuum sealer.
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Aviation discussion starts at the 9:00 mark. Lead-up discussion lays the battery roadmap that has gotten to this possibility.
When it's overrun to 100 billion € and the project's "about to start showing results", would you feel the same?
One ad after each level?!
> Some democracies in the 20th century have tried a form of cash debasement to fight inflation.

Cash debasement and inflation are the same thing.
I don't know what the US does, but in Germany all ballots are poured onto a big table and then sorted into staples for each candidate / party. Especially since the votes / crosses are always at the same position for each staple, it is trivial to keep an eye on 5, 6 staples at once, and the remaining parties get almost no votes anyway. After that, the staples are split into 10s and counted by two people, independently, after each other. All results are called out loud. The results are also given to the city hall via phone, so everyone in the room can hear it. City hall publishes the official results per party per polling station as nice images, easily digestible. I don't see how this is next to impossible to supervise, even for a single individual.

If you want, you can even stay the whole day and keep an eye on the whole voting process except when the voters make their choice behind the privacy screen, you can see everything which enters the ballot box. I've seen myself someone regaining trust in the democratic process because of this - a guy who openly accused us, the polling station workers, of voting manipulation, being openly hostile, agreeing that everything was done correctly in the end. This would've been impossible while using electronic or online voting.

> it's about a million times easier.

If you, as a random citizen, know SUM() and even think about downloading the data for Excel, you are the top-n% in computer literacy. You are aware of that, right? ^^'

For most people, verifying their own vote on a website with no understanding of the underlying process is the absolute maximum you can expect, IMO. In this case, it is "trusting a magic box with a display". You compared it yourself with HTTPS, for which the same is true for the general public.

> What's important to rely on is the fact that people are able to verify that their own votes are consistent with what's in the public votes

But will people do this at scale and do people trust that they do so? The latter is the most important. It doesn't have to make statistical sense, it's about feelings in this case.

Because if most people (of a certain demographic like the elderly) don't check their own vote or a significant amount of people don't believe that they do so, you cannot automatically assume that all votes in the polling station have been counted correctly. It may have been e.g. only the votes of certain demographics (who are unlikely to check their own votes), which have been tampered, even if this believe is statistically unjustified.

If you supervise a whole analog polling station, you see for yourself this is not the case.
I find this curious. Were you able to identify the cause of your anger and angst?
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