skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’m putting all this effort into this game and at the end I won’t really have anything to show for it

You will have something to show for it: Joy.

If your only interest is to invest effort into producing something that provides some kind of physical value, then of course work will be more interesting than games.

Development has fun parts and it has tedious parts. The tedious parts are what usually makes for a good product. Factorio removes that part; because it is not about producing a product, it's about having fun.

> Not sure if it’s a blessing or a curse.

That's up to you, but for me it'd be a curse, not being able to do thing just for fun anymore, because of always feeling a pressure to be productive.
Only when I'm carrying my keyring
I always try to travel by train if I can when im travelling Intercity. Its always so enjoyable and quite cheap.
It means “every couple of years” by now. Maybe not in the very exact place, but that phrase has been used to describe a lot of extreme weather events in the last few years.
I kind of like this. It's a more formal proof of concept. You prove the bug exists by writing a failing test. If they cannot construct a failing test then it's either too hard to mock or reproduce (and therefore maybe not even worth fixing, for a free tool), or it's impossible because it's not a bug. Frees up maintainer time from dealing with reports that aren't bugs.
> It's obviously so that someone can get a recurring cut

As the person who started this discussion about needing software for household things, let me be clear that this is not the sort of situation I'm talking about! The things I use, I either made or maintain myself because it's my hobby. Nobody needs to use them who doesn't want to and there is no cut. I think the conversation diverges here as this is not the same situation! Probably anyone would agree that being forced to use something or other is very different from being able to use something or other.
My understanding is that just vegetable oils are generally bad for cooking because of how they retain heat. Even if they have a high smoke point, it's easier for them to get to it.

Have you doing that she has the same issue with coconut oil? Specifically, the saturated ones that come in a jar?
An Ed-Tech Tragedy?
It's at that point I probably get a lawyer in the room.

There's a reason human testimony is second to actual evidence.

I was involved in a motor vehicle accident that went to court, the testimony I have maybe half an hour afterwards in a police report as well as to my lawyer was that the other vehicle was white. I got the brand and model of the other vehicle correct however the other vehicle was in fact black. I wouldn't believe it till my lawyer actually showed me a picture of the other vehicle.

I didn't attempt to lie, I simply misremembered the details and if I misremembered that detail what else would I have misremembered.

Pushing me for details after that experience makes me explicitly believe you are trying to catch me out and I would then shut up and request a lawyer because I don't see any good coming from that.
The main difference is Germany actually puts money in vocational education and values it socially.

China does not.

China's education spend is only 4.1% of GDP, and much of that is diverted to academic high schools and universities. Furthermore, vocational students are viewed as "bad students" and good faculty prefer to join academic high schools or private high schools due to a better salary and social standing. Furthermore, even SOE factories (the traditional hirer of vocational students) in China now prefer hiring college graduates instead of vocational students because of a glut of college graduates due to cultural shifts in the 2000s-2010s, anti-vocational student bias, and college graduates trying to get a stable "iron rice bowl" (to use the Korean term) government job.

> I think you describe that it is very similar today in China after they banned the private tutoring a couple of years back. So, we are somehow back to “work hard on not to unequal grounds and your personal merit/luck will determine your future”

I think that was the aim of the legislation, but in action it didn't help social mobility much, because upper income households just resorted to private or online tutoring, and everyone ignores it.

It's not like legislators send their kids to vocational schools - they also prefer to send them to academic or top private schools so that they can then attend university (either domestically or abroad).

> but it does not seem to be “instrumented in a way to keep certain groups out of academia based on income or social standing”.

In face value it doesn't, but in action urban academic high schools and primary schools get the lions share of funding, and until recently those are gatekept to people holding a hukou for that city.

This meant that urban migrants who weren't able to convert their rural hukou to an urban hukuo (because that meant losing their rural landholdings which is the only asset of worth they have), and their kids were stuck either in underfunded rural schools or crappy private primary schools in an urban area.

This has a significant impact on social mobility to this day, and is a major reason why China's median household income remains very low. Urban China's median household income is $6,000, but rural China's is around $3,000. This means the bottom half of urban society in China and much of rural China's society does not have much of a chance of upward mobility because they can't pay for private tutoring nor can they afford a good private high school if their kid fails the Zhongkao.
Gravothermal catastrophes make clusters bigger, in order to make stars the potential energy of gas clouds has to go down.
I was obsessed with Chopin for a while then went off his music for many years. I have had a resurgence in my interest in his music. Probably due to the Chopin competition rekindled it alongside with finally getting hold of a piano again.

The etudes are timeless
Mine runs mostly on a $20 DigitalOcean instance. I only have ~5K users so it’s not a giant service, but it shows you can run a small server cheaply.
Gbps Fiber Internet for $80M? – Forrest Heath, Somos Internet [video]
If you do it as a purely visual representation of the game state, it won't be a solver, will it? Just all blocks surrounding ships + blocks in rows/cols with a 0.
Rhymes with the "new" Mozart composition rediscovered last month.

> While compiling the Köchel catalogue's newest edition – an authoritative list of all of Mozart's documented musical works – classical music researchers rediscovered the manuscript of the previously unknown piece from the Carl Ferdinand Becker collection in Leipzig's music library.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganz_kleine_Nachtmusik#Redisco... (Sept 2024)
> As a challenge to anyone objecting to this comment,

You are free to comment whatever you want, but I don’t see any evidence to support your hypothesis on a population wide basis.

>I ask you to look up the history of canola oil and say whether such a substance would be accepted into the food supply today.

If you are referring to genetically modified rapeseed plants to be herbicide resistant, then it would most definitely be accepted into the food supply today. Genetically modifying plants still happens all over the world.
Don't use Summer and Winter for event invites, it's "northern" and not inclusive
Crowdstrike.
Using less memory to look up IP addresses in Mess With DNS
Reminds me of one of my favorite Dilbert cartoons: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/k5hka0/bug...
The train logistics system in 2.0 has been vastly improved. I was just able to make a “set and forget” train automation system. All I need to do is add more stations and, when necessary, more trains. Before this updated you needed mods for this.
That's... the situation as described in the post which the comment above you was responding to?

> The only downside is that internet connectivity being down means, e.g., you need to remember to load the grocery list before leaving the house that has the server in it

Wireguard or Tailscale Inc. are not magically going to resolve that situation. Does Tailscale even work locally if your internet is down or does it require their cloud for NAT punching regardless of whether you're on the server's LAN? For starters
This is comically incorrect. Even the article plainly states that you need to know ~1500 characters to be considered literate in Chinese, with sixth graders required to learn ~2500 characters. A quick perusal of practically any Chinese-language website (e.g. https://zh.wikipedia.org/) will quickly disabuse you of the notion that there are "only 200+ Chinese ideograms".

You might be conflating "ideogram" with "radical", i.e. components of characters. There's probably a few hundred of those defined, but they're more like pieces of characters rather than whole ones. Combining radicals produces very different characters that have totally different meanings; learning the radicals alone buys you very little.

There are thousands of characters, and you have to know thousands. There are tens of thousands of characters in existence, although only highly educated folks will know anywhere near 10000 characters.
So why not use Peertube as the distribution medium and just build a UI? Seems like it'd be a lot easier than building an entirely new product.
Yeah, I see how it can be confusing for novices. But learning curve aside, there is something other than just looks that kept this UI pattern alive all these decades.

How I see it [1], absolute values don't matter audio software, except when working with loudness compliance or some very technical things. What's important is how things sound, and it's generally a bad practice relying on UI metering to dial in sound in most cases. The typical audio work involves fine tuning parameters until things feel right. In UX terms, relative parameter tuning is the most common kind of interaction, and sliders absolutely suck balls at it, in my humble opinion.

Linear sliders actually have more inconsistencies across implementation than knobs, that have converged to more or less the same pattern. E.g. some sliders reset value if you click in the middle of it, at which point all prior tuning is lost - this is super annoying and I hate it. Others operate in relative mode and they're similarly intuitive in regards to which direction they should operate depending on slider orientation (should horizontal slider change its value with up-down movement? should interaction range extend beyond slider length?). Also, such sliders are identical to knobs, essentially, but take more screen space.

So, in a a nutshell, knobs are superior for fine tuning, which is 90% of all audio software interactions.

1. I'm not a professional, but I have clocked in thousands of hours into DAWs and other related software over the years as a hobby, also I played on a few local gigs and made some simple audio software.
Most people posting on tiktok aren't professional content creators with monetization in mind. And I'm not even sure the biggest revenue stream of influencer comes through the app itself (a friend's brother is an Instagram “influencer” for a living, and he makes the bulk of his money through partnerships on the side not directly from Meta, and I know it's the case for many YouTubers as well).
The usual one: young people are using it!
Theoretically you could have one side of the world power the other side with solar panels for essentially infinite, cheap power.
a) Doesn't that mean to limit oneself to bias, mediocrity, and preconceived judgements instead of actually thinking?
I don’t know about rashes and reactions. But in health circles, seed oils are generally considered safe and retain higher nutritional value if cold pressed. This makes them suitable at least for salads, but not frying.
The EU said it would be up to each country to decide how to set their clocks, and it got to the point where the council of ministers (ie, the governments of each country) had to make a decision when it all stalled.
My flutter use case may be too pedestrian, but I have no issue with flutter using projects managed by nix.
You did the same thing but in the opposite direction. That's how easy it is to make an unforced error.
Well I got an Uber from my office to Union station, as the metro in DC isn’t great. Obviously no need for an Uber in New York as I could get the subway.

Had I flown to Miami I’d still need a taxi to my hotel, just like I did from the train station. I don’t get that argument.
The Advice Trap
My advice is worthless.

There, I said it. Man it feels good to publish those words. Now don’t get me wrong, I have been asked for advice a good bit over the years, especially when it comes to tech related subjects. But the truth is: Almost nobody actually takes my advice. Now I can already hear you saying, “Well yeah but free advice typically isn’t worth that much”. Well sure, maybe not. But even when I’m getting paid to proffer it, my advice is generally not taken very often. In fact the cost of the advice seemingly has very little relationship to how seriously the recipient seems to take it.

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I shouldn't enter into consideration, but it's a shockingly good heuristic to evaluate the credibility of people.

I repeatedly found that people who are thoughtful and not snarky — and often, nuanced — when discussing a topic I have no deep expertise on were much more correct on topics that I did have expertise on and could properly evaluate.

We're all on a time budget at the end of the day. And I do share the sentiment: the scientific literature in nutrition is known not to be very good. You don't have to be an expert, it suffices to notice that there are a lot of people coming to contradictory conclusions, and that the consensus seems to have changed drastically over the past decades, not being particularly driven by any groundbreaking changes in available scientific methods.
So I just had a repeat experience playing the game that massively turned me off to replaying it.

Was at 4096, and I tend to bunch up all of my numbers in sequential order like a snake, with the metaphorical head being the bottom left. Well, I was no longer able to avoid swiping down or left, so I had to swipe up. I had the full complement of two undos left, and 8 spare squares for numbers to appear.

Three times in a row, a number appeared in the bottom left when I swiped up. Odds of which should be 1/512 unless the game biases in favor of certain squares for hidden difficulty.

I pretty much decided not to play after that, because it was the third time that's happened. Not yet knowing what the actual code is that decides where new numbers appear, it frustrated me enough to not want to revisit this version of the game.
On one hand, overseas money in betting markets has less bias and more neutrality. Example: a man in Australia does not care who wins and is able to see it all as an outsider from above. Regardless of whether he is gay or straight. Foreign politics is not connected to their identity and foreign politics does not map over neatly to domestic politics.

You’re able to see this for yourself when you travel to other countries and talk to people you meet about the politics in their country in person. Suddenly, magically, you’re able to see both or all sides and actually listen instead of selectively listen.

On the other hand, one would say people closer to the issue are the more informed ones and that’s usually correct. A counter point is people closer to the issue are being targeted by more advertising and usually we associate targeted advertising with causing a populace to become more misinformed rather than more informed. The primary media bias every year is calling elections closer than they actually are. Because if the media outlets and the pollsters they hired said any given election wasn’t close, people would check the news less and the media’s primary customers, the advertisers, would be sad about their ads reaching less eyeballs.

What is your opinion about foreign views and foreign bets on foreign elections?
Thanks! That’s a lot of additional information. I appreciate the effort!
The World of Pi
If you aren't willing to have volunteers do it for free, moderation is by far the most expensive and challenging part of running a social media site. Cohost was both developed and operated by a total of four people, one of whom was a full-time moderator.
Maybe I’m doing it wrong but RSS works just fine most of the time for me. I use NewsBlur and does everything I need and more. What did reader have that no other RSS service doesn’t?
The other half of what made it successful was the insane video creation tools with insane ease of use. Getting 90% of a really good result effects wise with 10% of the effort was made possible for many scenarios pretty early from what I remember.
Well it helps me to get started. Not more but also not less.

For me it’s very important to emphasize that AI is a tool. You have to use it responsibly. But there is no reason not to use it.
Paul Saladino advocates a theory that humans cannot handle a lot of linoleic acid in the diet: it decreases the performance of membranes, particularly of mitochondria (which in turn causes insulin resistance, obesity and other problems cause by chronic lack of ATP).

Saladino says that it would have been impossible for an ancestral human (particularly in Northern Eurasia where meat from grass-eating animals constituted the majority of calories) to get more than about 3% of calories as linoleic acid whereas the US average is now about 11%. Sunflower seed oil for example is 67% linoleic. corn oil, 53%, soybean oil, 52%. (Most of the omega-6 fatty acid in the human diet is linoleic acid.)

Here is Paul Saladino explaining it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j75kc5qamXs
Except the human studies we have suggest that seed oils are probably not inflammatory. A few examples are listed in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xTaAHSFHUU
Bolt CEO changes RTO to stop insanity of working remotely from places like Bali
That works great and is exactly what I did... when I was alone
Why are all these articles by Nina Teicholz.

There’s nothing “unmade” in the scientific opinion. It’s her opinion because she insists that saturated fat is good, but provides no scientific evidence. Almost all scientific studies and scientists (including the authors of the few studies she might quote, because she often distorts them including completely presenting the opposite of what they demonstrate) disagree with her saying.

And yeah, she’s not a scientist, does no scientific research herself, and has no particular training in this area.
That's a fair enough point. A minority with more fervently held opinions is more likely to voice them. I am mostly surprised because of where we are. The hacker mindset is far more compatible with evolution than creationism, so I'd expect vanishingly few people who consider themselves hackers to be creationists. Creationism is kind of an antithesis of intellectual curiosity (even from somebody who has read lots of creationist philosophy and apologetics; there's always a logical leap of faith to God).

Not all new accounts are throwaways. I did create an account for this purpose, but not to avoid association with any main identity (I habitually delete or permanently abandon social media accounts on a regular basis, when I feel that my behavior is becoming too addictive, to enforce a break on myself). I did actually think the comments were jokes at first. I took the first one I saw as sarcasm. I didn't think the microevolution/macroevolution argument was still seriously peddled around. The last time I saw that one was in a Chick Tract, but I don't tend to see evolution discussed in places where creationists hang out often.

And though I am curious about the numbers, I'm also alarmed and dismayed that such intellectually dishonest positions are being seriously posited here, and I don't think they deserve to be treated as neutral and valid positions. They are offensive and extremist, and in many cases, actively harmful and disruptive. Almost every comment here is directly or indirectly debating the existence of macroevolution as a result.
An alternative mechanism for how some foods deteriorate cardiovascular and brain health depends on how foods are cooked: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_glycation_end-product

"Dietary advanced glycation products intake is associated with dementia" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41209509

"A database for dietary AGEs and associated exposure assessment" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41962796
“Sneeze” or “喷嚏” is a pretty difficult word to write in Chinese in terms of number of strokes and its internal components. I’m not surprised people wouldn’t know it off the top of their heads. It’s like if someone asked you to spell “unnecessary.”
> Development has fun parts and it has tedious parts. The tedious parts are what usually makes for a good product. Factorio removes that part; because it is not about producing a product, it's about having fun.

Factorio also has tons of tedious parts. It really isn't all that different in that regard in my experience.

There are many games these days that are designed to have a certain element of tediousness (grind) in them, because this gives you the sense of being productive without actually producing anything.

> That's up to you, but for me it'd be a curse, not being able to do thing just for fun anymore, because of always feeling a pressure to be productive.

I don't think they mean to say they always feel a pressure to be productive. If it costs you exactly the same amount of energy and you get the same amount of joy from it, then why would you not choose an activity that produces something of enduring value?
What if the data is encrypted? Do you keep on trying in a brute-force way?
Can you not just screenshot the page on your phone as a backup before you leave?
> causing a widespread addiction crisis isn't a side effect that shows up in clinical studies.

But increased abuse and dependence was apparent from studies. The studies were manipulated by the Sacklers and when that wasn't enough they bribed the FDA to say that their drug was "believed to reduce the abuse liability."
Plastic industry and chemical (pesticide) industry
Another good way of thinking about it is that if 10^a 10^b = 10^(a+b), you can set a=3 and b=0 to get 10^3 10^0 = 10^3. If you divide both sides by 10^3, 10^0 = 1. QED.
I think of writing as similar to a linear extension of a partial order. Your brain doesn't think a single letter at a time, instead, all of your neurons are doing neuron things all at the same time. But writing is linear. This forces order and I think is partially responsible for the "clear thinking" ascribed to writing!

Hopefully I'll live the couple of decades to find out if PG's prediction is correct, I would bet against it.
star trek fan films are a good counter example. there are thousands of them and several reach professional quality. check
https://startrekreviewed.com/

so it doesn't look like that some productions getting better and better leads others to give up. the improvement of quality just seems to go along with the access to better tools.

the relaxed stance of the star trek owners may have something to do with it. even the clarification of rules a few years ago didn't do anything to reduce the activity. it may have even increased it because now the rules are clearly spelled out where as previously only those that were im contact with CBS/Paramount knew if they overstepped any limits.

there is literally a new release every day. (i have verified this. i have watched almost every video posted on startrekreviewed.com and since the last year or two i am watching one new video per day, and i haven't run out yet. and that's not even counting audiodrama, comics or stories)
the most expensive piece of writing software is scoping work.

i’m almost tempted to add a test suite just to give people more agency over my output because right now i’m only soliciting feedback in person to cut down on internet bullshit, like what happened to xz-utils
Mightn't it be better to actually just autosave?