skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was writing a similar comment when I read this one. Hard agree.

The collapse of religion and its close-knit communities has created a vacuum that gets filled with (checks notes) -- vapid corporate culture BS, identity politics (actually, politics of all kinds), consumerism, and much more.

You don't have to believe that religion is good or right (how can they all be right?) to believe that humanity in the West is in the throes of a profound crisis of meaning despite significantly better quality of life than ever before.

I can't help but picture our grandparent's generation. Imagine your grandad -- a WW2 vet, provider for his family, guy who tried his best to build his community -- coming home in the 50's from his job at the factory fawning over some pseudo-inspirational new take on management that the plant manager is promoting.

One gets the sense that we're unmoored as a people, and will cling to almost anything that provides a meta-narrative and set of values... because we no longer get one from a close-knit community of people joined together with a set of values.
Are you saying a product that has not been released yet will be faster than a product that is?

And that a desktop part is going to outperform a laptop part?
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I know that this might sound too obvious to say. But I've found that, it is much easier to maintain good sleep habits when real life is not stressful. If I'm facing a big problem in life, an important deadline for example, it is unlikely that any effort I put into sleeping habits is going to help. Sometimes, I just stay up as late, but instead of working, time is spent in blaming myself for not sleeping in time, and worrying about getting up tomorrow.

The reason I think this is worth saying, is that sometimes, to break the vicious cycle of [stress -> sleep-deprivation -> more stress -> ...], you need to shift the focus to tackle the real life problem first, and don't beat yourself up for not being a good sleeper. Trying and failing to develop sleep hygiene can pile on the frustration and worsen the vicious cycle.
> the "growth mindset", and links some articles suggesting that the research supporting it has not been successfully replicated

You can find the same criticism in Wikipedia:

"Timothy Bates, a psychology professor at Edinburgh University, has been trying for several years to replicate Dweck’s findings, each time without success, and his colleagues haven’t been able to either."

"In July 2019, a large randomized controlled trial of growth mindset training by the Education Endowment Foundation in England, involved 101 schools and 5018 pupils across the country. After the trial they found that pupils in schools receiving the intervention showed no additional progress in literacy or numeracy relative to pupils in the control group."

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

"A 2024 study showed that growth mindset scales by Carol Dweck have psychometric comparability, however this study showed no connection between growth mindset and goal achievement."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindset#Criticism
This is absolutely a baby slice of the reason. Supply is controlled by a huge number of factors, a large fraction of which are tied to the 2000s housing bubble crashing. It created a large period of time where houses weren't built even as the population grew. This caused a large number of pine tree farms to slow down or shut down, which is why Christmas trees are randomly like $80 each lately. Combine this with large investor demand for the demand-side of housing, and it's clear to see that government regulations play an exceedingly small role in this.

It's hard to describe how little I care about why something was originally created, rather than how it plays out today.

It's also hard to describe how discouraging it is that social progressiveness is the only factor of any issue I see anyone have any knowledge on.
I'm surprised the article did not mention speaking to a doctor about the possibility of underlying medical conditions (physical/mental health/neurological), if all suggestions fail.
If Tesla that they had the ability to adjust the wiper blade angles and did over time to make blade replacement unnecessary, it wouldn't be out of the question.

Similar rhetoric could be applied to most maintenance. Summer/winter tyres? We'll just adjust the tyre pressure and handling characteristics in software! Battery replacement? We'll just optimize the charging curve in software! Brake pads? Software adjusted braking force and regenerative braking!

The idea that software can solve everything comes from people who've only ever worked on software, get paid to work on software, and get paid speculatively to work on ideas that haven't been proven to work.
You're right there, I should have used a Python on the CLI side as the example. Bash was a poor choice as it doesn't work with all of the points in one example. GUIs also vary on their out of the box compatibility, QT5 to QT6 is similar to Python in that that doesn't (without some work) just work though.
Famously the West stole tea and silk cultivation secrets from the Chinese and I'm pretty sure they never paid any royalties...
Like the other person, you’re arguing about individual hires, and not considering the implications of whole-company mass poaching.

Sure some buyouts are big. But plenty are small. Most aren’t “massive”. The histogram, I speculate, is probably something like the Zipf distribution: the frequency of buyouts of a given size is probably inversely proportional to the size, to a first approximation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law
Compare https://philpapers.org/archive/BARAOT-9.pdf

> For what [the troll] indicates is known
to be ... ignorant; but he does not say that thing, but rather
something close. In this way he retains the possibility of denial, and the skilled troll
is always surprised and hurt, or seems to be, when the others take his comments
up.

No one hits their thumb with a hammer and yells "White Privilege!"
There was a pretty great-looking one that I saw on HN in the last few months. I didn’t end up trying it, and I don’t remember what it was called.

There’s also babashka, which pretty much let’s you write clojure in your shell scripts.
I'm talking utilizing it with the desktop widgets, tools, customizations cool taskbar widgets (I'd add the openAI app), different system informations/rss feeds embedded across multiple monitors.. the stuff KDE is awesome for.

KDE is amazing. I love it. My little laptop though I get by with just XFCE on an i3 8GB RAM, 250GB NVMe SSD.

Agreed on everything else you said. People switching from Mac's ultra-HD for fonts get the 'ick' switching to Linux desktop too. We'll get there.
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I have been trying to find this collection which I stumbled upon a while ago on HN.

It took longer than I expected, so when I finally did, I figured I should share it.
> I lived somewhere that would get to 40c in the summers and an oscillating fan was good enough to keep cool, the AC was nice to have but it wasn’t necessary.

As others have said, that works if you lived in a very dry area. And perhaps it was a house or a building optimized for airflow. And you didn't have much to do during the day. And I'm guessing you're young, and healthy.

Here in central Europe, sustained 40°C in the summer would rack up a significant body count. Anything above 30°C sucks really bad if you have any work to do. Or if, say, you're pregnant or have small children. And you live in a city.

Residential A/C isn't a luxury anymore, it's becoming a necessity very fast. Fortunately, heat pumps are one of the most efficient inventions of humankind. In particular, "A/C blasting all day long" beats anything else you could do to mitigate the heat if it involved getting into a car. And then it also beats whatever else you're doing to heat your place during the winter.
Its just a world class city. so if its happening here, its happening everywhere
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Bash actually has more warts than competing shells because of its historic stance.

My bugbear is that "alias p=printf" works well in any POSIX shell script, including bash when it is invoked as #!/bin/sh - but when called as #!/bin/bash, the alias (used in a script) fails with an error.

While the Korn shell managed to evolve and comply with the POSIX standard, bash decided to split the personality, so one solution to the above alias failure is to toggle POSIX mode.

Bash was forced to do this, to keep a decade of shell scrips that were written for it working. Pity.

The standard for the POSIX shell looked very hard at Korn, and credits it. Bash is not mentioned.
Those MacBooks were designed when Intel was promising new, more efficient chips and they didn’t materialize. Apple was forced to use the older and hotter chips. It was not a good combination.
Yes and no. Inflation is very directly coupled with emission, not salaries. BUT if you have base inflation due to emission, and then do autoindexing, the win of the emission ist totaly lost. Is the primary source of hyperinflation.
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I replied to an above comment, not when utilizing KDE's widgets and other desktop integrations like RSS feeds, weather, embedded system/server informations, etc. KDE is amazing, but I like to utilize the widgets, and full functionality of things with it. With my i3, 8GB RAM I opted for Manjaro XFCE.

I absolutely suggest using KDE for people switching over. Full desktop experience.

When not using anything my systems would idle at around 800MB-1GB running default install Manjaro. Firefox after awhile and I was using the full 8GB and tabs were crashing.
I think that's 2/3rds of it, but I think you'd need to add the final 1/3rd which is a shared metaphysical set of values. In other words, the tribe needs to be about more than just kinship and belonging - there needs to be a higher purpose or esoteric dimension to the group that comes from beyond the group.
Must be why Microsoft uses 'Not yet' instead of 'No' or reverts privacy settings occasionally – users just don't have enough of a growth mindset about handing over their personal data.
Probably not often, as indicated by the first few words of my sentence.
I see three separate stories:

- Nadella is pushing for "Growth Mindset", which is academically unsound and possibly incorrect. He is using his position to force people to read it.

- Microsoft have twice-a-year performance reviews called "Connect" where the employee have to explain how they satisfy unclearly-defined and company values. Those can only be evaluated subjectively by managers, but decide very important things like will this person be fired, or will they get a raise. Because of that, they are very stressful and many people hate them.

- Microsoft is teaching people to use AI for performance reviews. As all AI's do, it hallucinates and provides outright wrong information. And yet, it is used for critical things.

The first point is a curious anecdote, but it's hard for me to feel outraged about it. I've worked for big companies, and the top-level company mission never seemed like anything useful to me, it's just some random words that CEO likes to put on the slides.

I agree with the second point - semi-annual self-reviews suck. I've had to do them in the past - they can potentially have a huge impact, so you have to take them seriously. But at the same time, _most_ of the time they have no effect, so after you've spent all this time writing it, it just goes to waste. I just don't see what it has to do with "Growth Mindset" - it could have been anything else, even "community identity stability". Those reviews often have a vague question that let managers exercise their judgement, and it does not matter if they are called "Demonstrate your Growth Mindset" or "Demonstrate your Customer Excellence".

As for AI part.. yeah... this sounds crazy (but somewhat predictable, given all the corporate attention to AI). My regrets to MS employees. Again, I see no connection to Nadella's book here.
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Conferences are fundamentally different from work though?
Isn't that something all the big and well known brands did? How did Nike become Nike?
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> But now the bubble has burst. Growth has slowed. Factories are closing, or heavily automating with world-leading levels of technical integration, cutting headcounts.

China has been suppressing domestic private consumption, it stands at just 40% of the GDP. For comparison, the US is at 68% and Germany is at 53%.

This was probably done to prevent the appearance of the true middle class. China has no problem controlling a fairly small percentage of rich people, but the Party is afraid of large population strata that might start asking for political representation.

But it does give them a _lot_ of leeway for easy growth. They just need to make the country more business-friendly at the lower end.
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Indeed, and A/C is kind of a prime example of why it's beneficial, given how much more energy-efficient heat pumps are for cooling and heating than just about anything else.
The demand for 2nd passports has always existed. Water is wet.
The less common a thing, the more one must be prepared and consider it lest everyone frwak out.
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Been a while since I needed this. Deezer has search built in, and I don't need to switch apps to play/add to a playlist after finding the song.
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> Better to buy the cheapest Mac possible (with a Pro CPU) and leave the Studios and Pros to rich fools eager to part with their megabucks.

I'm not sure that quite follows. This benchmark is with the fastest (of 3) CPU options for the Mini. With 64GB of memory and 1 TB storage (to make a fair comparison with the Studio M2 Ultra), you're looking at a $2500 machine. We're not talking about the base $600 config here.

Granted, that's a lot less than the $4000 starting price of an M2 Ultra machine, but it's also 18 months later, and you don't get the GPU performance of an Ultra (see below).

> So the new Mini is faster than all existing Macs (at least on multicore Geekbench)

That's another thing: This only measures CPU performance.

The difference between "Max" chips and "Pro" chips lies in the GPU, not the CPU. The CPU core counts for Pro and Max are the same, but the Max has 2x as many GPU cores. ("Ultra" chips are basically two "Max" dies on one chip)

As you might expect, M2 Max and Pro have near-identical multi-core geekbench scores, but the Geekbench Metal score for the M2 Max is 80% higher than the M2 Pro (and M2 Ultra is about 2.7x the M2 Pro).

A 10-core M4 (w/ 10 GPU cores) scores about 58,000 on Metal (https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/compute/3039631), so the Mac Mini with 14-core M4 Pro (w/ 20 GPU cores) should be expected to score around 116,000 on Metal.

That's almost exactly the same GPU performance as a Studio M2 Max (which would have cost you $2600 last year with 64GB memory and 1TB storage)... If you paid $4000 for the M2 Ultra last year, you would still have comfortably 2x the performance of today's $2500 Mac Mini, and nearly the same multi-core CPU performance.
I would not consider "give everyone a hole in the wall" any kind of solution to the housing crisis whatsoever, and encouraging a society where everyone is dependent on businesses for daily essentials makes it even harder to resolve these problems.
Very cool, I’ll try this out!
Another strength of R, albeit via the tidyverse-package, is in data manipulation. It excels in taking some misfit, human friendly, pile of excel-sheets with implied relations and turning it into rectangular data sets that can actually be analysed. Sure there are faster alternatives if you are doing big data, but if you need versatility R is a good friend.
the goal of the Monroe Doctrine was to keep the endless European wars, which at that time were not wars of nationalism but of monarchy, out of the Western Hemisphere. In North America, the French and Indian War and the American Revolution itself were aspects of larger monarchical wars taking place in Europe.

it was a sensible doctrine in 1823, and we see 40 years later in 1864 the French under Napoleon III still attempted to install a Hapsburg as Emperor in Mexico.
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I look forward to seeing you at a conference in 20 years' time where we'll both be running Fedora 100 on our M1 MacBook Pros.
> God's number for the 4x4x4 cube

it has been proved only that the lower bound is 31, while the most probable value is considered to be 32

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Ublock origin on desktop browsers.

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Then Pihole is configured to use Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 for families, and I use the adult+malware filter.

I’ve got WireGuard running on the pihole server to make this all available for mobile devices when out and about.
I think you overestimate Canonical's size.

What is happening though is really long support for older releases being provided by Canonical so you will be able to use older Qt 5 based apps on Ubuntu, security supported, until 2034, on Canonical's dime. With container technology (something that Canonical significantly funded, with Docker originally being based on Canonical-funded LXC) you'll be able to run those older apps on a newer base OS including future ones, too.

Those are huge contributions to the user community you seem to be discounting.

Disclosure: I work for Canonical. I don't speak for Canonical. But what I say above are simple verifiable and falsifiable facts and not really a matter of opinion.
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