skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it produces interesting content as good as or better than traditional methods or has the same level of ease as traditional methods, then sure why not, otherwise why?

In the end, the results are what's important. It's cool to have fancy, new ways of doing things, but if something works and the new way isn't significantly better or easier than traditional ways and ends up being out of reach or significantly different than traditional wqys for little to no gain then, yeah, it's not likely to be widely adopted.

That all being said, it wouldn't surprise me if some day, some enterprising deep learning fan does come up with some new interesting or more efficient thing that sparks a new line of research and innovation.

It's the way with a lot of things, the early adopters and enthusiasts pave the way for the others.

I tend to regard a lot of machine learning, deep learning, ai kind of stuff as overblown, buzz wordy, euphemisms for fancy algorithms with internal memory and data analysis and manipulation capabilities.

But, that doesn't mean there aren't still innovative things that can be done with it.

Likely, someone will come along at some point with something easily accessible made with deep learning that revolutionizes procedural generation and helps in creating more realistic random environments. We're not there yet though, hence the general disregard for it.
Well count me as a guilty one :).

Bought a small cozy place in Wales a few years back. Whenever I visited, I would often experience the usual - cupboard doors flapping open or shut for no reason, cold bursts of air, lights flickering, you get it. I'm sure one could explain it perhaps with an environmental variable such as the temperature or wind or the levelling of the foundations. My female friends would actually experience these occurrences with more intensity compared to my male friends, along with regular nightmares (again, which could be explained by certain physiological or environmental factors). When I looked up the house' history, turns out one of the earlier inhabitants was a woman who died prematurely after her fiancé, a British Raj veteran, died in India (which is where I'm from, maybe this is important). Couple all of that and you've got yourself a nice ghost myth.

I ended up selling the place later to a retiree couple, who haven't faced any issues/ were too old to sense them/ were used to this stuff.
The recently-released Algebra Driven Design is really fun.
Same story here (parents came to the US with 3 kids (I was 9)) and struggled to support us (initially by being dishwashers at the local buffet).

I got a good college education and have a cushy software gig. Now I sit on my butt all day drinking LaCroix watching the checks come in. I sure as hell consider myself privileged.

Just because you started out lacking privilege, doesn't mean that you don't have it now.
https://archive.is/NXwIU
> when we heard that there was a passive cooling solution for the Raspberry Pi which would keep the temperatures low enough to prevent thermal throttling at stock speeds, we were a little dubious.

They shouldn't have been. I have the Argon 40 case for an RPi4. I've overclocked the core to 2.0GHz, and with 100% passive cooling, no fan, it does not thermal throttle at all. I've pegged it at 100% CPU use for an hour with no throttling. The chip runs hot, but it's not a top of the line CPU that needs active cooling. A good sized chunk of metal will cool it just fine.
Living in a farm house sounds like privilege compared to trailers :)

Anyway, no need to defend yourself against random internet people.

In the end it’s all down to hard work and a bit of luck (the people not doing the hard work part will never be in a position to make use of the luck).
it's pretty clear from context that we're talking about addition. you don't usually see '2' on the RHS of a boolean equation.
The twitter blue checkmark is the modern day version.
I've worked at a couple of places where I was the "git guy", aka the person who fixed your git repo when you borked it. I don't understand why so many people have difficulty with git.

I get the API can be a bit wonky, but why aren't you just aliasing commands to get around the bits you have difficulty remembering? You can tailor any UNIX tool to your own needs instead of relying on what was written by the original authors.

Since version control is a tool you will most likely be using for your entire career save yourself the heartache and read some tutorials. If you learn what your tools are capable of you will be a much better developer in the long run.
> Also, it isn't clear to me whether tactics programs are supposed to be kept as code or just used by the LSP which the gif makes it seem like.

I'm pretty sure you use it as a starting point and then go from there. Saves a good amount of mechanical work.
Or some variation - Mais in German
Foucault talked about the idea of "governmentality."[1] This has gone many places, but one of the terms applications is to talk about learning to see like a state. To stop seeing humans or experience and start seeing the world as raw resources, defensible borders, potential treaty partners, etc.

I think git creates a kind of "gitmentality" - where people start to think about code development in the structures and metaphors that git uses internally. I have always found git easy to use and easy to navigate, but I don't believe that the "git way" of representing changes or branching development are natural or obvious. The git way of talking about code is rigorous and reliable, but I don't think the structures it uses are grounded in previous human experience. Even though one can look back to previous structures (family trees, textual criticism) and see the techniques that git draws on, it generally avoids evoking cultural associations with those older systems (probably because doing so risks misunderstanding about the particulars of git).

In general, it seems to me that when git encounters a situation that might be confusing, the tool chooses[2] to reveal more internal details instead of using a high level organizing concept. One could imagine a DSCM where the details of commit hashes and merge commits are hidden under guiding metaphors explained by the tools, but creating such a system is clearly a huge challenge! I can imagine it could be done, but I certainly don't know how to do it. Many of the things git does do not have culturally common antecedents.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governmentality#Further_develo...

[2] Which, of course, means the tools' designers choose.
Git’s UI/porcelain definitely isn’t winning any awards. That said, why infantilize users so much that it’s considered abhorrent to understand the tool one depends on? The plumbing is so elegant/simple, after all!

The utter passive cluelessness and disconnect-with-reality promoted & celebrated by “intuitive” interfaces reminds me of Mary Antoinette... “Tool not working... not intuitive enough :shrug:”
It only looks that way because we get in more on-purposes.
This is the kind of advice that applies perfectly to groups of people but is terrible advice for individuals.
They ask the same question regularly, statistically significant changes in answers are very noticeable. Also if people really liked WFH wouldn't they say they were more productive now to try to alter future decisions? But instead people choose to answer that they are less productive.
I think historically apple has maintained approximately a 10% market share plus or minus 3 points with a higher share for the US and collegiate market.

ChromeOS is supposedly 6% of the desktop market share according to stat counter that I believe confusingly includes desktop/laptop under the same grouping. I'm guessing that about nobody is running chromeOS on a desktop so a reasonable guess is that their share of the laptop market is could easily be 10ish percent.

This would leave windows with somewhere between 70% and 80%
did they control for all the other factors other than work from home/office?
Thanks, just looked at the SOS site and the CA voter guide is 112 pages long...

https://vig.cdn.sos.ca.gov/2020/general/pdf/complete-vig.pdf
SpaceX is promising the Pentagon one-hour weapon delivery around the globe
The article is in the Wikipedia category "Prefabricated Homes"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Prefabricated_houses

This article, from a builder, indicates that Sears homes are considered prefabricated by some people in the industry:

https://www.protohomes.com/blog/prefab-vs-modular-manufactur...

What is your differentiation between kit homes and prefabricated homes?
Thanks for your pointer.
Do you mean this thread?
"Json-Base – Database built as JSON files | Hacker News"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23715558
That's actually a really interesting example.

Because you're entirely right about the city, and yet China doesn't call itself China.

Actually, the big three SE asian countries (Japan, China, Korea) all have different names for themselves than most languages of european origin use. Presumably others do as well, but those are the ones I looked up.

I wonder why that is.

Edit: Further thought. Most of the major cities I'm aware of (especially capital cities) in those countries are pronounced fairly accurately (with room for accents, of course). That's actually a really interesting set up.
For more on this, see the extremely interesting book 'Noise Matters' by Haven Wiley: https://g.co/kgs/pTKgsd
aren't all suction cups essentially time-release?
This was based on the parent's comment of half an hour to drive to the rental place, and a half hour wait. To err on the conservative side, assuming that this adds another half hour to drive to the destination, this is 1.5 hours for picking up, and 1.5 hours for dropping off.
Technical Debt Is Overhyped. Let’s Talk about Product Debt
Aside, I've considered using a ChromiumOS for older desktops as a refurb option a few times, and for the likes of my mother in-law who likes desktop form factor, but needs something more "safe" than a typical desktop.
I am reminded of the Atari 2600 game Pitfall and its use of a polynomial counter to procedurally generate the game world[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBT1OK6VAIU&feature=youtu.be...
Because

- if the developer does the UX it's usually an afterthought

AND

- usually the UX forms the most difficult set of requirements to add to an existing system.
Fairness maybe? People rent server racks right next to the exchange to get a leg up responding to market forces. Lots of others won't be able to compete with that foresight.

Whether you think that's a good or bad thing though I guess can be up for debate.
> anti-temper device

I want one.
I always recommend learning Git by starting at chapter 10 (https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Plumbing-and-Po...) of the Git book. Granted the content is a bit technical and the advice generally directed at developers, but I found that once the plumbing is understood, the world of Git makes a lot more sense. The porcelain can still be quite ugly at times though.
I was very, very obsessed with Haskell for about 9 months, during which time I attempted to make a very simple web app at least 5 times. I like debugging, but I just flat-out couldn't make it work. Plus, constantly feeling stupid is a huge drain on one's motivation to continue. Plus, the community was... not helpful. I mean, I get the whole "Avoid success at all costs", to avoid the language becoming entangled with the desires of large corporate interests, but it did feel a little extreme. Mind, this was 7 years ago, and I assume haskell stack and a few other tools make things a lot easier.

Actually, this is something I've always wondered: I know that any Haskell enthusiast would, upon hearing someone say, "I like the ideas, but it's just too hard to program in", respond, no, it's not, you just didn't learn it the right way, or this IDE with that extension makes it much easier, or you really should have started with Learn You A Haskell. But what I'm really curious about is this: Putting all that said, assume for the moment that Haskell really is too complicated for anyone without an advanced degree in hyperbolic topology to understand.

Do you care?
Hive.
https://peakd.com
I could write my own device drivers. It's not something I should have to do to get my video card working correctly.

I would rather spend the time on my own projects.
Yeah. Be honest, but don't be defensive. If you're a good candidate, you're a good candidate, lack of experience or no.
Sure thing :)

For what it's worth I think the morally-neutral definition you used is more technically correct, it's just that it's gotten tied up with other cultural baggage. I'm also not sure I can think of another single word that does a better job of getting across the idea, unfortunately.
What do you want to learn?
What do you want to learn (code, math, architecture, or any) and how do you plan to learn about this subject ?
Because those people don't read or study in order to lean something new. They just expect "magic".
Update on the above case: upon appeal, they won their case, according to http://5kids1condo.com/we-won-common-sense-prevails-in-bus-d...
Have you ever been called in the middle of the night that prompted this behavior? I have only been woken by my phone twice and both times I'm glad I was.
I've been a MacBook user for many years, but the pandemic and work-from-home has shifted almost all of my personal usage to a desktop workstation with Windows. Whenever you compare Mac and Windows there's always a mention of the "smoothness"/"feel"/"polish" - A new Mac has a smoothness and responsiveness in its interface that I found Windows previously struggled to match.

That recently changed when I switched to a 144Hz, 1440p display connected to a Windows desktop and a docked MacBook. The MacBook can only do 60fps on the display (It's just a laptop, so not entirely fair), but the desktop easily handles 144Hz and the experience is great. Everything is so smooth - scrolling, typing code, moving around windows. It's an incredible delight and the 60Hz -> 144Hz transition gives the same feeling as upgrading to Mac did back in the day.

I feel like my personal impressions have been distorted from years of running Windows on old, crusty hardware loaded with bloatware and all the quirks of a long-running system. Of course, the fresh MacBook felt fantastic in comparison. This article aligns with my suspicions -- Running modern Windows on next-gen hardware and an empty hard drive evens the comparison a bit, and with that perspective the differences aren't so huge!
Zoning allows people that do not own land to decide what can be done with it.

That has some positive purposes ... it may indeed be a good idea not to put a toxic manufacturing facility next door to residential lots or a school. It might possibly make sense to focus retail development in a certain area within a community rather than haphazardly throughout it.

But single-dwelling has almost nothing to do with such high minded purposes, and exists almost entirely to keep higher income home owners away from lower income renters or mixed-income housing. It is, quite simply, rich people telling poor people "we don't want you here".
It's certainly unproven whether complex systems are reducible, but this doesn't mean the alternative is on equal footing. Science since its inception has been one long process of reducing that which was previously thought irreducible. Standard physical processes, like hurricanes, can easily be though of as reducible by inference to the best explanation, as they present no apparent difficulties with reduction aside from access to information and sufficient computation. There are other phenomena from which one can make a case for non-reduction, but I don't think even the best case to be made is all that strong.

In my opinion, the only phenomena to present a real challenge for reduction is phenomenal consciousness. I don't personally consider intentionality and life to be insurmountable problems for reduction. The 'negative entropy' of life is really just a computational problem: find the configuration that has the property of being self-sustaining in the face of disordering forces. But some natural processes have a natural computational description, e.g. systematically producing variations of states, and preserving 'successful' states to seed the next generation of state space search. In other words, evolutionary processes are natural computational processes. I don't see the need for an extra ingredient.

Intentionality is about meaning, i.e. how can some process have some intrinsic meaning. The answer is probably similar in spirit to the answer of negative entropy. Meaning has an external relation in the sense of being substantiated by context (e.g. a binary digit means heads/tails vs day/night depending on its context). But if you have enough of these meaning units in relation to one another, the system as a whole bootstraps the meaning of itself. E.g., some neuron in a brain means Jennifer Aniston because of the context it sits in the milleu of neurons that collectively create a disposition to respond appropriately to Jennifer Aniston.
Right, my bad. CTRL + W closes current tab in multi tab. CTRL + TAB is the one that cycles between tabs. But I suppose symlinkk wanted to use ALT + TAB for everything.
The IPv6 address space has 2^128 addresses. If you assign 2^4 addresses to every actual node, that still supports 2^124 nodes.

There's about 2^33 people on the planet, so that still supports about 2^91 nodes nodes per person.

A shortage isn't likely.
I’ve never looked too deeply into this, but why can’t someone use something like Morse Code to communicate? Say you had 50 buckets of entangled entities, that would get you 50 dots and dashes.
But some of that 2% it's fine to put off, and the chance of the demand for local cars being through the roof at any particular moment is less than 1% of that, so now buying a car means optimizing for that 1/10000 case. How much is that worth to you?
From an outside view it seems like AWS has definitely arbitraged costs over time to collect a lot of money. Raw capacity that costs them $1 today costs them $0.80 next year, but they still sell it at the price they chose to cover the $1.

Having said that, there will be someone sprinting breathlessly into the thread to tell me that AWS has lowered prices on X a dozen times and on Y fourteen times and so on. But these decisions are made intermittently, by humans with bonus schemes, and AWS is harvesting the surplus in the meantime.

It feels from the outside as if retail Amazon pays serious, ongoing attention to selling at the minimum possible price, but AWS just doesn't feel the same pressure to do so.
Maybe consider making an AMI for sale via AWS. You can continue to get revenue via Aws hourly while the setup of the platform is easier in the case of the person above.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/marketplace/latest/userguide/use...

You could probably make an optin update method as well.
As long as these articles stay hard-walled, we have to bury them. For a while The Information was unlocking them for HN but that seems to have stopped :(

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
You can start with this: https://www.helpscout.com/blog/value-proposition-examples/
Isn’t everyone always supposed to show up to an interview in a suit anyway?

I guess maybe that’s counterproductive for a job as garbageman, but...
Obama said he didn't deserve the prize, and everyone agrees. It's more fair to look at the long history of recipients (MLK, Mandela, Mother Teresa) than to judge the prize on one or two errors. Otherwise, almost all prizes are meaningless.
I have a few friends, really smart ones, that would do anything to have recruiters "annoying" them. And all of this just because they made an unfortunate choice somewhere in their past: they didn't choose STEM.

Everytime I ear people here bashing recruiters I feel the urge to shout: It's not about you it's STEM. Enjoy your prized ticket but be humble.
Create a wiki page. Every time you hit a new one, ask the person what it means and add to it. Any time someone asks you what something means, tell them and then send them to the wiki page. The rest pretty much takes care of itself.
Valve Software's Steam Machines: Was It All in Vain?
Chris! Thanks for introducing me to Contextual Electronics! This looks like a resource that fits the bill for what I was looking for almost exactly.

> you'll need to dive into firmware and higher level software on the web side of things

I was expecting that, and it isn't something I'm too afraid of getting my hands into. I am thinking maybe something a little beefier then the ESP32 (like a STM32, specifically the STM32MP157A) so that I have a little more room to play with. I think the ESP32 won't have enough RAM for what I really want the device to do.
Did you look at the tweet and it's content?
As a potential customer, I guess I am supposed to hypnotised by all these silly names and acronyms but instead I just keep thinking "Just show me the code". Names seem to serve as a way for the authors to avoid telling us exactly what the software does, instead referring to what the software "is". Horribly imprecise and the source of endless arguments. The disagreements in this thread are but a tiny example.

This is nothing new and during the dot-com boom I think the naming nonsense spread to websites, in addtion to software. Software people have been obsessed with wacky names as long as I can remember.

I find this so repulsive and unworkable (e.g., name conflicts, needless keystrokes) that on personal computers I actually name programs I write for myself using an alpha prefix and a numerical suffix. For quick reference I keep a separate index of what each program does. Every program has a unique, sequential number in its name. Every name has the same number of characters.
Neat! And I'd imagine any other target of opportunity that swims between islands in same waters - i.e. deer, bear.
It's not 2%. The WHO currently pegs IFR at 0.5-1%, and that's heavily tilted towards known risk groups, particularly the elderly.

https://www.who.int/news-room/commentaries/detail/estimating...
PostgreSQL used to have a limited form of unitemporalism by exploiting its MVCC implementation. You could retrieve unvacuumed rows through some additional magic.

For true bitemporalism you need more than current-row/historical-row separations, though.
Full article: https://sci-hub.se/downloads/2020-09-25/94/10.1126@science.a...
Applicant Auctions for Internet Top-Level Domains (2013) [pdf]
> but they are in a better place now than they were at the beginning of the century.

At the cost of the thousands of innocent lives (Palestenians and others) they murdered. Kind of ironic given what they went through.
> Which is it?

1 * 0 = 0

> You either don't travel, don't travel for very long, or don't travel anywhere interesting.

I would prefer you didn't make assumptions.

I travel to lots of interesting places, and I have had my credit card disabled several times. Once because my idiot geography-illiterate bank didn't know that Bulgaria was a part of Europe. Good thing I had a stack of cash with me. For less prepared travellers, the bank is doing nothing but stranding their own customers cashless in unfamiliar places.

In any case, my point still stands that they really shouldn't be calling to verify it is me when I don't even have my home country's SIM card in my phone.

They should be e-mailing me instead, which is the only reliable way to reach me while travelling and SIM swapping. Most people are more reachable easily by e-mail than by phone when travelling for the exact same reason.
The original feature doesn’t have footguns, so what does it say? I’m genuinely curious.