skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the series C story is “we have a machine working and more cash will let us increase the speed at which it operates”

What is the machine? The story explains it and the numbers then give it credibility.
It's probably safer than your closest major US city. People think Central America and think violence, but Costa Rica truly is a diamond in the ruff.
Why do you think they are "over exposed"? What do you claim is the "correct" level of exposure?
I have a pretty good memory for facts and alphanumeric sequences (I remember my VINs). I’m pretty sure mine was just trained in, though, by hard work for standardized tests.

This has diminished in my 30s, though.
Not true. If they had previously adopted my suggestion in the old ToS, that itself would either be a breach of that ToS (leading to liability for prohibitively large contractual damages) or would be an invalid change. I suggested that they explicitly remove their right to make this kind of change unilaterally. Terms of Service don't have to allow their authors an unfettered unilateral right of amendment.
... painted the scrap aluminum with a eutectic mixture of gallium and indium

There may be a problem with the economics of this approach.
Back when the contracts were initially awarded the prevailing opinion was that SpaceX was the risky play that might pay off with something useful; and that Boeing/Lockheed/WhateverMilIndustComplexMerger would be expensive but at least produce something safe and known to work if slow and expensive.

As has been proven by the commercial aircraft wing; the 'reverse acquisition' ~2 decades ago put the accountants and MBA types in charge and effectively gutted the engineering, safety, and 'built it right then apply a price tag' culture the company used to have in decades past.
> But they have investors. Their investors care about portfolio returns, not the elite networks of the VC administrators.

I mean, those investors are often part of those networks.
First THINK C Program (2020)
Yeah, at some point you need to be good enough at communicating to sell a product. But, for example, Google was riding entirely on the actual reality of its products instead of its ability to tell stories to its users from its inception at Stanford (in 01997?) until at least the Gmail launch in 02004. And there are a significant number of companies that survive for many years with less than ten (big) customers. You'd be surprised how many companies will continue to buy a product that works in preference to a product that doesn't work but has a great story.
I agree, that was the trick. Forget "the enemy gate is down" there is no down.
What a bizarre comment. Application platforms like Salesforce and SAP have been around for decades. There is no “tomorrow” about that. That’s yesterday.
You know, if I’m talkin a 5pt harness, you might assume that I know about the need for roll over protection
A Piano and You
Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder Despairs over Vacuum Energy
A quick internet search finds lots of examples. Here are 27: https://www.businessinsider.com/best-canceled-netflix-shows-...

I, too, largely have stopped watching Netflix shows with one season for exactly this reason
> Additionally, even the generation of hydrogen results in the release of greenhouse gases, which quite beats the purpose of using hydrogen in the first place.

Why does every article about hydrogen keep saying this? Running electricity through fresh water generates hydrogen and oxygen. The electricity can come from the nuclear power plant, a solar array, etc...

What am I missing since I first saw hydrogen and oxygen created in high school chemistry?
OpenSuSE Tumbleweed is also rolling release and stuff works out if the box. It is rpm based, but it's the most tolerable rpm distribution imho.
Well this didn't age well
Friend of mine just runs a script to verbose git clone, npm i, ng test, rm and start over. Just fills his screen with log statements. Of course, everyone knows he isn’t doing dick but he’s convinced the security cameras are watching him.
>When people write text they use it to represent ideas and objects and relations between ideas and objects.

That's not true, at least a lot of the time. Watch an episode of Paw Patrol, go see the latest Marvel movie or listen to number 6 or 7 on the top 40 charts.

A huge amount of what we consider "creative" endeavours that only a human can produce have nothing to do with meaning or experience and are simply a group of people trying to create something that "sounds right" or looks cool, or in the case of a lot of kid's content, merely inoffensive to the largest segment of society possible.

I'm not saying that GPT is going to win the Pulitzer Prize any time soon, but the line between "human text has meaning, machine text doesn't" is quite blurry and process-dependent.
Not really, because by the time that windows 11 is released (in the fall of this year), android would have moved on to 12.
As with so many things, the time derivative is what's important. SpaceX is only getting better. Boeing is only getting worse.
A drop in relative supply isn't a decline. 2019 saw the most electricity produced from nuclear energy in all of recorded history.

The technical term for a thing which is getting bigger is "growth". And realistically looking at the chart the term for nuclear power should be "steady".
Put most simply, there is very often nothing that connects an engineer’s best interests to how much the customer likes the product and plenty of reasons that a product might seen as a means to an end by the engineer, most significantly the fact that they probably won’t be there in 1-2 years.
Can't you buy custom RAM (e.g. GDDR or HBM)?
Yeah, I could be off with that ballpark figure. Was being generous and assuming that native genes amongst those who don’t identify as native would outweigh non native genes amongst those who do identify as native.
>I’d want would include allowing more than 2 apps in a split view, and perhaps some reconsideration of that floating app-stack thing to make it less clunky.

iPadOS 15 has limited support for floating windows and more than three "windows" on screen at once. I'd posit that they are preparing the APIs for floating window support for external displays in a future version of iPadOS.

>As a daily user of tiling window managers on a Linux desktop, floating desktop windows seem like a UI dead end that we’ve somehow been trapped in for decades

As a Mac user, I agree. On my 13-inch notebook, I more or less always use applications in a full screen configuration. The notebook screen is too small to allow for effective uses of floating windows.

However, even on a 27-inch display, I still find myself using full screen applications more often than not.

In fact I'd be ecstatic if a future version of macOS stole some of the multitasking features from iPadOS. Managing fullscreen apps on the Mac is a lot clunkier than it is on the iPad.
> there seems to be lots of evidenxe that founders telling stories is valuable, and little evidence that it's not.

Just to correct this misreading, I'm not saying that founders telling stories isn't valuable. I'm saying that the value of founders telling stories is already taken into account in the existing funding process, and if Ashwin is correct, it's overweighted. Theranos, Juicero, and Animats's example of Better Place are evidence that Ashwin is correct.
i saw it being used in some CI system; it was very confusing.
The comment said "decline globally". Spain isn't the globe.
I'll take you up on this.
Why didn't they implement basic boolean operators over circles and people?

Post (@friends !bob) "let's surprise Bob for his birthday" is about as normal as it gets
Compilers : Representing Programs [video]
Fortunately, "the mixture does not react with aluminum and can be recovered at the end of the process and used again."
Out of curiosity, did no one transition to using water jets like in Asia or was that even more expensive?
> Build around people problems, not company problems

This is so hard to fight for. I worked on a feature for our product where we leverage a UI component initially built to show ML recommendations, but to surface hard coded recommendations made by our partner's software, not coming from AI but hard coded. These recommendations are contextually sound because the devs _know_ what is possible given the context, which for all intents and purposes makes them much, much more relevant than anything that would come from an ML model. But for the life of them the other team will not let us use this UI because they're afraid that it might tarnish the opinion people have of their AI. So we're in this situation where the user would greatly benefit from a consistent UI, the partners as well, but because that team is afraid it will dilute their baby, we can't do it.

Had similar examples where 3 months in designinga feature it becomes clear that it doesn't fit with users, that a simpler solution would be better, but designers and PMs will take a hard stance that it's how we planned it and now is too late to change it even if dev hasn't even started.

Between sunk cost and babies, it's hard to forget our own interest in favor of our users.
The Pandemic Could Be Causing More Shortsightedness in Kids Than Ever Before
> I’d love for you to come build a roof with me in the Mojave in July and demonstrate this drink less water more slowly approach.

I’m not building a roof in any desert during the summer, and am also interested in this drink water more slowly approach.
It's interesting to think how astronauts had little qualms about hopping in space craft designed in the 1960s on drafting tables. Yet with the insane leaps in engineering we've made since then, it almost feels like it be hard to replicate the same leaps in space travel that we saw from the 1950s to 1980s.
I really like the perspective you bring to this, especially this part:

> So, with all of this hassle in mind, I'm not going to tell people who, bluntly put, are at risk of being lonely, to drop useful social tools.

I think I'm playing a lot with the metaphor of Facebook or other internet properties as cities or countries—as locations where people exist and root. Similar to you, I have struggled to get people to leave the FB "city" or the iMessage "city" to follow me to the Signal "city." They may occasionally visit me on Signal but prefer to reside in iMessage or another place.

And then I feel bad asking them to move to Signal "city," as there aren't too many residents at the moment and not many whom they may know. So to take them to a sparsely populated foreign land where they don't really speak the language/dialect (different UI) can make me feel worried that it may disconnect them from the few connections they have back "home."

Anyways, thank you for sharing about your experience and inspiring me to explore this metaphor more deeply.
Here’s a fundamental value…it’s not controlled by the fed. It is deflationary. It is property that is easily moved. If you move into transactional platforms (ETH/ADA) these and other will facilitate programmable transactions that won’t require intermediaries. It’s still early, who knows how digital money with lower gas fees will evolve.
Agree.

Whitespace with inconsistent rules is awful.
That last line isn't true . There may be things that are too difficult or expensive to automate, so they won't be automated.

Also if software development tools reach high enough levels, it may be that domain experts, or business analysts will do the development, and not software engineers.
It does make one more cautious. And to be clear, you have not provided evidence of anything.
The moral relativist believes that moral statements have meaning and truth value, but that the meaning is subjective and dependent on context, the individual, the time period or geography, and so forth.

The moral nihilist thinks that the notion of truth or falsehood in regards to moral statements doesn't make sense. Moral assertions make only sense if objects have moral properties, and we have no reason to believe that moral properties exist, of what nature they are, how someone were to measure what is morally good or bad, that they're not even necessary to explain the world as it is, or similar arguments along those lines.

The moral nihilist thinks that a statement like "torture is wrong" is like saying "the king of france is bald". There is currently no king of France, the statement is neither really true or false, it simply does not refer to anything in the world.
> which got us into YC

That's your "connections" right there
So they all worked hard and some got lucky?
It's on the main SoC on M1. (ANS2 block, with the FW being loaded by iBoot1)

NVMe exposed as an MMIO device directly, not as a PCIe one.
My stance is that YAML is a good format for configuration management and generation -- it's wonderful at filling gaps as your deployment model increases in complexity to provide a mechanism to "render" your configuration -- much like Skylark [1] does (derived from Google's internal GCL).

YAML ends up being a powerfully declarative model [2] for the state of a data structure, rather than a straight representation, ironically often enough being used in turn for an imperative model like in Ansible [3]. Definitely friendlier than JSON. But personally, I really like YAML because it lets me compose using a traits/mixins-like model using & and *, which allows for verbose, structured configuration inputs but concise configuration files.

docker-compose YAML files extension fields [4], imo, are a great example of this type of model in action. When you leave this much pre-deserialization flexibility in your configuration representation, it makes building cool stuff like docker-compose ECS support x-aws-* extension keys [5] and other plugin system-type capabilities much more straightforward than, for example, adding a new language feature to HCL.

[1]: https://github.com/google/skylark

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAML#Advanced_components

[3]: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks...

[4]: https://docs.docker.com/compose/compose-file/compose-file-v3...

[5]: https://docs.docker.com/cloud/ecs-integration/#rolling-updat...
That makes sense. Ruby is an excellent base for starting with Elixir.
i think you can possibly define how you want to use json for a configuration file; json by itself is not much more than javascript objects/maps, defined as a data format. I frankly don't think that you need to be too pious about standard compliance if dealing with a cofiguration format for your application.
In principle there's no reason to believe that computers can't be better than humans at understanding a problem that a group of people has and writing code to solve that problem. Sure, computers aren't good enough yet to do that, but I wonder if people 100 years from now might look back at articles like this in the same way we might look at article from 100 years ago claiming that machines will never beat humans at chess.
Mindhunter was the biggest letdown when I found out they axed it. I hope they do bring it back.

The OA and Santa Clarita Diet are a couple others off the top of my head.

There’s a lot more, but I’m already not watching them until they’ve done 3 seasons. (Unless of course they’re intended from the outset to be just 1 or 2. That’s different)
That's solving the problem by adding complexity. Switching to Debian is solving the problem by taking away complexity. I know which one I'd prefer
Thanks for the heads-up! Any idea why it says that this build environment is "nearly identical"?
https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/command-ref/new-cli/ni...
> Woolmer was inspired by Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer, which suggests brain training, rather than naturally gifted people, account for most USA Memory Championship finalists.

This is an incredible book which changed my opinion on how a “photographic memory” works.
> AAAA record

Tangent here. Does anyone know why DNS record names are so terrible? Why are there records named after batteries?
I would say "because roads don't spread incessantly," but they kinda do these days.

The problem people aren't thinking about too much, but should be, is that the longer it circulates, the more it can evolve to something far more dangerous. Delta is already a little worse than what we started with, and there's still a lot of leeway. It's going to be a lot harder to get the numbers down low enough that our hospitals aren't constantly full of people dying from Covid than a lot of people keep pretending. It didn't affect kids much before. Now Delta is here, and the hospitals are filled with kids suffering in ways we thought they wouldn't be a year ago.

People are already being turned away from hospitals for non-Covid emergencies like cancer treatments because the beds are full of people with severe Covid. It isn't personal. It affects the masses.

That's why we need to be strict about getting this out of the general global population. It's not a good time to be wishy-washy about whether it affects you personally or not.
There was a recent study about generating hydrogen using power from natural gas and capturing the carbon dioxide from it. It found that methane leaks almost certainly made it too dirty to consider as a green energy source. https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/08/blue-hydrogen-pushed... I agree the article left out this important context.
The people I'm thinking about are actually scatterbrained. They read about something new -- squirrel!! -- ask for it and then they forget they asked. When the requests are completed they never use what they asked for.

The social vs. market perspectives are interesting though, I had not thought about framing requests in this way, and I'm going to try to keep that in mind in the future.
Thank you for taking the time to compose this condescending and useless analogy.
Those networks are cut-throat while being clubby which is actually super negative on bad performance.
That doesn't work anymore and it only worked for small volumes, not bigger retailers. They previously needed a VAT number from the state the custumer was in, which was very cumbersome. Now they just add the destination state's VAT on the invoice and I think the VAT is settled between states.
The [Church 1935] proof of the computational undecidability of

the halting problem is essentially the same as the [Turing

1936] proof. Consequently, the article under discussion

would be better titled "Church/Turing Uncomputability".
Yup it's more like risk of investment. Someone wealthy can risk a lot more than someone poor can without worrying about putting food on the table. They can afford many more lottery tickets and the poorer person is probably gonna have to play it safe as an employee for a while. That's a good case for evening the playing field with something like UBI. No one gets a check according to how much they need the money
> Sorry to interrupt! I just wanted to mention that you should check out my new free Go course. It’ll teach you all you need to start writing Go professionally.

pfft
Nesting multiple levels of tables is pretty simple, you just have sections that look like [a.b.c]. It's different than Json, but IMO easier to read and navigate.

Unfortunately it doesn't handle c arrays of arrays of tables very well.
This comment sounds similar to what I read on reddit about the current problems in India are mostly because of the colonial British rule who left 70 years ago.

How long will you keep blaming colonial rule and start accepting that the local people have to fix the problems.
Actually, that works in favour of this method here, provided certain conditions are met.

Aluminium takes a big juicy bunch of electricity. Its very energy intensive. But, if we can extract a good portion of that aluminium energy as hydrogen gas, then aluminium acts as a highly energy dense battery.

It can then be effectively used for grid scale energy storage.
I have been recently hiring and the easiest process for me is just to receive an email to our hello@dyvenia.com address. I can start building rapport and communicate easily with potential candidates. All I would need additionally is an automated assistant to store the cvs and my feedback and send reminders, it could all be done with email.
> there seems to be lots of evidenxe that founders telling stories is valuable, and little evidence that it's not.

Storytelling is common to successful startups and to the mass graveyard of failures. The question isn't whether storytelling is necessary given the way things are done currently (it is necessary, therefore it is necessarily effective), but whether the gap between storytelling and the ground truth is necessary.
>However, filing issues, especially making them reproducible, can also be a burden to users, and users will stop filing issues if too many of them are closed unilaterally without actually correcting the root cause.

Fantastic! Two birds with one stone!
There are people whose job is to just write grant proposals. Someone told me they had a guy who was making almost twice as much as the developers, just because they were afraid he would leave. Which means the company decided it was better to get contracts even if it meant 1-2 less people available to fulfill them.
The Lessons of History
The missing component in parent's description is the imperfectness of abstraction.

A good abstraction, written for and suited to the task at hand, adds little complexity.

Reusing a previous abstraction, written for a slightly different purpose, incurs some complexity.

Having to use an abstraction, inappropriate for the purpose, incurs substantial complexity.

This results in three outcomes respectively: (1) increased productivity, (2) stable productivity, (3) decreased productivity.

Most of programming, in my experience, has been figuring out which one of those roads you're on, and when to eat the cost of switching to another.
I am precisely in your court app wise but I would also need my calendar. I don’t consider it stressful to have and myself and my family are pretty good about adding all of our plans to it so we know what’s going on.
Please define a better idea, and why that is valuable, and how much that might be worth.

I’m always surprised at how much people value an idea verses making that idea happen.
I find the menial work is about the same.

Less was possible in 2002, so the menial tasks were different. But I think the split between interesting/novel code and boilerplate/menial work was about the same.
YouTube is already Google's killer social network. Over a billion users a month.
And it was only cancelled because Fincher can't figure out how to make a basic no-vfx cop show for less than $100M.

(Don't get me wrong - Mindhunter is amazing TV. I just don't see what justifies the cost).
I'd love something like this for complete noobs like me. I can't even crack the registration code. Any suggestions for resources? Cryptopals?
The point is you don’t have that level of specification. Software development is a creative and iterative process towards such a specification.
Everything we have seen so far seems to indicate that you get maximum productivity when you pair human and AI, rather than having either on its own. What that means in practice is that (at least until someone actually develops GAI) aspects of programming may be automatable but you'll always want to keep a human in the loop somewhere to get maximum productivity. This should be true until society's need for programmers becomes saturated... but since programming is essentially itself automation, it's hard to imagine that need subsiding any time soon.
Your clang error can probably be fixed by a pacman -Syu. Usually that sort of error is related to some libraries on your system being old and other programs being new (and compiled against new libraries), so the packages can't load the libraries properly when you execute them on your system. Doing a full update brings the libraries up to date so the programs can load them and run properly.
In the Face of Rising Seas, Are Floating Cities a Real Possibility?
Worse is better Just ship it. An entertaining reminder not be a perfectionist