skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been a huge crypto skeptic for a while now, but I've actually changed my tune a bit in that I believe there is a purpose for crypto in the backend of our financial system, given how generally insane settlement procedures are today.

But long term, proof-of-work is a definite dead end. I'm not sure if Bitcoin will eventually collapse, or of it will find a way to transition to some other proof mechanism before it does so, but proof-of-work is fundamentally not viable. By design the amount of energy required to keep the network secure increases as the value of the network grows - that's the exact opposite of most endeavors, where growth gets you economies of scale which greatly reduce per-item costs.

So the only options are either that BTC has a relative ceiling on it's total value, or it eventually takes up a majority of worldwide energy use. I'm guessing the wheels will come off before the latter occurs.
Anything that connects to or supports something that connects to the internet eventually gets used as some part of vulnerability, and hence needs to be updated.

But, I agree with your sentiment. Endless feature bloat is not necessary for vast majority of software. The expectation that every software must remain updated forever is just not sustainable.
Especially given how many cars have faulty lights, so that might literally be the only indicator you can see of a vehicle in front of you.
New Myanmar’s junta has cut off internet/mobile in 22 townships
> Explain why the methods are wrong. Show some evidence.

When you sample a non-representative subset, you often get different results from the population at large. For example, you might get a different answer if you ask the Porsche enthusiasts club what the best car is, compared to if you ask random people in the population.

Undergrads are the same way. Asking a group of people, almost half of whom are virgins, questions about romantic relationships . . . well let's just say it might not generalize to the adult population.

This is covered in detail in any intro stats course or textbook. You may also be able to Google something like "unrepresentative subset psychology" to get an explainer. I can't do the issue complete justice in a comment here.

> So what's wrong with the other study?

I'm sorry, I did not sign up for reviewing every study you link me to. I reviewed the one, and explained my perception that it is a good example of the overall quality of the research on this topic. If you want an assessment of the other study, you'll need to look elsewhere.
"Labor shortage" sounds great and yet there's no shortage of outfits imposing new restrictions on who can be hired or keep their jobs; and no shortage of stories of people who applied and were turned down because they were overqualified, or unable to work "we'll tell you your hours the day before" shifts, or "Sundays off won't work" ... or any number of other employer defined reasons.

I like Matt Stoller's argument that consolidation and the resultant elimination of redundancies and slack is in large part to blame for the shortages. All the slack got sucked out to invest in Bitcoin and NFTs.
I think building cross-platform apps will get much more accessible with better tooling and frameworks.
Something in the intersection of Web, Electron and React Native.
I don't like the solution for comments. I think there's real value in having a discussion that is directed at and moderated by the author. For example, if an author writes a post that people on the forums from which he aggregates comments generally disagree with, I don't want to see one comment after another denouncing him. I want to see comments from people who at least respect him enough to write a comment on his blog, directed at him.

Would a wordpress blog really be harder to maintain then this? If so, I think a better solution would be a mailto link, so that the email contains some basic text like this:

> My comment on blog.com/article3:

> ...

Then maybe you could automate adding the email as a comment to the article in some way.
Per miles driven the US has an average number of traffic deaths. The problem is that the country's infrastructure is designed so poorly that the number of miles driven per capita is laughably absurd.
Sounds like they are missing the market segment of the outwardly racist, there's pennies to be made and they are ripe for disruption.
Presumably the original amber lights are too small to be legal.
Changing the LED colour is the smallest possible localisation.

https://www.acarplace.com/2018/01/index/

>Stylists don’t deserve all the blame. In America, the brake light and rear turn signal must each have a lit lens area of at least 50 cm2 (7¾ in2). The American regulation calls this lit lens area “EPLLA” for Effective Projected Luminous Lens Area. This minimum-size requirement doesn’t exist outside America. It’s not such a big deal on a large vehicle where there’s plenty of space for a large rear lamp, but on smaller rear lamps space is at a premium. There often isn’t room for two lamps of at least 50 cm2, so that makes a design constraint.

>American regs say rear turn signals can be implemented by flashing the brake light, so the automaker needs to have only one lamp of at least 50 cm2 per side. Problem solved; the red combination brake/tail/turn lamp is legal
That's not very helpful. It looks like some sort of alternative social network; you need to be clear about your mission and the value proposition to your users.
But it might actually be stronger coffee MAOI-wise.
Let's add a 3rd option! You can be 17 again, but can choose from when you were originally 17, right now, or the difference between the 2 in years into the future.

What social trends will influence your decision? Will the future be better (correction) or even worse (exacerbation)?
With recursive common table expressions it is really straightforward. You just have to manually stratify your datalog program to find out the order for the CTE.

And then you just write down all the rules.

edit: As long as queries aren't recursive in a difficult manner, like co-recursive or have multiple recursive calls in the same rule.
I have no issue with any of these worst-case scenarios you mention because 1) these were people who opted-in to listen to these people (who might also have biased websites: "big whoop") and 2) I maintain, as I argue in more detail in my other response to someone else, that the current situation is worse for biased censorship of the platform as a whole because it implies that we are going to decide what is "abuse or brigading" as part of some centralized filter, with the result that some people are just going to either lose access to the platform entirely--even to talk to their own audience--and/or certain subjects are going to become verboten due to some disagreement with the zeitgeist.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28661600

We need to stop building centralized filters and instead push all of the moderation to the edges--even when I admit it maybe feels awkward at first glance--as it is what eventually ensures that we all have a right to communicate. You get to decide what is talked about in your Telegram channel, WhatsApp group, or (yes) Twitter sub-thread so that I have the right to decide what is talked about in mine... lest we both lose the ability to decide such after passing it off to some centralized "offensive speech" filter that ends up deciding all photos of nipples, talk of non-normative sexuality, discussion of COVID-19, or information about the latest Russian election are off-limits, because you simply can't build a centralized system for moderation without marching straight into a dystopia.

https://youtu.be/vsazo-Gs7ms
German election 2021: Live Reporting
What Makes Agile Software Development Agile?
Your computer heats air, which is a observable physical effect, though an unintended one ;)
The JS Open Source Community is filled with people grifting things like this. Quite notably, there's a linter called JS Standard Style, which actually has nothing to do with JS Standards.

It's marketed as if it was a standard, the fact that it isn't is tucked away in the readme, and also -- the entire project is just a wrapper around someones .eslintrc file, yet barely any credit is given to the ESLint devs who do all the work.

Go ahead and read the readme here, https://github.com/standard/standard. Could you genuinely tell this wasn't really a JS Standard at a glance? Could you tell this was just a config file for someone elses work? None of the donations go upstream to eslint by the way.

Hell, the actual config file is hidden inside a sub repo:

https://github.com/standard/eslint-config-standard

which has the audacity to claim

> This module is for advanced users. You probably want to use standard instead :)

It's a config file for someone elses program! Why does this library go through so much effort to hide that it's just someones config file? Why on earth is it called JS Standard Style?

The whole community is filled with slimy nonsense like this.

EDIT: also, this was the project that displayed ads in a million terminals on installs[1]. It's 100% clear to me that this package is misleadingly marketed for personal gain.

[1]: https://github.com/standard/standard/issues/1381
This is a false choice, they can both be awful along different axes. Biden however has a MUCH longer public record of bad policy decisions. Biden's crime bill from 1994 and the Iraq war which he supported caused more human misery than anything Trump had the opportunity to do in 4 years, all prior to the recent election. For all of his faults and criminality, Trump was mostly bluster and didn't actually do very much while in office, mostly it seems like he play golf and watched TV.

In many substantive ways, Biden has continued most of the previous administrations policies. Sure, he's temperamentally different, but still
a doddering old fool stuck in the politics of a previous era.

In short, I would prefer neither.
When a drunk driver causes an accident, you can arrest them and keep them from driving anymore, but this doesn't stop anyone else from driving drunk. With self-driving cars, you fix the bug that caused the accident and deploy it to the whole fleet, so none of them will ever make the same mistake again.
Thinking about designing a scene in a fragment shader is already mind boggling. Writing a new shader from scratch live in front of an audience within a 25 minute deadline is insane. The demoscene calls this a "Shader Showdown" competition, and they are amazing to watch.

A good example is the Revision 2021 semi-finals[1]. The entire video is worth watching, but I especially recommend watching the last half of evvvil-vs-flopine (from about 43:00); the last few minutes (from ~56:00) fundamentally changed my understanding of what is possible in a fragment shader. Ray marching into a hand crafted signed distance field is such a bizarre way of thinking about a scene.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBdRfFwuP40

edit: corrected 'last few minutes' time
> University texts are usually twice the price

Yeah I find these are normally the books I want now, but it doesn’t take that many to suddenly turn my cart into $1k.
As I understand, US regulations have stricter requirements on the required light surface area. Presumably this design decision was an attempt to meet those requirements.

Audi models in the US also light their taillights in addition to the scrolling bar they have in the EU.
Clearly you're after a suspend/deep sleep mode rather than power-off. Have you looked at the alternatives such as the i.MX family?
No, the UK is not suffering from a shortage of fuel, just the delivery mechanism for one chain. BP.
Yes. In fact, my display goes to sleep between refreshes and can last a really long time using no power.

However, with the Nook I'm using, the Android subsysyem eventually realises it is out of power and will displau a static "charge me" screen.

If you built your own device, you could detatch the screen from the power and the image would stay on.
> Then you can only drive where beacons are installed

Uh no, then you can only use automated driving systems where beacons are installed.
Exciting stuff.

With async/await landing last week and the leaps and bounds of the package manager over the last couple years, the ergonomics of using Swift for non-iOS work has gotten significantly better. Coupled with the built in safety and elegance of the language I think that, especially for server work, Swift is a very attractive option.

Shameless plug; for these reasons I built a Swift backend framework for fullstack iOS development[1] that we've been using it at my company while going through YC this summer.

It's been very powerful to have mobile and server in the same language and codebase and has helped us (native iOS backgrounds), move quickly.

1: https://github.com/alchemy-swift/alchemy
Heh. I finished my degree just last year though I’ve been working in the industry for 15. I wonder if having it up there will make a difference.
If that's the case then, and if nothing changes then Facebook would now be a safe haven for these nazis and I don't see Facebook doing anything to get rid of them.

The other day I still saw nazi accounts on Twitter, so as far as I can see, nothing is being done about that either.
Your best bet is to report it here... and then wait a year for someone to actually remove it: https://github.com/docker/hub-feedback/issues/1121
Union Jack with COUNTRYMAN printed inbetween it's two halves isn't Union Jack either.
Keyword here: consent! I cant imagine that someone would give any. So, no.
I have extreme test anxiety (part of my anxiety disorder). Even as a software engineer of 25+ years, I still fail live code tests more frequently than I like. I’m just happy that I don’t have to take them often.
But isn't this evidence that you should rely on the conclusions of experts? What you are describing here is that amateurs fail dramatically to synthesize correct beliefs about a subject, but if you spend years immersed in that subject you are much more capable of doing this correctly.
In what way is Matt Levine an influencer? He’s a salaried columnist for a news organization. Newspapers having adverts doesn’t suddenly make every journalist an influencer
Do not resign. Let them fire you and that way you can get severance or file for unemployment. In the meanwhile, brush up on DSA and system design. Invest in leetcode premium and start going though the solutions and approaches. Nowadays it takes about 4-8 weeks of solid LC to prepare yourself for an interview.
If you don't need all of the speed, I'd recommend disabling power boost. My i9 laptop averages ~10-15W with it disabled, compared to the ~20W my fridge uses. Even when maxed out CPU it's only ~40W, compared to ~100W with power boost enabled. That's more than double the power despite only being a modest speed increase!
Biden is indeed a dangerous authoritarian who has worked tirelessly to erode civil liberties for decades. Even his VP is a prosecutor who started her career by ending a deferment program and ratcheting up prosecution of non-violent crimes.
I'm actually not a fan of it. Granted I've mostly driven older cars, without the wonders of ABS etc - but most situations that require heavy, unplanned breaking for me, are also times I really should have two hands on the wheel.

I'm not fundamentally opposed - systems that do it automatically sound like a fantastic compromise. I just think if it's dangerous enough that I feel other drivers need more warning than normal, it's probably dangerous enough that I should have full control.
The epidemiological modeling actually did not turned out all that bad. The expectation of perfect accuracy would be unreasonable to begin with. But the models I have seen clearly stated assumptions and goals. And within those parameters generally did not do that badly.

You really need to go into political manipulations of them - like taking worst case scenario model and claiming it was wrong because situation was not worst case.
This is false. A single republican’s personal laptop got hacked and a years-out-of-date outlook db was stolen.

The DNC had their email server itself hacked, which is an entirely different level of compromise.

Of course, they crafted a narrative that “republicans were hacked too!” which of course is true but highly misleading (typical of such propaganda campaigns).

This was highly effective, as it’s still popping up in discussions like this one 5+ years later.
> People think if a project on github hasn't been updated since 3 months then it has been abandoned!!

This a heuristic that generally works. Most projects that don't have recent commits really are abandoned. And when you open a project on github, one of the first things you see is when every file was last updated. Maybe github should offer other heuristics, or of it already has them, display them more prominently.
I am talking about a decision made at design time, not at run time.
I think it's worth pointing out that these pull requests replace a totally unrelated package with either one of these two packages that claim to be copying each other.

The way it was framed was that someone forked a packaged and started replacing all users; not what happened.

Also: I don't even use JS, so, I have no idea who these people or libraries are.
There is another class of influencer that is often forgotten but is also very popular: The anti-influencer. Their goal is not to seek money or fame, it’s simply to watch the world burn and stimulate rage, all for a good laugh. They are not famous people so it’s not easy to name them or track their whereabouts, and their presence is often short lived. You can only see them in the moment. In the past, the politically incorrect term for such people would have been “trolls”.
Parking is the obvious cost, but aren't you ignoring gas, maintenance, opportunity cost of capital put into a car, etc?
There are a number of reasons to be skeptical of agribusiness, but this one is especially overblown. The widely known suits around "saved seeds" were not about that specifically.
Product manager, influencer or data scientist
Re #3, it's easy to fall into the trap of thinking your worldview is the only right one. There's a fairly well-known historical case, this guy named Lewis Strauss, a major early US Cold War figure who pushed the hydrogen bomb and famously claimed nuclear power would be 'too cheap to meter'.

He was widely known for his debating style, in which he'd first assume anyone who disagreed with him didn't understand his argument, and after further refusal to agree, would then assume that person was a traitor in the pay of the Soviet Union.
I think thats a pretty big assumption. What about rooftop solar?...if excess energy was used to mine btc. You would have incentive for solar adoption and the most fair and distributed system possible. Not saying this is how it goes but there's possibilities out there that can make sense.

Also has anyone actually looked at the btc energy usage as a percentage of global energy usage? Its a pimple and that rate does not increase with userbase it increases with coin value which will hit a plateau.
There’s a pattern of deception on his part that is way more regular and extends beyond that insult that can’t be attributed to Asperger’s - I didn’t event mention the pedophile insult in my parent comment.
>Social media is damaging to society, doing things for likes is damaging [...]No Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, WeChat, WeiBo, or TikTok for me

This seems like a generic complaint that's not specific to this particular thread's article. This article is about the rise of middleman agency platforms to connect brands to internet celeberties with a following.

And then there's this:

>I for one don't want to be an influencer.

But you're the CEO of:

>Gastrograph AI is an artificial intelligence platform [...] to predict consumer preference of food and beverage products.

>We helps food and beverage companies [...] optimize existing brands.

With your business background, you're actually one of the folks that can add substantive commentary to this. You want to help brands reach consumers. So do internet celebrities.
Okay, maybe your brain is wired differently, just like the brain of the designer who created the lights.

The position of the light on the car is a signal for my brain, but it takes some processing. If it's on the right side of the vehicle, my brain evaluates that to "right" and vice versa, but maybe it's a short car, like a Smart ForTwo or a Fiat 500, and I'm looking at its side, so the right-hand-side indicator is left from the "center of perceived mass", but in that case there should be another smaller light somewhere around the side-view mirror and hmmm, yeah, it's turning right. It just takes a tiny bit of processing power and a tiny bit of time.

But an arrow, boy, I've been looking at arrows all my life. They've been telling me where to go at the train station, which way to turn on Google Maps and sometimes even literally which way to turn the steering wheel, on the outside of a sharp turn. An arrow requires no additional processing and is a strong, unmistakable signal.

So what my brain sees on that Mini flashing its left indicator is something like "Car turning left, btw RIGHT".
Well sure, that's part of the point. There didn't exist a concept of constant access to news and happenings at every point of your day. Couldn't just pull out your phone and check Fox/CNN, or get updates via social media.

It's like we have access to everything one could want now, which is awesome, but that feels like it's bad for us, collectively, since we have no self control.
They specifically address this in the article. You’re being willfully obtuse.
Like pulling out of a parallel parking spot? Don't worry, nobody uses their indicators for that anyway...
>People think if a project on github hasn't been updated since 3 months then it has been abandoned!!

People are too quick to assume that all Github repos are meant for public consumption. Can only speak for myself really but most of what I've pushed there was designed with only me in mind. If others find it useful that's nice but don't expect me to accept pull requests.
In the US, there's a regulation mandating the size of the lit area for the turn signal exceed a certain surface area. The European style amber signal area on most standard-sized or small cars is unlikely to comply. This (and regulations around the amount of red reflector in taillights) is the reason why most Americanized cars get terrible taillights with reused brake lights.
I'm still not seeing much of a distinction. Celebrities got famous because they were popular and were then able to monetize that. I kind of get where you're coming from, but if there is a distinction to be made, it's not this.
Wouldn’t Bloomberg have teams dedicated to selling adspace? I don’t see why Matt would spend his time doing that
I don't understand your comment. Whether he should be pardoned or not is separate from him picking sides and making adversaries of the democrats.

Are you suggesting that people shouldn't take the actions of others into account?
Burning fossil fuels is a disaster far greater than Chernobyl.
They sometimes are but they tend to get filtered out at the lowest levels.
This is less about the introduction of self driving cars as a new technology, and more about a company introducing a level 2 driving assistance feature and calling it “self driving”, when in technical terms, it never takes over driving responsibilities from the human driver.

The danger in this case is entirely manufactured. Level 2 driving assistance features are safe when they are not oversold.
Vulkan supports both officially, although GLSL support is better. To be fair Vulkan kind of assumes the game engine shader compiler does most of the heavy lifting and using either glsl or hlsl directly in a small Vulkan application is a pain compared to OpenGL or DirectX.