skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There seems to be an over-focus in the article on how cognitive cost heuristic used to evaluate trajectories explain why humans choose certain paths. In fact a lot of things go into planning a walk, including at times not planning at all, but walking as the spirit guides you as it were.

For example, on the tendency for people to take longer, non-optimal paths for longer walks, the article states...

The tendency to deviate from the shortest path increases with distance between the origin and destination, which could be due to the increasing complexity of evaluating relatively longer paths, in line with the approximate rationality principle.

What it seems to assume is that people completely pre-plan their walk, or rather attempt to. And that optimizing the path for shortness is the top priority of the walker. But if they simply have an agenda to get from point A to point B, many things can influence the path they choose.

In real life, one may vaguely plan a walk, then at key moments make making various path decisions. And those decisions aren't necessarily about optimizing the path. One might for example not take a street because of construction or some obstruction on the sidewalk, and just continue on to the next path.

And sometimes people may choose a path that goes by a park, or a particularly interesting building, or favorite store, or out of curiosity to know what is down a perhaps unfamiliar street, or even to NOT take an unfamiliar street but to take one they are familiar with.

I'd also add that OSM is not always a good reference for planning walks. I just finished walking every street in my city (done with CityStrides website, 694 streets, around 380 miles) this year, and planning optimal walk routes really wasn't always efficient via mapping data. For example, OSM and such can't take into account simple shortcuts like crossing a railroad track or park to reach another street. Early on I hand-planned each walk to optimize street coverage, but towards the end just started walking with only a general plan in mind for the day's walk.
That's actually a good idea.

Was the original remote app enabled? If not, now you have a potential product for those people who would rather use an app than the manual remote. Are spare remotes hard to get or expensive? There's another market that might want to buy from you, especially if the AC unit that is old or obsolete.

Spare parts/retrofits with new features is big business. There's a good chance that if you dug into this particular problem you'd find that it could be profitable. Not quit-you-day-job profitable, but at least enough to bring in a few extra $k per month.
The minimum wage (not directly the answer but a useful reference) hit its peak inflation-adjusted value in 1968, per the EPI: https://www.epi.org/publication/congress-has-never-let-the-f...
I took the point of the article to be that Django is making no effort to enter the now fairly idiomatic world of static type checking in Python?

I guess we could reasonably debate about the meaning of "nice-to-have", but for some people including me, I would find working with a framework that thwarted my efforts to statically type my code to be more than just "not nice" - I would actively avoid it. Which, again, I believe gets at the heart of the article. There are plenty of folks who will choose not to use Django precisely because it seems not to be evolving alongside the language.
Great feedback. I will improve the copy - as you said, it's currently aimed at technologists. It looks like three.js is able to load .glb files (a format I can easily generate with the current pipeline) so I will try to add a three.js based viewer.
Not a fan of the design of the Pixel or iPhone. They both have these cold, sterile design that doesn't look like it was designed to be used and held by a human hand. It was designed to be looked at or for curated display in an Apple Store.

And what's with all the flat design, we need skeumorphism and warmth back in industrial and UI design.

I prefer the soap bar design which seems to have been forgotten. And no more glass backs please. I don't get the appeal of glass, they shatter so easily, finger print magnets and just add unnecessary weight.
It’s not a stand in for an IQ test. If you study the problems, you get a better score. Therefore, not an IQ test.
I can definitively say the real-time language translation they demoed on the original Pixel Buds was complete vaporware (and the last time I bought a newly released Google product).

I have yet to get the AI assistant to book anything for me. The only related function I do use is the call screening piece, but that's hardly AI...
I finally got it in my cart but I can't checkout (Error code: R013, or R008). Somehow the leather case is already "sold out" (not "out of stock") so I guess some people can check out :(
The bump never rests flat and things that were going to impact scratch it don't care it's 2mm farther out.
> Integrity matters

Citation needed :-)
Note that this is part of Hetzners dedicated offers, meaning the first bill is 2 times the monthly rate because setup fees.
GTK2 used float coordinates and supported fractional rendering.

GTK3 breaking that is a bug, not a feature.

Especially text should NEVER be scaled after rendering.

And re: performance, that’s great that you’ve got hardware that can run 3D in-browser shader sites or games at 6K resolution at 60fps just fine, mine can’t. If it were running at 4K, as it’s supposed to, I’d get significantly more fps. Especially at a time where GPUs are rare and Gnome still decides I should get 50% more performance just so they save some work.
I don’t think that they have shrunk but they grew only moderately. When you account for costs like house no, health care or education then they definitely have shrunk. When I grew up there were families in my neighborhood with the dad working as a loader in a warehouse, stay at home mine, three kids and a nice house. This isn’t possible today.

Even if lower incomes have grown a little, upper incomes have grown way more making a lot of things way more expensive for people with lower income.
> Your auto formatter can’t figure out where you missed braces either.

Correct, but I will notice the braces are wrong when the auto-formatter indents things differently than I expect.
Lessons from a fresher after 3 months at Razorpay
Applied Science is just a really smart guy who works (worked?) at Valve who reads cutting edge research papers and tries to recreate it in his home machine shop / garage.

I just discovered Not Just Bikes a few weeks ago, and I'm really digging his content. He complains and rants too much for me to really binge his channel, but I still go back to it for small doses. I'll work my way through his catalogue eventually!

I do like Technology Connections, but I'm a mechanical engineer by training so a lot of his videos don't really cover new stuff for me, or it's a 22 minute video for 8 minutes of real content. He tends to go over each concept repeatedly from sliiightly different perspectives each time. Which is cool, but I end up skipping around in the video until he gets to the point.
You think more than one in a thousand studies particle-physics studies deny the existence of the electron? The studies might disagree around the edges, but I think there's overwhelming consensus on theories for which there's overwhelming evidence.
does anyone know why 12 out of 13 photos on this website show only black people? Is Google tailoring to a specific segment of the market?
I have never interviewed two candidates who I wanted to hire who were remotely close to equal. To the extent that two or more candidates are equal, it's that they are equally bad. Among competent developers the amount of variability among candidates is absolutely enormous.
What do you want from this community? All we hear, day and night, is how JavaScript sucks and has gotten ridiculously complicated. Now someone shows up with a proposal for pipes or the F# people and their pipes, like, what do you want from us?

We’re aware of what’s happening, or has happened to JS, and we’re having the realistic discussion about this stuff finally. The once ‘oh neat, new JS thing, let’s use it’ phase is over. We’ve seen the concrete impact of too much shit layered on top of each other in actual workplace codebases.

If you wanted this, you shoulda came earlier, the party is finished. We went too far between 2010-2020 and we’re all exhausted. It’s got nothing to do with ‘don’t move my cheese’ and everything to do with ‘I think we’re good over here, thx’.

We need to take a step back, evaluate all the nonsense (clean up after the party), before we can throw another one.

Like, it’s all good F# pipe people, totally appreciate your input, but we have our own clusterfuck that needs to be sorted out at the moment, maybe next time.
Squidex – an open source Headless CMS
I don't know where you live, but where I'm living they seem to be standard now. By law. With few exceptions. Though the ones in the House I'm living in are continously blinking "E-21", so I'd guess their uplink is down, and they can't do FTP.

I'm just telling how it is. Not what I like, or support.
Generative Art Resources in R
What's the opposite -- where someone has an unfortunate name for their industry? I know of a developer with the last name Null.
Not necessarily, see 'piercing the corporate veil'.
I actually vehemently disagree and will fight to allow people to break the rules. I love that gray areas exist. Gray areas are where art and ingenuity is born. Gray areas allow me to break the rules at work to push improvements. Gray areas are what I use to show people how things can be better.

I hope we never reach a state where technology actively defeats us.

The only time that I think it’s responsible to have total enforcement is when the rules perfectly capture reality and every facet of it …which to say is never.
There is clearly still a reliance on Google (Chromium fork, Google results backfill) but still very nice to see an alternative approach to search. Different viewpoints into the web are essential IMO.
I worked on the services side for many years and eventually worked my way into the sales and contract writing level of the operation. I was definitely too much of a square for anyone corrupt to want to pull me into their schemes, but I also never caught any kind of whiff of impropriety. We worked for a pretty wide array of clients including Fortune 50s and startups, contracts in the $500K-$20MM range. Never heard a whisper of kickbacks and we were typically squeezed to utilize every penny so it would be really, really hard to make more than 1% of our contract price disappear. The worst I ever saw was small-time expense abuse like buying steak dinners and wine on trips.

Second hand, an acquaintance worked on a tobacco account where they were spending government-mandated anti-smoking funds on a digital marketing campaign and they were asked to deliberate overbill and churn on work without delivering. People went to jail.

Third handed story because I knew some folks who used this software, a vendor once extracted about 1000% of their contract price in kickbacks building HR software for the city of new york: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/29/nyregion/three-men-senten...
The Teenager Economy
A short one that can be interesting for the HN community. I’ve negotiated quite a few deals and after reading Cialdini’s influence thought to share my thoughts on reciprocation. Let me know if you have any questions and I welcome some sharp comments as always!
I question your assertion. It seems like providing a "roof and bed" is actually a solved problem in terms of manufacturing. I say manufacturing specifically because you bring up 3D printed homes. The problems with housing supply are due to social externalities rather than lack of innovation.

"When the government or whoever comes in and provides these things, they become the world ruler." I also challenge this because governments have tried to provide nearly free housing, food, water, and even direct payments from the government. But these efforts have not worked as well as hoped and the idea has not swept the world into a new paradigm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruitt%E2%80%93Igoe
pg == one of the founders of YC.

http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html
It really depends - other ones I bought with these I actually have a motherboard for don’t even show up as engineering samples in cpu-z - they a probably qualification samples from what I’ve heard? The q-spec is also are not listed anywhere. Other I have bought show up as just Genuine Intel 0000 or some variant of that without any model name.
> High clock speeds were an architectural constraint driven by the _marketing_ department.

High clock speeds are an architectural constraint driven by the market.

Intel and AMD can't sell chips that don't clock high in laptops and desktops and they can't afford to specialize much for mid-clocked server chips, so they need a design that can at least approach 5GHz for boost clocks. Instructions per Clock matters too, but the market would have a hard time buying an x86 chip that stopped at 3 GHz, even if it was double the IPC.

That means they can't make a super-wide processor like Apple that tops out around 3 GHz, where Apple is more comfortable providing sufficient cooling.
A lot of wage growth has been in the cost of healthcare and other benefits.

As the minimum wage rises it will hurt the poorest and most vulnerable, minimum wage removes the bottom rungs of the adder.
I really enjoyed the article. Thank you for posting it.
That’s how it looks to me. How dare the low ranks want to benefit from economic growth. How can a country exist without billionaires getting richer?
He did just that.
You don't have to invest it in your company. Invest it in whichever company is hoovering up all the profits.

To some extent people have been doing it, which is behind the massive stock price gains from FAANGs. Only benefits you if you did it before everybody else, though, otherwise prices get bid up so high that you don't get a decent number of shares.
We're going to be hearing this a lot, for political reasons.

What seems to be driving inflation right now is supply chain trouble from the pandemic. Shortages drive up prices in the near term, since there's a clear supply/demand imbalance. Wages only directly affect items with a large labor component. Restaurants, yes; steel, no.
I've always assumed that "howdy" was a word from the vernacular of a small regional community in some random US location, that got promoted to mainstream English - individual words from dialects sometimes get picked up and adopted into "canonical" language.
You are forgetting that GNU/Linux desktop will never happen, it is always going to be Windows or macOS for 98% of the world.

Even if we take ChromeOS and Android into account, ChromeOS is largely irrelevant outside North America school system, and Android will always be a phone OS.

In both cases, the Linux kernel is an implementation detail.

So that leaves Apple with its 10% market share for all creatives, which someone has to develop software for, and iOS devices, which also require developers to create said apps.

Everyone else will stay on Windows as always.
Programming languages are tools. I don't like it when I find out I'm going to need yet another set of bits for some new type of screw head, either. Doubly so if it's at-best marginally better than the two next-best kinds I already own. Takes up space, more shit to misplace or mistake for something else, et c.
Or financial stuff. Or job stuff. Or getting a cell phone or cable subscription stuff. It's pretty much as much of a secret as your middle name in the US - it's not like everybody knows it, but it's not very hard to find out.
The problem is right here in the blurb. It's not that k8s itself is complex. Ops is complex. Companies used to have entire dedicated IT departments full of sysadmins, storage engineers, network engineers, and security engineers with decades of experience configuring, deploying, maintaining, and monitoring servers, networks, hypervisors, and data centers.

Newer companies just push this onto their application developers, expecting them to figure this stuff out on top of being developers, "full-stack" now meaning you need to understand everything down to filesystems, overlay networks, container runtimes. This is not a reasonable expectation. Nobody can be an expert in everything.

Of course, I'm not sure full automation can really replace human expertise, either.
> but, i disagree with the solution you suggest. the only solution is to refuse and instead of wasting 3 months training with no guarantees, build a product instead and sell it.

Because being a software engineer means running your own business… right.

Just like surgeons should start their own hospital before getting hired. Makes total sense…
On an unrelated thought, it used to be that on the internet nobody knew you were a dog...
(2005)

Also reminds me of this framework parody (and the container one it was based on, linked within)

https://hackernoon.com/how-it-feels-to-learn-javascript-in-2...
I'm not saying that the authors were dishonest I'm saying that if this is an honest outcome from the paper's authors (which it probably is) then the result we should expect should be closer to 95% than 99.9%. That it's this off from the expected value indicates that something external to this paper is inaccurate, even if these authors measured the inaccuracies correctly.
My country of origin, Faroe Islands, has worked on this precisely because the population is small and very closely related. So there's a lot of recessive genes being expressed. Also, they've kept meticulous population records for centuries, so traits can be accurately traced back through several generations. I just looked up my own records in the national registry and traced one of my branches back to a named person born in the year 1170.

Info: https://www.fargen.fo/en/research/genealogy-registry/
>But realistically, even those don't matter because protective cases are effectively a standard part of any modern phone.

Then you buy a thin phone on paper and make it fat with a case, better if they would put more battery and less glue in. But as always designers/marketing complicate everyone life so they push their new idea: "Form over Function"
> Also, how did you know that I like Steppenwolf?! :D

I figured that anyone that appreciates music so much that they maintain a collection of music files on their machine would probably appreciate Steppenwolf :)
Half a mill here, half a mill there, soon you're talking serious money...?

It is possible that your perceptions of how easy it is to extract millions-scale dollars from the business world is skewed. Google suggests 1.7M is the median lifetime earnings in the US, 2.7 is the average. Getting that in a handful of deals could tempt all sorts of people.
Apparently you did, because that was the whole point, all this stuff predates Java.
ASK HN: Predicting Time Series Data
I want to forecast traffic on my website (i work for a large company with thousands of hours spent on our website hourly across the USA). I am researching how to visualize and predict this time series at the hourly level. Any ideas here on modeling the time spent on the website on a city level? I have lots of historical data ~2 years
How is it Bitcoin powered?
To be fair this information is already public in argentina. There is no secrecy to almost any of this, as ID numbers are public, sequential and queryable for tax status, debt status, etc.
Pilot: An Operating System for a Personal Computer (1980) [pdf]
It's 4 more. How could less be more? More is more!
Yes, the symmetry is a huge win. I don't use a case with my phone, and the asymmetric bumps really mess up one of my primary use cases: I have the phone sitting on a desk or table reading the news.

I've been holding back on both Samsung and Apple's latest phones just because of the asymmetric bump. It is so annoying. Sticking with my old Note 8 for now even though it is out of support and receives no security updates.

I looked through the announcement and didn't see an answer to this question: does anyone know what the display technology is? LCD or AMOLED or...?
Google's OS will be optimised for their hardware. What a radical idea!
Not noticeable is interesting.

What hardware from the past 10 years are you using that rendering 3D games in browser or shader websites at 6K vs 4K resolution makes no difference?

I’m already struggling to get enough fps at 4K, with Gnome rendering it at 6K and downscaling to 4K my performance is even worse. That’s using an RX 5700XT, a GPU that in the current absurd market retails over $1000.

And as Gnome ensured that neither GTK nor Wayland expose any non-integer scale factors, or support it, browsers on linux have no way to render at native resolutions and handle scaling themselves, which would improve my performance situation significantly.
They bumped support to 5 years, interesting. Short support duration is a common complaint from Android users.
Ha, I noticed this part in the twitter thread:

> Yahoo offered $125 million

> As a financially-insecure immigrant, I knew this deal would change my life.

I enjoyed how he specifically qualified that this was a lot of money for a "financially-insecure immigrant." Um... no. This is a lot of money for 99.999% of human beings on the planet.

A good read though.
It's nice to see a story about reconciliation. For a while now I've been slightly frustrated with family members for having what I perceive as backwards views. But arguing over whether or not a certain conspiracy theory is true generally leads to more anger and a dead end. I still love my relatives after all, I just heavily disagree with some of their world-views.

Despite this not seeming scalable, it's at least comforting to hear the state dealing with these conflicts on an emotional level. Conspiracy theories are, perhaps unsurprisingly, not fueled by facts or logic.
> It connects us to something deep with carry inside ourselves as we all evolved from water.

Could you elaborate on this? I'm not seeing the logical connection.
> Something tells me that being a truck driver isn't going to be much of a career by then.

Github: "You rang?"

https://copilot.github.com/
I know it's a complicated topic, but lobbying can be considered as corruption.

E.g. a group with socioeconomic power is corrupting a law in order to serve their own interests.

And US is very well known for its lobbying that people are trying to limit.
That's true, in these cases I usually write a function that's basically a composition of functions. The power of the pipeline operator is ad-hoc function composition. This is useful if you have lots of very generic functions, and don't want to name every single composition. There is already the f(g(h(x))) syntax, of course, but it's not the most readable.

I do agree in general that this operator isn't really needed. Probably not worse than Python's := or structural pattern matching, it's one of those things where either you base the language on it, or you don't and adding it is not really necessary.
I may have seen it as a child, but I watched it recently and I don't think I had enough recollection of it to have any nostalgia at all.
They are also meant to fit well in a case.
I'm getting so jaded about these new ideas. ML/DL and 'perfecting' pictures .. seems so misguided. People are obsessed by looking at the finger in 8k.
> the minimum wage has not increased in a decade and real earnings have declined precipitously

And inflation is causing real wages to fall even now, especially at the bottom of economy! A shame. We had some decent progress over the past few years.

> Raise. The. Minimum. Wage.

And pretend this won't contribute to inflation either directly or indirectly! Then publicly shame companies for raising prices and propose price controls as a political salve, then shame those companies when the price controls lead to shortages and propose nationalization (or at least invoke the Defense Protection act!) Marvel when the problems deepen!