skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s what stood out to me too! His plugins are always so thoughtful and idiomatic Vim, they really ought to be default. I guess except this one should remain opt in.
Has anyone had a look at this: https://kdl.dev/? It's been on my to-check-out list for a while now.
I think Tesla does a good job of making folks think they are doing a lot of R&D, but that's about it. Based on some quick internet research, Tesla is a quarter of the R&D of either Ford or GM...

Unless you think it's higher quality or in a different area... but the whole world is going toward electric cars and autonomous driving. Tesla AutoPilot comes in a distant second to GM according to Consumer Reports: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/28/gms-super-cruise-tops-teslas...

Tesla build quality also ranks low, even according to Elon: https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/03/business/elon-musk-tesla-qual...
This proposal seemed utterly reasonable to me, especially this:

> US budget deficits don’t require a radical confiscation scheme like this. We already have a very effective progressive tax system which applies the same rules - but different rates - to everyone. If tax revenue is too low, just raise the top tax brackets

That, together with closing the step-up-in-basis loophole, are the simplest ways to more equitably raise revenue.
You don’t even have to go to Facebook to take advantage of that theory. Lots of people hate companies like oracle, and they are always hiring. I didn’t last very long there, but certainly was paid more than anywhere else at the time.
Beside of whether this particular tax reform bill is good or not, does it have any chance to survive in the current Supreme Court setup? If it's definitely not, I don't think it's a good idea to pursue it's going to shrink the future political possibility of taxing multi-billionaires.
Curious to know what up and coming industries you mean?
Sounds like they need to raise compensation offer amounts
I use syncthing with a digital ocean droplet. Never experience any issues.
Seriously, I still use INI files when I think they're adequate, and the Godot game engine's default data format is basically INI.

I think the general rule here is to use the simplest format necessary.
Discord uses a special indicator for system messages, like the Slackbot heart but more prominent: https://smitop.com/discord-system.png
> Perhaps we could instead once again employ people to write encyclopedias, and fact check?

We have a couple of centuries' worth of evidence that this system is subject to exactly the same kinds of flaws, along with the downside of them being much harder to correct.
I agree that YAML is code and I find it absolutely preposterous that there’s any notion otherwise.
I’m sure she knows that her appearance has a massive overlap with male fantasies and that affects her followers.

But what does that have to do with the work she does? And why is that her problem?
Given the snubs she’s received, I’d argue that her appearance actually costs her. If she looked more like the western ideal of a female lesbian hacker she’d get more work and sponsorships.
Why is it used so much? Tooling? Stockholm Syndrome?
The cost of running government bureaucracies on COBOL
I love KiCad. At this point the only thing missing for me is repeated subcircuit layout in PCB. There’s a nice plug-in for it but I really want to see it integrated. I’m sure it’s coming soon.
That doesn't make any sense -- something that applies to "all music rock stars" would have to come from a mastering engineer or someone at that level and even then it wouldn't be universally applicable.
Alternate for KeyLift: http://type.taxi. You’re welcome.
Obviously I wouldn't support the concept in your example.

My experience with travel is roughly that business travel focused programs (basically tiers with perks) are all designed to make travel smoother and don't come at the expense of sucking up your attention with advertising. Consumer focused travel programs (points) are the opposite, they are the same as grocery store points or whatever and about harvesting your data in exchange for some impossible to use "reward".

As long as these programs stay on the business side, they will be more likely to be about making travel better. When we see them move to the consumer side, they will be about screwing people, and I won't support them. But for now, it's good to call out when they've done something good.
> Poachers killed elephants with tusks, and as a consequence elephants without tusks have a reproductive advantage.

Yes, this is natural selection, the process through which evolution happens.
They do. And they burn cleaner (almost as, if not as, clean as NatGas) and last just as long. Modern wood stoves often use catalytic converters to achieve a cleaner burn with no extra moving parts. Here's one [1] from Home Depot's website. There's a set of EPA certified wood stoves that burn hotter/more efficiently and thus release fewer hazardous combustion related byproducts [2]

[1]: https://www.homedepot.com/p/Pleasant-Hearth-Medium-1-800-sq-...
[2]: https://www.epa.gov/burnwise/epa-certified-wood-stoves
Developers seem to complain about anything that takes a little bit of memory and care. To a limited extent, that's not a bad thing--our brains have limits. However, when the benefits outweigh the costs, complaining about it is a bad thing.

Regular expressions are a good example. Developers seem to hate them. I find them easy and intuitive, and I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed. However, I will take some care to commit some stuff to memory and make some notes. That's it. When you know what characters are magic, know what the special characters mean, they're extremely straight-forward except when they're very complex.

Same thing with YAML. It's got a couple of rough edges, but the complexity carries its weight, and most of the difficulties go away if you bite the bullet and memorize it. Just commit those block chomping operators to memory, it doesn't hurt that much, then you can get on with your life and quit complaining about YAML and make it work for you.
that was the worst thing to happen to facebook. before the newsfeed people barely talked about ridiculous political standpoints and it was more engaging. sure people sometimes posted a thing or two on their own but now everyone is an expert about things they read from for-profit news conglomerates, terrible for people with anxiety and ptsd because that was one of the main places people met, so turning facebook off is like going into total isolation for some. but going on the site definitely increased anxiety and traumatic triggers in people who would otherwise avoid the news
I feel I'm too old for Twitter (50). But what does that mean? It means I don't use it to engage. It's still one of the most important feeds of information and entertainment in my daily life.
I find YAML, for all its flaws, to strike a lot better balance between usability and clarity than the alternatives. But whatever, people have their own preferences.

Ultimately, I don’t think it would be possible to avoid the sorts of problems people run into in any configuration language unless you have a strict type system on the config itself. But strict type systems on config have been tried and end up causing their own distinctive problems.

In the end people will complain about whatever their interface is to a complex system. They will always make errors in configuration and that will always be annoying.
Strange BLC1 candidate radio waves were from Earth
Steve Jobs, who became CEO when Apple, as a public company, hired him from outside the company?
I'm not even joking, when you dock my Thinkpad it has every single one of those ports.
Has anyone taken a look at Cue who can share any experiences?

https://cuelang.org/

It's mentioned on the site as an alternative to Yaml. Recently watched (~half of) this intro to it: https://youtu.be/fR_yApIf6jU
More is different. Even when things share the same base units they can have completely different qualitative properties at scale based on the structure and environments. You and the sun are both just leptons and baryons, but that's not very helpful.

In this case, these models have vastly different architectures, learn language is vastly different format, and are given massive corpora of words written from millions of random perspectives instead of receiving words from one perspective via targeted communications.

On what basis is there to expect such a system to magically develop the expressive intentional characteristics of human language when we can't even find another animal who seems to have this ability?
Would this also not affect angel investing/seed investing by individuals?

If there's no huge incentive for an investor once a company makes it to hold their stock, every successful company will be led by corporate hedge funds/investment firms.
I agree with most of what you say, but based on personal experience, have a hard time really knowing who he loved and didn't see sympathy expressed often for individuals who worked for him.
That's fine. Many clocks are off by much more than 1ms. But the timestamps should be represented as nanos everywhere.
The points in this post reminds me of the “configuration clock”[1]. Hardcoded -> configure file -> rules -> DSL -> Hardcoded. Maybe it should be the “configuration ouroboros”. Provides one explanation for why this config becoming code situation occurs over and over and what to watch out for.

[1] http://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2012/05/configuration-complex...
That, I wholly agree with.
> That's no true with deficits.

Honestly, that's not much of a rebuttal.

If you believe in Ricardian Equivalence, then sure, the future deficits are matched by private savings to offset future tax liabilities. Well, what do you think an increase in networth is other than an increase in private savings?

But if you do not believe in Ricardian Equivalence, then the deficit spending is an increase in net-wealth, which again shows up disproportionately on the balance sheets of the wealthy.

So there is really no way around it. Merely calling this "wrong" and "dangerous" is not an argument -- when a government wants to pay benefits but refuses to fund them with taxes, then given that taxes are disproportionately paid for by the wealthy, you are going to have distributional effects.

This is just the flip-side of the old Keynesian saw about balanced budget multipliers.

I really don't see how this is controversial except for the crowd that wants more spending but knows there is not the political will to fund it with taxes. Then this is an unpleasant side effect that they don't want to think about, but that doesn't make it "not true".
If humans can modify the animals in the environment this fast, I see no reason why we just cannot assume that most of the living wild animals are already a result of humans doing the selection.

I was always quite confused by the fact that most animals look quite nice but given these results I guess humans can extinguish the ugly and leave the beautiful.
There are ways around this in the UK system, however. It's probably the same case in the US. The short of it is you transfer the wealth well before (15-20 years) the death occurs, thus there is no inheritance.

This was used recently by an MP.

That being said I agree with your thoughts, however:

> How many fourth generational heirs do we see among America’s wealthiest billionaires? Essentially zero.

This is probably true but I'd like to ask the question: how many of them simply inherit a lot of money without any of the fame associated with it, and just go unnoticed? I've met such a person, actually.

EDIT: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-36009963 - this is what I was thinking about.
are you sure? I have a 2017 and a 2019 MBP right here (i'm typing on the 2019) and they both most certainly have a 3.5mm jack. you might want to double check your info.

again, what you find odd is perfectly even for me. not one pair of wireless anything has ever sounded as good as my wired cans.
You only get to do that if you're printing money at such an astounding rate that investors will do anything to get you to let them invest in you. FB and Google, yes, most other companies, not so much.
Cryptocurrencies, advanced semiconductors, and cheap per-passenger rail/aircraft.

USA is winning on rockets and EVs but that is 100% because of one person and not wider US policy (and I assume most of his production of the latter will be non-US within 5 years).
The conclusion in the paper states it's left as future work.

"Future work
also includes automatically inferring inductive proofs for other
distributed protocols, such as Byzantine Paxos [15], Raft [90],
etc., and exploring the verification of consensus algorithms in
blockchain applications.
"

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.08796.pdf
It working once is enough, provided you're the first person it occurred to.

In Jujitsu, that's the way it works. You create a new technique, or rediscover it, you get one free shot at Sensei, and then it doesn't work the same anymore.
Previously:

[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25562230]

[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25487578]

[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25476069]

"Because the signal [982.002571 MHz, with a drift rate of 0.038 Hz s−1] didn’t reappear in the 2020 and 2021 observations, it might have been coming from malfunctioning electronic equipment that got shut down or fixed, says Sheikh. The team suspects the equipment was relatively close to Parkes, perhaps within a few hundred kilometres. The frequency of the signal drifts in a way that is consistent with inexpensive crystal oscillators such as those commonly used in computers, phones and radios, says Dan Werthimer, a SETI astronomer at UC Berkeley who specializes in signal processing." [doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02931-7]
That's a valid point. Short term, you'll soak some founders, but future founders can set up the offshore trust, or just start their business elsewhere.
Understandable, but my comments are legitimate "I'm a shocked at how copilot can do this" reactions. I'm not a Github fanboy, just someone who has been using that new feature for a few weeks. It's just that insane.
salty much
This is the first I'm ever hearing of someone saying that New Coke was preferred. They don't even make it any more. They switched from New Coke to Coke Classic. What taste tests showed New Coke as popular?
Ask HN: What would you advise on becoming a freelancer/contractor
Listen. You're right. There, I gave you validation.

But you're not going to change anyone's mind. So what's the point?

Remember, the primary purpose of HN is entertainment (intellectual gratification). Internalizing this helped me break the habit of making such arguments "just to be right."

I'll throw it back at you: Yes, I just ate two pork steaks. I have two more in the fridge. In fact, I'd personally murder a family of pigs if it was the only way I'd ever be able to eat pork steaks again. They're that delicious, and I am that selfish.

Life isn't nice. It's brutal, short, and sprinkled with periods of happiness and ecstasy. It's always been that way, and it'll be that way long after we're gone.

It is literally fine to use humans for sustenance if everyone collectively agrees it's fine, by the way. People have done it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguayan_Air_Force_Flight_571

You could argue "Well, that was survival. Besides, those people were already dead."

Literally every animal born into factory farming is already dead. They just don't realize it yet.

I think linking to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxvQPzrg2Wg&ab_channel=Kurzg... is probably your best bet at even getting people to stop and think about the question at all. Yet if even Kurzgesagt's eloquence doesn't make a dent (I still scarf down pork steaks on a regular basis), what hope do you have here?

Once you internalize all of this, perhaps you'll be in a frame of mind to realize that it was off-topic to bring up factory farming in a thread about ivory poaching. I get where you're coming from, and I agree that it seems closely related. But things like this just aren't worth litigating; broadcasting your own morals to a wide audience is rarely a good idea.
My point is just that two wrongs don't make a right. Saying they make staff ID people doesn't automatically make it ok for them to have more administrative duties. And the article is festisious anyway, the bigger point is we shouldn't be doing it at all.
Another comment said "don't open source your code", which I would agree with. If you don't want people reusing your code, just don't open source it. What's the point otherwise?
I'd love to see less passive/aggressive responses, but this is the internet...

Editing images and video comes to mind. Average users are doing that a lot more, since they have access to high resolution RAW output via mobile devices that struggle less than their desktop to cope with the throughput.
Web Scraping and avoiding bot detection
Any good solution that can automate chrome or firefox while avoiding bot detection?
This definitely also applies to the realm of programming languages. Clear back in the 1990s, Richard Hamming said that we used to stand on the shoulders of giants, but today we stand on each other's feet.
> England has been mostly doing the same as neighbouring countries

Except it hasn't - on the mainland masks are still compulsory in loads of places, just to start. Look at the infection rates and tell me there is no obvious discrepancy with a straight face.

> COVID passes yet because they're pointless

They are not a medical instrument, they are a policy instrument. They are effectively a push to force the obtuse and obstinate novax constituency, which is still over 15%-20% all over, to get the jab, by forcing them to choose between daily invasive tests and a one-off vaccination. It's basically compulsory vaccination by the backdoor, so that they can hit 90%-95% vax rates.

> Vaccinated people get infected and pass it on,

Not if they keep using masks and hanging around with other vaxed people only. That's why the transmission rates on the continent are where we would expect them to be, and here they are out of control. If you give up all efforts like we've done, of course the virus spreads with or without passes.
Rather than filter just those two, it could have an option to re-weight by availability.
I think he gave a talk at Dartmouth College not long after his company pivoted to a new product. The talk was mostly about other research but he also mentioned what was going on with his company. I don't remember the date or location, might have been hosted by Dartmouth's ISTS. You could contact him directly, he's generally open to discussions about his work. I'm sure his contact info is available online.
3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28981296
I appreciate you. Thank you.
I think you got the wrong idea on how people use copilot. You don't just accept everything it throws at you. Think about it as an auto-complete on steroid, would you say that auto-complete is dangerous to use? If not, then this is the same. The suggestions of copilot don't always compile, but they sometimes manage to find the right function to use, or the right combination of functions, or even the right comment (if you're writing a comment).
The bigger problem is structural. Academic research is mostly done by early-career researchers in short-term positions. When you are a PhD student or a postdoc with only a few years to do research, you don't have the time for long-term projects. And because your career prospects are determined by your success in your current position, you have to manage the risks by working on multiple projects. By the time they graduate, the average successful PhD will then have several publishable results where they were the primary contributor.

There are very few positions for mid-career individual contributors in the academia. After ~10 years, you are expected to take a leadership position. Instead of doing research yourself, you are now expected to convince your peers that your ideas are worth funding and that they should collaborate with you. If you get the funding, you will hire people to do your research. Your job is then guiding them through the early career. You can start thinking about ambitious long-term projects, but in order to make them viable, you have to break them down into smaller publishable subprojects suitable for your students.
The best setup I ever had going was cuelang (strongly-typed, JSON-like) compiling down to JSON or YAML as needed.

Using strongly typed programming languages (like how Pulumi uses TypeScript) also works well.
A much lengthier and more comprehensive paper if you are interested in WWV, WWVH, WWVB and their history and technology:

https://tf.nist.gov/general/pdf/1969.pdf (2005)

Pages 5-6 have an interesting note on the WWV announcers. The current voice (unless it's changed recently) is the late Lee Rodgers of San Francisco radio fame.
Am I alone in thinking SQL by itself is easier to understand and use than all indirection people like to stick on top of it?
Way too vague a question. Doing what kind of work? What is the question exactly?
You never understood something that only came out this year??? Never???
Way to setup a [textbook] strawman argument so you could feel like you came out on top.

I'm on my way to Butcher's Table in Seattle btw, really looking forward to it! Thank you for encouraging me to indulge in excess tonight.
I agree that there's some default amount of boilerplate that needs to be written -- but one isn't impeded by that -- it's just built into the task.

An impedance would be something to adjust the status quo in a negative direction e.g., a hardware failure
I just find all of this amusing in the world of big data:

- First there were bash scripts kicked off by cron

- Then there was Oozie which was XML and not those messy scripts

- Then there was Airflow which was code and not that messy XML

- Now there is Argo/etc. which are Yaml and not that messy code

The endless cycle of code-to-config-to-code continues.
This is a false dichotomy.

Bars and clubs in many cities are open and basic infection control measures are not being taken or enforced by significant percentages of staff and patrons alike.

We enforce the laws against smoking indoors more diligently
and stringently than we do removal of masks in crowded areas.
A "kludge," if you will?
Writing it is not the only problem though, you should also be able to read it. What if the person who wrote it was not using your conventions? There are numerous, subtly different ways to accomplish the same end result in YAML.
Did you try it? Because I've been using it for weeks and it makes me read these types of comments as "I don't understand the value of the internet" or "what's the purpose of owning a phone".

It's night and day if you have it enabled or not. There's just no question about the value proposition once you start using it.

I mean, you can tell comments here from people who have actually been using it, and people who have not tried it.
I basically never use ls (directly) anymore since Emacs took over almost all my computing.
... they've had so much bad press that they would actually have some good jobs to offer.

Probably. But how it all shakes out will influence how much you want Facebook listed on your resume.
I switched to LSD from Exa as soon as I realized that Exa wasn't a ls drop-in replacement -- it's been great so far.
I think the main idea is to have a config file standard that can be used across different project regardless of the language / tool used?

A benefit is that knowing yaml may at least give you the ability to configure the system, even if a project is built using an unfamiliar programming language.
Pretty much anyone with ACA insurance (through employer or exchanges) does NOT have a grandfathered plan. They are an exception and usually tied to exempt plans through unions, etc.