skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve contemplated these questions a fair amount and I suspect the answers are approximately these:

I know I should do better for other people because a) my success in life has depended on others to a large degree and b) I’m not doing much to help others succeed

I know I worry about my own security because I grew up quite poor and I struggle to imagine that things will still be secure tomorrow, or even by half way through the day

If I could overcome that I would likely feel more at ease and be better off for it. At the same time, I’d likely enjoy helping others with resources like time, wealth, and energy which I felt more secure to offer. I immensely enjoy opportunities to help others when I do allow myself to do it, and I believe I would continue to enjoy it if I did it more

Some of this is hypothetical, but I figured I’d outline my thinking so it seems less like I’m beating myself up for no reason. You’re right - without questioning or exploring the thoughts, I’d likely be pursuing the wrong thing or for the wrong reasons. I think several lines of questioning are how I got here though.

Having said that, I’m certain “being good” will never mean a singular thing and as I make efforts to enact change, more questions and more answers will put me on a different track. Absolutely.

For what it’s worth, a major source of the question and desire to do good or to be a better person came from reading and researching stoic philosophy. I don’t adhere to it or love all of it, but I do love the notion of living in accordance with nature. As a social animal, what are my duties to those around me? In all practicality, what is the best thing I can do for the people I have duties towards? As a dad, a friend, a neighbour. Something about that framing really resonates with me. Upon reading it years ago and letting it incubate, I came to realize I am fairly poor at fulfilling my duties.
I am definitely interested!

But games are one of the few things I prefer the analog version of, although I do enjoy video games.

Maybe it could be designed so that a subset of the game is playable as a card game, or that monsters have a well defined card equivalent?

I'm not sure how important a first party embeddable engine is. Just defining how a monster is represented and what a battle means , and balancing powers, would already be a big deal.

This seems like a pretty good use case for an arbitrary rules engine, so that games could somewhat customize things. Maybe you're in space and flying works differently, or some epic thing happened to change how magic works.

Or maybe some moves aren't things you need to use, they just happen without even using up a turn.

You could have default rulesets applied to items and monsters and attacks at the game definition level, and then more specific rules on specific monsters.

You'd probably still want all the basic concepts like what a turn means and the fact that you can choose from a list of actions on a turn, but other then that things could be pretty flexible while still giving the monsters consistency between games.

Example:

"It hurt itself in it's confusion" could be done with a "launching attack" phase before the target and effects are finalized.

event: launchingAttack > if self.state== confused > chance(20%) > attack.target = self > message "Oops"
As someone who spent a decent chunk of his youth typing BASIC commands from Books like these into a Mattel Aquarius, I’m pretty disenchanted by the choice of languages.

None of them embody the human-first optimism of early BASICs. BASIC was designed for normal humans to actually get work done, the same vision HyperCard would bring later. It’s reflected and it’s very English syntax. It was, in no uncertain terms, the actual User Interface to many if not most consumer level machines of the age.

I don’t have a strong proposition for a specific language. QB64 is maybe the closest syntactically, but nothing lives up to the spirit of the originals that I am aware of. I was kind of hopeful I was going to get to the end of this and it was going to be a call for developers to work on a new, modern, humane programming language.

People try to tell me that dream is dead. God I hope not, computers in the hands of most users are 99% untapped potential. It’s as if Prometheus give us fire, and we only ever used it to light cigarettes. Every time a user does a repetitive task that should have been a loop they created themself, that waste of life is a small death, and the blood is on our industry.
In other words, a problem we already know how to solve and have done so multiple times before.
Is there no functionality to reset the computer between flights? It seems insane that the first item in the checklist isn't "press the reset button". And the computer shouldn't let the aircraft take off if some required setting hasn't been set. Imagine if you were on an e-commerce website and you had to delete the previous customer's billing details before checking out!
This ban doesn’t just end oil furnaces, but also prevents them from being replaced with any fossil fuel heating source, including natural gas furnaces. If the replacement forced upon everyone is so perfect, why isn’t it everyone’s natural choice? The modern political left has become obsessed with bans. This is a slippery slope and is incompatible with free societies where individuals have choice and agency. It’s one thing to encourage certain actions or educate people. It’s another thing entirely to override individual preferences and variations with a one size fits all dictate.
Good article. Data & state are hugely important for testing, and it's good to see others engaging with the reality of these.

I had key responsibility for a very large software system (10M LOC) which was highly configurable; everything was data-dependent, both for product configuration and the actual accounts being tested.

Others had tried building test datasets using in-memory DBs, but the cost of maintaining these test datasets had already exceeded their value without even achieving 10% test coverage.

Rather than avoiding the database we took the architectural choice to acknowledge it, leverage the already-available standard configuration datasets, manage & minimize the degree of changes committed (test in transactions & rollback wherever possible), and manage & minimize dependence on pre-existing account state.

Within six months we were able to achieve a level of coverage & reliability where >60% of bugs were detected promptly on being introduced. Prior to this they had taken 3-5 days before end-to-end testing had confirmed detection.

Use of a database in testing is not completely easy, but sometimes it can be the most efficient solution to the problem at hand.
Transactions / savepoints and parallelism make a huge difference. I have an app using Ecto and PostgreSQL, and running its ~550 tests takes under 5 seconds. Almost all of them hit the DB many times. The DB is empty and each test starts from a blank slate, inserting any fixture it needs.

An important trick when doing this is to respect unique constraints in fixtures. For instance if you have a users table with an email column as primary key, make the user fixture/factory generate a unique email each time ("user-1@example.com", "user-2@example.com", ...) Then you don't get slowdowns or deadlocks when many tests run in parallel.
If the car junking is anything like the Cash for Clunkers program it's probably a big waste of money, see https://fee.org/articles/cash-for-clunkers-was-a-complete-fa...
I forget what I got when I benchmarked assuming minified, but I already optimized on that anyways. SIMDJson burns through pretty JSON but less so with minified.

With C++, there are generally just less allocations, but they probably cost more, not always and I haven't measured malloc/new for small things where they often have a pool setup before going to mmap. They still lock though. But one can often just guess when the number isn't known without much cost on most systems. Choose a size like 1kb and remove the smaller up front allocations, or if the size is known reserve that.
I recently got a quote from a big no-code company, for the yearly price they asked for a few thousand users I could hire two competent full time developers.
> Electric heating elements - hot wires - are 100% efficient; All the incoming electrical energy is converted to heat.

The problem is that we're used to other methods working at much greater than 100% efficiency, combined with the need for lots more heating when efficiency drops to a mere 100%
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Open source for good measure: https://github.com/objective-see/LuLu
On the website they say that average score goes all the way to 100.

Guess you really can’t take online tests too seriously.
My score was 0 on the first attempt. I can't understand how a score of 16 in such test can be considered normal.
Bitcoin crashes as China no longer mines Bitcoins due to electricity costs.

WEB 3.0 will be ML, AI based.

Economy gets worse.

It becomes the Post-Democracy world, where nations try socialism and communism.

Russia tries to invade Ukraine.
Elixir and Nim are my candidates
There used to be an express route straight from the junction to SeaTac, but it looks like you have to take line c, transfer, and it takes an hour now. It is too bad, since west Seattle is really close to the airport by car.

I live in Ballard, and we are both waiting until the late 2030s for light rail (at least according to the current schedule).
Norwegian electricity appears to be maybe 1.50 krone per kWh including taxes this winter? Or about 0.17 USD per kWh? That’s not especially high, although it looks to be about double last year.
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Don't worry about uncertain things, which might not in the end require worrying.

When I was younger I was stressed about way too many IFs, but especially in recent years I try to force myself to not think about things which are not certain to happen in the end, so they are waste of your energy and stressful.

Also related - don't take things too seriously, it must be difficult to accept for perfectionist even half assed work will do it same as perfect work, but it's reality and only one hurting with this it's yourself. These is related to priorities and will be difficult, if work is your biggest priority and you don't have kids or some better hobby.
What about them? It's a very different technology from nuclear reactors.
You must have this backwards.

Truncating a table is extremely fast. Rolling back a transaction is very slow. If you're not seeing this then there's something wrong with your setup.
Personally I’m not sure solar is a viable mass power production. I think it’s just a nice option for remote power production, as in “no one else in x miles” situation where x is an unsigned int.
I have a Motorola g30. It has a dedicated google assistant button. Since the ui is stock android, I was able to uninstall google assistant and all other crap. Problem is, the button is dead now without google assistant. Maybe using easer or tasker I could reuse it.

Maybe tasker/easer has something for the wakeword detection? That would be great.
Pretty old. Guy's been tweeting about it constantly for years.
(2019) maybe?

Some previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21188767
Is it OK to count Soviet accidents with the same technology, or should we pretend they didn't happen?
> Out-of-network doctors may ask patients to sign a form that waives their protections.

What prevents this from becoming standard practice as a part of all the other stuff you have to sign?
What's your take on the idea of on-orbit propellant gathering?[0] That is, the concept of a solar-electric propulsion sat in low orbit 80-120km, scooping up atmosphere, ejecting the nitrogen to compensate drag while storing the oxygen for a propellant depo. I tried to run some numbers on it and it seems like it might work, but maybe doesn't pay for itself fast enough to be worthwhile.

[0] http://hpepl.ae.gatech.edu/papers/ProgAerospace_Singh_V75_20...
Yes, the math is totally different.

In this case, the effect is largely due to the overburden itself expanding and contracting with varying tidal attraction. These mechanisms force atmospheric gases into and out of the soil, like a piston.

https://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/105/06/0842.pdf
Yymmddhhmm just overflowed a signed 32 bit int
Yeah i know it is what you want.

I'm just asking if it's really a reality as i previously got the impression airline training wasn't quite at that level.
As in mostly you get an engine out because that needs training every time.
And if the unexpected scenario is an engine out most of the time ... it's not really unexpected.

I wonder how often stuff like static port blockages and even maybe the flight director being wrong during takeoff are trained in an unexpected fashion.
I'd expect quite rarely if at all.
That's ok i suppose as it's rare failures, but the descriptions here kinda suggested a level of random scenarios being thrown at pilots ... which isn't quite realistic i think due to limited simulator time alone.
You missed the best part, their own airline asked them to return to Mumbai, probably to avoid bad press from International media, thats the general approach from anything Indian Govt.
> Shortly thereafter, the company contacted the flight crew and instructed them to divert to Mumbai, despite the stricken aircraft being much closer to Dubai. AI made it more dangerous and made them fly back another 3 hours.
Missions to Jupiter recently have used solar panels, but anything farther has thus far been RTGs, something which the US has very limited fuel for.
Nokia started as a paper mill taking advantage of hydropower, then after starting to generate electricity they combined with a rubber company and started working on cables. They seem like a pretty good example of pivoting even if they aren't as visible in consumer electronics as they used to be.
I would characterize it more as a promotion of the values of "weak > strong". The meek shall inherit the Earth, is a good encapsulation.
That's beautiful, thanks :)
I'm working on a standard for easy drop-in home IoT drivers: https://github.com/EternityForest/iot_devices

Maybe you could go one level of meta up and instead of working on reusable components, work on reusable definitions for component interfaces.

Reuse is hard because you need a bunch of glue code. But if you had, like a standard for a toolbar, that knew how to find all the ToolbarAble objects, and the shopping cart icon just showed up, etc, things would get easier.

The shopping cart could know to look for all the payment requesting components declared in your Big Project File or whatever, and everything could stay modular ish?

GitHub is already the standard place to share generic projects.
The wealthy can and often do benefit from rent-controlled units. Not only that, but they trade rent controlled units within their social circle.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/nevius/article/Rent-control-s...

To the first commenter's point, most of the policies you mentioned are painful for middle class residents, but don't really affect the wealthy elite.
Gah, every map move pushes onto the history stack, terrible.
From Carbons to Computers (1998)
Pretty much all businesses earn a percentage of revenue as profit, so the same condition of higher revenue resulting in higher profit (all else being equal) exists in all businesses, regardless of the Affordable Care Act regulations.

As long as there are competing businesses, and/or sufficiently low barriers to entry, then this mechanism to earn ever increasing profits is mitigated by the fact that a competitor will come in and take your business. Managed care organizations (MCOs), i.e. health insurance, has many competitors, UNH/Anthem/Cigna/Humana/CVS/Molina/Centene, etc.

Either they are all colluding to keep prices going up, or they actually are trying to negotiate the best prices they can with healthcare providers for their customers in order to offer the best value to continue to win business.

Considering all of the above companies have many years of single digit profit margins, almost all 5% and below, I would say the business line is quite competitive, and barring evidence of collusion, it seems spurious to claim they are profiting off of regulations requiring minimum medical loss ratios.
> In that you halved the dosage but divided the risk by 10, when saying you were evaluating it under LNT.

Ops, that's my bad and it is too late to edit. Thanks for the correction.
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> At least back then we still had working gas-powered vehicles and landline telephones.

How did the gas pumps work without electricity? Or, if the gas stations have power, why would it be impossible to charge an electric car there?

Landlines having their own power just meant they could go down on their own (eg, it was possible to lose phone while still having power). I don’t see how that would be more robust than a cell network with independently powered cells during a natural disaster.
Very cool, but FYI, this is not a "subway" map. It is a transportation map. Trains, Planes, Monorails. The page's title is "Mini Tokyo 3D" not "Real-Time Tokyo Subway Map"
How to be a real technology innovator and shit on engineers and experts (2012)
I'm not sure what I'm looking at with this post. Is this more than a post of some person, perhaps without her consent? Is this human trafficking? Why is this attributed to "Hindu Devs"?

Without any additional context, this seems like a racist attack against Hindu people.
Or you could spent nothing, save space and environment and just google "bodyweight fitness".
Incels overlap with almost every "Bad opinion" you might imagine.

It doesn't just mean a person who can't get laid, it can also imply a real community with a shared culture that happens to include several different kinds of hate.
what do we mean when we say 'lebensgefahr'
It's still pretty early days for this project so I haven't published anything yet. Hopefully soon!
This is a great example of fuzz testing finding real bugs in the wild. I think people who are against or resistant to fuzz testing haven’t properly grokked where they should be used and what class of bugs they find.
> Anyone interested in trying circadian rhythm advancement out can simply make an effort to go to bed 1-3 hours earlier and wake up a corresponding amount earlier.

Serious question, is that something normal people are physically capable of doing? Like its easy to force myself to be awake, but i sleep when my body decides to; it is not under my concious control.
Agaricus Bisporus is indeed universally safe, and comes in large, small, brown and white varieties. The variety of flavors and textures that awaits the slightly more adventurous is a delight!
Should Covid-19 vaccine mandates include a booster shot?
I'd argue that overprotective is not the opposite of stupid. In radiation we purposefully overestimate the risk when setting regulations and limits. This is due to the fact that we can actually have a lot of error and still be safe. Error due to bad detectors, non-homogeneous distribution of radiation, dosages due to outside factors while not wearing a dosimeter, etc. These regulations are also what have made nuclear one of, if not _the_, safest source of energy we have. This safety comes at a monetary cost, yes, but I don't think anyone is really against that.
A few years ago, David Ahl was kind enough to sell me copies of the first two years of Creative Computing magazine. Those are a treasure. I love the offbeat informality of them, the cartoons, the old wood engravings.
> China arguable has better protection when it comes to mandatory severence pay and most workers don't work by the hours, or depend on the tips to survive.

The US has mandatory unemployment insurance which serves the same purpose, and none of the jobs that get paid in tips are in manufacturing.

Also, waitstaff in the US in practice generally get paid more than minimum wage, because the ones whose service is so poor they can't get more than that in tips will quit and take a job where tips aren't part of the compensation.

> The core thing is, however, a lot more Chinese workers are willing to work that overtime and get that extra pay without complains, and the cost of living is simply way lower.

The cost of living, especially the cost of housing, is certainly a major factor. But that's still a regulatory failure, because in that case the cause is zoning regulations.
Does this have android support?
After reading this about Theranos: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29765308

It seems that we need to post this. Another of my all time favorites.

She didn't go to jail yet, but if there was a law against hubris, she'd have multiple life sentences.
What makes you think emirates doesn’t have good pilots? Do you have any source for that?
Emirates is not even a budget airline, like RYAN AIR. I mean unless you are the one who trained all emirates pilots, I don’t think you should be calling them a goat airline because an incident happened. If you look deep, every airline and even Airbus had issues.

>The maiden flight of A320 Air France 296: Official reports concluded that the pilots flew too low, too slow, failed to see the forest and accidentally flew into it. The captain, Michel Asseline, disputed the report and claimed an error in the fly-by-wire computer prevented him from applying thrust and pulling up. In the aftermath of the crash, there were allegations that investigators had tampered with evidence, specifically the aircraft's flight recorders ("black boxes").
Why don't we all just say Big Tech at this point? Literally could be any of those companies, and it doesn't matter beyond that.
I spent two years working in DRC and have now moved to a remote position (based in the US). There are a few organizations I've worked with that do great work: Allen Institute for AI (EarthRanger), SmartParks.org and Conservation X Labs. There are surely others, but these offer products directly to national parks to improve their capabilities.
Seems like a disproportionate amount of outrage considering how trivial this app is. All it does is display twitter profile pictures of muslim women, and they're claiming that this constitutes harassment and "silencing muslim voices" or whatever
agreed, not very usable on phone, just tried, seems you can't change angle
Archive link: https://archive.fo/6ftlE
Author of the first section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Offit
I suppose this is a condensed version of Offit's views shared on TWiV 844.
I used to live in the Alaska Junction so that was easier to get around the city. Now I live in Alki so I have to take the 50 to the Junction. I can take the 50 direct to the SoDo rail station so I don't bother with a transfer to the C if I want to catch a train. The train is fine on the way to the airport but I never trust the bus to be there on the way home. The SoDO station has no weather protection so I end up hiring a car every time.

In the summer when the weather is nice I can ride my motorcycle to SeaTac and get free parking, assuming I am only traveling with a backpack.

I think the West Seattle light rail is scheduled to open in 2032 so "only" a decade away. I guess the East Link opens next (this?!) year which will make Bellevue closer but I'm not sure that will do anything for me.
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The anesthesiologist scenario is addressed in the recent legislation that went into effect Jan 1, 2022 (Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021):

https://www.cms.gov/nosurprises/consumer-protections/What-ar...

>Ban out-of-network charges and balance billing for ancillary care (like an anesthesiologist or assistant surgeon) by out-of-network providers at an in-network facility.
Oh yeah, lets jump the Musk bandwagon, and wait for 100 years before he figures out how impractical it is and then go back to flying again.
There are checklists for configuring everything as required.