skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The problem is that when something fails, there is no error message, no log message, no indication what you need to do to make it work.

> As with all Apple solutions, it's a seamless experience if it happens to work, but if it doesn't work you'll be pulling your hairs.

This is probably the thing that annoys me the most about Apple stuff, particularly over the last 5 years or so. I know they're never gonna give us knobs and dials to fiddle with this stuff when it goes wrong, but for christ's sake at least tell me what's wrong, or even that something is wrong. Prodding at the controls on my phone trying to work out why the hell it won't connect to the AirPods that are right there is not a good experience for anyone.
Age of Spiritual Machines. Made me want to be a software engineer.
I live in China, I think the best way to summarise everything we do at all level is: the end justifies the means.

Need to seize power ? Murder all members of the former power. Need to make poor peasants rich middle class ? Build entire cities, put them there, and done. Need to build a metro station ? Take the land, build it. Need to make Hong Kong a more physically integrated part of the country ? Build a gigantic bridge to Zuhai even if nobody actually need to use it.

The problem ofc is that sometimes the means is more costly than the benefit of the end result, and also that the goal of the end result is never debated, but I suppose that will change eventually, once we've incurred too high a cost for too little a benefit overall.
If you're referring to Margit and the other boss after, you can skip those. I did by accident. There's a hidden path I won't spoil.
Tinder is the new way to say "Hey baby" at a bar, not the new way to meet someone and slowly get to like them more and more. Everything that existed previously is still there, it just takes more courage than letting a computer do the hard part for you.
A problem with analysis like this is that these problems are in no way limited to the US or the public sector. All Western countries have these problems to different degrees and it also exists within private enterprise which do not face the same problems outlined here.

Boeing e.g. had been terrible at making pretty much anything from planes to space rockets. Everything is delayed.

I suspect there are deeper more fundamental problems. E.g. how companies are managed and organized. Companies used to be far more engineering oriented. Today they are very sales and MBA oriented. There is also way more outsourcing and fragmentation of business. Business used to be far more integrated.
A whole lot of art, even famous old pieces, has been done at the direction of a famous names who get the credit but much of the actual strokes done by skilled technicians or apprentice artists. Credit is hard when you’re mixing someone directing with a sense of taste and people executing that vision with varying levels of creative input.
Pinker is still an excellent writer. One of those writers its a pleasure to read. But I have not read that particular book.
Isn’t the first line a shebang that would tell which she’ll to run it with?

`#! /usr/bin/env zsh`
What did you hope they'd do instead?
It may be a contrived definition of ‘insider information’ in an attempt to concoct a controversy. Like a company buying it’s own shares based on its internal knowledge of its condition, or employees buying share options in a scheme for their company. If it was actually an issue I expect it would have been stated instead of coyly implied. Its true not all market participants have access to the same information all the time. The point I made is that this can’t be so skewed or biased that it’s an obstacle to investment.
I've been using Linux nearly exclusively since 1998. For someone with your background there should be nothing to it, at least once you have the system setup (Debian installers can be a bit finicky).

OS internals are another story. Normal users, even developers, don't usually need to dive too deeply into those areas, but if you're interested there are plenty of resources available. I don't have a lot of suggestions for where to look but I learned a lot about Linux/Unix systems programming from the glibc info manuals as well as from the man pages. Beyond that it depends on your specific interests.
Sounds like you might enjoy the Ori games (Ori and the {Blind Forest, Willow of the Wisps}).

Not exactly the same genre as the ones you mentioned, but some challenging combat (at times, not throughout) that doesn’t involve slogging back if you die.
It's not just state level, the same thing happens at the municipal level. There's a trip I take a few times a year, and I always notice the transition from one town to another by the sudden deterioration of the road.
Cloudflare Domain Scoped Roles
For discussion's sake, can you enumerate the amenities you're alluding to?

If it's solely in regards to public transit, I think this is largely due to cultural differences. The US still has the remnants of an individualistic frontier mentality. I don't know, but tend to think it's not by coincidence, that the better public transit systems tend to be near the eastern seaboard.
That's a great quote:

>I remember when I was drawing the Undead Dragon, I submitted a design draft that depicted a dragon swarming with maggots and other gross things. Miyazaki handed it back to me saying "This isn't dignified. Don't rely on the gross factor to portray an undead dragon. Can't you instead try to convey the deep sorrow of a magnificent beast doomed to a slow and possibly endless descent into ruin?"
It all begins with the urban sprawl experiment in the 1950s. As people left the city for the white picket fence in the suburbs, cities around the country began to subsidize the wealthy SFH owners. Sewers, water, electricity, roads, and gas infrastructure; and fire, EMS, police services are not cheap.

The tax collected from a SFH suburb does not cover the expenses to build and maintain the infrastructure. So to help meet the increasing costs, municipalities need to raise property taxes for everyone. This increases the cost of living for everyone. So combined with inflation and the increased COL, the wages of your construction people on the ground (you know the people that actually build fucking thing you need) need to keep up with this trend so companies need to pay more.

This doesn't come free so this is then passed on to the American tax paying populace. It's a never ending cycle. Low housing supply, homelessness and substance abuse are all symptoms of an underlying cause.

Solution: it's a multifaceted approach - involving changes at the local, state, and federal levels. First, American cities need to get rid of SFH zoning entirely and re-zone for high density mixed use residential and commercial and get rid of any car-centric building policies (eg, car parking minimums). We need to get people out of their private vehicle. Second, need to introduce a luxury or inefficiency tax on existing SFH owners to minimize lost tax revenue and discourage people from buying a SFH (people that are poor can apply for waivers). Then earmark the luxury tax towards incentivizing developers and paying for infrastructure and enhancing public transit. Third, need to introduce extensive toll road fees for people commuting from the exurbs into the city. Why should cities continue to subsidize infrastructure for people that do not pay taxes within that county? Interstate travel will not be tolled.

Then at a state level, DoTs need to re-examine where IH traffic can be redirected. In America, the highways often cut through the cores of each city. This not only reduced the amount of land that is available to cities to build on but contributed to the displacement of poor and marginalized people; and decreasing air quality. We need to follow in the footsteps of Dutch cities like Amsterdam and move towards a more scalable way of transportation and city planning. Additionally, at the state level re-examine where it's possible to reduce dependency on O&G sources of power.

At the federal level, need to support states and cities through funding and providing research. Need to move the grid off of fossil fuel sources ASAP. Continue to provide green incentives and encourage people to make their homes more efficient (better HVAC units, solar power panel installations, ...).

It will definitely not solve the problem in 5 years or 10 years. But maybe our grandchildren might have a chance.
The discourse around algorithms/data structures coding interviews (as opposed to domain-relevant pair programming coding challenges) does seem to be universally either about abolishing them or keeping the status quo.

Then what about keeping those topics but improving the process? How about reducing other pain points? Such as:

* Transparent rubrics about how an applicant is to be judged

* Disclosure of what specific topics are to be tested or not, e.g. avoiding candidates stressing over dynamic programming problems only to be stumped by simple string manipulation

* Actual training of interviewers so that they can be more collaborative and helpful during the interview

* Disclosing to candidates just how many questions they are expected to answer during a round

Companies want to keep their Leetcode question banks, fine. But the coding interview process are painful and scary to candidates not only because of any difficulty in problem content, but because of the apparent subjectivity and opaqueness of everything involved. Maybe the current process can be reformed and systemized a bit so neither party wastes their time.

And another subject worth considering: how could current algorithmic pedagogy be improved? How do you take the teaching of runtime costs and complexity, specific data structures, and general principles like dynamic programming, and be able to solve specific problems like, say, merge intervals, without having seen such problems previously? Maybe there’s a layer of “now that you have a toolset, this is a good set of heuristics for matching your methods to actual problems.”
That’s amazing do you anticipate maintaining that pricing advantage?
That's funny, because Dark Souls 2 make the same mistake. Much more focus on enforcing difficulty, and none of the connectedness of Dark Souls 1, though the nonsensical world also makes thematical sense to some degree (the game is essentially about universal dementia). The Dreg Heap in Dark Souls 3 does deliver on this concept much better though.

If you need any indicator the team behind Dark Souls 2 misunderstood Miyazaki's vision, the global death counter in Majula is all you need.
I mean you have the groups (6. and 7.) from there you get all the variables. E.g. from U(1) you get the generator and the group item. Then add all combinations of the polynomes to L (1.) but skip those that violate invariances like Lorentz (2.), U(1), SU(2), SU(3). You end up with something like L=-1/2 d phi^2 - m phi^2. (Oversimplified) Do the same for SU(2) and SU(3) and you end up with http://nuclear.ucdavis.edu/~tgutierr/files/sml2.pdf For convenience usually some of the variables are then called e (Electron), W+ (W+ Boson) etc.
Isaac Asimov's Guide To The Bible. An agnostic atheist historian analyzes the history of every line of every book in the bible. Asimov is a good writer and he makes the bible a fun read.
Getting Things Done - David Allen
A100s for ML training as well as simulations/FEA/CFD/etc. E.g. we're working with the physics dept at a large university to do various theoretical physics simulations.

A40s for rendering and transcoding. We've got some A5000s and A6000s for similar purposes, but at a lower price point.

ETH mining is something folks could do if they'd like, but not something we're explicitly targeting.
Everyone naps at noon in China.
Thanks for the feedback. I'm considering adding difficulty modes or a way to change the radius. I'd rather that people wouldn't get a perfect score too easily though
Maybe that's a problem with economic incentives and it shouldn't be free to just burn the gas to get rid of it.
> I can enjoy difficulty when I don't have to redo things I've already done; I'm fully on-board with something like a Super Meat Boy or a Hotline Miami, which are also games where death is expected and a core part of the loop, but when dying to a boss involves trekking back through 5-10 mins of low-level enemies I very quickly lose interest.

Sekiro and Elden Ring are both much better here in terms of checkpointing close to bosses, though it's still not always just right outside it often is. Indeed I remember a few very tedious routes in Bloodborne and Dark Souls. It just didn't bother me quite so much because I enjoyed optimizing them also!

With Elden Ring also at least there is always other stuff to do/explore (at least so far for me at ~50 hours in) so you can come back later.
Them: Adventures With Extremists by Jon Ronson.
I think the only book I can recall having a direct impact on my conscious awareness was The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle[0].

The book is very easy to read and quite enjoyable with everything that it includes. I definitely recommend to check it out.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Power-Now-Guide-Spiritual-Enlightenme...
The position of, "we would like to have safe workplaces during a pandemic," seems utterly reasonable.
It wouldn't occur elsewhere. The way the incentives are built, anywhere energy is cheaper than the expected return of mining, all excess energy will be consumed mining. Thus, new sources of inexpensive energy translate to more mining than before.
Manufacturing Consent and Notes From The Underground
Also need to remove the folders ~/snap and possibly /snap. ;-)
Yes please. Browsers need to add much more to CSS to avoid JS for simple things like powerful calc() (with attribute values, more math etc), vertical rhythm and so on.
There are plenty of easy modes available. It's not a settings option though, it's a play style. It really is a wonderfully well designed game.
Not so much a life changer but certainly reshaping the way I look at things, the way I judge things, and the way I let things ruin my day:

'The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck' by Mark Manson

The book is full of examples and while reading, you go "hey, that's a bit like my friend X", or "hey, that sounds like my Uncle Y". And then, when Mark describes certain personality traits, you think, "hole smoke, that's ME!"
That is interesting. It does still seem like most tilapia is farmed.
Wouldn't vouchers address that very problem? It would ennable poor children to go to wealthier schools.
> I honestly can't think of another game who's world captured me like the first Dark Souls did.

Check out Darkest Dungeon

Slay the Spire

Everything by Amanita Design (Machinarium, Samorost)
>Where do girl with eggs come from?

Miyazaki seems to have been inspired by Angel's Egg. I never read a quote, but the similarities are there.

https://youtu.be/fIhKqaNp4Dc?t=3035
Gas is a commodity, so boycotts don't work, also that puts the oneous on the consumer for being annoyed and not the corporations for literally pumping ads into a mandatory part of our society (where I live, I can't function without a car)
He was a fantastic writer.
Speck supports configurations with keys small enough to be brute forcable.

There is a nice attack pattern where you standardize something with some insecure modes, then you use targeted attacks to get your targets to use those insecure modes.

I'm not aware of any non-NSA ciphers from the last decade that supports a 64-bit key...
No promises of course (I'm sure that an EC2 PM is already reading this thread and preparing to drop P4d prices to make me eat my words), but given the structural advantages we have, we're planning on being able to consistently offer top tier compute at a meaningful discount to major players.
This again isn't compelling: it's not clear how the solution to "wasted" (read: lost opportunity) renewables is to actually waste them by cracking hashes.

(It also undermines the original point of the article: what incentive do bitcoin miners have to make renewables more available, if they can just pack up their rigs and move to wherever energy is cheapest? Mining incentivizes short-span access, not the kind of massive distribution grids that we actually need to make renewable energy sustainable and reliable.)
Cosmonauts arrive at space station in yellow and blue
Blink outperforms WebKit on M1 Mac's today.
Factfulness by Hans Rosling
This is insane. Thanks for sharing your anecdote.
>the process for getting a road repaved or whatever has been made almost entirely opaque to the electorate.

Most government contracts use an open bid process which is much less opaque than what happens in private contracts. What transparency are you specifically looking for?
Love this! Works great on mobile. Awesome idea.
I wonder if the usefulness varies with your approach to comments.

(Haven't used Copilot yet because it didn't have Emacs support.)
I use 2 users constantly on my mac. 1 for personal. 1 for work.

I enjoy the hard separation. separate desktops. seperate windows. seperate instances of apps. seperate download folder. etc etc.
Yeah, it does seem odd. Perhaps it's about the path of least resistance. Laying power lines, contracting with the grid, and so forth is a bunch of up front investment.

Maybe Tesla could drop down a battery pack & install superchargers? There's a synergy between "place too remote to ship out power for selling" and "place too remote to ship in power for electric cars"
It works. Yet I have no idea what I should use it for.
> government would waste no time in getting land that it needed

by blackmailing, intimidation, and literally murder by bulldozing houses with people in them when they refuse to leave
Surprised not to see Man's search for meaning on here. It's a great book about life from a holocaust survivor. It's one of those books that definitely stays with you for a while. I like to reread it every few years.
They did screw up, that’s true. Almost everyone everywhere has been wrong about this virus, mostly several if not many times. That’s because for a long time we were working with very limited and sometimes contradictory or misleading information. I do not believe that the WHO did this for nefarious reasons, or knowingly lied, although they did make some mistakes as a result of leverage and coercion by various states. I blame those states more than I do the WHO.
Action of the eye triggers brain waves to help remember socially important info
One of the things that cause immersion to spike for me is exactly the difficulty, or rather "this enemy just kicked my ass, WHAT do I need to do to beat it? what do I need to change, are there other areas I did not check, any clues I may have passed by" etc.

If the game is too easy chances are I'll zone out and "play" it, in a very inert way just watching what happens.

Not a Souls-like, but the game where I saw this at play the most is TeS Oblivion (not sure if it also works in Skyrim), as soon as I started playing it as a battlemage with the Tower sign (it takes away auto regen of magicka). Lots of content in Oblivion I felt was filler that I just went through out of inertia, but playing a battlemage with no magicka regen? Survival depends on the potions you craft and any other helpful items found along the way. Suddenly even the most boring dungeon became interesting and potentially helpful in the long run because it could contain helpful loot. Those ayleid ruins with the crystals that help a ton with magicka? Godsent rather than long and samey.

Of course I eventually leveled up enough to become OP and the game ended up being a chain of filler stuff once more, but that was several tens of hours into the playthru. But those first tens of hours were an amazing experience, where I needed to carefully plan out and scour the world for items in order to hope to survive.
For public transit in particular, the US has billionaires and politicans who actively campaign against such projects [1]. The effect of this cannot be overstated. People buy into the propaganda that their taxes will go up and/or it will bring crime to their idyllic locales (where otherwise property prices keep the riffraff out).

Landowners in the US have very successfullly voted in measures that limit further construction (including higher density housing and public transit systems) and increase the value of their holdings.

I've mentioned housing here because it directly impacts a lot of potential construction, particularly public transport. You cannot build anything other than single-family homes in much of the US. This lowers population density and makes public transport less viable. It also diverts tax revenue to build infrastructure for the required cars: highways, parking lots, etc.

There are a lot of local problems here too eg NYC's scaffolding laws [2], corruption in NYC construction projects [3] and CEQA in California [4].

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/climate/koch-brothers-pub...

[2]: https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/east/2020/10/08/585902...

[3]: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...

[4]: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/03/signature-...
Great suggestions here. I would like to add another:

Language choice. I happen to fancy Common Lisp but any language with a good REPL experience works. I like to play with small bits of code interactively in a REPL and when things works copy to a source file. Tools like Slime also help.

Python with the old Emacs Python bindings works well because you can load an entire source file and then re-evaluate individual function definitions as you modify them. This may seem similar to what you can do in a Jupiter notebook but I find Emacs + Python bindings better.

Haskell also lends itself to REPL driven development.
Looks great but being able to use data from an API or SQL query is essential for any use-case I have right now.
Cellular Automata Machines: A New Environment for Modeling

Published April 1987 by MIT Press. ISBN: 9780262200608.

http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/cellular-automata-machines

http://books.google.com/books?id=HBlJzrBKUTEC&printsec=front...

http://www.researchgate.net/publication/44522568_Cellular_au...

https://github.com/SimHacker/CAM6/blob/master/javascript/CAM...
There are ways but last I knew, if the dev has disabled installing the iOS version on macOS (as Slack and Discord regrettably have), you need to turn off SIP to be able to decrypt the iOS app bundles, then re-sign them and re-enable SIP.

My only M1 mac is a company machine and I don’t like the idea of disabling SIP on it, even temporarily.
This sounds super interesting. Did it have any impact on your own beliefs?
This is a really good idea! The power of editable documents combined with custom blocks that react to live data.

Quick question: how do you plan to compete with existing platforms like Notion and Coda? For them, this could be just another block element type that they could ship with minimal effort?
"""Amid the COVID-19 crisis, the global market for Clean Energy Technologies estimated at US$283.9 Billion in the year 2020, is projected to reach a revised size of US$452.8 Billion by 2027""" - https://www.reportlinker.com/p05817952/Global-Clean-Energy-T...

And that’s just the people who want to get rich while saving the world, not charities like Greenpeace, or government interventions like Feed-In Tariffs and fuel taxes.
How to win friends and influence people - Carnegie

Think and grow rich - Napoleon Hill

That last one made something click in my head but I find it hard to describe what it is exactly. The key concepts that I learned from this book are in my thoughts and actions every single day.
Fret not! we anyway need to find an economic system that makes these methods economical again (or die trying).
I realize you're not asking for help in Dark Souls, but should you ever find yourself playing it again, I feel like I should tell you that you can run past nearly every standard enemy in pretty much every FromSoftware game. I often play the game sections in reverse. Sprint through looking for the next safe spot, then after activating it, work backwards to the previous safe spot.