skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The picture seems muddled, esp due to him being potentially being high, though that's not confirmed.

What is clear is that Bird has entered into questionable legal indemnifications . They are also choosing to go after a person with no financial ability. And they litter the city with scooters. This does point to some sort of a cozy deal with the city, and I suspect some corruption is involved in city hall.

With e-scooters the slightest bump in the sidewalk is a dangerous thing. Even when you're sober - I've witnessed some falls where people were lucky to get away with a small injury. Also heard of another case where someone was hospitalized and has brain injury. Should be regulated more.
It's interesting to see how this author used to look like, and contrast that with what she looks like now. IME, attractive people generally feel they have a license to be shitty to others, and won't have any self awareness or remorse about it.

Once the looks fade, then the self-reflection and introspection begins. It is difficult to be introspective and humble when you're in the 99th percentile, when you feel like you're on top of the world.
lol. When I say that I might be following boring people, that implies that I am boring, I suppose.

I dunno, some people I’m friends with do post regularly, but a lot of them have become mostly lurkers over time.

This is just to say that I don’t think IG is different than Twitter in that way, a smaller percentage of people post the majority of content now.
When was your last sabbatical and how long was it? You might just need a vacation. There could be a middle ground where you don't have to quit your job and that your employer would be happy to accommodate (if they care about their employees).

Could you arrange with your boss to take a month off to resource yourself?
In my case it's more me being a muslim that who saw first hand the effects of what is being "handwaved" in this very thread. I dont think that has anything to do with me being in tech.
Generally spot on in my experience. I've only ever agreed to one, and it was a mess, with the interviewer getting very upset and pushing back on all of my answers. Since then I politely decline. I've had one boss tell me it wasn't optional, to which I responded that I'd be happy to leave earlier if he wanted to enforce the requirement. He swiftly backed down, as we hadn't yet finished knowledge transfer.
I have an M1 air, which is the same chip as the mini, and I haven't hid a performance point for coding yet and that is with the air throtting after about 8 minutes on max CPU (something which the mini won't do, because it has a fan).

Of course if you do GPU intensive stuff, that might be an issue. Do keep in mind that the single core is not much faster on the studio, there are just more cores.

My only regret is only getting 512 GB disk space.
Why should type narrowing be limited to just case, and not both case and if? I'd argue that both of these are examples of flow typing.
>The whole reason someone might want an app that lets you cancel on plans

I know this is HN where we are probably all biased towards creating software solutions, but do you really think software is the right lever to this problem?

The root cause is that people don't feel psychologically safe enough to voice their wish to cancel. I don't know that an app really helps that, it just provides an escape hatch. I'd much rather a person say to me, "Look, it's nothing about you, but I struggle with social anxiety and it's getting the best of me right now and need to cancel." Not only would that give me greater compassion for what they're going through, it would also help tailor future outings to alleviate that. Just having a "cancel matching" app won't do anything to foster that kind of growth.

To me this feels like one of those distinctions between "can" and "should" in tech.
This 1000x.

I am flabbergasted at the attacks on scientists explaining current understanding, until I realize that the people attacking very rarely comprehend the process. This isn't a slap at people attacking scientists, it's very much an indictment of our educational and scicomm system, that we say "here is a fully functional adult, who doesn't have the slightest clue as to how this stuff actually works, and we are totally fine with it." As well as experts saying "insert random domain specific jargon here" for said individuals to consume.

I've (PhD in physics) taken long (6-8hour) car rides with my Sensei (2 years of college) to tournaments. On the way, we talk about science, and I put in consumable, non-jargon terms, things like the big bang, quantum physics, steller lifecycles, etc. I'm not an expert in some of these, and out of practice in others, but being able to explain to an intelligent and curious person is feature IMO for scientists.

One should not be mysterious, or assume mantles of superiority. We all put pants on, one leg at a time. Being able to explain the joy of discovery in an approachable way is a skill. One I'd love to see in graduate schools.

My own anecdote on the crackpot bits ... I'd started at SGI in 1995 ABD. I was writing, and it was going slowly. My manager knew I was a physics type, and he forwarded me an email he'd received from someone on a new theory of relativity.

Don't ask me why someone would email SGI (a workstation company) about this. I don't know.

He asked me to look it over. This is like 4 weeks into the job (my first full time professional job post grad school). I thought this was an assignment worth doing. So I reviewed their paper. I caught a bunch of sign and other related errors they made, and wrote up a summary. He asked me to interact with them. So I sent it back to the people.

I got all sorts of weirdness coming back from them. It was a conspiracy to keep their breakthrough out of the public mind. "No", I said, "it was a set of mathematical errors." I pointed out that if they fixed them, they would get normal special relativity. They didn't want to. And complained to my manager.

Thus my introduction to internet cranks.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5eo8nz_niiM

Fun to watch their DC :)
The government guidelines in the US were ... severely lacking, to be overly nice.

You can take off your mask to eat, you can take off your mask to drink, cotton masks are sufficient (I will give them this one, especially during the extreme supply shortage at the start), kids don't have to wear masks because kids can't get sick (they can, and they spread it), you can wear any kind of face covering including ones completely open at the bottom like a triangular bandana or overly breathable and doesn't block much like a gaiter, you don't have to isolate and also no sick pay, thus incentivising actively sick and spreading people back to work, etc.
Thanks, flagged it.
Fewer (in charge) developers makes for a more stable product - even open source products fair better when they have a long term maintainer versus ownership changes frequently.

The other thing is style - when used well, state machines don't require testing. There's nothing to test - either your machine works or it doesn't, there is no point testing state transitions because that is the fundamental job of the state machine. You may as well test that addition works.

Ofc, they must be used well - problems may be difficult or overly complex to model as a state machine or even set of state machines - the pattern excels for small problems, less for large ones.
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> if they'll listen

This is where I find the line easier to draw. Starting from a wrong premise and reaching a wrong conclusion (even if reached rationally and logically) does not, itself, make a crackpot. The crackpot is the one who won't listen to the counterarguments. And when they do listen, they just shift the goalposts instead of actually adjusting their basis to better fit reality.
You mean sum types, not union types (TypeScript has union types, your example uses sum types.)
Do you have a source for that? The nearest I could find was this[0] and it doesn't support your assertion.

[0] https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/demographics-us-military
This was such a common problem in my undergrad. I'd say over half of all incoming majors had at least some form of miss-understanding of what physics was and how it really worked coming off of pop sci. Even those who stick it out through Grad School and post docs often lament that they toiled away always believing that the grandiose visions of research presented in pop sci would eventually come true for them.

While pop-sci has been radically successful at making physics concepts appear accessible, it has woefully failed at making actual physics accessible. It's no wonder that Americans increasingly view science as either the tony stark like practice of wizards - or as a ceremonious endeavor practiced by those whose beliefs are no more testable than a TV pundits.

We need to do better at Science writing.
Sweden had fewer per capita deaths than many other EU member states. You haven't provided any evidence that extensive pandemic control measures actually helped.
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One shouldn't attend such an event.
You can be sued if someone traipsed onto your property and drowned in your pool if you did not have a fence around it. You can be sued if someone trips over a root in your driveway even though it is a trespass. Why is it different for city property? Also, sidewalks are constantly used by pedestrians, bicyclists, and, even illegally, “scooterists”. Seems like if this was a dangerous root that the city was aware of and did not resolve or at least put up barriers, a strong case could be made that they knowingly allowed dangerous conditions.
"Reached their limits" - I feel like I've heard this many many times before.

Not that I doubt it, but just I've also been impressed with the ingenuity that folks come up with in this space.
It was just an example. Hopefully you can imagine your own, better example.
I think a big problem is that phycisists in particular and scientists in general like to come up with colorful stories that go along with their work, that have little resemblance to their actual work. They end up telling stories that have nothing to do with the science they are supposedly talking about.

For example, "quantum teleportation" has nothing to do with the common meaning of the word "teleportation", but boy do people love talking and writing about it. The popular articles that are written about them don't tell you anything about what they are actually doing, even if you actually know the theory behind it.
It is unusual, perhaps, but as Redwood has evolved, it's been natural for us to really offer support for startups using our tools. Redwood is a more complex, more integrated, and more aligned with long term maintainability than most of the alternatives, which means our market focus is on projects that need that kind of tooling. And who needs that tooling most? Startups! Plus, I do a lot of angel investing and so helping startups is of great interest to me, so I can combine my great loves!
That is also however a VERY old processor at this point even if it was probably the best thing Intel has ever made (comparatively for the time)
I have a bad taste in my mouth or the phrase because I saw someone wielding it as a weapon at others. Its been a few years, so I don't quite remember the details unfortunately. The funny part is the person wielding it was playing politics in every avenue and was continually degrading trust and yet demanding our trust back by saying we should "assume positive intent".

(they came into our project without understanding the challenges we had or the problem we were solving, tried to throw everything out, and then with upper management present, gave a "decision making" presentation that only led to their solution as being picked)
There are some new chip manufacturing technique coming down the pipeline, which will lead to prices dropping and likely "wafer-scale" will get to the mainstream.
IMO cancelling plans on people because 'something better came up' is rude and selfish. I just stop being friends with people like that.

e.g. I had someone cancel plans made weeks ahead to meet up with me and my family at the last minute because they got invited to go skiing (this is in an area near many ski resorts, it was not a once in a lifetime opportunity). I just lost interest in meeting up with that person again.

I similarly dislike dealing with people who "keep their options open" by refusing to commit to plans until the last minute (e.g. RSVP-ing to a birthday party invite the night before).
What do 540 billion parameters mean in this case?
Nuclear weapons vs. nuclear power plants. Even terrorist attacks on nuclear power plants or maximum meltdowns aren't GoF tier. Only nuclear war.
I have read a lot of chatter about the state of the Russian military being significantly degraded by material and financial diversions, skill shortages and even looting parts not only from spares but actual deployed equipment.

Maintaining a nuclear arsenal and the infrastructure to deploy it is eye-wateringly expensive. I am sure many people are questioning the degree of threat posed by whatever remains of Soviet nuclear armaments.

The primary fissile material remains a threat but what about the ability to deliver it and actually trigger the intended explosion once it arrives? I would prefer not to put it to the test, even if 20% still works we are screwed.
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No disrespect intended at all in my response. I know it is a divisive issue.

Looking at the history though you would want to be a revisionist historian if you were to be phrasing it in that manner.

It was a contentious issue even back then. I have described why it reads as it does as it is important to understand that in reality, those who drafted the amendment went through multiple revisions before arriving at the final version precisely because each state had reservations about the level of power that should be given to individual citizens. They based their reservations on their own experiences dealing with threats on the frontier and with their experiences raising, training, and incorporating citizens into a force capable of defeating a well trained army during the American Revolution.

They tried to use what they had learned looking back, and craft an amendment that would help preserve the nation's ability to look ahead to a more prosperous future as an independent nation capable of defending itself from the threats they knew about or could expect at the time.

Like all the other amendments, the text in this one was a compromise between those who were charged with codifying standards for the new nation that all could agree upon.
My dad, who worked on jet engine production many decades ago, would refer to MIL SPEC EYEBALL Mk I. (I think he was kidding...)
PSA: HR is not your friend. Their job is to keep tab on and shield corporations from employee unrest. Think of them as a benign internal police; sort of complement of legal department. Legal is to handle external threat and HR is to handle internal threats.
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Yes that's what I meant by proper type system - int, float, decimal... proper date/time/timezone support. To name a few :)
Scott Alexander thinks this is a plausible hypothesis: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-t...
I'm not sure if it's obvious but direnv also works with zsh. It's loading the .envrc with bash, then capturing the env diff, and reflecting that back to the host shell.

direnv is still back-compat with macOS's bash 3.x, although the limitation so becoming increasingly frustrating. Bash 3.x is 10y+ old at this point and it would be nice to be able to use associative arrary finally.
Congrats! I've been keeping up with Redwood since the original announcement, and the progress they've made has been incredible. The generators and command line utilities are top notch (compared to Rails, thats a high bar to clear) and the general structure of everything seems very well thought out. Still missing a good official solution for background jobs, but I see there is a workaround in the 'How To' section on the documentation. The core team members are super nice and the community is very welcoming.

I'm not convinced the "client side app + Graphql server" is the best model for most startups, however. I tend to lean more on server rendered pages with a little bit of progressive enhancement. But I assume the people who made Redwood are more knowledgeable than me :)
Nimpy makes it possible to move from Python to Nim gradually. It’s magical, and while it doesn’t solve python’s own venv problems, it would only need the DLL from Python - whether it was 2.5 or 3.4 or 3.8, it would just work - they probably removed the python2 support by now, but it was just magic.
To each their own, I don't entirely agree. Some times, being limited to a single screen makes me more productive, since I don't have Slack or a web browser open or in sight to distract me. Especially when working on Jupyter notebooks, where everything in in-line -- no real need to for addition screen real-estate.
The model is insane, but could this realistically be used in production?
Here's a much more salient example:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1499976967105433600

Musk is clearly pro-Ukraine, but apparently refused to block Russian news sources on Starlink when asked to.
> The justification for the cost is lower volume. There are big fixed costs associated with bringing hardware to market.

System76 isn't bringing hardware to market - these are rebranded Clevo and Sager systems.

Galaga Pro for example is a Clevo NV41MB-D.

https://www.reddit.com/r/System76/comments/k8pnxn/i_think_i_...

System 76's value-add is in the software, not the hardware. AFAIK there is actually nothing stopping you from buying the OEM systems and running the System 76 software on them actually.

Of course it's true there's not zero cost running a hardware-based business but their "big fixed costs" are much smaller than, say, Minisforum or the other boutique mini-PC companies. They are just putting in an order to Clevo or Sager and loading their own custom Linux image.
There are functions related to camera calibration and adjustment of images whose internals are built using Eigen Vectors and Matrixes.
I used my exit interview to rebuke and rain fury upon my managers who were all failures. It felt good.
About Instagram, I've had an account there for eight years. It was created so I could follow my then-girlfriend, who posts occasionally, and is today my partner and mother of my child. It's use is basically to keep tabs on that account and, very rarely, check in on trending stuff (say Azealia Banks when she makes the news, since she was booted off Twitter). I've never used the account to post anything and it follows just that one account since 2014.
George Soros is not a foreign billionaire. He's a US citizen as has worked and lived in the US for most of his life.
For sure, the question is should it be this way? I mean, someone trespassing on your property trips on a root and sues you. That (in CA at least) does result in potential liability. Should it be this way?

The article is written from the point of view that Pena is a victim of a great injustice. It's not clear that is the case, though he may get millions from LA.

And heads up, when the city fights things like planting trees (which I'm a big fan of) this is why.
5 Minutes? That's quite quick. It sure seems like you are proud of you ability to earn money this fast.
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A lot of modern, data-oriented ECS frameworks for game dev follow a similar philosophy, wherein components are stored in linear collections that optimize memory layout for caches and parallelism. Given how rarely you need 'SELECT *' this makes sense for a relational DB as well, though modern SQL DBs have a lot of sweat put in to their performance.
I don't follow. We have two streams at 48khz, say 16bit. They get somehow interleaved to 96khz, so that must be 16bit as well. If they were interleaved to one at 48khz 32bit, I could see what you mean, one channel would just be very faint noise on top of the other.
Here's an article from the other side of this where parents are concerned that literal pornography is being put in books aimed at children. Books from the NPR article are mentioned, but this article gives some example passages that have had parents alarmed:

https://alphanews.org/mother-reveals-books-in-school-librari...
You can literally always justify a war lol. The "stability" argument is so insane considering the iraq war plunged the region into it's most unstable period of the past century but okay. You also dont consider the enormous collateral damage and loss of life that it caused.

At that point you might as well believe what russia is doing is okay because in the very long run it's probably going to mean it will lead to less neo-nazis in ukraine? If we ignore the destruction and death caused by the russian invasion and focus on a very comparatively tiny upside to the war.
Okay I just meant to say that the conclusions you find from personal experience have basically no correlation with what happens in the aggregate. But you were defending points as though they were applicable in the aggregate, or at least that was the implication.

No one should change their minds on a subject based on a single anecdote.

Further, that your experience lined up with original stats are similarly potentially unrelated and could be due to lots of variables specific to you that we don't know.

If your goal was to make a point, I don't think you've done that. Instead you've just highlighted a personal, mostly unrelated success story of yours. Which, that's fine, just not very convincing.
Also, that's a very slow commercial airplane. (Unless talking about an old turboprop?)
Yeah, in the very general case, chip errors are a function of die area. Cutting a die into four pieces so that when an error occurs in manufacturing, you only throw out a quarter of the die area is becoming the right model for a lot of designs.

Like all things chips, it's way more complicated than that, fractally, as you start digging in. Like AMD started down this road initially because of their contractual agreements with GloFlo to keep shipping with GloFlo does, but wanted the bulk of the logic on a smaller node than GloFo could provide, hence the IO die and compute chiplets model that still exists in Zen. It's still a good idea for other reasons but they lucked out a bit by being forced in that direction before other major fabless companies.

This is also not a new idea, but sort of ebbs and flows with the economics of the chip market. See the VAX 9000 multi chip modules for an 80s take on the same ideas and economic pressures.
> UCIe is a start, but the standard’s future remains to be seen. “The founding members of initial UCIe promoters represent an impressive list of contributors across a broad range of technology design and manufacturing areas, including the HPC ecosystem,” said Nossokoff, “but a number of major organizations have not as yet joined, including Apple, AWS, Broadcom, IBM, NVIDIA, other silicon foundries, and memory vendors.”

The fact that the standard doesn’t include anyone who is actually building chips makes me very pessimistic about it.