skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think of the Guardian in those terms, too - “advocacy journalism”. Things were a bit different under Rusbridger but now it’s got a strong, almost singular focus on a climate change agenda. Which, frankly, I think is fantastic. We need a paper like that.

I also tend to think it’s much more productive to categorise news sources as either “bona fide” - an earnest attempt to thoroughly research and report what you observe, as you observe it - versus “mala fides” - everything else.

As you say, there’s no such thing as unbiased reporting. Every paper has a world view - I’ll quite happily nail my colours to the humanist mast of a paper like the Guardian.
I've read through this very carefully and it's very difficult for me to understand what exactly he thinks is a breakthrough. Generally when we're talking about breakthroughs in physics in theoretical physics we're often talking about a new idea that links previous ideas, or an emergent property from a theory that we can then test. I've read a bit about it, and it seems to boil down to "Model things as a graph and simple set of rules about how that graph changes over time steps", and doing this if you plug in the right stuff you get something you recognise from somewhere else in physics. Which seems both unsurprising, and not a break through? It's like an ML problem, you don't get credit for predicting things that have already happened. Does anyone know where this approach is pushing forward the totality of physics?
Ask HN: How do you track your finances?
Recently attended a workshop, and I'm curious to know how you track your finances. Personally, I've built a custom spreadsheet, and I'm happy with that, but I'd love to see how other people are doing it.

1. Do you use a spreadsheet? Did you build it yourself? Did you buy one that was already done for you?

2. Do you use an accounting software (Quickbooks, Xero, Zoho, etc.)?

3. How do you like your current solution? Is it too complicated? Is it too overkill in terms of features for your needs?

4. What would make it better for you?

In the workshop, they recommended also using tracking tools like Mint to follow all your expenses, not just business, but also, personal.

I'd be curious to know how many other people track it all to the penny like this.
The only point of life is whatever you make it. Life's your own video game and you set the rules of what defines winning or losing it. There are definitely lots of external pressure trying to get you to align to what their game is, but I think you've come to realize that those rules aren't the rules you want to live by.

I felt the same way in my 30s. The thing that changed it for me was when my father passed away, my mother was diagnosed with dementia, and the pandemic. I started to realize that life is really short and it made me think a lot about what it all meant. I think you've also come to realize that there really is no point, so you can either be depressed about it and not do anything or you can just do things that bring you enjoyment. Some people find enjoyment in help others and volunteering (I don't) and will say that's the meaning of life. Other's will say finding enjoyment in the process of something is the meaning of life (I don't). I think it's different for everyone and part of life is defining the game. Everyone wants validation that their rules of life are the right rules.

I'm in my late 40s now and I just focus on whatever I want to do that I enjoy - hanging out with friends, spending time with my family, not stressing too much about work, entertaining myself with my hobbies.

On hobbies - I'll pick up hobbies just to try them out now. I have no expectations any longer. If it sticks, it sticks, if it doesn't, I don't care that much. I've come to realize I just really like to try new things, and learning the depth doesn't interest me. If i'm inspired to pick it up again, I do. There's probably some self-help/hustle porn out there that dissuades this, but I enjoy it.
If UBI is setup as more of a survival supplement than an amount of money desireable to live on entirely, then no.

It also has to offset benefits received from other programs like welfare, unemployment to help cover the cost.

IMO $700 / month is about the right number where it helps with basic needs and dry spells but isn’t so much that you’re incentivized to withdraw from the job market entirely.

At the same time, minimum wage can go away entirely if UBI is in place since the UBI doesn’t go away like unemployment the moment you have a paycheck. You work to earn more, not trade income sources.
I'm completely with you here. I subscribed to the NYT for some time through Apple subscriptions. No funny business when I wanted to unsubscribe, just two clicks and my subscription stopped when the expiration date came.
I'm assuming he is referring to the manufacturer's recommendations and not what is required to keep the engine airworthy.

You can write in basically anything as a manufacturer, doesn't mean it is binding unless it is an official communication. For example, I have a dirt bike that states to replace the piston every 10 hours of operation.
Yes. Huge AWS -> GCP migration.

Why? Incoming CTO signed a massive GCP deal probably because it was marginally cheaper than AWS (while probably ignoring the migration costs).
And then the invented virtualization to run the old software again haha
>>> A Customer who wishes to terminate their contract must print out (or copy on plain paper)

I thought only Germany had this BS.
Those are tostadas, not tacos.
Was about to comment exactly this. The question makes no sense, whether or not inflation happens has nothing to do with universal basic income itself, it's a question of where the money comes from.
Subdomains as Identity
Army Corps of Engineers closes SpaceX Starbase permit application
Is that taking spot/reserved instances into account (for both). Afaik Fargate supports both of those
It wouldn't be. This spare space is entirely optional in the file format specification, and it's up to the tool that makes the file if it wants to include it or not.
“Classically-liberal” is a much fairer description of the Economist than “neoliberal”.
This video was my first introduction to the "long-form narrative game reviews" genre. I really enjoyed watching it -- I think the author made an interesting argument and presented it in a way that was more entertaining than playing 41 minutes of the actual game was.
The disaster of employers having to raise their standards (and wages) to actually attract workers?
https://www.davidschlachter.com

Designed it by hand on a sketchbook in around 2007. Currently PHP powered using my own ancient plain-text file based CMS.
Said button is no doubt “in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.‘“ because we are all Arthur Dent in this Internet.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/40705-but-the-plans-were-on...
http://kevintoday.com

I've always enjoyed the Everyday Carry community, so thought it would be cool to track everything I carry in case it's useful to other folks.
> I've always thought of Esperanto as the metric system of languages.

Nice troll. The metric system is actually used by everyone aside from the US as far as I know ;)
I actually found German newspapers to be comparably nice. Any country without laws prohibiting it have these behaviors.
oh yeah just take off and leave your job and family behind for 6 months so you can write a better article about food, this is definitely something normal people can do
True. My understanding is that comedy isn't really allowed here, unless maybe it is tech focused. This isn't some new phenomenon, this isn't tech focused, there isn't really any content in the article (not much to be gleaned from the satire even). It doesn't seem like it's something that's even interesting to hackers. There doesn't seem to be enough content to satisfy intellectual curiosity.
Not papers, but everything else in Germany like gyms, telcos, etc.
There is actually, its called Hindustani - the mix (pidgin?) of the dialects that is actually spoken by people rather than any pure single dialect.
So, in other words, mainframe profits were greater than previously stated.

Interesting.
Programming Parallel Computers
Did I say something interesting?
https://www.pwshman.com/

A simple RSS-aggregator for alerts and advisories from CSIRTs and security vendors.
This sounds made up.
Humans will always find ways to game a system and buy those that could control their lives in ways they dont want their life controlled.

Now a universal basic income is like a tax rebate without having to do any work in the first place. If one is introduced, taxes will go up, inflation will go up and society might or might not become more cohesive. It really depends on how the media decide to manipulate society.
What I find interesting about The Witness is that it has different layers to it that all fit together. Some spoilers ahead.

On a surface level you explore the world, find puzzles, and solve them.

On the next level is the scenery. There are visual perspective curiosities (e.g. the man who's shadow is juggling, or the statue with the tree forming a tentacle-like body). Then there are the meta-puzzles -- telegraphed at the top of the mountain -- for you to find and complete.

On the next level are the audio devices and the windmill. These cover different aspects of science, philosophy, and religion, but all on the same overall theme -- the sense of discovery, identity, and what it means to be human and to be a witness of life and the world around us. This builds to a kind of meta-commentary of the game, but also to an interesting outlook on life.
> It makes no sense because the food is incredibly delicious, approachable, and unique.

Do they have fast food offerings like wraps and pies? Also, what do you mean by "approachable"? Convenient?
they spelled lemonade wrong.
> Le Monde will only serve you more liberal, globalist propaganda.

> All of these are fighting against the independence and objectivity of the content.

Totally. It's, hidden behind nice typography (for the print version at least) and hardly ever a spelling mistake, the french version of "Pravda".
Yep, Passover Coke with cane sugar comes in 2L bottles with a yellow cap.
We moved a load of stuff from an acquisition from Azure to AWS only because it's under one cost centre then so we don't have to pay or justify as many invoices.

After futzing with this stuff for years though I really would only use the IaaS options in clouds if you want to consider portability. Network, storage, compute and nothing else. The neutral abstraction is Linux for me these days, not a specific vendor!
And just to add on top of this - there is to the best of my knowledge little if any research that shows that the current practice of publication and peer review is actually effective at weeding out bad science. The current replication crisis in psychology and other fields would suggest that it's actually quite bad at it. For a community that is supposed to be based on the ideal of experimentation and falsifiability, scientists are surprisingly willing to just accept at face value, that the current process is sound, without actually scrutinizing this hypothesis.
It could be a form of "look, this file is X large for Y minutes, that's much more than Z, so it must be better!".

I have a rising suspicion that some game companies with fluid ethics do this - avoiding to optimize and strip unused content, in order to inflate game size.

"Wow, it's 102 GB, the game must be huge with boatloads of content!" (ie huge == higher chance of I'm getting my moneys worth). Which in turn becomes a problem with the latest generation consoles that have quite little drive space (Playstation ca 625 GB).
You would have needed to wait at most fifteen-twenty minutes at a supercharger, since that's all the time it takes to get a 200 mile charge. This doesn't take away from your point that the charging time is a demerit, but 45 minutes is an exaggeration. (I do not own an EV for what it's worth, although I certainly would if I regularly commuted by car.)
I have pondered this same challenge, and here's the two-part solution I use:

1. I make it easier for me to determine if a link will actually be interesting or useful to me by using an HN interface that pulls forward additional information from the linked article/site to help me make a more-informed decision without having to spend the time of going to the linked article/site. I use Timbo's Hacker News Reader [0] for this.

2. I feel your pain about multiple open tabs. What I do here once I've decided I do want to read a link is I email it to myself, and I use an email alias in my email client of choice so I can search for these emails later. For example, I use the email alias "aaa" for articles I want to listen to later (i.e., "a" is for "audio"). In my phone and in my gmail client, the "aaa" alias is my personal email address but with "+audio" tacked onto the end of the name so I can pull those out later using a Python program [1]. I have another alias called "rrr" that tacks on "+read" and these are for links I have to read with my eyes, since they're probably heavy on images or have a lot of code snippets.

bonus part 3. The linchpin of this (or any) solution is that you have to make time to actually read the articles at some point. The problem of wanting to read more links than you actually are willing to make time for is a psychological one, not technical. It's like my other personal challenge of buying more books than I will actually make time to read. It's been a real balancing act to soberly decide whether such-and-such link or book is actually worth my time. Between work, family, and community, I have to be ruthlessly honest about what I do and don't have time for. All that to say, I think your question strikes at the heart of a challenge that many of us face and yet that many of us continue to struggle to resolve.

[0] https://www.thnr.net (disclaimer: I'm Timbo) see https://www.thnr.net/about/ for some of the info that gets pulled forward (like thumbnail images, name of social media channel, GitHub project programming language percentages)

[1] https://github.com/timoteostewart/benson (disclaimer: I'm timoteostewart)
As the comments note, however, unleaded gas will not cause lead deposits in the engine and can therefore reduce maintenance required and extend maintenance intervals.
a lazy person in the 20s would probably seem fairly active by today's standards... outside of reading books you would have been hard pressed to find an abundance of things to do while sitting around
> meaningful change

Says who? The tad bit of encouragement you give a younger person could change the entire direction of their life, and you may never hear about it. We don't get to know all the ways we influence others.
Don't the French generally/historically despise the English and their language? That was my first assumption.
Invitation to Europe
The question is where did you get the $1,000 from. If you print money to build a bridge then you can argue that building a bridge caused inflation, but it wasn’t the bridge that was at fault.
“new model for understanding reality...the meta-rules that undergird not just our Universe, but all possible Universes...”

Is there any evidence whatsoever that he’s accomplished these things? He’s been at this for decades. Is there any prediction of any natural phenomenon? Did he predict a new elementary particle? Can he predict the flow of water through a pipe? Is there a quantitative connection with anything in the physical world, aside from pretty pictures generated by a computer?

In other words, is this any kind of science?
The atmosphere, art style etc are fantastic but he could not have chosen more boring gameplay. Playing The Witness feels like being imprisoned in a forest meadow with the contents of a doctor's office waiting room coffee table. Puzzles can be fun but it feels like Blow chose quantity over quality, at least for me. It didn't help my opinion that it goes for the modern writing story writing trope of "say a bunch of interesting things but use player agency as an excuse to not actually tie them together into a coherent narrative with events and consequences".
Bundling code and data never causes problems...
Show HN: CodeSpread-Helping Developers and Clients Make the Most of Open Source
I wonder if it'd be more convenient for a French subscriber to use a VPN. Or change their address to somewhere out of France before cancelling.
I got it for free at one point and it's a fun game; however, I didn't find much of a reason to come back after finishing. I liked using my imagination to fill in the details of what happened across the game world but didn't have enough detail to it that I found myself truly engaged with the environment
>I just googled "best flash games of all time" and it's called IndestructoTank, was listed as #1

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Nice and simple https://picheta.me/
There is no argument here -- why would everything cost $1000 extra?

You just said "then". Where is the argument?

So if I earn $500 now, and buy 500 lollipops at $1 each.

If everyone gets $1000 as UBI, then those 500 lollipops will cost ... $1001 each and $501000 in total?

Isn't that absurd?

That is what the sentence "everything will cost $1000 extra" means, and the only way "raising the value of zero" makes mathematical sense.

What is probably meant here -- that the sum of what you buy will be $1000 more in total -- is accurarely captured by the term "inflation" in the OP.

But then the statement "raise value of zero" does not make sense.
Yes performance matters. See https://wpostats.com for some details.
Jon Gjengset: Rust at speed – building a fast, concurrent database (2018)
The fine article addresses this point.
A simple “return true;” should suffice, but to be honest that’s what makes the field fascinating to me as an outsider
In this video, one of the people that worked on creating Noria talks a bit about the implementation of it. Very interesting talk, highly recommend watching it.

He talks, among other things, about lockless eventually consistent concurrent access to data shared between multiple threads. Jon has a crate that he made for this called evmap, for Noria and anyone else to use. GitHub repo https://github.com/jonhoo/evmap and crate https://crates.io/crates/evmap

Jon has a bunch of other interesting videos about Rust on his channel as well. https://youtube.com/c/JonGjengset
Only one answer is needed : do you enjoy the ride ?
https://achris.me

I'm working to improve it every week but already happy with it, I've built my own blog system with NextJS and the code is public at

https://github.com/a-chris/achris.me
Ask HN: Why are companies pushing working from the office?
Why the companies are doing so, when the employees are comfortable working from home.

With WFH I can think of many advantages to both the companies and the employees.
- No commutation, leads to less tired employees
- Healthy food
- No rent - if they are working from their own house, rather than renting a flat near to the office.
- Flexibility of timing - Employee could work little longer if they want since there's no commutation.
- Finance - rent & fuel
- Happiness - since they're with the family.

Is it just a corporate management disconnection from the reality or something else ?
This is correct, you don't need animal products specifically to get the height increase it's more about just getting a decent amount of protein along with associated vitamins and minerals for the mother during pregnancy and through the childs early life up to early adulthood.

With animal products it's basically just easier to reach this nutritional point at least when compared with more traditional plant based diets. Of course with modern plant based supplements and nutritional knowledge and food availability etc. you can more or less narrow the gap these days at least in a technical sense, but sometimes in the real world the problem can be getting the kids to actually eat enough protein if they are fussy eaters who decide they don't like a particular protein source (whether animal or plant based) or are filling up on nutritionally sparse junk food first.
@danabramov would you mind sharing the rationale behind making the ReactWG invite only? I understand that, de jure, it's Facebook's property, and you all can do whatever you want with it. De facto, since so many people on the outside world contributed to the project, at least an election of a commission would have been warranted. Would you mind commenting?
All cars are less efficient at higher speeds because wind resistance increases with the cube of speed, and there are no efficiency benefits to travelling at a higher speed. Driving at 65mph is substantially more efficient than driving at 70mph. In theory, driving at a constant 40mph would be more efficient still, but there are not too many roads where you can drive at that speed over a long distance without hitting a lot of stop lights or stop signs.
The paper cites K. Crowson 4 times:

[5] Katherine Crowson. Ava linear probe. https://twitter.com/RiversHaveWings/status/
1472346186728173568?s=20&t=T-HRr3Gw5HRGjQaMDtRe3A, 2021.

[6] Katherine Crowson. Clip guided diffusion hq 256x256. https://colab.research.google.com/
drive/12a_Wrfi2_gwwAuN3VvMTwVMz9TfqctNj, 2021.

[7] Katherine Crowson. Clip guided diffusion 512x512, secondary model method. https://twitter.
com/RiversHaveWings/status/1462859669454536711, 2021.

[8] Katherine Crowson. v-diffusion. https://github.com/crowsonkb/v-diffusion-pytorch, 2021.
Book Review: 'A New Kind of Science' (2002)
Of course you do have a relationship with characters on a TV show you watch. You know them, you have feelings towards some of them, and they can influence your behavior
I think you're greatly underestimating the number of GA / Piston aircraft flying.

At my school, we have ~10 aircraft flying every day, 8-12 hours a day depending on the weather. Most of these flights happen over prime, in production farmland, or on the edges of the nearby town which has 8 schools at a minimum.

Now we're one of probably 5 aviation schools within a 50 mile radius, all of whom are operating at similar or greater profiles.

I'm sure the individual impact is small, but for every jumbo jet there's something like 3-5 piston aircraft in operation.
Author here. Quite the contrary, actually — I’ve read all the above sources. On top of that, with the exception of Chambliss (which is a landmark work, to be clear), and Dreyfus (which I prefer to look at adaptations of; Accelerated Expertise has several updated or derivative scales that expertise researchers in the military use), I’ve talked to collaborators of these researchers, and in the case of Klein, am actively in contact with and am following the rest of the work of his community (https://naturalisticdecisionmaking.org/).

I’ve updated the bottom of the post to link to the many other articles I’ve written on expertise. These are either summaries of papers, or summaries of branches of the research, or pointing out obvious holes in the popsci representations of the research, or synthesise various (mostly military-funded) approaches to accelerating expertise.

This particular essay is a note from personal application.
Curious as well. All I can add is that iTunes also needed to run on Windows (and I believe QuickTime had, in effect, the old MacToolbox running cross-platform). So add throw that on the pile.

iTunes had to move fast. There was not time, from what I understand, to step back and refactor it in any meaningful way.