skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not following, what’s Dell vs Apple in 1997 has to do with disdain for working on Defense in SV?

I want to clarify: there is still a massive spectrum from people working on Defense in SV and the types of engineers I interacted with (Googlers). What I find incredibly worrying is that the people that have disdain for Defense, it is sort of shallow and the main motive is to use it as a moral-superiority weapon against people that are on the receiving end. It’s free points to score with their colleagues. This is truly despicable behavior and I’ve seen it first hand. Fortunately, I’ve always been able to avert the discussion and diffuse it before it gets worse.

But it has left with me a sort of a chilling effect. Not being able to express one’s history, however marred it is in the opinion of the listener. This was not the case in places I’ve lived (East coast). Anyhow this thread is a way for me to share my grievances, for those listening please be kind to people that may not share your political or philosophical background. They’re not all baby killers.
That would be borderline malicious and factually incorrect.

Bird is claiming he consumed a large amount of cognac the night before with no BAC test, and cannabis was found in his urine with no possibility of dating ingestion.

The article isn’t paywalled, you can literally just read this in there BTW.
I love The Ur-Quan Masters. A labor of love. Never been able to finish it, and I never will, but I've started playing countless times.
So? It's not your responsibility for someone else's insecurity - and in fact, if you stop to assume that they think this way, you'll find that they 9/10 times do not.
Ask HN: Does your office have big screens showing motivational stats?
A famous example is the 2010 movie The Social Network, where they show a scene of facebook's office with a giant screen showing the number of users.

Is this sort of thing common in the valley?

Does it help
It seems like some broader context is missing from the discussion here. Regardless of the details of this case, we should ask why people are riding on the sidewalk in the first place?

Might it have to do with the eye-watering amount of space LA has given over to storing and moving cars, trucks, and SUVs? The urban environment in LA is not safe for people if you don't happen to surround yourself with 2 tons of steel.

So while the City isn't "at fault" in this case, they absolutely laid the foundation for this accident and countless others when they chose to prioritize the convenience motorists over people.
>It’s impossible.

Nothing is impossible. Well, except certain classes of time travel into the past.
I think the command signal is merely picked up by existing repeaters that broadcast to the submarines.

I actually think the most consequential recipients are actually the land based ICBMs as those are likely 100% automated installations.

Even if the submarines are already at launch depth I would assume there would still be final humans in the loop in all nuclear bombers and subs, making them unreliable launchers. (who really wants to press the "end the world" button?)
I placed a transparent plastic ruler on the screen to come to the same conclusion, then I saw your comment.
Any details you can share about why the project is using rather obsolete tools (yarn, webpack)? I understand they're old and stable, but I took the project for trying to be on the leading edge.
I mainly use a laptop, almost always hooked up to a monitor or two, keyboard and mouse. I have some beefy workstations available for computational stuff, but mostly easier to remote in or have an automation system send jobs there.

> but then it's just a desktop anyways.

So why not use a desktop? There are typically 3-4 distinct addresses I work at, and the value of just plugging in when I get there and having everything ready to go is high. I've tried basically every available approach to doing this with multiple workstations/desktops, and they all aren't as functional as just dragging my laptop between them...
It feels to me like your initial intuition was right - they are being jerks/babies and they aren't respecting the decisions their past selves have made.

I went through a phase of tongue-in-cheek "quantum planning", wherin I would give my friends a percentage on any plan I was invited to. So if I was asked to dinner I might just say "60%". Needless to say this didn't go down very well with people.

There is a value to your word, and yes, it is more prevalent in closer-knit communities than in bigger cities, but I think that's because the cost of ditching a "friend" in a big city is much lower - after all there a plenty more potential friends to be had. But in my opinion someone who habitually breaks plans is giving a clear indication that they don't value their word and don't value the person they break plans with.
Everything you said is true, but just to add a little nuance, I think it's possible that avoidance can still be the correct choice when confrontation is unhelpful. Confrontation for the sake of confrontation is another form of indulging yourself to avoid certain emotions, like feeling weak or disempowered. Managing that in the height of emotion takes some real meta-cognition.
No, no it isn't. Heat pumps are cheap compared to 3090s and whatever other ASICs you're going to be using.

Electricity costs also scale. You're paying 1/4 the electricity cost to heat your "castle" with a heat pump. That - in itself - is very important.
Slightly more pragmatic version for those situations where many people do, in fact, have negative/selfish/manipulative intent: play dumb and play along with fake cheer if you have to. Assume Positive Intent, but find a way to verify it. If they have bad intent, you might be able to get them to reveal it first. If you act first by being uncooperative or calling them out, you will lose because you are now the bad guy. In fact, articles and attitudes like this submission will be used to paint you as such, regardless of whether there really was positive intent! If "Assume Positive Intent" is a principle that is promoted in your organization, it can be weaponized and one-sided.
I'm sorry but this is pure apologist rhetoric. It's so hand wavy that it puts even russian propaganda war justification to shame. "I bet they are doing better, if we ignore the 2 decades of war and hundreds of thousands of deaths!" is not a great argument, especially since you ignore the even more repulsive intervention in libya.
I followed the tutorial and made a toy app with it. I thought the tutorial was well written, easy to follow, and touched on topics of importance for developers.

In regard to the framework, it is appereant they have thought about the developer workflow and designed a process that would lead to greater productivity.Two aspects I really enjoyed were cells (UI mixed with API calls) and integration with Storybook. I would say that its combination of scaffolding, easy authentication with dbAuth, and Storybook integration provides a lot of productivity benefits.

This is of course if you're interested in basic CRUD. I don't know how it would be for non-CRUD apps.
Are we moving this way because bigger chips with many cores have worse yields? so the answer is to make lots of little chips and fuse then together?
Yes, if the people researching it aren't subject to pressures that humans are normally subject to. If have any desires beyond 1/2, then there's a conflict of interest.

For example, if you need money to eat. Or, if you want to solve a concrete problem/discover things, and believe that if you got funding you could do so. Or if getting tenure would mean you get to solve more concrete problems, and fudging one paper would let you do that.

It's not possible to avoid conflicts of interest categorically. It is possible to manage the impact of them. For example, the peer review process makes it harder (but not impossible) for a lone researcher to publish inaccurate findings.

The question isn't whether there's a conflict of interest in the research, the question is whether the system publishes solid research despite the conflicts of interest.
Ask HN: Does your job matter and is your company a net positive for the world?
Anyone remember Epic's early DOS games, like Epic Pinball? How far they've come.
I will agree that making individuals responsible for excessive healthcare costs would be inefficient, but I think the current system with out of pocket maximums should be able to handle this.

What the current system needs to be tweaked to do is provide more subsidies do everyone has insurance (and a mandate for everyone to buy it, in lieu of additional taxes for single payer).
I sincerely hope you are joking.

People can discuss things that are not law.

One can point out, for instance, that Twitter is not a free speech platform, and this is bad for many reasons.

One can comment on laws, proposing to extend legal protections to different sectors.

I hope your conversations are not solely based on current law, that must be pretty boring.

(You interpretation of Section 230 is shaky at least)
> It makes me wish for a language + compiler where linear algebraic objects are first-class values.

Like Fortran?
I'm not clear on the distinction you are trying to make with this comment. I said the taxpayers should pay in my first comment. I'm not pretending this care would be free.
He was allegedly “drunk or high” and it remains to be seen if wearing a helmet in this case would have prevented becoming a paraplegic based on how his accident is described. His neck (cervical spine) injury is likely the primary cause of his disability rather than the skull fracture.

I think we are all ignoring the elephant in the room: absolutely terrible infrastructure for anything besides car. The US collectively has spent billions (trillions?) in new roads and highways but not much else in between.

So when are we going to hold ourselves accountable for the mess that O&G has gotten us into and reverse this trend?
Surely if someone is paying a consultant to weigh in on their ideas they must have some inkling that they're out of their element.

From the article:

> One or two seemed miffed that I didn’t immediately exclaim: ‘Genius!’, but most of my callers realised that they can’t contribute to a field without meeting today’s quality standard. Then again, I hear only from those willing to invest in advancing their education to begin with.
the joke explanations on page 38 of the full paper linked here are blowing my mind. it's crazy how far language models have come

https://storage.googleapis.com/pathways-language-model/PaLM-...
Except the doctors noted evidence of the smell of weed, all their case notes and discharge notes indicate intoxication and bloodshot eyes. The plaintiff stopped AT a weed shop on the day of the accident.

This is not a criminal trial, a jury may weigh some probabilities here. 750ml of cognac drunk the night before, a stop at a weed shop, 11,000 miles of sidewalk, and the claim the city is at fault for this accident and the plaintiff is not.
It's worth noting that if your workload is still on x86, it's running through Rosetta emulation and it's significantly slower. I've heard of a few people having similar "what's all the fuss about" to "wow this is great" transitions after their key applications get fully ported to ARM.
Poetic that the top post right now is (partially) about how science communication over-simplifying figures results in a popular misunderstanding of science, leading readers to believe that conducting research is easier than it actually is.
How integrated? Most of jd is written in j. It is also expected that the app performing—or at least handling—the queries be written in j.

And regarding maturity—j has libraries, debugger, etc.
That's because Firefox on desktop parses JSON.
while I agree with you that mask themselves when used correctly (ex: by doctors ) work.

What I learned from the anti-vaxxer on Facebook is that when they say "mask does not work" they mean "the government guideline does not work".

Like you said it need to be cultural and people need to genuinely try to use mask correctly not just because its the rule.
I'm the author of Svekyll (https://svekyll.com) a static blog tool which models the simplicity of Jekyll. Svekyll uses SvelteKit under the hood, but rendering to a static site feels like it is a second class experience in SvelteKit (they are more focused on rendering to cloudflare or netlify or vercel serverless platforms). I would love to experiment with using RedwoodJS as the backend if SSR is a priority; how do I get more information on that work?
My guess was that when this happened to me, it meant that Google had figured out it was spam after the notification got through, likely due to people marking it as spam. So I got the notifications, but the files had gone away before I looked.
Notably, the Mac Mini does not have a stupid external power adapter, but just uses a standard cable that costs like $1. I did carry mine around for a while, and it was glorious! I'm not sure why Apple's competitors insist on including a brick that's almost as large as the PC itself.
I had the 16" Intel i9 MBP with 64Gb and recently got the new M1 Max with 64GB (had to wait almost two months after ordering) and it's not even close. I used to have to be quick about closing things in the back ground etc. Force closing things etc. Fans were always loud. New M1 I have NEVER heard the fans. It just works. And works well. No beach balls waiting. Just works.
> He'd drunk 750ml of cognac. Cedars noted he was under influence and smelled of marijuana. I think he'd stopped at a weed shop at 11AM or so on day of accident.

Seriously? If true, then it would have taken him 30(!) hours to metabolize all that alochol[1]. Depending on how the timeline is (eg. drinks at 10pm, interview at 12pm the next day), it seems very plausible that he's over the legal limit.

750ml * 40% ABV = 300ml of alcohol. The human body can metabolize 10ml of alochol per hour, so that works out to 30 hours to metabolize it all. Even if it was 15 hours since he drank, his ABV would still be way over the limit[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_of_alcohol

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_alcohol_content
We already only see mostly propaganda and ads though.
There are multiple humans in the loop. Only the most scary (and likely inaccurate) descriptions of the system make it seem fully automated. AFAICT there is still a bunch of folk buried deep in a bunker that still need to decide if the world should end.
Murder is said to be bad yet murder keeps happening. Why could it ever be? Murder must be successful!

Same logic.
It means they can rant about all the other academics, whilst cherry picking their own conclusions in the opposite direction.

This[1] is an example of it which borders on Swiftian satire...
[1] https://cspicenter.org/reports/the-accuracy-of-stereotypes-d...
Tinygrad
Hadn't come across Braid yet. Looks interesting. Thanks for the link :)
Even people who generally care can reach a point where they don't want to, or simply can't. Stuff like the distractions of their own problems can prevent them from seeing larger societal solutions.
Hah I appreciate your accuracy.

I got 250k by running this:

$ curl https://cdn.smoot.apple.com/static/autofill_tld_whitelist_url | jq | wc -l
250004

And then I naively assumed with the extra JSON brackets the total would be 250k but I wasn't thorough enough!
Your methodology is much more sophisticated than mine
The original post:

https://grumpygamer.com/april_fools_2022

Ron is developer of the Monkey Island adventure games, while at lucas arts, now the IP is owned by Disney.

So he made another adventure game (similar but different) called "thimbleweed park". I played through. It was fun.
He made a development blog, while making it (it was a kickstarter).

https://blog.thimbleweedpark.com

but now I have no idea if this new thing is real or not...
If a rider while following all the rules was struck by a city owned vehicle, would this rider also be unable to sue the city because he indemnified Bird and Bird indemnified the city?
Emissions must peak by 2025 to prevent disastrous climate change effects, IPCC
> I believe Facebook uses a single directory of files now as best practice
Do you have any sources for this?
Heat. Small usb drives can barely disipate any, and fast data transmission will generate a lot.

I'd rather buy a 2.0 device that won't get hot enough to be uncomfortable.
You don’t like my “lecturing,” but you continue making preposterous statements and asking questions that can’t be answered without “lecturing.” It’s like you’re saying “why is the sky is blue when we have water?” and then correcting yourself with “but I was talking about the stars, dude. ;)”

To answer pragmatically:

- don’t use the style attribute

- you could use XLST, which is style (and more) that uses the same ML

- are you suggesting that CSS and HTML should have the same style? <a style=“color=\”red\””>? I don’t know how that’s better.

Maybe you’re still missing some lecturing: HTML is content and CSS is style. What you’re saying about 3D context would be specified in CSS, in a separate file, so your CSS-in-HTML readability argument (I guess that’s your argument? Who knows) falls pretty flat.

It’s almost the same as complaining that JS doesn’t have the same format as HTML while it totally could, but instead we have JS-in-HTML. Oh how unfair life is.

As far as I can see, you’re just trolling, so thanks for the laughs.

Signed,

<a onclick="this.style.background='url(<svg title=\"&#x1F595;\"><rect fill=\"blue\"/></svg>)'">
Super excited about this! I've been using version 28 for native-comp for maybe six months now, it's great to see this make it into a mainstream release!
Correct, that was the outcome, even though the decedent crashed INTO the Ralphs truck (so lay person might think decedent would owe Ralphs if anything), instead Ralphs was ordered to pay decedent.

This is where the law diverges from what people imagine.
That's what I'm hoping. Although I doubt that IA, on it's own, would suddenly go to Flickr & say "Hey our use case doesn't really fit what you intended, let's figure out how to go our separate ways."

My guess is that the conversation was initiated by Flickr. Whether IA agreed with them from the beginning or was forced to "agree" probably doesn't matter, especially because I can see the merit of the argument that Flickr may not be an appropriate platform. I'm just hoping things were save in a way that they'll be able to implement a replacement at some point.
Eigen is the standard choice (for good reason!) for many linear algebra projects, especially in robotics, but there is a big downside users should be aware of before they chose it.

Eigen makes extensive use of expression templates in C++ to collapse complex operation sequences into streamlined and minimal calculations. This is generally ok, until you need a debug build. I've regularly seen debug builds of software using Eigen run 1000x to 10000x slower than the release build, which seriously complicates various debugging workflows. It also makes it a nightmare to run your test suite through valgrind, for example.

I've seen several engineers attempt (and fail) to try creating/linking a release build of Eigen with a debug build of the rest of the program to try to regain most of that speed while still allowing a decent amount of debugability, but this is really hard due to all the aggressive inlining and heavy use of templates.

In my experience, I would happily accept a 2x or more slowdown in linear algebra performance in release builds in exchange for significant boost in debug execution speed. If you're starting a greenfield project, you should consider how important decent debug performance is before choosing Eigen by default.
The count of peer reviewed studies showing a benefit for the use of Ivermectin is now 62, and they can be found here:

https://ivmmeta.com/

The earlier the better of course, just like Tamiflu. The best results were attained when Ivermectin was used as a prophylactic.
> maybe somewhere picturesque in Europe.

This is the daydream that keeps me going now.

I think you have some salient points; I would stay busy in the sense of making things (software) while I'm away.

> You will find another job unless you quit into the start of the recession..

This is probably what I fear, and why I'm asking around. With the inflation & supply chain issues recently, and with the current yield curve inversion, at least in a short-to-medium term sense I think the music is going to stop soon. But macro-economies are cyclical and although bad stuff spreads quickly, I don't think software specifically will have much of a dip even if some other economic sectors do.

I wasn't a professional in 2000-2003 after that downturn, but I was online during that time & witnessed the steady decline of "tech". I'm cautious of the "this time it's different" thesis, but the analog-only lifestyle that was possible in 2000 isn't what people do today - there will be long-term demand for what we/I do (this is my opinion).

To address the point directly: I think if we are starting a recession now-ish, in 6 months' time the subsequent upswing might already be starting - I recall Apr - Sept 2020. I'm confident that I'm average-or-above, which should guarantee work somewhere. If the recession starts in 6 months, I have another 6 months' runway still comfortably, and I can start the search early. I recall in previous recessions companies are still hiring developers.

> Boredom breeds a gambling habit. Don't use your free time to trade exciting markets.

This is sound advice; I only gamble in the sense of a family-and-friends regular poker night. I buy bonds & index funds on a set schedule otherwise in markets. I'm not attracted to gambling; I've met people who are, I don't think it's me. But like you say, don't take chances.

> Be accountable to yourself. Try to something meaningful to show for yourself when you're done.

It sounds like based on yours and other commentary, if the "me" time is successful, I should have artifacts to show it. The time off shouldn't represent a material issue during the subsequent job search. Since you say you have personal experience, what is your anecdote? what did you do, what would you have done differently?
Hope iPhone use wasn't related to using Lidar aside from the images.
I hate this so much. As a dev with over 30 years experience and plenty of personal references, I refuse to be subjected to this time-wasting endeavor.

I suspect many GenXers feel the same . . .
A Pragmatic Guide to PhD Programs
I got my humanitarian ribbon by rendering assistance in Indonesia.
And 3 is almost always conspiracy bs. They are "shadowbanned" but their tweets somehow get high engagement. It bs political complaints.
I'm not in the valley, but every office I've worked in has had these. It was mostly a way to just keep the work environment from looking too stagnant. If these boards had information on them that were useful, they would usually be filled up with more than just some graphs and things and would be accessed by whoever needed to monitor the platform from their own devices. That said, it was fun to make these visuals with things like Geckoboard
I’m confused. Most of the tweets in the article have a response from Google directing the user how to report these as abuse spam from within google drive and docs. https://support.google.com/docs/answer/2463296?hl=en (After removing everyone’s link shortner. Granted I couldn’t find the time in the iOS client and am not at my desktop to check there.

Edit: ignore me I see the issue is there is no way to block the notifications on mobile and since these don’t show up on desktop they can’t be responded to in any reasonable way there either.
Click bait. The first phrase could be left out of the title

It could have happened on his own scooter or bicycle too.