skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, this current crop of vehicles is still on the high even of what a middle-class family might spend on a car, calling the for the rich is an exaggeration. If you only look at Teslas and Porches you are not seeing the complete picture. You’ve also got Hyundais, Kira, Fords, and Chevys at lower prices. The next round of vehicles promise to be less expensive. New cars have always been hard to afford for the lowest incomes but as sales volumes increase, that means a large supply of used cars start to become available.
14" M2 MacBook Air listing on B&H
I’m not sure if AGI alignment will work. If it does not, and we have evidence in advance that it won’t work, I will just stop caring.

Death isn’t so bad.
“Let her speak please” (2017)
> Which can be solved by finding a competitor with less abusive practices

For those with infinite time or for whom this is a single issue, yes. For the rest of us, disabling notifications isn’t too hard.
We'll know when the dolphins leave (who are second only to mice). "So long, and thanks for all the fish."
He has accomplished more than many people thought possible, so I’ll continue to believe he will deliver some, but certainly not all, of the things you mentioned. Being ambitious and risky doesn’t make it a “grift”.

And “government subsidy” is a complete red herring. Inventing and building things takes money, I don’t care if that comes from the government or private investors. I’d say he has plenty to show for the investment the government made in his companies.
There's some tools that do this but for code. https://opensourcelibs.com/lib/rgleichman-glance

I want this for python too xD
But lucid dreamers can often control the nightmares. I can anyway; if I don’t like the dream, I just change it a bit. I enjoy nightmares usually though, but probably because I know I can change them or wake up at will.
This is a great idea honestly, and definitely possible on android without root, causal search gives me a app that already tries to do this [1]. Though giving notification permission to a closed source app that may send notifications to a remote server for "AI magic" seems bad. If anyone knows of a good open source implementation, be my guest.

There is also this thing on Android Issue tracker [2]

1. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.notificati...

2. https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/226161368?pli=1
Alcoholism is probably a better metaphor....an alcoholics penchant for work
Wow, this takes me back to 8th grade science fair in probably 1982 or 1983. I was casting about for a science project, and came across an article in Creative Computing magazine about this model, and the Limits of Growth and the Club of Rome, and I was like, "yeah, I'll make a population simulation on my Ti/994a in Extended BASIC and that'll be my science project." And so I did. I remember my model predicted population to fluctuate in a kind of sine wave pattern with some major crash in the early 2000's. I remember explaining the concept of GIGO (garbage in, garbage out) to the judges, and suspecting that my program was suffering a bit from GIGO. And I won in my category and went on to the state level science fair in Jackson, Mississippi, where I did win some scholarship from the Army (well, I'm not built for the army) but got beat out (justifiably) by this kid who had built a TRS-80 controlled robot. I remember being very impressed by his robot, of course, but maybe even moreso by the fact that all the silver finish was worn off his keyboard from where he'd been typing so much. It was also on that trip, during a visit to the university that I saw WordStar for the first time, and I was impressed by the automatic line breaking moving words to the next line, and I also saw some implementation of Lunar Lander on a vector graphics display for the first time.
The irony of it all is that his depression was probably the reason he was addicted in the first place.

I truly enjoyed his presentation style. Too sad...
It is difficult to separate the culture from the consequences of the culture. In the US there is minimal social stigma for trying something ambitious and failing, the culture respects the ambition and courage to try even if it doesn't work out or the idea was slightly idiotic. In many parts of the world, trying something and failing is held against you and becomes a social black mark; Americans just shrug and move on to the next thing. Investors in the US reflect that culture.

A lot of American cultural difference relative to the rest of the world can be explained almost entirely by the unusual absence of Tall Poppy Syndrome[0] that is a hallmark of most other industrialized societies. American culture respects those taking large risks for concomitant rewards, and doesn't begrudge the rewards that might accrue to someone taking those risks. It is easy to have a high risk appetite when it increases one's social status.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome
I've used it to preserve the undercarriage of my Toyota Tacoma which is notorious for frame rot. Well I didn't use strict cosmoline, instead it's CRC marine heavy duty, but it's effectively just cosmoline in a spray can.
Remember that back in the day your computer was not online 24/7/365. Away messages were really useful, because without them someone would have to literally sit at their chat window when you were online and wait for you to respond. If you were offline, there was no away message, and no way to send you a message at all.

I was one of a handful of people who wrote AIM bots for things like store-and-forward messaging. You tell the bot who you want to talk to and your message, and when they came back online the bot would send them your message. This completed the functionality we all needed: just make sure my message gets to the person eventually.

I don't think we want to bring back that experience. Facebook and WhatsApp and other messengers already give the ability to send a message when someone is offline, as well as letting you have a live interaction when online. All someone needs to do is set themselves as 'offline' and they can still get messages without having to respond. I think this is the right balance. The away message only makes sense if you want to be online and simultaneously tell people you aren't responding. Well, if you're not responding, why not just set yourself as offline?

However, I do like the idea of the away message as a polite OOO message. "Hello, I'm in the Adirondacks this weekend, I won't be back in contact until Monday." In this way you can politely tell friends why you're not responding and when they can try again.
> My lower-bound model of "how a sufficiently powerful intelligence would kill everyone, if it didn't want to not do that" is that it gets access to the Internet, emails some DNA sequences to any of the many many online firms that will take a DNA sequence in the email and ship you back proteins, and bribes/persuades some human who has no idea they're dealing with an AGI to mix proteins in a beaker, which then form a first-stage nanofactory which can build the actual nanomachinery.

Initially I thought that there were some easily disprovable missing steps between "useful idiot swirls a beaker" and "grey goo takes over the world", because there isn't enough free energy in human environments for nanomachines to replicate; but, as someone argued back in 2016:

"It’s not the nanotechnology engineers you should fear. It’s the synthetic biologists!"[0]

What would Covid look like if an AGI programmed it to spread without symptoms, and also made it CRISPR you to biologically respond in different ways to certain patterns of flashing lights that could be sent as a GIF in an email or chat message?

[0] https://storiesandnarratives.tumblr.com/post/139335370815/th...
Check out MidJourney, which is in closed beta but expanding rapidly. I think it uses a different approach (different models), but also stunning results.
For those interested, here is the last discussion about Dashy from when it previously appeared here on 05/08/22.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31284522
> Sometimes I dream of things so realistic that months later I believe it really happened. Like someone told me about some software and where to get it; turns out this software does not exist, I dreamt it.

Yes, that’s the exact problem I’m talking about. It’s not good. It feels like it’s bordering on delusion. I’ve met other people like this in RL. I know one woman who believes in things that only happened in her dreams. I don’t think that’s all that healthy. And of course, you’ve got an entire Reddit community devoted to these things.
There is also an 13" M2 MacBook Pro with "New Item - Coming Soon" status.[0]

[0] https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1694665-REG/apple_mac...
Not yet. I'm getting there though. :P
The placebo effect in relation to LSD is interesting. Similar to the placebo effect, your expectation alters the effect of LSD. So I don't think it having placebo effects necessarily negates the validity of micro-dosing. LSD doesn't work in the same way as other drugs.

Though even if it's snake oil, its pretty cheap snake oil. The cost ends up being around $1 every 3 days which is pretty reasonable.
As a UK customer, I use Monzo bank and have pretty consistently had good experiences. They are a new bank. Recieving international money transfers was the only bit that they didn't support.
Even regulated state lotteries do shady shit and are sued due to lying about odds and remaining prizes, and having seen first hand the way those and arcade games work.

I played some when they first dropped and the android playstore options were limited. You could see the bullshit weights first-hand if you had enough free pulls. Again, this, along with streamers doing massive pulls, and community-gathered spreadhseets are where I get my information, not from the game page that says '1 in 100 chance of legendary pull!' because, again, it's always been bullshit.
> We have every advantage.

Could you please enumerate those? I am not aware of them.
I've seen several of my clients mandate a return to office policy.

And every single time it starts, even with vaccination plus antigen test policies in place and enforced, a wave of infections sweeps through taking out team members for the week at least. This shakes up even some of the managers who themselves opt out and informally let it be known to their teams it is okay to WFH so the team can have a shot at hitting deadlines.

And that is an angle I don't see covered much in these discussions. Pre-pandemic teams were already running fairly lean, but the environment now is more extreme with many open positions going unfilled for months and years at a time. Regardless of the reasons why they go unfilled, the ground truth is one bad flu or COVID will disrupt many a finely-tuned project plan now, whereas a decade ago there was enough people with enough willingness to temporarily pull more hours above and beyond their normal hours compensated with comp time that someone(s) could cover enough to soften the blow to the project.

Now "above and beyond" is normal in many of my clients. You can tell by how many managers and people are still chatting online after hours and even weekends. There are no more hours to sneak from somewhere, and people are pushing back on the chronic use of these hours, setting boundaries because sneaking these hours is not worth comp time when it becomes a regular feature of everyday work, and with more employees increasingly becoming aware of the poor odds of winning enough with equity to make up for those hours.

We've JIT optimized our workforce alongside our supply chains. Why is it surprising it is brittle to exogenous shocks?
They can also go too far in the other direction...

Cow-orker in other department always leaves their ${company internal IM client} status as "Away" because they are 'tired of those marketing ppl always bugging them'. This, of course, misleads everyone else in the company, not knowing if they are even working that day.

Sometimes they change it to "Away - Here, but working" which I guess deters only the ppl that look at the colored dot, not the text. This is exactly what the DND (different color) is for, but they cannot seem to comprehend that either, even after an explanation.

Like many things...it is a powerful tool that produces catastrophic results when wielded by those who do not understand how it works.
Or we could be treated to gems like this for decades to come.
I've heard that a large part of the game industry still uses Perforce because Git still doesn't work with binary files that well. (The game industry doesn't really have much of an open dev community compared to other places, so that kinda explains why they don't feel the urge to switch to Git.) PlasticSCM has risen in recent years as a direct competitor, but Unity has bought the company and I'm not clear what the future for it would be.

If Fossil had good support for binary files I would have considered switching from Git (since Git LFS is just yuck), but from what I've heard it doesn't look too good.
Marketing Sometimes Means Cheating
Once we have the vehicles and infrastructure to support the other 95% of the population, maybe things will be good enough that you might find an EV or similar for your needs.
I will be open and honest in saying that I make a higher salary here in the USA, I enjoy owning firearms, and I have the unique luxury of having an acre of land of trees and grass but still am only 10 minutes from a whole foods. It's a very unique type of life and I feel very grateful. These things are important to me, and maybe some of that is possible in Denmark too.

However, Denmark was a very fun country to party in before I was married and so on :)
> Good enough is good enough.

I’ve only been in my first role for about two months and this one hit the hardest for me personally.

I imagine it has a direct correlation with impostor syndrome, but I spend a lot of time writing things over and over again because in the back of my mind I’m thinking “is this the correct approach? Will they think I’m failing if it’s not how they’d do it?”

I consider myself lucky that I’m in a position with a great team that’s very helpful but I struggle to balance the line of when to ask questions - which often stems from not trusting myself to be to their standard.
What is a programmable programming language? (2019)
Or continue to build out infrastructure
> I didn’t hate catching up with people over AIM nearly as much as I do over text.

You had a keyboard for that, too. Nothing is quite so annoying as trying to have a conversation with someone when one party is on a keyboard and the other is on a phone.

I'm just... "not online" a lot of the time now. Stuff will get to me when it gets to me, and if I've gone a couple days without being really on the various messengers, that's fine. Expectation is that if you need something critical, call, otherwise I'll get back to you eventually.
It's like bold, if overused, it's visual noise. It distracts from the message and clutters the view.

It's the new age of the blink tag and marquee text ;)
My general rule about communicating that I tell people about is that if you want/need a response call me, otherwise I have no guarantee I'll remember to reply or text you back.
Well, I’d be surprised if didn’t use those.
Pumps might only be able to suck water up 26 inches, but there is no such limit on how high they can push water.
In my opinion, it wil be both semantic code versioning and better support for versioning binary files.

It turns out, both kind of need the same things, and if you do it right, you get better merging with text than Git currently does.

Source: I'm working on the next big VCS. It's not Pijul, though.
Tangent: seeing the title and the Honda url, I was certain this was going to be related to the engine air pump model[1]. Since engines are limited by the amount of air they can push through, you then think of the engine as an air pump (and try to optimize around that). Although this model is fairly commonly used in the automotive industry, details online are surpassingly sparse. Taylor[2] has a bunch of details on it.

[1] https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/news/a29588/how-int...

[2] https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/4840/Internal-Combustion-E...
lol i remember when jira and confluence.. 10 users $10, 11 users? 50k and sign a contract?
Yeah, that sounds a bit over the top. I don’t take it that far and by far most dreams I have are extremely over the top or turn weird (either because of me changing things or just because they do) that they are definitely clearly dreams.
People have been discovering solace in work for a long time now; it can’t be just a Silicon Valley thing. Specifically I am thinking of some of the examples found in Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s works.
Macro Photography with a $20 Microscope Lens
Is there a VCS that doesn't have a steep learning curve? I've used subversion, mercurial, darcs, and bazaar to varying degrees. None were particularly easy to learn.
Good point: Approach it like poetry. I'll try the Audible version.
Patch-based like svn?
Looks like there are several examples that don't have anything to do with the Middle East in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_combat
But there's nothing early abt crypto. My mom in Normandy sends me carbon copies of bitcoin article in the local newspaper (God knows why, all I told them was to never ever listen to anyone telling them to put their retirement in crypto lol).

It's everywhere, everyone can get some, work in a crypto place, accept crypto in their store, convert their entire salary.

What is so wrong about it that we call this 14 year old dinosaur tech "early". We've seen it, we don't want it, time to try someth else.
A couple of my favourites are;

* Introductory Logic and Sets for Computer Scientists.

* Formal Specification: Techniques and Applications.

both by Nimal Nissanke.

The writing is Precise, Succinct, Clear with lots of examples. A wide variety of topics are explained without overwhelming the reader and all within a decent-sized book.
>there is a way to stave off dying <snip> -- our number one problem for the entirety of our existence

Is it though? Who wants to live forever? Even Lestat got bored.
Cobble_stone (the texture of your childhood)
The First True Smart Contact Lens – Mojo Vision
> The people who actually benefited were those who earned the 18% interest from Anchor

These people would have been better served if the whole scheme continued rather than killing it by a run.
I have a little self-written version I use as an assignment for Scala students at UNE (Aus).

At the moment, using classic actors but it'll probably shift to typed actors next time around.

https://github.com/UNEcosc250/2018assignment3

I also put in a bit about "tankfighting with insults" a la Monkey Island, to try to give a little exercise in streams.

(Relatively safe to link because I'll be updating it next year anyway)

Some years ago, a colleague and I ran a software studio course at UQ where we used the original Robocode codebase as the starter project, and had teams adding action-replay, Call of Duty style killstreak rewards and all sorts of other odd features.

(Though the pain of the original Robocode Java codebase was there was a 1,000 line long class that was so central to everthing that by the time students were done with it, it was a 3,000 line class. Our hopes of "prime target for students to refactor" were thwarted by "turns out, students don't do that".)
I'm very social in person, it's just the "cold email" part of it that is off putting for me. There's no observable social norm around this from my perspective. You can be a wallfly at an event and pick up norms, but you can't do that will chat/email. Maybe it's a generational gap thing, but the only times I get that type of interaction is from vendors who want something, group emails, or it's from someone I already know quite well.
Stokes' Theorem on Manifolds (Calculus in n dimensions)
And no way to report to apple.. it’s against policy/guidelines
Fundamentals of fluid mechanics by Munson et al is also good.
Small piece of wisdom I received when I was an intern:

"Never get sentimental with your code"
Zipf’s law is also super useful for web caching
Good choice. That book is one of the best examples of "Technical Writing" and responsible for educating a whole generation of Programmers.

In fact i would go so far as to say it was directly responsible for the success of Microsoft Windows.
I didn’t realize video orientation has anything to do with quality.

The reason vertical video is popular is because the young people who produce and consume it mostly use small-screen devices optimized for vertical layouts.
You know, this could be 100% more space-efficient that the current implementation.
I think you're forgetting that our field of vision hadn't changed.

We use landscape because our field of vision is more wide than it is tall.
I’ve used SourceTree maybe a month or so ago, and it was completely offline for a repo that’s not pushed to or connected with Bitbucket or Atlassian. Maybe initially there was a dialog box to create an account with or sign up for Bitbucket, but that was easily dismissed.
I have similar dreams sometimes, but in the first person. I meet people in my dreams and have interesting, complex conversations (at least they feel that way in the dream). I usually have lucid dreams too-- or it could be that these are the ones I usually remember. Oddly, I will sometimes know when I am about to wake up and I'll say goodbye to the folks I've met.
Put the pump at the bottom and push the water up, don't suck it up from the top. Same way with deep wells.
Do you have an example URL that got removed from the wayback machine? I could email them and ask why. I know people sometimes they get DMCA requests which cause them to remove pages, and I think if the robots.txt tells them to remove the whole site, they'll remove all pages from the whole site. I think it's a bit strange to say that a page on the wayback machine being removed leads to drugs being forced down your neck.
How the MVPs of the billion dollar businesses got their first 1k customers?
Comparison of free clouds https://paul.totterman.name/posts/free-clouds/
B&H has confirmed that these were listings created in anticipation of possible announcements from the last event, and they never got deleted.

They don’t know anything about tomorrow and this is not evidence of what may be announced.
They were making a joke; sardonic humour!
Did I say I want the browser to let me click through it?

However, in general I think the browser preventing the user from doing something the user wants is a bit offputting. The browser is a "user agent". It should act on behalf of the user. If the user wants it to do something, it should do that. This case is tricky, because sometimes what the user really wants is not what the user is asking the user agent to do. It's an xy problem. I think Chrome's current behavior strikes a nice balance.
I'm sorry, but this isn't true.
SaaS Startup Growth Is Slowing Down
Many cheap older apartment in Japan has poor 30A/100V power contract. Even the equipment is fine, 12A electric kettle may cause circuit braker down if they use other electronics.
I think Atlassian lifted those restrictions for Sourcetree at some point. I remember having to sign up for Bitbucket, etc., at one point, but my last few installs (on different companies' work computers) haven't put up any such roadblocks lately.
It's not only a good point, it's the correct point.
> I was shocked by the diff quality of fossil.

Could you elaborate, since you used the word “shocked”? Was it terrible or just bad? Doesn’t Fossil have any hooks to use another diff tool?
Oddly that doesn’t always happen. The pattern of foreign male invaders marrying local women is common, like the Vikings and Normans arriving in the UK, but Scottish people identify as Scottish and not “actually French and Scandinavian”. And even genetics websites arbitrarily decide to cluster them that way.

(23AndMe and several other sites give me 100% British despite my YDNA and mtDNA both being ~2% among typical British people.)