skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> means I don't have to go to a regular dialysis appointment

I'm going to copy a comment I made regarding Type 1 Diabetes on another post about a year ago. It's relevant because what you're saying, though very true, comes down to immediate effort versus delayed impact. I think people who fail to control their diabetes largely do so for the same reason people fail to control their diets...

> I am going to make a weird, but IMHO apt, comparison to Type 1 Diabetes. T1D is an attritional disease caused by the pancreas's inability to produce enough/any insulin and the list of complications is long and deadly. As someone who has lived with the disease for decades what makes the disease particularly insidious is immediate effort versus delayed impact. The disease affects everything...every single part of every single day. Eating, sleeping, exercising, traveling, finances...everything. And to be on top of everything is extremely effortful. However the impact of not taking enough insulin, of not checking blood sugars frequently enough, or living with high blood sugars, is delayed. Today's transgressions may not be punished for decades. It is no shock to read about poor therapy adherence when the effort is immediate (and constant) and the effect is delayed (and therefore hypothetical). I see the same issue - immediate and constant effort coupled with long term hypothetical effect - with protecting one's privacy. Obviously one should do the right thing. But many won't.
Of course, but we aren't talking about everything, just sociopathic mega corps.
yes, i do love their forms.
It supports bootstrap and is way too simple to just get things done.
Even a motor without a fancy control system will consume more power under load. See:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-electromotive_force
In design, they paid a lot of attention to making common actions available with your free thumb so you could navigate most apps with one hand. App-switching, context menus, device operations were all swipe operations.

Having a hardware keyboard made it a bit chunky but didn't feel bad in your pocket because it was so smooth. Also the hardware keyboard provided a true tactile feel so you could even type out some messages without looking at your screen nearly as much as you need to with on-screen keyboards.
The second one is how everyone does it, by the way. AI may as well be a cherry orchard. There’s nothing wrong with it.

The first one, I’d have a huge problem with. Lying about prompts is a no no. Thankfully there’s not much incentive to lie.
If you can't get me there, I have an email alias: curator@<the website posted in this story>
More eye candy here: https://np.reddit.com/r/dalle2/top/?sort=top&t=year

Very good one: https://np.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/u5kkty/a_fluffy_baby...

“a masterful impressionist portrait painting of a little doggey who is worried he may not be a good boy”: https://nitter.net/MarkRich388/status/1532482006809866240
I actually use Spotlight a lot for my simple calculator needs
It does indeed seem to use media queries, because it looks like that whenever the browser is set to a dark theme. I'm not usually bothered by what some consider to be low contrast, but this is barely legible, especially the header.
I have Garmin bike lights which also contain updatable firmware and communicate using ANT+.
> Am I supposed to bike 30 miles for a gallon of milk? How do I bring it back?

Live closer? How do people in Germany get a gallon of milk? Or Japan?

How is it that every country in the world is able to do this except us?

Ultimately physics will win here and we're going to run out of cheap gasoline and fossil fuels and you're going to wish you could walk a couple blocks to a neighborhood grocery store. Milk is going to be $7/gallon and gas is going to be $7/gallon and you're going to effectively pay $15 or more to drive to the store 30 miles away and buy that gallon of milk. The whole reason you're were previously able to live 30 miles away from a place to buy milk is because we've had cheap, subsidized fossil fuels. This is going away. There's no amount of oil we can drill for that will change this reality over the long term. No political party can "fix" this. Republicans can't open enough pipelines. It doesn't matter anyway. If you choose to live 30 miles away from the nearest house or grocery store, you also will incur the associated costs of doing that. Townships and other entities aren't going to be able to afford to repair roads. They don't have the money unless they raise taxes by a lot. Better get ready for that too.

Public transit isn't feasible in many places, nor are bikes. Why is that? It's because we've decided to make sure that this is the case and we've spread out towns and cities, and used zoning to make sure that there are no stores within walking distance of the suburbs just so we can keep wasting money building new roads and buying new cars. It's a hidden tax going straight to shareholders of construction companies, automobile manufacturers, and government officials who green light all highway and road projects with your tax money even when we could just change a few things and reap huge savings. It's mind-blowing every time I see these comments. "How am I supposed to do this? See it doesn't work? Well yea because you've decided to make it not work and then tried it and you're like "oh the thing I made not work doesn't work! See??".

Nobody is interested in "taking your car" and nobody is interested in forcing you to live in a place that looks like Hong Kong. What many people are interested in though is building in sensible ways that include cheaper and more effective transit options, like walking, biking, light rail, and possibly busses. 90% of your day-to-day needs should be within a distance that you don't need a car for. Everything else is incorrect and just won't work in the long-term for most people.
There are browser extensions to do this for you. Specifically ‘Redirector’ for FF.
Maybe you have got downvotes because you mean some proprietary software, not a computer per se. BTW personably I consider your comment reasonable even in that wording. Computer adds to that mechanical device nothing except of annoying.
Thank you for the link to this paper - it's amazing to see how much care and thought can go into analyzing FP computation, and good to be reminded of how much I still have to learn.
I'm already reading your Classic tips. I loved the PalmOS and have a lot of old school devices. Wish we could do something about the 7-day timer, but at least it will run on webOS 2!

I should finish that Gopher client I was writing ...
You can bet your life savings that OpenAI could generate some really interesting Kermit porn.
Didn't say you had to be awake. Could sleep under your desk, then WFH.
> and the evidence for this is that lots of minor variations of this kind of mechanic exist and mostly it's been in games that do pretty well.

The loop version of the time mechanic, where you're intended to loop back around and not expected to win the game in a certain amount of time, is much more forgiving than a strict timer mechanic. I guess I don't see the existence of looping games as an indication that younger gamers have an appetite for difficult or obtuse mechanics that used to be more common.

Further, all of those games except Deathloop are not particularly mainstream. Yes, they may have sold a million copies, but it's important to keep in mind that the size of the prize is much greater than it was thirty years ago. There are 160M total gamers in the US alone right now; whereas when I was a kid in the 80s basically no adults played video games, and not every kid did, either. It's not surprising to me that a million people enjoyed a weird mechanic when the number of gamers in the world might number in the billions.

> You don't think Monkey Island could be made today and sell 100,000 copies in the US?

You're selling 100,000 copies short -- that's a fairly large number that many indies would be more than happy with. Regardless, I'm not sure Monkey Island could sell as well, if it were a new property and not backed by an established company. Can you give me examples of point-and-clicks released recently that sold so well? And I mean true point-and-clicks -- Lucas Arts or Sierra style inventory puzzle games. Double Fine released one in 2014 (Broken Age), which I think barely broke even sales-wise. That's the closest I can think of off the top of my head. All the others I've played in the past few years haven't been mainstream games.

> PnCs are alive and well.

I never said they weren't. They're just not mainstream in any way. Most younger people aren't going to be playing them. My nieces and nephews wouldn't know what to do with one, frankly.

> In Hollow Knight, the use of a fan wiki is less about notes in the adventure game sense and more about optimizing builds, reading about lore, checking quest solutions, and looking up boss strategies.

I'm not sure how important this is. It doesn't necessarily comport with my experience with Hollow Knight in particular, but regardless, the fact that people are willing to look things up doesn't seem to say anything important about how likely younger people are to engage with difficult or unforgiving mechanics. When things are difficult people might have to look something up, sure, but that doesn't mean they want to have to look things up. When I did look something up for Hollow Knight it was because I was stuck; I would've hated having to alt-tab out to a fan wiki every ninety seconds to look up tips and tricks and walkthroughs.
This looks great! Thank you for all the thought and effort you have put into it.

I am currently working on a project where I need to use RLlib for a capacity planning problem. Looks like I will learn a thing or two over the weekend.

I will eventually need to use a custom environment, so it's great to see it's included in your roadmap. Most courses I have seen totally ignored that. Fancy Atari envs are great for practice and have wow factor, but you need a custom environment to do anything resembling real work.

Would I need a beefy GPU for the coding challenges?
I think you should check out Nette,
if you cherish and love codeigniter, Nette is even way too simpler and gets things done.

https://nette.org/en/
Just curious, how much money they can save firing 10% employee? so they can survive almost 10% more days, right? It seems to me it is not that much effective.
There is usually at least one person behind a decision at a corp that fully understands what is being done. Humans aren't ants.
The price changes here are worrying - I just started planning on how I'd like to switch our frontend applications to be hosted on Netlify and now the pricing is changing from under me.

I can understand charging for developers who trigger deploys; but the whole "teams with more than 7 members must upgrade to enterprise" seems ludicrous. When did 7 people become an enterprise? The last thing I want is to get a 10x bill because an intern triggered a build in my 8 man "enterprise".
I don't mind and I think when people post about it, even if the blogs are like reading someone's dream journal (boring, aspirational, confusing, etc) in aggregate I think the posts produce kind of useful metrics about what's going on in the heads of people quitting the media.

For some perspective, the type of person that is going to make a blog post about quitting social media was likely "highly online" in social media spaces and probably doesn't even fully understand the ingrained models of personal disclosure (almost no one does well as the problem is so new) that they realized was unsustainable that lead to them now quitting so they cope by making a blog post. It's ironic and more than a little bit funny.

It's like when someone is new to Alcoholics Anonymous because of legal issues, losing a job, or a partner leaving and they get to step 4 "Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves." and write it all down and then they instantly hit steps 8, 9, 10.

8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

A drunk would give you a 2AM white knuckled call you don't care about for when they ripped you off 10 years ago, but the action of those steps is the same thing as the drug. I'm not an AA guy or anything but it's a relatable model. If anyone reading is struggling with substance or social media addiction check out SmartRecovery.org for rational group recovery.

So I guess my take on the phenomena of the "I'm leaving" post is that they are the rattles of a person trying to change but the well worn paths to change (steps 4, 8, 9, and 10) are basically the user's DoC (Drug of Choice).

Sure, the posts are self indulgent and suck, but what else do you expect from someone operating with a serious dopamine imbalance?

To answer your question though, it is definitely not "mundane as fuck" to them. One's too many, ten's not enough. Yes, it is the same thing and I gather that you don't likely suffer from it in this context. I think we can all agree that you can just not read their posts

Posts like this even if their content isn't profound or even that novel, that person is working to be a better person and tried to work out their feelings by putting pen to page and yelling into the void.

Your question here is what a lot of people are thinking though and it's a valid question. I'm not trying to cast shade on you at all. Without you asking this question I wouldn't have been able to think about this stuff. Dopamine management is important to a life lived consciously. How we get off differs in a rainbow for each person. Hopefully our discussion here helps someone out in the future. It's basically impossible that it has zero effect.

Cheers.
Sorry if I misunderstood the question, sounds like you are asking if there are some common tools that do auth outside of the application before passing traffic back.

Google IAP is a big one, and Cloudflare Access can let you do similar things (link an internal service to Cloudflare network and Cloudflare will deny someone ability to talk to that service until they've validated their identity to cloudflare and it matches your rules somehow.
For me personally when large quasimonopolies are involved I give it a 50-50 prior over the incompetence-malice distribution.
IF mostly works because of “calories in calories out”. It’s very tough to eat three worth meals of calories in one.
My friend just accepted an offer there. He said they were the highest in pay among several other places he had offers from.
How cool to be able to comment out a competitor ;)
I'd love to dig out my Pixi to give this a try
Luxury. We used less senior employees as desks.
Writing this kind of async code in Haskell (and to some extent OCaml) is much nicer, because you can abstract over the asyncness of code. This can't be done in Rust or C# because the type system isn't powerful enough (no higher-kinded types). To be fair, adding HKTs to Rust's existing type system is a challenging theoretical problem in itself.
If the firing is discriminatory, then yes obviously discrimination law applies; I mean, that's kind of obvious isn't it? Everyone knows that "at-will" doesn't mean "you can be fired for illegal reasons".

A well-executed termination of at-will employees because of a change to the business environment is basically never going to fit into any of the exception categories to at-will, again assuming a competent HR department. Pretending otherwise doesn't help anyone.
Erm, this isn't quite correct:

1) MERV14 will capture 75%-84% of particles in the 0.3-1μ range.

2) A filter which captures 70% of particles with an air flow of 100cfm will capture the same amount of virus as a filter which captures 100% of particles with an air flow of 70cfm. Both will clean the room just as fast. For air filters, lower filtration + higher airflow is usually a better design option. Going from 70% to 95% to 99.9% means you'll have a more expensive, power-hungry, and more noisy product over one which just has a little bit more air velocity [1].

3) The rating is for 0.3μ since that's the hardest size to capture. A filter will actually capture more particles below 0.3μ.

4) COVID19 virus particles are around 0.1-0.2μ, but that's beside the point. They're travelling on water molecules. Those are much bigger.

5) Even if there were a virus particle somehow floating around, a viral load of one virus is very unlikely to get you sick.

From an engineering standpoint, something around MERV14 is almost certainly the sweet spot for a COVID19 room air filter.

[1] High-filtrations makes sense in places like vacuums, face masks, and other places where the goal is to have clean air coming out. Vacuums shouldn't blow up dust. That's a different engineering design goal than a room air filter. If you'd like to see the impact of loading on a fan, put your hand behind one, and hear how much noise goes up. MERV14 has a much lower load than HEPA.
With a dash of expected plausible deniability that it was a bug - unless someone outright whistleblows otherwise.
I use a physical calculator for two reasons:

- actual (not simulated) haptic/tactile feedback

- I don't want to pull out my phone/laptop to do the non-trivial math

I also do mental math, making sure that what I'm calculating is in the right ballpark
yes, but it's still unclear that for data-poor physics problems (the joke in grad school is that you could graduate when you collected your second data point, since that was enough to draw a straight line, and we all know any interesting physical phenomenon is linear in the engineering regime, right?) that NNs really provide anything more than a bayesian prior that physics folks already knew how to incorporate.

High throughput sequeuncing didn't solve any problems for bioinformatics- in fact, the problem is that we have so much data we don't know how to process it to extract the actual value from the data.
Your intuition is correct - it’s bullshit.

—

In the summer of 2019, we purchased a Molekule Air (the flagship model) and tested it. We bought an Air Mini that fall and tested it in February 2020. At the time we tested the Molekule Air, the company claimed that its “scientifically-proven nanotechnology outperforms HEPA filters in every category of pollutant.”

Our tests proved otherwise. And by mid-2020, that language had been withdrawn, after many of the company’s claims were ruled against in a case before the National Advertising Division and upheld in a later appeal before the National Advertising Review Board. The Molekule Air turned in the worst performance on particulates of any purifier, of any size, of any price, that we have tested in the eight years that we have been producing this guide. The Air Mini outperformed it, but that’s not saying much: It still produced the second-worst performance we’ve ever seen.

Guide author Tim Heffernan asked Molekule CEO Dilip Goswami why the language was removed. He answered, “The point about ‘in all categories’ is that we see a device that outperforms across all of the categories. Right? So we’re not trying to say that individually, on any particular metric, we would be number one. Right? What we’re saying is, when you look across all the categories, we outperform HEPA. Right? And that’s what we’re attempting to convey with that. And so—it’s fair to say that we needed to re-examine some of the language to make sure that it’s saying what we’re intending to say.”

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-air-purifier...
Just for reference, I've had a Honda Fit for 13 years, and the only maintainance I've had done over what you no doubt had to do on your TM3 (tires, wiper blades) has been oil changes. The car has 164k miles on it.

I'm not saying the EV's are not theoretically more durable and (much) less maintainance-intensive. I am saying that the best of the best ICE vehicles are not as different as your observation about your own TM3 tries to suggest.
> (...) but all else being equal, exposed steel is better (...)

No, it's way worse. The outermost concrete layer serves multiple purposes, including corrosion protection and fire resistance.

Exposed rebar can and will start corroding immediately if not covered or treated, and in turn it loses grip and resistance.
I feel like electronic shifting can be made cheap enough that I expect it to show up on 200$ Chinese groupsets soon
Nice work! Maybe I missed this, but have you considered simulating a dial tone?
Yeah, I think Hanlon's Razor was intended to apply to individuals, not organizations. Often the "stupidity" of an organization is a shield for malice or greed.
https://render.com/docs/static-sites
We’ve built so much sprawl that it’s difficult to make an efficient transport system that makes the types of trips that people now want to make.

Everyone chooses where to put homes and workplaces with transportation in mind.

In the UK people who commute by rail commute an average of 235 miles per year. [0]

I’ve had commutes of 150 miles per day. (Or 30,000+ miles per year) although that’s on the high end of what Americans might do.

The typical commute for people in my last office job was 30-50 miles per day. About 10,000 miles per year. About 1-2% of the people in our office lived in the same town as the office. This is in a top-50 metropolitan area of the US.

[0]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/466097/average-distance-...
"The desperate attempts of Uber and other app-based labor platforms like it to realize profitability have real consequences: experiments over the years have...unleashed racist algorithms that discriminate against drivers and riders"

While I am no fan of either SoftBank or Uber, this one is a little unfair. The proper standard of comparison for Uber (in this context) is not how much racial bias it has compared to an ideal situation, but how much racial bias it has compared to the taxicab companies it displaced. I am told, by black male coworkers, that the pre-Uber situation was quite a bit worse, and that the presence of Uber (and Lyft) has substantially improved the situation.

Again, not defending Uber (or its business model) generally, just saying this particular accusation is lacking some extremely pertinent context.
They feel obligated to suffer?

Regarding the empathy jab, nice try, but I went through all of this myself when my father died. His affairs were relatively simple and still took almost a full year to resolve. I took a week off from work to drive way up north and go through all of his property and belongings followed by a weekend-long estate sale. It was one of the most physically and emotionally draining things I have ever done.

What I am pointing out is that it doesn't _have_ to be that way, especially if the deceased has lots of belongings. You can go in and keep the things that have sentimental or monetary value and then let the estate liquidation company take care of the rest and keep your sanity. And it just seems like everyone in the thread forgot about this option.
Oh man. Now I want to apply for access just for that. Thanks for the idea.