skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are in the early stages of a societal upheaval and I for one am not sure how it will play out.

Firstly, it's clear that we've had a massive "short term" upheaval in which we got to clearly find out who could work from home, and who could not. Or perhaps more accurately who can work _at_ home (white collar) and who can work _from_ home (sales etc).

We've learned that those who have space at home did better than those who were already cramped. We've learned that the number (and age!) of others in the house matter. It turns out not all homes, or offices, are created equal. Having small kids around can make life a lot harder.

We've discovered that commuting time and money is a thing - I might live 5 minutes from work, you might easily spend 2 hours a day on transport - clearly we have different experiences with regard to WFH changes.

Some offices are open plan, some have cubicals, some have actual offices with doors and individual climate control.

We've started to learn that once you work at home, home can be anywhere. Time zone, and language, are the only hindrances to you living anywhere, or indeed your job going some where cheaper (without you.)

What's my point? Well I guess that we are right at the beginning. Architecture of both offices, and homes, will adapt. Zoning will hopefully adapt. We'll start acknowledging that school is as much about day care as education. White collar jobs will (I suspect) end up paying less. Perhaps even a culling of "bullshit jobs".

The secondary impact on density, and thus secondary jobs that rely on that density, will be significant. And perhaps in some ways less predictable. New businesses will form - new ways to socialise will emerge - new work boundaries may emerge, or maybe boundaries will disappear.

However it shakes out these are interesting times - one thing is clear, the future doesn't look like 2019.

Remember these times, 30 years from now they'll be as foreign as the 80s, or 50s, are to us now.
Yes, every adaptive cruise control system explicitly ignores stationary objects when travelling at highway speeds (the radar filters out stationary things, as it cant tell the difference between a road sign and a stopped car)
https://apolloinrealtime.org

Lets you listen to the full audio of three Apollo missions. Not only the official mix, but also behind the scenes stuff, like flight dynamics officer, computer supervisor, etc.

Not only is it interesting to hear what engineers on a mission sounded like in that somewhat early NASA environment, but it's also a pleasant background track.
It's worth saying that, by far, most of the processor time goes towards the networking (serializing, compressing, sending, receiving).

Specifically with the game loop though, the interest management system takes the most time, with the movement system close behind. The interest management system uses a spatial partitioning grid (the "EntityLocator") to efficiently build lists of what entities are in range of each client entity. The movement system moves entities while enforcing a (currently very simple) collision check.

With 1000 clients connected, the interest management system averages around 600us per run, and the movement system around 450us (measured using Tracy). The server runs at 30 ticks per second, so the simulation loop has to fit within a 33ms deadline each tick.
It doesn't seem like an issue for me, if it did I'd explore alternatives.

I already do lots of pushups daily and have for decades, the handstand pushups are just something I enjoy in the morning. It's more how I finish my morning stretches than exercise.

The lots of pushups probably already has my wrists well prepared for the activity.
It also says, as you left out, that those early miners had the power to attack the network.
I have a car with lanekeeping and distance-keeping (Mercedes) and it is extremely nice for long distances on U.S. interstates. After many hours of driving, I feel much less fatigued, and more able to keep up "command" tasks like looking ahead and scanning mirrors, compared to no lane assist. I can't recall a single time when it made a dangerous move, either; it's been extremely good at following lane markings even in difficult conditions like driving into the sun, with patchy concrete. I've been really impressed.
And a new single will help me with getting rid of the ads how exactly?
> If it were this simple, one would think they would have done it already.

IME of NHS IT, simple technically is not necessarily simple politically. I'm more than open to the idea that I'm missing something, I definitely will be even some things aren't insurmountable, but until someone can tell me explicitly what that blocking issue is I'm reluctant to make that assumption.
Land Reform Movement
It's important to remember as an "outsider" that termination may be legal, even if it's unethical. Because law is not always strongly aligned to ethical. The OP makes it clear they expect to be in litigation which typically ends in a settlement for non disclosure. So we may never know exactly which "AI" product or research this is.

Whistle-blower defences are fantastically hard to invoke. I believe usually they just become part of the logic of settlement.

Much of this story rings true: the structural indifference to risk of an AI ethic issue, and the structural adherence to "you disclosed outside the company wall" policy, overarching an ethical concern.

This is because loss of IPR and first mover advantage is a real world loss, whereas suspected ethics concerns are at best, second order risks. It would depend on the regulator (FTC?, equal opportunity commission?) And their ranges of penalty and consequence compared to share value. Managers are often KPI rewarded for risk to achieve profit, rarely for avoidannce of risk in ethics. We'd need cross-industry shifts to move the dial on this, ethics in e.g. banking and fintech has plagued the industry and continues to plague the industry, Enron and Barings brothers and Bernie Madoff not withstanding. It would be naive to think Google or any other FAANG is somehow immune to this kind of lapse of (ethical) concern, and remember its an argued breach, not a proven one at this point.

Much sympathies to the OP, I'd hate to be in this position, alignment of personal values to company values is very hard sometimes. They may well be "better off" outside the farm, although I suspect less well renumerated.
It feels like different systems are better and worse at that. On my 2019 Honda Insight, it's actually pretty smooth and does a good job of staying in the center of the lane, but it won't turn the wheel too much -- if you're taking all but the gentlest curves, you're going to be turning the wheel. On my mom's 2018 Subaru Outback, it's exactly what you're describing -- it's fine in a straight line, but it doesn't really seem to judge the curve of the lanes as much as simulate a pinball. (I don't think I ever tried to let it take a turn on its own!)

I've only ridden in Teslas, not driven one, but it seems like it's probably got the best following/lane-keep system on the market, although the last time I rode in one -- admittedly about two years ago -- it was markedly jankier when the driver engaged more "self-driving" features, e.g., have it change lanes, take exits based on its own GPS guidance, etc. It was impressive that it could do it, to be sure, but it was the self-driving version of your reckless friend in high school you do your best never to ride with.
I am not sure about that. A computer draws pixels. I don’t want my TV drawing any pixels itself
But, what will you go to? Chrome is worse by any metric.
Check out Project Oberon: https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/ProjectOberon/index.html and "System design from provably correct constructs": https://archive.org/details/systemdesignfrom00mart

And "don't let the turkeys get you down". :)
I find it hard to believe that someone would mistake the comment as not sarcastic if they read the second paragraph.

So if people comment based only on the first paragraph, would they even get to the /s in the end ?
That's really cool looking, thanks for sharing.

I wonder, what do the previous 5-10 skill-building coding projects look like as one ramps up to writing a window manager?
He didn't simply ask for a country in the title, though, did he?

He has to put in his 2 cents about a whole class of people behaving oddly. Indeed, the whole post seems to be a setup to complain about Americans being America centric.
If the state is being cut back by large amounts, where is all the enormous increase in spending going?
> Downtown as a healthy fully occupied business district is dead. Cause of death: remote work. You can wait 50 years if you want and see if it comes back, but it never will; there’s no going back.

Remote work reduces demand for downtown office space, but where is evidence that it reduces it below supply?

Demand was very high - downtown office space was very expensive. Many businesses that would love to open up or move downtown previously couldn't. Now they can.

Cheap inputs like office space, in a great city with great transit, etc., with proximity to other businesses and services, is a perfect place for entrepreneurs and startups. This economic change could unexpectedly, at the height of SV costs, create a low-cost community of startups right in SF.

It's speculative, but so is the doom and gloom. The first who see the opportunity when everyone else is wailing and gnashing their teeth will be the ones to cash in. Maybe me!
It should be noted that y-cruncher, that closed-source program, is responsible for every pi computation record since 2010 (back then the record was 2.7T digits). Traditionally these records were held by supercomputers, but it seems that pi computation is no longer a good way to benchmark or stress-test them [1], leaving only interested individuals in the scene.

If pi computation were useful by its own, or there were a lot of people working towards records, we can expect multiple competitive pi computation programs where some of them are hopefully F/OSS. (The algorithm itself is not exactly secret anyway and big ideas are already in public, what makes y-cruncher special is its meticulous optimization.) But I don't see anything like that. There seem no actual demands for pi computation software, not just F/OSS.

[1] http://numberworld.org/y-cruncher/faq.html#why_desktops
> Whether I did or did not violate those policies is likely to eventually be the topic of litigation so I will not attempt to make a claim one way or the other here. Instead I will tell the story of what I did and why I did it.

Can someone please get OP a lawyer?

> I had three choices. I could either drop the AI Ethics concern which I was becoming more and more convinced was a valid one, I could ignore my manager’s guidance and escalate without his approval or I could seek a minimal amount of outside consultation to help guide me in my investigations. I chose the last of the three.

Welp.
About 90% of residential owner occupied mortgages are fixed rate. Investors are more likely to go with an arm
I agree with what you are saying, but I think it is futile to force all of these distribution platforms to disappear. You will never get everything you want on a single platform. Something will always be missing. The only way to get it all is to have access to all the operating systems.

Therefore, as a user, I just want good hardware that respects what all of these players are trying to do but makes my life as easy as possible. In my view, this is what hardware should do. Having a TV trying to stick it’s own ugly UI in front of all these other ugly UIs is just making the problem worse, not better. I would rather it not even have it’s own remote. It’s like everyone promises their remote will be the one you will use, but in reality you just added another remote to the living room. You didn’t solve it you just made it worse. The best TV right now actually subtracts, not adds.
Correcting underbalance (falling towards your chest, away from your hands) is indeed much harder. When starting balancing, most beginners will have the majority of their weight in the heel of the hands, since that feels most natural. However you want to shift your weight forward slightly to feel your weight in the middle of your hand, which gives you a little more margin to catch errors. Ideally you'll balance just with your fingers, but for underbalance I still make some small corrections with either my shoulders or my elbows, I'm still not good enough to catch it with just my hands.

Some other things that help beginners - starting with your hands on the ground when kicking up is easier than coming from standing, since you can remove a lot of variables. And also kicking up to a split handstand (i.e. keeping your kicking leg down) and finding balance there before gathering the legs helps a lot too. Your centre of mass will be lower and you'll have more levers to use to find balance. A straight handstand is actually the hardest of the basic variations to balance. This is a good video on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNyGK6z7iKo.

Keep at it! I think these articles claiming to get you to a handstand in 30 days are kind of disingenuous - it takes nearly everyone much longer than that to hold a static handstand for, say ~20 secs (i.e. requiring finding balance, holding it and then rebalancing).
My insurance company replaced a broken windshield on my Volvo, and per policy the glass company used some cheap third-party garbage. The adaptive cruise control and lane assist kept erroring out. After three separate attempts to calibrate it, eventually the dealership said that the third party glass was distorting the image that the cameras were capturing so much that it was impossible to calibrate correctly. We had to get the windshield replaced again using the OEM part, and the glass company is trying to force us to pay the deductible again.

Just a word of warning about how this can go.
Geizhals is an amazing website. If you send them corrections or suggestions they will always respond.

My only criticism of geizhals is that you can't see items that aren't for sale anyonger unless you search for their names directly. For example you can't use geizhals to get a list of 5k monitors models sold in the last years (most of them are no longer on sale).
Apparently Tesla are probably going back to adding a radar: https://www.notateslaapp.com/news/787/tesla-registers-new-hi...
Thanks. Sales isn't naturally my thing. I'm sure you're absolutely right though, I'll try him.

I'm trying Cancer Research UK too, though their policy team's email address on the website bounces as it's for whitelisted recipients and the generic email response to tell them about it says to expect them to get back in a week.
If handstand is hard for you another alternate i would suggest is "shoulder stand".. though may not be as beneficial as handstand but still quite good and quite simple
Man sections, a legacy from ye olden days when man pages were printed on paper and you'd use numbered sections for faster navigation (or splitting them into separate books if there are too many pages).

For example, `man 2 select` (or `man select.2`) gives you information about the `select` syscall, and `man 3 select` has information on the libc wrapper around that syscall.

A somewhat better example might be time: `time.1` has info on the command use to calculate running time of another command (in statements like `time make -j`, and `time.7` — low-level information on how to interact with kernel's time-related functionality. Since both are named `time`, if you just use `man time` without the number, you get the first one (and no way to get to the second).

Read `man man`, it has a lot more on this stuff.

The table below shows the section numbers of the manual followed by the types of pages they contain.

1 Executable programs or shell commands
2 System calls (functions provided by the kernel)
3 Library calls (functions within program libraries)
4 Special files (usually found in /dev)
5 File formats and conventions, e.g. /etc/passwd
6 Games
7 Miscellaneous (including macro packages and conventions), e.g. man(7), groff(7), man-pages(7)
8 System administration commands (usually only for root)
9 Kernel routines [Non standard]
No doubt my dude, but thats not the point. BSD in MacOS is not a 'compatibility layer'

When CMU made Mach, it was a BSD OS. When Next made NextStep on top of Mach, it was a BSD OS. When Apple made OSX with NextStep, it was still BSD.
It can't be both; crime cannot simultaneously be up and down.
Sure. But if the "second-generation MTA" is next to impossible to learn how to configure, it doesn't really matter how good it is technically - it's unuseable unless configuring mail servers is literally your job, or you're happy copy-pasting someone else's config. Perhaps, one day, the Postfix people will realise that, but they apparently don't now.

I ran into a configuration issue with exim in the last few months that prevented me from receiving some email from Amazon SES. The logged error told me at what logical step in the process it happened, and contained a user-configured error message on that specific step, which allowed me to quickly find and update it. That's something I never got from Postfix.

Postfix's configuration is a completely flat mapping on a fixed pipeline, where that pipeline is not properly exposed to the user, and the documentation is not well-ordered outside a handful of quick tutorials - postconf.5 lays out the options in alphabetical order, not according to what part of the pipeline the options affect.
But being upside down on your hands for a bit every morning is a fun life.
Ask HN: Which personal blogs or websites do you follow and read regularly?
I read Paul Graham's blog.

A few others are:

James Somers - https://jsomers.net/

Patrick Collison - https://patrickcollison.com/about

I like the last two especially because they maintain a bookshelf of all the read books and why they like or dislike them.
yet gaming PCs have largely remained unchanged.

I don't think this is really true, lots of smaller form factor devices are now used for gaming. Gaming laptops have been around for a decade+, gaming NUCs started popping up 4-5 years ago, the Steam Deck, a handheld gaming PC came out this year. The tower is still around but 'gaming PC' has diversified a great deal.
Love the old keyboard.
I used to work in San Francisco and after buying a house on Bainbridge Island, I now work in an office around the Westlake Center.

It really isn't that bad mate. After living around the world (central Europe, SE Asia), Los Angeles, the mid west, I can say that people who complain about smells and the homeless are incredibly sheltered. I find they tell on themselves when they complain about seeing homeless people when the crime rate is down across the board from the last 20 years.

If you are so offended by seeing someone in distress, who is probably more dead on the inside trying to survive in a world whose upward mobility is strongly diminishing, then perhaps you shouldn't be going into that community to begin with.
> accepted in US politics

Is your impression that this is US-specific? Mine is that lying is accepted in politics in general.
Sounds exactly like that viral Blind post I saw on Twitter. How many 600k jobs does Netflix have?
This is one of those situations where the details definitely matter, so I reserve judgement until that hinted at article comes out, which I assume will also then get a posting here on hacker news.
Thanks for clarifying. I’m hoping that coding in the cloud, GitHub codespaces, becomes a highly productive experience soon. It’s pretty close.
Your reasoning for local media to downplay crime is much weaker than your reasoning for national media to play it up.

>it's all about scolding people and identity politics to distract from meaningful policies like universal healthcare, elder/child-care, etc.

You've described national politics in the united states; it's not unique to SF liberals at all.
> real autopilot on an airplane is just keeping it in a straight line and constant speed - much less advanced than tesla's autopilot features

The fact you think this is exactly why Tesla’s naming choice is so dangerous.

Even antiquated general aviation autopilots can intercept headings and change elevation. This is capability that has existed for decades. GA planes are getting the capability to land now. Airliners have been able to land themselves for decades.
Hahah I got it on my first try. Now it’s fun because I feel like I’m in on a little secret. I’ll keep it a secret, too though ;)
TIL about the `.N` suffix. I've always done `man N page`!
I think the disagreement is over whether this type of auditing could have been done before signing the contract to acquire Twitter - and in general, my understanding is that yes, Musk (or any other buyer) could have asked for such an audit before agreeing to buy the company for billions of dollars; and that often, that does happen, even if it is not always publicly discussed.
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I have a friend what has a company with ~20 employees. During COVID they all went WFH. After 12 months or so they announced they'd stay WFH forever and closed the office. 9 months later the president and office manager got new office. They realized they were more productive together than separated, more productive at a dedicated work space than at home with all the distractions, family, kids. They were also happier to be together, to spend time with their "work friends", etc... They have not asked the employees to come back to the office but several are of their own accord, finding their life better than being at home all the time alone or with just the people in their houses, rather than having a larger extended set of people to hang out with.
There is no need to post like this. You can make a point without denigrating people as "those types".
How Do Kwon cashed out $2.7B via Degenbox to drain liquidity out of LUNA and UST
Perhaps, but that's how one would hold a handstand for the duration closer to what a gymnast would. Attempting to keep balance with one's fingers is only going to get you so far with a very limited range.
Great post. Also the same age as you in the UK. Haven’t bought a house yet but feel the same way in many respects. The worst example of these tax disincentives surely has to be with NHS doctors and their pensions - the tax system is so distorting that in many cases the doctor is literally paying to go to work. This has been going on for several years and has still not been fixed.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jun/24/nhs-consulta...
Wrong clipboard item, other quote is a reference to rental prices:

> All that masked by actual geographic scarcity exacerbated by artificial scarcity to make the high prices seem like there was something to covet?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/11/google-...
Maybe you can provide some detail for this counter view? Otherwise it’s just confusing what to believe.
I also think this man is a bit disturbed.

And I don't see enough evidence from his LaMDA transcripts that it's sentient. I think he's projecting his own biases and worldview into the answers and the questions he's giving back to it.
Glad you had a good time, I liked those things more in other major US cities
The US is the oldest continuous western democracy, so it makes sense to use it as an example here, but of course the problem isn't limited to it.
Yangubet
The important part in what you said is "internal policies", not laws or regulations.

This is why we need regulation that protects people/businesses.
> On Thursday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, an agency under the guidance of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, said it would be expanding a probe and look into 830,000 Tesla cars across all four current model lines, 11% more vehicles than they were previously examining.

It's pretty obvious what's happening. Musk becomes a Republican, says he'll buy Twitter, so now the establishment liberals will punish him. Politics as a weapon, as usual.
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