skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a good thing to teach but I do think that there are a large number of people out there that just don't have the capacity to do that. By virtue of being on this forum you are likely in the top quartile or near it of the population in terms of intelligence for whatever good that metric is. There is a cognitive bias that everyone frames most people as more or less the same as the person sees themselves and for me, a pretty skeptical person, it's tough to view the world through the lens of someone less skeptical. (I think it's the false consensus bias)

> In the US, 14% of the adult population is at the "below basic" level for prose literacy; 12% are at the "below basic" level for document literacy, and 22% are at that level for quantitative literacy. Only 13% of the population is proficient in each of these three areas—able to compare viewpoints in two editorials; interpret a table about blood pressure, age, and physical activity; or compute and compare the cost per ounce of food items.

Maybe teaching those skills would increase that 13% but I am not sure by how much.
EVs, while often talked about, are a very small percentage of the market so they have nowhere near the economies of scale of IC engine cars. With a smaller market, they need to spread R&D costs across fewer vehicles.

A lot of companies are also adopting the Tesla model of starting at the high end and working down. It's a lot easier to build in margin on higher end products. If companies start at the low end with a cheap EV, they may not be able to meet demand. The start ups also don't have the manufacturing chops of the older car makers, which is why you see them making really expensive cars... they know they can't scale yet. Ford on the other hand has priced the Mustang EV and Lighting pretty reasonably. I see the Mach-E all over the place and I'm sure I'll see the Lightning everywhere soon.
but isn't that policy inflationary?
not being facetious, honestly confused
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That complexity can actually make it more forgiving to mistakes. Visual art can contain lighting inconsistencies and still look fine. For example, a recent HN discussion looked at Dall-E Mini art involving origami [1], and while they look good, there are lots of clear mistakes. Perhaps in music, these mistakes are more obvious.

Though at the same time, it seems like Dall-E2 is really good at faces [2], which is an example where there is a lot of structure, and viewers are very good at finding mistakes (the "uncanny valley"). Dall-E2 is of course a much bigger model with more training than Dall-E mini. Perhaps with the same amount of training, music AI can get to the same level.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31787743

[2]: https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5vbx9/dall-e-is-now-generat...
> So should the same bill also make vaccine requirements federally illegal?

Yes, you should not be physically forced to get vaccinated against your will. I think we can all agree to that.
If you were disturbing every single shipment, I would assume someone was tampering. Once I find a shipping route where none of the items were disturbed, I would know it is secure.
You can configure the wake word to be Alexa, Echo, Amazon, or Computer. Alexa is just the default.
> But we do believe the basic assumption and premise that leaders should provide more positive than negative feedback is correct

Typical social science research, come to the conclusion first and then find data to back it up. There needs to be a reproducibility challenge of the top 100 papers, preferably by scientists on the opposite side of the political spectrum of the authors. We solved this in the hard sciences, I don't get why it's so hard to do it in the social sciences.
> getting birth rates up by removing women’s agency.

The USA just did this.
There are other reasons. I live in a major city that has difficulty completing infrastructure projects. In grad school, one of the projects we did was to evaluate the city’s contracts, which were publicly available. What our team found was that the city routinely contracted subsequent projects with higher bonuses for earlier completion than the penalty on prior contracts for being late. Since many of the projects were going to the same handful of companies, it became a lucrative pyramid scheme with local taxpayer dollars. This was in the late 80s and things are better, but no one ever went to jail or was voted out of office. But I did get my MBA as did the other team members. In the end, it all felt like a game.
fascinating. exactly the type of content I love about Hacker News.
This is the Datomic/Clojure dialect of Datalog. I had an easier time learning a stand-alone datalog variant. I think compiling Datalog to SQL is an interesting idea.

I wrote a toy Datalog -> SQLite compiler: https://percival.jake.tl/

Other Datalog -> SQL compilers I know of:

- Originally from Mozilla, now independent: https://github.com/qpdb/mentat

- From Google: https://logica.dev/
> Nobody is going to notice that Chrome is eating their battery.

I don't know what logical leap you're trying to make, but if people don't notice the impact of Chrome on their battery then what makes it worse than Safari?
This is disputed :

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02522-6

Population growth fell much faster than expected in many places such as Singapore and Iran. Today in Africa people have mobile phones and hence much better access to information on things like birth control.

That Nature article shows that the population expected at 2100 has a realistic range from about 9 Bn to 11 Bn. That difference comes from slightly different assumptions about the change in birth rates in Africa and other places.

From the article :

"In 2014, a group at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Vienna produced its own forecast. It said that world population is most likely to peak at 9.4 billion around 2070 and will fall to 9 billion by the end of the century. The group’s numbers rose slightly in a 2018 report3 that projected a peak of about 9.8 billion around 2080; a subsequent update has population cresting at a little under 9.7 billion around 2070."
Yeah it's definitely confusing if you're completely new to these types of forums.

Thanks for the vouch, hope I'm able to share some stuff here soon.
Ten Ways Billionaires Avoid Taxes on an Epic Scale
Depends. If I spend a ton of time and effort to aggregate data from public sources and license it out, my dataset can still be considered proprietary.
i dont think that explains SF or CA dysfunction, though...
That is true, but the same could be said of even an extreme RISC ISA that only has an indirect addressing mode. Taken by itself, it doesn't help explain why late 1970s processors tended to have a lot of addressing modes.
> Once you have to pay your own rent,

This doesn’t make sense to me cause you can still live at home and pay rent. That’s a reality for many Americans.

> The typical person I've met who's 30 or whatever and lives with their parents, has a massive entitlement problem. They're simply owed things. Their mom's being mean because their mom wants them to get a job.

It seems you have this notion that anyone still living with their parents at that age doesn’t have a job rather than having a job and saving money for an actual house.
"Every aspect" would mean unlimited numbers of sound sources from all distances and directions, which is not how we represent sound, which is usually limited to two stereo channels at 44.1kHz and 16 bits in CD-quality audio, but with higher resolutions for surround or to reduce signal processing artifacts.

An image is likewise limited by representation in that we define against a resolution, color depth, gamma, etc. Images define a large number of sample sources, but without variation over time. And in most circumstances, like with audio, we also currently limit the sources to fixed areas, rather than generating surround images.

What we're relying on in using these formats successfully is knowing the limits of our sensory perception, and then what our brain does to process it. It says nothing about "A is easier to represent symbolically than B", because of course you can come up with symbolic compression schemes; those are how humans generate interesting images and audio. But the transmission protocol doesn't need to know them.
I wish game intellect was far more advanced than graphics, by this point. Without good in-game AI and unless there's really good writing (which is rare on itself these days!), it all gets boring really fast. Talking about single-player here, of course.
If you're hiring people you don't have high conviction in, then of course you'll get relatively worse outcomes. I would question why.

I do think companies need to set a target aptitude percentile they're trying to hire, as it has to be somewhat aligned with comp percentile to have success. You can't try to hire 99th percentile engineers with 50th percentile pay and expect to land any hires

But if you set a lower target skill percentile to match lower comp, then you're actively choosing to lower the bar, so there should also be a lower bar for considering somebody a poor hire.

At least in our case we were able to get by targeting ~80th percentile engineers at like 60th percentile comp. Mostly through hiring people that didn't know their worth in the market, but also being a good place to work, with low attrition (non comp factors)
Those are probably running headless chrome though
The Google logo is publicly available on Google’s website. Does anyone own the Google logo?
> Neither spring nor Java EE promised to be low code. It used xml for configuration, but not because it would somehow aimed to be low code.

They were advertising the same thing that modern low-code proponents are: the idea that you'd be able to change your application's behaviour by changing a configuration file, and that this would be superior to editing code. That was definitely part of the Java marketing.

> Generics are nowhere near to being similar to C++ templating.

Lol what. They use the same syntax and provide (not all of, but most of) the same functionality.

> Also, I never understood hate of checked exceptions that invariably comes from people who dont use Java. They don't bother much and have their place.

I do use Java, I still hate them. They're very cumbersome, and again, the bottom line is: twenty years on no other language wants them, not even the likes of Kotlin.

> There was no major hype about Java being faster then C or C++ in its origin.

There absolutely was. The Java JIT was hugely hyped at the time, and there were even benchmarks showing it outperforming C on particular problems.
I heard (here) that some California Community Colleges were willfully ignoring blatent fake accounts, due to $INCOME and $LIABILITY incentives and fines, respectively. Is it possible that this online retail company, feeling in corner financially, willfully turned a blind-eye to account activity for similar reasons?
You don't understand why clickbait is clickbait?
My wife (shameless plug: https://messyplaykits.com) recommends liquid water colors instead of food coloring (cheaper and better color).

Colorations brand from discount school supply or amazon works well for her and she makes a lot of colorful rice!
> Maybe you, Fred Hacker, can get away with it, but a large multinational company cannot.

Back when Terry Semel (ex Warner Brothers CEO) was still CEO, Yahoo! would show Oscar screeners in the cafeteria of the best films nominees around that time. Answers to your questions would be 1) No, 2) yes, 3) I dunno, employee cafeteria sized... The organizers said that we were "just in Jerry and David's living room", strongly implying that no public performance rights were obtained, but I dunno. I also don't know if the official screener discs come with appropriate rights.
I've literally never seen anybody wearing a Nintendo logo tshirt. The Atari logo is iconic. Nintento has IP, Atari has the brand.
> The code for every Angular project is structured the same way - The code for components (and directives, services, etc.) is generally very readable - Everything is easy(ish) to test. [...] And in general Angular seems much easier to learn. If you spend 20 hours watching the Udemy course then you pretty much know it

You just described every frontend framework. None of these are unique to Angular. Any developer with an understanding of JS can learn and use any framework in the exact same way.

> 280k Stack Overflow questions, vs 95k for Vue and 19k for Next. And ease of hiring due to 170k Angular developers in the US (per Sales Navigator), as opposed to 50k for Vue.js and 48k for Next.js

These are false comparisons, and you're conveniently leaving out the largest competitor. A higher SO question count isn't necessarily a positive metric, and may even imply substantial confusion about the framework. More importantly, all of the surveys[1] show that both developer and hiring interest for Angular is waning.

> whereas I regularly see job ads looking for folks with 6+ years of React experience. Now obviously you always hear about job ads looking for folks with 10 years of experience with some technology that's been around for two years, and yet I rarely come across

You're using a popular meme about some notoriously bizarre job listings written by HR managers (or interns) to suggest that developers have a harder time learning frameworks other than Angular. There is no correlation whatsoever between these two things. When "you always hear" and "yet rarely come across," you are experiencing the effects of confirmation bias.

> Angular job ads that implicitly assume it takes multiple years to learn how to use the framework correctly.

If a job lists multiple years of experience as a requirement, why would that automagically mean the employer is "implicitly assuming" multiple years of training is required to accomplish a bare minimum? In reality, it means they're looking for someone who didn't spend last weekend watching a 20 hour Udemy course to obtain a cursory understanding.

They're requiring real-world experience in a similar work/project environment, and they are paying handsomely for that experience. If it were junior development jobs with these requirements, you'd maybe have an argument, but 100% of senior positions have minimum work history requirements, because that is the definition of senior.

[1] https://gist.github.com/tkrotoff/b1caa4c3a185629299ec234d231...
Well, you're being overly protective here. I think this problem should NOT be downplayed, because it can create a whole new industry in the future - automated charging or self charging or whatever. It's simply that the BEV market isn't big nor mature enough to allow scalable (widely-compatible) solutions.
The digital markets act only applies to certain companies, called "gatekeepers" that are large enough, have a certain very large amount of users, and have enough market power.

Generally speaking, the purpose of anti-trust law is not to effect small players, who do not control any markets.

Instead, the purpose of anti-trust law is to prevent multi-trillion dollar companies who control half of a duopoly, from doing anti-competitive actions.

So, for the examples that you gave, if those markets became multi-trillion dollar markets, in 2 company duopolies, then there would be laws created that would apply to them.

But before that happens, there is no need.
The end of human suffering also represents the end of the (IMO vastly greater) aggregated joy of being alive as a human.
It's the same with digital security. There is always a security/usability tradeoff.
0 to 7 is the positive:negative ratio of this comment section as of writing.
Maybe as a replacement for the Cruise ship industry?
I prefer "Should we..." both as a coder and when I review code.
Stoicism is a dour, striver philosophy….

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicureanism
Can you link me to where thin is specified. From what I can tell there is no requirement to use ASCII in domain names.
> Chrome's dominance of the Web is very scary. Not as scary as IE's, since it's open source, but still, it's such a huge beast that it's almost proprietary through complexity. I don't know if there's an easy solution out of this.

Both Chrome and Android are open-source bases for proprietary platforms. Google very consciously blurs the line between functionality available across all Android devices or across all web browsers, and the functionality which you only get with their products (e.g. licensed Android with Play services, or Google Chrome).

Would it really have made a difference if Internet Explorer 6 was open source? Most of the features in Internet Explorer were copyable by other browsers, just as most of the Chrome-only API are copyable today. There's other reasons why Firefox and Netscape on Windows didn't support ActiveX controls and XML Data Islands, such as both those features being lousy ideas.
webmidi, web speech - which they say they support but got randomly removed. They support only a crippled version of the pwa apis, and their store doesn't support verified pwas like the android one does.
I think we need to go even further back with our thinking before cars even come into the picture.
City planning with great public transit and walkability first, then think of cars.
I see this argument all the time, and while it is not wrong, for most people I think it is bad advice in the context of carbs because people don't understand it properly and even if they do, it is basically impossible to get truly wholegrain carb foods from standard markets/supermarkets in the west. Most people think pasta is healthy when its clearly highly refined white flour and not much else. Then there's bread; If you go looking for wholemeal bread, almost all of it will claim "wholemeal" on the packaging, but then if you read the ingredients, they only use a token amount of wholemeal flour, making up the rest with standard white flour. Some researchers even think that modern grinding techniques grind too finely and raise the GL of the flour, so even if you choose wholemeal flour, the way that it is processed can cause it to be not much better than pain white flour. To be clear about what I am arguing here, these things are "bad" when they cause large spikes in BGL and therefore insulin and I consider this a reasonable proxy for the "badness" of carbs. especially when they make up a large part of a meal portion. I also recognise that you're talking about whole foods in general, not just carbs, but I'm in 100% agreement with you for whole foods in general.
I was really disappointed when I found out the author didn't have to deal with the dotless I problem.
First sale doctrine means you can buy a disc for home use and lend it out. Typically, you do public performance with home use discs and a seperately obtained license (but it is possible to rent media with your license, etc).
>NO ONE has ever looked at a person wearing 'company brand' t-shirt and thought : "Gee, they must be smart, they work for big-name company'.

I wear my FAANG tshirt out to bars all the time and it gets me mad pussy. Maybe that's because they think I'm loaded but it works better than a Rolex. shrug
Consume less junk, needs less production.
You could also preface with "I think this should take a few lines of code to fix - I'll let you look into it but if you're feeling stuck by 3pm, feel free to Slack me with what you got so far and we can pair"
that'd be lovely to drive behind -- you can see the dirt cloud that it's constantly sucking off the ground loom a few inches aft at all times during the Goodwood run.

I presume the fans must be turned off on public roads?

aside : how does one engineer a fan blade that's going to suck in rocks all day under normal use?
I believe the parent's point was that they won't know it is _Chrome_ that is destroying their battery, just that their phone can't make it through half the day without a charge.
I think I have a realistic chance of paying off my mortgage in the next 18 months. I'm excited about that prospect, but it's a tough one to be excited about, because it's such a slow grind that I can only really make progress on once a month.

Once that's done, I'm excited about the trip I'm going to take to celebrate (still undecided) and getting new windows (the current ones are trash).
I think this would work well for operations like combining two drives into one larger logical drive since you would reduce the risk amplification from such a configuration. In the typical case, when you stitch two drives together you end up doubling the risk since if either drive fails, the whole system may be unrecoverable. With capacity variance, you would presumably notice one of the physical drives shrinking giving you warning that the drive needs to be replaced in a user comprehendible way.
>torsion wrench

engineer confirmed
Who’s to say that the current world population is “best”? Maybe we’d be happier in aggregate if it shrank to a stable 5 billion people. Or maybe if it grew to 9 billion.

The global optimum matters (IMO) more than an assumption of “whatever we have is just right”
I'm inclined to cut someone a bit of slack for not following the link to the implementation if the context suggests deeply nested template meta programming golf is involved. It's surprisingly much less complicated than I would have expected.
Is that hard? Sounds like it might be a little expensive in terms of server resources but I don’t see why the engineering would be hard.

I’m curious how you handle this with less engineering effort without using an RDBMS.
Ask HN: iOS app for playing MP3 music collection?
I stream most of my music, but I've got a collection of MP3s that I keep around and still listen to sometimes. So far I've been using TuneBox, an iOS app that hooks into your Dropbox and provides a media player interface over it. This is a great premise, and it mostly gets the job done, but it hasn't been updated in several years and has some minor bugs/annoyances.

Surely there's still a decent, maintained iOS app for playing local music files? I'm willing to pay, and I'd even be fine without Dropbox integration; my collection doesn't change very often. I'm just having trouble even finding an app that matches the original iPod app that used to exist on iPhones.

Any recommendations?
> You can't copyright a list of facts

Says who?
We actually have this rule in our company style guide. We do allow '.=' and '.%' (MonadState ops) because they fit elegantly into 'do' contexts.
I am not a storage person, but I have been storage-adjacent for a while. That said, it looks like storage abstractions need a huge overhaul, and we are just sitting here pretending things are fine. SSDs are just very different devices than HDDs. Zoned NVMe, which gives an append-only log abstraction, is a big step in the right direction.

By the way, it turns out that hard drives today also include a fair amount of software (not as much as SSDs, but a lot) to emulate a hard drive of yesteryear. The time of the "block device" may be over.
Overt, covert, and surreptitious entry all have their uses.
https://caniuse.com/?compare=firefox+101,chrome+103,ios_saf+...

You can draw your own conclusions. Personally, I think the omission of the vast majority of webapp functionality (Web Bluetooth, WebUSB, WebHID, screen orientation, haptics, etc.) is a real shame, and probably what's really holding back Safari at the moment.

...but what does it matter what Apple does? People aren't angry that Safari sucks (though it certainly doesn't help), rather that they can't choose the browser they use on a device they bought with their own money. I reckon that's a valid concern, regardless of which arbitrary browser feature trinkets WebKit can collect.
It’s better if you don’t.
I think the problem is that a lot of investing in real estate isn't creating more housing, it's extracting wealth from people who have a need to be housed. like if you buy a second home to rent out, you didn't create housing. You just made it less affordable for people to build wealth.
Something like 40 seconds for a 9-word sentence. Would not recommend in production. :)