skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a newb to synthesizers in general. It appears to me that freeware/FOSS synths are giving paid synths a run for their money lately. What would you say the killer (paid) apps are? Are they killer enough to put up with the licensing BS? (Which I 100% agree with. Anything that mentions iLok might as well not exist to me.)
Good luck. For me it was good to get at least a few yrs of tech experience before pivoting. it definitely was helpful later, some for the technical experience and maybe more for understanding the dynamics of how decisions get made by technical teams (including how politics comes into play). When you are part of the "business" that is the "customer" of the technical team, that experience can give you huge value that your peers may not be able to offer.
Fear of dietary cholesterol is overrated. You are not (directly) what you eat and that fear was as much deference to magical "Law of Similarity" as anything.

Blood cholesterol is different. At that point, however it got there, the build-up isn't great. I wouldn't lump statins in with the rest of your points.
I think instead is that the mistake was to measure them in terms of money, which is a token, a signal, and hence not "real" (not to mention subject to feedback loops when trying to focus economic policy on that signal !)
This happened to me. I ended up coming back and deciding I still needed to quit, and the CEO was understanding.
Top comment on that post is great, I'll just quote it in its entirety:

Collin

May 19, 2020

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I was the former Head of Innovation at Grubhub, so I have seen the truth behind many of these claims first hand. Sadly, I invented a lot of the food delivery technologies that are now being used for evil. There were so many great points made here, and I’m glad people are finally paying attention to this. I will try to only add to a few.

COVID-19 is exposing the fact that delivery platforms are not actually in the business of delivery. They are in the business of finance. In many ways, they are like payday lenders for restaurants and drivers. They give you the sensation of cash-flow, but at the expense of your long term future and financial stability. Once you “take out this loan” you will never pay it back and it will ultimately kill your business.

In the case of restaurants, these platforms slowly siphon off your customers and then charge you to have access to them. They are simultaneously selling these same customers to your competitor across the street, but, don’t worry, they are also selling their customers to you.

For drivers, they are banking on a workforce that is willing to mortgage their assets, like cars and time, well below market value, in exchange for money now. They know that most delivery drivers are simply not doing the math on the actual cost of providing delivery (time, gas, car maintenance, payroll taxes...etc). If they did, drivers would realize that they are actually the ones subsidizing the cost of delivery.

Delivery platforms are “hyper-growth” businesses that are trying to grow into a no-growth industry. Food consumption really only grows at the rate of population growth, so if you want to grow faster than that, you have to take market share from someone else. Ideally, you take it from someone weaker, who has less information. In this industry, the delivery platforms have found unsuspecting victims in restaurants and drivers.

The competition for customers has not gone away. It has simply moved online. Many restaurants have been too slow, or unwilling to adapt. Delivery platforms and other restaurants are taking advantage of this to gobble up market share. Restaurants need to realize that they are now running e-commerce businesses and they need to act accordingly. Being proficient on Google, Yelp, Facebook and the dozens of other platforms is no longer optional, it is essential.

My team is trying to do everything we can to help restaurants transition, but restaurants have to be willing to change. You can learn more about what we are doing to fight back at zero.eatgeek.com. Stay hungry.
Electron and other web-site-as-desktop-app frameworks are a cancer that needs to be killed. It may have some legitimate uses but developing a communications client is not one of them.

Did people forget how to properly program for the desktop?
Hybrids make more sense than EVs when you compare emissions over the course of the cars life. https://www.emissionsanalytics.com/news/hybrids-are-better
This is almost exactly what I do. After a lot of trial and error I found it works for me. The only thing I would add is to never use paper products to dry your Rx glasses or sunglasses if they have plastic lenses; the fibers in the paper will scratch the lenses.
People are willing to pay fewer dollars for each asset class.
the supposedly forgotten component is made of a proprietary polystyrene resin, and the physical form is also important the density must be varied along the axis of the hohlraum [reflector cavity] resulting in modulation of fission derived neutron velocity and energy to a magnitude resulting in the initiation of the fusion components.
What was money's killer app? Bitcoin is money from the ground up. It's going fantastically fast. As for smart contracts, these are the basis of Bitcoin. A permissionless ledger inherently requires smart contracts. Their killer app is a a distributed ledger. There are already a few different contracts that can be made on Bitcoin that allow for different custodial schemes.

What people are selling as far as DAOs, NFTs, and "smart contracts" where they mean are better and more sophisticated than Bitcoin, can all be favorably described as the application of Bitcoin's critique of money to the issuance and governance of other tokens representing other forms of property, and are inherently more complex. Least favorably described, they are scams to boost leverage powered attacks. The middle of the road might be that they're the naive notion that building more complex constructs on top of what Bitcoin defined is immediately achievable without compromising invariants that matter for useful money.

All to say that the "killer app" critique of Bitcoin probably ins't the best lens, and that if it's more complicated than custody and payments, especially for people where that isn't readily available, it's probably further out than is survivable for a single company requiring the kind of trajectory of those that create "apps".
There is a way around huge storage requirements. Pruning, UTXO commitments, and things like Utreexo are all solutions for different aspects of that problem.
I recall most of the complaints had to do with the lack of inheritance and exception handling.

On Error Resume Next anyone?
I think there's a terminology problem. To me a "footgun" is a feature which provides you with a very easy way to shoot yourself in the foot, hence the name. For example there's no way that the a[b] array index operation should default to not having bounds checks as it does in C and C++. That's a footgun. Rust does pretty well on this front, and I don't think async is especially worse.

But I can see Rust async being more of a gumption trap than many features. A gumption trap is a problem which uses up your motivation before you can work on the thing you actually wanted to do and so there's none left for the actual project.
Indeed the infrastructure's just not there yet in most places, and not just Brazil, it sucks basically everywhere.

PHEVs can be charged at home and should have enough battery range for those short daily errands across town, while having the range of a normal ICE car for long trips where the lack of fast chargers is most critical. Plus they'll break down more due to higher complexity and the repair shops will love and lobby for them so win-win-win.
sadly i tried to use it today and again got caught in a recursive SSO of death. The team needs to be mindful of the criticality of making a call and get all of the unnecessary blockers out of the critical path
> ironSource’s 3B+ monthly active users

Why am I having trouble believing this...?
Given your experiences, I'm curious about your and parent's feedback on the following:

* What are your current top alternative make / models?

* If you have some you're tracking, which make / models are you most anticipating?
I disagree with you. On the contrary, I think it can only be solved by throwing more data, but much more data that we have available now, to get first a smart AI that has common sense about the world (a world model). Then we can start trying to drive in it.
It sounds like a normal hybrid is a better idea if the charging infrastructure is bad. A normal hybrid would be cheaper and never needs to be plugged in.
But it is solving the last-mile problem
Is part of the issue non musical electronic devices all moving digital? I imagine there's a lot of analog IC's that were previously used across a wide range of industries are now moving far less units.
Viable in the sense that fission power was viable before the Manhattan project - theoretically possible, but still an awful lot of experimental physics work left to do, not just engineering.

Fusion has been theoretically viable for decades, but we've never produced a sustainable fusion reaction that produces more energy than we put into it. We know it's possible because we can see the sun. But we haven't proved that any of our theoretical reactor designs can actually work.
What's your definition? They certainly do a lot of driving related things pretty well and others quite poorly (much like humans but we have different failure modes).

If you life in San Francisco, CA, you'll often see Cruise cars roaming the streets at night collecting data with no physical driver present.
> Meanwhile less reputable Chinese branded replacements are plentiful and cheap.

Not on the power switchers, oddly.

DC-DC Buck/Boost regulators have been phasing in and out of existence like ghosts. Yes, even the Chinese ones. Even worse, changing a buck/boost regulator generally has lots of knock-on effects--the inductors change size so you just wasted a bunch of inductor stock, your swicthing fdrequency changes so your EMI is all over the map, etc.
Prime stuff shipping 5-9 days

Most things I order from Amazon arrive the same day or overnight. A tiny minority takes 24 hours.

but I can't find Mountain Dew Energy in cherry limeade and haven't been able to for 3 weeks now.

That’s the universe doing you a favor haha
There is that, but in a plug-in hybrid, the gas engine does not get used a lot. When it does, it is usually operating in a serial hybrid mode and runs within an optimal range without much stress. Actual wear and tear and maintenance are much less than in a conventional ICEV. You see this with Priuses and Volts. The gas engines live an unstressed life and last much longer. The Volt keeps track of usage and alerts you when it is time for an oil change. They can easily go 18 months between oil changes.
The driver almost always avoids the return trip because of how these routes are scheduled. I also see the driver dropping off 1 or 2 other deliveries on the way to my place so your math is way off.

That aside, you’re mostly right about people losing money: Doordash nets -10% of revenue. Most restaurants also pay a commission to Doordash which effectively gets passed on to me as a discounted delivery fee, but I dunno if you’d count that as “losing money”.

I think it would be pretty easy for them to turn a 10% profit though. All they have to do is increase prices by ~15% and cut their R&D budget in half (currently 10% of revenue). I’ll enjoy the cheap deliveries while it lasts.
they’re electric cars. And i’m pretty sure they’re the biggest electric car brand with the most chargers, which they lease to other automakers at a profit.

My family has a Tesla and they seem to be very happy with it. I’ve driven in it and it seems really nice, maybe not exceptional but not bad.

I do have to say though, the Lidar and self-driving is glitchy and kind of gimmicky. But the fact they’re electric makes them worth it regardless.
So you used CPI as your inflation measure? I personally don't think CPI or RPI is a good inflation yardstick, because the calculations change over time. For consistency I would suggest you try Shadow Stats or the year on year growth of the M2 money supply.
not much similar between eyes (incl the full sensory processing) and camera sensors

you're using elon's own argument btw, are you repeating that knowingly
Corrosion coupled with abrasion. If people washed their faces well in advance, they would eliminate dust in the facial grease. This dust is only partly hard particles - silicon dioxide from rock and other hard stuff. Skin and soft dust is less abrasive. This abrasive part is harder than steel and scratch by scratch wears away the edge. This is well documented. The other wear factor is corrosion - hardened steel corrodes and adges get smaller. Stainless steel does not corrode, but is softer and abrasive wear dominates.
Eventually the feel of a blunting bladed prompts a change, they grab/dig/cut into the face
Yeah I knew it doesn't have the install button.

Just wondering if teams flat out refuses to work on Safari.

(Only time I use teams is when someone sends me a meeting link. I just run it on the browser. I use Void Linux btw)
Microsoft owned IPs could be from their Azure cloud services. I believe they use their Microsoft Network AS for that (their ISP that I think is defunct) rather than their corporate AS, but it can be hard to tell the difference sometimes.
There's absolutely nothing unsafe about glass lenses if you're a normal person and don't abuse them. They're actually superior to plastic in terms of longevity and durability. What I've found is that the tradeoff is durability vs. weight. Glass is heavier than plastic but if your glasses are well-fitted and adjusted, this is not a problem. Also, in terms of cleaning you can be a lot less careful with glass and they won't scratch. I had a pair of glasses with plastic lenses and my wife tried to "help" me by cleaning them with a paper towel when I wasn't around. The lenses got scratched up and unusable. Never again...it's glass lenses in Shuron frames for me!
I prefer shorter stories so I would recommend two of my favorites of Tiptree's: The Screwfly Solution (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Screwfly_Solution) and The Man who Walked Home, included in the collection of shorts Ten Thousand Light Years from Home.

Or take a look at wikipedia where there's a list of her works and see which ones have titles that sound interesting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tiptree_Jr.#Works

I think you'll find a few that catch the eye :)
It's official now; https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1547332300186066944
https://knifesteelnerds.com/2021/01/11/what-causes-razor-bla...
> CP/M was (mostly) written in the PL/M language and ran on the 8-bit 8080/Z80 processors. 86-DOS was written in pure assembly language and ran on the 16-bit 8086 processor.

In CP/M-80 1.x, most of the OS was written in PL/M. By the time we get to CP/M-80 2.x, the core of the OS (BDOS) has been rewritten in assembler for improved speed, while utilities (such as PIP) remain in PL/M.

CP/M-68K was written in C (although possibly with an earlier version in Pascal???). CP/M-8000 was written in C, probably ported from CP/M-68K.

CP/M-86 was mostly written in assembler, possibly with some bits (especially utilities) in PL/M and/or C as well.
I do agree he has his blind spots, and I'm not quite prepared to think things will be as extreme as he thinks. That said, his starting points are geography and demographics, both of which are very predictable, at least for the next couple decades. It's hard to find policy choices that overcome them.
> focus on their incredible cars

They have terrible manufacturing quality. The screens melt in Arizona heat. Maybe the ride is cool and feels good, but the car itself is not incredible.
You can't read just any grey-on-white text.
Another reason to consider glass lenses.
`possibly some sort of segregation between robot-driven cars and people-driven cars.` just build out public transit at that point, what's the difference.
Open source job security through recessions
> Russia has similar severe demographics. Zeihan predicted in 2014 that they would invade the rest of Ukraine around the end of 2021, because if they waited much longer they wouldn't have the manpower. This is the first of many trade-disrupting conflicts he expects.

"if they waited much longer they wouldn't have the manpower" isn't really a reason to invade Ukraine. It's a reason to invade before waiting to long if you already have decided to invade for another reason. In 2014 lots of people were predicting Russia would come back at some point. Does he have a unique take on a more underlying reason for the conflict in the first place? That would be more telling in terms of predicting further global breakdown.
It’s less about Web3 and more about web apps being a superior solution to mobile apps in most cases.
2GW of energy per day?

Isn't that like a medium-sized nuclear reactor every day?
They are very much "default alive" BUT I get the sense that a lot of the company's plans and valuation are based on the idea that Tesla will not "just" produce competitive electric cars. They could make money just doing that - but they would never meet the expectations around their company's' trajectory that way and so they would be a "bad" investment (in ROI terms). So I think that everyone who is still working on the "more than a car maker" goal is going to insist the company will be more than that until they really can't.
> Which looks a lot like "we want to listen in even if you mute so please don't mute the mice on the OS level".

This is due to the "talking while on mute notification" feature. Disabling the mic by hardware or at the OS level breaks that feature. It certainly smells like a privacy concern, but the number of people who talk while on mute is also astoundingly common (myself included).
Shadowstats doesn't know how exponential growth works. The people who believe in shadowstats don't understand it either.
plug in is a pure improvement. if you have 20 mile range that you can charge at home, then you will be doing the majority of your driving in electric.
The Teams organization had little interest in performance optimization. They spent more time cramming more features in. It seemed like, at the time, the Teams org valued feature creep for promos over actual stability and performance.
Paywall: https://archive.ph/qVGYH
Water fluoridation was always controversial in Oregon, and I don't know how many municipalities do it. Many years ago, I heard from dentists in western Oregon that they could easily see differences in enamel quality of patients who did/didn't grow up there.
> I mean there's a reason for the slow and steady trend of North Americans leaving small towns for big cities

I heard the other way - people leaving cities for suburbs
But for people, in the same way as for parcels, power, cable, fiber-optic, there's the last mile problem. Europe has almost solved it with high speed trains and efficient city transit. Then, it solves nothing for all those folks living in rural areas and having to drive f-150s.
I'm shocked I tell you. Shocked that they would collaborate with the growing police state and just enable dragnet surveillance.
In what sense is the Model 3 seeming dated? It's still one of the best electric cars on important measures like range and efficiency. It also has access to hands down the best charging network and is well loved by its owners, despite the well-documented problems.
Ah yes, it didn't happen to you so it never happens right?
Buy a Mac mini and install Linux on it? That feels like it is (or will soon be) the best option.
It's perceived to be more profitable to spend that money on wars rather than innovation to attain energy.
In retrospect, I think that much of the flatter Windows 3.x design is timeless whereas the pseudo 3D bevels of Windows 95 look dated by today’s standards.

The only practically useful UX novelties in Windows 95 were the start menu and combining the previously separate file and program manager paradigms.
> PowerCo will use the prismatic unified cell architecture in its batteries which allows for use of different cell chemistries. The cells will be manufactured from 2025 with the factory planned capacity to be 40 GWh which is enough to supply 500,000 electric vehicles. By 2030 PowerCo plans to have all six European factories up and running with a combined capacity of 240 GWh. The unified prismatic cell harnesses synergy effects and can offer manufacturing savings of up to 50% when compared to current batteries.

I didn't see anything in this announcement about where raw materials will be sourced from. It looks like the idea is to support multiple chemistries, but it's far from clear where the materials for all those batteries will come from.
> My grocery store is still stocked full.

Without invalidating your larger point that getting something to eat is generally a non-issue, there is nonetheless one group in the US for whom the food shortage is at this very moment acute, national in scale, and unprecedented in recent memory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_infant_form...
The founding engineer's job is to lay down the foundation, take a small paycheck and then disappear from the scene. Those 2% are as good as two units of the startup's own currency that its owners can print in any quantity.
I'm not kidding at all. When you add some water to that pinch of baking soda it turns into a mushy puree, rubbing it gently won't harm the surface. Sodium bicarbonate is an alkali, and great at dissolving grease. It removes fingerprint stains off the glass extremely well. And I think it does a better job of keeping the glass non-attractive to dust particles.

No, there won't be any micro-scratches if it's used gently. After all, I'm not telling you to use kosher table salt, right? Seriously, just try baking soda.
This is a really weak way to think or see the the world. Regardless of who is correct in this specific situation.
In case that seemed too even-handed for the employers:

With a really shitty employer like Amazon (at least at some of their warehouses), a union really might provide some protection to the workers. All those stories about workers having to pee in a bottle because they get docked for too many bathroom breaks: gone. The union would take care of it.

Getting fired for too many demerits from the overhead surveillance cameras? Gone.

Of course, when you vote Yes or No for a union, you don't really know if they'll be able to negotiate all that.

Prior to the 1930s, unions provided some on-the-job safety, and some protections against arbitrary management or pay cuts. Over time, those got written into laws or companies just refrained from really shitty practices. Most companies, anyway. Not all.
Messaging reliability is critical. The expectations for consistency ( sender & recipient see the same view), reliability , low-latency , availability are so much higher than with a typical web or desktop app.

There are some apps that get the performance & UX quality standards and some that don't.
I had a great amount of fun today hammering my tiny petrol engine.

It's 1.5L with no turbo that's 10 years old (toyota yaris hatchback). I can floor it, it revs noticably, but it's so underpowered that I have zero chance of losing control because while it sounds like it's working hard, there's barely anything behind it.

I get that EVs are the future. They make more sense. But a small childish part of me will miss the "experience" of hammering under-powered petrol engines.
Separate question than my other one: Strength seems like something that can only be measured relatively, so I am a bit confused by the demographic claim here - if the US is weak because they have fewer people the right age, but most other countries and especially China have urbanized and seen demographic change even faster... doesn't that mean the US would actually relatively stronger than other countries who were hit even harder by the same trend? If the population of the US was 400M but the population of China was 2B, say?