skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember the robots book. I think we found it in the gift shop in a science museum, during a grade school class field trip.

A barrier to a young kid building the robot was the difficulty of obtaining critical parts, unless you had a parent helping a lot with sourcing and bankrolling.

(In the US, an accessible Radio Shack store had some of the parts, and you could improvise some of the hobby shop materials from cardboard boxes and wood scrap. But, e.g., a matching pair of gearboxed motors were unobtainium that a kid might only find in random mail-order catalogs they were just starting to discover, at unaffordable prices.)

Today, things are much more accessible, thanks to Adafruit, accessible online retailers, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, easier access to information (not serendipity of happening to discover whatever book/magazine a library/bookstore/friend happened to have), 3D printers... even being able to easily get your own PCB design fabricated one-off, without expensive materials followed by a hazmat incident.
Now what? It's not going away. As soon as they open up, it'll spread again.
I take screenshots of the Windows update with an iPhone.

A spinner shows with the words Working on updates. 100% complete. Don't turn off your computer

Windows 11 is ready—and it's free! Get the latest version of Windows with a new look, new features, and enhanced security. [Download and install] [Stay on Windows 10 for now] Checking for updates ...
I just zap the popups away using uBlock Origin, without clicking any option.
Yeah, I've come to start smacking my lips when my opponents start parroting "GTO" and related jargon. Their understanding of it is more dangerous to them than it is to me.

It's a continuation of what we saw in the 2000s: entire sections of the book store dedicated to poker, selling confidence to millions of new players who misapply their concepts. There is still a lot of money to be made in micro- and small-stakes NLHE.
Archived copy without GDPR nag screen:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220720184258/https://techcrunc...
The debt wasn't really for recognition, it was to even be able to participate in the world economy.

in the wikipedia page it seems like this was left as a small detail:

"The French managed to capture Louverture, transporting him to France for trial. He was imprisoned at Fort de Joux, where he died in 1803 of exposure and possibly tuberculosis.[63][79]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti#Haitian_Revolution_(1791...

But what actually happened is Louverture was captured under false pretenses of signing a peace treaty after the French were still actively attempting to stymie efforts from the Hatian government which essentially led to the Hatians paying the debt under unsavory terms:

"Leclerc's army had some initial success and Louverture was captured after signing a peace treaty with the French general, later dying in unclear circumstances in a French prison.[6]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockade_of_Saint-Domingue

Unfortunately this a good example of the quote "When you strike at a king, you must kill him" by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Haiti was able to rise out of chattel slavery but still suffered under a form of financial slavery.
> I don't think that's true. Vaccination is still beneficial to infection.

The virus changed, thanks to Omicron not even the WHO agrees with that claim.

"Vaccine-induced immunity following a primary vaccine series is modest against infection due to Omicron in the months after vaccination, and wanes significantly over time. Vaccine-induced immunity against Omicron-related mild symptomatic disease, asymptomatic infection, and viral shedding is also modest and short-lived even following a booster dose."

https://www.who.int/news/item/01-06-2022-interim-statement-o...
> It uses byte strings instead of UTF-8 strings. In my opinion, that’s not an optimization, that’s changing the problem. Depending on the question you’re asking, only one of the two can be correct.

Sure, but is it changing the problem to something easier than what the other languages are already doing, or to something more similar? I'd imagine the C code is basically just using byte arrays as well, for instance.
7z doesn't support unix file permissions, which means it isn't suitable as a tar replacement.
>but men in general tend to be geared toward non-emotional stimulus and action-oriented thinking. Their supernormal stimulus is hardcore and paraphilic porn for this reason, which then of course invokes unfavorable comparisons, because of how unrealistic they are.

>Women in general respond to emotional stimulus better. Their supernormal stimulus is erotic romance, also known to create unrealistic expectations, however these expectations are about men, not the readers themselves.

Do you have a source for this claim? I've heard this claim many times but I've never seen it proven scientifically.
huh, shouldn't solving the conflict to pr2 create a merge commit that then also solves the conflict in 3 and 4?
That could be it. I'll try some different browsers and see.
It was more than that. GM went bankrupt and wiped out all the stockholders' equity. If Ford did that, it would have ended the two-tier stock structure that gives the Ford family control.
uh oh leave that drink alone mate.
Neither does this policy require it...
I have exactly the same thought. And yet, I wish...
I can see your point. Thanks for your comment, I'll try to restate my point next time.
The "market test" was a shack across the street from a 100% free Tesla Supercharger station. To use said shack, you had to be one of a select group invited, make an appointment days in advance, pay a fee, and risk that you're trading your $20K battery for a worse one out of someone else's car. They invited a couple owners and journalists to do a few swaps for the magazines, collected their extra ZEV credits, and then disconnected the phone and let the one person staffing the place go back to his normal job. If that looks like an honest market test to you, then I don't know what else to say.
It sounds intriguing, but where do you find the space to store all the recordings? A bunch of external drives? Feels like 8hr/day × 20 days/month of recording my multi-monitor setup would fill up my drive pretty fast.
I wish I had a better answer for you but my go-to solution as of late has been the pragmatic "I agree. Do you mind if I fix that in a later PR to avoid spending too much time on it?"

If you've built up some trust with your team, they shouldn't have a problem with it.
So, You've Hired a Hacker (Revised and Expanded)
See a resume landed me a Google internship without even applying
I often post in Youtube Ukraine videos trying to correct pro Russia propaganda. Often in a thread, half the other person and half of my posts are censored. I'm also not notified, so my posts show up when I am logged in, but not if I am logged out. Same for the other person. They should just not offer a comments section at this point as whatever they have now is super dystopian with no notification or explanation for their censorship.
Hence why you don't have massive PRs like that, code that is easy to review is quick to merge and quick to ship.

I wouldn't want to work at a startup that doesn't value that in their engineering culture, at least not again. More mature teams (in terms of the staff, not the business) I've been on get this and ship quickly.
> there is no support for metadata like ownership, permissions or extended attributes

That makes it unsuitable as a tar replacement for many use cases.
You included Awk in the title, but omitted Go, really?
Find a way to kill off advertising.

Wtf?
In this case a primary source is available. Here's a copy of the suit filed with the court - https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...

I didn't read it so idk what it says
I suspect that if people in the 1800s had been developing 3D computer graphics rather than electromagnetic theory, Hamilton's camp would have won the battle. But most people would probably say that vectors and matrices are a better fit for EM work.
If you're building a platform, have a design system and the platform ends up inconsistent, you're doing something wrong. Consistency is the entire point of design systems.
If it is allowed by the powerful it is at best a concession, at worst a means of control in disguise.

There is no evening out the power balance. Going at it like that is committing to a never-ending battle for slightly better. It would still be the commoners banding together to feel less pain from the powerful. But that’s all. Less pain.

Why tolerate any pain handed from one class to a “lower” one?

Unions are treating a symptom.
There are samples on the demo page [1].

[1] https://cloudscape.design/demos/overview/
There isn't a good explanation of why people might want to use it, even on the FAQ pages. It's open source (good), but there are many other open source offerings available for all these different tasks. What benefit does the user receive from a single environment with plugins? This is never articulated.

The closest is this: we believe tight integration between different (and, perhaps, unrelated at first glance) applications may yield synergetic effect and improve the quality and usability of every single application. This project is largely an experiment at what could be the outcome of this vision.

...followed by a suggestion that they'd like to develop a whole desktop environment? It seems good but also like reinventing the wheel. Some clarity about what problems you're trying to solve and why I should prefer it over browser X would go a long way.
Exactly we agree: the problem is doing the right choice!
Did you try setting the locale for OSX grep?

LC_CTYPE=C

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4841168
GCP is not only disorganized but it’s so slow. I shudder when I hit the window reload button.
I love Carcassonne on Board Game Arena. It is much lighter than chess and takes 15-20 mins in a 2p game, but still offers enough challenge. There's excellent balance between trying to screw the other player (by stealing their roads, cities, blocking cities etc) and making your own points by completing your roads, cities etc. There's certainly an element of luck in terms of tiles you get in your hands so it doesn't always work out but it is 20% luck imo, and evens out across games. Also, it works incredibly well from 2 to 3 players, but 4 or more gets more luck based for me at least. 2 and 3p games are dramatically different in strategy, with 3p games being about competing and collaborating simultaneously at different places on the board - which is so much fun! Lots of trickery, probability and fun figuring out the best moves
"And you should know better."

Do I? Please quote the wikipedia article you linked to.

"You also dodged all the other questions about what YOU believe, again. Why are you so coy and shy about that? Do you have something to hide?"

I don't feel like answering them.

"Do you prefer that gay Russian children commit suicide"

Quoting from your own link: "Because reliable data does not exist, we do not know whether LGBT youth die by suicide more frequently than their straight peers".

I don't want any "children commit suicide and be beaten and murdered". Or adults.

You see the root of the problem in homosexuality not considered normal, I see the root of the problem in shitty people who bully and attack ones who are not considered normal. Gay, fat, short, disabled, ugly, weak, stupid, weird, nerdy, anything else -- none of them deserve to be harassed.
Xanadu was the original project in which the term "hypertext" was coined. It's the primary influence over all hypertext things, including HTML. Its intended use was "directly embedded documents" instead of clicking through links. So, this web site just revives that original idea. I agree that its novelty over web model is still questionable, but that's how significant it is.
I feel sorry for Hems in this story. It seems like they were caught up in the conflict between an organization with a specific ideology against wolf hunting, and the reality that laws that allows the wolf hunting behavior that they disagree with.
Don't you mean the Firebase cloud console? It is Sunday, after all.
> The fact that you have to stack in the first place typically suggests that PRs aren't being merged fast enough.

Unless PRs are merged instantly, I'm always going to be waiting after one PR is opened, before I can work on the next, unless I stack, aren't I?

Is your definition of 'fast enough' instantly? If not, how does this work?
I liked the AWS console so much better when it looked like it was made in jQuery (not sure if it was). It was more information-dense and so much more performant. Now it looks and works pretty badly.

Still leagues better than Azure, which causes brain damage.
Same here, complete project outsourced, outcome was a security and code quality nightmare. While incorporating individuals in the team and follow the same workflow had good results.
> We need a new set of early career awards that require 50% of time/effort to be spent on reproduction studies.

Then you also need a realignment of the entire academic system as well. A new professor spending 50% of their time redoing the experiments of others, especially on capital expenditures and grad student time is going to be at a severe disadvantage against others who spent 100% of their time building their own research agenda.

We'd probably need a whole new degree that's like a PhD, but whose dissertation isn't a novel extension of the field, but reproduction of other studies. Because as it is, a grad student can spend up to a decade on a Ph.D. just doing novel research. Now you want them to spend 50% of their time on reproduction? So is a Ph.D. supposed to take up to 20 years with your proposal? Or does a dissertation contain 50% less novel research?

Certainly we should have funding for reproduction studies, but it's not enough to just have a grant; you have to have a valid career path doing such work. That doesn't exist today.
The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

Nikola Tesla
Very interesting. One question:

> The new design was faster. There was less screens with simpler choices. It went from a 'pick one of 5' to a 'heres the default, would you like to change it?'. Was it just the speed that made a difference?

If you're just going from "pick one of 5" to "pick one of 5 but there's a default", I wouldn't expect one or the other to be "faster". Was the new design more different than that?

As for the rest, I think the beneficial features of the design are predicted by nudge theory. "Providing a credible default reduces cognitive load and confusion on the path to a decision, as the user can just trust the defaults have been set up reasonably" has always been the theory for why nudges work.
The format of the uncompressed files matters just as much in terms of bit error resilience.

Compression or not, you can always use an additional tool to produce and store extra parity data which can be used to both correct and repair bit errors, which seems like the correct answer for digital archival.
> "...Continuity Camera. This feature allows you to use an iPhone running iOS 16 as a substitute webcam for a Mac that’s running Ventura. Mac computers tend to have not-great cameras, while modern iPhones have excellent ones, so this would be a reasonable decision for people to make."

I would definitely use this feature. I'm pretty deep in the Apple ecosystem ("bubble"), so I'm curious to hear from Windows/Linux users if there's already software out there for using smartphone cameras as a webcam.
More or less, we're just before the finish line. About 20% lower noise and we'll be there. For every little bit past that, the overhead gets reduced immensely

https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.06431
Reading anything at all into the relative performance of these programs written by different people which are all doing radically different things seems like a gigantic waste of time.

Some of these “simple” versions are custom-specifying allocators to minimize memory overhead and doing highly optimizable ASCII value manipulations and doing byte-equality on strings, rather than go through slower Unicode libraries. The “simple” Swift version is doing nothing at all to avoid generating many allocations/deallocations and running fully Unicode-aware algorithms to lower the input and perform Unicode-normalized string comparisons, it’s totally apples-to-oranges stuff.
No need to record 4k 120fps videos if you're doing web development, something like 1080p in 10fps might be enough and it won't take ridiculous amount of space.
Is there some software (macos) to regularly create screenshots throughout the day? Preferably if it merges it into a time-lapse.

I could probably create something with cron, but maybe a neater solution already exists.
Zuckerberg had nothing to do with the development of React other than being the CEO of the company that developed it. Jordan Walke created React. React was revolutionary in the day of Dojo and Angular 1 complexity and jQuery spaghetti. It was a small library that let you build declarative UIs. It was simpler and easier to use than most anything at the time. It also brought along with it the virtual dom, which at the time was the fastest way to render an app of any sort of complexity. At the time IE6 was the dominate browser, enterprise or otherwise, and Chrome and Firefox were still the new kids on the block. IE6 did not have JIT compilation and still ran Javascript in purely interpretive mode, so simply by using React made your app 2x as fast.

The complexity, the feature sets, and the move more towards FP-land came later. There is still a pretty straightfoward path to using React rather simply as your UI library.

If you don't get why it became so popular, it just means you haven't had to use much JavaScript to develop apps for at least a decade.
Oof. Yeah, that definitely hits home.

I agree that tie-in to developmental psychology makes a ton of sense. The patterns of thought get set early in life, when neuroplasticity is high. Refactoring them later on becomes more and more difficult with the passage of time.

Even nowadays, it seems like there's a general lack of strong male role models (in a true, healthy sense of the word "strong"). One puts it all together piecemeal and -- eventually, hopefully -- gets to the point of being able to self-validate.

It sounds like you've made a ton of progress yourself. I'm curious if you're up for sharing -- what was most helpful for you?
> mostly based under an interpretation of the interstate commerce clause

The case that established the federal government’s wide Commerce Clause powers is truly bizarre:

“An Ohio farmer, Roscoe Filburn, was growing wheat to feed animals on his own farm. The U.S. government had established limits on wheat production, based on the acreage owned by a farmer, to stabilize wheat prices and supplies. Filburn grew more than was permitted and so was ordered to pay a penalty. In response, he said that because his wheat was not sold, it could not be regulated as commerce, let alone ‘interstate’ commerce (described in the Constitution as ‘Commerce... among the several states’). The Supreme Court disagreed: ‘Whether the subject of the regulation in question was 'production', 'consumption', or 'marketing' is, therefore, not material for purposes of deciding the question of federal power before us.... But even if appellee's activity be local and though it may not be regarded as commerce, it may still, whatever its nature, be reached by Congress if it exerts a substantial economic effect on interstate commerce and this irrespective of whether such effect is what might at some earlier time have been defined as 'direct' or 'indirect.'’”

In essence, not buying or selling wheat that is grown and consumed locally was somehow interstate commerce.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
Education on the “Funtier”
Did you make sure to clear the filesystem cache between each run?
Golang in Egyptian Hieroglyphics
Last month while I was backing up my old files from my 2005-ish laptop, I also realized that screenshots are very nostalgic. Just like this old Android project I worked a decade ago and if anyone wants to feel nostalgic on Google’s Nexus 7: https://initviews.com/2022/07/16/legacy-projects-part.html
Streaming video apps all look the same now
Yes, if you read my comment I sort of discuss how kicking the can down the road can be a good thing (you can change the vulnerability of the population!).

The Omicron targeted vaccines likely provide a worthwhile improvement in protection against the recent variants. Hopefully the public health apparatus chooses to release them, rather than doing nothing.
Whilst the outcome of the simple English wikipedia may agree with this, the intention is different; I believe the articles in simple English could (and should) be as long as the regular articles, but written with a reduced and simpler vocabulary.
I don't know what you mean. The military isn't an economic system, and it's definitely not socialist. It has a rigid authoritarian hierarchy, and it's funded by taxes, always has been.

The years you cite are when drone tech was developed and deployed in combat, and cryptography improved. The DoD funds all kinds of research through the university system that isn't public, you may have no idea what it brought us because it's too recent. The DoD is funding all kinds of projects today, despite our capitalist tendencies, for example: https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/309821...

I don't know what you mean about Starlink being marketing. They've deployed more satellites than all other satellites to date combined. You said you thought a project this size wasn't doable today, yet there it is. It seems like you're arbitrarily judging what projects you believe are worthy of consideration in order to support a preconceived notion. Why do you believe GPS involved more invention or development than Starlink, drones, cryptography, machine learning, or anything else? GPS technology was also developed before the US Navstar project began, the science already existed and it wasn't some kind of lone independent invention.
That was my wonder - AWS has a system to it's design?
Hah. Reform academia. Good one. When people have tenure, they'll be there teaching their version of this stuff for a long time and it's all but impossible to reform them without shutting down the departments.

In many schools, these social science departments are a favorite for the weaker students who don't really do so well with math. They're usually filled with athletes. They love to absorb pop psych results like Amy Cuddy's Power Pose and so they don't want to listen to anyone question their results with lots of meta analysis. They want some basic ideas from class in between lots of time on the playing field.

I'm afraid that their demands will far outweigh any desire to force the fields to search for absolute truth.
I think you’re precisely identifying why Tesla is well and truly fucked. The big automakers know how to make cars at scale and once they decide to it’s easy. They may be slow giants, but Tesla lost the advantage of being small and quick.

German, Japanese, and American manufacturers were the biggest national security components of WWII. Tesla is a second tier interest of a CEO who prefers to be an online troll than keeping up with the auto industry.
I wasn't framing it as the 'American Dream' I was responding to the OP's comment talking about 'Life Liberty etc.'.

Your framing of 'I can do whatever I want' is what's 'ridiculous'.

You can't build a skyscraper on your property arbitrarily because it affects others in the immediate vicinity.

If the community doesn't want skyscrapers - you can't have skyscrapers.

There are infinity locations to build in the USA, which means can whatever you want on the whole.

Go away from the community that doesn't want the things you want to build, to one that does.