skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The irony is the CEO of Brave (Brendan Eich, creator of JavaScript and a founder of the firefox foundation) was briefly the CEO of firefox before he got pushed out in a power struggle and these power struggles have continued to plague firefox, preventing them from doing anything worthwhile

I think a good solution though is to let a better organization like Brave grow, and if we need to create a new competing web engine let them fork it when the time comes
> I find it hard to justify paying $8/month for a cellphone plan because others don't do their homework.

Whenever I hear things like this, I like to remind people that they should be most concerned about outcomes, not about what satisfies their indignance. I agree that this situation is ridiculous, but being mad about it isn't going to change the state of the world. If you're genuinely worried about giving out your primary phone number for 2FA or account verification purposes, then this is a solution for you. Being pissed at companies for leaking data is not a solution.
For me: it's less to manage, it's less to learn (AWS is a nightmare from my perspective), and I enjoy other benefits like the fact that one codebase can generate and then serve up the site, and the fact that it's vendor-agnostic (just clone/npm install/run). Also allows easy customization of headers and redirects, allows for the odd dynamic route, and makes local dev/previewing super simple

OP may or may not feel the same! Just wanted to communicate that a simple server can definitely do the job
That's how I tended to drive historically when I had an ICE car. On my last really big road trip before getting an electric I did ~700 miles with only gas/pee breaks except for one 10 minute stop to eat. It's definitely doable.

My new electric car takes like 30 mins for a "refuel" on decent charging infrastructure. And you know what? That's like 100% completely fine. I do like one of those massive road trips a year. Who cares if it adds like an hour or two to my total travel time. The electric is better in so, so many ways that it's the easiest tradeoff in the world to take a slight inconvenience once or twice a year.
Subways are common worldwide.

In fact, the first (practical) one was in Boston; not in Europe.

Sorry, I couldn't resist. ;)
No. A kilometre not driven is best kilometre. So it is good thing if EVs do not get charged as they will use less energy overall.
It's hard for me to take your counterpoints seriously. Sure, an ICE might work for you, but I can't imagine most people are taking 1000+ mile roadtrips with any sort of frequency that would affect their decision making of their primary vehicle. San Francsico to Los Angeles is 400 miles; any longer than that I would image most people would just fly; much less an 1000 miles. And I'm not sure how often people consider "can I get gas delivered in this remote area" either.

Sure there will be always a market for ICE vehicles, but that doesn't mean everyone should buy M1 Abrams because they might need something for a trip to Afghanistan.
programming is going to get automated with language models in <5 years

however, I find that my job (SWE) is about 1% programming and 99% strategizing, designing & communicating.
I take your point about images and increased engagement but I'm so over useless imagery in blog/article content. I think I first really noticed it with Medium. So many pointless header images that very rarely have anything to do with the article. Just visual noise.

My prediction is that a lot of blogs will do what you've done too, and then they'll all look/feel the same. New models will come out I guess, but then they'll proliferate too and everything will look the same again. And then maybe to differentiate, those few that value it/can afford it will make the effort to find actually relevant images or commission artwork.
The Hug of Death
I'm aware of Palantir, though I have no actual detailed information about their internal workings. But my impression is that they would probably be willing to violate a copyright if it enabled them to do what they were asked to do. They might even do it with the (perhaps unstated) blessing of the part of the government they were working with.

As I said, I don't have actual information. I may be misjudging them.
Ask the caller to move their hand in front of the camera so the hand fully obstructs the view, and then slowly slide the hand to the side until it completely moves out of the view. Crop-resistant!
Just saw your quoted text, and I do think the reasoning is incorrect.

What is gets right is that there are some serious practical limitations. The most important are around the availability of embryos, financial costs, and diminishing returns.

What it gets wrong is modeling the implementation as an optimization tool opposed to a screening tool.

If you have a pool 10 embryos, with a trait on a normal distribution (eg IQ), you can screen the bottom half out. By doing so, the average IQ goes from 100 (normal mean) to 110, mean for embryos over 100.

People want genetic children, but if for example, a wife is infertile, eggs can be purchased for ~$2.5k.[1]

Using today's technology, you could buy 100 eggs, screen the top 10% (>120), and the average embryo in the pool would be now be the 95th percentile for IQ (eg 125, +1.66 Standard deviations above the mean)

The next technology needed to knock this wide open would the the cloning or duplication of human eggs from a single source. IVT egg extraction yields only 5-10 eggs per cycle. If this could be multiplied in-vitro, money would be the only constraint.

https://www.cryosinternational.com/en-us/us-shop/client/how-...
Is there a way to automate this? I would be afraid of forgetting to top it up and then having the whole thing fall apart. Personally, it is worth $5/mo to me (Tello's cheapest plan: no data, 500 voice minutes, unlimited text) to not have to deal with manual payments.
Debit cards and credit cards are very different things, functionally, legally, and practically, though they can be implemented similarly on a technical level.

Debit card transactions, legally and financially, withdraw money from the associated bank account at the time of the transaction. The only limit on the amount that can be debited is the amount of money in the associated bank account. If there is insufficient money, the transaction fails. The debit card user is at risk for losses due to fraud or payment disputes. Basically, a debit card is the same as cash but in a convenient thin plastic card form.

A credit card transaction, legally and financially, withdraws money from the issuing bank, who then adds that amount to a debt ledger of money owed by the card user to the bank. The transaction only fails if the transaction would exceed an arbitrary credit limit as determined by the bank. The credit card user pays back the debt at the end of the month, or over time, based on the terms of the credit card agreement. The issuing bank is at risk for losses due to fraud or payment disputes. Basically, a credit card is the same as a short-term instantaneous loan agreement, but in the form of a single convenient thing plastic card instead of a dozen or more paper loan agreements.
Intuitively I do not think this would work. Well, I mean it depends on what you are doing. For graduate oral exams it might be a good way to prepare.

But if you want to get dexterity in some field, i.e. being able to actual solve problems, I think it would not work so well. I think there is a difference in how the brain stores and recalls information in this case. If you learn a definition by heart or learn a proof technique by heart, you would be able to recall it perfectly when asked directly for it. However, I suspect that when you would be actually solving a problem and you would need to recall this information your brain would not be able to make the connection.

That is why in mathematics one is usually required to solve a lot of problems and why studying the theory by heart does not help much. When you do a lot of textbook problems you brain starts making connections between the chucks of proof techniques and the chunks of definitions and the chunks of whatever features your textbook problems have. Those connections are the most important part of learning mathematics and you would not get them by simply learning facts.

Basically, to say it in another way, you would learn the theory, but you would not learn the problem solving associated with this theory.

Source: I studied mathematics, the wrong way for many years.

EDIT: The most bitter experience I had studying mathematics. It was the first year of my graduate studies and I took an undergrad class in Graph Theory as my introduction to discrete mathematics. Since I was now a graduate student I decided to approach the class in the graduate student way. That means I focused really hard on learning the theory and learned all the proofs and all the proof techniques that we went through. And that was very fun because the proofs in Graph Theory tend to be very elegant. And I fell in love with the field. And then came the exam and I was feeling really good about all of this, because for maybe the first time in my life I had learned 105% of the theory required for the exam. That was the worst grade I got in my whole mathematics studying career. The problems on the exam were much simpler than any example or theorem encountered during class, but I just could not make the connections between the proof techniques that I had memorized and what I was looking at on my exam paper.
I retook the exam three years later (it had no influence on my grade at this point), with very little preparation, but the preparation was 100% in solving exam type problems. I could maybe recall 60% of the theory and proof techniques. I got top grade.
Honestly using Edge has been a great experience for me. When they adopted Chromium over sticking with _another_ browser engine I was happy. MS has contributed a great amount to the Chromium project so far and I really don't think there's an issue with standardizing on an engine as long as innovations can still happen. It seems like being able to have vendor skins on top of Chromium has been a net positive in light of what's happened in the past. I'm a bit of a Microsoft shill as of late so take my experiences with a grain of salt.
Show HN: My future's so dire, I'm required to wear shades
This is my latest exhibition of paintings centered around the near future and dystopian themes. I've been on the fence on whether I should submit this but I've found a lot of my more technically-minded friends have enjoyed them and the HN crowd might as well.

The exhibition overview:

My future's so dire, I'm required to wear shades is a world of sagging, crooked, 16-bit color fields interrupted with parts and pieces of humanity breaching the surface. It's surveillance. It's faulty optics. It's that hidden slice of frontier between the present day and dystopia.

Using oil paint each piece has an underlayer filled with details. People, places, objects, and symbols make up the ground of the painting. Each new layer covers more and more of the last leaving a heavy canvas filled with marks and texture.

I approached these works starting directly on the canvas without any kind of formal plan or idea on the outcome. My only two directives being "allow the work to be a mistake" and "there is no plan, only the feeling of dread".

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> Rewards are great.

No they're not.
The average US driver does 40 miles per day. https://www.kbb.com/car-advice/average-miles-driven-per-year...
Some but not all parts of the dashboard are working.
Have you considered that people want to transfer money outside the country too? And that this volume is incredibly massive? And is critical to global trade? And that it has been used as a weapon to keep non-compliant countries out of international trade?
It... really doesn't.

Maybe that's what makes real advice so hard - too many people making glib blanket statements on the Internet. Actual advice always targets individuals, and it's never a single thing that it boils down to.
> I fear a future where there will be a privileged set of suburbanites who get to drive their subsidized cars from their subsidized jobs to their subsidized homes and charge it with subsidized electricity, but a very large subset of people will be stuck driving combustion cars that are heavily carbon taxed and penalized

That is _already_ the case. I could charge at home today, but why bother, next time I'm at the office I can fully charge at 0 cost to me (and a low cost to the employer, who gets electricity at much cheaper rates). I was supposed to get some subsidies too (but for bureaucracy reasons, could not).

People around me are getting hit by high gas prices, they have their periodic oil changes, they need to fork cash for smog checks.

That said, if humanity had gone the opposite route and we were trying to transition from EV to ICE, that task would be deemed impossible - building the network of gas stations, all the refinery and fuel transportation logistics is an incredible task. While electricity is everywhere.

As for "chargers" (EVSE, not chargers), they are not expensive at all. It's peanuts for new construction. The main issue is existing buildings with old wiring(or non-existent wiring on garages).

As for revenue, they could easily charge for them if they wanted to, today. Add some, say, Chargepoint stations, set the price and off you go.
Agreed - I hoped my parenthetical would get that across but it's worth making it clear that Carmack isn't against different programming languages. He rather feels that being forced to use multiple languages on the same project brings extra pain.

The thing is, he also complains about a time at Oculus where he needed C++ experts to right the ship but Facebook didn't have the talent base for it. Since he says 99% of code should be written in GC'ed languages, it shouldn't be surprising there's a talent vacuum in C++ among modern programmers.
Finding expensive queries by calculating cost per query in Snowflake
I don't. I developed my own spaced repetition software from first principles based on the latest research :D
If you have a Sonos amp with an input plug, you can play that in near real time. There isn’t much buffering there. It’s low enough latency you can watch video and the lips looks like they match. There’s actually a setting where you can tell it the priority of the audio, which I assume just controls the buffer size.
How is being diluted good for an investor?

If a VC went from owning 20% of a company to now own 10% - how is that good for the VC?
My prediction: Businesses will spring up which offer to install chargers at an approachable cost (or even free) in mom-and-pop apartment complexes, with no fuss for the landlord. In return they'll take a big cut from the rate charged to the end-user, which will be much higher than the power company. Variations on this model might charge the property owner a monthly fee instead, or even squeeze both sides; the important thing is it won't be something that smaller landlords have to manage directly, so even if it's a cost they might opt for it, to be competitive (should the rental market ever swing back) or to meet local regulations. There are already enterprises with this model in things like billing, direct management, maintenance, etc.
Kubernetes 1.24.3 installation on Ubuntu 22.04 (Video included)
>A single complaint from a coworker or customer can land you in front of a review board. But the work they produced, at least what I saw, is absolutely worth it.

Holy crap. Not sure whether I would love this or be destroyed by it haha.
It is okay to be suspicious when it sounds like someone just made this up, but actually in educational research it is one of the few well known things.

See Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_sigma_problem

Anyone who tried both teaching and tutoring knows that the difference is just incredibly large. A part of it is that 1:1 you can pay more attention individually; a similar argument can be used in favor of smaller classes. But the other part is that as a tutor, you are free to actually use your best judgment, while in school it is more of "yeah, I know that I should do X, but the rules say that I have to do Y instead".

The school is just insanely ineffective, for various reasons. You need to follow a predetermined schedule, whether it makes sense for the given classroom or not. Your students are expected to already have some knowledge from their previous grade, and if they don't (which happens quite often) you don't get any extra time to catch up. There are all kinds of disruptions, like students who never pay attention and interrupt you and their classmates during lessons, but you must proceed at the speed that was designed for a hypothetical classroom without disruptions. The school inspection randomly checks whether you follow the latest fad, usually based on some pseudoscience, like whether your lessons are okay for both visual and kinesthetic learners, or whether your math lessons are sufficiently decolonialized.

So the same teacher who fails to teach her class fractions at school, may be a successful tutor during the afternoon and explain the fractions properly.
I wonder how many working Windows computers you can pull out of the typical landfill.
This is a pretty good point I hadn't considered, although I do wonder why there are so many poor drivers. Staring at their cell phone GPS or built-in media centers probably has a lot to do with the distraction component. That's also an argument for more completely automated transport means.

Personally I'm all for banning cars from city centers and tearing down the suburbia commuter model, and just using cars and trucks for long-distance travel and/or hauling needs, but that's probably not very likely anytime soon.
Someone has to take the risk. A credit card makes it visible what's happening; a current account offering an automatic overdraft is an ad-hoc, informally-specified implementation of half a credit card. I know which I prefer.
I don't know if software can be written in a way that cannot be used for harm. There are several issues with this, among them being (1) there is always a "shadow side" (a reference to the Jungian shadow), and (2) this is a form of "Do Less Harm" paradigm, and it is problematic because morality is not universal, monolithic, or consistent. Imposing what "less harm" means on someone else, will always polarize somewhere. It's the same problem with the "Do More Good" paradigm.

I have been lately thinking of a different way of developing and funding improvements of software, by adding on top of the idea of open source of free software. That is, "community-supported software", similar to the idea of "community-supported agriculture". No one is going to get rich off of it, but it should allow developers to get their fair share (a reference to the permaculture ethical principles).

This doesn't stop software from being used in harmful ways. However, what I'm thinking is that it helps software developed in ways that are beneficial for local communities instead of being hijacked by large corporate interests in markets that are not directly connected with the community (national stock exchanges). The end-users and local community decides what is harmful or beneficial, and pool resources to maintain and expand features.
Energy is one thing, but I don't see any good replacements for plastics, especially medical grade plastic. We rely on oil for far more than just energy.
Bank of America used to offer these after acquiring MBNA, but stopped a few years ago in favor of better fraud protections.
I do work in this area and my observation is that they're used as a lot more than tie-breaking factors. Yes, you can't have an empty page / filled with spam, I never said that you could.
This is a good analysis. I think there is a high level perspective that abstracts most of those points. For this context, games fall into two main categories or a combination of both: the ones created with a designed solution, and the ones created without a solution that the players have to discover and/or solve.

A game is "solved" when the player has accomplished the main goals of the game, which usually means having gone through the main experience it's offering. A highly replayable game is one that was not designed with the solution out of the box. These games are usually "sandbox" games, and the designers created systems and tools for the player to use, but they did not design the specific experiences the player will go through.

Sanbox games have emergent gameplay. In contrast, games that are designed with a solution in mind, don't have as much replayable value. Games that are story driven, like the The Last of Us, or Resident Evil, have less replay value than Factorio or GTA which are sandbox games. Many games are in between, having elements of both.
> Anti-trans campaigners misunderstand what's meant by "low quality evidence". It just means we don't yet have double blind randomised control trials of certain treatments.

No it doesn’t. The problems run far deeper. Read the interim report, pages 18-19[1]:

> 1.24. A lack of a conceptual agreement about the meaning of gender dysphoria hampers research, as well as NHS clinical service provision.

> 1.25. There has not been routine and consistent data collection within GIDS, which means it is not possible to accurately track the outcomes and pathways
that children and young people take through the service.

> 1.26. Internationally as well as nationally, longer-term follow-up data on children and young people who have been seen by gender identity services is limited, including for those who have received physical interventions; who were transferred to adult services and/or accessed private services; or who desisted, experienced regret or detransitioned.

> 1.27. There has been research on the short-term mental health outcomes and physical side effects of puberty blockers for this cohort, but very limited research on the sexual, cognitive or broader developmental outcomes.

This is not about a lack of rigorously designed experiments. This is about very basic gaps in definitions, data collection, and followup. This is not a case of “we did some research and it’s basically fine but the science police won’t acknowledge the result because we didn’t fill the form out correctly”. We fundamentally do not have the evidence.

Additionally, the new UK regional centers are not an expansion of gender-affirming care, they are an expansion of care, period. The presumption of gender affirmation was explicitly criticized, and in the forthcoming service model there is a requirement to deal with the whole clinical presentation.

None of this has any bearing on being “pro-trans” or “anti-trans”. It is about uplifting treatment for gender dysphoria to the same standards of evidence-based medicine that we expect for any other clinical issue.

I agree, sources are frequently misrepresented.

[1] https://cass.independent-review.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/0...
I think you are missing my point. The Nukes were built by the soviets, but after the breakup, Russia had control of them in Ukraine. In order for Ukraine to take full possession, they would have to fight through Russians at military bases.