skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's useful to flip the script a bit and ask this question: why are software developers so often stuck writing software with their only abstraction available being text? Isn't that working with one hand tied behind their back?

I do a lot of work in geometric tools, and the fact that the best thing that we have for unit tests is to painstakingly construct objects by specifying their coordinate space hurts. Our team gained a lot of velocity on building and maintaining unit tests by simply writing a tiny graphical tool to convert back and forth between a text representation of a coordinate space and a visual representation, because visual presentation is far better for the average human than a text description for a bunch of circles and rectangles. The signal gets lost in the noise.

I also still think there's meat on the bones of tooling that makes it harder or impossible to craft invalid programs. When we're editing text files, a modern IDE will throw some red underlines under the text when we've written something that it knows won't compile, which is a massive step in the right direction. But contrast that with humble Scratch, which makes it structurally impossible to write an invalid program as you go (incomplete, yes, but an incomplete program is obvious because it will have unfilled slots). I wonder sometimes if tooling that treated the syntactic components of a language as things, not strings, would actually allow developers to move faster with some training.
Don't promote 9/11 conspiracy theories on hacker news.
Irishman arrested in UK for 'causing anxiety' by retweeting meme
Gmail is now officially allowed to spam-proof politicians’ emails
But software has zero moving parts! It must be so reliable.
Yeah, going from coastal waters only to full coverage seems like a herculean feat to pull off that quickly as I imagine the constraints keeping it to coastal waters at the moment would all need solved.
One data point isn't that useful.

> At age 111, America's oldest veteran is still smoking cigars, drinking whiskey and loving life

> Richard Overton smokes 12 cigars a day, eats grits for breakfast and spends his days on the front porch of his Austin home.

https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/2017/06/02/at-...
Even minivans look meaner.

2002: https://images.iconfigurators.app/images/vehicles/reference/...

2012: https://cfx-vrf-main-imgs.imgix.net/2/4/f/1e950ff3b9d6acc23e...

2022: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/licensed-image?q=tbn:ANd9...
this is a bit pedantic I think it is okay to say "tax dollars" in general.

I don't think you would generally expect people to say "tax euros" or "tax pounds" or "tax yen"
It would be miracle fuel if any country in the world would have solved the waste problem by now. Finland is close, but still not done.
Well I'm guessing that it's referring to the fact that 1MB sequential is essentially a bunch of random reads?

AFAIK, on SSD's there is no concept/guarantee that blocks are adjacent, so a sequential read is just a bunch of random reads.
The biggest reason I don't like Costco is that it really isn't cheaper than other bulk clubs, or grocery stores for that matter other than Whole Foods or other "premium" stores. Costco has higher prices because they slap organic/non-gmo/free range/etc. labels on most products and the markup isn't worth any perceivable quality increase. The low SKU and frequent rotation of products is also frustrating because I can't count on staples being available, so it also caused more trips elsewhere to find everything I actually need.
Some years ago, never mind how long precisely, we were using Skype for group chat and meeting. Then Skype became unstable in China, other messengers, such as Line Telegram, Whatsapp, were also unstable or unavailable. That's why we switched to wechat.
No, its not easy to go viral, even on the negative side. Peoples attention is so scarce these days that you cant even stupid stuff to go viral.
I'm not worried, if anything I can see the latest crop of tools creating additional opportunities for traditional developers. I know of freelancers who get a lot of work lifting and shifting previously successful lc/nc solutions developed in Excel or Access.
One hundred years ago, it would have been appealing to have a mathematical model of color perception that scientists could work from. The problem, of course, is that the systems of perception within humans and other mammals are very complex. There are large differences in color perception between individuals and, I suspect, even between genetic groups.

The visual system has many layers and a lot of neural processing goes on before we "see" what we are looking at. This system is not built out of a handful of components easily modeled by differential equations like an electronic circuit; it is built out of non-linear, stateful components (neurons) with at least millions of interconnects. A mathematical model that is intended to capture every nuance is bound to fail.

At best, in my uninformed opinion, we could simply do subjective surveys of perceptual color response and encode the averages and differences between individuals within standardized tables. It would then be simple for applications to make use of these tables for making and measuring systems intended for human use.

An illustration of the complexity of the visual system can be found in the wide range of visual illusions we are subject to, see [1] and [2]. Most of these are due to the visual system developing to interpret the visual world with very limited equipment, our human eyes. A purely mathematical model wouldn't be complete unless it too encompassed the strange optical illusions we all have. (I should point out that individuals have different responses to optical illusions.)

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/visual-ill...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_illusion
The new Ranger is much larger than the one you remember from the 90's. However, Ford also introduced the Maverick - a compact pickup that is more similar to the old Ranger. I'm tempted by the hybrid version. As someone who has been treating a subcompact hatchback as though it were a pickup truck, a 40+ mpg compact pickup truck is an attractive concept.
Aren't all train tickets the same price in NYC?

Subway trains, yes, but not the commuter rail. Plus, while on the subway network one transfer to and from the bus network is free, your route might require you to make multiple transfers that are not free. In addition, there are also cross borough express buses that are more expensive. Citymapper is the only app that shows total prices alongside the route options.

in America, there's absolutely no concept of a train stopping at the same place in a station every time. There could be a half-train-length difference between where one train stops, and where the next train stops on the same tracks in the same station, because the operators are so sloppy.

Not the case at all. The NYC subway conductors are required to manually point to "Zebra Boards" aligned with the center of the platform at every single stop - a practice that originated in Japan. Some stations also need platform gap fillers to be extended when the train arrives, which also requires trains to stop at very specific points at the platform. NYC subway platforms also have markings to stand for where the train door will be.

This is all to say that it is indeed possible to know which train car to board for efficient transfer or exit. Google Maps only provides information on which exit or entrance to use at the station, but nothing about the platform itself. Citymapper tells you that the best location to board the train is towards the back, for example.
Quantity yields quality in creativity: brain and behavioral test equal-odds rule
The literal point of taxes is to to take that money and use it to provide services to the citizenry. So yeah... they did their job.
Now that Earendel was hired for the official expansion, I imagine a lot of concepts from their mods are going to be considered for addition to what will be “vanilla” after the DLC launch.

Space Exploration mod was a huge change, and I hope the core dev team can temper some of the crazier aspects.
From a scientific perspective, no. But from a motivational perspective, it is.
Why are there no improvements in traditional petrol engines? They basically convert 60% into heat. Like use the heat to run a steam engine?
> Trust me

Why? Who made you an infallible authority?

> none of these alternatives

The basic point I described is not proposing an alternative to dark matter, and I'm not asking for a refutation of Kroupa's well-known preference for alternative gravity theories. I'm just pointing out that Kroupa has described a prediction of the dark matter hypothesis that does not appear to match observations. I'm wondering if any proponent of the dark matter hypothesis has a counter argument to this: either an explanation of why the dark matter hypothesis doesn't make the prediction Kroupa is describing, or an explanation of why that prediction does match observations after all. This seems to me to be a perfectly reasonable question that does not require any discussion of alternative theories at all.
The original implementation gave out a handle that waited for all the threads to end when it was dropped (i.e. went out of scope). That would prevent premature cleanup. But it was possible to leak the handle so that it would never be dropped even at the end of the block, and then it wouldn't wait for the threads.

The new implementation calls a closure and waits for the threads when that closure returns. Unlike the destructor here's no way to stop that code from running when it should.
Now getting a 404 from the link.
or find ways to override and install latest, for example latest LLVM that would work on debian stable - https://apt.llvm.org/ (maybe similar for rust?). I've switched to this on my debian stable so that I can compile carbonlang (it needs llvm12, debian stable had only llvm11) - with above I've actually got llvm15, and then week ago switched to llvm16 (I can adjust that back to say llvm14 if I want).
I agree that Firefox is great, and addon support is one of the reasons why it is my browser of choice. However, chromium is faster and more secure.
It’s seems as if current coverage is ground stations, next phase will be supported by constellation laser links, and final coverage stage is more satellites in the necessary latitudes/orbital planes (as they’re currently constrained by F9 payload capacity and desperately need Starship lift capacity to more rapidly deploy the constellation).
> I don’t think cops “target black people”.

This. Here lies the core of the disagreement. Data suggests otherwise.
> Dad has no patience for those who say your healthspan is predetermined. At 80 he has no memory issues, no aches, no pains, no depression.

The author's father is apparently blessed with no genetic predisposition for memory/cognitive disorders, degenerative physical disease, etc...

Everybody is different. What works for the author's father may not work for everybody else. Take the above article with a grain of salt.
If you have an Eink Kindle, you don’t even need to use the Kindle desktop app to download the book files to use with DeDRM and Calibre. I personally find using the desktop app more of a PITA than just downloading the files, but YMMV.
If that were the case, shouldn't it have been 's@@ck'?
Usually because <minor> has made a prototype of an already well-established phenomenon, and the really difficult part is making a production-ready design.

A bit like the "10-year-old makes a heart pump for just $10" stories. It's really easy to hook up a motor to some pipes, it's absurdly hard to make that pass medical regulations.
Current TikTok and ByteDance Employees Used to Work for Chinese State Media
Bricked Epson printers make a strong case for user repairability
It's a good article, but a couple of hopefully constructive points

1, .toc-wrap covers the image on desktop

2, the image is way too busy, there's too much going on
No one knows where to put the trash. That was the major reason for the phase-out, that no one knew how to handle that.
I'm just the messenger, don't shoot me.

And please do not come up with future inventions that will magically remove that issue, that does not help.

Btw, it wasn't really a rush, it was started more than 30 years ago by not building new nuclear power plants. Many of the power plants are actually at the end of their lifetime anyway.
How does Podman Desktop compare to Rancher Desktop?
Great comment!

I would add loyalty programs linked to "get the APP for dealz!" to your quality comment here. Marketing wants to get their message into your mobile notifications badly. Of course, if they want it that bad, they probably should not have it.

Yes, I do not use company apps. Sometimes that is ultra expensive!! Shows us just what that access to our mobile devices and digital lives is worth too.

When the only way to get a good price is to use the app, I just quit doing business with that organization. I did install an app just once. So. Many. Notifications. Never again.
Sure when you switch Autopilot off few seconds before impact, then it is easy to blame driver and have nice score on you faulty system.

https://www.motortrend.com/news/nhtsa-tesla-autopilot-invest...
> I think we need to make a cultural shift back towards paying for the things we use, so that incentives are properly aligned and there's no need to get "creative" with monetizing users.

That is if everyone acted in good faith. There are lots of services that monetize users even if they pay and will keep doing so as their primary business model is greed.

You may start off paying a company that has good intentions but those good intentions rarely seem to last.

It can be challenging to figure out what is good intention, like GitLab offering free services... Or maybe Uber Eats offering free credits as long as you install their mobile app and provide your personal information.

I'd prefer to not give any money to someone unless I know for sure what I'm getting and that it is at a fair price.
You're clearly wrong as it relates to the post you're responding to. This one data point is going to get him to engage in a behavior that's healthier than the one he otherwise would've been engaged in, which is clearly good. Thus, the data point is useful!

Not everything his to be a double blind study showing significant effects to be useful.
Now I want to cry too.
The world will tremble at the sound of our burps and toots.

https://theintercept.com/2016/04/06/class-action-suit-target...
> the campaign doesn't allow you to trust your friends to run separate parts of the planet

I think this is more of a technical issue, not something the campaign is designed to prevent.

Besides, what would be the fun in playing by yourself on separate maps?
> a more appropriate title for the article would be "urban Australia is so lead-polluted that gardening and raising chickens shows lead poisoning".

As an Australian resident of one of the cities mentioned in the article who has three chooks we keep for eggs, my take would be a little different. I had trouble squaring these statements in the article:

> The average level of lead in eggs from the backyard chickens in our study was 301µg/kg. .... Some 51% of the eggs we analysed exceeded the 100µg/kg “food safety” threshold. To keep egg lead below 100μg/kg, our modelling of the relationship between lead in soil, chickens and eggs showed soil lead needs to be under 117mg/kg.

with the maps. How did they get an average of 301ug/kg when most of the area covered by the maps were below the safe level?

Naturally I looked very closely at the maps to see if my suburb was in a high lead area. It wasn't included by the maps at all, so I looked for a pattern I could extrapolate from. Only the inner suburbs were above the 117mg/kg level. My house is a long way away from an inner suburb.

Why the inner suburbs? The article hints at one reason - houses painted with lead paint. Another one sprang to mind - areas with high vehicle density when lead petrol was a thing, but the areas are so small the paint explanation seems a better fit. In Australia, most lead paint ceased to be sold in 1970.

In comparison, Wikipedia says the USA dropped lead paint in 1997, EU formally banned lead paint 2003 (but phase outs happened much earlier in most places, eg UK in 1980), India in 2016.

It's probably obvious to most Australian's, but those maps are misleading for another reason. Australian cities are huge and those maps only cover a small faction of where people live. If indeed it is only the very inner suburbs that are effected, it really is a small portion. Add to that backyards aren't a thing in the CBD, let alone backyard egg laying chooks, and I doubt too many people are effected. That said, I suspect the article has put all egg laying chooks in Mount Isa in mortal danger.
For the consumer not much difference. For comparing tax levels it makes a big difference. VAT is a tax on all the steps in the manufacturing & sales process. Sales tax is a tax on the last step alone.
While many of us are against certain types of patents, this is exactly what patents are for- protecting the invention of an inventor for a very limited time (20 years, it used to be 7 if I recall). In return, society gets the invention "source code" in the form of what is essentially exactly how to reproduce the invention.
> The distributor is irrelevant nowadays. Today, Disney’s role is to curate.

Again, that's laughable nonsense. If I want to stream a Marvel movie, Netflix' curation is irrelevant, because you can ONLY find it on Disney. That's not curation, that's distribution.

> If the content is high quality, word will spread, people will share links to it, and everyone will have the opportunity to see it. This was not the case before the internet.

This isn't true - Rocky Horror Picture Show? That's the just the first one that comes to mind. There are so many cult classics from the 60s-80s.

> There are 8B people in the world, there is no way everyone has time to watch everything. There will be a filtering mechanism for everyone.

Right now it's whoever owns the exclusive license for a piece of content. That's my entire point - consumers aren't choosing the winners, content owners are.
Overheard the other day:

> Tupac, a rapper from the 1900's
These CEOs are by definition not deserving of their exorbitant compensation.

In an actually functioning market they would have been kicked to the curb, long long before making these kinds of embarrassing excuses for their incompetence.

If the boards of such companies weren’t stuffed full of the same kind of absurdly entitled, overpaid and under-qualified executives, our capitalist system would be a lot less dysfunctional.

Instead we get this wildy embarrassing neo-aristocracy..

Adam Smith warned us about this:

“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”
Are we on a path where politicians legislate themselves special privileges past our spam filters?
Example - https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/mortgages/condo-vs-house "According to NAR data, in December 2020 the median price for existing, detached single-family homes was $314,300, while it was $272,200 for condos. " - very little difference. Even less per sqft. I actually agree that zoning and most relevant environmental regulation should be abolished, the govt should stop giving people tools to block development. But that would affect the price of land, not the price of construction.

For the rest of the rant - price/income ratio didn't grow THAT much - before COVID spike that is evidently not caused primarily by NIMBYs, NIMBYism existed far longer than that: https://www.longtermtrends.net/home-price-median-annual-inco.... Those who gave up on buying a house should move out of mismanaged coastal cities (I can afford them and yet I certainly wish I did!)
This is the kernel of your thinking I've been waiting for. You've seen what you call a "very clear distortion of data in reporting". Emphasis mine. (A suggestion: if you would lead with this sentence this up-front, these kinds of online conversations can be much more productive.)

Now, if one makes a claim that there is a "very clear distortion", it is incumbent upon you to show the analysis -- or to cite it. You are the one making the claim; don't ask someone else to do it. A credible analysis must be statistical, not anecdotal.
> Marking to market yields 1 truth:

> 6. The Internet is enabling conversations among human beings that were simply not possible in the era of mass media.

Though the implication is what would be positive; while it's arguable that, on the whole, it's actually been pretty corrosive.
> ah well great, we'll all just twiddle our thumbs waiting on that then instead of collaborating on how to integrate the good ideas here into existing large scale manufacturing.

So what's your alternative? Inventors are required to share everything freely, and never profit from their work?
This is definitely anecdotal and subjective, but I'd say the vast majority of trucks I've seen look really angry.

My unscientific guess: there was some sort of big angry truck trend that the people who style these things got stuck on, and the Maverick sells like hotcakes because it is styled for underserved "I want a little classic looking truck" market.

Doubly unscientific guess: A little electric Maverick would sell incredibly well.
A lot of this stuff dies on the industrial engineer’s desk where it can’t be made viable at scale.
Only if their parents have blocked TikTok, most of YouTube, and PlayStation. </sarcasm of parent of kids faced with endless parade of distractions>
There have been huge improvements since the first petrol engine, and huge improvements in the last 20 years as well. Petrol engines are some of the most studied and meticulously engineered things ever created.
Visualizing Major Layoffs at U.S. Corporations
https://www.gem.wiki/Midi-Catalonia_Pipeline