skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I was getting my Japanese visa and noticed the office wasn't that far from Shinagawa Station, so I decided to walk. Everyone thought it was super-weird I would walk that, where any Tokyo native would take the bus. It was 2km, so, there's a data point on what's considered an excessive walk in Tokyo.

But I'm a person who would take a whole Saturday and spend 8hr walking through San Francisco or Seattle or NYC for fun.
Let me answer with a passage from the biography of Federico Fellini ("Federico") written by Tullio Kezich, which has become a ray of light for me.

"He [Fellini] lived inside things with indomitable curiosity and perpetual openness, surrendering himself to what Dostoevsky calls "the river of life," in the serene understanding that it always takes you somewhere."
This game is terrible, I will not be playing it again.

[47 long years pass, my family gathers solemnly at my deathbed]

Fine, okay, one more try. But then that is it.
What I think is demonstrated is that you can cut a conscious brain in half in the right way to result in two separate consciousness entities.

In the same way that you could cut a small piece of a person’s brain out and the larger remaining piece is still conscious, it would follow that there is no single point in the brain where you could divide it in half and say this half has the consciousness the other one does not. Consciousness must then be distributed amongst a certain portion of brain matter and can be cut and still exist separately in both cut pieces.
Quite a few (if any), I'm afraid. So few that I would not suggest any reasonable examples. Performance in the majority of human activities is rapidly getting so upscale that you need both to be exceptionally gifted (both mentally and physically) and begin no later than other competitors in the field. Also, two issues come to my mind: 1) Why do you need to compete at the world level? and 2) It's somewhat worrying if one is in 30s and still looking for their hobbies/skills to pick.
PC TUIs have the advantage of direct access to the character buffer. Doing it indirectly with control codes is much more involved when it comes to tracking terminal state.
You could do that in the modern day too, if the West decided to stop their exploitation of developing/colonial countries.

Instead, they’ve decided that minimum wages at home need to be X $£€ and X/100 everywhere else, so they can offshore everything. Nobody is forcing the West to make shoes in China!
From an extremely cursory read of old webpages, it sounds like the main problem is that the signal that initiates an ICE bus transaction (ICES1# & ICES0# which, by analogy to S0 and S1 are active-low and initiate bus cycles) are unbonded. I bet a good enough guess could be made from the address and data lines to feed instructions and data to the CPU in ICE mode. Distinguishing memory reads from writes could be interesting.
Classic problem of the game is too easy for the developer because they've been playing it for so long. The controls are unintuitive but fun if you're willing to take a beating for a while. Even after a long time learning tho there's a strong lack of control, a little bit of rotational friction tending to keep the ship upright would go a long way
Yeah, I was getting my Japanese visa and noticed the office wasn't that far from Shinagawa Station, so I decided to walk. Everyone thought it was super-weird I would walk that, where any Tokyo native would take the bus. It was 2km, so, there's a data point on what's considered an excessive walk in Tokyo.

But I'm a person who would take a whole Saturday and spend 8hr walking through San Francisco or Seattle or NYC for fun, so, biased data point.
That sounds probably like standard language to me, but it depends on the exact legal language. Power of attorney sounds possibly odd, but I’m not a lawyer and haven’t seen that many employment contracts. All the employment contracts I’ve had in the US have had some sort of non-compete language and say that what you do with work time & resources is company IP. I always fret about it for a week when I’m starting a new job and then forget all about it until the next move.

You have at least a couple of options you should be aware of. First, state law overrides employment contracts (and the contracts usually say so.) Learn a little about what your state law allows and protects. Companies are free to say that anything you develop off-hours is theirs, but that doesn’t mean it’s true or legal, and often it’s not, especially in California.

Second, you can negotiate the terms of your contract, and if it’s for a place you want to work or if your side projects could or do make money, you should seriously consider it. Specifically, you can have a lawyer write up an exclusion for side projects you already have going, where the employer will sign something declaring your side project as non-competing. I’ve done this at my last 2 full time jobs, and it was worth every penny even though I wasn’t worried about my employers accusing me of anything. I was initially worried that adding roadblocks to my employment contract could scare off the employer & compromise my new job, but my experience so far is that it had the opposite effect, the employers agreed to my requests and respected me for asking and sorting it out.

Companies are just covering their butts and mostly worried about employees explicitly stealing company IP and/or company resources. If you really are doing your own thing on the side, and it’s not related to your employer’s business plans or affecting your work, then you aren’t likely to have any issues (assuming the employers are reasonable people, and most people are). Lots and lots of people at PDI had side projects, same goes for all other companies I’ve worked for in both media and tech.
> If you increase the tax by 4x, the most likely result is the market value will drop from $1 million to something like $250k-500k.

Not really. This assumes it must remain a rental property.

What will happen is that this $1M property which was previously a rental now becomes a ~$1M property which is owner-occupied. The owner isn't going to take a 500K-750K loss just to keep it a rental.
Exactly, it's common in programs like solidworks to not upgrade for a year or more, until the project is done, then upgrade between projects. Autodesk just ensured that no legit engineering groups will choose fusion for any project of consequence - they can't be trusted.
You should be able to find a counterfactual 19yo self, a person similar to you with similar stresses with a similar partner: a person who kept their “bad things” inside and did not share them with their partner. nyokodo‘s point is keeping stresses “hidden” is also probably similarly destructive in a relationship.

Either way, I am pleased you reflect on your past and try different techniques to avoid making the same mistakes. Personally, I just make different mistakes!

Another thing to be careful of is that we edit our pasts: getting reliable information on cause and effect is extremely difficult. We all create narratives that don’t exactly fit the facts. Not saying you did that, just to try and avoid making that mistake which is easy to see in others but hard to see in ourselves. Good luck.
Zoom was eating the lunch of other online meeting software even before COVID. It was the only meeting software where you had a chance of getting started without spending the first part of the meeting doing impromptu tech support for people who could not see, hear, having to download some kind of browser plugin, or dealing with echos, etc.

When the pandemic hit and everyone started working remotely, Zoom was already primed to be the winner.
Not saying the article says they're "secret". I'm just observing that for some reason, given the identification of these cutting techniques as specifically Japanese, given headline status here at HN, on the very existence of an article about a fairly mundane task, it seems to imply something special (and in the click-baity "secret techniques the kitchen doesn't want you to know about" memes) about this.
That isn't a similar situation. Modern trials with titles of State v. Object are very common, but they do not allege that the object committed any offense. They are a way of confiscating the object from its owner without allowing the owner to defend himself in court (because he's not being penalized, the object is).
We could ban halogens unless its impossible to substitute. PVC can be replaced with polyurethane or polyethylene. Hydrocarbon refrigerants instead of HCFCs or pentafluoroethane. If a tiny bit of teflon is needed for uranium enrichment, so be it.
>The civil engineer will be held to account for his failures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_International_Universi...

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You’re scope creeping unnecessarily - even if we’re beyond carrying capacity for the planet the answer is not let ‘er rip with industrial chemicals. Better to address the issues separately, so you can make sure there are fewer unintended consequences. Also, if industrial chemicals are causing declining birth rates in humans don’t you think they’re doing that to other animals too? And that may be contributing to making the whole planet less livable?
The ground is there to protect humans against an electrical fault by shunting enough current to trip the breaker and shut off the power.

If you feel an electric shock from touching the MacBook while plugged in, there's a fault in your electric system. You need to have a professional electrician come out and look at it, immediately. Delaying or not doing so is waiting for a disaster to happen. You may now be liable too, because you know there's a problem and didn't fix it.

Why? No idea, but get your shit fixed before someone gets hurt.
A cool HN feature would be to snooze an article for, say, 2 weeks, so that we could come back to it when we know some more facts. At the moment, it’s an interesting event, but discussion is plagued with speculation as to the cause.
just posted another article that goes into that :)

https://rep-lodsb.mataroa.blog/blog/the-286s-internal-regist...
You can run, for example, pre-commit checks such as mypy to enforce some semblance of sanity.
Wow, this is a very hard game :) Five tries to even go away from the first platform :)
Software publishers should not be allowed to get away with this with impunity.
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I might be misunderstanding what you are saying, but it sounds like a lot of reliance on people knowing and wanting to do the right thing?
So they are going to force all Android OEMs to keep their phones updated? Will they get updates as long as iOS? An iPhone 6S from 2015 can still run the latest OS. Apple released a security patch within the last year for phones back to the 2013 iPhone 5s.

Going to an Apple store or authorized dealer isn’t as big of a deal to get a $69 battery replacement as it is to ask an Android user to hunt the internet to hopefully find a community supported Android variant that still supports their phone and still not have access to Google Play Services .
The problem is that batteries are bigger and heavier than engines.
> the issue is that, across a wide variety of contexts, the model prefers the heteronormative output.

...of course it does? If you're a queer data scientist (I'm only queer, unfortunately), you should be able to piece together the fact that any model trained on heteronormative data will give you heteronormative results. Queer individuals are still a minority, in real life and the internet, so it makes complete sense that the models responses would default to heterosexual, perhaps even homophobic behavior.

So, therein lies the problem space. Their 'solution', which amounts to feeding it more queer-specific content, strikes me as a particularly poor response. You're now diluting a dataset that was generalized, biasing it to queer people on Twitter. Not only does that not reflect all queer people (I don't have a Twitter account, for example), but it also soils your model in a completely different direction!

If your model is saying truly despicable things, then censor it's training data. That's at least better than dumping in completely unrelated data to 'fix' a comparatively small problem.
i didnt say revenue for a reason, but even thwn i highly doubt nike sells 30% of all US shoes

Notice im talking about shoes, not sneakers. theres a ton of womens wear that probably is a significant share of the whole market, of which nike has exactly 0%

Lets make it simple so there is no misunderstanding. Any company ownning at least x % of a given NAICS or SIC code. There.
With Cypress, atleast in what I've heard of (and seen), flaky tests seem to be a larger waste of developer time than the time it takes to run the test suite overall. Does this help improve that?
Interesting that this model didn't work for them when it seems to work very well for airlines which also have a pretty undifferentiated service (I mean, I know some are more or less timely or cancellation prone but generally you are getting a seat on a Boeing or Airbus and nearly everyone has the same experience up to the gate unless you have Clear or TSA Pre which aren't related to rewards programs).
Just use Solidworks. They have the largest market share by far, you can find and hire people that have used it to design and ship actual products with it, it has a special startup pricing deal for startups that have raised less then a million, student licenses, and if you need to buy a seat outright they start at 4k, with 1.5k maintenance per year. That's for unlimited use, it's your software. 1.5k for each batch of cloud computers tokens, that's gonna add up fast...
There is no such thing as a “nonpartisan panel” under the current political alignment. The kind of people who participate in such labels are invariably high trust, high education types. If they’re republicans, they’re Liz Cheney types rather than Trump types. If they’re Democrats, they’re Elizabeth Warren types rather than Bernie Sanders types.
> they are doing horrible things to themselves, their loved ones,
their descendants. It is like a slow motion mass suicide. I feel
like it is significantly more difficult to explain,

Excellent points, well worth thinking about more.
First couple of free play (random I guess) levels were easy, then I ended up with one where there was insufficient fuel to complete it. It might be solvable by going balistic through some section, but I lost patiens, then couldn't find the random id for a retry later.

Highscores for the daily (and yesterdaily to check where you ended up) would be nice.

On mobile it shows controls in lower left/right corners, which is a little inconvenient. Luckily, touching anywhere on the left/right side of the screen works.

Possibility to zoom out would be nice, to avoid the possibility to fly into a dead end.

Also, I'm somewhat confused. This is HN and noone has yet posted some js that calculates/plays automatically? Iirc that was the case for the NASA docking simulator. Or did I dream this up?
Based on you previous comments in this submission:

I think this is a novel re-interpretation of reality, from the angle that the German Green party was somehow not responsible for the nuclear power shutdown in Germany, and the effects that had on the European power grid.
Your minimum price is what it actually costs you, your maximum price is whatever you can get. You can convince customers to pay your price by demonstrating how much your product will save them and charging a discount on that amount.
previous discussion of carbon announcement, without a misleading headline: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32223270
There were some deleted comments saying that it only applies to commercial blogs, but I've done my research. There are no two ways about it.

It's just a very German thing to do.

As soon as your website contains any kind of information that is meant for people other than friends or family, 'the public' has a right to know who is responsible for that information.

They get so anal about it it's laughable.

You can't abbreviate your name, you must put up an address with 'a realistic likelihood of being present at that address during office hours', it has to be reachable with two clicks or less from any page on your website etc.

Female influencers have a hell of a problem with this. There is one law-firm that provides a service to hide your address as they will handle snail mail for you. But your name still needs to be visible.
> Why is it so in vogue to be a doomer?

Let's not be "doomers", but let's not ignore emerging risks of catastrophic outcomes, either.

Playing Russian Roulette a few times and getting away with it doesn't make it safe.

And plenty of stuff that would have been really bad has been stopped by diligent response by people and governments considering those risks.

If we keep making the same mistakes and exposing consumers to toxic things, and lacing the entire environment with them... maybe there's some processes that need to improve instead of just shrugging and saying "well, that's how we do it 'round here!"
Interesting that you mentioned the decline of ferries. Streetcar systems depended on ferries to bring riders their way. If you are making a trip by ferry you’ll need a way to get around when you get off on the other shore. The Atlantic Avenue line in Boston is a good example of a ferry dependent line. Once they opened the East Boston and Sumner tunnels and people could drive through the Bay, taking the train became much less attractive.
I'm totally okay with this to be honest. I've been waiting on it.

I'm tired of software companies that just go hire another shmuck.
Agree totally, only problem is, imo, the browser experience, even for well built web apps, is 'usually' subpar or more problematic or poor performing than a desktop app.
They really didn't make it that easy to use or find. I think I got 1-2 discounts out of it but it certainly wasn't something I thought about regularly (or at all except when there was some push notification)
Because you can do a lot with little typing and there are lots of great libraries. Python is probably the best choice when you need to get something done quick or calculate something when performance is not important. It is also not an exotic functional language without loops and filled with linked lists.

Also, in Python integers do not overflow, unlike in Rust, C and other buggy languages.

If you name a language, with high probability Python will be better in something unless it is about performance.

What I don't like: no type hints in many libraries, some libraries are not type-hint friendly, lot of unnecessary dynmamic features (like being able to patch modules in runtime) and absolutely no caring about performance and being able to compile into machine code.

> trying to figure out what some dynamically typed code is doing

There should be type hints.
No far from it. The early web was people putting their interests online, in the hope that someone might be on the same wavelength and discover them. Before that it was just academia and then it blew up with the web and email.

I'd say the main thing that revolutionised the public internet was TRUST. The early days was an era where people would be genuinely cautious about what might happen behind the website. It was initially a tough proposition to send your money off to a website in the hope that something might arrive in the post some time later. What eBay in particular did was create the feedback system, where we could gain ratings points for doing what we said we were going to do.

I feel like this trust system and the legitimisation of e-commerce has made the importance of this fade into the background. Now, we are in an age where seemingly millions of people get embroiled in schemes of little utility in the blind faith they will make them rich, somehow.
Are you referring to the patent encumbered display tech found in the olpc laptops?

Because those were simply phenomenal. I have two and I've never had a display quite their equal in direct sunlight.
Lots of good stuff in this article.

However, this bit I find odd:

> When you are starting out, you will also want to focus on recurring revenue. This provides two key benefits: first, you have a bottom line greater than $0 if you aren’t able to close larger engagements, which happens from time to time, especially during the summer months, as managers tend to go on holiday. Second, the recurring revenue customers, assuming that you provide them with good service, will recommend your consultancy to others, including large businesses.

The second point here is that recurring revenue customers will recommend you to other businesses. Why does that have anything to do with them being recurring revenue or not?

Do I miss something here?
Just curious which cloud based software as a service subscriptions have you purchase and actively maintain? Also approximately how many $ a year to you spend on those services? I’m curious because blocking IPs from bad actors is often the most effective and immediate solution to protect a service from a bad actor… it would be nice to understand the financial impact of this.
You’re being funny. Continue.
What would that achieve except pissing off employees?
Just like there was no reason to panic about leaded gasoline pre 1996.
>they didn't have access to freely available water

Please quote my comment where I stated this.

I don't believe you have attempted to comprehend my statements, nor have you read the article I posted and are just making baseless assertions to be contradictory.
> If you feel an electric shock from touching the MacBook while plugged in, there's a fault in your electric system.

It means isolation on the charger is faulty.

A properly working modern charger should not have any galvanic connection to the grid.

The isolation transformer is likelly to be defective.
We could ban halogens from construction and food industries though with a very short list of known safe exceptions (table salt, hypochlorite). Maybe we give up a tiny bit of convenience -- oh no, I can't leave tomato sauce in my pot overnight without washing, and I have to pay slightly more for longer-lasting fiberglass windows instead of junk vinyl -- but so be it.
My favorite quirky computing book was something I found in the library by chance at my university when I should've been attending a Principles of Programming Languages course.

We'd been learning Prolog in class for the past two weeks but I'm terrible at learning from lectures, so eventually I decided it'd be a better use of my time to locate a book I could teach myself from rather than doodling in class.

IIRC it hadn't been checked out since the 80's: it was a slim volume on Prolog with an Alice in Wonderland theme. I can't remember the title or anything, but it was an enjoyable read, and effective: I still hadn't written any Prolog at the time of the exam—which I remember was 4 days out at the time I picked up the book— but I understood it well enough by then to solve all the problems without flaw including some extra credit challenge problem :)

Has anyone else come across this book?
Uber certainly has things in its past that make it a company you can't trust, but discontinuing a credit card with ample notice and reissuing it?
That’s why I said “essentially” the whole point of the attack is that the installer gets “root privileges” when the user enters their password to install. It’s kind of moot if they’re actually root when it’s got super user privileges.
Definitely want to learn more about this!