skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://florentcrivello.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/image...

The chart in the article is nice fuel for the little conspiracy theory I've been internalizing for most of my adult life.

Isn't it suspicious, this hard divide between our wants and our needs?

Our wants (optional goods, luxuries) have gotten dramatically cheaper over time, an explosion of choice, high speed of innovation, accessible and affordable to a growing amount of people, etc.

Our needs (housing, healthcare, education, etc) that for most people in this world add up to the vast majority of their expenses, seem to do the exact opposite.

Imagine that your bills would be 10 times lower in the way a TV got 10 times cheaper. There's very little reason as to why this couldn't happen, but it seems zero or even negative progress has been the trend for decades in a row now.

We got toys and apps, but no true socio-economic progress (at least not in the developed world), in fact the opposite. Per household we work more, not less. Economic security is non-existent as you need to compete with the entire world now and every field is constantly disrupted. Achieving and persisting a basic middle class existence is starting to require a super human effort now. A few decades ago, all it required was a pulse.

The vested interest to at least keep things the same has an existential background. It's people latching on to economic survival. So no, they aren't going to "get out of your way" so you can "build".
About the annoyingness of the question: To each their own. I wouldn't want to work at just any place, and usually have very clear reasons why I choose one place in particular. Same from the hiring side. There is a big difference between candidates who care about working with us in particular vs just someone who just needs a way to pay their mortgage. I understand not everyone can be in the first group, but if I can I will always prefer someone from that group over the second.

The second observation is that the generated example fits the bill, but it's not really great. It sounds like something a fifth grader would write for an essay question, not something a seasoned professional would put on paper. Why does it repeat the question? This is not a television interview, we know what was the question. Also it is very incomplete. You tell me about what Monzo is, or at least what you think Monzo is, but you don't tell us why it matters to you.

Ideally in your answer you should reflect to your own qualities, and provide clear and strong evidence to something the hiring organisation cares about. For example if you are a Senior iOS engineer applying for this job and you think being costumer centric is a key Monzo principle then take the opportunity to show how you are also costumer centric. What did you do in your life so far which will make me as the Monzo hiring manager think you will make us more costumer centric?
This sort of thing is not exclusive to Solana. Ethereum will also join Solana and be another highly centralized PoS network, so I expect more of the same centralization points to apply to Ethereum and many other chains.

As for this issue, just look no further than the DAO hack and see if that has taught crypto anything about so-called decentralization; clearly it hasn't.
Douglas Engelbart and the Mother of All Demos – Hidden Heroes
I think my email setup alone violates like half of those "rules".
A full course from ground up on web development using Clojure
A thorough and easy-to-follow tutorial on web development in Clojure from the first principles
> All email clients support MIME encoding

I’m curious about this one. I’m presuming it doesn’t just mean email clients that support a processed version of MIME messages (e.g. a client that talks JMAP), but I’m not sure what else would be intended.
For someone like us, which "only" needs 250km range, a hybrid just doesn't make sense I think. For someone who needs to regularly drive long distances it might be different, though there's something to be said for the reduced mechanical complexity of a BEV.

> Regarding exhaust fumes, you perceive any difference with a catalytic converter operating?

It's better when it's operating, but it's still noticeable in my experience. After a couple of years of being used to not smell fumes when sitting in the car, it becomes very noticeable when there's even just a tiny bit.

If I lived up north where 250km is a short trip, I'd probably have a different view on things. But given that there's plenty of BEVs that fit our need, we definitely won't go back.
If you alias a —do-as-i-say switch to a command without wrapping into a script to make sanity checks of your own, IMO that’s negligence. The name of the flag should make you think thrice about invoking it without safety checks.
> Regulation has made building so difficult in the UK

Lack of appropriate regulation allowed Grenfell tower to burn down. 72 people died. (1) The case for "deregulation" of UK housing is a grotesque joke.

1) How lax building rules contributed to Grenfell disaster https://www.ft.com/content/bf6bcbd0-5b35-11e7-9bc8-8055f264a...
Love the summary of well-worn but nonsensical anti-EV talking points at the start.

Since Australia hasn't set any legal targets for EVs, companies like Volkswagen have no incentive to sell their limited production of EVs in Australia.

Considering the solar and mineral resources they have, this is a tragic waste. Presumably they'll catch up soon though as it becomes unavoidably obvious how dumb they are being.

edit: only thing I missed was discussion about getting cheap electricity prices by acting as demand response and/or virtual power plants, possibly with colocated storage. I'm assuming that's part of the big players business plans but it doesn't get talked about a lot in public. Just hints from Tesla.
> There seems to be a debate though over 'what is art?'

The question matters deeply to those trying to make art tradeable. Their business is about maintaining scarcity (a.k.a. non-fungibility), so they'll spend up to some portion of their profit margins on gatekeeping and defending terminology.
> Honestly I don't know where else to look [...] Bars don't seem my thing

So you do know where to look, you just don't want to look there.
I keep getting hired for programming roles then they have me do everything except program. Jira, terraform, code reviews, design docs, meetings, deploys, on calls... I get that this is the job, but I'm a really good programmer and it hardly gets used.
You're right of course. Mainly by compute I'm referring to number of and complexity of neurons, not frequency.

You put your finger on something though because the bottlenecks of brains are probably the reason why traditional minimax searchers are so good at chess: working memory. Humans just don't have the working memory to search to the depths computers can. frequency is interesting, but chess is inherently "working memory-bound". If you gave Stockfish a normal time control and a grandmaster two days per move, Stockfish would still win. Past about 30 minutes of thought on a position, there's not much more progress a human can make. But if you also gave the GM a second board they were allowed to make moves on, and a notebook, I bet the GM would win, because at that point you're only comparing eval functions, and a GM would still be miles ahead. I wonder if someone's done this experiment.
I think plane crashes are not a good example of your point. Every time a crash happens, a massive post Mortem tends to occur to determine what needs to be done such that that specific failure mode will never happen again. Pilots have checklists on checklists on checklists that they must tick off during each procedure of the flight, with each point written in the blood of previous crashes. There isn’t discussion generally as to whether or not adding new checklists, the two pilot system, or other safety improvements as a result of this would make flights more expensive: hell, an entire new model of plane was taken completely out of the skies during a recent investigation as to a fucked up sensor.
Just read the NLRB dismissal letter of her complaint [0]. The NLRB found that Google decided to offer her a relocation from Mexico to Brazil before she started her BDS crusade against Google.

By the way, discrimination on the basis of national origin is against Google policy and against federal and CA state law. These laws protect Israelis just like anyone else.

[0] https://www.nlrb.gov/case/20-CA-286745
Preserve root exists now, but it didn’t exist in the past.
> I think Dwarf Fortress has the story generation part. The aesthetics/graphics part not yet..

I suspect Ultima Ratio Regum is a step up from DF even in terms of procgen world lore. I mean the creator (author?) of that game wrote their PhD thesis on the subject

https://www.markrjohnsongames.com/games/ultima-ratio-regum/
I’m so glad someone finally worked on something like this. I’ve been compiling research in this direction for years. I have various ideas but haven’t had the motivation to see it through lately.

It’d be interesting to optimize hardware on this direction.

Have you seen this? https://neuraloutlet.wordpress.com/tag/ternary-tau-system/

The properties of such a system are remarkable.
Sure, but the company managing the ad network can choose to be gentle, and refund the money. With these sorts of crypto mistakes, the money is just gone, because humans are -- as a desired feature of the system -- unable to correct these sorts of mistakes.
I tried Tinder and Bumble for about a month and they made me feel like shit. I'm a living breathing person and I have to reduce myself into a short text description and some perfect pictures. I don't even take selfies so I'm already faking it! The whole concept is just vain and feels disgusting.

I've simply accepted that I'm going to be single unless something dramatic happens in my life.
Americans don’t necessarily love an underdog, they love anyone opposed to their geopolitical enemies. The US doesn’t support Ukraine because it’s invaded, they support Ukraine because it’s invaded by Russia.
Interestingly:

> Over the past 50 years friends have suggested the introduction of a fee, even a symbolic charge of a euro or two.

> He resists. “Today everything seems to have a price,” he says. “I want people to come here, have a bite, enjoy the fresh air and play.”

Depending upon the signage and the law in Italy this may be a "at your informed risk" venture given the lack of fee or profit.
Most of us will have illegal, unregistered phones then, running hacked firmware. Just look at Russia, China or all the illegal satellite dishes on Saudi rooftops.

It's an arms race all the way to the collapse of the system (or revolution). Rinse, repeat.
Borges, out of anyone in history, would be the one most against getting rid of your physical books on account of them "taking up room." Anyways, having physical books on a shelf, stacked up on a corner of a room, lying scattered throughout, regardless of whether you will read or re-read them, gives us a healthy reminder of all that we do not know (like the starry heavens above), which is indispensable.
I got news for you. Bars are rarely the place for successfully meeting a nice lady in most places. Quality women don't often hang around alone in bars waiting to meet a partner as they'll be hit on by tons of drunks and creeps. Ditto for clubs. They usually go in groups and stay together.

YMMV but that's the case in my area in Europe. Maybe the US has a different culture.
Articulation is a relatively good trait to form a dictatorship on.
The people of Taiwan also don’t want to be bombed and die.
yeah there's a harry stebbings interview of whitney wolfe where at the end he says 'bumble wasn't working that well for me until I dropped $300 a month for it, and blam', and she kind of chuckles and promises to work on his profile with him

unintentional blindside question in a softball interview
Absolutely lovely. I was too lazy to paste long descriptions so i used this:

"What is your biggest character flaw?"
"Google"
"Search and advertising"
"Software Engineer"
"No lifer wanted."

And got this gem:

We’re looking for a software engineer to work on a new project. The project is confidential, but it’s a big deal – we’re talking life-changing, world-changing stuff. We need someone who is going to be all in, who is going to throw themselves into the work and not look back. This is not a role for someone who is just looking for a job, this is a role for someone who wants to change the world. My biggest character flaw is that I sometimes get too caught up in my work and forget to take breaks. I can become so focused on solving a problem that I'll work for hours without taking a break, and that's not healthy. I'm working on becoming more aware of when I need to take a break, and making sure I take the time to relax and recharge.

Proves "AI" is great at soul less pattern matching.
Move out into a share house with other people unlike yourself and stick it out for 2 years.

You will learn a lot of stuff that will stand you in good stead for the rest of your life.

Visit and honour your parents regularly, but don’t live with them.
My Take on Web3/DeFi
Much more capable at what?
in the past sometimes the fire brigade has suspended one or more of the attractions, but since no one was ever hurt somehow they managed to fix them (both legally and as safety)

plus we are in italy, we are masters of (also) high precision mechanics

[the first person who responds to me with a joke about "Fiat" gets a slap]
Semantically aren’t we saying position? It’s closer to an abacus no?

The symbol 0 doesn’t mean anything rather than like it’s etymology it’s the absence of anything.

1__

Is the same as

100

So it’s the position more than anything right?

Depends on the base of the position

1_

Could mean 2 for example

1__

Could mean 4 or 100 for example

11_ as 4 in Gray code :p
All other things being equal, I’d rather hire someone who knows four languages that we don’t use, over someone who knows only one language that happens to be the one we use. Selecting for adaptability and breadth is a better predictor of success IMO. Among other benefits.
> However, that requires doing an extra lookup for every write on the most active / real time table.

You only have to do that lookup once and you're likely looking up other things to write that event as well. So it is almost a free cost. You can actually do all of this async and faster:

Just call a url containing all the details in the url (/usage?user_id=123&product_id=123&type=start_usage) that returns a 200 response with a minimal payload (0 byte static file). From there, just stream the server's access logs to Apache Kafka after the logs rotate once per minute to be parsed. There it will do all the lookups and aggregation. You're probably only looking at a delay of 4-5 minutes before the data is available to the end user -- even with millions of active users.

Then you can parse the logs async as fast/slow as you need to.
Maybe a reverse business model? The dating app gets paid when you get married?
As someone working on a ticketing purchase flow, this is critical... can't exactly just turn people away! I was also surprised about localstorage throwing exceptions.
I wonder how close to an arbitrary image a truly optimal Stable Diffusion prompt could actually get (the ones on the blog being just a good guess). Like say you magically could try infinite prompt variations to find the closest match. Maybe some of the text would look like encoded gibberish. I imagine the "optimal" prompt would be very long, maybe - probably - larger than the original image.
A good friend got happily married (three years already, or more?) over a dating app, so it can work.
I've met a few people (and done it myself) that put themselves in a bucket like this and started self identifying with some character flaw like "I'm a person that gets annoyed easily at innanimate objects", and it's unproductive.

Why would you think of yourself like that? You're just perpetuating a flaw you already are self-aware about. I have found myself referring to some of my own character or personality flaws like this as if they were not fixable, and once you change the way you think about it, you don't "fix it", but let me tell you, I became way less annoying to those around me. Particularly because people will notice you are making an effort on things that you struggle with. The best way to stop being "the impatient one" is to not think of yourself as "the impatient one".

This comes across a bit condescending upon second reading, specially on the back of a simple zipper comment, but maybe it'll help someone.
I’ve yet to meet anyone using git command line in their day to day activity. Everyone’s just using IDE. So IMO git CLI is not the issue in most scenarios. You might want to have git guru in your team to resolve some particularly hard situations, but that should be an exceptional situation.
Ask HN: What is your Git workflow?
I've started to realise that I only really know one approach to managing Git repos, where I have environment branches like main and staging alongside feature branches. I have no idea how other teams are managing their Git repos and what I might be overlooking.

So:

- How do you manage your Git repository when it comes to managing branches, deployments, releases etc.?

- Are you in a team or an individual?

- Do you follow a common strategy or just do what works?

- Did you previously try a different workflow only to change it?
Windows 10 found no supported drivers and refused to print to it, while it worked fine with Windows 7
I agree with everything you said. It’s an answer. I’d file it under “ok, I guess” if I were to have gotten it from a candidate, and would have probably pushed on it in the same way you illustrate in the last paragraph.

But it’s not an answer I’d ever write home about. It doesn’t really show the passion for the company. And by no means is it required, but if I’m looking at two relatively equal candidates, then passion is going to come into play.

I’m in the process of switching jobs and you better believe I had a whole passionate answer as to “why us?” and I’m positive part of the reason I got the new job is because I was able to articulate exactly how big of a deal that was to me.
At the end of the day, you do better work if you care about the company and the things they do, and I’m going to want to work with someone that loves the things we do more than someone that is only doing it for a paycheck.
The only reason "LLL" and "lll" mean the same thing are because currently email addresses are (sometimes) case insensitive.

In a world where email addresses were "obviously" case sensitive, "LLL" mapping to "lll" would be just as crazy as "LLLLLLLLLL" mapping to "LLLLLLLLLLL".

They just seem similar, to humans. But they're different strings.
> I and OP are saying, the future will look more like crypto looks today. Not a bright future.

I don’t agree. I trust that loopholes like that will be slowly rectified with legislation if not present today.

In fact, it’s likely that crypto will (problematically?) be heading the same way. There was a recent case of a crypto buff who found a bug in some project and made off with a few $Million and I think the courts said he could be arrested and expected to return it, just as if he made off with cash. Importantly, they basically said “blockchain isn’t the source of truth to the courts” which was the guys defense. IMO a bright future for people, but not for a crypto venture.
>And dating apps remove all ambiguity. [...] It is clear from the beginning that you are both there looking for something.

This is precisely what I find appealing. Maybe I'm just socially deficient, but I find it stressful to navigate the ambiguity of real life encounters. Especially in todays climate where unsolicited advances can get you in trouble.
> the RFC says that part is always optional.

No, it most certainly does not. If you think it does, please point to the relevant section in RFC 5321 or RFC 5322.
Show HN: Chrome extension to remove noise from social media
Hi all. Created this little Chrome extension a while ago as an alternative to News Feed Eradicator.

Please let me know what you think!

Source code: https://github.com/tobidalhof/sanersocialmedia
As you talk about the affordability of healthcare, I assume that you're talking about the US system. Consider this: is US healthcare more or less regulated than that of the rest of the developed world?
Thanks for the feedback! Really appreciate it.

We’ve thought a long time about the tab thing you mention, on the other hand you can’t click back but also if we don’t open a new tab you would leave our site completely. We definitely need to iterate this more…

Interesting thought about the add to cart functionality, I would say as our business model is based on affiliate marketing maybe an wish list could make more sense in this case? Like the thoughts of making the funnel more stickier

Thanks!
Oumuamua was very curious and unusual object, if you were to probe a remote star system this seems like a really good and stealth way to do it. But we will never know if it was an outlier space rock with strange with strange path.

Cant prove it was alien so unusual rock is the most probable assumption.
Advil and Motrin are two products with differences in inactive ingredients that are analytically comparable. They are however legally distinct. If Motrin slips on QC, you don't get to sue the manufacturer of Advil.

So, what are the legal distinctions? Is this legally distinct product actually available and what are the distinctions, for instance, regarding liabilities?
That's a great idea!

I've been curious, isn't img2img basically just more SD passes? Ie you generate something with 5 passes, then img2img just runs the other 95 over that to "complete" the image.

Basically, as far as I understand it (which is not much), txt2img generates a very rough blob from a prompt, then img2img does additional passes over that to refine it to something that has much higher quality. Is this incorrect?
OC didn't say they were looking for quality women, just prospective dates in general.

There are also quality bars.
Better pictures here: https://www.aipioppi.com/it/parco-giochi/
I hate Ubiquiti anyway. After helping with an install in our office a couple of jobs ago, I bought a UDM in 2020 thinking I'd have the same experience as I did back then.

Oh boy was I wrong. Everything is hidden behind layers of nice looking but useless UI, their software is generally pretty unstable and I get the weirdest things happen that I've never had with other routers, stuff like:
* Phones will remain connected but say "connected without internet" without any reason why in the logs
* Logs constantly spammed with random errors and other crap that UB is clearly being lazy about
* 2.4Ghz unbearably slow, even in an area with no other transmitters (I've tested) and seems to be a software problem but I can't quite pin down why
* No real support apart from the forums where often the "solution" to problems is to massively downgrade

Sure, they might have "best in class" APs or something but I think I'm gonna go Mikrotik next time I buy. Idc if I get like 70% the speed of UB wifi as long as it's consistent and works properly.
Cracking The Coding Interview

https://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Coding-Interview-Programming...