skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - The "post 9/11 world" you mention, is simply a result of a general worsening of Western political relations over time, which are becoming especially evident recently. That state of turmoil weakens your sense of stability and security, making the future look bleak - i.e. your future self.

The relations have not simply become worse, they have been very deliberately driven to be worse:

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/media-great...

Just look at these hockey sticks. People talk about divisive rhetoric, but hot damn.
This is effectively the corporations carbon taxing themselves, because they know a carbon tax is the sensible answer, but politics is holding it up in certain regions.

Just like the US car manufacturers don't really want Democrats and Repbulicans raising and lowering emissions standards every four years, big corps (other than coal producers maybe) don't really want the carbon tax to go up and down on a political whim. This is basically them setting aside the carbon tax money, and applying the carbon tax pressure to themselves internally, so they end up in the same place as a carbon tax would lead them.

As with a pure cabon tax, in many ways it doesn't matter what the money is spent on. As long as there is a financial disincentive for people to burn carbon when there's an alternative, it all kind of works out.
Google Translate used to use algorithms created by a large group of linguists. In 2016, the machine learning systems exceeded the performance of the semi-manual created system, and the linguists were laid off.
Does it, though? For example, I would expect lower-income folks to be more likely to have older, less-fuel-efficient cars.
His username sounds familiar
> I was surprised that I kept getting good results from Brave

Agreed. I'm expecting the Brave Index to let me down almost every time I use it, however it does a pretty good job.

I don't find the same results, but I see good results.
> Having said all that, moving to EVs will reduce the use of corn ethanol anyway.

Ethanol for fuel was stillborn in the US by using corn to create ethanol, which is too inefficient and competes with food. What ever happened to the 20:1 ratio of using switchgrass, which no one eats? And why mix ethanol with gas, anyway? We could just use pure ethanol, which is more performant than gas at the cost of a 1/3 of a tank less milage, which is a fair trade.
One difference may be that, as I recall, Lytro was focused on (2D) photography, while this seems to be targeting 3D, which may be a much more compelling application.
> I've never gotten (into) Touhou culture. What's the appeal?

Great music and tons of remixes, lots of characters with fun personalities (established in both canon and fanon), untold amounts of fanart and fanfiction, and there's a Touhou game or fangame in any genre you can think of.

It's an "open source" success story, just with intellectual property instead of software. Lots of what's kept Touhou popular over the years has been community-produced works, whether that's Bad Apple, Flash videos with IOSYS songs, yukkuris, or these days, fumos.
‘Keeping up with the Cardassians’
I would say it isn't even a consumption problem but a policy problem. You can and many are engineering policies to wean off fossil fuels.
Yes, as the author stated, what is considered "average" depends of the group, so I guess he won't be hiking with beginners or overweight people...

Your analogy is off : there is no challenge in cooking faster than others and no adrenaline rush either.
What if you are a vegan & asked to cook burgers with a group of hunters? That is what the author tries to say : go hike with people of your hiking level, to avoid frustration on both sides.
You more or less described it. If you put a microlens over, say, each 3x3 pixel sub-array, then each of those 3x3 squares now captures a locally incident light ray and its direction (with low resolution). You can now treat that as a single image pixel, but now containing angular information describing how that pixel changes with rotation in the field of view. Effectively you end up with an array of tiny cameras.

Applying the same principle in reverse, you can also create a 3D display by adding a microlens array on top of an image. If you use the same microlens array to capture the image as to display it (swapping out the sensor with a display, or a camera film with its developed photograph) then optical physics does all the necessary image processing for you.

The idea goes back at least as far as Gabriel Lippmann in the 1900s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenticular_printing#Gabriel_Li...
4. Religious beliefs.
5. Trolling the libs.
6. Belief that carbon taxation is a scheme to impoverish their nation for social justice.
7. Belief that global warming will be good for their community.
Lovely design. Worth noting that small, roll feed thermal printers exist:

https://brothermobilesolutions.com/products/printers/pocketj...

I've been looking for one that can print a single, very long (unpagenated) document recently.
.NET 7 comes to Azure Functions and Visual Studio 2022
good thing there is still a copy on archive.ph

people and groups trying to censor this website and having it scrubbed off archive.org are parasites

regardless of whether you agree or disagree with KIWIFARMS, censorship is never the answer nor is "scrubbing" which is the equivalent of book burning
Censoring the forum comments is definitely a very different kind of secret management!
I find your comment surprising as I didn't get this impression. I think the author has a valid point against deterministic thinking, something that has increased as computers and numerical calculations have become cheaper.

> Performing calculations with slide rules was part of what forced generations of scientists and engineers to _understand the approximations they were using to solve problems_.

I think this is a valid and pretty strong point. Just as in science significant figures matter, the same does for all thinking. In the given example, it is undeniable that calculators don't propogate uncertainty the same way that a physical slide rule does.

> He did not want to be bothered with the actual truth (i.e. flaws and inaccuracies in the simulation), because he was simply not interested.

Models by definition do not capture all the intricacies, and it's important to have an instinct about what matters and an instruct about the expected model result.
It is commonplace for simple models to ignore uncertainty and tolerances as a factor (for simulation speed or complexity reason), which can lead to drastic differences in simulated and true outcomes. Any reasonably complex model is also likely to be chaotic, but it can be difficult to appreciate when the model is useful, and when it isn't.
I think it's quite easy to forget these nuances, especially if you don't fully appreciate the field you're modeling.

> Am I arguing that we should throw away our computers and go back to slide rules? Absolutely not! Some problems can only be solved by computer simulation--because we really do not know enough to solve them any other way.
> But, most design problems can be solved with simpler, less expensive, less time-consuming methods and tools and more experience and knowledge of basic principles.
> wasting time with tools that are not appropriate for their jobs

In my mind, this is much aligned with "premature optimisation is the root of all evil", and its something I've become extremely aware of as I've started getting into hobby CNC. Through this process I've had to learn when precision matter and when it can just be eyeballed, what can be approximated and how much of a fudge factor to use. Floating point accurate simulations just need to be good enough, and it's always expected that issues will arise in the real world. Most processes are forgiving enough that issues can be worked around, and it's a complete waste of time to try to anticipate everything.

At least in my scope of vision, simulations and modeling with uncertainty or tolerances is rare. Models that acknowledge their internal chaotic nature are more common, but not common enough. Modeling with uncertainty is inherently complex, and I'd hazard a guess that your engineering friends are careful enough to only use simulations in specific and key areas that it has an advantage, but are likewise happy to use approximations where necessary.
> or it will get raised too high and be used to do something unrelated

That matters very little. Carbon taxation is a Pigovian tax, and just making emitting CO2 more expensive creates strong incentives to stop emitting CO2. It also makes "green" alternatives comparatively cheaper.

In fact, many proponents of carbon taxation support equal redistribution of the tax money to everyone (e.g. as tax credits). Taxpayers polluting less than average would see their tax burden decrease, while those polluting more than average would be paying more and thus be incentivized to change their behavior.

(Of course, it's not that easy in the real world, some behavior can be extremely hard to change without help/subventions/large investments. But these helps don't have to be tied to carbon taxation.)
There is everything wrong with children being groomed on the internet. We play video games. Get some perspective.
I remember when I was a young assembly programmer and I looked down on those obtuse C programmers who needed such a slow high-level language. After high-school, having read all those fantastic W. Richard Stevens books I simply could not understand why anybody on earth wanted to use C++ when C was easily capable of modeling complex object structures. When they forced us to use Java, I was deeply in shock: was this really a programming language or more a toy for little kids and why would they want to slow down computers to a crawl?
> Also the bit about seeing around an opaque object, which I'm not sure what that means but could be an interesting first?

It's just a property of light field cameras.

Technically, other cameras can do it to some extent too. If there's some opaque object with another object behind it,

1. If you focus on the front object, you'll see the object behind it--blurred.

2. If you focus on the back object, you'll be able to see the back object behind the blur of the front object.

With a light field camera, you can essentially "cut away" the blurry parts and get them in focus. You're not able to see anything new, you're just able to see things in the original image more clearly.
> that significantly better results could be achieved in a more recent project much faster and without almost any domain expertise

Except, you know, for the expertise that generated the data in the first place.
If you ran a store, you probably would not have a billion items in your inventory, and if you did, not all of them would really be available at any one time. And most likely your web page wouldn't be able to show them all, either.
Previously on HN (213 comments):

Bontrager’s WaveCel material more effective at preventing concussions than MIPS (2019)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20825502

The most valuable paragraph I found there to keep in mind when considering around WaveCel and/or MIPS is:

> So far it does seem that measuring impacts at an angle matches real world brain damages better than the older standards of measuring dead-on impacts. That's what "rotational acceleration" means. Acceleration is just another word for impact. It doesn't mean your skull should rotate freely.

(I have no stance on MIPS or WaveCel beyond that.)
My wife moved from Argentina to the US, the cost would have been exorbitant to keep her number and service with perpetual international roaming. Plus, SMS to her number never worked anyways (from my phone, no clue how well it worked in Argentina but she never used it anyways). SMS has been shit forever, RCS is an attempt at yet-another carrier tied service that shouldn't be tied to your carrier.
I thought that community just migrated to unity and the other alternatives that Export to HTML. Isn't even the next unreal engine supposed to have an export to web feature?
Sorry but have you actually used a SAP system. I worked at a company that spent $80m on a SAP system that was comically worse than the system that came before it. To the point that people left the business because it made their working days so unpleasurable. This same story has happened at multiple businesses I know. But it's sunk cost fallacy - once the CEO and board has endorsed spending $80m everyone's just going to pretend it's fine.
I brought it up more to illustrate that the work culture of the US is not just a result of precarious financial situations due to lack of a safety net.
> Using direct thermal technology that doesn’t require toner or ink cartridges

If I understand correctly this is the same as receipt printers, and I’ve come across articles in the past about the paper being somewhat toxic versus regular paper.
Maybe, but as someone that turned down $6 million because of my conscience (sold stock solely because I didn't like feeling guilty holding it and it's gone up 4x-6x since then), I could do a ton of good things for others if I had that $6 million.

It's not like we're talking about killing babies. Where' talking about signing an NDA or in my case not being 100% on board with a company's behavior in ways that are arguably ambiguous. As an example, if I had New York Times stock and was upset at their hypocrosy of complaining about ad supported companies while themselves being an ad supported company. Whether ads on NYT are good or bad is an debatable point. The point being, nothing the company who's stock I was holding was unambigously evil. But I chose my conscience over arguably trivial issues. In this particular case I think it was a mistake. If the company had been truely evil (by my definition of evil) then I'd be more okay with my decision.
You should still be able to create a LAN world and do that.
What if mom has an opinion of her own on that, actually likes her Android phone and doesn't want to be patronized by their kid, tech CEOs or whomever?
There is no lock-in to Bitwarden, stop spreading FUD. I'm not really sure how long this is going to be like this with the VC money, but right now:

- Everything is open source
- You get to self host
- You get to export your database at any time
- You don't even need to pay to use it if you don't want to

Are local password managers objectively more secure and reliable? Yes. Does that mean that Bitwarden is just an awful product by a money seething corporation that wants to lock you into their product and dime you till your last cent? Not so sure about that.
Tools have their own advantages and disadvantages, and "new" tools are no exception.

It would be ridiculous to produce 10,000,000 widgets with a manual lathe. The increase in time and material waste would be multiplied 10m times, so even a very small improvement would have huge impact on the cost.

It would likely be similarly ridiculous to produce 5 widgets with a CNC. Sure, maybe doing it manually will take an hour per widget instead of five minutes with the CNC, but modeling, creating toolpaths, testing, and optimizing the resultant gcode would likely take more time that just doing it the "inefficient" manual way.

More generally, it seems like it's almost always worthwhile to preserve "the old ways", at least in some form. We don't need our entire workforce of machinists to be able to hop on a manual lathe and knock out parts precisely and efficiently - but if we don't have some that can do that, we're stuck with processes that are extremely inefficient for some jobs. In machining, there will always be a place for someone who specializes in fully manual work. There will always be a place for someone who is an expect in operating and supporting CNC machinery. Now there's also a place for people who are proficient enough in both areas to reliably know which process is appropriate for a given job.
Why wouldn’t it be more important to plan out the work than to do the work? We’ve all seen the graph of how much more expensive things are to change the further down the process is.
That's a fair point—if you move internationally, you can't keep your phone number.

I'd argue that's a fairly niche edge case, however, which still leaves us in a better situation than most digital identifiers. Google could relinquish my email address at any time for any reason and I'd have no recourse.
> I'm not actually sure this is correct. Consider: every democracy in the world used to be an authoritarian state. But not every authoritarian state used to be democratic.

This is a very good question, but I think the real answer lies elsewhere in your comment:

> Which, in the long run, leaves authoritarian regimes vulnerable to more prosperous and thus better-armed democracies.

My interpretation of history is that democracy and the industrial revolution is like panspermia: it is rare and hard for it to happen on its own, but once it has somehow happened, it does tend to spread easily through "conquest" (literal or indirect/metaphorical)

But without some outside competitor or existential threat, it is very hard for an authoritarian, static system to become a more democratic, dynamic system, for the reasons I mentioned.

Thus, by installing an authoritarian government in a place that used to be democratic, we condemned them to likely stay authoritarian until EXTERNAL factors are able to force things otherwise. And that is outside of the population's control and could go on for a very long time. Especially if the ruling elite have some accomodation with the global system that allows them to avoid the competition you speak of, like an unspoken deal to keep fossil fuels flowing in exchange for being left alone.
> What do you expect -- the engine collects all 2 billion and puts them in a queue somewhere, just so that the one person in 500,000 who actually tries to see them all can?

If it's inaccurate and misleading, it's a bug.

If they've noticed it and kept it, that bug has become a feature.
True or false, reputable sources or not, there are still plenty of people in the US -- enough to affect the outcomes of elections, at least -- who just do not and will not believe it.
Sounds like something the NFL should fund.
There's been jokes about Spherical Cow (ie: bad assumptions leading to clearly impossible results) since probably before computers.
Certainly not speaking for the folks above.

While I am critical of many things Amazon does, what I see in the media about AWS is usually laughably false. We aren't all in broken marriages due to on-call duty.

The stories I read about drivers urinating in their pants because they have too many deliveries scheduled simply does not reflect the behavior I've seen from drivers in my area (I ride a bike everywhere, Amazon drivers are noticeably bike friendly in a way that makes me think they aren't under pants-urinating pressure).

So when I see stories about the FCs, I assume the same. I guess I am biased towards thinking the media focuses on the negative and totally ignores anything good. So... yea I guess I "don't see" all the bad things. Still pro union... but treated like dirt is probably a little far.

[edit, have worked for aws for about 5.5 years]
The point is that Zig's choice around memory safety makes its language design principles significantly outside the consensus around what PL design should be.
> High natural and petroleum gas prices are the Administration's own doing

The citizens may have made a mistake in their direction for government, I can accept that. To squarely blame to workers on the ground following orders for those mistakes is strange, though. That's like blaming the developers at Google who work on chat code for the constant churn in chat applications.

Maybe those developers at Google really did tell management, rightly or wrongly, that the codebases were terrible and that Yet Another Rewrite™ was the only way out. But even if that's the case the bosses should have the wherewithal to see through what is reality and what is not, and if the claim is valid to ensure that it didn't happen in the first place.

Bosses are going to screw up, of course. No human is infallible. But they are to blame when they do. They're the boss exactly because they are in charge and responsible for seeing through the good and the bad. The worker merely serves the boss.
That's where I'm at. Was thinking about buying a new car in 2020, and then... yeah. Just riding it out until late 2023 or early 2024 in my projections.
Oh I know who you are now. Sorry about your sand castle.
Yeah it’s full of the hormone mimicking plasticizers implicated in endocrine disruption.
CBT is not effective for lessening mental health symptoms. See e.g. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.bp.116.187773

>the difference between CBT and pill placebo was a standardised mean difference of –0.22

The effect measured in this meta-analysis is a less than two point drop on a 52 point scale (Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression). That is not clinically significant.
I think we will slowly increase the ethanol content of gasoline as we transition to EVs, but still come out ahead, particularly in nations that make their ethanol in slightly greener ways than the US.
I think maybe a good alternative type solution would be instead of a 'hosted' thing, I'd just like something like Bitwarden but your data gets pushed to devices it needs to be on, so it's always in a local database, and maybe you back it up to drive/dropbox easily, but the server just tracks when something changes/needs pushed and basically handles syncing stuff, other than that it doesn't keep any password data encrypted or otherwise, it's just a bridge.
I've never really embraced 'C'.. I thought case sensitivity was an anti-feature, along with null terminated strings.

However, with my adoption of an old forth dialect - mstoical and a desire to play with kamby, it's time for me to add a new SSD, and install Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and get to work knowing this thing I've avoided forever.

Perhaps, eventually, I can port a sane strings library to C, like the one in Free Pascal.
I suspect those who find the alternatives effective aren't using search engines the way I and many other users are: asking a specific question to which there is a definitive answer that we expect Google to know. In almost every case I ask such a question, Google comes up with the goods, whereas the others (Brave especially) often do not, or at best the answer is buried somewhere in one of the first few pages found.

Edit: I just signed up for and tried Kagi. Strangely it seems to do well for searches based on my current physical location (despite never explicitly granting it permission to make use of that) but if I qualify my questions with "in America", not so well. But definitely better than DDG/Brave.
> I think software engineering is vastly different from other kinds of engineering

In that case, it kind of make me wonder if engineering is the proper label.
don't bluff if your hand is complete crap
When you see this topic discussed, invariably iPhone users chime in to say the exact same thing. They like the status symbol and have come to identify with it, even though it results in a worse experience for them. The internet is built on open standards, but Apple has convinced its users that closed services are elite.
I know two acquaintances that are SDEs that worked at Amazon and hated it. One of them was "forced" to work until 3-4 AM. His manager said to him, "How can you even think of sleeping right now?". Fortunately he found a new position at Microsoft. The other SDE feels like a cog in a machine and hates it so much he's going back to his home country.
We could also use biodiesel produced with ethanol which is more performant than gas and allows maybe 35-50% (or more?) more mileage

Edit: mileage
Since you've seen me elsewhere in this thread, you might have pegged as "google fanboy."

Not a bit of it. I go out of my way to use DDG and it's almost always adequate. I said "almost."

I haven't tried the others you mentioned.