skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but you can certainly do it without anything written in-house

Nope. Not really. Your average SV startup idea in which the end users will do some simple, but catchy things with your app - yeah, go all no-code if you want to get it started.

But, in real business, in which there are inventories, sales, vendors, shipping companies, deliveries, contracts, quotas, FIFO and LIFO queues and all kinds of weird stuff, things don't work that way. You may end up having to code something specific in order to be able to work with just one vendor or a big customer even. They may even be using Excel. You do it without blinking because millions of dollars of ongoing revenue depend on such stuff.
your original statement was that self-driving cars would replace systems like BART that operate in dense urban areas. now it seems like you're moving the goalposts to talk about rural areas.

> except in major population centers

80% of the US population lives in what the Census considers an urban area [0]

for the remaining 20% in rural areas...I don't think anyone would argue that subway trains are the ideal mode of transport for them.

but at the same time, I don't think the "shared fleet of autonomous robo-taxis" model is the right fit for rural areas either. if I lived in a rural area, I'd want to have a vehicle I owned in my driveway, ready to go whenever I needed it. it may have some autonomous features, but I would have no interest in any of the "have your car make money while you sleep" [1] programs that autonomous car companies have proposed.

if your concern is promoting transportation methods that are useful and effective across rural, suburban, and urban areas, the best example of that that I'm aware of is the humble bicycle. are you in favor of improving bicycle infrastructure as well, such as by building more protected bike lanes, tax credits for e-bikes, etc? that is in many ways not as "sexy" as autonomous cars, but that's because it's a boring, proven technology that could easily be implemented in a wide variety of jurisdictions.

0: https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/geography/guidance/g...

1: https://futurism.com/the-byte/ride-hailing-tesla-elon-musk
Okay, not yet. I don't think RISC-V rivals you in any market except micro-controllers. However, it's a matter of time before RISC-V dominates every market. Due to its openness and lack of fees.
Wow, i've never seen this but talk about a red flag.

Makes me think of a snyder movie. Would you want to live in a snyder movie?
GP was specifically talking about scripts, and I see the utility.

As an interactive feature, I use the "autopushd" option in zsh, which make all "cd" behave like pushd, and you can also use "cd -n" where "n" is the number of levels you want to go up the stack (so "cd -" is equivalent to "cd -1")
Probably not a problem: Amazon Prime currently lists it as their #1 show in America.
As far as I know, major swaths of the source code is now public
> formulate the puzzle so that you can express the rules without words?

Perhaps just a picture of the state icon (or one with a slash through it) and have it "light up" when the condition is satisfied.
It could be positive, a signal valuing do'ers over politicians.
I know people who are still getting infected with serious bouts of covid as recently as 2 weeks ago. Good to know that we don't need to care about it anymore.
This is like emails from Nigerian princes with deliberate grammatical errors. It weeds out candidates who would turn them down after an interview, leaving only those candidates desperate or gullible enough to take the position.
> Some apps don't have proper icons (because they don't set properly app_id, but KDE works around that).

How exactly? I experienced such issue in KDE with Firefox for instance (since I'm using a beta version) and had to create a couple of custom .desktop files to address it.
Tesla is plastic car, poor build quality and 0 garage available when you have a problem, same with Rivian, all these new EV company are dead on arrival, you have to send them somewhere, and wait many months for repairs

I never said Volkswagen is dead, i said German car industry is dying, Volkswagen brand will live by itself and continue to improve

I am worried on the current leadership, not on the cars or the brand

Don't try to twist what i said to promote your agenda, i can see what you are trying to achieve

Last, the problem of EV is specially their interface, nobody wants to drive their car and TOUCH a FLAT SCREEN, you want physical interfaces, and that's where Volkswagen excels at, and where the brand new american EVs fail at, including Tesla, they have a poor UX and a poor tactical/physical feedback, that's the proof of poor build quality, poor taste and lack of experience, which Volkswagen don't have, they just need better software, wich they want to solve by using android/iOS, and that's why i believe the "GERMAN" car industry is dying
Hm. I just checked and my ~/Mail/inbox has 1.38 million messages.

That doesn't include most mailing lists, because those are sorted into their own separate folders using procmail.

I use Neomutt with Notmuch, btw. It generally loads in a fraction of a second.

I used to try to keep on top of mail. I don't any more.
I'm never going to work for a company that encourages "hustle". Uber's "always be hustlin'" was so astonishing I couldn't believe it was real when I first heard it.

To me this directly implies they want to move fast and ignore ethics and morality in order to do so. Like, that's pretty much one of the accepted definitions of that word?
>I know it's fun to rip on Adobe, but it's worth putting this in context.

It's fair that you made this assumption given the rest of my comment but when I said "awful" I meant as a user/customer, not necessarily from a business/revenue perspective.

You can juice a company and have it be more profitable even if the changes are unpopular with your customers, especially if you enjoy an almost monopoly status in terms of your software being what is used and taught in schools.

>As a handy rule of thumb, I like to assume that any long-term CEO of a profitable multi-billion dollar enterprise probably isn't a moron.

Fair, but he's used to running the company in a very "fuck the customer" kind of way. If Microsoft didn't have a new and not hated CEO, opened up private free repos on Github and basically not touched it in any other meaningful way I think it would have galvanized a big change in that space.

I just don't think Adobe is going to avoid pulling some kind of "fuck you" move that triggers an exodus the way Microsoft did. This is a much bigger acquisition for them than Github was with Microsoft.

I also don't think the transition to SASS/Subscription was some brilliant business insight, rather par for the course with the rest of the industry changing.

>Considering the price they paid, I bet Adobe understands this is an existential issue for them.

It's funny to me that you make this point in the same comment where you talk about how great Adobe's business is. If they're crushing it so hard, why are they in a position where they have to spend 20 billion dollars to buy a company that is an existential threat to them?

If I was a shareholder, I'd want an explanation for how they ended up in this situation and what changes can be made to prevent it from happening again. But Adobe is culturally incapable of making good software, and it's clear they don't have product people in charge anywhere. At best, they don't do anything to Figma and it stagnates. At worst, significant price increases, reduced performance, worse UI is introduced, etc...
Abuse by whom? His disabled parents?
FWIW almost all entrepreneurial efforts I’ve started were while living in east Asia.

I did start a house painting business in America when I was 19, though. Due to liability concerns and the fact that I franchised through a chain, I did have to form a company for that. It cost about $150 in fees and took a week.

It was a bit of a pain but ultimately not that hard compared to getting a loan, buying a truck, buying ladders, getting volume deals on paint, marketing and selling to customers, etc.

Online businesses are definitely quicker and simpler to start, but I’ve never felt that big of a difference in terms of jurisdiction-induced hassle. Maybe Europe is an exceptionally difficult place, but I can’t speak to that. I’ve never done business from there.

Another thing to keep in mind is than many, many non-US residents open US LLCs for online businesses. Most my friends in Taiwan starting international-facing tech-related businesses start under their own names and then either transition to US or Singapore-based entities. Mostly this is so they can use Stripe (which isn’t available to TW-based companies).
The framers didn’t anticipate armies becoming permanent institutions, which is why we have a “no standing army” requirement that we just kind of ignore. But even that only makes the second amendment clearer: if you don’t have a standing army, who has the guns? The answer is militias comprised of heavily armed citizenry.
Bitcoin eventually stops awarding new coins and becomes a fixed number of coins indefinitely, right? Or no?

But then wallets inevitably get lost and become impossible to recover.

Is this a planned feature? What’s the economic effect of a currency that can only decrease in quantity of issued notes?
They want people that don’t mind staying up all night on a call performing a migration/upgrade or will work long hours to get a project done on time.
Optimistic view: they value people who can get the job done and don't care too much about perfection, specific tools, etc...

Cynical view: they're cheap and want you to do the job of 2 or more people.
I would call it critical reading rather than critical thinking. Terms like critical thinking and intelligence are often too pretentious to be useful.

Critical reading is a skill you can practice. The specifics depend on the field, but there are many common features such as analyzing and comparing texts, interpreting them from various points of view, and putting things in context. In order to practice critical reading, you must learn something deep enough that you start understanding the nuances of the arguments the experts in the field make.

Fresh STEM graduates tend to have worse critical reading skills than arts/humanities graduates, because they never had the chance to practice it. On the other hand, advancing to true senior positions often requires similar skills, and many learn them later in the life.
Most overnight successes are 10 years in the making ...

The number one commandment of a startup is "stay alive"--everything else is secondary.
I just measured my Chromecast Ultra (earlier 4K model) at a wall power idle of 3.2 to 3.8 watts. Explains why it's always toasty. The Switch while charging two controllers, the TV, and the speaker bar idle at a total of 6.2 watts.

I wish the Switch would turn off rather than use its battery when I kill power to the cradle. At that point I could probably develop the habit of hitting the power strip switch.
Meli is the Fijian word for mail.

Source: self, Fijian.
I'm not so sure. Many topics are surprisingly 'high dimensional'. So if you go in a slightly different direction, you can quickly rich new territory.

Your new thoughts will likely not be as good as John von Neumann's thoughts, of course.

Have a loot at eg 'Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity' https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=735

It many novel and good ideas on classic problems.

Of course, I'm cheating a bit here by bringing up something by a genius like Scott Aaronson. But my general point is that combining previously disconnected fields can yield new insights or at least new questions.

Another example, it's from religion, but hopefully silly enough not to ruffle any feathers:

As far as I know Catholic doctrine says that all humans have one soul and free will. Also, ensoulment happens at conception. The problem is identical twins come from the same fertilized egg.

Does the fertilized egg start with two souls, or does the soul split later? Normally, whether identical twins happen is sort-of random. But we also have enough technology that for in-vitro-fertilisation a human lab worker can use their own free will to spontaneously decide whether to produce identical twins or triplets long after conception has occurred.

Similar issues occur when you clone a human from an adult's cells. (But it's somewhat easier to deny that clones have souls than to deny souls to identical twins.)

Honestly, I don't think anyone is losing sleep over this conundrum.
We’re living in very dangerous times
You guys are over $0.60/kWh?! That’s 3x what we’re paying in MA (known for “not cheap” electricity).

That would make an EV much less attractive as well.
Corporations don't make mistakes.
Corporations run ads.
=> Ads are not mistakes.

Not sure I buy the first premise of this argument.
Tall buildings are built with deep foundation systems. Taipei 101 has 380 1.5m diameter piles tied into a 3m thick concrete raft that creates its basement. The piles rock socketed into some 40-60m below the structure. those piles are socketed up to 30m into the bedrock.

https://www.civilengineeringforum.me/the-tower-of-taipei-101...

https://structures-explained.com/taipei-101-structural-engin...

It is designed to resist high earthquakes and typhoons. The damper changes the mode of the vibrations to reduce the peak stresses. If an earthquake is going to destroy the foundation there is nothing the tuned mass damper can do. If the entire building is leaning it almost certainly a write off and will be demolished.
I'm glad someone asked the question. I was brushed the wrong way by that ad as well.
How does one practice perfection without succumbing to overoptimistic expectations and the burnout follows?
Money. Their interest is Money. They need to offload those garbage clicks that nobody wants to buy to customers who aren't experts at ad buying.
LinkedIn HQ was in MV for quite a while, no? IIRC they were on land owned by Google.

And getting between MV and PA has always been pretty easy via Caltrain, and the various corporate shuttles that connect it to destinations.

The one bit that didn't resonate for me, as a local, was the reference to "City Center in Palo Alto". I've lived here for a long time and never heard a reference to "City Center".

There's "downtown"/"University Ave.", "Cal Ave.", and "midtown" (though there's not much there). Has anyone else ever heard of "City Center"? Were they literally just walking around City Hall or something?
> What's weird to me is that somebody would have such a hard time accepting verifiable facts about a gifted outlier who happens to be remarkably young

Where are the verifiable facts? Where are the citations? You may see the story as just a list of 'verifiable facts,' but that's absolutely not what it is.

I'm not saying I think the whole thing is made up, but it isn't simply a collection of attestations that any individual can verify. It is an emotional, evocative lifestyle story published by an outlet that, as far as I can tell, is outright owned by the LDS church. And the author? They have one other story credit.

I don't know enough about the LDS or this particular publication to make a specific claim, but I guarantee this story has been affected by some kind of agenda or policy position. I find it interesting that the first two 'political bloggers' who 'discovered' his writing are Bari Weiss (a contentious figure certainly, but also one who has vehemently criticized formal/higher education in the US) and Hannah Frankman of the:

> ...Foundation for Economic Education, a nonprofit foundation focusing on teaching young people principles of entrepreneurship and economics, and promoting home-schooling.

Interesting. Oh, look at that:

> Frankman, too, was working on a story about Kevin as an unschooling success story when he died.

Listen, this is a feel good story, and it's not my intention to pick it apart, but don't go after people for taking a hard look at something they come across online. Further, it's possible your self-image (a young gifted outlier) impacts your ability to approach this critically (or see why other people would approach this story critically).

P.s.

There are also just weird anecdotes in the story that make me even more skeptical like the claim he bought a tractor at age 11. Okay, maybe it was a cheap, used tractor? No, the article later states:

> Kevin financed a brand new shiny green John Deere tractor for $50,000.

What? No. An 11 year old did not finance a brand new $50,000 John Deere tractor. There may be some kind of explanation wherein his parents financed it using their credit, but he makes the payments yada, yada, yada... but the very fact the following quote is presented without further explanation in the fifth paragraph of the story is telling:

> And, in his spare time, he had the task of grading the road to his farm using the John Deere tractor he bought new for himself for his 11th birthday.

edit: grammar
This logic would work if competition didn’t exist and no one ever made huge unforced errors. In the world as is Buffet, Gates, Bezos and Musk are among the richest people ever. Their parents were wealthy but nothing remotely comparable. The Carnegies and Rockefeller families are still rich but even if you add all of them together they’re not a shadow the importance the founders of the fortunes had.

Political dynasties are important but competition erodes them too. Who’s the most important Kennedy under 40? Whoever they are they’re not that important.
I have experience with jobs that were the opposite of these (except for long hours) and definitely required grit. Which is still to say: not pleasant, but rewarding. It might be reasonable for some jobs to filter out people looking for “pleasant”, without it being a toxic work environment.
Rasplex?
I do wonder, who are these people that intentionally click on ads?
This isn't quite right. Both have gotten arbitrarily faster. That some folks have gigabit fiber is proof of that. Graphics have just outpaced networking. Easily.
I don't think it's unrealistic, just that we could possibly add more gradations and call it a spectrum, from the normiest of normies that is completely unreceptive to anything out of the ordinary to world-alerting thinkers who went against the grain of their time.

My personal hypothesis is that these gradations of normie-to-strange are important in that they point to a range of similar behavior between people of the same gradation that goes beyond just intellectual conformity or non-conformity. Perhaps one issue with binary classification is that makes it easier for us to overrate our own ideas on account of placing ourselves automatically in the "good" half since the barrier to entry then becomes so low (i.e. just don't be a normie and you're done)

The meditation example is a great one actually. The only discussions I've seen about it that don't cover the Buddhism-for-Westerners angle have to do with CBT/repackaged stoicism or people who enjoy nootropics/LessWrong/split-toe shoes etc. I did have one unusual conversation once with a person who described to me a sort of self-induced bad trip they got from meditation practice (based on what I could find online, that is a known phenomenon).

Regarding that last part, I agree I came on a bit strong there in my post, and it was unwarranted. I did that because of past experience and familiarity with the discursive style.
I agree but I think you misunderstood. Any program installed via Ubuntu Snap does not come with its man page, regardless of whether the authors wrote the best man page ever.

If you install via apt like normal, there's the man pages. Snap is canonical competitor with docker, ... Kinda
Sure, but how are you less cynical than others here?
So scammers and fraudsters running pyramid schemes etc. should be allowed to do so?
> Developers said they would leave GitHub when Microsoft acquired it. Did GitLab get a valuation boost? Maybe a minor one at most.

"Developers" may not have moved in much percentage-wise. However, I have noticed quite a few projects moved to GitLab.

Projects being on Gitlab forces developers to exist in both places which cracks the "default convenience" monopoly of Github.
I did HVAC work in the late 90's till the late 00's. At that time, only the really expensive, high SEER rating units were variable speed. Cheaper 10-13 SEER systems had scrolls but they were fixed speed.
I think this is a jam/jelly situation.

American “cursive” is what is known in other countries as script. It’s the kind of thing you might learn on a calligraphy course. Although there is overlap, it’s not the same as e.g. what in the UK is known as “handwriting” which is writing with the letters joined together explicitly for the purpose of comfort and efficiency with zero aesthetic intent.

At least for me, though I believe the majority of the UK would agree, handwriting (“cursive”) is what I use in daily life, e.g. writing a shopping list, and that print is reserved for whenever I want to be neat and formal and have others understand my handwriting - but it’s kind of a chore to write.
Yeah that's exactly what President Biden said.
I still have my keyfob somewhere, first thing I thought of as well.
I think you are being needlessly pedantic. Everyone understands that "full rewrite" means "restarting from scratch" in this context, especially since the poster was very clear that eventually everything will be touched.
I've heard the pencil trope from you, as well as other teachers, not administrators. When the school spends $16,000 per student, and can't get pencils, it just doesn't add up.

> Asking teachers to develop massive amounts of materials themselves.

Another thing I cannot comprehend. How many 5th grade teachers are there in the US? 10,000? How many lesson plans have to be developed? 10,000? This is absurd. Any other industry would share lesson plans. Teachers also tell me that each summer for their grade, they have to develop the 5th grade lesson plans all over again. I asked why not reuse last year's? One teacher told me she had to customize them for each student. I asked her how she could customize them over the summer when students weren't assigned to classes until school started. She didn't reply.

> You really have to try hard to screw it up to make teachers miserable, and that's what our society does

More like that's what socialism does. The public schools are a service provided by the government, and exhibits all aspects of socialism. Your observation that the public schools are Kafkaesque is right on target. More money will not fix them.

Something doesn't add up.
like i said, they do what they can with the cards that they were dealt. the initial design of the system was flawed in many ways, one of them being the cylindrical wheel profile
Do people still say those terms? I feel like they were cool (well, at least not utter cringe) for like 6 months 10+ years ago and ever since has been a signal of cluelessness. “Grit” at least implies self-awareness / honesty so long as it’s not paired with other indicators that it’s coming from the “hustle culture” idiom
I don't buy it. They're not going to re-engineer their netcode just because a development version of it got leaked. It will probably get rewritten anyway in the normal course of development. But if they were counting on an obscure protocol keeping hackers out of their game, they were always going to lose that advantage within hours to weeks of the official launch anyway.
Google mistakenly sent an engineer almost $250k
here's one reason : car companies use dog slow tech because they care more about extreme conditons/longetivity/saving a buck. I have seen videos showing the lag on the Taycan's infotainment system and it's just ridiculous. If it feels dated on arrival, I can't imagine in 10 years.

Now the reason : it became too slow because of software updates? You can just upgrade your phone (which you are gonna do anyway) instead of ditching your whole car!