skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow thank you so much! I didn’t expect such a detailed response and I really appreciate it! Most of these still seem totally applicable so I’ll put them to good use. I didn’t realize classes were so hard to get in to (Looked it up and it still seems to be an issue) so I’m going to be prepared next quarter.

> For upper level math or CS courses, these are often only 3 credits because there's no section, but you still need to spend at least 15 hours a week on them (so 4 hours of work for every hour of lecture)

This confused me at first. In my orientation session (14 hours long over 2 days…) they never talked about this! At community college basically all classes were 5 credits so it was weird to see many hard classes only be 3 or 4. Sounds like they aren’t going to be any less difficult… Quite annoying!

> Pick a couple CS courses a year that you're going to go hard on. Set aside extra time for them, maybe double, do your very best work, and go above and beyond on assignments. Profs will remember their best student in a course and this can open doors for you.

I’ll give this a shot for sure! There are quite a few classes that I’m interested in taking and it’s probably worth putting in a extra effort on the stuff that’s actually important to me.

Thanks again! Your comment gave me a lot of insight about college and UW. Hopefully I won’t have too many nightmares about UW :)
allright, russian mines are not "state-of-the-art" then.
This card looks pretty good, but it’s no match compared to the Bitchin’fast!3D 2000. 425 BungholioMarks don’t lie!

https://imgur.io/d3SSTNT
Since the passage of Prop 46 and 47, the Central Valley has become exponentially worse. I grew up near Fresno and you never ever saw the level crime, homelessness, and open drug use that is completely accepted now. People in the Central Valley resent that those laws were passed by liberals in SF and LA and now the Central Valley can't even address the crime situation. Similarly, I've seen tons of YouTube videos where people in Boston, SF, San Francisco say we should have open borders and allow all immigrants--but that they should settle in rural areas (i.e. republican areas) because their cities are too crowded already.

It's easy to pass ideological laws when you work in a nice office park, or in your Ivory tower in Mill Valley or Nob Hill--but there are a lot of people now who work low level jobs and now have homeless tweakers living outside their house--something that was not a problem even a decade ago. California is sabotaging and self-destructing. None of the progressive laws have improved people's quality of life--they've had the opposite impact for most. But as democrats have increasingly become an elitist and PMC focused political party, they don't care that there is rising black on Asian crime, homeless people in nearly ever public space, and shoplifting and open drug use are not just status quo parts of SF.

I say this all as a Bernie voter and someone who has NEVER voted republican, but I have lived all over California and have a pretty good sense of how typical SF citizens misunderstand what's really pissing people off in the Central Valley. It's not all guns and abortion--it's about what actually impacts them and their kids.
I think certification is secondary. The most important thing is liability. The problem is that software problems are ephemeral and often gets disregarded. If a software is slow, people seems to just live with it and/or just buy faster computers. Just think about how weird it is if things just randomly fall of, it happens so irregularly that I don't expect them to happen. This is simply not true of software.
How good a particle physicist is GPT-3?
It's fitting as Rust is the Volvo of programming languages (and I mean that in a positive way, much as Volvo characterised itself in its successful "Bloody Volvo Driver" advertising campaign).
I wanted it more as a fully mobile based end to end solution. Not public facing forms / switching context to sheets but personal ones where I can log anything with a little bit of structure.
Where are you from? What is your specialization?
I'm looking forward to a "turbo mode when in direct sunlight" mechanic.
These Cruise cars didn't have anyone in them at all.

No company should be running "experiments" like this on a public road with a 5000+ lb vehicle.
Sounds like it fits in the family of concatenative synthesis. I've played with this technique before but never got any nice results, this tool is good motivation to give it another go. Some other cousins:

https://rodrigoconstanzo.com/combine/

http://www.benhackbarth.com/audioGuide/index.html
Finishing up my latest speaker cabinet for my sound system.

It's a double 18" reflex cabinet I designed myself. I'm using 18mm birch plywood. I'm doing some finishing bits this weekend:

* Soldering the connectors, the drivers will be wired in series and are 8 ohm so the box will be 16 ohm. My soldering skills are trash so it looks terrible.

* Final sanding

* Oiling

Next weekend will be mounting drivers and handles and hopefully testing :)
A nice feature of working memory is that although it's limited to around 6† "things", each thing can be any size, if your brain considers it a single unit. This is called "chunking".

So, it's easier to remember the three numbers 34, 765, 812 than the eight numbers 3, 4, 7, 6, 5, 8, 1, 2.

Refactoring code into separate functions with descriptive titles is probably a lot like combining numbers.

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† Well, the article says 4–6; I'd always heard the average was around 7.
My notes system is established but this tool looks interesting. I essentially create a Github repository and journal computer and software ideas in the open in a README.md with a markdown heading for each note and number the notes.

You can find my journal of 450+ computer software ideas in my profile.

If you're on the fence over what tool to journal with, then I recommend my approach, it just works and it has low barrier to entry, you just need github account, you could even use the web interface to update your journal and edit the README.md.

Whatever tool you use it needs to have low friction so it encourages you to write and you don't forget how to create a post once you set it up.

The important thing about journalling is that it encourages you to write and keep writing which is where the reward comes from.
That just isn't true in my case. I started my career in the late 90s and was the young kid at the office. So on my network is full of older developers.

Very few of them have been pushed out of the field. Yes many moved up, but the majority still code. The ones who had not moved into management are either retired (Over 65), retired early (Rich, big payday) or dead.
Another way to think about it: there are a lot of planes and different ways the PA system could go wrong. You’re much less likely to read an article about a plane being ‘haunted’ by a strange clicking or buzzing or humming or white noise sound.
Not a vegan here, but to bolster your point somewhat, there's this huge assortment of South Indian food that is completely meat-free, it's grain and plant based, and it is ancient cuisine that mastered being delicious. It has no pretense around fake chicken or fake this or that.

It does contain a lot of ghee, so it isn't vegan, but my point remains. Once I was taken to a vegan sushi place, and I was given some sort of "vegan salmon roll" that was made with mango slices. It wasn't bad - but the fact that you said it was salmon, and it wasn't, is a turn-off. They'd be better off just saying, we're a vegan restaurant, here's our food to try, rather than calling it something fake.

People don't like to play pretend, it feels odd, and it doesn't convert the non-vegans like myself.
Vernor Vinge saw it coming too. In his 1992 sci-fi novel “A Fire Upon the Deep,” set in the far future, the internet is called “The Net of a Million Lies”:

https://www.tor.com/2009/06/11/the-net-of-a-million-lies-ver...
Considering the article is focused on Christianity, I doubt that.
I don't follow baseball all that closely, but I like to periodically check on the FiveThirtyEight MLB predictions to see how "my" team is doing: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2022-mlb-predictions/
I love that this has finally come full-circle. I remember early scan-tron bubble sheets that you would record test answers on, then all the sheets were fed into a machine and it output the scores for the whole class.

Later on, there were web-based automatic graders, that, for example, would accept "3.0" as a correct answer, but reject "3" as incorrect.

This is just the natural recoil to a system that treats young human beings as automatons.
Liveblocks looks great, thanks for mentioning! Will try it out sometime
Fair would be a fine large enough to actually induce existential worry. A $4 billion fine isn't enough to make Google worried for their continued existence. They know they'll be fine.
I was told recently by a person doing addiction outreach that the biggest spike in overdose deaths he sees is from methamphetamine being spiked with fentanyl.

Not going to judge the plan, but please make sure to have a Narcan (naloxone) nearby, familiarize yourself with its use and do the same for any friends/family/neighbors that might be in near proximity of you. If you can’t afford it there are organizations that can provide you one for free or lower cost.
A self driving car wouldn't be in that situation in the first place.
if you don't end the files with a new line, adding a new non-empty line in the end modifies 2 non-empty lines instead of one.
This comment page seems to have a curious number of people who are projecting a bad experience with an ex-partner as emblematic of a broken society.
>I live in one of the cities mention in the article and yes, this disdain is apparent. When I go to cons in the bay, I hate mentioning where I'm from. The look on peoples' faces ranges from contempt to disgust.

Completely agree. It's something I have also experience numerous times--especially in college where basically people from SF/LA/SD would be extremely judgmental and basically write you off just knowing where you grew up.
good Ask HN - mostly binge watch TV show(s), some minor errands, some time with parents, lot of the usual reddit/HN
Love and hate are emotions that sometimes lie very close together.
Did a famous doctor’s Covid shot make his cancer worse?
You can set environment variables directly in your `fly.toml`.

https://fly.io/docs/reference/configuration/#the-env-variabl...

You can't read secrets back once you've set them. That's because we can't read secrets back once we've set them --- at least, our API can't. The API has write-only access to our secret storage.
https://github.com/nv-tlabs/GET3D

> News

> 2022-09-22: Code will be uploaded next week!

Not really that interesting at this point; the 5 page paper has a lot of hand waving, and without the code to see how they actually implemented it…

…I’m left totally underwhelmed.

No weights.

No model.

No code.

The pictures were very pretty.

/shrug
why can't ublock origin work properly with this manifest v3?
Read my comment above. A PE is a license, a credential approved by the state, not a certification given by a company. As with other licenses, it's FAR more comprehensive than just passing a test, and requires working experience. My wife required 2500! hours of work to qualify for taking the second test in her mental health counseling licensing. We're talking about 2 different things.
You're fifty years late. Doomwatch did an episode called The Plastic Eaters in 1970.

"A plane dissolves in mid-air, its plastic components eaten away. Doomwatch faces its first challenge: to halt the disastrous spread of a man-made virus with the power to melt all plastic."

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0564476/
"Important" means something important that I like. "Controversial" means something important that I don't like.

Writing "controversial" makes the reader think something is bad while helping the author avoid the chore of giving any actual reasons for their opinion.
I’m at a horse show in Lexington Kentucky where my daughter is competing.

It’s my first time here, and with the cooler weather it’s quickly becoming one of my favorite show venues.
Clean tech. Advancing our iphone use into the future.
You can book a ride right now if you want. It may never be a dominant mode of transportation, but it is happening:

https://incredible-adventures.com/zeppelin-airship.html
You‘d still need a ton of C/Rust if you provided only CarPlay/AndroidAuto APIs.
The "best research" 20 years ago said fat free was the solution, now everybody is walking around with mental health issues. When it comes to nutritional science there's WAY too much corporate influence to trust "the best research" at any given point in time.
This seems like an interesting heuristic for anything that could automatically either generate or "format" code - a little more semantic than just relying on a text parser
The West limiting itself will only destroy our mental health and creativity in a moment where both are needed the most to fight old enemies such as Russia, China, India etc. But also to fight new enemies such as climate change.

There is a reason why monks don't come up with world-changing inventions. Necessity is the mother of invention after all.

We invent stuff to keep improving our quality of life, that is a complete different approach than regressing and limiting ourselves which has never worked and never will.
Aside:

Why don’t folks give their web pages titles? There’s a title in the body but I mean actual page titles that show up in browser windows, tabs, and bookmarks.

<head>
<meta>
<title>Page Title</title>
</meta>
</head>
I am attending a wedding. Why would that be interesting?

Because I flew across the planet to attend my friend's wedding, who I met on an open source conference, the OpenStack summit, many years ago.

At the early ages of my career I thought of any kind of tech gathering as a necessary forum to show off, be competitive, demonstrate how much one (individual) excel, and becomes superior to others. I definitely wasn't at the right spot with this toxic mindset.

I became a regular attendee and speaker and trainer on the summits, and made good connections who eventually became close friends. The community, and especially these people taught me how to be a better person, and showed me that one can maintain professional integrity while still having a more open, more friendly, more helpful mindset.

Thanks for this, community! And best wishes, Jay!
Precisely. It was only after I’d purchased a 2020 Volvo that I realised that they’re trying to compete with the luxury car manufacturers on a fraction of their budget.

It shows.

I have nearly every safety feature turned off in the car because they all generate false positives at an astounding rate.
I agree, programming is still fun. Problem is my job has changed due to my age and experience and has migrated into something I don't want to do or can't do that well, managing others and the project as a whole. I get to do less of what I do and what I do well.
https://archive.ph/gU3Fe
Exactly. This is not technically remarkable given what's currently possible. I would actually be surprised is some variation of this isn't already used by law enforcement or security companies. This looks like something a college student might be able to make with something like OpenCV (scaling aside).
The truck in the room are cars, not phones. And cities built over the idea that you must have them. Walking even in a more or less urban scenario should be something usual, enjoyable, part of our everyday life. Instead most people must have a car, have everything too far away from where they live (or just drive a few blocks instead of walking). Cities built around walkability, with trees, parks, benches and so on, with most of what you need at 15 minutes away from wherever you are, may make part of that flaneurism an everyday experience.
Now? Didn't this advertising company buy fitbit 18 months ago?
You're right. I use it as a euphemism, I think because the stigma is so strong even I feel uncomfortable writing it. It is in fact mail-order "street" metamphetamine from an online reseller.

My understanding is that the production of metamphetamine has increased in quality over time, so that it should be possible to get something reasonably potent with a little trial and error. The idea is to optimize both on cost and size, because if it turns out to be viable as a tool, having to order smaller packages less frequently should contribute to reducing risks.

On point 2, I'm aware of the acetone wash, I think that's definitely worth doing (though it can't wash every impurity). I haven't attempted it yet due to fire safety concerns, and because I see it more as an optimization I can make down the line, if this whole insane experiment turns out to be practically viable as a potential tool in my toolbox.
You’d think so, and yet when I test drove a Volvo the A/C controls were only accessible via touchscreen.

Not separate physical controls. No voice commands. Only the ability to tap on the touchscreen at least three times to change the A/C. It was a real bummer and soured me on the brand. It’s hard to believe they are safety focused with design decisions like that.
> “The idea that you might make synthetic fuel that has a higher energy density than petroleum while being cheaper is very alluring” Of course it sounds good - but reality isn’t that simple to twist to our desires. Impossible meat was more expensive (in spite of them running at a loss), didn’t taste as good, wasn’t any healthier, and by many accounts wasn’t any better environmentally. All downsides and no upside.

To me, it seems that the question comes down to energy efficiency. How many calories in are required to produce one calorie of beef? Our World In Data claims the efficiency is 1.9% [1], whereas Yale Center for Business and the Environment claims it's 2.5% [2]. So, it seems that if somehow you could figure out how to reconfigure plants into meat in a way that isn't as inefficient, you could come out ahead on cost. Now, maybe this is way too hard to do currently (I don't know since I don't know much of the science), but it at least seems like there could be an opportunity.

Another place where cost could cost factor in would be if governments were to enact a carbon tax (or, alternatively, tax meat, or subsidize plant based meats). If the actual cost to the environment could be reflected in the cost consumers pay, that's another opportunity for plant based meats to come out cheaper.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-efficiency-of-meat...
[2] https://cbey.yale.edu/our-stories/disrupting-meat
Livestream link for the interested
https://youtu.be/zuLL9MaiyTw

Break a leg!
But the underlying principle is still filtering out the undesired content instead of selecting the desired content.
Tentative Release Schedule for Emacs 29.1
Searching videos on TikTok greets me with an anti-bot puzzle. And it still doesn't let me see the results unless I log in. It's pretty much unusable for me.
I do plan on adding vault encryption and cross device sync (literally making a list of updates atm). Like tacostakohashi mentioned, I too have been thinking of using git for cross device sync.
What? I've seen more recent threads getting "archived" (no one can comment or vote) earlier and earlier than ever. It used to be that every thread was guaranteed to stay communicable for at least a year, maybe 2. That was enough for most things but still represented a discontinuity in the transfer of knowledge as a new thread would need to be made and gain traction and votes and rarely (very rarely) the previous thread would be linked to avoid just recycling the same points and never making progress. That exceedingly rare linking now basically never happens and threads get archived as early as 6 months! I assume there's some variation as I believe I may have seen threads that don't get locked so early but it's a significant disruptor on the transfer of knowledge. And with how bad reddit's searching is, unless the previous thread is linked there's a tiny chance you'll ever find it let alone even know it existed.

That format just promotes reposting and restating the exact points that were popular 6 months ago. There have been many times I have had something to contribute to a discussion and have been rebuffed by the "This thread has been archived" popup. Truly any thread more than a year could not survive most current social conglomerates, I understand the scaling issues but it does not make it untrue.
Don't see why not, especially for low impact, high frequency decisions. Some AI guided assistance with option to automate. The next level for auto complete I guess.
Very on-brand for Richard, somehow.
> I'm a cynic, I work for money and nothing else

You're not a cynic. That's the most healthy approach to working for others, with no stake and little to no agency. The culture in certain countries (US, Japan, South Korea) is trying to brainwash people into "giving it all" to their meaningless jobs and stigmatizes people who won't. It's all just psy-ops though, and people who fall for it are the real morons and/or simpletons (they often wake up with a "mid-life crisis" later anyway).
Well, you're gonna need folks to sift through all the generated images and curate the results into something coherent. Taste is still a thing after-all.
The numbers I heard for transient heart issues from the vax are 1 in 15,000

My own research tells me the months long cardiac issues I got when getting COVID happen 100 times (or more) frequently.
I know two major things about heat pumps:

1) their owners insist they are the greatest thing ever and

2) nobody in the midwest seems to sell them (at any price)

I don't quite know how to reconcile those two things.
Agreed - I'd personally check out Wikipedia first. But it takes time to go through the edit histories, talk pages and sources. I'm retired, so I have time; but for a quick sanity check, Snopes isn't a dreadful choice.
Unable to find a link, but at one point there was a Russian social media app that would let you take a photo of a random person and it would try to match it to a known social media profile.

Someone used the feature to take pictures of people in public looking especially depressed then when possible matched it to photos they had shared on social media of them looking overly happy.

Believe they had 5-10 examples in the story that covered it.
> The most appealing thing I'd seen recently was a company that wrote software to help maximize farm yields. At least there was some real, effective benefit for a great many people.

After my graduate work I am the opppsite. I realized that meaningfulness is not a sufficient condotion for enjoying my work. The tasks I work on and my coworkers make a much larger impact on my happiness. Whether I work on something "stupid" or "vapid" matters much less.
I think that’s why the DRV might step in and force a freelancer to pay into the social security system if they have a single client. If I recall it also applies to foreign clients, but I’m not 100% sure how far it extends. It’s definitely easier to bypass the DRV if your client is not German, but not entirely waterproof as I recall.
Used it to “write essays” and 100% as long as you give it a good look over, it’s incredibly difficult to tell it wasn’t written by a high schooler.
> Were you expecting a news article?

Yes, actually.

I can scaremonger straight people equally well, but choose not to. LGBT people are just the latest casualty in the nonsense "culture war."

For example, this: https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-777442211945

People saw cat litter on campus, which is commonly used to clean vomit off of floors at school, and fabricated this outrage. Anecdotes are not enough to villainize an entire group of people.

I live in TX, the book-banning capital of the US, so not too far off from FL.
I don't plan on making jot mobile compatible. Maybe in the future, but not right now.