skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have 4 kids whom I love dearly, and I don't _regret_ having them. But often I wish I could be in a sci-fi movie where I get to live two lives simultaneously; one with, one without.

It's not as much the excitement of my alternate life, or the reservation of more resources for myself (money, time, etc.) though that, selfishly, sounds nice. It's mostly the stress and ever-present burden of being a parent. I could do without it sometimes.
What do people do when they have more money? You think they'll be eager to spend it on insulation retrofits and ground-source heat pumps? In our fossil fuel-powered economy, I think they'll buy more stuff and travel more, and most of those activities will increase GHG emissions.

I'm not arguing against measures to decrease wealth inequality. But is the sum of (potentially richer) individuals' actions likely to address climate change in a better way than a hypothetical billionaire's geoengineering project? I'm not convinced in either direction.
I'm working on a stable diffusion type ai for 3d models
The context of the situation. If you're at a party you're there to meet people and have a good time. Plenty of deep conversations have been had at parties, but they rarely start out that personal.

Starting a conversation with a question like that means the other person will have to reflect it back to you, which means you get to answer however you like. If the person wasn't self-absorbed, they could have answered like "I want to be helpful to others" or something along those lines.
Yeah, you've got it working! Nice job

Would be cool if you shared info on how the end to end pipeline works.

Edit: Smiling Donkey in a saddle on top of a space ship in outer space

https://storage.googleapis.com/healthy-diffusion/60114474055...

Pretty good.
Is there not near-unanimous agreement that everyone is going to catch Covid at some point. Like, cave hermits are pretty much the only exception.
Without shareholders to answer to costs would increase out of control and productivity would plummet. It would become like a government
I think there's a big difference between traveling with an iPad Pro and only having an iPad Pro.
ATDT
With the new UI updates here are a few things that I find help.

• 1. Turning ON haptics in the keyboard section

• 2. Turn OFF the “suggestions”

• 3. Teach the autocorrect what I want to type. (Correct the same
word a few times and you will trigger machine learning)

• 4. Turn keyboard sound OFF

• 5. Grab the cursor directly, don’t use the “spacebar trick” unless you’re going to move to the front or end of an input box (treat it like PGUP/PGDWN)
It absolutely does not force you to change at all, nor does it force you to maintain a good relationship with your partner. Divorce rates are high, there are lots of bad parents. Having kids may have pushed you to be better, and that's great, but there are a lot of people out there for whom it makes no positive difference at all.
Make sure to check "Home of the Underdogs".
> when full charging times approach 24h.

200 miles a day is not the median driving pattern. It's closer to 30 miles
This is not always so.

For me, unconditional love was a youthful thing.

My parents are much less admirable now, as I have grown older.

My reasons are legion.

I don't wish them harm, but they are nothing like me.
Apple unveils completely redesigned iPad in four vibrant colours
1) You may be good at this or have some situation in terms of support structures or lifestyle where this is particularly easy, but this is not at all what many parents I know/encounter express to me (as a person who's openly childfree). The combination of more than one kid and 2 parents working FT out of the home, seems to equal an absolutely exhausting long-term grind for many unless they've got a lot of family nearby who are both willing and able to share that load.

2) To be replaced by endless after school activities/sports, events, and other child-related things. Fine if you like them, but if not you're not seriously getting your free time back until maybe the teenage years. A decade+ in the prime of your life is not a "mere blip" to many.

3) You do (which is great - clearly you're the sort of person who should have kids). There are a lot of people who have children and....don't suddenly find an appreciation for children. The vast number of children in the world with a willfully absent, abusive, or simply disinterested and not loving parent stand as a clear counter-argument, and the statistics on child abuse/neglect are pretty awful.

On the anecdotal side - It's pretty heartbreaking how many of those I grew up with (who had outwardly normal, upper middle class families) turned out to have those sorts of terrible parents and traumatic childhoods...and those are just the ones I know about. I'm thankful I didn't have that childhood, but a shocking number of children do.

I think it's misleading to promote this ideal like it's just going to happen for everyone who has kids and leads to people who shouldn't have children having them and resenting them or worse.
I agree something feels different, I could usually mitigate it with 3D Touch but that was changed a few phones back:

https://technicallychallenged.substack.com/p/my-favorite-iph...
Apple introduces next-generation iPad Pro, supercharged by the M2 chip
This was my first thought as well! I was weirdly obsessed with that game. It crashed all the time, so that part fits. I originally had the demo on CD, I think it came with X-Wing vs Tie Fighter or one of those other Lucasarts games.
And this will also open things up to people who can do neither. Lowering the bar for teachers will only be a bad thing at scale.
Joking aside, the OpEx of a private jet is huge, and if you can use it 2x as often because you can take your Friday meetings while traveling somewhere for the weekend, this easily pays for itself in the saving on cost-per-trip.
Committing to purchase X quantity of Y from a factory that already exists in a competitive market to make Z is different from removing the need for the company to make ends meet
U don't want them to live with you after 25 years old anyway.
> I get too many of those those “Hi Joe” pings without any content.

It's not Google's fault your coworkers suck at chatting.
Already lost me at attempting to introduce the material highlighting trust issues at a startup.. like who can “boil it down” with a group of humans as tiny as a startup’s typical size? Product and Engineering? The pretentious tone knows no bounds.. Is that even worth talking about businesses at that stage? Lame. And come on, like he’d be in touch with the scrappy startup vibe at this point knowing what he would charge for consulting.. No thanks!
I went with this JavaScript:

let c;
for (let p of document.querySelectorAll('body>p, body>div')) {
if (p.classList.contains('aside')) { c = undefined; continue; }
p.querySelector('span.time').remove();
if (c) {
c.innerHTML += ' ' + p.innerHTML; p.remove();
} else { c = p; }
}

And this CSS:

body p { width: 100%; }
body div.aside { width: 100%; border: 1px solid black; }

I'm thinking maybe that page was supposed to be embedded somewhere, next to a video maybe? It wasn't meant to be read like this right?
The wildfire smoke every year impacts millions of people in the west.

Just this summer I was watching the Mosquito fire updates daily to see if we were going to have to evacuate. Fortunately it rained and prevented that.

There were days where we had to huddle in one room with multiple air filters going to keep the air breathable. Couldn't really go outside at all. The AQI outside was well over 500 for days at a time.

Not poor, and I'd say we were pretty impacted by it.
> The size of each step in these “infinite staircases” was a ratio of Fibonacci numbers.

On the other hand, it would probably be an interesting exercise to see if there is a pattern in the ratios of various Fibonacci numbers…
Before Sugarcane was adopted in India, Palm sugar was already widely used as a sweetener and the process was Palm alcohol(Kallu), Palm juice (Pathani) and Palm sugar(Karuppatti)
Yet independents are closer to the Republicans in this case.
It's not easily winnable. It will take more than a decade to move so much manufacturing to other places. Many things will just stay there in China as long as they can.
> literally zero evidence of this.

What about the Moderna patented sequence?
MS Teams is already a chore, I'm not adding an extra layer of mental overhead on top of it.
> It's just so painfully obvious that these kind of articles wouldn't be getting published right now if the US government wasn't angry with Saudi Arabia about crude oil production.

It seems to me that the timing is the point and it is more relevant now that the relationship has become more adversarial. No one would've been paying as much attention in 2009 and rightfully so since those relationships wouldn't have as much of a conflict of interest.

And let's not forget that in 2009, MBS had yet to order Jamal Khasoggi to be killed by being cut in half by a bone saw.

Context matters.
> And in Florida, military veterans without a bachelor’s degree can teach for up to five years using temporary certificates.

That seems so weird. Why would they have to stop after five years of teaching? Shouldn't they be better at it by that point?

https://www.fldoe.org/veterans/

They're trying to strongly push them to finish their bachelors (which they must have started), but what an odd program.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Frankston - CS at MIT, apparently. So he at least may have been.
Unfortunately hiring a private teacher to teach a small group of similarly-aged kids is reasonably affordable for families (less than half the price of private school), gives them a better education than public school (1:5 or 1:6 instead of 1:20), and takes a good qualified teacher out of the public school system (also while paying them more for working fewer hours).

We've always supported public schools but as a Florida resident, a private teacher is looking more and more like the better alternative.
As far as I can tell, this is an unsourced statistic, and something that wouldn't be that easy to measure or even define. What counts as time spent together?
The enso link is interesting because there was another Enso project over a decade ago by Aza Raskin. That project, ironically, asserted the superiority of natural language and thereby text as a user interface.
I can't wait to fly business class on a Friday morning out of SFO and be surrounded by a dozen corporate salarymen simultaneously addressing their standups via their AirPods.

Normal airlines are promptly going to need some no-phone-calls rules. (TBH I think they already have them.)
I’d love to see a write-up for this or instructions on how to speed up a local install!
"You have been a great employee... <x> .. had to let you go".

Textshop, in-paint the rest with something nice, will ya.. oh and add a friendly sign off.
Jack Dorsey-Founded Bluesky Unveils Roadmap for Decentralized Social Networks
It certainly does. However, if you're even moderately tall, it's impossible to use the trackpad without elbowing the person next to you in the ribs, since the front of the laptop is basically touching your stomach once you open the laptop at enough of an angle to be able to see its display. (This is on a 13" MBA.)

If all you're doing is watching video then it's fine. But trying to get real work done is incredibly awkward. The only way I'm able to do anything is to use a separate Bluetooth keyboard I hold underneath the tray over my knees. But that means exclusively writing or other things I can do solely with the keyboard, without a mouse/trackpad.

Also, forget it if the person in front of you reclines. It's game over.
This can only end well.
> They're trying to stay alive in a market where their market share is rapidly decreasing being taken by VS Code.

That doesn't make any sense. If they start looking like VS Code I would switch to the (free) VS Code as there is no point in paying for (almost) the same experience.
I hope not, I do not want to overhear obnoxious phone or video calls.
Not unlike Moss on the IT Crowd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm2TITZkrcE
It was an engineering response to the introduction of power tools in manfacturing.

Slot head tools/fasteners transit too much torque which often resulted in the fastener heads shearing off when used with power tools.

Rather than build a complex torque limiter into the tool (which would need adjustment based on use case), they built it into the fastener.
This is an important point. The research that, as I understand it (and IANAVirologist), helped jump-start the covid-19 vaccines was related to SARS and MERS, two coronaviruses that were already known to have infected humans, often lethally (and thus of urgent importance to study).

Nobody (that I know of) objects to virologists studying existing viruses such as SARS and MERS. If the researchers in the article had just been studying wild-type covid-19, well it still should have been in a highest-safety lab, but it would have been less objectionable than this. Labs which are below the highest level of containment, could and should be studying coronaviruses of the sort that cause common colds (there are 4 of them, as I understand it). Making new (or hybrid) ones is not something that any but the highest level of containment facilities should be allowed to do.
I can only speak for United Economy and a 13" MacBook Pro, but while it will "fit" on the tray, the screen must be completely vertical for there to be enough room, and if the person in front of you reclines their seat even slightly, it becomes unusable.
If they had predicted it with any high degree of accuracy, many people would've considered that as proof that they caused it anyway.
Yes. Gas stations near me are installing fast chargers. ice driving Tenants currently have to go to gas stations.
I would hope it's obvious that I've been pointed to these policies many times before, and acting on them didn't help the problem any.

It's exhausting as a volunteer with limited time working on a narrow area to have drive-by administrative editors who don't contribute to the subject, and bots with broken or overzealous criteria, snipe one of a half-dozen similarly sourced articles on the same subject that I've contributed six months after the last edit, with no meaningful means of redress no matter how many times someone links WP:DR to me.

The end result isn't a better Wikipedia, it's one fewer contributor.
Ukraine wasn't blockaded.

Taiwan does have fairly good stocks of weapons and ammo. It's also great terrain for fighting a defensive guerilla war. It'd be China's roleplay of "Russia in Afghanistan".
They do seem to be pretty skeptical of the VP role as well. ;-) I wouldn't say that about CEO or Staff Software engineer role though.
There could be a use for it. It’s almost like creating a mutex for a lock.
Oof. You ultramarathoners need a watch that signals when you’re going backwards or in circles, like in a car racing game!
Yeah I mean I work at a place that thankfully has no "product" team. That was a valuable thing at a certain place but it's been replicated needlessly and most product managers are glorified project managers with no power or responsibility.
It's a database storing machine learning embeddings.

Example:

Let's suppose I've downloaded all the Gutemberg library books.

I can feed a transformer like Bert or GPT-3 to calculate the embeddings of these books.

These embeddings will represent in vector form (an array of numbers of fixed size) the meaning of these books.

I can save these vectors in this database and this database can then calculate the distance between these vectors, so basically how closely related they are in terms of topic.

If I query this database with the embedding of a sentence like "Love story between teenagers from 2 enemy families in Italy, they die at the end", hopefully the best result will be Romeo & Juliette.

I'm no ML person so take my comment with a grain of salt in terms of how well it works. But in theory, that's the goal.
In web, I’d kill for a way to debug an error by replicating user’s state and play back actions and requests while stepping through an uncompiled version of the application running. I think I could solve bugs into infinity if I had that kind of power.

This kind of thing shouldn’t even be difficult, yet I have never been anywhere that has this kind of live code retrospection.
Ahhh!!!

I 100% get that. So you can boot up some old computer and grab retro files. Love it.
> Be absolutely ready to make a literal lifetime commitment to love and care for this child as a fellow human, before deciding to have one.

Unfortunately, if you decide after all of this reflection that you don't want to have kids there is no need to worry, at least, about perpetuating the human race... because for every couple who conscientiously decides not to have kids, there are a half dozen more who don't give any thought to any of this whatsoever and proceed to have (often multiple) kids anyway.
Totally agree about cursor scrolling. Half the time, it has no idea where my finger is.

Since I discovered Apple’s slide-to-type[0], I rarely have to key the letters, since the algo guesses more accurately than when I actually use individual keystrokes.

Also, with stt, the delete erases the whole word, so corrections are faster, too.

[0] https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/how-to-use-the-iphones-new-...
You can open up a cheap USB camera to get the nacked CCD sensor and put a radioactive source (Americium-241) from a smoke detector directly onto the chip.

The CCD sensor, connected as USB camera, will record thousands of flashes/sec capturing the alpha radiation.
Hey, they tried really hard with Stage Manager running so poorly it required an M1 iPad in order to run.

They've since walked that back, and while it is being reworked will be coming to a14 models after all, probably sans the external display support.
I know exactly what the next dozen years of my life would look like if I have children.

I don't know what the next dozen years of my life will look like if I don't. It may be cooler, it may be worse. We're going to find out, though. Ever into the unknown...
I help around Japanese language learning communities and one of the core tenets of a successful "language learning career" is being able to enjoy doing stuff with the language without necessarily trying to learn the language. Learning the language becomes a byproduct of having fun with it.

For this reason, I have this kind of conversation almost daily with people asking for help in studying or just ways to "find motivation", etc. I always ask them "Why are you learning Japanese?".

The amount of answers I get that revolve around the idea of "I want to get better at it" always amaze me. I'm the kind of person that just does things because I want to have fun. I learned Japanese because I enjoy doing stuff in Japanese. I never cared about learning Japanese, it just happened that doing so made it fun for me in the process. And yet there's people out there whose entire goal of learning Japanese is to "learn Japanese"... I will personally never understand that mentality myself, it's very puzzling.
Discord is honestly great for work, especially if you're organizing contractors using their roles system.

The problem is that it's also the chat system a lot of my friends and hobbies use, so it really messes with my work/life balance. If I do ever use Discord for work again, I'm going to have to make a separate account.
And Java hopefully soon :)
A supabase alternative. Partly non-profit. There's just a handful of edge cases they prefer not to deal with. Working on it for weeks now and it's kinda fun.
The weird part is the lag. You want to escape for 5 minutes. But you only want that now because you couldn't escape for years before. If you stopped to think about it, maybe you don't really want those five minutes. If only you stop and really think.
Both conflict and technological advancement are destabilizing influences, though. How do these societies remain stable? My worry here is that any confrontation with an inventive upstart will require swift change and adaptation in order to fend off the threat, but such fast change is likely to cause internal instability. I don't think there is such a thing as a "stable society" that cannot implode and turn into a bunch of expansionist upstarts, unless they are so careful about progress they are practically defenceless.
Killing one bird with two-and-a-half stones in Mac OS X Mail
Not even that. Because if your language isn't expressive enough, you can't make code perfect. Or rather, "perfect" in one language is than worse than "good" in another language.

Imagine big but perfect Assembly codebase against an okay-ish Rust codebase. Which one would you prefer to maintain?
I turned off autocorrect a few years back, and noticed no change in recent years with that turned off. But the autocorrect experience was very bad and in my view caused more errors than it fixed
Then youve never done any real engineering lol. People who say this tend to work in less technical types of "software development"
Many states have made this model (teacher "pods") illegal, which is terrible because I believe it is the future of education.
Are there no aerodynamic concerns for that installation? The VHF instruments pictured on top of the fuselage make this thing look like a plow that would be better fit on top of a Sprinter van... they couldn't have gone for a dome?
Use a relational db unless you know it won't work for your app and you can articulate why it won't work.
I’m interviewing a little differently this time round
I'm sure China would manage to sink some carriers if there was an all out assault with all their capabilities, that is one of their key goal. Nothing will be invulnerable. They'll have some other weapons no one knew about. But what will the US do then. Will we stage weapons in other countries around China, increasing the danger of a real world war? Will we manage to build bases on Taiwan that can be protected somehow? I hope I never find out.
We need a completely new system of culture in the US - nothing important gets taken care of, the most important roles for peoples well being and enrichment like schoolteachers or nurses are treated like garbage.

Ask any teacher or any nurse about what it’s like to do their jobs.
> a stool with three legs is the most stable

I don’t think stable is the right word. A stool with three legs is less wobbly on an uneven surface.

A high stool with three legs is less stable to horizontal forces (forces towards the gap between legs).

I would say a tall stool with four legs is more stable (assuming the outer diameter of the footprint of the feet remains the same.)

It is the same reason three-wheeled cars are less stable than four wheeled cars.

If you want a stable seat on an uneven surface, you use a one legged stool (your legs make the other two adjustable legs).

Finally, the concept of a stool depends on two-legs and various other human specific environmental details. Aliens might not understand our stool analysis at all.
Not disagreeing that self study is valuable, but it's unclear to me how writing a bitonic sorting network in a bespoke assembler is going to get me promoted to staff