skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Leaders - good at organizing others to get things done.

Helpers - may not have a vision of their own, but good at contributing to projects they enjoy.

Fixers - good at identifying and solving problems in existing projects.

Lots more, I imagine.
Completely disagree. The "heaviness" of an insult is determined by various factors: how much you value the person holding that opinion, how much you want to be accepted, how many rejections you got through... We are not robots that can automatically choose to not care: in the past I was in the stoic camp, red Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca and so on but now I recognize that that philosophy brought me lots of pain: even if I cannot control something, like others opinion, it doesn't mean that I should not try to change it. Humanity get by by dreaming of something better: being through religion, riches, wisdom and so on; stoicism (and in part meditation) destroyed that impulse to improve.
Does it really use watch history? I mean when it’s off, it still collects it, just doesn’t show it to me/publicly. I know that because sometimes people watched videos at my work pc and after that I had to clean up this mess.

I tried to turn it on for a while and it didn’t make any difference. Same for likes/dislikes. The only effective methods are channel-wise, i.e. “subscribe” and “don’t recommend channel”, but then the feed becomes 90% of videos I have watched or new videos (from these channels) in which I mostly have no interest in. Other 10% are irrelevant to me.

Anyway, I’ll try to follow your advice (thanks!) with more active liking etc for a while, but my hopes are weak atm.
Nice! Thanks for sharing. I also learned about shellcheck thanks to this thread, which has been super useful
Yes. But you don't plan on an entirely new organization of the energy economy on the basis of that. To pick other examples: VLSI scaling happened first, then the software industry explosion. Lithium batteries arrived first, then people started developing mobile devices (and eventually cars).

Planning on this great new "hydrogen economy" thing when even the best-case theoretical technologies represent only a mild improvement over what we have isn't responsible punditry, it's just playing "What if George Jetson had a Jetpack?" games.
You probably want to join a freelancer network and market yourself as a "troubleshooter, performance analysis, root cause analysis expert" or something like that. Start building a name for improving things and getting out. Limit your hours to short projects only. These platforms have recruiters that can help you find clients that are looking for that kind of expertise.

Or start a blog and post about all these nasty bugs you're fixing in detail. Make a name for yourself as the person who figures out difficult bugs. Add a contact section listing the type of jobs you like and your hour/day price.

I don't have much experience with QA jobs but maybe that's also an option if you want to stay permanently employed. I'm sure a QA engineer that finds AND fixes bugs would be appreciated.

One difficulty with being self-employed for this particular kind of task is that the more you know the environment, the better insights you will have. That's already difficult if you've been at a company for many years... I can imagine facing a bug without a lot of context might make it difficult to troubleshoot initially.... but it's also an opportunity: these clients will want to keep you around to leverage that knowledge you built about their environment.
The problem with this reasonning is that it relies on potential, on hypothetical, on hope.

But the problem is not, it's just physics, and it's comming for sure.

Not attempting to solve it with what we know right now because we might pull off something out of our sleeve at some point doesn't seem neither rational nor scientific to me.

However, if we do tackle the problem, we give ourself a margin of security that we can later on remove if we actually manage to innovate out of out petri dish.
I saw some EU leaders saying they would refuse the turnaround application, so I think you’re right that UK politicians will need to wait For the “right” time. Probably decades of back room negotiating to move forward
FYI here's a demo of our tech (50% of pics are our own models, 50% are stable diffusion): https://nyx.gallery/

We work on photorealistic image generation

More info about our models (incl some open-source ones):
https://nyx-ai.github.io/stylegan2-flax-tpu/
> No software can be quaranteed to be bug-free.

Sure, this is done all the time via verification and other formal methods. It's not common in the industry, but not entirely uncommon either.
Mentor advice:

1. An estimate is better than a guess. An measurement is better than an estimate.
2. It's never the money. (They will always say it is, but it's not.)
3. Never let anyone eat your lunch.
4. The best time to turn it on is before it's ready. You'll get plenty of data to finish it faster.
5. The only good Powerpoint slide is evergreen. If it's not, it's already obsolete.
6. Your positive mental attitude makes up for most of your shortcomings.
7. Learning the difference between an issue and a detail is half the battle.
8. Avoid introducing new jargon. It's already hard enough to understand.
9. Isolate. Isolate. Isolate.
10. If it's not written down, it's not.
11. The reason everyone we work for sucks is because those who don't suck never call us.
12. If you set aside something urgent to go to Happy Hour, how will our annual report differ? (Hint: It won't.)
13. What's the good news? (No matter how bad things are, never hesitate to answer.)
14. A degree in business is a degree in nothing.
15. The answer to any question is "Who wants to know?" (See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1084127)
16. No project ever dies but many are abandoned.
17. Self praise stinks.
18. If someone can do something once, they can do it again.
19. Almost anyone can do almost anything.
And my favorite: 20. Ultimately, go with your gut.
In addition to the problem of measly human power (mentioned in other comments), generators are only efficient when the magnets are quite close to the conductor so the metal pots/heating element would have to be held ~2mm from the rotating magnets. Generators succeed in this because they have a small metal housing that holds everything rigid. I don’t see how this could be practical for a large cooktop.

Also the material of the pot/heating element (Al vs Nichrome) only changes the optimal gearing ratio for the bike wheel.
I'm guessing they phrased it slightly awkwardly and meant net positivity by profitability. Since technically we can release energy via fusion but we always have to spend more energy than we get out.
Probably some of my favorites this year have been the Greek mythology audiobooks written and narrated by Stephen Fry. I could listen to Stephen read the phone book, but he also does an incredible job giving you a narrative primer of all the Greek myths and makes both historical and contemporary observations of how these myths influenced and were influenced.
Honestly this sounds like a very nice niche. Put together a one-sheet sales pitch and start sending it out to businesses with an hourly rate and pitch, I'll bet you'll get some takers. It's a bounded task with a concrete outcome (as opposed to development which can expolode in cost and complexity sometimes), and its the sort of thing that dev teams would be comfortable outsourcing because most devs want to write new code instead of tracking down bugs. So, I would expect it to be a very attractive proposition to many teams.

Heck I might do this myself for some extra side income.
Please share a source. I googled this with several different variations of quoting and only saw your HN comment
The sea is pretty effectively reclaiming land back from them at this point. It's not a winning battle these days. It's also not so simple to build Manhattan style buildings on a sandpit
I think the Fermi Paradox is more easily explained by three things.

1. It is possible that self-aware life with the ability to manipulate the environment is rare. Most people assume that self-aware life will build cities, but crows, cetaceans, octopuses, and elephants don’t do so despite having quite a bit of smarts. They lack hands.

2. It is possible that the speed of light is a very real boundary and that cannot be broken limiting the ability of life to spread itself within a life time. As anything that persists spends energy to do so, it may be that living things won’t willingly take the chance for themselves and posterity of living on a ship for many generations.

3. Nuclear war. Most intelligent life is predatory. If you want to manipulate your environment, you also have to focus. Most animals with eyes on the front of their heads that can focus well, are also predators. That predatory instinct creates violence, and that leads to war in pack-oriented social predators. With enough advancement, nuclear weaponry and war may be the rule not the exception.
Google is an ad company that produces a search engine, rather than a search engine that features ads. Although it may have been the latter in the olden days
There's a reason lawyers specialize. No one is as qualified to fight for speech on Twitter as the person who's done it through the company's most tumultuous decade. The next most qualified person is probably Facebook's general counsel since they deal with all the same problems, and the places they differ probably still benefit from the portable experience. After that, there aren't a lot of people leading work on speech policy at this scale. You can't just drop in an IP lawyer or a real estate lawyer and hope for the best.
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
Texas is likely to pass California in total renewable energy resources soon, which kind of annoys me. I would like California to step up its construction game, and not just rest on our head start.
I mean, what’s wrong with trolley cars and light rail? There’s your self driving car. I don’t think automated transportation is a technology problem, it’s more a political problem. Nobody wants to put money towards a system that is for use by the common public.

Think about this: trolleys and light rail don’t require batteries, they are more efficient, the maintenance is way lower, they reduce traffic, what’s not to like? And it would be trivial to make them self-driving. But it’s politically unthinkable.
There is another word for absolutism: extremism.
The first order positive and second order negative speaks to me. I prioritize the former over latter unless I am creating a demo/presentation of some kind.

I still see defaulting to prioritizing second order effect as a waste of effort majority of the time.
I think a lack of bedrock or soft soil may limit growth.
> Doesn't 90% of fresh flowers come from that country?

47.9% of the global cut flower market in 2019 [0]. They do grow 90% of Europe's orchids [1]

[0] https://www.mordorintelligence.com/industry-reports/netherla...

[1] https://londonflowerschool.com/journal/inside-the-dutch-flow...
Go 1.19.3 and Go 1.18.8 pre-announcement
Show HN: I made a website with musical exercises for beginner musicians
There are about a hundred other articles on Bob Dylan and his anti-Vietnam war protest songs, if you don't like that particlar one. Here's something from a decade ago for example:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/apr/10/anti-war-ic...

> "HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM (AP) - Bob Dylan, whose anti-war anthems made him the face of protest against a war that continues to haunt a generation of Americans, finally got his chance to see Vietnam - at peace."

Isn't it just a little bit odd that a New Yorker retrospective piece on Bob Dylan doesn't even mention Vietnam? And isn't that most likely due to the corporate media cheerleading for escalation of the war in Ukraine?
Hi HN,

I just made this website called Treblekey.

Since I began learning how to play guitar and piano about 2 years ago, I've been looking for a tool to help me:

- learn how to navigate the guitar fretboard

- practice hearing and identifying musical intervals (ear training)

- other things I might come up with in the future

And I thought: "it would be pretty nice if there was an app with useful musical exercises for beginners", which is how I got the idea for Treblekey.

Feel free to check it out and let me know what you think :)

Thanks!
That's a different scenario. The previous comment said:

> If they all tried to exit at the top

Assuming that "they all" means "the vast majority of shareholders", then sell pressure would be higher than buy pressure by definition, and the price would drop.

If there was enough buy pressure to absorb the sell pressure, then we're in a scenario where half or less of the shareholders are trying to exit.
Why? It's a low-level implementation detail. Should you also always think about registers and jumps?
Could you share some examples of what you liked about it? I struggle with reading tech books when I am not sure what I can get out of them
I'm really looking forward to this making its way into OPNsense and such.
Or we can rip the band aid off and just get on with having nice things
In my startup we had a customer who said they weren't going to pay us.
I was upset and pissed as I had given them another chance after a previous payment issue to help them out of their hole. It felt personal.

My lead salesperson asked
"do you know what a sunk cost is?"
"no"
"it's an accounting term for money that can not be retrieved, and going after it will probably only cost you more money, so you just have to write it off"
"your being upset is compounding the loss. Let's spend that time and energy creating new sales instead of being sad about old ones. You need to write this off"

Felt 10x better, we then brainstormed and invented.
Like the sibling said, poor governance.

Wikipedia on the 2021 Text Blackout (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis):

State officials including Republican governor Greg Abbott[13] initially blamed[14] the outages on frozen wind turbines and solar panels. However, data showed that failure to winterize power sources, like wind turbines and natural gas infrastructure, had caused the grid failure.[15][16] Texas's power grid has long been separate from the two major national grids to avoid federal oversight, though it is still connected to the other national grids and Mexico's;[17] the limited number of ties made it difficult for the state to import electricity from other states during the crisis.[18] Deregulation of its electricity market beginning in the 1990s resulted in competition in wholesale electricity prices, but also cost cutting for contingency preparation.
One important difference in all of those is that they are decisions made by the user of the programming language, not the author.

Sub-optimal performance decisions made by the user are their own business (and, perhaps, their customers'), and not really the language authors' concern. The converse is not true. Sub-optimal performance decisions made by the language authors end up affecting everybody.

I agree that saying a 1% difference would disqualify it as a systems language is hyperbolic. I disagree with the assertion that it's not a big deal. Having a core development team that considers 1% to be a big deal is a very desirable trait in a systems language. Achieving very high performance goals often comes through an accretion of many such 1% (and sub-1%) decisions.
They are undoubtedly using a torque wrench, and so should you. Opinions differ one whether to use anti-seize compound:

https://www.rtsauto.com/should-you-put-anti-seize-on-your-lu...
Who were these "moderate rebels" in Syria?
> The Netherlands has a lot more land suitable for residential housing and a lot less density. If this is hitting "the limit", then they're not doing it right.

Why do you presume that all land suitable for residential housing should be destroyed by residential housing? There are far more types of uses than that.

There is far more to life than having a place to work and to sleep.
I agree. But going with Starlink is like jumping out of the frying pan into the fire. Very spotty service that is more brittle than existing services.
And second is our parent's comment :)
on a similar topic, people might like The Body Keeps The Score, by Bessel van der Kolk. although it's written at a high level for both practitioners and well-educated normies which might fit HN.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHt01D6rOLI
Not really man. Others may encourage you here but I'm going to give you the realistic hard answer. The best thing for you is to target companies and do contract work there. There are tons of bugs to fix, they just only pay within a company :)
The reason why housing is expensive is the same as what the article said about nitrogen emissions, new housing construction is limited to try and not exceed emissions even more. Regarding the rest, it looks like a fake problem because they still have schemes like the reduced tax for several years to attract foreigners. Can't be both ways, politians can't say there's too many people while keeping the incentives. The practicality of the tax law speaks more than speeches.

As for schiphol airport lines, I'm not usually a conspiracy theorist but having informed myself a bit on the subject and having been on those queues many times this year, I think it's again a self inflicted problem, as the government wants to have less flights overall, and I believe they found a reasonable escape goat for it with the "staff shortages". One only has to see that they've paid over $100m in compensation for missed flights to airlines yet at the end of August rolled back an extra €5 / per hour that they added to fight the problem. Result? Everyone quit again. Now they rolled out an extra €2.5/hour per security guard. Only if you are blind you don't see there's more at play here than simple "staff shortages". People haven't died, they just don't want your shitty job when they can do remote customer support for some startup for more money and not deal with rude tourists all day.
My take (which does not involve maths, just analogy with other organisms) is that we are bacteria that eat all that's on a petri dish.

Dying as a species is (IHMO) rather unlikely, except for external factors and a few contamination scenarios. Eating all resources, starving most population, and going back to a pre-industrial civilization. Except for a few living high-tech standards. But with devices, they can use but cannot replace.
Context: I was leaving a startup (so as to avoid getting asked to leave), and I had a final lunch with a member of the C-suite. He had not exactly been my friend at work but at that point we were in the same boat. I expressed concern about how the whole thing was going to look to future employers, and he said:

“This is tech. Nobody cares how many times you’ve been fired.”

He was dead right. Nobody even really asks. I just say we had a good run and then the company changed significantly after a difficult funding round and afterwards I wasn’t as good a fit.

I should let him know that his remark was prophetic.
Why I am betting on artificial heart IIT-K is developing
I was so happy to see this mentioned. I'm on book 8 which is shaping up to be my favorite so far. I wanted a new epic series after Hyperion, so this has been the year of Malazan!
> annoying modern style of political documentary, where I have to
> listen to anxiety-inducing drones and the worst kind of
> movie-trailer voice, nonstop for an hour least?

Well you're in for a real treat with "Russia:Trauma Zone" then.
Curtis listened to all the bleating criticisms and delivered six hours
of absolutely bare footage, which juxtaposed and sequenced speaks for
itself. The result is even more powerful than ever before - which
shows that incorporating criticism, even when it's only about surface
style, pays off.

The only criticism I have is that the title is a bit bland.

It should gave been called "Natasha's Boots". She is the star of the
show. And in the ened she gets her boots.

> that propaganda tv

All TV and social media is propaganda. Even cat videos. It
propagates. It carries a message. Even if the message is "Don't
think".
Words can break hearts when they come from a loved one, or someone you look up to.

Why would what some random person says break your heart?
I have six years running one company, no experience prior to that (came out of think tanks).

Four pieces of experience.

1) The first contact people at most VC funds are entry level jobs in finance. They're young, they don't actually have the power to commit funds, and the deals they are doing are teeny-tiny. Baby realtors might move 10x the amount of money in a year. Mostly they're copying the behaviours and ideas of the more senior people in the fund, and trying to look the part. There is a lot of cargo culting.

2) Psychology and decision criteria vary enormously between funding rounds - pre seed, seed, bridge, A Round etc. are different people with different vocabularies. They're all mapping what they see in front of them to an abstract model of how a company "should look" at this stage (see: "cargo culting") and 50% of the battle is making your real world mess look like their model of how a company should be at this point. Remember: they've never worked in a successful start up, they're usually fresh out of business school. This is not true of the fund seniors, who are often wicked smart, but the front line people are usually pretty green and afraid of making mistakes.

3) The perception that <thing> is about to become a huge sector is more important than how clever your capabilities are in <thing>. 100% of a $5m market is a very fragile position. 0.1% of a $5000m market is also pretty fragile unless there's something to stop a category killer emerging. You want to be A Player - a story about being big enough in the market to invest in your advantages and keep moving, vs. a tiny thing in a huge market that could roll over you at any time. How well can you respond do and navigate the unknowns of the future? "<thing> is growing fast and we're in the first wave and intend to stay that way."

4) It's real easy if you can find a network of VCs who are all mates and say "yep, this is good, pile in." Functionally speaking I think that only happens in San Francisco, everywhere else they tend to be extremely catlike and independent to a fault. If you can find a friendly network, work it as hard as you can!

Good luck!
The actual circulating money supply is also unknowable because you don't know if people are holding onto cash or checking account deposits for buying things in the short term or as savings for the long term. Both look identical but one of them circulates more than once per year while the latter circulates less than once per year.

It is not like we are sending a dollar bill through the economy and counting how many times it changes hands to estimate the money velocity.

If you could neatly split up the money supply into "medium of exchange" and "store of value". You could actually estimate inflation based on that equation.
What to Do When Someone Copies Your Startup (2012)
The authors central claim is that those good in math (and thus more likely to answer on SE) are also more likely to be on the autism spectrum and lack social skills. I’ve found mixed results on this hypothesis online. Is there anyone with a background in this who can weigh in?
The way Los Angeles is trying to solve homelessness is absolutely insane
An update is nothing special that I have to be prepared for. I do it all the time across all my systems, and it's largely automated. If a single update is such a burden that you must prepare days in advance for then perhaps there's room to improve the processes.
Any implications for radio-carbon dating?
Isn't it the other way around? "When the student is ready, the master will appear."

https://kagi.com/search?q=when+the+master+is+ready+the+stude...