skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the question conflates two different things.

Great items we want or own are not necessarily the things that make life better or work easier.

Over a decade ago I was given a Rolex by my work. It doesn't make my life better or work easier. I actually need to get it cleaned because it doesn't keep great time. But it is a nice piece of design, and caused me to recognize quality and balance.

I love my bike, a 12 year old (maybe more) Kona Honky Tonk. It fits me perfectly, I love the timeless look of it. Does it make life better than any other bike? Probably not, but I have a strong attachment to it because it is unique and mine. Same with my mountain bike, but that's a custom job made for me, so a bit difficult to compare.

Artwork, stuff that I've made, or stuff I've been given.

I guess what I'm saying is that I don't think we can take the "life is better" without the attachment, which is often post-rationalized as to why we like something.

It's something that is front of mind for the work we're doing at https://soundmind.co - we're creating a sleep headband that improves the function of your brain during sleep. The design of something somebody is going to wear to bed is more important than many people initially think it is. In order to be successful, you have to create something that doesn't only work, and do the job, but also makes people feel the right way about how they put it on, what it feels, like, and how they become attached to it.
Outside lands in SF. The rap shows always get the craziest and I will say after reading more about crowd crushing and crowd collapses I’ll be staying further back from now on. Truly one of those situations where I was thinking “huh, interesting I chose to put myself in this situation after hearing about astroworld”.

I think I saw barricades like that at Coachella, definitely a good way to limit this.
> the only time it really matters is when something has gone catastrophically wrong

Or in other words, it matters most when it's most needed and the recovery process is glad to have them.

Think about the airline industry and how many times the causes of an accident have been found in the months-old maintenance records of an aircraft, or in an examination of pilot training from last year.

Now imagine throwing away all the information that could have led to finding a cause and putting in place mechanisms and practices to prevent a recurrence. This is how the software industry continues to stumble over the same problems that were known and described in the 70s.
I will often paste a line from the CHANGELOG.md into the commit.

We used to use Perforce, which forced you to write a commit message. One of my employees used to write "asdf". It got a bit old. I didn't care that much, myself, as he was responsible for maintaining his own code, and he did fine, there.

The Japanese hated it, though, and it probably played a big part in his getting laid off. I learned a big lesson, there, and insisted on my employees being more circumspect, after that.
I put the exact machine a year ago on my wishlist and never thought about it again (thanks for reminding me), if i remember correctly i put it on there because it is easy to clean. I love a good cappuccino but the amount of cleaning these machines need is a mood killer.
the 7% are alcoholics who learn how to keep a straight face
No! It's much easier to make consumers pay for it with ploys like carbon footprints.

https://interestingengineering.com/culture/carbon-footprint-...
So you don't blame MAME if your ROM is not genuine.
Whatch the guy’s daily YouTube updates. He provides new science discussion daily and includes source material for all items.
Another Open Source alternative: https://libredns.gr
This is a little indirect, but if you have Photoshop or The Gimp, you can use the selection tool, invert it, and then delete the background, which leaves you with the foreground only, and a transparent background.
It's Python, which is a churnfest by design. Other communities have this problem to a lesser degree.
Maybe as a generality. But for our laboratory client at $Job, it very definitely is not. There are plenty of people (home owners, landlords, contractors, pharmacies, etc.) who would prefer that mold not be present. And have a large financial interest in getting accurate results.
Interesting. I've never taken a keen interest in the project because I think the WIndows 95 look reminds me too much of Microsoft and fvwm95 :)

I'd love to see a remake of HP-UX's VUE (there is in fact a remake of the later CDE, and CDE itself is open-sourced). And it has almost the same UI but it's much more boring than VUE. VUE was from HP had smooth non-serif fonts and wild colour schemes. CDE was a followup joint-venture from HP, Sun and IBM and as a result they made it much more businessy. Serif fonts and boring brownish colours.

But all these things are super niche obviously, and it's really good to hear that he can still make a living from it.
The Pax Chipzilla Is Over, and Intel Can’t Hold Back the Barbarians
At a job you tend not to worry about next months salary being s lot less. If you are let go because they can’t afford you you get a job somewhere else. So being poor (as in can’t make ends meet) is less of a concern than something like this. If I were doing this then “marketing” would also be on my mind.
suggest sticking that into a replit so that people can easily run/fork on the web :)
> describing a richer and richer space of computation

So, changing the compiler from targeting a stack / finite state machine (no register allocation - see zero address format) to registers (NP complete to allocate the registers)?

Alternatively, changing the available static / compiled features of a language is usually offered with compiler flags or keywords. Concatenative languages are already Turing complete up the restrictions on functions as such to being total.
Chrome already offer(ed?) to store Credit Card information on payment sites for "faster checkout"
This is about on par
It would be nice if this were the universal meaning of this phrasing but people do use it to mean both "twice as fast" (2x) and "faster by double the original speed" (3x).

People will rail about them using it wrong but it's pretty useless when you have to basically guess whether people subscribe to your definition of "right" before you can understand something.
Liquid oxygen pricing is mostly the electricity pricing... Equipment cost is small in comparison.

Which means it varies widely depending on where in the world you're wanting it. It isn't valuable enough to ship far.
Why does every company default to 2-week sprints?
The Graffitied History of Trains (7:40)
I also try to adopt this approach whenever possible. The 'git log' flag you mention is '--first-parent'.
You hit the nail on the head. Mess or not, it was a controlled mess with people getting to shape not just their message, but in many cases actual public debate.
Through the fog of purple prose and judgment based on your assumptions and theories of ethnic classification, you seem to be claiming that the police will protect us from speech but not from violence. I don't see how that could possibly add up.
Hard to tell if making everyone go through a shopping cart to download it is a joke. Am I missing something?
Nice! I didn't knew about that. Can you elaborate on this?

I still mourn Terry Davis passing.I really enjoyed seeing him work on his Operating System and I was really saddened when his mental condition deteriorated to the point he got homeless, ultimately ending his life. With meds, he'd still be here and kicking :-(
Rebooting my service after two years.. might be a good idea?
Parent said:

> activist letter telling Meta to give up on the Metaverse

I assumed it were some users who came up with that letter, but a quick google search indeed revealed it was investors. That wasn't clear to me and you are indeed correct.
I was thinking that, perhaps.

But doesn’t that imply that Elon knows he’s a fraud and is trying to trick others? I don’t think Elon realizes he’s a fraud.

It’s like the opposite of impostor syndrome. When someone speaks with total confidence and absolute garbage comes out of their mouth.
This is not merely rhetorical. Nvidia, for example, was caught hard during the first cryptocurrency bust... and the second.
Types of Circuit Boards
> Just look at cell service providers giving them away for free

In North America which is in a different universe in this regard compared to the rest of the world. Where I'm from, carriers sell SIM cards and that's it. Postpaid plans aren't a thing. You buy your phone separately in an electronics store, for full price. This applies to iPhones as well.
We Need to Talk About the Bad Sides of Go
Surprised it doesn't show up on PLDB:

https://pldb.com/index.html
Someone appointed to a highly responsible and prestigious government role after a highly successful career, as Levine has, can hardly be described as marginalized.

The Bee's article is more broadly a commentary on how accolades intended for women are now going to men who identify as women - which rather undermines the point of having such awards in the first place. The humor is in inverting this:

"The Babylon Bee has selected Rachel Levine as its first annual Man of the Year. Levine is the U.S. assistant secretary for health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where he serves proudly as the first man in that position to dress like a western cultural stereotype of a woman."

Criticizing male dominance like this is very much a 'punching up' type of comedy.
I'm referring to Danaher. My point is it's too late. They're not going to sell something that commands $10k for spindles of plastic chips. It prints money.
sideways application of goodhart's law- anything that can be relied upon can also be over-relied upon, which is generally going to be far easier than the subtle version

or- unless there's an opposing force, bad forensic science will drive out the good
Don't confuse people who disagree with you with people who don't understand you.
> Facing the fact that ideas are ten a penny

I've heard this before from inventors. It's the work you put in to realize the idea, they say. But they're inventors. They have a lot of ideas. Average people don't have a lot of ideas. Can we at least appreciate when we come up with an idea?
Sure, you can still use the colors, but they're removing the picker for them.
At the moment, my default position on all stories out of Twitter is that they didn't happen unless confirmed officially by Twitter. And the more nonsensical the story, the firmer that belief is for me.
You agree that Winamp has 10x the functionality of Spotify?
Principal Components is a wonderful concept, together with sister concepts eigenvalues/vectors, and orthogonality. i wish i could force everyone i talk to to internalize these ideas so that I could have more useful discussions with them.

that said, yeah not everything is linearly separable
Kangaroos are the model of the 'old' T.Rex - they're mostly a tripod
Why would using registers make it NP complete? Is there a reason concatenative languages aren't (naturally) primal chordal graphs?

I mean other than the conservative approximation being to assume it is not?
As someone that works a lot with both Pantone and RAL, I've never understood the value proposition of the these digital color palettes - the fact of the matter is, they're just not good matches to the physical colors to begin with.

Obviously, a physical product is reflected light, a monitor is emissive light, etc. This means they're never going to be exact no matter how much work you put into it, but... I have a calibrated monitor with measured coverage of over 99% sRGB, a delta E max below 1, a delta E average of .4, calibrated to D65, with a 98 CRI D65 color matching light, and... the colors are way off. At best the hex values they give are decent starting points, but if you are attempting to provide an accurate representation in digital form of what the color is, these were never good enough to begin with.

You need the physical samples (books, plastic chips, whatever), a calibrated monitor, and a good color matching light to really dial the colors in to be close. These libraries were never worth it to begin with.

When you go to get something printed/resins and inks mixed for plastic/whatever, they're not matching to these digital values - they match to physical samples. My printer won't produce the same physical product using the same CMYK values as your printer, etc. They get out their pantone book and compare the printed color to what is in the book, and then adjust from there. For anything requiring high color accuracy, anyway.
Amusingly that comment is what got me to read the article rather than just browsing the comments like I usually do.
I wouldn't say that the reason people in the UK haven't got air conditioning is because it's "bloody cold". Rather, it's because it's simply never bloody hot. I would even argue that the UK in general is less cold than most of the US, for example the North East and Midwest.

However, I would go even further. The reason why no-one in Europe (for a loose definition of "no-one") has air conditioning is not so much the climate, but more heavily influenced by historical, cultural, and architectural reasons.

I'll bet that most current American homes were built after air conditioning was invented, their usual construction materials mean they are rarely well insulated, and single family homes are generally fully exposed to the Sun.

Compare that for instance with Spain, which one may assume would be hot enough to need air conditioning, with a climate comparable to that of California.

Some homes do have it of course, but it is never assumed by default. Firstly, most of the population lives in flats, which mean their homes are less exposed to the Sun (except attics), and construction materials are generally sturdier and better insulators by default. Secondly, old homes in villages have been there long before air conditioning was a glint in the ice cream man's eye, and thus have been designed over time to be better protected from the heat. Modern houses, even if they may be designed to accomodate potential air conditioning, are still more or less influenced by these ideas to an extent.

On the cultural aspect, as air conditioning has never been a given, people have learnt to adapt their lifestyles and expectations to living with the heat, and don't instinctively feel the need to have air conditioning blasting all the time. Of course people do like it and appreciate it when available, but it simply doesn't have the cultural expectation that it has in the US.
I want nothing. I have all I need, which is relatively modest. I couldn't even tell you what model of (2nd hand) laptop I have or how much RAM it has because I don't care and it's not an issue for my use-cases.

As for things that make life better or work easier ... I carry a Swiss Army "Climber" multitool. (In his Last Viridian Note writer Bruce Sterling eloquently describes a multitool as "a set of possible creative interventions in your immediate material environment"). When I go hiking I'll also take my Opinel #6 pocket-knife - it's light and has a really nice locking mechanism. It's great for quartering an apple or stripping the bark from a branch.
> OpenGL is easy to use

Direct3D is far easier to use.

> provides a lot of functionality

In a haphazard, difficult-to-use way that lags the state of the art. Because Microsoft controls DirectX, they can look at what the GPU manufacturers are doing, draw up an API spec for the advanced stuff and the GPU manufacturers would hew to that spec. OpenGL is designed by committee, a committee largely staffed by ancient CAD software vendors who insist on backward compatibility and it holds the API standard back. There's a janky extension system in place to allow GPU vendors to add functionality -- in proprietary, mutually incompatible ways that require the developer to write multiple code paths per unit of extension functionality.

Plus there's GPU debugging support integrated into Visual Studio. OpenGL doesn't have nearly the tooling that DirectX does.

Honestly, OpenGL should have been
abandoned, and DirectX made the standard, 25 years ago. The only reason it wasn't was John Carmack, for the past 15 years even he's conceded that DirectX is the better API.

> I for one am not interested in writing the same graphics code across multiple OSes

Use a game engine. It's got back ends for DX, Vulkan, Metal, even OpenGL (although that may change).

If you must code to some 3D API, use DirectX. Natively supported on Windows, supported via DXVK on Linux and DXVK+MoltenVK on Apple (though Microsoft is working on native DX for Apple hardware, probably translating straight from DX to Metal.)
One thing that works for me here is to try and split the work into changes that could be shipped to production independently of each other.
Funny that there was no mention of GCC, since it was probably one of the first IRs that anyone encountered IRL. If I remember correctly one motivation for Clang/LLVM was because GCC's IR was so bad.

I knew people that wrote backends for gcc, and they pretty much all agreed it was a nightmare.
Mail-in voting in my state entails "signature verification", wherein I learned - the hard way - that they do in fact compare the signature on my ballot to some signature they've got stored somewhere to see if it matches.
I guarantee Elon is surrounded by yes-men.
Isn't it interesting how the social or traditional rules of a people, the software, if you will, are a big factor in whether the country will be successful or not?
Google has an option to include transparent images under the tools option within an image search.

Beyond that, it's up to you to actually go to the indicated site, find the image and see if it's publicly available.
Thanks for noting this. We are so accustomed to reading comments as of a point in time, but their meaning is also impacted by when they are made. In this case, a future historian may draw a different conclusion had they not seen your clarifying post. Whereas now it confirms that the community viewed it as a good thing, and HN also agreed steadfastly.
The very concept of a "Galactic Empire" is flawed as soon as you take scale and spacetime into account. The first major obstacle to the concept is distance. It'd take centuries to get even to the nearest off-world colonies and even simple things such as common time keeping become a challenge.

Communication basically breaks down completely once you get to distances beyond just a few light years: consider a "small" interstellar kingdom within a 100 ly radius. The central world will always necessarily be 100 years (in terms of just time) away from the outer worlds. Something happens on the outer rim, the central world won't be able to know about it until 100 years after the fact.

So in essence, every world that's more than a few (e.g. less than 5 or so) light years away is practically isolated from the rest - both logistically and from a communications perspective. It's very hard to come up with any way of describing such a scattered collection of islands as one coherent civilisation.

Another issue is the colonisation process itself. It's virtually impossible to find a nearby 1:1 copy of a world that matches the point of origin of the civilisation. Therefore, terraforming (a lengthy and resource intensive process) or genetic modification would be required. The latter will occur naturally anyway, since some physical attributes of the target world simply cannot be changed without god-like powers (e.g. orbital parameters and gravitation). This means you'd end up with sub-species pretty quickly that won't share the exact same biology and probably have a very divergent culture as well due to being so isolated.

You'd have to come up with some really strong arguments as to how and why - given these circumstances - even "just" interstellar civilisations should be possible in the first place.
There is nothing surprising about this. In the eyes of VC or the acquirer the idea of someone having "earned the stock" means nothing without a contract that says they've earned it. People need to stop gaslighting themselves into thinking that the company they work for or the company acquiring the company they work for will "do right by them". Capital doesn't care about you, your mortgage, your dreams, or anything else. Stop pretending it does.
Yes, easily. Just the plugins alone are easily 10x the functionality.
Tell HN: How doctors get up to speed and how to use it in your work
Doctors’ approach to productivity

A few weeks back I had to go see many doctors with my kid with a semi-complicated cold diagnosis.

Basically:

• She started daycare and had 1 mild infection

• As soon as she got rid of that she got another one

• After that she had a problem walking (a common complication from the infection called coxitis)

• After that she got another infection (a strong one this time)

On top of that I had to get her blood and urine works multiple times and see different doctors every time.

What I found fascinating is how every doctor had the same way of getting up to speed.

Here’s how they do it and how I use it to solve work problems.

This is especially important for managers, because you often get contacted about problems without context.

All of the doctors (even though always in a hectic environment) followed this process:

1. Sat down and started asking questions from the beginning

2. All of them wrote the key points and timeline

3. All of them examined the kid for themselves after getting the anamnesis

4. Only after that thorough analysis they would give you the next step (whether it be more tests, or exams, and also what happens after that)

5. They established multiple checkpoints to check if things are getting better or if you need more attention

6. They’ve set up a clear exit point (how you know all is ok)

7. They’ve consulted with their higher up since it was a complicated diagnosis

In my line of work as an email marketing specialist in a big team, I often get to work on different tasks from the middle of it.

Lately, I’ve been using this approach and it’s been working great for me.

I feel less stressed

I feel motivated to make it happen

I jump into action quicker

Some pre-requisits that help me:

• Each task we have from our stakeholder is documented in a Asana like kanban board

• Each email goes through a QA checklist and multiple checkpoints (in order)

• All the colleagues are trained and understand the process

• Most of our stakeholders understand the process and adhere to it

I'd love more details if you use something similar or are an actual doctor.
It wasn't clear to me if the exam questions were the source or just where the author stopped tracking.
Startup got a YC interview – rip it apart pls
Go ahead, rip it apart. Please list every possible reason this idea sucks.
But they are doing exact what android is doing. U can't op out of apple's collection, u can only choose to not do personalized ads - just like google. And when android is conversation, we already know how it works but why do we have to sugar coat this when dealing with apple?
QR code menus are fine, if made well, for quick-service and casual restaurants where the customer's interest is primarily in a quick and efficient meal (even a quick-and-efficient delicious and high-quality meal).

But if you are operating a fine dining establishment(1), where the food is but one component of the experience, and you have a QR code printed on a piece of paper taped to the table ... you're really taking away from the experience you're supposed to be selling.

(1) There are some limited exceptions for places which make a quirky tech vibe part of the experience, which mostly comes up in certain types of sushi bars.
What hubris to think that your system is so complex that other engineers couldn't understand it.
By the same author: http://www.daviddfriedman.com/The_Machinery_of_Freedom_.pdf
It empirically is allowed, though. Google is welcome to claim that it's against their rules, but they still let it through.
What about it..?
except other people have implemented it and not gotten flamed.