skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WhatsApp had 35 employees while supporting 450 million users. You just don't need that many people to run a simple web app.
The speeds of the motorized scooters/bikes/etc., and seeming recklessness of their riders, has become a problem on the sidewalks of college town Cambridge, Mass.

For example, at least three times in the last week alone, I've literally almost been run into by someone blasting out of, or alongside, Harvard Yard on one motorized vehicle or another.

Some of the bicyclists seem similarly reckless and self-absorbed. A couple times in the last week I've almost been hit on the sidewalk by a speeding bicyclist.

Also, a few nights ago, I was almost struck in the head by someone on a Blue Bikes rental bike, blowing through a crosswalk that had a walk light, and after the cars had already stopped for the red. (They were also speeding across the ambulance entrance&exit for a hospital ED, so doubly reckless, though convenient for me, had they cracked my head open.)

Anecdotally, the bicyclist wtf rate seems much than it used to be, and I wonder whether some of the motorized vehicles are setting precedents for behavior.

I intend to bring this up with the City, where I know they have some people who care very much about bike etc. transportation. I'm also mentally composing a concerned letter to the Harvard administration, both about public safety, and about the image of their students as reckless and self-absorbed.
Most jobs in the UK pay significantly less than the US - it’s not just software developers.
Absolutely not. Words and rationality are far inferior clumsy tools of communication (and - with respect to the nerds in question - tools of manipulation) to the vastly more multi-dimensional, multi-generational, tried-and-true, human instincts.
I like Russian people, I work with many here in Germany where many live, in my experience they're much more friendly than the average German that's for sure. But no, I don't like your fascist state, and I can't imagine I would like anyone who would defend Russian imperial conquests.
Practically speaking yes, but this isn't an unsolvable problem. I ride Originals spring trucks, which use a cam and a spring instead of the urethane bushing in most skate trucks. It takes effort to keep them steady at speed for sure, but paired with soft wheels they feel like pure telepathy in terms of control authority.
Aren’t all arguments in favor of Denmark and Sweden invalidated immediately because of the lack of isolation testing?

I find it hard to believe that Swedens progress isn’t measured by advancements made from capitalistic contributions. For example Apple iPhones.

I tend to find most folks inherently throw out these arguments out through their own biases and refuse, at every level, to acknowledge the hard working capitalistic people who got us this far.

Sweden is much better off because of the contributions coming from capitalists.
As I said yesterday, there's a guy (Irving Picard, AFAICR) who's clawed back most of the money that Bernie Madoff stole from his clients. In that case, Bernie took one person's deposits and gave the money to the previous sucker, so Irving unwound all that.

In this case, apparently some people's money was fraudulently given to charities, so do they have to give it back? And what if they can't?

There's a job almost no one would want to undertake.
I don't know why that man is not in prison. But it's been obvious for years that, in spite of repeated claims (that sent his stock into the stratosphere), that self-driving cars do not work, and will not work for a pretty long time - probably not in my lifetime. Possibly, never. And if they could, there is the obvious question 'why?', when public transit clearly should be the focus.

Sure, we all want sci-fi future, but smoking too much funny grass does not make fantasy real.

Today, AI is good at mangling together pretty three-legged astronauts, not getting you out of unpredictable tight spots. Taking billions from investors shows great skill at doing just that, not engineering something that is basically not doable.
Because "Karens" are usually the ones who complain to managers about stuff like this. "People" just say "meh" or complain to a friend or two, and a "Karen" will go through a whole line of managers and complain to all of them.
interesting examples, but not compelling, i.e. procedural code to do the same thing would also work (and might be easier to understand for some).

the thing i loved about FP was the elimination of exception handling

the thing i disliked about FP was how complex classes were implemented as bizarre templates of structured list subtypes - too much focus on the data types and structures of the implementation, obscuring the domain-model (aka business) types and structures required for human comprehension.

disclosure: scala, a few years ago

there is a happy medium...theoretically
I'm super surprised at how open and off-the-cuff he's being here. Did he not put together that the DMs might get published? Is this just the power of good rapport? Is he trying to be strategic here in some way?
A 8xH100 server sells for like 300k+$ (the A100s go for half, still very expensive), I'd imagine the margins are pretty high on that. The demand for ML models (therefore servers) will likely grow now that startups seem to switch from crypto hype to ai hype and big tech derives huge value from ml workloads.
Shameless plug: https://jobsort.com/search?q=lang:c%20-lang:c%2b%2b

I built Jobsort to support negative filters, so the query "lang:c -lang:c++" will give you only C and not C++ jobs :)
Sorry if this is hard to believe, you are saying the temperature doesn't swing more than a few degrees between full sun at 30 degrees and no sun all night at 17 degrees. Your house is losing heat constantly something must replace it, this should show up as a temperature rise during the day and a constant fall at night until morning.

To only swing a few degrees means a huge thermal mass that charges during the day from the sun and discharges at night with little temperature change and huge insulation along with say body heat and cooking etc. Not that it's not possible but only varying 4 degrees F with no heating system other than the sun during the day seems like a stretch, will be happy to be proven wrong.
One thought I had while watching that the video didn't seem to explore is that if you can precisely map the field and remember every plant, and you have 4 million plants on your field, then it seems like you could enable precise experiments. Need to find the best mix for fertilizer or pesticides? Seems like you could do very precise and large N experiments to nail down what is best for your plants in your field and possibly eke out some additional return by doing so.
Let me mention MPW - The Macintosh Programmer's Workshop for classic MacOS. The shell was a text editor, just like the text editor for editing code. When you hit enter (or command-return) it evaluated the current line or selection. Command results were included in the document. (This was strictly a dumb terminal so there were no vt100 escape codes or such to mess up the display)

If you were confused about the command arguments you could run commando (or use … as an argument) to bring up a GUI to select the flags.

The Eddie text editor for BeOS and now MacOS X/XI/XII/XIII has a similar text-editor/shell hybrid.

http://www.el34.com
I’m assuming you don’t take part in the MultiGP drone racing scene then. Onewheels and quads just seem to go together - at any big race you’ll see a bunch of them wheeling around.

Quads can be pretty dangerous too. One wrong switch flip and you can look like you went through a deli slicer. Move up to the bigger prop sizes and they can do more than that.
Personally, I think the Fediverse and IndieWeb are in a much stronger position. Key thing to watch: does Mastodon manage to ride the wave created by the Twitter collapse and become a socially relevant force? Even in some small communities?

I'm much more bullish on small communities talking to each other with open source software (Fediverse) than magical crypto schemes that require deep economic expertise to design properly (which nobody on the project ever has).

I do think Podcasting 2.0 is a neat idea. There's room in this world for micropayments. I just don't want it to be pervasive and I'm exhausted from the stream of scams.
People really need to understand what a PAC is -- "Presidential candidates" can only accept a few thousand dollars from an individual. Large donors don't give to candidates, they give to PACs.

Of SBF's $40ish million in donations, over $25M went to a specific PAC "Protect our Future PAC"[1]. Of that PAC's spending - over $10M went to support a single cypto-friendly Oregon house candidate in his primary where he lost to a different Democrat. In fact nearly all of SBF's support went to primary campaigns so when people say "he spent $40M supporting Democrats" the vast majority of that funding was in races against other Democrats.

The other thing to know about PACs, is that by law, they are not affiliated with the campaign. The campaigns can't vet the donations to PACs because they aren't donations to the candidate and it would be illegal for them to coordinate with the PAC. This is the 3-card monte allowed by our insane campaign finance regime, but within those bounds, SBFs donations weren't to actual candidates who would vet these donors. The PAC has its own compliance, but there basically are no restrictions on donors as long as they're from the US. That's how random Russian billionaires donated to Trump's PACs in 2016, and the only reason that was frowned upon is because the funds came from a foreign national.[2]

[1] - https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/detail?cmte=C00...

[2] - https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/lev-parnas-and-igor-fru...
Abuse, misuse, and UI/UX misdesign of CWs is one of my own long-standing gripes about Mastodon.

I've written a few epic gripes about this, though ... can't find them at the moment.

(Mastodon's search capabilities, or lack thereof, is another long-standing gripe.)

That said, I hadn't realised just how bad Dan's thread was to read from outside Mastodon until after revisiting it from HN. Sorry!
I don't know how responsive you're supposed to be towards the 100+ channels in your job, but i think notifications make a big portion of the psychological burden. This also includes visuals like 'unread' badges.

Aside from the downsides, i appreciate that you have everything said in the chat written down and searchable.
Raspberry Pi zero 2 now costs $114.99 (used to be 7$ few months ago)
In this case, the parents were arrested and charged. One could argue wrongfully, but given that's happened, so some kind of short-term mitigation and investigation seems eminently reasonable.
I recently saw a giant plush coca-cola can with the text changed to "cloaca" in some guy's car. Is that a known joke? I thought it was pretty funny
The way carvana buys cars is INSANE and the return policy is pretty crazy too. I don't see carvana ever being a successful business model as it stands now.

No proper inspection at pick-up. Dealers often send people who know their stuff to auctions and they use things like paint meters to check for body work. I worked for a dealer and also painted cars. I could spot repainted panels without tools, and if I could not spot them it was a professional job. Not all accidents are reported and on things like carfax, this is all carvana cares about.

The delivery and moving cars across states is not cheap. Returns must be really expensive for carvana.
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Donations buy you access, not specific outcomes. Just the ability to get a hearing for whatever kinda-reasonable-ish parts of the stuff you want there might be is really, really valuable.

And yes, both are corrupt, but one is business as usual and the other is a serious federal crime that prudent members of congress avoid.
-8° and 18° for anyone not in the US.
Thanks for your investigation.

Yes, I've seen defcon presos on this topic. It wouldn't take great lengths to do so for specific users, if desired. Doing so would be relatively trivial.

Proving a negative (i.e. disproving the claim) here is essentially impossible. Yet, without evidence there's simply no reason to make such an assertion.

Personally, I trust HN and doubt they have any such functionality in place. Even so, can @dang or anyone confirm/deny?
The writing in this finding uses the iberian alphabet with some minor modifications. The iberian language has different indo-european roots, so it seems that indeed Vascones didn't have their own writing system, as was common for many languages of this era and later in history.

It is also what evidence suggested (until now), pretty much no basque writings have been found until well into the middle ages, besides a few words in headstones and coins. Although we know the language was there because the Romans referred to it. Scholars probably assumed that some writing was taking place, but there is very little proof of it, so better to stick to what we know.

It is intriguing that it looks like this object was a welcome message hung on a door, kind of like a welcome doormat. The object was found on top of a door, it has clear signs that it was nailed in an upright position with a wooden nail, and the first word is almost exactly the same modern basque word that is used to mean "welcome", "congratulations" or "happy". If this theory is correct, it suggests a significantly higher level of literacy than would be expected in a small town from this era. Why would you put up a welcome sign if guests wouldn't understand it?
Yeah I personally view suburbia writ large as a cultural backwater and site of psychologically stultifying sameness. Rural and urban places are endlessly interesting to me.
"Libre" is just "Free" in Spanish.
> unless “hardcore” also means working a little bit on Saturdays

It likely means Saturdays and a little bit on Sundays.
duplicate of
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33626670
> there are people who know what's that like, and who want to do for someone else what nobody did for them

He probably hopes for a bailout from either BitMEX or Bitfinex-Tether and is simply trying to appease them by walking back his pro-government views
Source will be appreciated. What if the money has already been spent? Do they track it all the way through or just one level?
On the one hand, the reason for the decline of the various milkweed butterflies appears largely to be a result of areas that once supported some milkweed populations were hit with glyphosate which killed the host plants off at a massive scale. On the other hand this is already happening with chemicals sprayed indiscriminately, this reduces the amount that's sprayed, which could save farmers money, and this reduces glyphosate runoff which is good. Still seems to have the down side that if actually adopted would likely cause even more loss since it could be used on crops where it's avoided now. And no farmer is going to program it to skip milkweed or some other important host plants, they hate milkweed.
This is the joke in Seattle. You can always get a job at Amazon. Not anymore, currently!
Did you expect Small Gods to be part of the training set? Anyway the answer is: Because you are Archdeacon Vorbis.
I am waiting for this kind of tech to become viable for smaller 'hobby' type farms. you know, under 100 acres.

To get the spraying done by firing up a few drones would be excellent.

Particularly with weeds that are in hard to reach places on the farm.
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Cool, as long as it's your thoughts and not mine. I have no problem with other people policing their own speech and thoughts. My problem starts when they start to enforce what they found on other people.
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Before FTX collapse, founder poured millions into pandemic prevention
Ugh. Note taking apps need to be instant.

I care far less about the feature set than I do getting the whatever written down and out of my head.

If you make we wait while you load a website's worth of js or phone home with surveillance data or whatever, I'm just going to delete you. I'd rather use a 1995-era Textedit or Notepad - they're instantly functional.

Just to make sure I maintain my curmudgeon's rep, I'll add - advertise AI and I'm also gone. I have zero need for assistance from a tripping robot to type in my work life.
> Even without publisher/legal issues it's clear that preservation of digital media for even the next 10 years, and especially for the next 100 or 1000, is at risk.

This is pure hyperbole. The one and only challenge is rent-seeking. There already are lots of ebooks from decades before in PDF.
I ride motorcycles on highways going 80mph+. I rode an engine conversion at 25mph and nope'd right out of doing that again.

The motorcycle's geometry is way different. It has a much larger contact patch. It has much more powerful brakes.
You’re assuming someone in the process is in the position to apply sanity. More likely, they operate as “call-taker puts every call into GovJira, investigators are required to investigate in order to close a GovJira ticket”
> If I was in Hollywood...

Hollywood essentially destroys almost everything it touches: the people that invest in film production insist on maximising their RoI at the cost of petty things like artistic integrity, historical accuracy, and such.

I enjoy independent video producers ("creators" is the term now, I gather?) on YouTube (and Vimeo, etc) like Tom Scott precisely because it isn't Hollywood.
I'm very critical of SBF and what went on here, but let's not over sentimentalise this, they gambled billions of dollars of peoples deposits, not savings. Which clearly is a crime, but you don't store your savings on a crypto exchange, BTC arguably the most reliable of the crypto-currencies is down 70% in the last year. Moves that happen once in a lifetime in real markets happened multiple times in crypto. No one reasonable has their savings in crypto exchanges.
There's a segment of smart people who go through a lot of hoops to make themselves look stupid. Because for one reason or another being stupid is advantageous. Here, apparently, it's a defense against fraud.
If there is nobody around when it's powered on, I don't see a problem.

If people have to stay around to care for it, then yes, it's scary.
I feel like he's pulled his experience from "emerging technology" companies (which he's no doubt been successful), and trying to apply it to Twitter. I don't think it'll work (Twitter is an established company in a competitive environment, advertising), but it'd be crazy in 24 months if Twitter was more profitable than ever and was in line to become America's everything app.
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The previous issues were bad enough for me to drop Evernote as a paying customer.

I would get notes that would not sync correctly, forcing me to resolve it by hand. Even after doing that, it would still have sync conflicts. This was core functionality that just didn't work.

During this time, they were busy jamming in features I definitely didn't want or need. Every release would be a slower, buggier version of its previous incarnation.

It was during this time frame that a lot of people jumped ship. The app was so bloated and buggy by that point that even OneNote seemed like a viable option.

It didn't help that Evernote made it as difficult as possible to get your notes out of their system. It took several download attempts to successfully get my archive out of there. It might have also been due to the large number of people leaving their platform.

The handwriting was on the wall when they started selling knick-knacks on their website. Things like Evernote branded Moleskine notepads and dress socks. It's like they completely abandoned their core competency and went off in some left-field marketing direction.

It's a real shame, too, because Evernote was an amazing app when it first came out.

I'm giving org-mode a spin these days on my desktop. Need to figure out if there's a way to sync/view it on my Android device, but I'm getting kind of tired of dealing with all the different, proprietary SaaS note taking services that go to shit after a few years. At least with Emacs and org-mode, that's one less thing to deal with.
I looked at Carvana before deciding on buying a used car from CarMax. The big problem was that I can not test drive the car from Carvana before committing. The return fee if I didn't buy the car made it too risky.

At CarMax, I could see, drive, and smell (darn smokers!), the used car. The "no-haggle" experience at CarMax still turned into a haggle for upgrades, just not the base price.
Maybe... Spanish and Portuguese ware used in trade a lot and they don't seem to have simplified much. On the other hand, like English Danish has simplified even further, but it was never a great trade language --it may have been a language of trade in the Baltic basin many centuries ago but not in the last half dozen centuries.
You're being tricked by sampling bias.

It's safer to be around strangers than relatives in every study's sampling, because most people don't leave their kids with strangers. They spend most of their time with relatives, friends and acquaintances. If they did spend as much time with strangers as with relatives, you'd conclude it's safer to be around relatives.

It's like saying cyanide is safe because most people don't die from cyanide. Yeah, because most people don't take cyanide.
So I understand this is not realistic currently; However where I currently reside, basically everybody grows their own food, and has plenty of time to be doing other things in the meantime.

So while we all need robots, there are probably a hell of a lot of people who would be able to produce even one crop a year in their backyard, who don't bother.
If you speak to people on the inside, you'd find that they understand it's a big ponzi scheme, but they continue to work in it while making bank.
Infosys is long known to be incompetent as an organization among people who have experienced their brand of greed and labor fraud; I highly recommend you avoid them as much as possible.
Slack can easily get overwhelming, especially at larger organization with thousands of channels.

One tip: don't install slack on your phone unless you're on call. I would check my work slack habitually and it wouldn't lead to good engagement. Read the messages when you're at your desk and you can compose a thoughtful reply.

Another tip: slack lets you organize channels into groups, use that feature heavily. I had groups for: org, sev (incident specific channels), projects etc. You can then hide them so you only engage with the unreads when you have the time to.
There might be some confusion over what "classical education" means. Do you mean a traditional/mainstream public school? Or classical as in structured around the trivium?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_education_movement
Tuvalu is building a digital replica of itself in the metaverse
I usually don't do this but... AIBs?

Google is only giving me Allied Irish Banks. Somehow I feel that's not what you're talking about.
It also doesn't support/play nice with[1] tmux, which was a hard deal breaker for me.

[1] https://github.com/warpdotdev/Warp/discussions/501
We do recall cars when design flaws endanger or kill users. This happens literally hundreds of times per year in the US.
I would download both repos and get them running. If one repo takes me longer than the other to build and run due to non-existent or poor README file, out of date or esoteric dependencies, badly written build scripts, etc, then I would prefer the other one. Bonus points to the repo that is truly cross-platform because getting the same codebase to build on Windows, OSX, and Linux can be a significant challenge.