skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's accounting for stock growth.

With the flat share price, there's no 4 year cliff anymore...
> I saw on one of the illustrations that the spray is made of acetic acid.

The cynic in me wants to point out that this is basically a commerce, so of course they use the best sounding chemical possible. Will they still use that by the time it becomes a commercial product? I guess only time will tell.
18mg of methylphenidate (generic brands).

I've been very lucky to have such a positive response to such a low dose, as it's helped me tremendously with only the mildest of side effects (occasional high pulse, sore jaw).

Higher doses do nothing but increase my heart rate.
The Digital Services Act is supposed to provide some legal recourse, at least in the European Union.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Services_Act
https://verfassungsblog.de/dsa-fails/

However, ask the politicians at the European Commission, and they will boast that it is about this:

> By summer 2023, the first very concrete effects of the #DSA will be visible for all users. This includes: Accessible "button" to easily flag illegal content

https://nitter.it/ThierryBreton/status/1592856203935510528#m

Which just happens to be what the reviewer was complaining about (ways to report "objectionable content").
FYI uBlock's privacy filters block your script.js file for some reason.

Even after disabling it, though, it's just a blank screen (Chrome on Mac).

Clicking "Use text mode" does work though and brings you to a console.
I'm also generally on the same boat with you. I'd rather pay for the infrastructure and deploy my own tools on top of that, however with the features some applications provide, it becomes either impossible to replace them, or the time required for maintaining them becomes too much for my life.

People say "Installing your own servers is cool, why don't you do that?". I do that, but for small things. At work, I have a fleet of servers, and managing them is enough. After being able to play with cutting edge stuff, renting a VPS from DO and putting stuff on top of it is neither fun, nor satisfying.

Instead, I diligently select and use services, and offload maintenance of such systems to the provider. Of course I take my backups and take my precautions, but I don't want to manage every service I use.

I personally don't like subscription services mostly, but some subscriptions provide real services which I see worthy, and I happily pay for them. Evernote is one of them.
I think the problem is not that "not all tokens are valid" Rather it is that we often repeat the same token sequences, and we should seek to abstract those predictable sequences into more unique tokens, e.g. by turning it into a library function.

Of course, the downside is that now you have way more tokens you need to know to understand some code, similarly to how Haskell code tends to have tons of mega-abstract function combinators or whatever whereas Go code is very simple. Which one is more readable depends on the reader, because a language like Go requires the reader to sift through more details, whereas Haskell is much terser but also requires much more pre-existing knowledge to understand.

I'm wondering if we can use these code-generation models to find "low entropy code" that is a prime target for turning into libraries.
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Fair point. Elon seems to apply very different measures what counts as free speech though, depending on how much he likes it.

If my work was criticised by my boss in public with objectively (very) wrong statements, I would criticize him publicly as well (depending on the circumstances oc).
That is a terrible hack. WTF, Weather Network? The guy is just clearing frost, not ice.

It would never work for snow, or snow and ice, or a mm of ice.
This is kind of surprising. I knew that UK had built and launched rockets to orbit early on, but apparently only in Australia. I'd expected that some of the early testing might've been done there.
He also would have known the final decimal digit of powers of 2 (starting at 2^1) is 2, 4, 8, 6, 2, 4, 8, 6, 2, 4, 8, 6…

So, 2^42 ends with the same digit as 2^38, 2^34, …, 2^2, so its last digit is a 4.
Proximity bias hurts workers and businesses. Here are 3 ways to avoid it
Social pressures never turned anyone gay. Quite the opposite actually.
So the internal hiring managers are there for no reason at all?
Have you seen the massive size of that drum of electric cable on the boat? It weights definitely more than 1200 lb, which is the weight of a Tesla 100 kWh battery. So the boat would be actually more lightweight after replacing that drum with a battery.
I’m currently early on working on a webapp/spa with no node and just some tooling I wrote myself (www.lona.so). I plan to document my process and post it at some point. My two points of advice if you’re looking to go the native route is to 1) look into web components and 2) find something to syntax highlight html strings (es6-string-html on vscode).

If you’re totally new and getting started, just throw in some code into an html file and double click it!
Mary Lou Jepsen.

> That, of course, leads to very real concerns about privacy

"The revenge of the tinfoil hat".
Add an example for you: why I need to encrypt the telnet traffic to my LXI multimeters on my bench?

It just doesn't make sense to encrypt everything.
https://archive.is/6vzzP
It's a tough one, because the symptoms are relatable to most ("isn't that everybody?"). They're just more intense than for most, and come with unexpected "features" like executive disfunction. The intensity also varies from a person to another, and the severity depends on a person's lifestyle.

The lack of focus is a lure, an oversimplification. It's not just "I can't focus on something I don't like to do". It's more like "halfway into making a cup of coffee, the most important thing in my life became to clean the pantry". Imagine running late, but stopping dead in your tracks with only one sock on, and answering an email. You know it's mad, but you can't help it.

However if you have a job that's lenient enough, you can hide it well. I stopped treatment because I couldn't gather enough data. My job was too easy to know if it worked. It's still the case.

Another thing is that a lot of people learned to cope with it for decades before getting diagnosed. Their life is full of alarms and error-catching mechanisms, so the symptoms are well-managed. If you know your strengths and weaknesses, you pick your battles. It's not an issue unless your battles are picked for you.
List of Play-by-Mail Games
Sreutils: Structural regex powered grep(, sed and Awk)
Terragraph Deliver reliable, gigabit speeds easily and cost-effectively
The interest rates I can understand. But how are rising steel prices going to change estimates? I'd expect the cost of the steel to be less than one percent of the budget. Is this way off? Or are they just looking for excuses?
100% of the time if you are wsl user, you have it running.

On serious side, even `findstr` is enough, but goal was to show interop in action, not to choose best grep alike solution.

On other serious side, I can ensure and enforce standardization on having WSL across the teams and departments and be sure such snippets work. Standardizing on ripgrep probably doesn't worth it.

For lonely/solo/indi technician that makes no sense and ripgrep can be better of course.
No, not the more the better. Comments should be easily updatable to keep up with code changes.

If every refactor involves redrawing a bunch of fancy ASCII art, you'll either get less refactors, or outdated comments
Yes. There are a number of highly skilled and talented people in Infosys and the other WITCH companies, but they're generally staffed only on the most prestigious projects and tend to move on fairly quickly. As another commenter said, in most cases they got recruited straight out of college.

So it's not that everyone at companies like Infosys are bad, it's that their hiring standards are so lax and hiring rate so high that the large proportion of their engineering people are mediocre at best, and that's why most engineers at European or American companies would've been exposed to.

The typical model of a WITCH engagement is to get a new client project that requires, say 100 engineers, and immediately go to market to hire 90% of them because they don't have a bench. Screening is minimal. They're then heavily micromanaged on the project for the first few months, where it's expected that at least half of those people will fail and either their manager or the client will demand they get rotated off and then sacked. They're replaced by another cohort freshly hired and the process repeats until you have a stable-ish team of good-enough competence about 8 months in.

It works because it's still cheaper and easier for big corps and big projects and the delivered quality is fairly shit, but still acceptable. And the margins are so good that in the rare event there are late delivery penalties they're fairly easily absorbed.
The heater has to wait for the engine to heat up, in a gas car. This takes 10 minutes if just idling in the driveway.

That said, that frost he removed with a baggie, would just wipe away with windshield wiper fluid and wipers.

(Winter wiper fluid is good to -40C or more, and will melt ice on its own).

Frozen snow or ice is different.
> Other players did go against Meta/Oculus and their VR products were abysmal in comparison.

Not really. The original HTC Vive outsold the original Rift by a lot and was a vastly superior headset (full 6DOF headset/controller vs front-facing/Xbox controller), while also costing about the same. It took Facebook quite a while, the release of Touch and a lot of patches to catch up. And on top of that they had to cut the price in half to stay relevant.

Meanwhile PlaystationVR was outselling everything PCVR was doing combined by 5x.

> Their products would still be crap or not even exist today

The "not even exist today" might very well be true, the crap however not. Microsoft was the one pioneering 6DOF standalone and handtracking back in 2016. Google had one with the Lenovo Mirage a year before Facebook even entered that space. The issue is that they all left the market before the Quest was even out. They never tried to compete, they saw that VR wasn't selling and gave up prematurely. Which is a shame, as I really miss WMR, which was both substantially cheaper than a Quest2, as well as having really nice way to interact with 2D apps inside VR with WMR Portal.

Meanwhile Pico4 just entered the market in Europe and happens to be a substantially improvement over Quest2 while also costing less. Quest2 still has a bit of an edge on the software side, but the gap is quite small when taking into account how much money Facebook spend.

The strength of Facebook is simply endurance, they kept going despite miserable sales VR. And they did that long enough to reach the "good enough" point with Quest2. That said, they are really slacking on the software side now. There is no interesting first party content coming out, it's all just Horizon Worlds. High quality games (Lone Echo) or software (Quill, Medium) as we had in the early VR days is all gone, nothing interesting announced in years and Quill and Medium even got sold off.

> it seemed Meta/Oculus really nailed the base recipe for what makes a desirable VR gaming headset

But that's the thing, that was essentially an accident, not a grand strategy. Facebook doesn't care about gaming. They care about that "next computing platform" that VR is supposed to be, gaming is just a tiny part of that and they'll happily toss it aside in the hunt for bigger goals.

That's really the problem with Facebook, they are far more interesting in dominating a hypothetical future VR space, than they are interest in improving the VR we have today.
Can this happen in developing countries like India?
When people do not embody the values they possess, how can they be happy?
That's not what I did. Read better. I state that it's garbage because the very first thing you learn when analysing literature is separating men from their ideas. This article doesn't do that and proceeds to find meaningless conclusions.
I’m actually curious as a follow-up here - what do you think are the skills people are missing or the mistakes they’re making? I’m a first-go-round wfh-er too, and while I think I’ve been fairly successful at it, I’d love to hear from someone who’s made a career of it.
Do you mean `rect(2x) • 2rect(2x) • 4rect(4x)` .., both so that the limiting function is a dirac delta and the convolutions remain area preserving? Otherwise since the function you're convolving with keeps getting wider wouldn't the result also keep getting wider, so the support is no longer finite?

It might be possible to get a closed-form solution via an approach like [1]. (Out of curiosity, for rect convolved with itself, the intermediaries seem to be knwon as b-splines: https://www.chebfun.org/examples/approx/BSplineConv.html)

[1] https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1254392/the-maximum...
The sprayer significantly reduces the amount of pesticide needed. It’s not crop dusting, it’s precision spraying.
This is an airborne launch, meaning the spaceport will have only the takeoff of the host airplane. The launch itself will be above the sea.

The rocket was developed and built in the US and projected to be launched from multiple countries around the world.

So nothing UK specific in it.
I'm not on meds anymore. Did try them for a month though. Worked great aside from giving me stress as it wore off. Really weird to feel stressed for literally actually no reason.

What it did give me is a look into what functioning normally-ish would look like, Which has helped enormously.

I'm not a huge fan of medication myself, but if I were you I'd definitely give it a shot. You can always stop if it's not your thing and there's a fair chance at lasting improvement even when you DO stop.
I think jury is out on that one until we see the effects.

Trello's acquisition was not as disastrous as I thought yet, for example. Wunderlist became Microsoft To Do. As a result, they are burrowed deep into the Microsoft ecosystem and got forgotten on the other hand.

Let's see where it goes and what's gonna happen to the ecosystem. I like Evernote at its current state, hope they won't turn it upside down.
Ask HN: Has anyone tried floating pools for engineering?
Our organisation has 4 different products and a platform component to support these. It is likely that some of the products would need higher engineering capacity at some point while other products might be running lean. In order to have optimal productivity, we are considering having a floater engineering pool which can be moved across different teams based on the increase in demand for the respective products.

Not sure if this is a good idea. We are obviously concerned about the context switch for the developers. But, I would like to hear from any of you have tried this approach and would like to know if that worked.
Is it still a feature of the language that it's rules are simple enough so you don't need to debug your knowledge of the language?

Neither this `inline case else` nor the async/await make sense to me. Granted, I don't use the language, but when I tried to read the documentation/tutorials to understand them, I couldn't. With async/await, I read the docs then tried to debug my understanding and the small amount of code I wrote didn't work the way I expected.
The video was a little frustrating as it never actually explains how the robot works...
This entire thread is just denial that SBF is in bed with the establishment just because the current establishment happens to be some folks favorite team.
Is there any way to get in touch with you and ask a few questions?
This style of grant giving has caught on in the last few years (three other examples I can think of off the top of my head are Tyler Cowen's Fast Grants [0] and Emergent Ventures [1] and Scott Alexander's ACX Grants [2], inspired by the former). Despite the fact that SBF's foundations used the same style and collapsed, I don't think the style will go away. It's just so much more efficient than the normal grant application process, for small-scale interventions.

[0] https://fastgrants.org/

[1] https://www.mercatus.org/emergent-ventures

[2] https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/acx-grants-results
> I see a lot of people with no business in traffic commuting on bikes too.

Bikes should not be forced to drive in traffic anyways.

> Especially with the advent of divvy or whatever your local equivalent is.

We’ve had bike sharing like this for years at this point and it works like a charm. In fact, it’s offered by the local transportation agencies. I haven’t noticed any differences between bike sharing users and others in terms of cycling ability.

> The test is not hard either. Nothing like what our European counterparts have to go through.

I got my motorcycle license last year. When I started to take riding lessons it was the first time that I sat in a motorcycle, it took me about 5 months to get my license (here in Germany). I don’t understand how a few hours of dedicated training is seen as sufficient for safe traffic participation in the U.S.
Regarding sane CSS I highly recommend the following resource: https://every-layout.dev/rudiments/
We don’t need functional programming!

- OOP developers, as their languages gradually port all functional programming language features
I've been wondering: why would you give a story to your child where you have to explain that "these people are dumb", "this is not something you should do", etc at every page.

About that subject, the song "au clair de la lune" really disturbed me when I was young. Everything seemed weird about it, combined with the fact that it stays in your head, that really made me wonder what I didn't know about this world. Turns out the song is about banging a prostitute, so now I see why this and other things that disturbed when young were indeed disturbing.

I see why you would want to avoid telling a story about parents abandoning their child at an economic downturn, and instead find stories with an uplifting story.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Au_clair_de_la_lune
Yeah, I thought the same after seeing this. It's kind of a fun use-case of Diffusion models in this context, but as a scientific paper it seems too overselling. Well, it surely is the kind of clickbaity content to anticipate lots of retweets from.

I only skimmed the paper, but from what I understood, it is essentially a diffusion model pre-trained on a handful classes. The brain information is then used to largely "pick which class to generate a random image from".

The paper itself even picked the "better" examples. The supplemental materials show many more results, and many of them are just that, a randomly generated image of the same object class the person was seeing (or, the closest object class available in the training data).

"Reconstruct" seems a pretty bad word choice. I think the results are presented in a way vastly overselling what they actually do. But that's a worrisome trend in most of AI research recently, unfortunately.

(I have a PhD in a field of Applied Machine Learning. I work at a university in Computer Vision.)
Medication really helped me, and combined with (zazen) meditation I have days where I feel like 'normal' people.

Working up to meditating for ~30 minute sessions (alone or in groups) forced me to face my worst nightmare: sitting still against my will.

Gradually, the physical burning sensation to 'escape' the mental torture of doing nothing calmed down. Further into my practice, the same happened for the monkey mind constantly thinking about shiny things. On good days I can attend long meetings and not lose it, remember chores, calm the chatter in my head, avoid playing mind games to keep myself occupied (eg. "can I cross the road in less than 5, 4, 3, 2 ...").

Medication helped to bump me over to the other side, and meditation has helped me stay there.
I can understand some people like it, I however don't - not my thing :)
> SBF has used at least one cpu attached to a network on the critical path of his actions.

I've read that sentence of yours at least 5 times now and it still makes no sense to me. Would you care to elucidate?
Why do construction projects not buy steel futures?
If you are trying to create a stateful web app it's true. Even with frameworks it can be difficult. I wouldn't want to write anything complex in vanilla JS.

You also lose a lot of niceties with DX, like TS and components.
Unfortunately, for now, it is just .Net Framework, even on SQL Server on Linux.
This is another caveat.

I am sure in the future, .Net Core and Standard will be supported.
Thanks for this. Well said and very quotable.

You should think about writing a book :)
If you do this behaviour regularly, they'll think you're gay. Like many mentioned, the bar is very low when it comes to being perceived as gay these days. Great for gay folks cos they've gone through shit. Good for them. They should be able to be themselves.

But certain actions eventually would make people think a straight dude gay. Then the people you are interested in "romantically" won't be interested in you cos you're thought as gay. It's so hard to explain this. It's a bunch of things. If it is a one off, it is not an issue. But otherwise it is complicated.

This is why dudes are soooo expressive with their buddies in a closed environment they are comfortable with. Shit is completely different when you are outside of that.

One of the biggest BS I have come to realise is people saying ignore the world and the society. If you have nothing to lose, sure. Else YOU ARE LIVING IN A SOCIETY. And there are norms.

Just like people accepting gay people are new thing, the society learning to differentiate who is whom is a new thing as well. Just imagine a woman/man for instance going to a someone and saying - "you are not gay right?". That would be explosive. The first reply could be "what if I am?" in an angry tone. This is tricky cos everybody is learning.

It's just difficult. Now imagine the same happening in an asian country or somewhere where it is relatively new about this. You won't have the same luxury of being given a benefit of doubt even if you mean things in a good sense. Cos the LGBTQ+ community could be going through shit already. So they are by default defensive.

PS: Just sharing my perspective based on things I have experienced and seen. Not hate towards anything or anyone to be extra clear. :peace:
> They should be ashamed for handling customers like this.

That's been the case with almost every Google service I've ever used =/ Even paid ones, like GCloud, Adwords, Workspace... even when you can get in touch with a human (which is hard enough on its own), they are usually not helpful at all.

Customer service really isn't your ex-company's forte.

I think the one exception to that has been Google Fi, the tiny wireless MVNO. For some reason their support has always been amazing, quick and helpful and to the point. No runarounds, they just do what it takes to solve your issues. I was astounded how much better they were not just compared to the rest of Google, but also compared to major carriers like Verizon and AT&T.
The problem here is that all variants (Cat, Dog, Snake) have to be known when defining the interface (Animal). That makes it not extensible. I prefer Rust's traits.
The boat used to consume 100 liters of diesel daily, which is equivalent to 1000 kWh in energy (10 kWh per liter). But after electrification they claim only 150-200 kWh usage per day. This doesn't add up. Were the diesel engines idling all day even when the boat was not moving?
They probably have to solve a reCAPTCHA just to override the autocomplete.

> Press TAB to reply to this customer with our suggested response. If you wish to choose another canned response, please first find the house numbers hiding inside these fire hydrants in the hills.
And you can also acknowledge it and then continue doing whatever you're doing.