skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Woodworking has probably been one of the most important things to add during my career. I went from being and feeling like I knew how to do most everything to being forced into confronting the fact that just because I'm experienced, I don't know everything. I make so many fucking mistakes when I'm woodworking that, when people ask about what I make in my woodshop, I just respond "sawdust and mistakes, mostly".

I'm not comfortable not knowing what to do; I've been building on a really stellar foundation for so long that when I need to do something outside of that universe - not situated over that foundation - I tend to flounder, get frustrated, and feel like the dumbest man alive.

Woodworking made me confront the fact that while I may be really good at building scalable systems and high quality code, that doesn't mean I'm the master at everything, and I'm *going* to find things I need to stretch to learn. It's made me get comfortable with making mistakes again (well, as comfortable as I can be, I reckon). It's also made me comfortable with realizing when I'm hitting my patience limit and walking away instead of banging my head against the wall for hours. A bit of distance, let my subconscious chew on it for a while, and revisit it later, rather than just trying to put my head down and shove my way through.

Long story short, you should all pick up woodworking, or metal working, or throw some pottery or paint or something. Get comfortable with being a rank amateur fuckup and revel in the process of learning instead of fabricating without a hitch. I know that I, for one, really needed it.
There's another game like that that surprised me: Amazing Cultivation Simulator. I got this video ( https://youtube.com/watch?v=wJxM3POU92w ) recommended on youtube and I watched it start to end with my jaw dropping more every time a new mechanic was described. Before that I had thought that big systemic games were stuff like Zelda Breath of the Wild, Minecraft or Dward Fortress. But this simulator game is one I'd like to see the code of
I've visited China, and to enter the train station the citizens have to scan their IDs. To buy a long distance bus/plane ticket they ask for your passport number. I wonder if the system would say "Denied" for "problematic" people.
What you propose is a good thing (to me), but there's an aspect of this that seems to be missing in all dialog about EVs: fuel tax.

My understanding is that a large portion of roads and associated infrastructure are funded by fuel taxes (which seems to be fair: the more you use them the more you pay).

I've yet to see an equitable solution to this problem.
Thanks!

The root topic in play here is one of the interplay of grounded artifacts in the context of atmospheric physics and dynamics. It's not just complicated, it's as complex as is any organism. Just go play in the area of "lake effect snow"- what it means when winds blow across lakes and in the right conditions, deposit snow; then study the complete history of lake effect over that particular region, overlay on that the dates of installation of the wind farm, and then pick your correlations and go looking for mechanism; it's a non-trivial subject area, not well suited to sweeping generalizations.
I wonder why you say this. Having actually had them, they're insulated and you can open/close vents as you choose. And weather is usually pretty predictable; when it's winter it's cold.

Oh look, the article even says this: "Today's storage heaters have such good insulation that the only heat coming into the room is from air being blown through the hot core by an ultra-quiet low-speed fan the length of the heater with the warm air coming out of the bottousually m of the heater at floor level - even when the core is full charged the outside of the heater is usually barely warm to the touch - and never hotter than a water-heated radiator"
The whole point of EA is to move toward a system where charities are judged by the good they do and not their marketing campaign.

AMF and other top givewell charities seem far more focused on the good they can do than more classic charities like WWF or Plan Parenthood.
Noted. I will buy it on both itch.io and Steam then.
Sounds like doodle?

Example Link: https://doodle.com/meeting/participate/id/b81lQO3d
He won't build on the existing thing, he'll parallel build a totally different thing, which may or may not end up being better.
My biggest complaint is probably that it doesn't support overlay or popup windows, which makes it impossible to use plugins like WhichKey[0] and such, which I like on normal neovim because I'm a scrub and don't know vim hotkeys by heart

0: https://github.com/folke/which-key.nvim
But it has the power and learning curve of Emacs, too!
It's the Chinese room but it is effective because the game space is relatively small (compared to the real world) and you can cover that space with RL guiding NLP language generation.
As I read your excellent comment, I'm trying to find the bit where the world would be better off if Bezos wasn't a part of EA and I'm not sure I can.

Without EA he might still have some BS foundation like many before (I'm not actually taking a stance on his work, I have no idea about it). He might use one to push his weight around and have an outsized influence.

Maybe without the label of EA there would be more pressure to justify the scope and impact of charitable work? I'm not sure.
As long as technology and human society progresses, then yes, GDP is guaranteed to rise, and stocks are guaranteed to rise a bit more than GDP, because they represent the best, most innovative part of the economy (mom and pop's grocery stores are not traded on Wall Street, technological startups are)
I love ribworld as well! It's my most played game by far at this point. The mod ecosystem is simply outstanding. That being said, it doesn't even attempt to be the simulation engine that Dwarf Fortress does. It feels like DF is a simulation engine first, with emergent game play almost as a side effect. As much as I like DF, that simulation first development process can be felt during almost every interaction in the game. It's not so bad once you've committed everything to muscle memory, but the learning curve is no joke.

https://i.stack.imgur.com/iECXl.jpg
Dwarf Fortress and Rimworld are currently on the front page. I don't know why, but I like it.
There's a difficulty slider alongside the storyteller.

They're not the same.
Well, maybe this will start a flame war: I will absolutely die on the hill that SQL is shit. But, like shell, is old (48 years old!) and omnipresent; so it sticks around.

Like, the thing I find comical about the original article is: they reach for shell, regex, and SQL as Prime Example of "mini languages done right". Be more domain specific, look at this its already happening. All of those examples are kinda shit languages! They're popular because of their omnipresence. Maybe regex is "fine", though the line "try to solve a problem with a regex and now you have two problems" is well known for a reason.

But my broader opinion is: if you're building an application, service, tool, whatever in LANGUAGE_X; having to "dip out" of that language into an entirely different language should be viewed as, fundamentally, a Negative Thing. There may be reasons why you should; the good may outweigh the bad; but there is Bad there. There will always be an interpretation layer; extra tooling; that's More Things that can go wrong, have to be configured, statically analyzed, tested, its a failure point. SQL injection is a thing. Why? Because, for a time, people had the thought "hey, its a string, lets just template the string"; but that's no good, so now we have A Layer between the Java and the SQL to keep us safe. We can only support So Many Layers; we need to make things simpler, not more complex, there needs to be Fewer Things.

Its time is gone, but I'll always view Heroku Buildpacks as a paragon of system design. Consider: You could write a nodejs application in javascript, write a package.json in json (also javascript), and end-to-end get that thing on a URL on the internet, all in one language. Fantastic! Today, a typical app will have the app (say, Golang), a go.mod (different syntax than go itself), dockerfiles (language 3), kubernetes yamls (language 4), maybe helm or cdk8s (language 5), shell scripts, makefiles, maybe you're also writing sql... this isn't better and it doesn't have to be like this. But right now, it is, and to some degree I'm happy for it because its 80% of the reason why I get paid six figures.
> write a program to list them all!

Me: Is it OK if it doesn't print until it's done?

Interviewer: Uh, sure, why not?

Me: while(1){}

Me: Finished. This produces the exact desired output of the program you specified.

Interviewer: GTFO.
This is not a good faith answer, it is however the type of thing that turns a lot of people off to cryptocurrency.

If you google decentralized service in an incognito tab you’ll see why people ask this. The rest of the world gets Wikipedia articles about engineering distributed systems (like database clusters) and distributed consensus (like raft). Since that’s (probably) not what you mean, I submit that as the person using a standard term in a non-standard way that it’s on you to define it.
Sorry if I wasn't clear. I'm not interested in arguing the point. I'm just saying that the point has been argued aplenty, anybody insisting that someone must spoon-feed them the arguments right now is not asking for something reasonable. Instead, they come across like somebody looking to argue. And we all know how tiresome that can be.
How One of the Country’s Most Storied C.E.O.s Destroyed His Legacy
Unix time 1666666666 happened last month, on October 25th 02:57:46 UTC.

A closer "round" number will be 1670000000, happening next month on December 2nd 16:53:20 UTC.

But for 1700000000 we'll have to wait until next year, November 14th 22:13:20 2023 UTC.
See also Blosc, with their tag line ”faster than memcpy”

https://www.blosc.org/pages/blosc-in-depth/

Blosch it optimised to have the work buffers that fit into L1 cache, so it can outperform memcpy for certain workflows, e.g. numeric arrays. Because the bottleneck is not CPU, but RAM and slower caches.
Most medium-sized cities have either no jobs or only one primary employer? I want to see your data to back up that claim, because it sounds like you're just making stuff up to argue.
They also have different scales for what types of events come when. For example, Casandra Classic aims for you to have 5 colonists. If you have less, you’ll get more opportunities to recruit. If you have more, raids get more violent and your colonists die easier.

The story teller is a very advanced and configurable difficulty scaling system that enables different styles of play. Mods even add in new story tellers to change the game focus entirely.
Has anyone actually played this? Like, really played it. I've tried a couple of times and never got that far. I'm in awe from one perspective, but not entirely sure what of, from another.
Crypto’s Latest Mystery Is the Ownership of Major Exchange Huobi
Nah, Apple has a very clean Metal paravirtualisation ABI. This allows to decouple the VM from the underlying HW.

macOS 12 VMs will run on Mac hardware that doesn't even exist yet, with GPU acceleration.
Raster tiles are smaller in terms of amount data sent over the wire and work better for users with less powerful computers/ mobile

Really if you aren't interacting with the data on the client I would stick with good old rasters - it's harder to get set up with them but they perform way better
The challenge of course is the links to the ‘memory safe parser’, or how it gets from the untrusted input to it mediated by C, correct?
> Rebasing isn't an alternative to this, it's just a different way of manually keeping in sync.

I never said it was, I said it was the right way to keep them in sync.

> Why? You've given no justification for your preference.

I don't need to, the GGGGP said it perfectly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33705026
Disagreeing would require me to have a level of fixed perspective and permanent identity that I think you're assuming that I have.
I recently converted our house from gas to heatpump for HVAC and water. We were considering Artic Heatpumps, but then when it came time to make a final decision, we were talked out of Artic by the contractor. They recommended Mitsubishi for HVAC, and Rheem for water, with the argument that these companies will be around for a long time for parts etc. We have all kinds of problems with the hot water heater, and managing the waste cold air from that unit and not having enough heat to pull in from that utility room. I have to figure out some ductwork to eventually deal with the problem.

I really regret the choice, and wish I had gone with Artic with their integrated system for HVAC and water. It just makes so much more sense.

There are definitely not enough installers trained on heatpumps, and many just treat them as drop-in replacements for gas fired equipment, because that's what they know. It is rare to find someone who looks at the whole picture and also deals with the heat loss mitigation.
For the storage heaters I had the 'bricks' seemed to be mainly iron oxide IIRC. Also I am struggling to believe water has that multiples of capacity over brick, do you have a ref?
Ask HN: Experienced software engineer – but unable to consistently work
I have a strong case of ADHD. Can't take medication that would help me due to other medical reasons. I'm also not a social person and now have developed strong anxiety after consistently failing for a decade (working on that with a psychologist/psychiatrist but it's been a year and so far no significant improvement).

I have long periods when I just can't focus on doing anything at all (2-10 weeks) followed by short periods of extreme focused activity (1-3 weeks).

I'm unable to hold a job. I'm "the best programmer they've ever seen" but only for the first month - then they start to hate me because I'm not working.

Programming is the only thing I can do - and the only thing that makes me enough money to survive. I was unable to finish high school, anything resembling academia sounds like absolute torture.

What to do? Please help me.
> all the sources are here:

https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/squoosh/tree/dev/codecs/...

Did you check? There aren't really any sources there, either.

From having already spent some time looking into this to track down what, exactly, you should patch should you want to make modifications, it looks like it's using the decoder from the JPEG XL reference implementation, libjxl (which is available under a BSD license):

<https://github.com/libjxl/libjxl>
Thanks for open-sourcing this! Roughly, what's the performance overhead from running code under hermit? I'm wondering if this could be used for doing benchmarking with less variance on non-deterministic platforms such as the JVM (I assume hermit is "deterministic enough" that the JIT and GC threads of the JVM will run the same code on every execution?)
Weren't people like you described as hermits before Internet culture? There's a difference between choosing to live the life of a hermit and being forced to.
Titles need to be short, and relevant to the content. I took words straight from the Features section.

Now, because with all the talk about AI agents I was thinking about the environments, and that's when I remembered this. It very much can be inspiring, even if it's not strictly relevant technology-wise.
You do control a large number of aspects of world generation, which can be used to "tune" the game from very easy to impossibly difficult.

And once you have parameters you like, you can try different seeds.

https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:World_generat...

https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Advanced_worl...

Also, people will post seeds and world parameters for "good worlds" they've found: https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Worldgen_exam...
Show HN: Visualising real-time Sydney bus congestion with Marey charts
All hail centralized version control, make life slow again!
My friends' group trips involve a good amount of voting for: 1. Where 2. How long 3. When 4. Which Airbnb. That would be a great feature to include. Right now it's Discord polls
The pictures of those lymph nodes are shocking. In the Methods section, they state that

> LN tissues were obtained from [...] LiveOnNY, the local organ procurement organization for the New York metropolitan area.

which makes it sound like the samples came from residents of NYC. NYC air quality probably isn't great, but those lymph nodes looked so bad that I assumed they must have come from a hyperpolluted megacity like Beijing or New Delhi!

Cars truly are the worst addiction our society has stooped to.
I use jpeg-2k in a PDF for encoding comics; it's better than any pre-JXL compressor I tried for such images; HEIC and webp both blur out the stippling and hatching at much higher bitrates than j2k. JXL soundly defeats it though and is much easier to use (I have to use different quantization settings for greyscale and colour images with openJPEG, but the default "lossy" setting with libjxl never creates a larger file than j2k).

So for me, at least, I'd like jxl to make it into PDF.
> The transitions seem really smooth and the user experience is pleasant... until I open them on an Android device that came out just 2 years ago (one of those rugged models), in Firefox.

My daily driver is a Samsung Galaxy S4 (2014) with LineageOS and Firefox (Fennec F-Droid, no google services).

Your link works pretty well, it took a few seconds to load the map, but zooming and panning is quite smooth, it seems.

Edit: panning is much less smooth on openstreetmap. It's faster to bring in new features when zooming, but you have to endure blurry text and less details for half a second or so. Also, you can't rotate the view. IIRC google maps renders text locally to solve that.
NASA Uses RISC-V Vector Spec to Soup Up Space Computers
Assumptions often turn out to be incorrect. Put a pathogen under severe environmental pressure and it mutates. Given that death is the alternative, slightly harmful mutations that avoid death look pretty good.

Invariant regions are great but note that humans have not done this for colds, flu and now covid. And billions have been working on it.
I think it is in large part because people don't appreciate how much worse it could be. The EPA has been so successful we've become complacent.
Thinking about taking your computer to the repair shop? Be afraid
Ask HN: Can you recommend modeling software?
I'm looking for some advice; I'd like to make collapsible steps in order to more easily enter my attic space. I'm looking for a tool that I can use where I can lay out 2x4s, and place hinges or other screws/nails in the wood and see how the steps might lay/collapse before I actually attempt such a build. Are there tools out there that would allow me to tinker with the design?
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Let us remember this classic article I found on HN a while ago:
https://blog.garrytan.com/travel-planning-software-the-most-...
I get the impression OP saw the Dwarf Fortress post 30 minutes earlier and thought, "me too".
The graphics seem almost identical to Prison Architect so I assumed it's the same company but no. What's the story here?
way easier to tell that you've messed up a rebase
Apple AirTags Are the Best Luggage Trackers
My pointing it out is because the graph looks like it swings wildly up and down, but in reality home ownership rates aren't doubling/halving, they're swinging by 1-2 percent or so.
Coming from a similar background I found that it was super helpful to create my own keybinds for stuff like navigating forward/backward through tabs, toggling the sidebar etc. Before I did that I felt similarly that it was too mouse dependent.

The VSCode Vim extension has a `gh` key sequence for showing the hover info you normally have to use the mouse for that made switching much easier.
That is so spot on. We look back in abject horror at people dumping their waste into the streets, yet we do the very same with our air.
This is all worth reading, fine and good, but one thing people have difficulty with is risk, what that means at scale, and other strategic considerations.

If 8/10 new companies fail, it should be expected that most new product initiatives fail as well, at least at some phase of the cycle. What's hard to fathom is that for a massive company, the risks can entail quite a bit of spending.

Some things have strategic importance even if few customers are using the service/feature such as having a comparable feature set to competitors (because the customers always ask about that even if they never use the feature, it 'needs' to exist. Sometimes to keep things cooking against an alternative substitute as perennial leverage (like building out natural gas infrastructure in case the Russians decide to cut you off!).

Often things are done because just one, specific 'big' customer asks for it, or there is a regulatory concern. I've worked on projects that existed so there would be no appearance of malfeasance.

Often projects are basically 'know-how R&D' that may or may not pan out. Apple did a couple of iterations with cars and shut them down. Now apparently it's back up ... but could get shut down again.

And finally, though some might argue otherwise, sometimes people are 'doing stuff' because a company will not justify a paycheck for sitting around, and management doesn't want to layoff because it's just socially difficult and / or they want to keep resources. Often we feel that corporations are evil about layoffs and productivity, I feel it's a bit the other way - if we truly wanted to we could cut pretty hard without affecting productivity. Most people, even execs, don't really want to do layoffs, they will avoid it if they can.

But yes, a lot of work is straight rubbish.
I lift weights. Not too big on cardio, after many attempts at doing it (running, cycling, swimming). Lifting weights is the one thing that I finally found I can stick with. My diet is decent, mostly cook for myself and avoid highly processed foods and a lot of sugar. I am not strictly following any dietary program though.

I like the effect the weightlifting has on my body. It's nice that I have some definition and strength. But honestly cannot say it's had a big effect on my energy, motivation, outlook, etc.

I have tried enough things that other people say have made a tremendous difference in their life, from exercise to supplements to diet to reading philosophical books and they just... don't. I still feel like the same person. I don't think there are any secret tricks. People are who they are, fundamentally. Accepting that feels like giving up sometimes, but also brings some peace and freedom.
GPT-4 botswarm vs 8 billion idiots.
Walk around an old cemetery for a while. If some tombstone did list major accomplishments (now many years ago, and ignoring stuff like "father" and "soldier") - would you have the context to understand those? And comparing with the normal (succinct) tombstones - might you suspect the guy with the long-winded tombstone of being an obnoxious braggart?
Coinbase’s failure would be an unmitigated good for the goals of cryptocurrency. Hopefully after the FTX fiasco, USG will follow PRC with new bans every few months. This will force US consumers to learn how to trade p2p similar to their compatriots in the other global power instead of relying on centralized exchanges that are violating the principle not self custody.
So go invest in something else and make your money there. The income limit is only $200K. I don't understand why you're so fixated on this one thing.

This limitation was put in place for an extremely good reason: to protect people from getting scammed and also to prevent bailouts. A lot of people think they're savvy investors when they're not.
Flash loans only happen if they're paid back. Pretty cool tech actually as someone pretty skeptical of blockchains