skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Fast forward to today and the traffic patterns have reversed, with congestion out of downtown in the morning as people commute out towards the ring of businesses and into downtown in the evening where people now live.

Not really true in my experience, having been around here for going on 20 years.

If anything, businesses had been (pre-covid) moving suburban campuses to downtown locations over that time.

The commute into the city in the AM, and out at PM is still the worst. Although worse may not look like much of a difference many days if you're not from around here.

Patterns have certainly shifted some after covid, but not enough to flip the commute as described.
Eh, it’s tricker than just “go with what you’ve got.”

For example, you should be checking whether the response rate is associated with other factors and incorporate that into your analysis. You might find that you have pretty good data from unhappy students, but not satisfied ones, or vice versa.
Indonesia bans sex outside marriage in new criminal code
I thought this trend came around the web dev scene with base16 colours. Funny how it's hitting consumer products now.
First, why is it the worst of all worlds? I have a consistently good experience using CMake-generated Visual Studio projects. Second, what's the alternative? Having CMake manage the entire build, down to linkage? What benefits does that give over the current situation?
> You have a team of 100 writers in India making the equivalent of $10 per day to write and post twenty 400-word pieces (topics dictated by Google keyword trend data versus expertise, etc.).

How much content like this are you consuming or how many websites like this are you visiting daily? And why to visit sources like this?
Processing and Stacking Astrophotography Images Using Jupyter, Python, and NumPy
Chess is an interesting example. I learned to play chess as a kid. I never got even slightly good; people that were dimmer than me could beat me easily.

But how many chess grandmasters are also fabulously wealthy CEOs? They tend to stay chess-players.

I'm curious about what skill in chess consists of. It seems to correspond to general cognitive capacity; but that's certainly not all of it.
One point I've seen little or no discussion about on hn, is that employers are often (at least in Norway) organized. So they will have access to legal aid, standard contracts, training on negotiating etc - this in addition to the skewed bargaining power between a single employee and the company as a whole.

Is this not common in the US (illegal collusion on wages aside)?

It's always seemed strange to me that people will be reluctant to join unions, while employers are eager to join organizations.

Ftr at the moment I'm not a member of a union - as there's isn't really one that feels applicable to my current situation, and I have relativly good bargaining position.
You think it's a coincidence that the first iPhone with AOD is also the first one with a LTPO display? If so, why did Apple wait until the 14? If it's just an artificial limitation, wouldn't it have made more sense to do for the XS or the 7 or whatever? It's generally preferable to pull revenue forward, not hold it back for years.
This is hyperbole. You typically can't sue (and win) against the maker of an item used in a crime just because they manufactured it.

There is usually some extenuating circumstance when these cases do prevail. For instance one manufacturer was found to have such incendiary marketing around their assault rifle it had risen to the level of a "call to arms". So typically it has to be more than "We are the manufacturer"
There's nothing ambiguous or misleading, what you're actually objecting to is the concrete and specific use of language to describe ideas you don't like and which you don't want to see proliferate. You aren't objecting to people being mislead, you're objecting to people understanding. Do give 1984 a read, I think you'll find the irony that you are appropriating a term used in that book in order to invert it's meaning and to take the very actions that the book is criticizing quite amusing, and then we can be in on the joke together.

Heterosexuality doesn't have to be the default, and indeed, that era is ending. The evidence for it is right here; you feel compelled to go to bat for the notion, not something you'd need to do if it really were mystically natural and inextricably true. Heterosexuality is promulgated as a default because it is key to a power structure called the patriarchy. The patriarchy works by assigning certain gender roles to men and women; these roles allow men to subjugate women, and also allow men to be subjugated by other men. The patriarchy's strength lies in the rigidity of those gender roles, and as the gender roles are loosened the patriarchy gets weaker. Lots of power within our society is expressed through patriarchy, for instance, the idea that men express their agency through violence instead of through emotion and that they should readily throw their lives away in service of a cause is useful for recruiting men as soldiers and police, and soldiers and police are useful in upholding many other power structures (like state power or the power of the rich). So over the last few millenia, many different power structures have come to rely on the existence of patriarchy, and it's been woven into our mythology and the fabric of our society. The fluidity of gender roles is a direct challenge to patriarchy, and people with nonconforming identities have been forced into the closet through violence and social reprisal.

This was a natural series of events in the sense that all of history took place in the context of the natural world, sure. But cancer is natural, we don't have to accept it. In the same way, I reject your heteronormativity. I think it sucks. I don't think people are "naturally" any particular gender, it's a role we learn to play as we're socialized. That doesn't make it bad, there's nothing wrong with being a man or a woman, there's nothing wrong with embracing very traditional views of what that means if that's what makes you happy. I live my life as a pretty traditional man. But that isn't all there is to life, and that's not all it should mean to be human.
> IQ is a controversial measurement. Its' validity is questionable.

There's a loud chorus saying that. Mostly they're making excuses for some racial group not doing well.
Perhaps he wants to reintroduce the "right of the first night" too?
Knives are much more useful than a $$ piece of future e waste that helps you find your lost keys once in a blue moon
That Starbucks, Apple, Amazon, Walmart and basically every extraordinarily profitable company in America are so stridently anti-union that they're willing to break the law to prevent them, is probably the biggest selling point for workers to join them.
AI is colloquially known as "the new fire".

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B096WZVS2W/ref=dbs_a_def_r...
Same here. I've been showing it to my computer science students and most of my freshmen seem pretty uninterested, but my more advanced students had a much stronger reaction. I also found that my students tended to suggest really simple prompts at first which don't really show off what the tech is actually capable of. I've had to help a lot by adding more stipulations or details to their prompts to get a response that actually got their attention.
Or maybe it was a control question and the teacher is going to treat the spread of results as their own little survey...
Saab used to have an "herbal toothpaste" pale green. I thought it was nice. Might not work on larger cars.
Who says they've lost the curiosity? What if all of their programming effort and energy is put into whatever the website is for? Why should they shift their focus over to learning all about SSL when that's not the point of whatever the project is and it will suck up too much time?

I could absolutely be wrong about that reasoning, though, but that's my point - we don't know why, so why assume a negative and then lean into that?
I just hate being “employed”. All of the politics and incompetence in other people’s businesses reminds me too much of the Russian communist party. Every large capitalist company ends up like a low-stakes episode of the Netflix series Chernobyl. Perhaps I’m just grumpy but that’s who I am. I’d much rather just code some stuff and get out before I start having to “assassinate” my managers. If I could find a place that allowed workers to vote out managers then maybe I’d be happy, but until then I’ll just come and go. Like politicians, managers are only as good as your ability to fire them. You’ll love my code, your customers will be happy. Let me go before I make you cry.
LSAT does this as well, and it's generally accepted as an IQ test rather than a knowledge test.

I'm not concerned with trainability. Lots of minimum bars are trainable, like the bar exam, or the Marine Corps PFT/IST. The fact that they're trainable doesn't mean the measures are invalid w/r/t minimum competence as a lawyer, or minimum fitness as a Marine. Similarly, I don't think trainability on tests of logical reasoning, pattern recognition, reading comprehension, memory, etc. necessarily meaningfully reduces the effectiveness of the tests that measure such things. On the contrary, I think it shows that intelligence increases when exercised.
> But the old Apple TV 4K is not powerful enough for displaying text on a TV, even though any old iPhone is?

Honestly, it might not be. My Apple TV 4k seems slow as molasses with performance more like an AMLogic 905.

Not sure if it’s because it doesn’t have enough RAM, the flash is slow or the CPU is just way under powered. Yes, they advertise it as an A12Z or whatever, but it’s a binned part that wasn’t acceptable for a phone.
Literally, everything.
I started programming as an autodidact in fourth grade, creating programs on an Amstrad with BASIC language, reading the instruction manual (I didn't speak English). I remember the joy when I had the idea that it was possible to add a variable to itself to increase a number A = A + 1 instead of having to use multiple variables and that testing it worked. I felt like a genius.
Interestingly they don't even use the word カラオケ even in the Japanese press release, even though karaoke is massively popular in Japan.

https://www.apple.com/jp/newsroom/2022/12/apple-introduces-a...
The Vancouver housing market is really insane when you compare it to average salaries. New-grad software developer at a non-big-tech can expect the equivalent of $45k USD
Over a career of working with caustic cleaning chemicals and other stuff, my father's fingerprints are just about entirely gone. The last time he went in for fingerprinting they tried him on the scanner for nearly an hour before making an exception to the "electronic prints only" rule and broke out the ink pad and did it the old fashioned way.
Avoiding centralized custody might get a little more popular in the wake of FTX.
Interesting. You sound like me from the future or something, except we only had to do IUIs instead. No vasectomy yet but maybe this is a good warning.
Poorly implemented device lockdowns by my school were the start of my interest in understanding and manipulating systems, long may they last!
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One of two competing definitions of “Nature” in this context is a phantasy of how it would be without humans around. Other one is that we’re part of it. Likely it’s somewhere in between.
It's interesting to see that they are trying to defer any impact on sectors which have had a bad time already during covid. But reading through this, it seems to me that some of these things should be common sense anyway. Buy maybe energy isn't expensive enough to warrant that common sense so far.

The article though is pretty sensationalist. The government hasn't announced anything, this whole decree is still in consultation phase it seems.

Edit: there's a potential ban on crypto mining and high frequency trading. Will be interesting to see the final document, but I highly doubt high frequency trading will still be in there :)
Perhaps a Large Language Model (LLM) can translate my .ux source code to all the different platforms for me.. So many ideas, so little time!
I grew up in an evangelical household and this is what my family believes. It's not a parody sadly.
I tried to but they didn't want to assign one due to low volume (at the time). On the one hand I get it, on another I wish they were more honest about their product on its listing.
It's more like having an assistant who can do it for you so you need no/little knowledge of GitHub.
The downtown area of every major American city is an urban hellscape dominated by soulless office buildings, six lane roads, cars, parking lots and overpriced sandwich shops catering to the weekday lunch crowd. No shit no one wants to spends time over there unless forced to.
Reminder that this time corresponds with New Kingdom Egypt and the 18th Dynasty.

The Great Pyramid had been around for about 1000 years by the time of the events discussed in the article.

Even known civilization is very old.
Apple should put 3 M2-ultras in the next Apple TV and see what happens as it turns into a game platform.
What I would do to be a fly in the OpenAI accounting department right now.
Hah, agreed. Getting married has been a major highlight for me. Occasional -100 but many many +100s.
The handful selection of home goods (and one house) picked in attempts to illustrate the point that it's affecting more than just cars and is some generational effect is hilarious.

Sorry to whoever wrote this blog, but vases will always come in a sickening plethora of colors and patterns.
Your statements do not follow, much less is your initial premise demonstrably true as a generalized statement about all scientists.
Exactly. Things in life are not valuable pursuits just because an AI can't do them, nor do they stop being valuable once an AI can participate. OP seemed to suggest that AI being confined to digital art means that physical art still has value, but it doesn't follow at all. If I strap a paintbrush to a computer with AI, it doesn't devalue human painting. They're not related in that way.
Non sequitur, both claims are unrelated.

"Living sentient beings" is also an unnecessarily redundant way to refer to the more popular term that is just "living beings". This is not different than saying "living living beings". Everything alive is sentient by definition.
> Today, 50% of code is assisted by AI.

Do you mean programming is assisted, or AI assisted applications? I think both are well under one percentage of new creations, and much much less if counting existing code and applications.
> Asperger was a member of a seven-member commission that was to categorize 200 disabled children according to their "educational ability" to decide their fate. 35 children were classified as "hopeless cases" and transferred to Spiegelgrund, where they all died. He was part of the legitimization of the murders and as an expert contributed to their categorization into "usefulness levels".

In this case since the guy it was named after would have killed me given the choice, I'm glad they renamed it. Good info about where you stand though, thank you.
Seems to me people have completely unrealistic expectations of how financial crimes play out. This will take years to unwind.

Pretty obvious the "why isn't he in jail yet" screaming is coming from the same place as "why aren't I rich yet," on which this entire empire was built. This stuff takes time. He's very obviously going to prison.

For context: Enron, whose operations and collapse caused way more negative impact on the public, fell over in 2001. It wasn't until 2004 that Skilling (CEO/COO/general bad actor) went into FBI custody. It wasn't until 2006 that he was convicted.

Yeah, SBF is going out on a media tour and admitting to all his crimes, so hey maybe they should arrest him now - but why? He's clearly too dumb/narcissistic to run. Take him to court based on media appearances and he may claim he was hopped up on a boatload of amphetamines to the point of actual delusion. Then oops, guess we didn't gather all the hard evidence needed to convict so we lose our shot! Jeez, people.
Show off that you’re a small company
The response from the folks at repair.eu is great[1]

Apple is just trying to front-run legislation that is gaining momentum, just like they did last year when Biden and the FTC signaled R2R friendly legislation.

They will do anything to make sure they stay at the center and in control of their products from cradle to grave.

1 - https://repair.eu/news/apples-self-repair-programme-is-not-t...
> Less than 1%. That's the number of people who detransition simply because they didn't feel it was the right thing for them.

About 1% who do so through the hospital procrdures. About a third just stops showing up for followups and hormones. According to the detransitioner, who falls into that category, and has found a small community of similar people, this is what's wrong with the statistic: it's extremely important to not exclude the group that falls of the radar. Since they're not getting hormones anymore, the safest assumption is that they are stopping their transition (because they are) or detransitioning.

A third is a very high amount.

This is the NL btw.
Its not "yet" Karaoke. Missing one "key" feature, with karaoke machine one can adjust the key of the song up or down to be able to sing along. Apple Music Sing appears to only adjust the vocal volume up or down.
How does this enable anything that wasn't possible before?
> GET https://server/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:user@doma...

Admittedly I've never looked at AP or Mastodon but query parameters on .well-known addresses is a terrible idea. Those resources should be static.
Yeah, I have SPF, DKIM, and a strict DMARC policy all configured for Fastmail, but some hosts just refuse to pass the mail. It's pretty random and sporadic, but it happens. I've also had some web forms refuse to recognize it as a valid email address.
This is what it does. At least if you ask it how it does it. ;)
Case study: making a React/Redux app interaction ~4× faster
The entire raison d'etre of cities in the first place is...jobs. When you no longer need a local job, it makes no sense to spend the extra money to get a smaller place near the city.

Some people like the amenities and will prefer the city. And that's fine. But most people I've known in life tend to be on the other end of the spectrum.

What's annoying to me is that this big reshuffling of people ends up putting a lot of people in areas that don't have the infra to handle it yet, and also messes up house prices and such in said areas. But that's a whole other topic.
Hey HackerNews!

This fall, I was lucky to help Causal (a web spreadsheet for forecasting) with speeding up their frontend app. Here are some of my favorite findings:

- Turns out when React DevTools tell you “the component rerenderd because hook no. 2 changed”, it doesn’t mean that it’s hook no. 2 that actually changed! That’s because a) `useContext` hooks aren’t counted, b) only native hooks are counted – so if you use one `useSelector`, but it has 8 native hooks inside, you’ll see something like “hook no. 7 changed”. You need to go to the Components pane and look for hook numbers there.

- Web workers are cool but hard to make use of :/ In this case, we tried moving an operation into a web worker but weren’t able to because copying data between threads took longer than the actual op. And one doc I’ve read earlier still fascinates me – in 2018, Google explored moving frameworks into web workers but stumbled upon many limitations [1].

- React (unfortunately) still causes a lot of performance issues. It’s too easy to rerender something unnecessarily; and in a large app, many cheap components easily add up into an expensive render. I’m looking forward to React Forget [2], hopefully, solving this (at least partially?)

[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nu0EcVNC3jtmUVWL8Gs5eCj2...
[2] https://reactjs.org/blog/2022/06/15/react-labs-what-we-have-...
> Often it is the original soundtrack with the vocals suppressed (sometimes well via remastering and sometimes poorly with an equalizer).

Properly licensed karaoke tracks are covers, because licensing custom remixes of original tracks is prohibitive. There are sites where you can buy stems/backing tracks of any song you can think of, which are reproductions by talented musicians.

https://www.karaoke-version.com/custombackingtrack/wham/last...
iOS > Settings > Accessibility > Live Captions (beta) > Toggle Live Captions
Office districts suck.

It is draining to share a space with sycophants fake-smiling and fake-laughing, and superficial people ("dress for the job you want" and similar bullshit). And the few loud people without empathy that distract others while they try to focus.

Just let people be represented by what matters: their work. Do you do good work? let that be what matters.

Let people work from a quiet place instead of cargo-culting the open office layout hoax. Finally, working from home, we can actually do work instead of waiting for loud people to shut up. And yes: many times, the reason I went for a coffee walk was to wait for some loud person to shut up and I know I am not the only one.

If you want to meet face-to-face to read my face expressions to know if I am lying to you or I am hiding something, or you need to see me sitting in a desk, then instead of doing that, then just don't fucking hire in the first place because you don't trust me. If you have trust issues, instead of opening an office, go see a therapist.

Even though I care about other people's well-being, I don't care about your appearance. And thanks to remote work now nobody gets distracted by your appearance, and that is amazing.

Now that we are all interacting electronically, I cannot wait for the next generation of collaborative tools that auto-flags toxic behavior. Or a solution that does sentiment analysis on what people say in real time, such as "You sound sad as fuck, can you please cheer up a little bit?". Or "insults are not OK, please go see HR after this meeting".
Yep, just Uniswap alone has transaction volume comparable to major centralized exchanges.

https://decrypt.co/114665/uniswap-overtakes-coinbase-second-...
Typically you can choose from a few colors in whatever the manufacturer considers a "standard" finish. Additional colors — plus the glossier or more pearlescent finish options — will be artificially locked in to a higher trim package. So, you'd end up spending (e.g.) $5500 to go from "red" to "glossy red", and you'd end up with a bunch of other options you may not have wanted. It's a great, consumer-friendly approach to customization /s.
Social media has turned the internet into a consensus enforcing, group signaling machine that overwhelms reasoned opinion and moves against dissent like an immune system. Nowhere on the internet is safe from this monster.
You can limit the number of dwarves in your config file to 25 or so, this will make "large fortress death" pretty much avoidable.

You can pick extremely peaceful biomes to settle in.

You can learn how to use traps and drawbridges (completely overpowered).

You can learn how to make perfectly self-sufficient farms and trading crafts.

Once those are in place I've never lost a fortress to anything but boredom.
DHH: Ruby on Rails, and what came after it