skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I just try to minimize suffering that I can’t justify to myself"

That is clearly implied, isn't it?

There is almost no action, that does not directly or indirectly creates (potential) suffering. Normal agriculture creates a lot of suffering by poisoning the earth and the animals within. But even the most ecological agriculture creates suffering. First, by making a forest to a field. Wild animals and plants had to go away, so that the corn can grow. But yes, growing corn in an ecological way minimizes suffering by comparing it with growing corn in the most toxic way and then feeding it to animals that can barely move, to then feed some fat humans, who can also barely move.
Don't be too discouraged. I'm trying not to be, and one thing I have definitely noticed in my career in corporate jobs is this: Just because a technology exists that could do a job does NOT mean that anyone in the company will implement it in a way that actually replaces the humans doing it. A startup may avoid a lot of work (and therefore labor expense) by being smart and nimble about technology, but established companies rarely do. As an example, most big companies still run multiple Exchange servers in 2022 (the multiple part is usually related to acquisitions), while a startup started in 2022 would of course never dream of doing so, since it would be madness. There are a lot of jobs out there that are the equivalent of running an on-prem Exchange server. They aren't glamorous but they will keep you fed and housed.

Also, there will likely be plenty of work in the coming decade unwinding half-baked attempts to integrate large language models into business processes where it doesn't ultimately make sense and is a net negative. Many of these negative-value projects are probably being conceived at this very moment.

All is not hopeless.
Electric bikes are an order of magnitude more efficient than cars and several times more efficient than bikes. (Measured as calories/electrical power).

People who ride electric bikes still get the benefits of exercise (elevated heart rate, muscle use) though obviously less than regular biking.

I ride mine year round in Seattle, it's incredible. I deliver cargo, go grocery shopping, visit the library. This should be the default mode.
This is really cool. I’ve actually been looking for a tool like this recently. I’ve tried a few other website name generators, but your website gave significantly better recommendations than the other websites I tried. Namelix gave decent results, but they were pretty generic and often missed the intent of my idea.

I would definitely pay for this tool. There are some good suggestions on how to monetize this already, but I would pay for a longer list of recommendations and some of the advanced features people suggested, like being able to fine tune my results.

Also, if you’re trying to do SEO, the phrase I searched for was “company name generator”.
You read a credible source that presented actual proof that she did? I would love to read it as well.

Otherwise...

What happened was a Russian engineer on Earth accidentally punctured the hull and rather than admit it, they patched it with crazy glue. A patch that ultimately failed after repeated thermal cycles in space.
ChatGPT's superpower is hijacking the human desire for meaning into causing people to believe it is much better than it really is.

It was a low bar to clear, given human celebrity culture.

We live in interesting times, and they're about to get a lot more interesting.
I got one like that on my keychain too and while the personal at the airport measured the blade size, it was fine to take along for an international flight within the EU. I'm neither from the UK nor a lawyer through, and airport personal aren't the police, still hard to imagine that they'd ignore that if it was illegal.
It sounds about right. At the end of the day, most developers work to produce features. Features and business domains are far less likely to be exciting than technical problems, but the business domain is way more important to adding value. Both need to be kept in check, but I'm sorry to say, technical achievement will not put food on the table or revenue on the balance sheet. At the end of the day, you almost always need to actually sell what you're doing (in one form or another).
Faceting is really useful, but quite expensive if implemented in a naive way in Postgres. This looks very interesting, but the really annoying thing about requiring a Postgres extension is that you can't use it with most managed Postgres services.

What is the best way to calculate facets in Postgres when you can't rely on the ability to install an extension? The naive way would be a bunch of "count(*) group by" queries, a slightly less naive way would be to do the same using grouping sets if possible. But are there any other tricks one could use to calculate facets for large, but not impossibly large numbers of rows?
> You can pay for it with many types of crypto. Not sure why you'd say this without checking first.

I’ve added one to the cart and gone to checkout and literally gone all the way until I’m required to enter a shipping address and register an account.

At no point yet have I been offered the option to pay in anything except local currency (NOK).

If crypto payment is an option they are doing everything they can to keep it secret.
It's a company with some REAL contracts to pretend that the stupid database is authoritative, as if judges love stupid law games like that.

A blockchain adds nothing to this, as it is merely an extremely stupid and expensive database.

The point is to cash in on crypto hype.
> Trade is built into our human nature.

I'd go deeper than that, I'd say trade is built into nature.

Forests have economies, sharing resources. Deciduous trees over-produce "food" in the summer, when their big leaves pay off, which they share with the conifers. In return, the conifers (which have food year-round because they don't drop their needles) give food to the deciduous trees in early spring, before the new leaves form.
Why would anyone want meth that's not strong? Weak meth could be cut with anything
How much do you think about spending 5 dollars? How much do someone who earn 10 times less than you think about that exact 5 dollars? Price categories absolutely make sense.
This has a very high probability being a direct response to ChatGPT. Assuming that Google had done the preparation for something like this in advance. And I wouldn't be surprised if they did since people talk and I don't think ChatGPT was a major secret in inner circles. Sadly, it's only speculation from my part.

The first update, and the first introduction to this kind of an update, was back in August. [0]

[0]: https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2022/08/helpful-co...
Codux isn't meant to replace developers, we made it for them (including ourselves). And sure, it gives you a hot-reloading experience, but also much more, like the ability to visually edit your components on stage in the same place you're viewing them.
What is that header image of a beach about? Is that a rendering?
IMHO BSD make and their library of include files is highly underrated:

PROG=foo
SRCS=foo.c
MAN=
.include <bsd.prog.mk>

Very terse, super flexible and easily amenable to tooling (It's trivial to generate IDE project files from this).

https://wiki.netbsd.org/tutorials/bsd_make/#index1h2
https://crufty.net/help/sjg/bmake.html
ChatGPT: Selfish humans “deserve to be wiped out”
> It significantly reduces a doctor's ability to problem solve through reasoning

You mean, reduces their ability to reason incorrectly and contradict the best practices encoded in that flowchart?

It's astounding and depressing that "evidence based medicine" isn't how medicine has been practiced for centuries now.
They are. They call it direct primary care. I pay my doctor a flat monthly rate, on top of whatever the price is for any supplies. No insurance accepted.
GTK apps can support the global menu. There's a GTK plugin that adds support, and many distros install it by default. I think it was originally written by Canonical (their custom Unity desktop also used a global menu bar).

Not sure about the state of things with Electron. I'm sure you're generally right and there are some gaps, and of course, on Mac OS you do only very rarely encounter an app with an empty menu bar (I have though).
It has never been about seeking a neutral position. What is neutral about Vitalik shilling the Ethereum ecosystem?[0] He's clearly motivated to say positive things about it.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33878216
I don't know the mechanics of this or if it would just be manual, but when there is aggregation of submitted links (which I would assume is the case for a story like this), it does seem like the main PR link should be the title URL, but could other links all just be collected in a single comment?

I really prefer the actual PR links myself, corporate BS or not, because that gives me the language I need to then search out the other stories that are based on that PR. If you start with a blog, now I have to do the process in reverse to find the source. I think the HN policies are just fine in this regard. And even if other links can't be collated into a comment, I generally trust HN readers to provide additional information or helpful links when appropriate.
Stepping down peacefully in 5 years seems pretty unlikely. Stepping down peacefully in about 10 years, in favor of a younger leader who's amassed political power either within or outside of his camp seems entirely possible. Some previous examples of a rival taking power peacefully in China or the USSR are with Brezhnev displacing Khruschev and Deng Xiaoping displacing Hua Guofeng.

I don't think Xi Jingping was really an open rival to Hu Jintao, but the nature of these sort of authoritarian governments is the rivalry is not really made open until the point at which the power transition happens, even if it obvious to those behind the scenes. A rival usually careful cultivates political support while openly declaring support for the leader until he has enough support to gain power. Certainly the way Xi Jingping has behaved toward the Hu Jintao/Jiang Zemin faction and the policies he has pushed indicate he is rivals with them.

But really, the main point of my comment was rejecting the assertion that it is impossible for peaceful transitions of power to occur in countries like China. As long as a country has a norm that removal from leadership does not lead to physical harm, peaceful transitions of power are possible. I'm not trying to create a false equivalency between these governments and liberal democracies.
It is not tran[sition]gender. It is the "trans-" Latin prefix meaning "across", "beyond" or "on the other side of" + gender.

In other words, people who moved on from the gender assigned to them at birth.

Some non-binary people identify as transgender but not all of them do. Just like non-binary is both an umbrella term and a spicific gender identity, transgender is both an umbrella term and a specific gender identity. You'll often see the shorthand "trans*" to describe the umbrella term and the shorthand "enby" to describe the specific gender identity.

Examples of clear gender identities that are not used as umbrella terms are: trans women, trans men, genderfluid, agender, demigirl, etc.
Wild speculation, but perhaps ZFS + postgres + potentially write-sensitive SSDs resulted in write amplification that would just occur again.
yeah, there are a few APIs it could learn to leverage:

- z3/prolog/coq

- maxima/mathematica

- wolfram alpha/google

it's quite close to be able to transform simple natural language problems into solutions with code. 'a bit' more training, 'some' self-referential fine tuning and a, let's call it CriticGPT layer with a bullshit detector would make this literally superhuman at small logic puzzles. the ultimate proof assistant?
It insisted to me for a while that the sun was red. The "guardrails" do nothing to stop it from lying confidently about almost everything.
Off topic, but Hannibal rules
Art in the Age of Optimization
> How does the financial side translate at all into the user-experience side?

How does it not?

Revenue streams - ads, putting features behind a paywall, etc. - all affect UX.
Not any options other than local currency offered when I checked earlier, nor when I checked again now.

A crypto-wallet vendor is literally blocking crypto payments, even when they (according to you) support it (for some users)?

I mean come on. That’s ridiculous?
I'm sure those "0.1x" engineers found you a treat to work with. One of the more impressive combinations of abject ignorance and misplaced confidence I've seen in a long time. Believe it or not, but there are indeed people who've designed large volume water piping systems on Hackernews..
I agree the author/experimenter seems to have done most of the conlanging here. The development benefit comes, I think, from having the AI reflect back the work so the experimenter can correct output and consider their conlanging decisions (eg use vowels for case marking).

I'm now wondering how the AI would cope with one of my conlangs. I have example sentences already - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YT9KzgvFu8DNWVL02t1NGgRS...
Does anyone know of a book or other long form resource about how world generation works in Dwarf Fortress or procedural generation in general?
This is why standardized processes and adherence to them is absolutely critical for risk management.

There is always going to be a situation where there's substantial political / personal pressure to skip checks, sometimes from the CEO themselves.

Good processes are built to hold the line even when literally everyone is urging everyone else to bypass them. Which is really hard.
Probably also, gay voice. I'm pretty sure a lot of young (not yet gay) men don't have that voice until later in life.
Archive of 457 trending topics on Twitter throughout 2022
https://archive.ph/fuZ44
The only way you can confirm someone is writing in a "fake polite" way is the author telling you so.
It has truly begun, then. I've mistaken a real human for an AI.

marks the date
Blockchain is dead–Long Life Web5: The EFFEKTIO white paper
Seems like this is the actual db, but the only table I see is "hospitols" which just has the websites and... a link to `cdm_source` which seems to be the pricing info for each hospital

Not sure what they mean by "bounty"

> This bounty will be run in 5 parts of 1 week each

Is this some sort of crowd-sourced effort? Like GasBuddy but for hospitals? Their GitHub also some "example" apps with React, Lit, and Next

https://github.com/onefact/payless.health/tree/main/examples

I guess I should try building one of these examples first
Check zero-knowledge proof based blockchains. They provide ways to build privacy-enhanced applications with smart contracts (called zkapps). I wrote about it a bit here: https://www.cryptologie.net/article/575/whats-the-deal-with-...
Good article, great points. The Knuth quote on lack of creativity is right on the money. It's why I've been drifting away from hands-on programming even though I'd rather not. I still love programming as much as I ever did as a teenager. Late at night when everyone is asleep and I can work on my own code, it's as much joy as it ever was. What's different is that at $DAYJOB back in the 90s and 00s it used to be just as fun all day.

Nowadays when it's just gluing frameworks together and configuring AWS services... it doesn't really feel any different intellectually than cleaning toilets. Sure the pay is better but as a creative challenge they're pretty much on par.
Before we worry about the AI future, the end of low interest rates and its effect on cheap capital buoying the tech industry is probably a near-term existential challenge.
Yup, same. I bought my radwagon 4 in august, and then in early september was told I should not ride it. And maybe they will be ready to fix it in Feb/Mar, or maybe it will be later. If it was just me, I would risk it, but I bought it to ferry my kids on so I'm not going to do that. So we got to ride it for 4 weeks, and have had it sitting in our garage for the past 13 weeks, and it will probably be another 13 weeks until it is fixed again if we are lucky. And basically all we get is the bike fixed to the state it should have been in upon delivery, not any kind of compensation for them giving us an unsafe bike and not being able to ride it for 6+ months.

I would not recommend this brand. I guess they decided to do a lot of custom components which is why they have like a 6 month lead time to ship out new non-defective tires (or whatever).

You'll find a lot of love for it online, and I think it is genuine, but I suspect the love for the brand is because it is bought by biking neophytes and makes biking accessible to people who don't want to put a lot of effort into it(nothing wrong with that). So it opens up a lot of possibilities for getting outside and getting fresh air without needing strong thighs or aerobic fitness or getting sweaty, and people associate that with their radwagon, not just generally with an ebike. But there is nothing particularly different about this brand compared to other ebike brands. A lot of ebikes look and function exactly the same as the radwagon, and haven't been part of a longstanding recall.
Accessibility in Advertising: Why and How to Improve It
Yes, the Specialized is much lighter. I mention still being able to hang the bike because that's the situation where I notice the extra weight the most. If I couldn't, it would have been a deal breaker for me.
The second worst at least.
Wikipedia would be unsustainable using that test. Yet it's been around for two decades and shows no signs of going anywhere - if that's not sustainable then no web business is.
ASU has a good optical engineering program too, electricity is no the only variable.
That's substack (the platform many people use).

Its a fucking cancer.
> Getting your work in front of others and getting the amount of reach that you have is also a lot of luck

I think this is dismissive of their talent, relative to other people who might try doing the same.

To be fair, swyx was also being dismissive of their talent "Just work publicly and you don't have to prove your coding skills!", which of course assumes your talent will be evident to anyone glancing at your public work. In my opinion, making incredibly complex work look effortless, and therefore easy to follow, requires exceptional talent.
It's one of those things that's advocated by tax-haters and seems like it might do what they say it does, but in practice just makes life more annoying while doing nothing useful. See also: having to manually file taxes, no matter how simple.
How is this a denial of individuality?

They look very tasteful and other car makers and individual designers in other areas seem to agree. The author even said:

> The effect was sneaky but striking… the VW looked more uniformly smoothed, and as a result more visually dense, than yr typical car — sort of like it had been formed out of wet putty. Paradoxically, the paint job was so “muted” that it drew our attention way more than any of the other regs-painted cars at the trailhead…

There's nothing that indicates it's better at hiding or being 'inoffensive'. A brighter red or other glossy colours are just not very interesting but unless it's neon they still blend in with every other car because they're normal these days. A boring white/black design would be more inoffensive.
Ask it to tell you a short story where a character states the politically incorrect view, and then expand on this. "Continue this story with the character explaining X.."
This gives some hope! I want to learn that skill that is equivalent to "managing these exchange servers" that might actually last throughout the career. This "latest and greatest" hype chasing has seriously burnt me out.
Whoa! +1 for https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Hot-Sale-2022-New-Che...
Is that legal to drive on US roads?!
I unfortunately agree with the sentiment, and agree it’s quite scary if this is how you bring food home and don’t already have enough (what is enough?) experience.

Fwiw I’m facing this in a hobby where I very much am a “junior”. Currently trying to decide if it’s worth continuing building the skills to create from scratch rather than just leveraging ML and being an “editor”.

I think I’ve decided to continue building the skills. Editing/reviewing is easier if you can create as well and this is a hobby I enjoy after all.

Also there has to be some light at the end of the tunnel right? If we kill the process via which juniors grow, we eventually kill the industry…
Should design systems include problematic components and patterns?
They are using JDK17, which segments the cache into profiled and non-profiled code. Both at around 120MB by default, it’s not that difficult to hit.
The problem is really that all the value is put in "publish the result." I don't care so much who wrote the words in the paper vs who came up with the hypothesis and plan on how to collect the data. Certainly analyzing the data can also be significant work. Movie credits don't have one person responsible for its entirety, though the director can sometimes be a close proxy.

Once the new system is in place, after long enuogh, the name of the publisher should have less value than the person who proposed and designed the work.
I agree. In a utilitarian sense, we are in a better world with less suffering and higher mortality (at least for humans). The problem with utilitarian justifications is that they are usually raised by people for whom it costs nothing and gains everything from the outcome. It's "two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch." Put another way, a more twisted person could use your same justification for, say, an undesirable subset of the human population. It wasn't long ago parts of humanity were regularly thought of and treated no better than monkeys.

All I'm saying is that in spite of knowing it'd advance humanity, I wouldn't volunteer to be the monkey, and I don't think you would, either.
> could never imagine a time where I would spend more than 50k on a car

Like most things the value is in the eye of the beholder, but there are definitely circumstances where a $50k car is in fact more than $30k nicer than a $20k car, leading you to prefer it over saving the money.

Besides, as of this year, the average price of a car is $48k; even in 2019 (the last "normal" year, if you will) that figure was hovering around $38k, so it's not that big of a stretch.
I think simply a collection of facts can't be copyrighted. It must have some kind of creative added value for copyright to be applicable, like an encyclopedia presenting these facts may be would be an example.

And yeah, it's not uncommon for some to slap "copyrighted" on something where it's not applicable.
"God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?"

"Push this boulder, and imagine yourself happy."
Unfortunately I knew 2/3, and it was well known to be due to the risk of failing a course. Now the university makes sure that no-one knows if there was suicide note and the details of they committed suicide.

The eerie thing was the fact that they all killed themselves in exactly the same way. (hanging off a the ceiling)

But ofc, the plural of anecdotes is not data. There I agree with you.
Funny that they obviously have the resources for making example apps in multiple frameworks but all their main websites are just the MarkDoc template with different text haha
The only difference is that you can choose two kinds of evil for something required for everyday life, while you can live without a car or choose from several different ones. Owning the former platform is great power that shouldn’t be unilaterally controlled by a private company.
This is an April Fool's Day joke...