skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a very selective choice.

Neuralink won't be giving this product away. The company is not sacrificing these animals to better mankind, it's sacrificing them to make a profit, and our hope is that in making a profit they will accidentally make a lot of peoples' lives better. However, we have regulations and restrictions around that process because when that company makes decisions about what it is and isn't willing to sacrifice, those decisions are not going to be made based on the number of people they help, they'll be made based on profit maximization.

We can do (and should do) better work than this to improve lives for disabled and differently-abled people in ways that won't require this sheer level of suffering and that won't gate those peoples' quality of life behind expensive devices controlled by a single company, headed by a man who is historically against right-to-repair movements, against consumer privacy, and against consumer rights. There are the cliche opportunities to help (which is not to say that they're not important) like improving building and process accessibility, improving disabled rights. But there's also pure research opportunities like making the devices that already exist cheaper and more easily available. Neuralink isn't going to be cheaper than the existing hardware we have today to help disabled people, and if that hardware is out of reach of many disabled people, than Neuralink is also going to be out of reach for them.

Heck, we can also do (and should do) this exact same research outside of a startup culture with less animal suffering involved, and the outcomes will very likely be better.

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> It's low hundreds of thousands to millions, depending how we count, against 1500 animal tortures

This also isn't the choice being offered. Neuralink isn't ready for human testing, and we have no guarantee that the company is going to succeed or that they'll end up being competitive in the market. People are treating this as if you just press a button and grant people the ability to walk at the cost of 1,500 animals, but Neuralink has a lot more testing to do, and we have no guarantee that those animals aren't going to eventually turn out to have been killed for no reason at all.

This is also why we have regulations around this; because every single company believes that they are working on something so important that it justifies this level of sacrifice, and every company believes that if they were allowed to make those sacrifices that they would be certain to succeed and their products wouldn't have any serious tradeoffs or problems. Even makeup companies believe that they are working on something important enough that it justifies this level of sacrifice. So we have rules about research that apply to everyone, even (especially) people sticking computers in our brains.
This is a problem that needs to be addressed. Needless suffering is always bad. But. Is this really a BIG problem or are the politics (of Elon being who he is) leaking again?

This is not about some social networking platform or a car company. If this thing works and eventually has the ability to vastly improve QOL of disabled people, won't the testing be justified? I mean... how many desd animals outweigh one functioning quadriplegic? Only extremists would say "zero" or "any number", but regular people will probably say a number in the hundreds. We're team people after all. Not to mention that we already kill millions of animals for food (most of which live in terrible conditions all their lives and some of which die in brutal ways). And it's not like Elon goes around killing endangered species, these are mostly sheep, pigs and rodents we're talking about here.
Two tire irons and a static balancer are about $100 at harbor freight, which is the same price my dealership charges to mount and balance 4 tires.

I’ve tried it. It’s a lot of work, but it can be done without expensive tools.
Please answer my question: Would you not feel tired of seeing every 2nd/3rd post about the same topic that you are not interested in?
If anyone else is planning to sell ice to Eskimos, I just saved you an API call:

- IceEskimos.com

- ArcticIceCo.com

- ChillyChillers.com

- ChillInn.com

- FrostBites.com (my favorite)

This is so fun, but also not good for my domain buying addiction. Great job!
In a risk adjusted basis, making a million a year even for three years can set you up for life. Starting a business has so much risk, and could be attempted after you have 1.5 million saved and sitting in some index fund.
Where’s this moderation transparency?

Can you point me at the clear explanation for why Crimethinc was suspended?

Musk says that Ye was suspended for inciting violence. Does that mean anyone posting a swastika will be suspended? Since Musk says permanent suspensions are bad, does that mean Ye gets to come back at some point? If so, what are the conditions?

Twitter has stated that they’re relying more heavily on automation. Musk claimed he was going to open the algorithms. Are the automated abuse detection algorithms available for inspection? (Hopefully not, since that makes it easier to avoid them, but perhaps Musk should have considered that before making promises.)
This is not how things HAVE to be, it's just the default of a public ledger.

I'm actually working on making private payments on public blockchain with zk right now, and it's nowhere impossible, just technically complex. Should be live on peanut.to in early Jan.

Venmo is a centralized provider that doesn't _work_ in non US countries. That's not good.
> Karaoke is where some other artist performs and records the song, without vocals, in the style of whoever popularized the song.

No, this just isn't what the word means, either popularly or in technical usage. I can't find any dictionary that restricts karaoke to covers, and if anything the dictionary emphasizes non-covers:

> an act of singing along to a music video, especially one from which the original vocals have been electronically eliminated.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/karaoke?r=75&src=ref&ch=di...

It's true that in practice most karaoke audio tracks are covers for financial reasons, but that doesn't change what the word means. Most tables have four legs, but six-legged tables are still tables.
I think what you're failing to comprehend is that some people have a trait called empathy which prevents them from genociding the better part of a billion individuals for the sake of a few being able to stretch their legs.
The triumphalism of corporate greed passes for "news" at "the paper of record".

That should give pause rather than congratulations.
What’s Docker hell?
I guess they had to spent their now-$0 Twitter budget somewhere.
"The identity ecosystem" he describes is most exciting to me. There is so much that can be attached to our on-chain identity beyond just our net worth and jpegs. This year the first house was sold on-chain, and I believe that's just the beginning of these immutable irl transactions.
This would be true if Musk didn't have a track record of delivering ambitious projects (albeit late). Elizabeth Holmes had exactly 0 track record of delivering anything.
Your interpretation here is very kind. I really don’t understand how anyone can read this and think it somehow indicates we’re “supposed to believe SBF’s claims”.

Bankman-Fried deflected the FT’s questions about the excessive borrowing and soured investments that ultimately sank Alameda, blowing a hole in FTX’s finances, and would not be drawn on the legal consequences he may face. He said he deliberately avoided getting involved in Alameda’s trading and risk management to avoid conflicts with his position as chief executive of FTX, and neglected to monitor the risk they posed to the exchange.
Well it seems on topic to bring up xmake. It has no DSL, just Lua. Been using for a year (with Cpp. Haven't tried other languages with it yet) and I love it

xmake.io
> There is no need to tie someone down working full time just to pay for the basics, when they could be obtaining an education.

Brazil has a conditional cash transfer program called Bolsa Família, and this is one of the things pointed out in a couple studies - that the family used the extra cash to look for better jobs and training instead of working every day just to feed themselves.
I hope this succeeds. My daughter was born with many medical issues and understanding the billing was always near impossible. Nothing could be gleaned from the bills which would arrive 6 months to a year later (sometimes 2 years) from the insurance company. In what world can I not know the price of something before hand? If I go to a restaurant and see hamburgers cost 6000$, I wouldn't buy one. But with medical it is always a surprise.
This is always an important point that seldom gets brought up these days when people are complaining about "they don't make things like they used to." Of course they don't, and we're generally better off as a result.
> What happens when no one works and humans are removed from the value chain?

pitchforks?
> I think this only requires pre-making two audio files per track, and simultaneously streaming these.

That’s the understatement of the century. “this only requires […] simultaneously streaming these”
Not bad, apparently

https://steamcommunity.com/app/975370/discussions/0/37093075...
So, option A :)
I am curious - are you getting any referral fee from GoDaddy/Namecheap when you send users for registration? I've tried to find a program on their site, but it seems like a dark forest. There are some referral banners, but not direct "register this domain, and get back a dollar" kind of thing.
But that not how you launch apps?
Then why have a co-founder as YC preaches ?
And he seems to be the only one asking SBF the hard questions and not accepting his BS meaningless answers. It's quite disappointing to see an independent YouTuber doing better journalism than major news outlets.
Everything is a Rich Man's Trick (documentary)
The Daily Mail is not a news source, it's a right-wing outrage machine.
> How is Twitter a fiasco?

Making a deal to pay 44 billion dollars for a 30 billion dollar company with no cancellation clause, and then spending 6 months desperately, and very loudly trying to back out of that deal is definitively a fiasco.

Whether or not his stewardship of it will turn a 30 billion dollar company into a... Much less valuable company... is, however, not a question that we can definitively answer - at this time.
> The first generation of Vancouver Special owners were largely families who occupied the entire property.

I guess it's hard to get exact numbers on this, but the things I've read suggest that a lot of Vancouver Specials had multiple households right from the start. e.g. Barbara Pettit's excellent thesis:

"By the 1970s, the Special had a distinctive style and was spreading throughout the east side as the "popular plan." Neighbourhoods changed beyond recognition, and residents began complaining about its size, its appearance and its use as a multi-family dwelling."

https://open.library.ubc.ca/soa/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses...
That "grade" situation is especially fun in very hilly areas - I remember a relative's house in Seattle somewhere that had three "ground floor doors" on different levels because the hill was so steep.

Even relatively flat terrain can have "walk out basements" which make what is technically a basement feel more like a ground floor.
The first program I ever wrote was in AppleSoft BASIC. It would pick a random location on the screen and print MILK in inverse text at that location. And then GOTO 10. Anyone else remember their first program?
Hardware Trojan Threats to Cache Coherence in Modern 2.5D Chiplet Systems
I've played 3 4+ hour sessions over the last five years. Twice I hit bugs that caused save data lose and caused me to quit. Once I had a ton of fun and then some small issue caused my fortress to become unstable and all my dwarfs to die.

Hopefully its a bit more stable now. Would love to lose many more hours to this game.
Means you can close on the piece of property in the time it takes to do a KYC check, instead of the four months it takes on average in the UK.

There are other benefits too but that's the biggie.
I’d say it’s a bad idea when you can implement most .well-known features by just touching or copying static files into the right directory, and then suddenly a .well-known feature comes along that expects something smarter than a static file server, and now you’re doing complex routing just to patch that request over to a process that can actually service it.
Germany mirrors Japan in terms of demographics, with similar median age and fertility rates: https://www.asianstudies.org/publications/eaa/archives/aging...

What Germany had was low cost energy to power a mighty manufacturing industry; now that is gone. Commence the slow decline.
The parts for the EU market seem to be more expensive than for the US.

Example,
iPhone 13 Pro Max screen price:

US: $311.96

UK: $338.63 ($26.73 more expensive)

Poland: $351.35 ($39.39 more expensive)

The prices are without VAT/Sales Tax
(20% for UK and 23% for Poland already deducted respectively)
Yeah, figured out that much. But the emulation has its own internal menu, which claims to do the same but doesn't. Shouldn't be a tough one to fix :)
You didn't want to work there anyway.
Choosing world gen settings and where you start your fortress is the difficulty select.

During world gen, you can set the number of sites, (which includes goblin camps and the like), the natural savagery, and the number of beasts to very low, and set mineral abundance as high as possible

As a beginner, you want the threat to be as low as possible (serene or calm), the climate to be warm, NO AQUIFER, and make sure that there's iron-bearing ore and coal. In such a situation, the worst you need worry about are some of the late game !!FUN!! sources, which are only really relevant if you delve too greedily and too deep.
Writing powerpoint with the intention of fucking up the actual developers of S/W...
To prove your loyalty and faith as a good consumer.
This is going to be another new way for people to generate content for TikTok. Great idea, actually.

How does the mic situation work? Will you need a USB mic? Can you use a BT headset?
> I'm not an expert either in statistics or in polling

Fortunately for us, the author is :)

The author has an outline available for a course on survey sampling for those interested in references and topics to learn more. http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/surveys.course/surveys_...
In fact, when you conduct surveys, it's very common to ask screener questions. Among likely voters, among IT decision makers, among developers, etc.

It's fairly clear in this case: undergraduate(?) students.

In general, surveys are trying to get statistics from a demographic that's interesting to the person doing the survey, such as buyers or influencers of purchase decisions for a given product.
Why do new cars drive like wet putty? Electric steering makes spirited driving as joyless as a 40 year old Buick. It's like steering a jellyfish. And sport mode only manages to stiffen the jelly.
The government artificially grants corporations power by virtue of creating the concept of a corporation and limited liability, so to me it seems only fair for them to grant a collective of workers power as well.
Oh that's fun! Maybe I should offer to optionally save the queries so that others can browse all these great use cases. Ice to Eskimos. Brilliant!
> Everyone seems to think there are a million qualifications they have to meet before becoming a parent. "We need to have a house, and 100k in savings, etc etc etc." And yes, it's good to be prepared. But also, as long as you're a semi functional human, you'll make it work.

Very true. I didn’t have my own place to live or any money when the first one was on the way. In fact, my kids are the reason I started a new career, worked my way up, bought a house.

It doesn’t all have to happen in a specific order. Like the parent post says, you make it work.
My guess is it's not licensed for public performance, so they don't want to give anyone any ideas.
As a non-religious person descended from Mennonites, I felt something strong when she said:

> I have always believed that one of the great arguments for being part of a collectivist Christian tradition is their willingness to do voluntary, gruelling manual labour and call it love.

However, I was disappointed that the piece concluded in an evangelical call to action, littered with evangelical buzzwords I've heard a hundred times:

> ... tremendous opportunity ... foster community ... in the midst of this fear of our own vulnerability ... Our neighbours ... needing language for the pain ... searching for meaning ... tell them the truth

As a transgender person, I know that the community they want to foster comes with way too many conditions.
It is but you also need controllable components with the ability to quickly change output performance when building solar as your peak source. Usually this means gas turbines, in some cases this could also mean battery.
Building a Database in the 2020s
Yeah. After reading the article, I have to agree. But I'm no expert in this area. It seems like it could certainly help. If I had to guess, things like ECRAM and reconfigurable analog computing chips will have more of an effect than this (assuming they can be made to work).
Thanks for the MicroConf shout!

Check out https://youtube.com/microconf and https://www.startupsfortherestofus.com for a long list of SaaS founder stories/case studies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down_economics

There’s lots of people saying it and have said it. We just had tax cuts for the wealthy recently.
https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Speech-M... this is from the most senior civil judge in the UK

Have a read, I think it will clarify the matter for you.
Who owns the moon? shouldn't there be an international concertation to grant such infrastructure contracts?

The question will arise when China will want its roads too

Who will be there first?

First to land, first to build, rights to own?
No I meant https://github.com/eoin-barr/weatherme/blob/master/cmd/root....
It reminds me of how movies don’t try new things and keep playing it safe with sequels. Everyone is afraid of trying something new like a bright red car and failing. I have my doubts how good their data is though. It could just be groupthink and hivemind everywhere thinking that.

https://www.consumerreports.org/consumerist/a-brief-history-...

The tldr from the article-

TL; DR Version

• Everyone remembers their favorite car’s unique color, so when did we fade to black?

• Yellow, green and teal cars may fetch you a higher resale value due to relatively few of them

• Cars were first painted like carriages, color was expensive, didn’t last

• Henry Ford offered cars in black asphalt enamels because that color dried the fastest and was more durable than oil-based paints

• General Motors and Dupont partnered up for Duco, a new paint that made it easier to apply colorful paints that dried even faster than before

• Car manufacturers started color advisory boards to suss out trends in popular culture and report back

•Everyone got wacky on colors for a while, including in the ‘60s and ‘70s

• We’re boring these days, choosing mostly black, white and gray/silver

• The recession scared people into a neutral colors phase, giving rise to the popularity of black, white and silver/gray

• The future is bright once again, however, as experts see colorful paint jobs coming back
That kind of effect can amplify the apparent popularity of various things. 40% want the boring colors but the other 60% are very-divided over what they'd like, so it ends up looking like 90% want the boring colors because most people won't pay (much) extra to get the color they want, and manufacturers favor not-offensive over actually-desired in a lot of cases.
You can. They're expensive. Walmart is paying them to be there.
He borrowed 4B. he gave 700M to his CTO.
Offtopic, but I find the sassy and judgy tone of this article incredibly irritating. I don't love matte car paints either, but I don't shit all over them or the people who like them.

Is this style supposed to be funny? maybe I'm just jaded and cranky.
I'm the software architect for Circuits at Rec Room. Rec Room is a multi-billion dollar UGC-driven online game. Circuits is our in-game programming language.

On Monday, Wednesday, and Friday I have large no meeting blocks in my calendar to discourage recurring or pre-planned meetings. Most of this time is spent:

1. Writing code

2. Reviewing code

3. Responding to feedback in our Slack channels

4. Impromptu meetings to help other Engineers get "unstuck"

On Tuesday and Thursday I'm open for recurring meetings. Most of this time is spent:

1. In 1:1s with other engineers or team leads

2. In miscellaneous recurring meetings like our "Architects Chat" or "Leadership Meetings"

Writing code is _by far_ the largest place I allocate my time and also what I would recommend to other engineers who wish to stay on an "individual contributor" track. IMO, if you aren't writing code, you are slowly getting worse at writing code which damages your ability to make recommendations to others. There is no replacement for real experience.

Reviewing code is a close second. I review roughly 50 PRs every week which is about 2x what our closest "non-architect" engineers review (usually Engineering Managers). Many of my impromptu meetings and Slack feedback comes from what I see in code reviews. If I leave anything beyond a trivial comment, I like to have time to discuss with the individual to make sure I'm understanding correctly and actually providing useful feedback. Since other people are working in my code-bases, its also important to see that "the ideas are coming together". If PRs into our Circuits code are frequently breaking patterns, its likely a problem with my patterns rather than other engineers.

I don't have documentation on the list as it isn't something I write in an ongoing way. Instead, I prefer to write documentation at the beginning and end of large projects. I don't make a ton of edits as I go because the code is in flux so it can be a waste of time to update both code and documentation. Instead I like to:

1. Start a project with a plan of how everything fits together

a. Planning takes anywhere from 1 week to 2 months depending on the size of the project

2. Get approval on the plan

3. Write code... if it has to contradict the plan, so be it

4. Update the documentation at the very end so other engineers can use it as a nice reference for the current "state of the world"

If anyone is interesting in joining Rec Room, we are hiring :)

https://recroom.com/careers?gh_jid=5382144003
Exactly. Another example is Martha Stewart, who engaged in insider trading in 2001 but who didn't go to prison till 2004.
Fix Python Exceptions with ChatGPT
“Brand New” Mitch Hedberg Jokes (Thanks to AI)
Interesting paper on making concrete on the moon:

https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1985lbsa.conf..381L
it makes more sense to do that processing once in the datacenter.

Since Apple is all about on-device processing with so many of its features, going back-and-forth to the data center doesn't seem to be its style these days.

That's more of a Google thing.

And no one can accuse Apple of telling its advertisers that you start your day with Funky Cold Medina.
I've never had an issue negotiating a decent price on a customized order over a car already on the lot. Just have had to wait a few months usually for it to come in.

As for "any color you want", Audi has advertised for quite a few years that for $2500 (or so, it may be more now) you can have any color under the sun. But, when I actually tried this, I was told, "We don't know you, your dealer is too small, we wouldn't paint it that color, and we're booked up for a solid two years anyway". So, while they advertise it for anybody, they seemingly were only doing it for VIPs.