skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fitbod app, I love this one as it helps me change up my workouts and stay fit (a back injury that I do a lot of rehab for). The visuals are good for knowing how to do the exercise properly. I am trying Copilot now, which brings in a trainer to help do everything. So far, so good, but only in my 3rd week.

1Password for families is so helpful! I've been on it for a long time, but getting my wife organized and on it was a huge help in so many ways.

Every single book I bought :) (plug for https://shepherd.com, a book discovery project I launched on HN last year)

Patagonia boxer briefs, I ordered 21 pairs. Best underwear on the planet, and happy to re-up as the new version is even comfier.
Speaking as a member of the “dirtbag left”, there has always been separate and unequal treatment for those of us who pair the aggressive posting style of folks who talk so derisively about an invisible man in the sky as they demand as much or greater reverence for an alleged invisible hand in the market.

The core issue is having it ambiguous who can break the rules and when, married to a purposefully inadequate set of reporting tools.

(For context, I actually interviewed to do UX research on anti-abuse features at Twitter back around the time of the 2016 election, and they declined not only to hire me but didn’t fill the role at all… I remember because it was the same day as the Turkish Coup attempt.)

Anyways Elon is terrible but it breaks my heart since Twitter is a good way to discover new news sources / articles in a way unreplicated by Reddit (which has its own… special… issues.)
If you’re the only one using it and you’ve got at least two cups, you could place an empty cup each time you remove a full cup.
They are, yes, but the safety of older models is perfectly acceptable to me.
I would say the biggest fool is Temasek, Singapore's state investment fund, who set $275million on fire (0.1% of their net Portfolio). They really lost their minds on this one.
> Hindsight 20/20.

Valid point if they had effective due diligence but they didn't.

FTX on a cost basis was 3% of the committed capital for the fund that held FTX.

A minimal amount of due diligence on FTX would have saved them $150m and increased the fund's return by 3% - not a trivial amount.

Plus their name gave FTX credibility that probably led to others investing and losing money.
What’s the best thing about it?
That sounds like a data governance problem that goes above and beyond the things that DBT does. The typical way to handle this is by implementing a gold/silver/bronze architecture.
> Except that FTX isn't "crypto"

nobody buys this line
Second that question, I'm seriously considering getting one as well
Very good point. Know your limits, and do things like only keep your hotel room key, phone, and a half empty wallet (keep money in your pocket as well as your wallet).. but don't let fear get in the way. We only live once.
No, ssize_t is not the signed version. As best as I can tell, the only things POSIX says about ssize_t is that[1] it is an integer type that can hold integer values in [-1, SSIZE_MAX], where[2] SSIZE_MAX ≥ _POSIX_SSIZE_MAX = 32767, not that it should have any particular relation to size_t. In the standard, it is used for byte counts in I/O, like the return value of read() (traditionally int), for the return value of strfmon() and strfmon_l() (OK I guess, though the C standard stuck with int for *printf()), and for the argument to swab() (wat).

Note that neither is ptrdiff_t guaranteed to be that signed version, or to hold any possible value in the domain of size_t or (strictly speaking) any possible object size. Both GCC and Clang assume the latter, though, and can miscompile[3] code that relies on (e.g.) malloc() succeeding for sizes > 2^31 on a 32-bit system.

[1] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/sy...

[2] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/li...

[3] https://trust-in-soft.com/blog/2016/05/20/objects-larger-tha...
A used manual typewriter. So far, I have written ten three-page letters to friends and family, including a few people I hadn't written to in maybe 40 years. I love the noise, the unavoidable mistakes, the way the finished letter looks, and the low cost of sending international mail from Japan (~$1 USD).
If the Basilisk is real, I sincerely hope it pays special attention to this person.
A cheap hand-cranked coffee grinder. I usually buy pre-ground coffee and have zero desire to switch, but (because reasons..) I happened upon a pack of unground beans and was convinced (still am) that it would be much less bad for the environment to dispose of the beans than getting a grinder for just one pack and then dispose of that.

Until I stumbled upon an Amazon page (yes, that Amazon :( ) for a cheap grinder where some reviewer mentioned using it for pepper. Got a grinder, enjoyed the coffee (really good! just not enough difference to switch), then redeployed the grinder to pepper duty.

Puts a smile on my face every time I put pepper on something. My regular pepper grinder wasn't exactly bad, but also not stellar. The coffee grinder, with its dedicated crank, is so much better than any "twist knob head" pepper grinder could ever be. Feels like using a potent power tool, just without that nagging thought of "am I really too weak even to grind a few peppercorns?" that would grind my self-respect faster than the spice if I used an electric.
A crystal set needs no battery power, the signal is enough to power the audio. I had fun making one with those 20 in 1 electronics toys as a kid. I think that one didn't tune so you heard multiple stations at once.
Boiling water tap. Amazing to make tea instantly without boiling the kettle, it’s also brilliant for cooking (boiling pasta or veg) and filling up hot water bottles. Amazing to have boiling water on tap (ha) cutting lots of time and no noisy kettle. Even free up worktop space by removing the kettle!
I believe unions are necessary in a world of humongous companies.

That is because, in case of disagreements, an employee's prospect (losing 100% of their income) is a much worse negotiating position than a large company losing <1% of its workforce.
It would clash with the zeitgeist currently prevalent in Hollywood. If they decided to pursue it, it would be from a "subversive" angle, as they like to boast.
A bike. (If you really want to know - this: https://www.merida-bikes.com/en-au/bike/3127/speeder-100).

7am early morning ride before work, then ~ 2pm in the afternoon. Both around 1 hour, often longer.

My whole mood lifts the closer I get to ride time, and for a whole hour or so afterwards I am buzzing and I seem to write my best code. I never get stressed any more. I am fitter than ever with no sore knees or bad back or any other stuff I used to suffer when I was running. I sleep really well.

I am 54 and I live next to a dedicated bike path that goes for ~4 hours in two directions. I work almost exclusively from home in Brisbane, Australia.
I'm currently writing Rust for my bachelor thesis using bluez_async[1].

btleplug[2] is great, but at least on Linux I prefer using bluez_async directly, which btleplug is just an interface for there[3], to avoid one more layer of dependencies.

bluez_async is quite similar to btleplug, and, from my experience, if you know one you can use the other just fine.

[1]: https://docs.rs/bluez-async/0.6.0/bluez_async/index.html

[2]: https://docs.rs/btleplug/0.10.4/btleplug/index.html

[3]: https://github.com/deviceplug/btleplug/blob/d6d8ba5486eba5d7...
How to Rickroll an AI: An Experiment with a Large Language Model
Like many of us, I have been experimenting with the new GPT-3 chat model of OpenAI.

I've been testing its potential for extrapolation, idea synthesis, and novel thought -- all of which have led to some amazing responses. However, this is the one I most want to share! (Note: the title of this post was partially generated by GPT-3.)
This is quite interesting, as it might actually encourage the right leaning people to consider bias in AI training data as something worth addressing.
OSS-Fuzz – continuous fuzzing for open source software
No, GP is right.

"Speculating" is merely a loaded term for investment that the writer does not approve of.

There's any number of plausible reasons why one person's investment is another's speculation:

- Is technical analysis investing or speculating?

- How much do you need to know to call it an investment? Do you just need to have heard of FTX, or do you need to have gone to visit for due diligence?

- How do you know it's zero sum? A business model may appear later that makes it positive sum.

EOTD we're talking about decisions under uncertainty. That's literally all decisions.

> Traditional investments have ways of generating and returning money without selling the asset itself. For example, stocks in companies can pay dividends, real estate can return money by renting out properties. They are positive sum games and the risk of loosing money is much lower.

This part is particularly suspect.

Let's say I make a crypto exchange and sell shares in the company. Let's say it pays dividends.

Is buying my shares speculating or investing?

Look at real estate, your other example. There's a massive real estate collapse going on right now, with enough empty units to fit all of Germany in it.

Is that speculating or investing?
I think most people would find these clearer if they used the functions view/set/etc, rather than the various operators which are just alternatives to those.
The best description I've seen is, it's not for people who want to play more games, but those who want to play games mores. With all the other things going on in life, been able to just press a button and resume where you left off in 5 seconds is such a game changer compared to the rest of the ecosystem.
Why not with SMB? Often employees at these have an even harder time calling attention to abuse or exploitation.
A Home Gym - got a new squat rack, a used set of bars and weight plates and an incline chair and it's a game-changer for my physical and mental health. I can just go downstairs and go at it!

Getting twinkle lights to add warmth to our house in the cold, cloudy winter months of Pittsburgh - noticeable change in moods for our family where it doesn't feel depressive all the time but instead conducive to reading and studying.
I've always thought about something like these. What's the battery life like on this model?
It is, but I don't like it because it suggests that things happened to affected companies due to purely external reasons.

It is like my daughter saying "the glass fell from the table and broke". No, it was you who dropped the glass or at least placed the glass in vulnerable position where it can tip off the table easily. Blaming the glass for it breaking is not very useful because it elicits no correction and same for companies -- suggesting companies were innocent bystanders suggests nothing has to or can be done about it.
Home office lighting.

In my home office room (10.5 m²/115 sq. ft), I used to have 4 neutral-white (3000K) LED bulbs of average brightness (450 lm).

I replaced them with the same number of cool-white (6000K), super bright LED bulbs (900 lm). What a difference! It took a few days to get used to it, but I am very happy with the change. I feel much more energized at work.

I sometimes work before bedtime, and I was worried that the lew light would affect my sleep quality, but I haven't noticed any difference in that respect.

A while ago, I read a blog claiming that most people have their light at home way too dim, but I cannot find it anymore. If anyone has some resources on this topic, I would be grateful for a link.

Edit: Fixed the color temperature values, added some bg info.
A question with rather the flavour "how long have you been beating your wife?", very few technically minded people I know would touch Musk with a shitty stick.
> This one came in a request from a reader. They want to know my feelings about trying to "... avoid a company contributing to the downfall of humanity". This one's tough, particularly given my own history.

> I worked for a web hosting company that had a dubious history of keeping spammers around far too long.

How quaint.

Which companies or industries are contributing to the downfall of humanity? This answer is hard to answer but I don't think it's ads, spam, or user tracking despite being vehemently against these things. Perspective is needed.

Raytheon or Lockheed Martin? They're certainly milking the taxpayer but they also fulfill an extremely important need. Fossil fuel industry? They are polluters but low energy costs contribute immensely to standards of living.

I can't think of any companies or industries that are legit evil, if there even are any. Tobacco industry? Building nukes for North Korea or Iran?
I don't understand why do they need this complicated algorithm. If there is such a blatant bias then it can be detected by sampling a few million random tetrahedra; and that can be done instantaneously.

Also, why don't they publish the list of positions of all these galaxies? (Or I couldn't find it easily on either of the original articles [0,1]). If there's just a million of them, this is around the same size as a single high-resolution color image. Then people can download the positions and find the asymmetries themselves!

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.04227

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.03625

EDIT: actually, the data is public and easily available! Here is a notebook for playing with it: https://nbodykit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/cookbook/boss-dr12...
No, he didn't.

Remi Herbulot invented the HERAD music system, which used features of the sound chip that no other sound system did. Remi operated on a godlike level of FM sound production, the only other person who even approached him was Robert Prince (Doom musician).

Stephane Picq wrote most of the Dune soundtrack as real electronic music then "backported" it to Remi's music system. Ulrich contributed one or two tracks.

http://www.vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php/Dune_(DOS)

You can hear the obvious similarity between Dune and Stephane's other music:

https://vgmrips.net/packs/composer/stephane-picq
OP used home assistant [0], which is a FOSS you run on your own server directly talking to the purifier over LAN.

[0] https://www.home-assistant.io/
Postfix is not old. Sendmail is old :-)
A "gaming mousepad", which is basically a padded surface that goes over the entire space of your desk where your hands may be. So my hands can be anywhere I want them to be, and still be comfortable. It's always worth paying for ergonomics in my mind, I buy high quality mice and keyboards (the Logitech MX Vertical and the Keyboard.io Atreus/Model 10, though I didn't but them this year), I add aftermarket padding to the arms of my chair, et cetera. You don't have to get stuff that's as expensive as what I listed, I have a pretty severe RSI and need top-of-the-line gear just to function as a programmer typing all day, but don't skimp out on this stuff & end up with an RSI. If you have discomfort, deal with it early. If discomfort becomes pain, stop what you're doing and take a walk. (/PSA)

Various desk decorations, such as an analog clock and a small whiteboard. Making my desk a pretty space makes it easier for me to respect it, and reduces the problem of crap accumulating on it just because it's a flat surface at arm height. When there's pretty stuff, crap makes it look ugly, and this bothers me so I deal with it. Otherwise, it just looks like a place where crap goes, and the crap doesn't bother me. The decorations also break up the flat surface and make it so there's less big, tempting flat space.

An analog kitchen timer. This allows me to time box things without looking at my phone, a recipe for distraction. It also has a rhythm which gently reminds me the timer is running without making me feel too rushed.

A power strip with USB outlets. It's a nice convenience at my desk, but it really shines when I pack my stuff up to work somewhere else, like when visiting family. If I can get access to 1 outlet, I'm good to go, and I don't need to use a bunch of charging bricks to charge multiple devices. I don't have to worry about having to unplug a lamp and then remember to plug it back in when I'm done, or anything like that.
even in economic usage, there's often an implication of "and then these craven assholes", c.f. the recent FSOC paper on systemic risk of crypto
I worked in McKinsey Digital. Here's an example of the typical type of project we did:

- Client is a legacy bank

- Client wants to be a fancy new cool digital bank like Revolut

- Client brings in McKinsey to help get them there

- McKinsey (traditional side) does a strategy engagement first (4-8 weeks) to define priorities, budget, etc

- McKinsey Digital + traditional consultants come in to do the implementation. This includes architecture, actual tech building (more on this below), assisting with hiring and HR, coaching, financials, integration/de-integration with rest of business. Essentially everything involved with starting a "new" business.

If you want a single company to come in and literally do everything to build and run a new business I do think you would need an MBB-type company as they can bring in all these different skills (business, people, tech, process etc). I'm very reluctant to praise my former employer.

On the actual tech building side, McKinsey would typically bring only 1-3 technical people as it's cost prohibitive for the client (I was one of those people). McKinsey would help the client hire new people or bring in contractors (i.e. Nagarro and the likes).
In a small business, maybe you're the only person doing <critical task X>. This is a more level playing field, but maybe a union is still useful here also.
Sometimes, it's obvious a company is evil, because it's been in the news as evil, almost since it was founded. (Sometimes, they even get Hollywood's greatest speechwriter to make a movie about it, to re-spin the bad PR.)

Other times, it's less-obvious:

1. You don't have enough visibility into the company's operations, plans, or executives.

2. You don't know enough context of society and/or business, to understand how something innocuous-sounding is evil.

3. All's good on intentions and impact, but later the situation changes (company is pressured by market or investors, or someone falls into a bad influence yacht party scene, etc.),

Complicating this is that it's the norm (especially for startups) for a company to claim to be doing something positive for society:

1. Sometimes it's just marketing/brand convention that people go through, and don't think they have to take seriously (it'd be rude to say you just want to extract money).

2. Sometimes the founders/execs believe it, but with poor understanding of the problems and solutions (often by class sheltering, or simply not knowing the domain well enough).

3. Sometimes it's con artists and/or narcissists, who work the narrative to manipulate others, or to increase sense of personal glory.

I don't know a complete solution to this problem of detecting evil so you can avoid working for it.

I also haven't figured out a satisfying way to reconcile not wanting to work for evil, with wanting to have a comfortable life right now. Especially in "tech" right now, where a lot of bad practices have become so ordinary, we don't realize it. (And if someone called out the practices, we might get irritated like a 9th grade Economics fan, because that person who thinks that's a problem must be stupid, because we were told this is the way things are.)
You missed the point of my reply, and simply repeated your position.
> Once experienced people joined the team we switched to jira.

What was the benefit and the positive outcome from doing so, outside of familiarity with Jira?

Conversely, what was problematic about the idea of sticking with Taiga or another solution, what would you miss out on?

I think that every software has some shortcomings, like some people swear by Jira, others hate it, personally I can see both sides: it works, but at the same time the REST API has stuff like createmeta which you need to use for getting issue field types programmatically, except that there were breakages in the REST library between versions 8 and 9 of Jira as no data is returned even when you run those two versions with same config in parallel, though that's only applicable to their self-hostable solution which is different from their cloud solution, without getting into the licensing changes in the following years.

I'm interested what you think about exact features or qualities that each has and how they compare.
“Marx Was Wrong”
Hypocrisy doesn't absolve those acting in very questionable ways at Neuralink.

Film recommendation: Okja
The Logical Induction algorithm is wildly inefficient, but it's nice to see a real, runnable implementation.
> Exactly, the "C" in CRDT is a little misleading. They are "conflict free" in as much as they are able to merge and resolve in the basic sense. That does not mean that the resulting state is valid or meets your internal schema.

I disagree, the "conflict" in "conflict-free" is not misleading at all. As I see it, your issue with the "conflict" lies in a misunderstanding of what a conflict actually is in the context of CRDTs and what eliminating them entails. Concurrent updates can be free from conflicts but still end up with a semantically inconsistent document, and that is perfectly fine.

The whole point of CRDTs is to allow collaborative editing without resorting to mutex locks or forcing users to retry cancelled updates. That's why Yjs merges two captions added to a figure, and also why other CRDTs don't stop concurrent updates that make no sense semantically, such as having users concurrently writing incoherent sentences. Document-wise, there is no conflict or inconsistence.
Books. Every year the "thing" that most enhances my life is culture. I read voraciously, read to calm myself, my brain, and to generally shut off technology.
O'Reilly. Pluralsight.

Public speaking or presentation course can be good.

I've been doing some certs lately. AWS Solutions Architect Associate was about that for a virtual course + exam voucher.

Find a conference somewhere next year and book that? Not sure where you're based but $1200 would cover a couple of days and some travel depending on the conf.
With some very rough maths, 0.1% of the US population is still over 330,000 people, and what, all these people should be excluded from renting (perhaps even buying) a home because they don't use the right phone?
Dune 2000 was pretty good back in the day. I enjoyed its gameplay and its art looked great for the time. It felt about the same tier of fun as C&C and Red Alert, though perhaps a bit less replayable due to maps feeling rather samey. Certainly worth checking out though if its still runnable
I think the test makes assumptions about the averages from real humans, but I would not make the leap from there to “it does that,” because what humans? From where? At what point in time? What exactly do you mean by, for example, regulationism vs laissez faire? Etc.
Humans hallucinate information and often get things wrong in ways that have no grounding in auditable facts either.

The fact that a textbox can do so many diverse tasks _well_, should give everyone pause.

Here's a few things it was able to do when I tested it:

- generate working code in multiple programming languages (C++, Rust, Typescript, Python)

- rewrite terraform tf to equivalent kubernetes yaml

- accurately describe esoteric knowledge related to medical imaging

- find and suggest improvements in code written by senior programmers

- rewrite and improve the copy of a website

- create a decent presentation outline for a VC investor pitch

- suggest valid improvements to sample startup mission and vision statements

- expand bullet points into a proper email that I could send out to third parties without any questions raised

How many people are there in the world that can do all or even some of the above at a decent level of expertise?