skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It can actually be easier to raise children in places with good bike infrastructure, because you don’t have to be their chauffeur. They can bike themselves around.

And for smaller children, in cities like Amsterdam, it’s common to see a mom riding with multiple kids sitting in a cargo bike.
I think something like V is what you're looking for:

https://vlang.io/
The technique in question has little to do with GPT itself; it involves using ML to generate more training data in an automated fashion, creating a generative training loop, which as another commenter mentioned, is also the basis behind general adversarial networks.
This kind of crap is what made Windows 10 unusable for me. Everything was infuriating.

I’m not a fanboy of anything either. Win2K was great. macOS 10.1-10.4 was wonderful. BeOS, RISCOS, IRIX, NeXT, and even DRDOS have warm places in my heart.

These days, I use macOS because I find it the least annoying. It still has too many approval dialogs and notifications, but it isn’t quite as hostile as Windows. Linux and BSD are “fine” but there are other issues that I have with those ecosystems as far as usability is concerned.

I really hope SerenityOS continues its fast paced development and becomes usable for daily computing…
That sounds really amazing! Would you be willing to share how you marketed your product - once you moved to selling from your own website? Certainly a big challenge is trying out an idea, but the next challenge is scaling adoption to make some worthwhile money. (By "scaling", i'm not referring to hypergrowth, web company scale....just, you know, maybe a side hustle or even making a modest full-time livelihood.)
How I Learned to Live My Values at Work
Seconded. There's a lot of good listening in the archives in addition to the new episodes. One of my favorites is an old interview with Anders Hejlsberg that includes discussions of Turbo Pascal, Delphi, C# and LINQ.

https://www.se-radio.net/2008/05/episode-97-interview-anders...
There was recently a player who shot up the Chess.com blitz leaderboard under the name Sinister Magnus. They were eventually removed from the leaderboard, presumably for being an alt of an existing GM, but I don't think anyone has figured it out for sure who they are, it would be interesting test to see if they are able to figure the player out using this.
Better summary of what happened: https://www.politico.eu/article/eva-kaili-doha-panzeri-qatar...
Falcon 9 launches ispace lander and NASA cubesat to the moon
Indeed, gas stations would probably love if all cars were electric. When you stop to charge, you know that you will be stopping for at least 15 minutes, so why not get a cup of coffee and a snack while waiting?

If we're lucky, gas stations might turn into alcohol-free third places where people watch sports, have a meal and hang out while waiting for their car to charge.

Driving ranges are generally high enough that driving from 100 to 0% charge means you should take a legally mandated break. So why not embrace that?
Previously discussed here[1] and here.[2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33932422

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33933279
They weren’t saying “everyone must do it thusly”. They were making the point we should have options.

Right now the only option that infrastructure is actually built for is using a car for everything, even for the single person to run an errand 3 miles away. It’s possible they can be an unintended user of the car oriented roads, but it is much riskier.

it would be nice if the people going on solo trips could take bikes without worrying about their dependents becoming orphans. That way when doing something that actually requires a car highways would be less congested too! Win-win.
I started off by buying Google Ads, but I lost money running them. Eventually I stopped running the ads and focused on writing blog posts. Also I think the domain sort of helps.

I wrote a bit more about the start here:
https://bankstatementconverter.com/blog/posts/2022-02-25-zer...
The inconvenient truth is that the push for spaying and neutering was simply to curb an exploding pet population that resulted in animals being put down. That’s it. America has a horrible history of pet ownership.

I elected to leave my dogs intact and every single time I visit the vet they try to convince me to spay. Vets seem to be brainwashed into it. They say it prevents some cancers. I tell them it’s linked to other cancers. They don’t have an argument, to be honest.

It’s an elective and unnecessary surgery.
At the train station we find peoples phones regularly. It is astonishing how dumb the process is for returning such a sophisticated piece of electronics.

Any person who finds it can be expected to make some small effort to return it. Dropping it off at lost & found items is already pushing it.

IMHO in locked state it should have a button to call the carrier and the carrier should make an effort to register a phone number, email or address. Iphones do have a lost mode but I've never seen it in action.

A found phone is essentially a brick without any visible id code.

So the real world process is now like that of all other dumb luggage. It goes to lost & found, you register the loss and wait for it to be found, dropped off, registered, if the item matches your description you get 5 days to pick it up where it was found, then it is send to a central location which could take a good while! Then you pay 15 euro to have it send back to you. Bank and id cards are destroyed. But how do you identify a brick? Expect to be without a phone for at least a week.

You could be standing there in front of the closed doors but there is no way to return your belongings.

There remains much to do in this service area.

If there is a standard finders reward it might even be worth it for the thief to return it. I'd much rather pay say 30 bucks to get it back. The thief just switches it off and has it stripped for parts. If the standard reward is good enough people will make a serious effort getting it back to you.

Truly wild would be if it could use the back camera to continuously scan a crowd to identify its owner. Draw boxes around the faces with a different color and a bleep for potential candidates so that one can walk towards them.

Display a name or id number to broadcast over the train station, mall or airport announcement system.
I no longer suffer from FOMO because I now know that to a first approximation I've missed out on everything.

I suspect that's true of most people whether or not they believe it.

But it's only a suspicion.

Good luck.
The Founding of ASML – Part 1: The Philips Era
We built a Cashback system with Stripe
https://wikiindex.org/Encycla

> Encycla isn't quite a wiki, instead, it's sort of a 'next generation' wiki. Unlike a traditional wiki site, where everyone edits a single page, on Encycla, each user maintains their own personal copy of a page, and changes are suggested (pulled) between pages.
The Sega ST-V's MIDI Out: A Quick Examination and Failed Experiments
Unrelated to the debate at hand, my front-end team's junior members' only known design pattern is drop-all-state-on-refresh-driven-design and it pisses me off.

Basically every part of the website written before their time functions correctly.
That’s cool. I constantly get tripped up with day/month ordering. Maybe I am dumb, but it is a silly design to defend in my opinion.
When it comes to green/progressive tech/infrastructure like wind/solar, electric cars, and so on: fear-mongering, conservatism, and misunderstanding is pretty much how HN rolls.

HN commenters love to shout about wind and solar being stupid ("WhAT haPPens at nIGhT!? wINd DoESN't ALwaYs bLOW!!! GOTCHA!") yet grid-scale energy storage systems are quite common and one of the fastest areas of capex investment by utilities...and then there's the constant stream of "nuclear is the future!" nonsense.

The power generation debate is over; utilities and grids aren't buying nuclear, they're buying wind, solar, and some natural gas backup capacity...and not because "liberal brainwashing" or some other nonsense, but because wind and solar are the cheapest source of power right now, and wind especially keeps dropping in price. Neither presents anywhere near the level of headaches of nuclear, and it takes months to build out and a few years to break even on carbon footprint, not decades.

There's a fair bit of dunning-krueger effect as well; scroll down to see comments from "not an electrical engineer" who is talking about "buckets of electrons" and thinks that EV charging is something where there's so many "amps" we need to think of the chil...er, have safety protocols.

Like DCFC stations and L1/L2 charge adapters don't already do a whole suite of electrical safety checks every time they start charging a vehicle....
Yeah, GoTime is a great podcast
I wish we spent more time as a society thinking about how to reduce dependence on long-distance highway trips, rather than just making cars electric. They’re the vaping of the sustainability movement, which is not worthless, but nowhere near an unalloyed good.

Teslas still kill kids. Electrification doesn’t solve the health problems of sedentary commute time.

There is huge demand to live in cities, close to jobs; we should be putting more resources towards that goal, reducing the demand on highway electric charging stations along the way.
I just read the title to get hopeful. Now I'm in the comments to be realistically disappointed.
You really should try it out.
They wouldn't have a job even if the Seattle office had a futon rescued from a garbage bin instead of a $10k couch.
"Don't be so humble - you're not that great" -- Golda Meir
He probably means this (bottom of the page): https://andregarzia.com/2022/05/On-rants-about-laptops-for-d...
Plastic recycling is basically more expensive than creating new plastic, still. Very little plastic actually gets recycled. (Most of what you put in your household bin does not).

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/single-use...
Piquing, not peaking :)
"Those Puerto Ricans should consider themselves lucky they get so many crumbs off the table."
I have such love and hate relationship with them. They tend to pick interesting topics and invite truly awesome people, but
gosh do they both suck as hosts - they often get carried away into their mildly related personal experiences or small talk about nothing
You may not like the language, but it's managed to grow with a consistent story. Yes, there have been some missteps, like auto_ptr and vector<bool>, but it does work together.

At worst you have to write small adapters because there's no equivalent of smatch for string_view, etc...

But compare this to Go, where contexts, error wrapping, generics, uh... error wrapping again (this multierror thing), horrible conditional build hacks, etc...

C++ is a big and complex language. But it's consistent. Go is a small simple language with lots of ill-fitting extensions added as core language features and standard library bolted all around it.

In other words: any language can be critiqued, and it often helps by showing that a deficiency is not unavoidable, by showing how another language has avoided it.
Out of those three, the only one actually working anywhere is Autoland, and majority of airports don't support it.

No airport supports autopilot taxi nor takeoff (takeoff is done half-automated at most).
> Sometimes you can't spell out that your type implements a certain interface, because it's not a type controlled by you.

Dynamically inferred interfaces only help there if function names and arguments happen to exactly match those of the interface. So if, for example, a method is called ‘Run’ rather than ‘Execute’, or you have ‘Run(string, int)’ and ‘Run(int, string)’ methods, that won’t work.

Some languages that require explicit interfaces (and, I think, most modern ones) allow you to specify that mapping at run time, and also allow you to retroactively make all code (including third party code) that implements FatInterface implement your SmallInterface that’s a subset of it.

Golang chooses to not require programmers to do such work and, I think, hopes programmers will keep names and argument type order identical for common methods, so that those problems occur less often. I don’t think that will work in large code bases, but then, I don’t have experience with large golang code bases.
Sam Bankman-Fried’s parents no longer on the Stanford Law School roster
We are talking about XFCE and GNU/Linux window managers/desktops here, not about history of desktop environments across the computing industry.
In the same vein:

- Don't hide your mistakes

- Show that you are vulnerable

- Be yourself

Are all things that work best when you are (contextually) high-status.

Yet we are still culturally promoting them as the things we should all strive for in any situation.

However, it's way easier to be open about my professional mistakes now that I'm recognized by my peers and that I don't do too many of them.

It's simple to expose my vulnerabilities now that I've built a social network that will not hurt me with it because they like and respect me.

And it's certainly great to be able to be myself, now that people around me will say I'm eccentric, and not reject me.

It's like the behavior of men in romantic comedy. If you were to be ugly and awkward, doing what they do would get you arrested. You don't get to play "50 shades" or "twilight" if you are the hunchback of Notredame. It's also why energy, humour and culture are such great assets, allowing you to somewhat help with social status.

One day maybe we will stop selling to our children that life is about this one thing that works in all cases, and admit each life advice is highly contextual.
This is in the email that microsoftadvertising.com is sending unsolicited to the support email account of one of my sites:

“Microsoft Advertising
88 MILLION new desktop searchers joined last year

Search is at the center of online shopping
88-90% of online shoppers used search. Meanwhile, only 39% used social in their shopping journeys.
Two.
Most searchers are open to switching brands
In fact, 3 out of 4 searchers we studied visited multiple brands' websites while they shopped.

Entice them to buy from your business with Dynamic Search Ads.
Three.
Online shopping journeys vary greatly
On average, 45% of purchase journeys lasted 30+ days. But some, like grocery shopping, lasted only 2 days.

Target ready-to-buy shoppers with In-market audiences.“
i started https://hourly.fyi about a month ago. it was inspired by a reddit post asking for such a thing to exist. i didn’t think it would get a large response right away but a couple advertisers have reached out and i’m beginning to talk to them.
This article should help explain some of the theory behind "the" in more detail: https://www.thesaurus.com/e/grammar/definite-articles/
Seems like crime does pay
I think they mean that just passing laws that make it punishable by say 30 years in prison to steal a phone would be regressive, since the punishment is in no proportion to the crime.

However, what would actually be nice if, like people here have suggested, is that the police would actually bum off to retrieve stolen phones, bikes, etc and then deliver whatever appropriate penalties to the perpetrators if found.

Doesn’t matter if it’s only a small punishment so long as people get their stuff back and the thieves learn they’ll be sought after.

So basically, we don’t need better laws here, simply enforcement of them.
That’s correct. It already knows what “works” musically because it’s likely seen many thousands of harmonic progressions in its training data. The input we give it just constrains it rather than teaching it something new. At least that’s my guess.
It seems like a swappable battery model would help with grid balancing especially if we are in remote areas where we need to average out the total power draw requirements over time.

Swapping batteries also makes cheaper/lighter EVs more practical as well as street parking EVs in cities. constraints that have led to the battery integration we see today may not be as applicable further down the adoption cycle.
Oh I've definitely been doing it for years, but only for things I don't care very much about. For example, I used to have a password protected livestream of a camera that was literally an ffmpeg command running in a tmux session that would pipe MJPEG data to an nginx instance, and tmux was by far the easiest way to get it going. But the moment I want reliability, automatic restarts, or something easily reproducible, I switch to systemd or a Docker container.
Yes 2023 is sure to be the year of the Linux desktop. (/s)

The reality is the computer form factor involving a keyboard is slowly becoming more and more of a niche. Windows has a lock on this niche for business and gaming. For other home use there is strong competition from apple and for education there is strong competition from chromebook.

Linux is still not really in the running, sorry.
i've heard chomsky and others talk about how our knowledge of physics is so sophisticated now as compared to 50 or 80 years ago, that you have to have a PhD to even begin to understand how to talk about it intelligently.

i feel like a lot of other computing-related concepts are approaching that same level of sophistication.

i've usually been pretty good at not worrying about true understanding of various technologies, so the fact that i can't explain ai well, or that most ai is not even capable of offering an explanation of how they make their own decisions, is not so anxiety-producing to me (tho, parts of ai, and explainability, are real problems).

but i do get anxious from constantly reading headlines from various substacks and other clickbaity and attention-seeking entities about how some new tech has basically already ended life on earth so we might as well just give up.

i'm anxious enough already with real threats to the world -- nukes, global warming, social media, inequality/fascism/authoritarianism, etc.
lol, yes, thanks :)
I built very simple tool in an industry that I wanted to be part of and was surprised to find that a few people wanted to pay for it. I mean very basic - done in three days.

A few months improving that and soaking up everything I could find (newsletters/press/blogs) led me to noticing a larger opportunity in the same industry so I built that and now it supports me full-time.

So I would advise picking an industry or niche that you're interested in (preferably one that's growing and not particularly tech-savvy) and then spend some time reading up on what people in that industry talk, write and complain about. There are opportunities everywhere.
It was/is used to prototype Rust’s borrow checking rules, which are part of a really complex type system

I heard rust author Niko mention it in a talk a few years ago, and it’s mentioned here too
http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2018/04/27/an-a...
Sending or receiving money digitally generally requires entrusting that money to a bank, and some people don't trust banks or can't easily get a bank account.
On the other hand, don’t worry about reproducing the class system. Maybe join a union or something.
Credit cards create credits (a liability). Debit cards create debits (a nearly immediate transfer from your account). Seems accurate enough to me although I can see how debt and debit could be confused.
Hey, can you tell us more?
Unfortunately, multiple ISPs (PODA, Vodafone-ex-UPC) are doing it wrong and they do not seem to be bothered by it or even trying to fix it.
>Can you elaborate on what makes you squeamish about research?

Yes, I for one can't imagine why editing the genes of humans would cause alarm. After all, who wouldn't want to have children that are smarter, more docile, and healthier? Or, for other people's children, who have qualities that make you uncomfortable and can't be edited out, like dark skin or homosexuality, you have the option to edit their reproductive ability so that such qualities can come to an end humanely, without violence.

In the same way, I can't understand are those people against longevity research. Who wants to die? Not me, and certainly not those in power. You know, the people in power earned their positions, they are good at it, and mortality just means someone new and inexperienced will fumble around at the job. For continuity and safety, immortal leaders will do a better job and keep us safe. I don't see why anyone would consider this a bad thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire
assuming the camera has rca out jacks, you can get a rca to hdmi adapter box for less than $20. If you computer doesn't have hdmi capture they also make rca to usb boxes as well (I don't think the cables from rca to usb without a chip in it will work but I might be wrong). Then OBS can record it
Done. Thanks for the feedback. Desktop simulation didn't catch that.
Best to make a difference between detention before trial and imprisonment.
The air quality in London is terrible, I was wearing a face covering there long before covid just because it would often trigger breathing issues.
This was helpful. What are the basics that allow ChatGPT to output numbers and solve math problems?
But Flutter is not a web framework.
On the contrary, if dark matter were to interact purely gravitationally, then there would be little friction to slow it down. This would prevent dark matter from clumping, which is in agreement with observations.
The company software auto updated my machine to Win 11. There were many issues but two of them really struck out

1. The right click context menu change

2. The highlight around windows on Alt + Tab got very hard to see

I just gave up in a week and got a new machine with Win 10 from IT. Had to install everything from scratch.
In rural Canada you'll find plenty of oil furnaces with their own tanks as well. Some of those are 30 to 40 years old and all of them are terribly inefficient.
"Dress for the job you want, not the one you have"
Police here are known for not pursing such crimes. I reported an attempted property theft to my local police, having caught the perps on my security camera. The police weren't even interested in the video.
I'm the host of the Engineering Enablement podcast:
https://getdx.com/engineering-enablement-podcast

We interview developers and leaders who work on "platform" teams (e.g. devex, devprod, infrastructure) that focus on making developers happier and more productive. If you're interested in this kind of work, or the subject of developer productivity, I think you'd enjoy checking it out.

A couple recent episodes include an interview with a former Dropbox engineer about how they approached measuring productivity, and a conversation with a couple of engineers from LinkedIn who've built a system for gathering real-time feedback about their internal developer tools.

Direct links if helpful:

- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3NxjyIsuxeDMQtisDqBy7D

- Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-engineering-enable...
Technically a Rolex, however expensive, will always be much worse as a watch than a 20$ Casio. But recently there's another aspect to this: there are now watches that are technically (mechanically) identical to rolexes. Same design, same mechanics, virtually impossible to tell the difference when you tear it apart. Rolex has always been more about marketing (artificial scarcity, waiting list etc) than mechanics, but now it's pretty much exclusively about marketing, since you can get the same engineering orders of magnitude cheaper. It's like DeBeers' diamonds.
Sure, if you have the money and interest, spend it.

But people often conflate "investment" & consumption when its anything related to home renovation. I'd still argue these types of "hobbies" are 90% consumption, and for most of the people I know.. usually financed with loans.

No one I know with a $100k kitchen cooks any better than my poor immigrant grandmother did.
A standard European 400 kV power line can transmit more than 1 GW over hundreds of kilometers. Upgrading the grid will not be cheap, but the required technology has been well established for over a century.