skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spend $2000 on all the FAANG interview prep courses/mock interviews you can, interview at 10 places, get 2 offers, take the offer that pays the most. Move to SF, live with 10 people in a 5 bedroom place (with bunk beds) for $800ish/month to save money. Eat free food at your new FAANG job and rice/beans on the weekend. Work freelance on nights and weekends on the highest paying, most boring bank/adtech software projects you can find. Save more than half your income. In 3 years the market should be back to normal so your stocks should 2x or so bringing you to close-ish to $1m, realistically it’ll take 7-10 though if you live like you’re broke.
>Vatican City is not in the EU.

Too bad eh? But schengen..and thinking about it switzerland too, hey criminals! You are once again welcomed to give us (switzerland) the money, because you cant use it somewhere else....what a excellent idea.

>I seriously don't understand what point you're attempting to make here.

I don't understand why try to defend a law that is as effective as german power production.
Brilliant, thank you so much. Impressive numbers!
The weekly experiment club: Scheduling your free time
> What part of "It's just a preference thing" are you disputing?

That wasn't part of my comment, which I why I didn't quote that.

> I'm quite surprised people still believe there are inherent benefits to dark mode. There's not really much research supporting it.

You were not saying "it's just a preference thing" there.
Sure, but we need broader reform if anything is to actually change.

You can't fight the market forces and systemic problems with personal choices.
> then taking the partial derivative with respect to that variable is equivalent to taking the ordinary derivative of the function

I could not get it for the life of me to actually say this. But it goes on to show, everyone's mileage with the tool varies a lot.

Edit:

I cannot rescue my original prompt, but it was something like:

"Does it make sense to speak of partial derivatives in single-variable calculus?"

I'll grant that it's a more abstract question ("does it make sense") than yours. Or maybe it trips up with the difference between one-dimensional and single-variable. But a half-smart high schooler or college freshman would have understood the question perfectly and made mince meat of it.
Well, they wrote "curse".
The problem with this approach is that it is biased towards short term effects at the cost of long term effects and when you realize this it's too late already. "Feels better" is obviously a very good heuristic and usually what's good short term is probably more likely to be good than bad long term and millions of people rely on this heuristic but it's good to be aware of the shortcomings of this approach.
Show HN: Using ChatGPT for advocacy email letters
today i tried asking chatgpt to write me an advocacy email for bike lane illegal parking fines

apart from the weird anecdote, the output seems pretty good

OUTPUT:
Dear Governor of Toronto,

I am writing to advocate for creating a fine for vehicles parking in bike lanes. As a resident and frequent cyclist in Toronto, I am thrilled with the recent addition of bike lanes in the city. They have greatly improved my ability to safely and efficiently travel around the city. However, I have noticed that many of these lanes are still being obstructed by parked cars.

One particular incident comes to mind. I was cycling down a busy street, using the dedicated bike lane, when I had to swerve around a parked car that was blocking the lane. I narrowly avoided an accident, but the experience left me shaken and frustrated. It's unacceptable that bike lanes are not being respected and utilized properly.

I recently learned of a new proposal in New York City that allows citizens to submit photographic evidence of blocked bike lanes. After an investigation and subsequent ticketing, the submitter receives a percentage of the ticket value. I believe this is a great idea and would like to see Toronto adopt a similar policy.

Here are five reasons why creating a fine for vehicles parking in bike lanes is a good idea:

It will help ensure the safety of cyclists. Blocked bike lanes put cyclists at risk of accidents, as I experienced firsthand. By creating a fine for obstructing these lanes, we can encourage drivers to be more mindful and respectful of cyclists.

It will help improve the efficiency of the city's transportation system. Bike lanes are designed to improve the flow of traffic, but when they are blocked by parked cars, they become ineffective. By enforcing a fine, we can help keep these lanes clear and functioning as intended.

It will provide an additional source of revenue for the city. The fine for obstructing a bike lane in New York City is expected to be $175. If Toronto implemented a similar policy, it could generate significant revenue for the city.

It will encourage more people to cycle. If people know that bike lanes are respected and protected, they may be more likely to choose cycling as a mode of transportation. This could help reduce traffic congestion and improve air quality in the city.

It will send a strong message that the city values and prioritizes cycling. By implementing this policy, Toronto will show that it is committed to making the city a safer and more enjoyable place for cyclists.

I hope that you will consider my proposal and take action to create a fine for vehicles parking in bike lanes. It is a necessary step to ensure the safety and efficiency of the city's transportation system, and to promote a healthy and sustainable mode of transportation.

Sincerely,
[Your Name]
> Then an unrelated rant about hydrogen.

Isn't your miracle solution to storing energy, electrolysers ? I don't see how that unrelated.

> So germany massively scaled back their renewable rollout and this is bad because they built renewables?

Ah yes, of course the issue is they have gone fully with your idea it would had worked for sure!
Or maybe their issue is a lack of cheap magical energy storage?

Also, where do the energy come from, in your magical energy mix, for this month, for Germany? How many installed capacity do they need ?
It would be cool to have that in Oniri (https://www.oniri.io)
> Hasn't this always been the case?

Yes, but think the poster was implying the increase in interest rates makes it worth less.

$100 in 10 years is worth $91 today at 1% but $53 at 6%. That has a big affect on the valuation of growth companies.
or best of both worlds and have physical soft keys down the side like oscilloscopes and other test equipment have.
kWh is a measure of energy, not power. And specific impulse is only of relevance to rockets, not to the amount of energy required to lift.

The problem in space access isn't an energy problem, it's a method problem.
I'm not sure what bothers me more the shadow banning or the naiveness of people that thought Musk was going to let the account continue to post his Jet's movements to the whole world. If you were in the same situation as Musk, would you let it continue?
When I've heard people making similar claims, what I've usually found is they're testing "glue" code: controllers, routers, etc. Personally I find this a near total waste of time: it's hard to write the tests, almost never actually catches a bug, and failures in this code are totally obvious during a smoke test - automated or not.

I write a lot of "application" code (cli, service and back-end) and a lot of tests. Parsing, calculations, file generation, regex .. that catches lots of bugs.

The value comes from keeping the complex code separate from the glue, and of course testing it. And you can easily test dozens of cases, which is usually not true of integration tests due to complexity and run time.
From what I have seen, HN is not especially keen on sarcasm either. Which I somewhat disagree with, I think it's a good alternative way how to make people think about something, rather than directly attacking the argument.
(1) the expected value of the company changing its mind and choosing to pay dividends in future + (2) the value of vote to remove management and replace them with someone who will pay dividends + (3) a legal right to share in the proceeds of sale/dissolution of the company.

These are actually worth quite a lot. But you do make a good point, particularly when it comes to companies like Facebook, who don't pay dividends but have dual class structures so management can't be ousted. I don't know why regulators allow these companies to be floated like that, they're pretty much the antithesis of what public companies are supposed to be. If Zuck's metaverse bet fails (which I anticipate it will), and he doesn't pull another rabbit out of the hat, I expect we're going to see a lot more institutional investors complaining about dual class structures in the next few years.
> Whatever ChatGPT (or similar) can generate, humans need to do better. If we reach the point where the humans simply can't do better, well, then it won't matter. But that's a ways off.

I love this response way more than I should.
Could it be applied to PC fans? To reduce their noise
Personally, it’s not that surprising that comics written for a smartphone sized infinite scroll canvas are now outearning those designed for book-sized canvasses. Same thing happened with mobile games over consoles, and I haven’t seen anyone argue that that will reverse.
Link didn't open; archive.org version: https://web.archive.org/web/20221212005820/https://www.rbth....

Fun fact: Skype creators Jaan Tallinn, Ahti Heinla and Priit Kasesalu also started as game devs in the late Soviet Estonia. A game from 1989, Kosmonaut, is still available on the company's old website, along with other stuff from that era: http://bluemoon.ee/history/index.html

Keeping this old website online is a nice representation of humility and humbleness of the programmers -- and, it also adds a particular sort of quirkiness which is common for many Estonians (okay, I'm biased). Like, these hyper-successful startup founders still seem to be equally proud of those early creations, alongside Skype.
Only if I come to you, asking to learn to add in binary. Given my interest, there's about 2 minutes in the actual work :)
A space elevator needs to be far thicker than one inch at high altitude. Even assuming the absolute minimum diameter to safely lift a 2-ton capsule of about half an inch at the bottom (which means the cable will break when the first piece of space debris encounters it), any current material - the best currently available is Kevlar - needs to be about 800 feet wide at geostationary orbit before tapering down again. This would weigh about 130 million tons per mile. Of course, the cable tapers to the ends, so I averaged over the whole length to reach that figure.
Also, energy that goes into ablation doesn't just disappear - it dissipates into the atmosphere as heat, which means it contributes to the overall energy from the impact. And in falling it does not slow down, but rather speeds up - descending from geostationary orbit will accelerate something to about 10e3 m/s, further increasing the energy.
Nextdoor lives on the internet. People in real life tend to be less terrible when you talk with them face to face. Put them on the internet, it's easy being an inconsiderate imbecile.
No, you're comparing the method of applying the energy required, which is painfully inefficient (rockets), to the energy actually required.

But I did touch on that in the last paragraph -- the energy required on a rocket to get into LEO is $20/kg, or $2k/person. It's a tiny amount of the total cost of launch.
Speculative questions might be answered by looking at the history of signed limited editions?

"One of the main reasons for the development of printmaking [in the 19th century] was the desire of artists to make more money from their work by selling multiple copies"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edition_(printmaking)

There are famous artists that basically ran/run art factories of "assistants" which sounds to me kind of like counterfeiting your own work. I haven't read about it more than superficially, but I think Andy Warhol and Jeff Koons are examples.

P.S. the Wikipedia page above contains the claim that some states regulate limited editions of artwork...
This is going to be interesting if it is true.
First electric yacht enters Sydney to Hobart yacht race
I mean, I’d certainly prefer to be engaged in conversation with actual humans, who have actual experience and motivation. If I want to talk to the latest iteration of the gpt-parrot-robot, I’ll go to the gpt site and talk to it there.
US Teases 'Major' Science News Amid Fusion Energy Reports
Going below 50% brightness on _most_ monitors brings the flickering into the realm that many humans can perceive. This is because the physical brightness cannot actually be controlled, so PWM is used to adjust perceived brightness.
It definitely still reads like shill or spam without.
The debate against lockdowns and vaccine mandate was shut down and apparently with the help of the US government. That is unacceptable, even anti constitutional and in no way it makes one far-right. In fact, in Europe activists against lockdowns and vaccine mandated were coming from the left.
The only way for them not to trigger the FTX crash’s at the point they did, would have been to absorb 8 billion $ worth of missing funds and handing over control of a much larger set of funds to the people responsible for those losses.

They weren’t partly responsible for FTXs crash for looking at that balance sheet and going wtf, we’re out. Even if they themselves are running the same scam. They might just be much less under water and trying to keep their head above it, until the goldfish forget about the FTX crash.
I've been able to use the tool without setting up any accounts or other settings. Just run `gitlab-ci-local` in a folder where your `.gitlab-ci.yaml` lies.
One thing I’m guilty of on this site is not upvoting enough. I vote down the banality and flag the pollution. Upvoting doesn’t seem to come as naturally — whenever I read an interesting response it’s the last thing on my mind. It’s a good thing really. Interesting stories and comments are the norm.

I wonder what the userDB says about any scarcity of upvoters? Are there many others like me? Am I not pulling my weight? Should I do it more?
There has to be some basis for valuation. If you buy a stock, not because you expect it to pay something but because you expect someone to pay more later for the same reason you don't have investment. You have speculation.

Yes there are other methods for distributing profits (stock buy backs) but unless you're saying it's a massive Ponzi scheme, then the value has to come from something real.
My take, in short: imperative programming is too fragile for the use case of the metaverse, and functional programming is too mathematical.

In a context where you want to have software built by different independent developer teams working on the same persistent world objects, you can't expect them to collaborate on programming style and coordinated libraries, as is done in industry software. Any unexpected side effect or variable aliasing in another library may ruin your runtime execution.

Pure functional programming avoid this by forbidding side effects, but forces a programming style where all state updates need to be declared and carefully handled by the developer. Functional reactive programming (spreadsheet-like updates) is being used a lot in the web to ease that problem (all popular frameworks have a version of it), but it is best suited to processing client/server updates, not full world simulations.

Verse approach seems to bring new expressive capacities suited for dataflow programming, allowing data transform logic to be built with functional expressions and separating these from the techniques needed to link one component to another.
Windows 11 is the reboot of Windows 10X, after the Surface Neo got canceled.

"How Windows 10X runs UWP and Win32 apps"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztrmrIlgbIc

You're missing the infrastructure rebuilding that is taking place to bring all that UWP pluming back into Win32 and COM, without App Identity and sandboxing, so that eventually one day they can drop legacy UWP from Windows, and have Windows Runtime being just another COM based framework.

So they have to undo about 10 years of pushing UWP, back into standard Win32 + COM infrastructure.
TC Energy says has not found cause of Keystone oil pipeline leak
> there's an oversupply of unskilled labor

That's interesting.
What's unskilled about them?
Could they not also learn some coding and marketing. Sounds like a worthwhile investment if they might 50x their salaries.

(In fact, with those numbers, even if it takes them 30 years it would still 10x their life earnings...)
Maybe there are also some example dreams out there that you could use, like "training dreams" to teach interpration to therapists.
The bots are also removed. It's great to see human answers again even to the most provocative tweets (about help with Metamask and ETH just as an experiment)
I guess depends on the context, I walked away from interviews where people were non-professional, rude or just plain wasting my time due to poor job description and completely different expectations. On the bright side, you save them time too.

Also I would say poor HR practices are correlated to the quality of the workplace but that's just a hunch that I follow. Not science backed.
Hmmm. That’s exactly what dang-gpt would have said..
You don't necessarily always need a title, just write a Bill of Sale to the buyer. This is fairly common particularly with older cars or cars that have been converted to racecars (but still quite street-legal).
What does ChatGPT say about this?
We should give those affected a voice to be heard.
That's a non-sequitur argument.
> it’s just like healthcare and education

So… it’s ostensibly “public” while actually victim to massive regulatory capture?

Wild to pick the two things that essentially every other developed country

1) runs through their government

2) does way better than the U.S.
>Licenses for fishing and for fish processing are distributed separately, Sengers explains. Authorities saw fishing as one form of employment and fish processing as another, and they wanted to distribute both forms of employment equitably among the communities of the province. As a consequence, however, fish caught near Change Islands can’t be processed there.

the idiocy of nanny state lawmakers never ceases to amaze me
Not an economist.

AFAIK this used to be true in the olden days. For the last few decades, many tech companies have turned little to no profit and yet trade at insanely high premiums given the fundamentals because most people have FOMO and pay for the expectation that maybe one day $money_loser will make money and be worth what they paid.

Outside of tech, I don’t think this is the case though. It’s valuing stocks by that axiom. But in tech, all bets are off.
Yeah good point. There's a nascent space industry emerging where I am, I think this has a promising future.
I do both. Information of the actual behavior of the code as comment, and information about the changes of the behavior in the commit.
They are probably using some public cloud service so simply banning all IPs from cloud ASNs [1] will usually be enough. Downside is you're also banning any users using VPNs

[1] https://github.com/brianhama/bad-asn-list
Replacing a whole country's infrastructure to go from electric heat to depend on community steam boilers or gas heating instead is infeasible due to the logistics involved as those are major infrastructure projects. The reverse does not seem true. Replacing whole house heating with cheaper per-room heating seems like a downgrade because, well, it is. But there's a war going on and sacrifices have to be made. If you don't think shitty electric space heaters is not luxurious winter living I'd largely agree, but the thing is poor Americans are able to survive through harsher winters than, say, Berlin gets with these terrible heaters.

We (specific subsets of humanity) just completed a massive government led undertaking to distribute a brand new vaccine to huge swaths of population, which involved an insane amount of logistics. And then also RAT kits. On the heels of that, you're telling me that distributing a small box that doesn't need to be stored at -20C or else it goes bad, to every household in a country is simply too hard and we shouldn't even bother, and just let people freeze to death? I mean, yeah it seems a bit late to start. The best time to start such a project would have been Friday, February 25th, 2022. The second best time though is now.
Reputation could hold this at bay for a little (in place of a real person ID), though you have the obvious problem of bootstrapping a real person's reputation who is only entering the forum.
Oh man, no defer? Bummer. I'm switching from C++ to C recently and there sure are a bunch of things I'm missing!
I have seen firsthand the effect of wrong comments (I have written them) being upvoted more than the correcting responses that came afterwards. So yeah, it can happen with humans too, on occasion.
Almost every response I get from chatgpt is that it cannot answer the question because it's a program. So for me it doesn't even try.
I'm aware of these laws but I've always wondered - what if a German startup really does want to operate in a new and "unexpected" way, but doesn't want to trick their customers? They put the unexpected stuff clearly on their website, not buried in the ToS. I don't see any ethical problem with that - people can make an informed choice about whether they want to do business with the company. BUT - it would still have to be in the official ToS and now that unusual stuff would be void.

Doesn't this law prevent startups from developing innovative business models even when they are being upfront about it?
We are losing consensus on what political terms mean.

'Far Right' has always been associated with 'white is right' racial supremacy, but now it seems expanded to also include anyone who is critical of cultural progressivism or perhaps uncomfortable with the pace and degree of cultural change.
> Bjørn Lomborg

Not a reliable source at all. He’s been linked to climate deniers for more than 20 years.
TikTok is the name of Google's internal (and convoluted) framework for first party Android apps.

They have some internal libraries developers are supposed to use when handling intents that prevent common mistakes developers might make.
I find the notion of stopping aging, and by proxy "natural death", a bad one. I welcome our turn.
You can quickly google it
My first thought was that he's going to have a lot of fun watching "The birth of a nation" and "Song of the south".

But more importantly, and more in line with the original intention, from 1999 on there are a lot of sequels. Is he going to watch Kill Bill 2 without seeing the first one? Is he going to skip Harry Potter 2 and 3? Sure, right now this is not going to be a problem, but good luck doing the same experiment in 50 years.
The op stated

> A stock is worth the present value of future dividends

1 and 2 are a restating of that. 3 is another way of returning money, but the money still has to be there.
I suspect you only say this because you read on your phone. The true strength of black-and-white illustration is in being able to see how individual pen strokes have contributed to the feel of the final image. To do this properly you really need a physically large image (and the artist to have started with the intention of producing a physically large image). I didn't think Naoko Takeuchi was that great of an artist until I read the Eternal edition of her magnum opus, and the difference is night and day.

Halftones, delicate hatching and thin lines all turn to mush when anti-aliased, so they just won't show up in a medium optimised for grabbing the attention of the infinite-scrolling phone-reader with thumbnail-sized images.