skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At my shop, our shared goal is to make lives and products better. When done properly, automation is a tool, not a slave-driver. Scale isn't inherently bad, you can make the human experience more comfortable and fulfilling by satisfying basic needs with less effort.

People in a factory I worked in last week aren't gnawing furniture out of lumber with their teeth, nor are they whittling it with stone knives, sawing it with steel hand tools, or cutting it with power tools, they're loading and unloading CNC routers. It's not one person and $500M worth of equipment that lets a forklift operator dump logs in at one side and spit out semi trucks loaded with pallets of furniture, nor is it 2000 people and a bunch of hand tools, and it's about 200 skilled people and $20M worth of equipment. The most important feature of the equipment is the diagnostics, adjustments, and flexibility, allowing their operators to use their human judgement to improve operations.

We have declined a few of potentially profitable projects in the past year because we felt they were not a good match for our values, when customers had specs that required locking out operators from doing more than pressing "Cycle start", were unwilling to invest in training due to high turnover, or otherwise treated people poorly, or especially when they wanted to cut corners on safety, those are just not places that we partner with. This isn't purely altruistic, the effort invested in those undesirable shops is typically less valuable over the long term compared to the rising companies that treat their people better.
The big thing that's missing from this discussion is the primary reason for the US manned space mission program and it's ultimate goal per JFK in 1961, 4 months into his presidency, of "before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth."

The previous president Eisenhower allowed the Soviets to get ahead of us starting with Sputnik to avoid them whining forever about overflights of others' territory. To the point Wernher von Braun's team had to put ballast in their rocket payloads to make sure they wouldn't "accidentally" put something into orbit.

This resulted a massive shock in the US which you can see in for example a whole bunch of science education programs spawned after Sputnik, and to the rest of the world put into doubt our technological superiority. After the Soviets were the first to put a man in orbit a month before JFK's speech and a few weeks before our first manned suborbital fight, the next spectacle was obviously a manned moon mission. Which we had a chance to beat them at although back in 1961 that was no sure thing.

This would also fit in with the JFK campaign's fictitious "missile gap" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_gap
I was just pointing out that it's not likely the people doing the actual work don't understand the actual work.

What you're describing is different priorities, which I completely understand. But if those changes are forcing farmers to take on more of a financial responsibility (as an example), then maybe the ones making those decisions should be more willing to consider that in their decision making.

It's not a matter of these farmers not understand, but that they don't agree.

It's like security people telling developers they're not allowed to execute powershell scripts on their local machine. It's easy for them to make that decision because they don't deal with the pain of it.
I mean every place starts out this way, the issue is when density increases and people start to care about preventable deaths. Don't need stop signs, people die. People washboard on the road, people die. Emergency services can't get to you, people die.
It always strikes me how almost no one is fat in older photos, even here in the US.
Pretty sure they're "required" in Germany and cannot be disabled by the user.

You travel to other countries, you abide by their laws. This is no different.
They are still doing plenty shots for the national ignition campaign and figuring out the target manufacturing process.
The official purpose of NIF has just been shifted to support security research.
It's probably a good 75% of what I use thumb drives for.
> should still get an equal say in society’s preferences even though they have no money with which to express their preferences

They don't get that through the government. A mostly binary choice comprising of what two sides promise to do on a thousand issues? How is that anything close to the perfect accessible system you're positing?
You listed offices, but not powers. Those bodies do not really have any substantial powers.

The GLA is not a legislative body at all.

The mayor is responsible for transport and, uhh, that's about it.
For fun then, let's see just how far I am:

> Reflection symmetry -> suffices to test odd and even functions separately.

Maybe reflection means flipping a function? Or when it goes above or below an axis?

> Translation invariance -> suffices to test individual plane waves (i.e., to inspect the Fourier multiplier symbol).

Fourier transform has something to do with frequencies. A plane wave sounds like part of a DnD spell.

> Dilation invariance [if unitary] -> suffices to test homogeneous functions.

If this didn't have "functions" in it I would think it's biology.

> Rotation invariance -> suffices to test the case of spherical harmonic behavior in angular variable (separation of variables).

Good thing the spherical harmonic behaviour sufficies, I do not know I would test the cubic dissonant one.

> Invariance under linear combinations / convex combinations / algebraic operations -> suffices to check basis elements / extreme elements / generators

Combinations has something to do with choosing things? Generators.. no, I give up.

> Invariance under tensor products -> suffices to check one-dimensional/irreducible case

Aha! Tensors! Like TensorFlow! I know one-dimensional too! This is the closest I've gotten to having a smart thought.

> Invariance under limits -> suffices to check a dense subclass

"Dense subclass" is exactly how I'm feeling right now.

> Multiplicative structure (in analytic number theory) -> suffices to check prime powers

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

> [Principle of induction] Preserved by successor -> suffices to test base case and/or limiting cases

I do know this one, but I actually wouldn't have figured it out if he hadn't pointed out this is induction.

I'm tired of showing how dumb I am for now, but you get me. I am as far as I think.
Only every morning.

I'd love to be working/owning a bakery/coffeeshop/bookstore. Then I remember my salary as a level of my effort and what it affords me and my family and how much time I can spend with me kids.

And then I also remember that anything I like to do for fun now that I'd decide to turn into a job would likely become NOT fun as soon as it's a job.
I think the point being made here is that when a solution has found its problem, exploitation of that solution drives up rates, because rolling out the solution is an ‘easy money’ investment. Seems reasonable. I can buy that connection. The motor vehicle example makes sense.

Of course you then have to hold that theory up to other cases and see if it holds. Like: where was the high rate era that followed from the invention of the internet? Rates have been falling more or less constantly since the mid nineties.

And I’m not sure that it logically follows that we will only find solutions in search of a problem during low rates eras, or that high rates only happen during times when a solution to a problem is in the exploitation phase.

So.. what’s the predictive value of this connection?
Having left that slice of ad tech/market research: no one is fulfilled by it. Those who project the image that they are, are the most self-deceiving and self-hating.
I love tech, but I am less-than-thrilled with the tech industry.

Best thing that ever happened to me, was being forced into early retirement, by reaching the doddering old age of 55.

I now write the software I want, and it has been working well for the last five years.
In my master's thesis, I was generating component graphs from source code.
One issue I had was the generated graphs were suuuuper ugly due to the connections between components overlapping in a non-optimal way. Turns out, untangling graphs is a NP-HARD problem. I got around it by using a spring-repulsion simulation, where connections between components pulled them together but components repelled other components when they got close. It wasn't a perfect solution, but it got me 90% of the way!
Of course, now your house stinks to high heaven, but at least you don't have to walk too far.
The road to hell [...] good intentions.
Do you have any experience using radiology monitors for reading? I nearly pulled the trigger on one earlier this year, but I couldn't find a greyscale one that supported a D50 white point. (Apparently traditional light boxes use white points as high as 11000K.)
Who knows how far back the chain of inspiration and influence goes, but Robert Lewis May’s book predates Gene Autry [1]. The wiki link you shared actually mentions the inspiration for Gene was a children’s book.

[1] https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2011/12/rudolph-red-nosed-re...
Galloping Gertie haunts civil engineer’s nightmares.

Hyatt Regency walkways too.

Apollo 1.

Plenty of examples, actually. All engineering fields have their share of catastrophic failures. For better or worse, that’s how we learn.
FTX sponsored the World Series and F1. You can't fault random streamers from accepting money from a company that's doing ads at the Superbowl. They're not professional auditors.

Hyping crypto is a bit awkward, but that's how bubbles are.

I don't get at all how it's awkward for people to hype online poker. Far better than slots or blackjack, and a very strategic game.
Still never easy, they need to do a small amount of work. Shot across the bows, so to speak.
Not an engineer in this field, so I may have misread/misunderstood, but I read that 2.5MJ out for 2.1MJ of laser energy in, NOT the total energy needed to make the whole thing work.. So, in a layman’s world, it is not a net gain of power, only a small subset of the system yielding more power than it took in.

Happy to be proven wrong and told that it is more of a breakthrough than I think it is..
Ok but you can say the same about Counterstrike. The object is to diffuse the bomb. You shoot your way through the enemy until the bomb is diffused. The rest is just details for experts.
As someone who has worked for several European companies try explaining american football scoring to a non-american and let me know how easy that is. That's basically just scratching the surface of it.

Saying you can boil it down to one side moves a ball the other side tries to stop them is pretty disingenuous. You can boil down basically any game to that. Counter strike you just kill the other team, mobas you just destroy the other teams base, etc. I know you didn't make that point but that's what most of the arguments in this thread are.
Ask HN: Delaware C-Corp opened by mistake, how to dissolve it?
I mistakenly opened through Stripe Atlas a C-Corp in Delaware a few days ago. As a non-US citizen this creates some issues and it seems a LLC will be better for me, although I don't expect any revenue at first. The purpose of the company is mainly just to publish a free App in the AppStore.

The company has 1 week opened (at state level) and didn't have any kind of activity and won't have. I don't even have an EIN yet.

I think my best path forward is to dissolve it immediately so I don't have to pay next year franchise tax and deal with a C-Corp that I don't need.

How should I proceed at IRS level? After the company is dissolved at state level I read I must file to the IRS Form 966 and 1120 but while 966 seems easy, 1120 is way beyond me. I think I have 30 days after dissolving the company to file these.

What I don't understand are: should I file 1120 Form as a total net loss of the fees of what I paid to open and close the company? There is no 2022 1120 From yet right, which form should I use then?

Thank you
Looks perfect :)
The thing about computer games that I think will put off most people is that they exist in a custom reality.

In regular sports people can rely on their intuition to know what can and can't happen, to some degree. No football player is going to start flashing yellow while taking off down the field. A lot of video games are packed to the brim with custom physics and mechanics. No solid intuition, you really just have to learn them.

CS benefits from more or less functioning exactly how even a 75 year old lady would expect it to. A sniper is a sniper. A pistol a pistol. An assault rifle is an assault rifle. Bullets kill quick, and bombs go boom.
My memory is that the sort of person who was really in to Palm's gear migrated to Blackberries.
Nice! I however opted for just downloading the source and referencing it in my project directly, don't trust that link.
> it's a different thing when you have to do it every day because you must

It's amazing how few people think of this when they look at the idyllic landscape and dream.

source: I live on a horse farm.
Illustrating Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF)
I've done it a few times but my favorite hack for Windows is to use a bootdisk to swap the accessibility app with command prompt so you can wipe the local admin password.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33851993

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33952506

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33651960
I worked on a product for nearly 4 years that seems very similar to what you're describing. I would love to tell you all about it and what we could have done better, worse, etc... How can I get in touch?
That is really deep. Lake Superior’s deepest point is only 1,332 feet.
Keep in mind HVDC. 3300 KM north of the Sahara desert, and you are relatively close to the Arctic circle. North of that is still a "niche," but now we're talking about a million people living hugely spread out.

Most of those people living in Russia, Norway, and Sweden with easy access to an abundance of hydro, to the level that energy flows north to south in the Scandinavian countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current
Believe it or not governments have a pretty strong interest in knowing this sort of thing so the data is certainly there!

It's been a while since I looked at it and it depends on what you consider a "small farm" to be. But when I last checked a few years ago, farms employing little or no outside laborers were a small minority. And more significantly here, those households were both above median household income and half or more of their income came from outside-the-farm sources.

You can twiddle with it if you want but to me that seems like a pretty reasonable definition of "hobby farming." Which is not a value judgement per se. Not being strictly dependent on farm income allows these farmers to pursue traditional or sustainability-focused practices that may not be economically viable otherwise.

But just be clear-eyed about it. The ideal of the small, self-sufficient, productive and profitable family farm is just that, an ideal and to a large extent a myth. In a very serious way it's not how things ever worked and, maybe unfortunately maybe not, it's not how they're going to now either.
10gbps and 20gbps USB M.2 enclosures are dirt cheap. I use one (with a 1TB SSD inside) as a flash drive. You can also buy USB SSDs that are smaller than M.2 enclosures but have the full SSD feature set (SMART data, TRIM, etc) just like enclosures.

It's not as fast as a USB-C to USB-C cable that can do 40gbps with IP-over-thunderbolt, but good enough for most use cases.
My dad had a few iterations and used the hell out of them.
In my experience (of observing others) - "wherever you go, there you are." Meaning, you are either in position to find meaning in what you do, or you aren't - and changing your environment isn't likely to help.

Easy example - used to work in finance. Some folks looked at the job as "shit I don't care about but do for money" - others looked at the same exact job and recognized that their work was having meaningful impact on bringing stability to the markets and helping retirees having cumulatively billions more dollars to spend in retirement than they would otherwise.

Also, if you're involved in charitable work or have a family, it's very easy to feel fulfilled because the high income from your work enables you to very meaningfully support those things.

Not to mention working with great people, having access to a ton of opportunity, etc.

On the flip side, if you don't have family/community/causes you care about, and you aren't able to "see" the meaning that's present in the work you're doing, then chances are switching jobs or industries isn't going to help.
What I've learned over the years is that X can be fun but X industry can be less fun and sometimes mindless, boring, or even soul crushing.

Early in my life I was very into fashion and so I opened a store. Fashion was fun and interesting to me. The fashion industry was less so.

Next I tried food. Making and consuming food was fun. The restaurant industry, again, was less so.

Today I'm a software engineer. I always wrote code as a hobby (started when was about 11). I love technology and software. Again however, the technology industry leaves me unfulfilled.

I have no plans to leave tech now though. My life is very different. I'm 37. I have a wife and a child. I have other hobbies that I like a lot and so my career in the tech industry is a means to an end. The end being financial support for my family and hobbies. I don't mean to say that I get to gratification from my work. I do really love working on some of the technical problems I encounter at work and I really like the people on my team. Overall it's a positive experience if I can put out of my mind the larger system that I'm in and how I feel about that.
Ask HN: Have you found that the Inbox Zero method works? How do you maintain it?
Is this even real?
Wouldn't that also require the atmosphere of the Earth to contain 33% oxygen again?
1) seems pretty obvious. 2) you don't. 3) perfectly fine.
Solar and wind are bad and unsustainable due to mining of rare earth minerals and photovoltaic cells degrading and becoming a landfill liability.

Cost effectiveness is also a myth perpetrated by the death of nuclear executed through bureaucracy.

The nuclear, however, is currently the true energy source to use, technologically much simpler (than fusion) to execute with decades of experience making it the safest out there. It is the zero-carbon environmentally friendly energy source.
I made $100k+ in Twitter DMs, here's how:
The difference with American Football is although there have been subtle changes in the rules, it has been mostly the same for over 50 years. With esports (like in the case of Overwatch) they do not have that lifespan. So unless you are someone who is currently playing that game, you don't know how it works really. And if you were someone once playing that game 5 years ago, as in the case of Overwatch 1, they literally shut it off and it can't be played anymore.
> Once again, I am reminding HackerNews that the technology to build a battery capable of storing enough renewable electrical energy for the (world|nation) for even half a day does not exist at any reasonable cost.

But it is almost certainly closer to existence than fusion.
I think OP confused the role / status of 1 & 2; SC1 was almost immediately huge in Korea, had its own TV channel(s), kids would play nothing else in the Internet cafes, etc. Casual LAN was also huge: you needed only one CD key to host a local game with up to 8 players (although TCP/IP was only added a bit later, with a patch).

Even if you disagree that SC1 created esports, it is definitely the one game that drove esports' early popularity like no other game could.

Then in 2010 Blizzard released SC2, and in an effort to promote it, tried to undermine SC1's success, since it saw its continued popularity as SC2's competition. SC2 was never as popular, other (often more casual) e-sports started getting popular... and a couple of scandals among very high-profile players (match fixing) drove the nail into the coffin.

Both SC1&2 scenes are still remarkably healthy (for a 24&12 year old game, respectively), there are premier tournaments with cash prizes, games continue receiving balance tweaks (although SC1 mostly through map design), etc. I play competitive SC2 casually and I can usually find a 1v1 match in less than 10 seconds (or about 1min for team games). It's never too late to get into it ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarCraft_in_esports
And then component changes and interop issues force you to recall in excruciating detail that project you were “done with.”
I often create screen recordings for my classes, but it's very boring and time consuming. I'm a perfectionist, and if I mistype a command I prefer to re-record everything. Moreover, every time one of the tools used in the videos gets a significant update, I feel compelled to redo the video.

I have started using xdotool [1] to create bash scripts that send mouse clicks and keystrokes to apps. Interleaving calls to xdotool with the "sleep" command [2] produce a convincing effect. If I need to redo a video to fix typos or after a program update, I just fix the bash script and restart the recording.

Alas, the only thing that is missing in my videos is the sound of keyboard clicks… But nothing is perfect!

[1] https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_(command)
Yeah, I was confused by the criteria to be included in the list. I focused on the inclusion of 1989's Glory (which is a fine movie) to try and figure it out, Glory isn't in the top 10 grossing movies for that year. I tried to navigate rotten tomatoes to see what it thinks the top films are for 1989 but couldn't figure out how to set up a filter. Maybe if I create an account I could do it, but not interested enough to pursue further.
I just hope it isn't another ( there's been more than one ) NASA level "announcement" on astrobiology that's going to rewrite the "book". These sorts of headline grabs do nothing to help in the end. This is feeling like another one of these, and I'm hoping to be proven wrong - as who wouldn't love a mr. fusion in their future.
How about providing the checkpoint file?
It is! Interestingly, it’s only the fourth deepest lake in Norway. It’s deeper than Lake Superior both in mean and maximum depth.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lakes_by_depth
Watch this cargo ship fly a giant kite to save fuel and cut emissions
I know interest rates have a strong effect on tech stocks but my understanding is that they have their biggest impact on boring but capital intensive businesses such as cars and buildings.

For instance Facebook was said to spend $10 billion on the "metaverse" last year but spending on building construction was about $1.5 trillion

https://www.zippia.com/advice/us-construction-industry-stati...

that said, total spending on R&D in the US was claimed to be about $660 billion in 2019

https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsb20221/u-s-and-global-research-...
I disagree here. I've watched professional sports a fair bit in my life, and I've watched eSports (and played their respective games) a bunch, and from my experience eSports are far more difficult to pick up.

To try and give a reason others haven't really mentioned, professional sports tend to have predictable camera angles and pacing, making it easier to get a complete picture of who is doing what and when. In eSports, the arenas are typically strategically complex, requiring similarly complex camera angles, making it difficult to get a sense of what's going on at any point in time.