skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would recommend some Elixir before you dive into Phoenix, yes.
I learned from this website: https://alchemist.camp/

Lots of free tutorial videos.
thing is i'm seeing very low chances of success here for some reason. I suck at it atm.
The Legislative is not a single person, who weights the options, who accepts the governors revision on behalf of the senate and assembly?
Can confirm, I say/hear "dead view" at least once a day ;)
More likely because this particular blog post is branded (and amazingly to me NYT is still a respected brand by many).
That's labor intensive. You could always set a threshold.. where if more than X% of your flights are canceled due to safety issues in any month, your maintenance operation gets fully audited.
The idea of having multiple layers is to make foul play more difficult to cover up; i.e the chances of someone screwing up grows exponentially with every person you add.
That's right. My background is mostly in quantitative finance, where we would use models like linear regression on expert-engineered features based on market data, instead of throwing a deep neural network at raw price data like what some people might imagine.

For push vs. pull, I'd recommend: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27006476.

On single machine, you really should just use Polars. Quokka is faster than Pandas because it can take advantage of multiple cores, but so can Polars -- and it is likely to be faster.
Yeah, which really sucks if you don't want to shell out that money. I don't have paid support and had to go through their billing support line (the only support line they offer for non paid customers)
Work:

* update my already published ebooks rather than working on a new one, will likely take more than a year

* create interactive apps for exercises

* contribute to FOSS (been doing some small PRs, filing issues etc, want to do more)

* find something new (that's not related to writing) to keep me creatively busy

Personal:

* this month I finally went for a trek after about 5 years, planning to make it a habit again

* may be start cycling again too

See my blog post (https://learnbyexample.github.io/2022-year-in-perspective/) for my 2022 year in perspective
We met a woman living Van life at a national park. Offered her the shower in our hotel room. She promised to name her children after us and clean our toilets.

"After a while," she explained, "the alcohol wipes are merely moving the dirt around."
Remember, he who types statically types twice the amount and thus half as fast. There's honestly no need for static typing in Elixir.
One reason might be that a lot of the free ones are trying to sell you something (e.g., lifestyle products, or their personal brand as an influencer). But this one seems to be be discouraging the entire "vanlife" sector of products and services.
Monopolies give things away to destroy competition, not to warm the hearts of consumers.
The amendment happened back in May 2022, apparently.[1] You can read the pre-amendment and post-amendment versions there.

It was pretty much gutted. Right to repair for farm equipment was removed entirely, and rights involving digital devices made far weaker. That got press coverage in June 2022.[2] Other than cell phone screen and case repair, it doesn't seem too useful.

[1] https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/s4104/amendm...

[2] https://www.techspot.com/news/94843-new-york-senate-official...
The book Where is my Flying Car traces a lot of different developments back to the late 60s/early 70s explosion in number of pages of federal regulations and lawyers per capita. The massive cultural obsession with danger and liability is relatively young and can essentially be blamed on Richard Nixon.
reenhanced.com is presumably parent SaaS they are referring too.
Neat. I like footage from young Cavett’s shows. There is a lingering and sincerely curious atmosphere to the conversations not present on Carson.
Very possibly. If that happens, on the one hand, you’ll definitely escape algorithmic support - you’ll be in a world where people have to listen. On the other, they’ll only respond to certified mail.

I doubt Google would send anyone to collections in these circumstances. But - Careful what you wish for!
Depends on your definition of monopoly I guess. AT&T, Amazon, Comcast, Google, Paypal, Exxon, Microsoft, Philip Morris, DuPont, Facebook, Monsanto, Electronic Arts, and United Airlines are all very much hated and there are "alternatives" and "competitors" enough that they aren't illegal monopolies under our current and admittedly broken laws (although some of them have been in trouble previously)
Can the original sponsors just change the bill, between the bill passing the senate and the governor signing it, without having such amendments voted on by the senate and assembly?
Marketing emails from Square are especially frustrating because I do want to opt into receipts via email when I make purchases using my credit card on Square registers. It’s especially convenient for my business credit card, even when I make a purchase at a new location I don’t need to manually enter the special receipts email alias to send it to my accountant, it just happens automatically at most places. But then my accountant and I also automatically get opted in to marketing emails and there’s no way to separate those two things.
The curation of the batteries is the value add. Which grpc package do I want? Which json? Which random number generator? Finding which rust crate is the norm for any given thing, is a task in itself. Then there is the security aspect. Pulling in hundreds of repos with many authors each, is a security risk.
I was wondering if someone had built anything that would let you play around with Applesoft BASIC on modern macOS without an emulator. The answer is basically no, but I did find this http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/basic/

I tested it and it works. Pretty neat.
1975 ACM Turing Award Lecture on "Computer Science as an empirical inquiry: Symbols and Search" by Herbert Simon & Alan Newell (inventors of list processing).

https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/simon_1031467.cfm

Herbert Simon later went on to win the Nobel Prize in Economics for his contributions on "Bounded Rationality" in decision making.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/1978/sim...
And how one prepares for it? :)
In my case, I can’t even do that. They added me but with view only permissions. Plus I don’t want to do it as it’s unethical
> which has made our politicians less extreme

OTOH, if only Murdoch had been happier at home, he might not have felt the need to metastasise?
The confusion here is that different types of items have different margins. but grocery is typically 30%, as is hardware / lumber. However coffee itself might be a profit center for grocery stores, and they might make a bit higher on it. Items like gifts are 50-55%, and clothes more like 70% markup.
I don’t think Google will resort to matching my accounts by IP address or some fingerprinting technique.

In any case, I am in the process of migrating off Gmail too, it just takes a lot of effort. But to your point, I should probably also download all my gmail data and archive it just in case.
I have only one this year: to own my own time.
Tell HN: Publicly editable GitHub wikis can be abused to distribute malware
It's only a matter of time until someone abuses a publicly editable wiki. For example, as someone noticed on Reddit[1], a link to Git for Windows on Vundle's wiki was replaced with a link to malware:

https://github.com/VundleVim/Vundle.vim/wiki/Vundle-for-Windows/_compare/3aeb22ac39229af4312f2be1052ead184dd5b54d...aa3d293dd18ae1cb4f049c43b73b951651515863

In fact, most of the recent edits (made by many different accounts) were malicious:

https://github.com/VundleVim/Vundle.vim/wiki/Vundle-for-Windows/_history

I recommend restricting editing in your GitHub wikis to collaborators only.

[1] - https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/zzcn10/vimorg_autosave_vundle_plugin_windows_installer/
Ask HN: Does it ever feel like there is nothing left to code?
To the hobbyist programmers out there: does anyone else feel like there are very few novel projects to contribute to open source and/or really anything?

Pretty much everything has been done. Anything that I can think to build for a given language is usually already done, often many times over by very competent authors. Every time I have an idea about some kind of useful integration between devices and/or services it's always already done.

Don't get me wrong, I program simply for the joy of programming constantly - I love tinkering with things like ray tracers, or advent of code type problems, or just implementing a data structure/algorithm I think might be useful one day.

I just yearn to build something that other people can enjoy besides me. I find myself building trinkets that will never see the light of day (or, they will see the light of the day but it will just remain a public repository on my github profile with no one to notice). I've gone the non-profit route but the types of things that non-profits tend to need are usually things like basic brochure sites -- which I've done plenty of -- and I'd like to do something that taps a little deeper into my skillset.

I think I may just be stuck in a rut and I need someone to give me a different perspective to consider. Or maybe it's simply just time to give up programming as a hobby and take up a different craft hobby.
Urbanite rents a van at the request of their editor and is ill-prepared for the wilderness-like experiences that ensue. She admits that she is not a good driver and that it stresses her; why would it be pretty, especially for only a week? This type of lifestyle is best suited for those who are OK with living on the move and know their destinations... not those who roll in to camp grounds after dark and expect to live an urban lifestyle on four wheels. The article mischaracterizes van lifers.
Find a way to train AI to do my job, based around feeding it relevant docs in a certain format.

It'll probably be quite iterative, e.g. giving it reqs and bits of relevant code to output a draft spike doc, feeding the API docs to complete the spike doc, getting AI to ask questions of scenarios I didn't think about.

And then generating tests and drafting architecture from that spike doc.

Goal at the end of the year would be to have an actual pipeline for creating code from reqs.

The final test would be creating a ray tracer with it - something I don't know how to do yet, but it should be quite doable.
To learn how to stop saying "yes" to everything.
> performs at a passing rate for both Evidence and Torts

Definitely ready to comment on HN, then.
> The customer having to prove beyond doubt that they were shipped a product that is fraudulent under objective standards is a natural evolution of a marketplace.

So I will sell you on Amazon an enpty box instead of a Rolex. You open the box and its empty, how are you going to prove the box was empty to begin with?'

Suppose I ship you a CPU i know to be broken, how will you prove it was broken? I, the seller, can alway say you broke it.
As an early 20-something year old, I don't feel like I can contribute any meaningful solutions or insights. Which ironically the article states as one of the core issues (low autonomy creates a sense of low efficacy.)
> We met a woman living Van life at a national park. Offered her the shower in our hotel room. She promised to name her children after us and clean our toilets.

Not all "van life" folks are destitute homeless people who can't afford a shower in a hotel.

You met a homeless poor person who lives out of a van...
This is actually a pretty good one. Possibly life changing and yet not intimidating.
> One thing to remember about #VanLife: At the end of a day of driving, you end up sleeping in the van, too.

Good grief, does no one swag it anymore?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCnpE6F9BTk
Many GEO missions were bid so far in advance that they were booked on Ariane many years before.

There is also some reason to believe that some of the European GEO missions were given insentives in various ways to fly on Arianespace. And then finally Arianespace simply had to sell all the Ariane 5s that were left. The Ariane 5 had at base something close to competitive in a very niche market of dual GEO launches and had to go away.

ULA won a larger share of NSSL but have done almost no commercial contracts ever. The slightly larger share of NSSL probably has more to do with the existing relationship and the long history and understanding of airforce processes. However, ULA is already going to miss their target launch dates for NSSL.

So the reality is that Arianespace and ULA are closer to being state entities then anything else.

In terms of actually BUILDING rockets and engines they are not even playing in remotely the same league as SpaceX. Ariane 6 is a slightly upgraded Ariane 5 and cost a huge amount more then the whole Falcon program including reusability and the Heavy (including Marlin development).

And Ariane 6 given its further delays is probably adding another couple 100 million on top of what is already committed. A follow up to the Ariane 6 will likely not show up until more then a decade.

So while these are big players, I don't think they are actually endangers competitors, more like big niches.

> GEO is more competitive because SpaceX uses RP1 for its upper stage which is not as efficient as the others that use hydrogen.

This is actually not true. SpaceX second stage is perfectly capable of doing what it needs and cheaper to produce.
The one that comes closest for me is Blindsight by Peter Watts.
I don’t do resolutions, I’m just trying to do what I did before, but better. Like you have to do every single day.
Between doubting her ability to drive and not remembering key life events, frankly I worry about the author's well-being.
It's the same as working from home. If it doesn't bother you, great. But it drives me insane to walk 5 meters from my bed to my desk and start working and zooming colleagues.
Related:

EndBASIC - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31651881 - June 2022 (118 comments)

EndBASIC [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29317048 - Nov 2021 (4 comments)

Show HN: I've built a BASIC interpreter with DOS-like features for the web - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27744370 - July 2021 (1 comment)

Why am I wasting time on EndBASIC? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25884859 - Jan 2021 (45 comments)
Stripe support is horrific, good luck mate!
I'm in the process of making something like VB6 (yazz.com), but which is using Javascript instead of Basic for scripting. I would say that if you look at retool, bubble and many other low code tools then you will see that they are doing the same
Terry Pratchett’s Discworld has a christmas santa analogue called the “Hogfather” - essentially the anthropomorphic personification of the winter solstice. I’d never heard of Hogmanay before - but I can’t help but feel it must have fed into his narrative mythology.

Some day I hope we as a species can come together in unity to declare the solstice celebrations on their actual solar day instead of smeared messily around those dates, based on arbitrary religions. Metric holidays.
> , the discussion I'm having is person-to-person, not person-to-corporation.

The only way to have a person to corporation discussion is to file a lawsuit. At least that I know ofm
2022 was a year of big professional achievements and some aspects of my personal wellness took a back seat.

My primary goal in 2023 is re-focusing on fitness, wellness and reclaiming some personal time that was ceded to work.

I’m also looking to try some lifestyle experiments like not shopping on Amazon for a month in an effort to reform our household shopping habits.
Then they can send their devices to apple.
"without any experience relevant to my endeavor"
Pedantry: note that "safe to break" optimisations can occur vertically (where I encountered them with latin scripts) as well as horizontally.

Also, the original HTML tables algorithm was evidently meant for hardcopy output and not relayout-upon-typed-input, as it was horrendously slow without making some safe to break optimisations.
Most of the van life you see depicted on social media is actually this though - people who've rented a van short-term for as much as a hotel room or who live in a house and have a van that costs as much as a second home as an accessory for weekend trips.

People who actually live in vans are far less common than people who take photos of themselves in vans.
I'm actually running out of personal goals, so I suppose this year, it would be to teach my 4th grader to cook her own breakfast before school (a whole other pipeline).

Oh and lose 20 kg.
I went deep into electoral systems after the 2016 election, and emerged a tentative ranked choice voting supporter for the momentum that FairVote was accruing at the time, but secretly I really considered approval voting an ideal next step in electoral reform:

1. Amending the law is relatively simple: replace any instance of only one with any when it comes to election laws regarding marking the ballot.

2. Amending the ballot is a minor change: just allow anyone to mark any (including none or all) of the bubbles representing each candidate on the ballot. The language on the ballot itself barely changes, the structure of the ballot can and would be identical to today's ballots.

3. Explaining the method to the public is dead simple: there's a pattern here, "instead of marking just one, now you can mark any of them" is a sentence that anyone can understand and implement. Explaining the calculation ("whoever gets the most votes, wins") is also dead simple.

4. Extending to multi-seat races is trivial: just take the top n vote-getters instead of the top 1.

5. It appeals to intuition: it does feel like "cast one lot per candidate you approve of" and aggregating that across a population is a fair way of distributing consensus. "Approval" means many things to many people but it is still a clear subjective threshold for each person. This also means that voters will consider the result harder to dispute on the grounds that it doesn't represent the people's will.

6. Tactical voting is straightforward and hard to do wrong: for what it's worth, tactical voting is always an option, and people are always going to use it. It's just how things work, at least for the foreseeable future. That being said, of all the systems, approval voting makes it the simplest to engage with and the least underhanded. Vote for people you want to promote in the election, don't vote for people you want to suppress in the election.

I really don't see the downsides. Deep in the discussion boards of the internet where the election nerds lurk, they complain about this or that theoretical imperfection. But as for the options that have been suggested, this one stands out as the easiest to adopt societally, with the most bullet- and fool-proof implementation.
> The lesson from all this, it seems to me, is that if a meltdown can happen to a company like Southwest, which has ample resources and talent, then it could happen to anyone.

That doesn't strike me as the lesson at all, the lesson seems to be that if you have a part of your process that is brittle (staff tracking & scheduling) you need to be aware of that limitation and either address it or not execute a business strategy that makes it sure to break under duress. American & United had a lot of delays and cancellations but they did not have to essentially shut down their airlines so they could spend a few days figuring out where their crews actually were! Southwest had to do that! (And many of the SW crews had to book their own accommodation in the hopes that they would be reimbursed because everything was broken.)

The article does make it seem like the ptp model is the issue.. and it is the issue in the sense that ptp is certainly harder to support if you can't actually track where your staff is.. but having the worst staff tracking system in the industry and straining that part of your business by adding more routes that require more stringent staff tracking is kinda my point!
> Having lost all the money I made from my startup on shitcoins and the stock market, I returned to my PhD program to build a better distributed query engine, Quokka

Casual README slip of the year...
Does it make sense to revise a definition of a real world data series to some random definition like "birds by town"?
SpaceX in a single launched more then RocketLab in its whole history.
And your ticket has a reference to another from 2011! 11 years!
I'm sorry, it shrink-wrapped your poo for you?!
Bauer sucht Frau is pretty good, no? :D
Let's make this top-rated comment :-P
Seems awful coincidental that they'd be exactly at the joints between the concrete, as they are in that Street View, if they were added just to make an irregular surface as you say.

Maybe it's both things: they're holes from dowel bar retrofits as their look and placement sure seems to indicate, but they're only visible in one lane because the lane was purposely re- (de-?) surfaced. Or alternatively only the slow lane needed the retrofit at the time it was done just because it carried more of the heavy loads.
I would gladly be mown down by a vehicle traveling at 175mph if it minimised the threat of a communist revolution.
Yeah but that's cheating!

Obligatory Limmy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fC2oke5MFg
This same episode also had Rod Serling. The one tonight had Bette Davis.
I'm a big advocate for cardinal style voting systems. One of the big reason is because the counting algorithms are trivial. They are a argmax(reduce_sum(votes)). That's trivially parallelizable (which is important for counting votes). Ordinal systems (ranked) frequently have to deal with many rounds which creates a lot of added complexity and errors are far easier.

There's other reasons why I think these systems are superior even from a social choice aspect, but I think algorithmic complexity of vote tallying is an underrated aspect of voting systems that people need to pay far more attention to. This is a big aspect of "transparency" in voting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_voting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_voting
I'm in W.Australia, rural W.Australia - I work from home, sure - but walking the boundary with the dog in the morning can take an hour or so.
van life kind of bugs me, mostly because i think the surf line ups are full of people trying to live some weird idea of being adventurous. The parking lots next to some of the surf breaks are filled with sprinters. of course they need to learn to surf, instagram i guess sells them this idea, more beginners with no ocean knowledge in the water... and they bring an entitled culture along with them. yeah bro im going to cali from the midwest, going to park my giant van, and going to like surf and chill. the instagram account newpointlocal has a bunch of pictures of sprinters parked all along the roads right next to the surf.

my other random thought, i wondered if these sprinters will be like the vw buses of the 60s and 70s in ~30 years.
I still really like Python for scripts and small programs, but I’m always going to use Rust now for CLI’s or anything larger, I get the problem you have with it, but the trade off is worth it for me being able refactor quickly and with confidence as the program grows.
a course on negotiation and sales
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson.

The Requiem for Homo Sapiens tetralogy by David Zindell.
Reading the comments here, it appears that I’m the only one who thought this article was hilarious.
I suspect it's more that the intersection between "people who live in vans" and "people who take pictures of themselves in vans" is rather small.
Do you have personal experience with one? Please say a few good things, then.
HTTPS explained with carrier pigeons (2018)
And having some wastage is much better than not having enough food
Yes, exactly. The article is self-aware and funny in portraying it, too.