skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't you just hook up a sizeable computer UPS for that purpose? That should run it for long enough to get you through most outages.
> Here’s a well-worn and simplistic reason: the crisis of representation happened. The crisis of representation arose from advances in photography that made traditional types of art like portraiture and landscape seem superfluous. With cameras becoming cheap and ubiquitous, why spend endless hours on achieving photorealistic effects in visual arts, given that photographs would always be more true to life?

This is a painting (print, but let's not be pedantic): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%E5%86%A8%E5%B6%BD%E4%B8%...

So is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:William-Adolphe_Bouguerea...

And this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AA78_by_Zdzislaw_Beksinsk...

This is a photograph: https://www.naturalhealth365.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/...

It is perfectly realistic, technically flawless, and what artists (such as the first three examples) were striving towards before photography, right?

Wait, ooops, the 3rd example is from well after the invention of photography. Well, no matter - works such as that are common in modern art, right? It's not that modern art is extremely narrow in what it permits, and anything remotely beautiful, even if it is a grotesque beauty such as of Beksiński or Giger, is vanishingly rare?

> I wonder if he’s considered the other side of the coin: the better that AI gets at creating artwork that perfectly represents visual reality, the more valuable art that instead fixates on the depiction of human interiority will become.

This assumes that anything resembling "visual reality" cannot also represent or evoke "human interiority". As if those scenes of landscapes or people have nothing to say, no feelings to evoke, only cold reflections of geography and anatomy.

> This is the Chinese finger trap our artistic populist overlords can’t get out of: the more they disdain the idea of an artistic vanguard that stretches the boundaries of what is possible in art, the more that spirit of experimentalism is reinvigorated.

I eagerly await what new wonders this vanguard will bring. An upturned bidet? A pineapple taped to a wall? Canned poop? No, wait, that's been done.. canned some-other-biological-waste then. Whatever it is, it's sure to shock me to my core, and make me re-examine my assumptions about what makes art 'art', or perhaps, even, what makes us human?

To answer the title of the post, I am not "shocked" by non-representational art (or rather modern art, since some of it is representational, just deliberately.. well, "ugly" seems to be the closest description). I don't think anyone is. I am tired and bored of it. We've seen it, we get it, you're making some kind of statement about the boundaries of what is and isn't art, very brave, very clever. Or it was, the first ten times. But we're far past a thousand times, and now it's the norm, not the exception, abusing the subjectivity of what makes art good* to overstay its welcome.

*Notice how they try to box their opponents into the technical-skill-makes-art-good position? Unless we can provide a nearly mathematical formula to objectively evaluate art, then by default their preferences for dull, ugly abstraction shall prevail.
At least in the US, electricity rates and natural gas prices are highly regulated for retail customers. Thus the wholesale price of gas does not generally correlate to the retail price of electricity. In places like California electricity prices are very high due to renewable generation requirements. You would definitely want to have your own solar installation before converting over to all electricity in that state.
They seem to have their loss-aversion in check.
Just give up on transmitting video. Just animate the person's profile pic. I'd rather video chat with an animated cat than a human lawyer any day.
Actually, there are many species who share the burden of child rearing equally. It is often a matter of resource availability, if food is scarce, males become aggressive and patriarchal structures emerge more prominently, and vice versa. Human history has been harsh, so it is not surprising that our ancestors tended to that type of society.

So, it is simply not true “across all” anything. I will forego badly parroting what actual experts say, so instead I recommend Robert Sapolsky’s lectures on this in his biology courses at Stanford. They’re available on YouTube.

I also notice you just vaguely referred to various animals in instead of humans, which is curious.

My position here, to be clear, is that there are gender differences in personality and phenotype, but they are mostly inconsequential for child rearing in a resource-rich society, ie, both genders are equally competent parents. Individual variation outweighs gender differences.
Well "key phrases" isn't a phrase in the culture war, so I can't take your response here seriously. It seems childish, trite, and a bit "I know you are but what am I?!?!?" To put it another way, I don't see a coherent argument. I also didn't say anything to bloviate, perhaps you would appreciate reviewing the definition for that word too? You are the one here writing about how "wokeism" started in 1960 and expect people to take you seriously? You sound like you might as well be a fox news host. Give me a break, I'm looking for people who don't have an axe to grind.
We'll need to see how Microsoft manages the manifest V3 change when it happens to Chrome. I know the likes of the Orion browser has modified WebKit to allow current FireFox and Chrome Extensions to run in it. I hope Microsoft and other Chrome derivatives do the like.
>I meant that individuals won't change their lifes for climate change.

They will if it becomes cool and fashionable, as well as making not changing more expensive. We made cigarette smoking expensive and in poor taste pretty quickly.
You’re hired for your problem solving ability which includes being able to learn and apply specific algorithms if needed.

Asking questions that chat GPT can easily answer gives 0 insight into problem solving ability.
No successful product goes on fire sale only ~3 years after release.
US Pending Home Sales Fall to Second-Lowest Level on Record
NYC subway ridership surpasses 1B in 2022
Air conditioners are heat pumps. They move thermal energy from the inside to the outside to cool a space.

In this context, a heat pump refers to the same type of system, but in reverse. Instead of moving thermal energy from inside to outside, you're moving that energy from outside to inside. This can work even when it's cold out, because cold outside air still has a lot of thermal energy that can be moved.

The main benefits of heat pumps for heating are twofold:

1) It's significantly more efficient then electric resistive heat, because heat isn't being generated, simply moved around.
2) Heat pump systems can be configured to work to both heat and cool a space. There are very few changes needed to make this happen, meaning that if you need AC, you might as well get a heat pump to do both jobs.
IMO, tacit collusion is the underlying scheme by which we communicate (transfer meaning between people)
I've had very little luck with third-party recruiters myself, personally. My take is that because the job is theoretically easier to get, there is much more competition, and the recruiters are more ruthless in removing applications that don't meet the exact specifications from their client.

Also it pains me a little for you to say that reading one book is a big sign of having lots of free time. Maybe you're not a huge reader but I hope you normally do stuff you enjoy, reading or not, whether you're employed or not, if you don't mind my saying so.
Well, Common Lisp and Erlang there made up for it.

Clojure and Rust were on their list of strong languages that they didn't end up needing:

> F#, Ocaml, Rust, Perl, Swift, Clojure, Smalltalk

Forth and APL were on the list of probably impractical languages:

> APL / J, Prolog, Forth, m4, COBOL, Fortran, Ada
i think we should not look at the end of the spectrum and conclude stuff for everyone...
maybe there is a ton of people who will not get negatively effected by social media, as well people who will smoke a cigarette every 3 months in a party
>>It's sad to see people again and again sell their life.

Why? I don't find that sad at all - some people really enjoy their work, and it becomes a big part of their identity. What better way to spend you life than doing something you truly enjoy and provides you an income to be comfortable and take care of your family/friends?

I know a lot of doctors, they have spent their entire lives taking care of people, saving lives and generally doing good things. Most of them have a very, very hard time retiring when the time comes - it is who they are. I know several in their eighties who continue to practice because it brings them joy.

While not an MD myself, if I won the mega-millions tomorrow, and was set for life, I would still write code for someone or something.
Harsh words, but likely unfounded. You don't know their reason for being laid off, it could be that their company didn't product a profit (since in a bull run they don't need to), it could be that a competitor caught up to them, it could be that their division was no longer needed, and so on. Poor performance attributable to WFH necessarily is not very high on the list of why people are laid off, generally speaking.
Some US states hate people more than others.

But "sales tax" is what USers call it. Europeans probably have their own names for it in their various languages, which is allowed. Also allowed is surprise at counterintuitive practices in countries where one does not live.
i have run large data centers with over 120,000 gpus... one thing that i learned in this process is that running hardware at scale and efficiency is very very difficult. it requires a lot of process and tooling to automate everything.

if anyone here has run FPGA's specifically, at this sort of scale, i'd love to talk to them.
Old great and good, except for everyone else that lives on city outskirts or surrounding towns.

If public transport exists at all, it is mostly once per hour, only during business hours and hardly takes into account people with disabilities in access to the stations or buses.
Then it's a rather low-hanging fruit.
Stepping back for a moment from the content, I think it is worth noting what an exceptionally well-written essay this is. Being able to write well is a super power for engineers. It is a reflection of the lucidity and clarity of one's mind, and the ability to understand the needs of the reader. Writing well is an exceptionally useful and powerful skill that can be improved with consistent practice. I would be tempted to add that as hard truth #9!
It's such a shame that Apple feels the need to cripple their devices to protect their revenue. Mac Studio would be a super powerful machine, allowing me to run all my CI and testing on my local Mac, but the 2 VM limit prevents that. So for now I'm stuck with the Intel Mac mini, which doesn't have this stupid limit.

I bet the machines they use for Xcode cloud don't have this dumb limit.
In my American schools we did learn more about North American natives though it was often through the point of view of European explorers and colonists. We got the usual stories about interactions with Jamestown/Pocahontas and Mayflower colonists /Squanto. There was more about Ponce de Leon and Coronado and the peoples they encountered. We got more details about the Aztec, Maya, and Olmec. I also remember sections about the mound builders and the Iroquois Confederacy. There were lessons on the American westward expansion and the conflicts that caused though I suspect that was downplayed a bit. The only South American people we studied were the Inca.

Obviously that misses whole sections of the continents.
1. Breathe - James Nestor
I was a lifelong nighttime mouth breather due to a very dry winter climate growing up in Chicago, clogged up my sinuses. The book inspired me to look into solutions for this problem and now wake up with considerably less brain fog than I did before.

2. War and Peace / Anna Karenina - I wanted some sort of insight into Russian Imperialism and was surprised by how much my father was like some of the characters (his grandfather was a 'count'). I thought his personality was just a quirk of his since he was unlike anyone I knew growing up. He fit the Tolstoyan characterization of a noble like a glove, warts and all.

3. History of the Peloponnesian War - So many of the conflicts today are exemplified in the ancient Greek world and the relationships between the city states as described in the book. Hard to believe (I don't believe) that Thucydides could remember these lengthy speeches given by emissaries in various scenarios, but what is written is nonetheless riveting. It's great context for my current read, Plato's Republic, which was heavily influenced by the Athenian (democracy's) defeat against the Spartan oligarchy.

4. Come As You Are - Emily Nagoski

Shedding light on different sexual perspectives and experiences for something that is usually kept deep in the dark.
I would be very surprised if the total time your children are tied up doing chores, responsibilities, free-time etc is even a fraction of the time an adult that has a full-time job and has to manage their household is.

The average adult dedicates approximately 0 time to growing as a person. So it's expected that the vast majority of adults don't grow in ways that you see in your children. My point is that I expect under similar situations adults can grow as much as children.
The main pain point of Sublime has always been it's extensibility, or lack thereof. The program is very rigid, and the plugins can't do much.

Mainly when creating user interfaces, you can't have buttons (for example a "run" button), the only official UI components are the command palette where you search commands, and a "panel", which is basically a single separate text view.

Plugins such as the terminal plugin [1] uses this panel to show an interactive terminal, but anything you do, such as call another plugin, or simply search text, will remove your panel and replace it with another.

The only ways to create real UIs are with very ingenious workarounds, notable mentions being:

- The color picker plugin [2], which literally bundles a small native executable for each platform it runs, containing a color wheel, which the plugin will call, the user will select a color, and the program will close, returning the color code in its exit code, which the plugin is listening to.

- The debugger plugin [3] which has the most complex workaround I have seen using sublime's html capabilities. It uses the panel to show html elements, buttons with images, texts, lists, tabs, everything thorough this workaround. But again, try to search text and you loose it.

That's mainly where VSCode "won", although I still daily drive Sublime when I am not on a "full blown IDE".

[1]: https://github.com/randy3k/Terminus

[2]: https://github.com/weslly/ColorPicker

[3]: https://github.com/daveleroy/sublime_debugger
Because after a successful, productive, 5-10 years at a company you tend to forget the algorithms you don't use. I can remember enough about the knapsack problem to talk intelligently about it. I can't remember how to do the dynamic programming. In 90% of cases given infinite time I can eventually arrive at the solution to most med-hard questions. However, you don't have infinite time. I find problems like optimizing how much water goes into buckets to the point I can solve it in 4 minutes with variations so far below me it doesn't even register on my radar. For the record, I have over a decade in this industry. Having to do these problems makes me feel like that hard earned decade may as well had not happened.

For those of us with lives, hobbies, etc grinding leetcode is exhausting. Moreover, you can't just grind it. You have to grind it to the point you literally can brain dump answers in an interview.

Interviewers rarely care about your accomplishments. No one cares you did staff eng. at XYZ, managed engineers, have familiarity with all sorts of frameworks, etc. This is the only industry where every time you look for a job you're treated like don't have a resume. I think many (if not most) people are insulted by this because the people in charge are belittling them. I would bet even Knuth would struggle to tackle a modern programming interview. That's a problem.
Yeah this isn’t surprising considering these are the people who think touching or breathing near fentanyl can kill you
London Calling: A Countercultural History of London since 1945 - Barry Miles

This is a few years old but I found it at a library. As the title says its a walkthru of London and British culture from 1945 covering artists, and musicians during this period

Barry Miles was at the centre of this culture running the indica bookshop - so knows a lot of the people

The one thing that sticks out is his discussion whether counter culture exists or can exist in the internet age because everything that happens now is filmed and on social media so quick it finds an audience or is drowned out.
Learning a programming language in 1 day to solve a particular problem isn’t the same as learning it over years to write actual production code. I doubt the author was writing “idiomatic” code and he probably transplanted paradigms from more familiar languages in the newer ones.

But it’s still very useful and I’m sure he learned a lot and absorbed of some of the new languages’ programming styles. You don’t master idiomatic functional programming from one week of writing Haskell, but it does introduce you to basic concepts like functors, lambdas and embedding computation (IO) in data.
A lot of people view this stuff with cynicism but I found the leetcode practice to be useful, and learning new languages to be useful. Fun too! But I'm still young at 44....

Commuting though, oh no...
> Season greetings to you all, Anglo-Saxon friends, and their happily oinking piglets!

Aha, he's mocking the entire "ruble will collapse, Novosibirsk will secede, Ukrainian Special Forces will mistakenly capture Kremlin instead of Crimea" birdseed genre. That makes much more sense.

I think Musk may have taken him seriously tho?

Edit: bonus Combo https://youtu.be/IwQ5pKKQYmM?t=17
This is cool. I use a Mac app called Numi that does something similar.
This is a statistically horrible idea. The chance that your startup is going to replace even the compensation of entry level grad in any large city in the US doing enterprise development is almost 0.

The “story” that has worked for me is that “no I’m not going to reverse a binary tree on the whiteboard while juggling bowling balls riding a unicycle on a tightrope. What we can do is talk like adults and we can discuss your real world business problems and see if I can bring my skills and experience to the table to help you solve those problems in exchange for money”

I’m not going to spend 40 hours a week working and more time on the side working on a side project.
It was Steinmetz.

> A genius in both mathematics and electronics, he did work that earned him the nicknames "Forger of Thunderbolts"[4] and "The Wizard of Schenectady".[5] Steinmetz's equation,[b][6] Steinmetz solids, Steinmetz curves, and Steinmetz equivalent circuit[7] are all named after him, as are numerous honors and scholarships, including the IEEE Charles Proteus Steinmetz Award, one of the highest technical recognitions given by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers professional society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Proteus_Steinmetz
Allergen-Specific IgE and IgG4 as Biomarkers for Immunologic Changes
Nice! Very similar to https://calcutext.com/
> I want there to be a choice.

I agree. To be more nuanced, I think I want it to be a deliberate choice. Something someone stopped, thought about and said "yes, I want to do this". Because, they have made the tradeoff for themselves.

The issue for me is that it's ubiquitous. When something is ubiquitous it becomes the default. I am privileged enough to function outside of social media. But for most, I think it's basically a requisite to function in society.
After reading Seeing Like a State and Utopia of Rules, I'm keen to learn more about "bureaucracy". My hunch is the battlelines and dogma wrt making the world "legible" (measureable, manageable) and "bullshit jobs" (make work, no value add) are overdue for an update.
ShotSpotter’s results are iffy, which appears to be a combination of a) ShotSpotter employees overriding the AI and b) weaknesses in the tech. There’s also some potential for reinforcing bias if you only put the sensors in neighborhoods you’re already worried about.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28264686 has previous discussion on this from a number of viewpoints.
There are microcontrollers that cost a penny. Admittedly, even some of those have DMA. But it is wholly legitimate for a main program to be a two instruction loop "a: sleep; jump a", and all the work is done in interrupt context. That is not to claim it is better; rather, in a microcontroller, whatever works, works.
The Steam Deck is effectively a portable PS4/Xbox One, and it has blown me away in how great the user experience is. I played through more games on my Steam Deck this year than on my powerful gaming PC.
> You have 20 years of experience.

I've heard it often said that it depends on what kind of experience, not necessarily its length. Someone could have one year of experience twenty times, or be working in old tech and hasn't kept up with modern practices, costs too much to hire, or a myriad of other reasons for not being preferable over greener candidates.
ISO 26262 is the functional safety standard that automobile manufacturers adhere to. Furthermore, companies with a strong safety culture may also have other safety controls, including MISRA, AUTOSAR, and others. I think reputable car companies take this stuff very seriously, but your concern is also well placed.
I've observed any discussion about US immigration (no matter how relevant to tech) gets booted off the HN front page, probably deprioritized. I'm not sure if it's something others have noted too.

I do wonder why though. Is it because it doesn't generate any new discussion and just attracts flame wars ?
Instead of burning fuel to generate e.g. 1500W of heat, a heat pump uses 500W of electricity to transfer heat inside generating the same 1500W heating effect.
This is totally fair, and I was trying to acknowledge my understanding of these points. But I do have to take a bit more of an aggressive stance on some of this -- by simple virtue of being software engineers successful enough to be laid off in bulk, rather than dismissed for cause years ago, we are in an elite group. Over the previous years, we've had great opportunities, including the opportunity to save enough money to ride through hard times. The amount one needs to save, and the amount of hard times one can ride through, absolutely varies with life situation; and a black swan event like medical bills can destroy any amount of savings. But I do feel like the vast majority of folks looking to get a second, third, or fourth job as a software engineer (as opposed to that first job) should be able to hold out for something that is at least not "despised." And I do hope that those reading this who are mentally responding "nope, I'd have no options" might consider the value of having those options, and perhaps adjust spending vs savings rates while they have an opportunity to do so.
i'm doing a presentation in Feb for a large, public sector, project scheduled for two years. If we win the deal then I can ride out the downturn there. If we don't then things get a bit more spicy. /fingers crossed
Someone who knows how to wrangle linux and cloud systems expertly may only know "scripting" and sometimes will claim not to know programming so as to defer to programmers but if they ever had to they would probably pick it up real real fast. Scripting is programming in my opinion.