skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's FOSS. Feel free to contribute.

My hours of dev contributions to FOSS projects over the decades are somewhere in the low 5 figure range. Despite having a formal art school design education, I never contribute as a designer because FOSS projects are usually openly hostile to design input, even by someone like me who can implement it themselves.

> Rude. People can learn to do multiple things without being pigeonholed, you know?

Pigeonholing by not expecting specialists to be competent outside of their specialty? I have considerable professional experience as both a designer and a developer in the past decade-and-a-half, and a couple of other completely unrelated careers in the decade before prior. You're fishing for things to be offended by, and probably misjudging the amount of design understanding required for actual competence.
There is already a calculus of cost per annum applied to medical interventions in the Canadian health system -- eg, we wouldn't give a heart transplant to a 96 year-old, generally speaking.

Also, suicide hasn't been illegal in Canada for 50 years!
I recall something similar happening to my Nexus 4.

Came into the office after a cold walk to work, placed my phone on my desk. 5 seconds later I hear a *pop* from my phone. I picked it up thinking it was going to explode or something, only to see a nice clean crack through the rear glass.
That statement has been a meme for over 40 years, because it is planted as part of a campaign to sow doubt about Social Security and give cover to those who want to destroy it. The Heritage Foundation/Club For Growth playbook on killing Social Security consists of vaguely questioning the far future of the program, inflating the superficial problems by integrating the worst-case shortfalls over many decades, and systematically underestimating economic growth.
A quick look at the source seems to indicate SDL and freetype.
Yes, a secret key like this could have made this breach much less concerning. Assuming you trust the company to not also lose this data (that they generate and claim to not store). What I was really hoping to find was a paid, cross platform, cloud sync'ed solution that can be setup to require your password and physical key to decrypt. i.e. have 2FA protection from a data breach like this.
Saw a tweet about this the other day, pretty crazy this company does OKR meetings on weekends: https://twitter.com/PeregrineBadger/status/15852624247807303... not sure about the employees' perspective but it seems to be working well!
A couple bits of advice I've recently given are focused on IT-skills knowledge sources.

- Explore KodeKloud.com as a Udemy alternative, especially to learn more about general internet infrastructure (especially if you lack a CS or CIS degree, as I do), cloud providers, etc. (From what I've read it's more recently updated than ACloudGuru)

- Explore Roadmap.sh for a roadmap of knowledge necessary to become a web app, infrastructure, or phone app engineer.
> Laurie Smyla, a 73-year-old retiree from Sloatsburg, New York [...] Smyla has a degree in environmental science and even served as coordinator for the local recycling program in the late 1980s, as she explains when reached by phone. She was able to quickly identify the envelope as polyethylene, the most common type of plastic.

I gotta wonder, how many people did the reporters have to contact before finding the perfect subject to put a human angle on this part of the story. Kudos to them for doing the legwork
.. and, as we're learning, extremely high penalties if one of those edge cases happens to cause a cascading failure.
I'm kind of coming around to the idea that Comma AI's approach of full end-to-end is the right one.

Tesla, Waymo, Cruise, etc all take real world data and load it into a virtual representation, then do planning inside virtual space, then execute that plan in the real world. It seems like this is just really clunky and doesn't handle weird edges very well.

Comma AI's thesis is that creating this big virtual world to do planning in is both a waste of time and compute, and also a worse driving experience. They just take a ton of human data, and essentially say "given this situation, what would a human do?". I.e. it's a neural network that takes in the last few frames of video, and outputs steering + accelerator + brake commands, with no intermediate virtual space representation.

A huge advantage of this approach is it scales really well. Human data in, model out. They are maybe a year behind Tesla FSD in terms of capability with a tiny team of ~15 or so, and they are gaining ground.

Tesla could probably improve their system by adopting a similar end-to-end approach, but I think this may not be easy to do for organizational/corporate political reasons. They have several hundred engineers working on all of the various bits of their FSD stack who are all incentivized to defend their turf.
It's just a frontend for OpenAI models.
I'd agree with this, and it's one of the beefs I have with how we tend to do interviews. When I think too about more involved problems I've worked on, there have been times I've had to consider several different data types or algorithms, and potentially build a prototype and refine it. This "instant gratification" we demand of interviewees to churn out some algorithm or data type in an interview isn't really helpful relative to seeing how they actually think.
> hey if you let these companies spy on you then....

Then you'll suffer multiple digital, and eventually physical harms;

- You'll lose money on bandwidth that's robbed from you

- you'll lose access to goods and services on the basis of
calculated prejudice

- you risk identity theft, impersonation, having loans taken out in
your name...

- you'll be exposed to manipulation, targeted disinformation

- you'll experience increased targeted attacks like phishing

- friends, relatives, spouse and others close to you will also be
targeted

- your time will be wasted dealing with more spam and nuisance

- you will lose CPU, memory and battery life as the concrete
resources of your devices are given over to the advertising burden

- you will eventually suffer tangible harms, loss of employment,
impacted credit score, loss of medical access...

Sure, it needs more words to explain. Not quite so punchy and succinct
as the real deal. But digital cancer caused by these companies'
products can well be explained to the average "consumer" if they just
stuck an ugly picture on the carton of a destitute homeless guy and
the message "Surveillance capitalism can ruin your life".
> All my friends who are into fitness enough to cite a PR seem to have constant random aches and pains.

My brain's autocomplete is completely failing here, what is PR? It keeps going to pull request, peer review, and public relations.
I just formed a secret society. We have a secret handshake and are very powerful. In fact, we control everything.
Retirements are up. It's not a conspiracy, it's the population pyramid.
I wouldn’t want just anyone to be able to use my characters and setting for their grummy cashgrabs.

I think reasonable copyright would be 10 years or lifetime of the author which ever occurs later. This way the author would be in charge of their characters while alive and their kids would still gain from works done in the later years
Python running in Postgres sounds like it would be unusably slow. What's the performance like?
Thanks! Very interesting. I wasn't aware of this. Looks like there's a discussion here:

"Telegram Cooperates with FSB (Rus)"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30661335

I'll research this more.
When Tesla got rid of radar and switched to "vision only" I cynically assumed it was a way to compensate for supply chain issues rather than radar being as useless as Musk was saying. I still think this is a possibility.
You and I are different and I have no agreement with your conclusions.

Eat and rest are also things that do well to be moderated.

You mention chains but modesty and purity is a form of freedom from basal desire and unpleasantness. And many times in society we make socially responsible decisions. For example, it is pretty much understandable that drinking culture in the US with driving has been dangerous, thus DUI laws.

Similarly, encouraging modesty in society and cultivating shyness protects against many harms to society, like increased relationships out of wedlock, greed (modesty is also about humbleness and avoiding looking at what others have), and objectification/commercialization of the human body.
They haven't demonstrated that in a like-for-like comparison. Tesla's autopilot, in circumstances where it can be engaged, and with human supervision, has more miles between accidents than average human drivers in all circumstances (such as older cars, worse roads, and worse weather). But in the circumstances where Autopilot can be used humans are also much better than that average.
Curious to know where you see this false advertising?

When you go to purchase Autopilot on the Tesla website [0], it says in the first sentence: "The currently enabled features require active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous."

On Ford's website regarding their Blue Cruise[1]: "Blue Cruise allows you to operate your vehicle hands-free while being monitored by a driver-facing camera to make sure you're keeping your eyes on the road."

If anything, Ford seems to be more bold and brazen with their approach here.

[0] https://www.tesla.com/model3/design#overview

[1] https://www.ford.com/technology/driver-assist-technology/#bl...
> LegitScript revoked its certification for Cerebral and Done this year, and the two companies face Justice Department investigations after the Journal reported that some clinicians felt pressured to prescribe stimulants. Patients and their families have said the companies prescribed medications that contributed to deaths. Both companies have denied pressuring clinicians and said they seek to make mental-health care accessible

When I was in a business class in undergrad, the prof one day showed us videos of bad slide deck presentations from former classes. In one of them, someone just outright said "we trick the customer into buying X" in the Q&A part of the presentation

Obviously it was a stupid thing to say, but it outlines the sort of cognitive dissonance that our economic system cultivates in people. You're supposed to trick people and lie to everyone (including yourself) about doing it. The truth isn't allowed because it's bad for the bottom line. Is this good for society?
I bounce between vscode and neovim, I use the https://github.com/AstroNvim/AstroNvim config. I prefer nvim now.
So what is the concern here?

The USA wants to check those who turn up at their border is who they say they are, and they also want to know if they are a good egg as far as the authorities know where they are from. Both of these sound iminently reasonable.
Med appears to be a command line text editor, while this is a gui text editor... different beasts entirely.
1. I am lucky to be in a point in life when I am (still) not anyone's emergency contact.

2. Even if I were, I assume the average person doesn't get many emergency calls per year. The odds of someone needing me during the 5-6 hours when I'm trying to concentrate are very low.

3. Even without the box I would have probably just turned off the phone. (and then turned it on 5 mins later to check some random thing, which is the problem to begin with)

4. If the other person has phone access and can call me, calling 911 is most probably a better idea .

5. At the very worst case, the box can be broken, it will just cost you $60 to get a new one, which is enough to make it not worth it unless for absolute emergencies.
It is more than just marketing, the economy depends on people spending more than they make. The entire fiat currency system requires it is be fueled by debt spending and consumerism
I was going to say the same thing. I don't understand how that's possible - it's incredibly frustrating.
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> I've never seen one of them act on their knowledge appropriately

Milton Friedman
> Can you give some examples of stupid things?

X department (usually marketing/sales) is asking for Y thing without understand that Z thing is actually the thing customers want to solve their root cause.

You have to stay on top of the 'signal strength' of feature requests. If one customers asks for a thing then okay maybe note it down. If 10 customers ask for the same thing ASAP, then clearly go make it a priority to go build the thing.

> have strong opinions

Being a subject matter expert / domain expert you can start to see an understand the 'shape' of the market, the customers, the problem being solved. You get a sense of the how/what/why that will really be impactful.

Some products are built with huge leaps forwards that 10x the previous experience. Others are build with 1000 tiny improvements that make for a delightful UX. Both are equally valid.

Having strong opinions means balancing those two operating modes.
Figuring out when to bet big/when to refine/when; when to say no to little thing #342 because it's actually not helping anything.
I’ve never heard this flying hundreds of times
You can use rust's feature flags with one flag per renderer to specialize based on the renderer
Using Parquet files is more scalable because the amount of data can be vast. It can be impractical to use a normal RDBMS to hold billions of rows, but is no problem for a bunch of files sitting in S3 or file storage. It can also be radically cheaper because you're just paying for file storage. The Parquet file format is also designed to be both compressed but also skippable to find the rows you're looking for. Also, Parquet files can be mounted in a filesystem for usage with things like Spark.
If you're not growing, your dollar is losing value and competitors are poised to be eating your lunch.

Software is the best place to see this. Develop something niche and profitable. Without growth, you're just a feature and you will be ripped off by another party or a bigger player. Slack, Clubhouse, any Mac/iOS feature, etc. etc. Hundreds of examples here.

There's also the broader economic theory. If you can only invest time and money in one place, then you have opportunity costs and need to weigh the future outcomes of your investment choices. Life is finite, and you should use it in the best way you know how. For most people, money correlates strongly with value creation and reward. The amount of revenue you drive is also indicative of the broader value you've materialized for other people.
Yes, I seriously expect to collect it.

Keep in mind aging millenials will be a pretty enormous voting block and, given birth rates, we won't have the same large younger generation to balance us that we were to the Baby Boomers.
Having going through this experience, there is often lots of little things. Maybe there was a shared domain registered to your email account. Closing or moving Netflix, or Disney+, or your vegetable subscription service, is much easier if you can just log in and close the account -- this can be done by writing to the companies, or if you just stop paying and responding, but everything is just easier with email access.
Likely next year after 1-2 RCs. It's at beta4 currently.
As I read it, the author believes this project would only be successful if it completely reinvented ~all aspects of a university. The rest of the board would be happy with an antiwoke or unwoke institution which otherwise is recognizable as a university. I presume the intended audience has a shared understanding of "woke" and more particularly "scrape the woke off the top".

There is probably more specific interpersonal drama - possibly she feels the politics of the rest of the board will be bad for this institution in some form.
I am not talking about either.
LA Times reporter Russ Mitchell's entire career is mostly clickbait Tesla articles
GPL? RMS is a pinko.
> A few years ago Tesla was worth as much as the rest of the car industry put together. Even if you believed Tesla was going to become a perfect monopoly, its valuation still would not have been justified.

The bet is on Tesla doing more than regular cars. How much does the calculus change when people think it will eat the taxi/rideshare market, the solar market, the backup battery market, the charger market, and potentially robotics?

Tesla’s valuation is entirely based on investing in that vision. That’s why it’s notable that it’s precipitously collapsing. People are losing faith and it might just become a regular old car company.

> We knew the value of the stock to the penny starting in April of last year, but for months it traded at over a 25% discount

No you didn’t. You knew the closing price of an offer that the buyer was trying to back out of.
> There is gentrification in some of the southern Chicago neighborhoods

Fun Fact: The Obama Administration was instrumental in tearing down a number of low income housing projects in Chicago and exporting them to nearby cities in Illinois, in an attempt to "unlock value" in downtown Chicago housing by removing poor black families. This has had limited success, although South Chicago is still overall a no go zone for gentrification. This explains the slight gentrification you are referring to. There were multiple lawsuits over this, as the nearby suburbs did not want to receive these housing projects, and were basically forced into it by the Obama administration. This was portrayed not as an effort to enrich administration-connected housing developers in downtown Chicago, but rather as an effort "integrate wealthy suburbs" so that they do "their fair share".

Bottom line, you have to be aware of race and what is really going on when you complain about "lack of affordable housing". There is, of course, plenty of affordable housing. But not where you want to live.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/07/chicago...

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/race-real-estate-oak...
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Despite young people voting for the least worst liar, somehow only the older wealth hoarders can afford to campaign for public office. Mystery of mysteries!
It's not all because of fraud.

There's also a lot of crossover between the people defining the programs and the people administering the programs. So programs get rules written in a way that the software from the firm they are close to can handle it, but are hard for their competition to work with. None of it is actually defined with the taxpayer and beneficiary's interests at heart. (Source: worked for an agency in the space and saw it first hand).
My partner signed us up. I'm skeptical. My understanding is they don't really know what to do with it but are trying various things. So not recycling per se, but using the scraps for other purposes, similar to how shredded tires can be used in playgrounds. I haven't heard anything great yet coming out of it though; there's simply not much you can do with bits of plastic that you can't do better and cheaper with something else, and the supply is always going to grossly outweigh any demand. My guess is it's just an expensive roundabout way to get to a landfill. I hope I'm wrong.
I stopped using lite-xl a few months back over the lack of word wrapping, but it looks like it's in as of October/v2.1.0

It's a good stopgap between vim and vscode
This is not very useful for consumption by the general public, who is not the target of this.

I was unfamiliar with UATX, which is not University of Texas - Austin. Apparently it was founded in 2021 to be a more conservative/free speech oriented institution.

Heather Heying is the spouse of Brett Weinstein, of Evergreen College infamy. The two of them are evolutionary biologists and have a podcast called Darkhorse Podcast. They have been highly critical of the COVID regime of the past three years.

I am familiar with their work in general as I consume their podcast on a regular basis.

What I gather from reading the letter and the context I am familiar with. The "wokeness" is something that Heather would be vehemently against.

My guess is that the University has policies that specifically target wokeness and other left-leaning ideologies directly and not through a first principles derived ruleset. The danger there would be that the ruleset become reactionary, capricious, and subject to the whims of right leaning ideology instead of a coherent structure that is much more difficult to corrupt in either direction.

Additionally, in the same vein, Heather is advocating for teaching students how to reason from first principles, how to independently acquire skills and knowledge, and generally be resilient to the pressure of others.

That said, all my assumptions about the shortcomings of UATX are just that, assumptions.
Hard to say. Are there published comparisons to affluent humans driving relatively new cars manually?
I'm trying to summon a return to 19th century magazine per-word rates.
My brother just had a quadruple bypass and he's recovering nicely. Cost $0.
How would one snap out of being seduced by feel-good marketing?

For the last six months or so, I've been aware that I want to buy an iPhone even though I have a smartphone that fulfills all my needs. The cost for the value proposition of the iPhone is inferior to many smartphones, and for me, it has zero marginal value. I don't care about the iPhone's prestige or "lifestyle" angle. There is no justification for buying it. Still, it appeals to me, and I don't know why. This could be a problem if I did not have the rational faculties of an adult. And now and then, I read about a kid saving up for an iPhone and being very disappointed/regretting the purchase.

It's seriously hazardous that we no longer have a way to opt out of this influence of advertising. I wish we did (on reasonable terms, without completely withdrawing from society). For a while in the 2010s, minimalism and anti-consumerism became more popular. But looking back, they seem to have been more of a fad. Now if a kid doesn't have an iPhone in school, it's "cringe".
Airlines are too competing to have extra labor for situations like this. Everyone will book on the other airline that works 99% of the time and you’ll be out of business before a catastrophe hits. “Just add more slack” is not an option that also allows these businesses to be profitable.
Is this a "buy low" opportunity?

Or realistically, as discussed by someone (Brad G?) on the "All In" podcast, should the COVID years just be seen as a write-off?

In other words, this is the real value, regardless of any "fake high" they achieved over the past ~3 years.
I've often wondered if sleeping on the floor is better for your back.

Because of how poor I grew up, I slept on the floor for most of my life until I went to college and started doing it again after college. Of course sleeping with someone else means sleeping in beds again, but I can generally sleep on a floor just fine. Most people will end up complaining about aches and pains when they do.

I don't have any evidence for or against it, but I personally generally feel better when sleeping on the floor.
More likely the consultant helped them learn that now that they're so efficient, they can downsize the welding team.
I am trying to start a local 3D printing business, where a lot of basic parts or things people need can be made locally with Amazon style 2-day delivery. The order just goes to someone in your area who is certified to make stuff. I think this could massively help our global logistics and waste problems, and be a boon to local economies. https://HeyRobot.org Please get in touch if anyone is interested in joining in this project. I work on it nights and weekends… No VCs, just me and some friends coding.
The answer is yes. There is copyright for the score and copyright for the performance. New performance, new copyright.
Debian takes forever when it comes to adding new packages. I'm talking years.
Yeah, I was in a COVID medicine haze, I think I misread that.