skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On a related tangent: I'm really puzzled by these PWM-based _digital_ signaling protocols --- more so (apparently in this case) where the period isn't even fixed. The most prominent example is probably the WS2812 RGB LED, a.k.a. NeoPixel. I can get it when a PWM line carries an analog-ish duty cycle signal, but using positive and negative _widths_ to signal bit-for-bit when you control both sides of the link doesn't make sense to me engineering-wise --- if not for speed (think USB3+), not for robustness (think something like Ethernet), and not for impl simplicity (think I2C/SPI/SDIO), then for what? Maximum pain when implemented by a third party? (/s but not really)
Correct, those two articles aren't really anything important or shocking to most people that don't live inside of a right wing bubble.
I know someone who handles import/export in a manufacturing company with a factory in China. Right now they're delaying orders because of how shorthanded they are, 70% of the staff are off with COVID, some worse than others but that's a lot by anyone's reckoning.
I hadn't read that post, so I went and looked for it, and you are exactly right! I'm going to have to bookmark that one.
Yes, the idea and the debate is as old as history. I prefer the quote from Heinlein, "Specialization is for insects." Because actually, if you look at well run organizations, everybody needs to be a generalist to some degree. You don't just work in a silo and ignore every other aspect of what your organization does, otherwise you produce deficient solutions that your colleagues in their own siloes need to work around. Eventually the only people that can thrive in such an organization are the generalists because everything fits together so poorly only the people willing to tackle novel things can solve any problem. People talk about force multipliers because you need to be generally aware of what a lot of different people are doing and help them align to be as productive as possible.

> A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

He was a bit pro-military for my tastes, but I hope you get the idea. You'll make more money stepping up than drilling down. Of course, context and opportunity matters a lot. Success isn't dictated (possibly barely affected, given the debate) by this single dimension.
The existing flight booking software that they use (Sabre) can and does do that, but Southwest’s issue is likely their insistence on using a homegrown management system on top of that. Southwest only switched to Sabre in 2021, so it’s likely still being implemented, and their homegrown approach has likely evolved with them from their founding, so it’s not something the company itself is likely organizationally prepared for.

At least, I feel confident in that analysis, since this exact same issue happened to Southwest in 2016, before they were using Sabre. Which would point to a chronic organizational failure

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2016/07/2...
Antitrust 101: Tacit Collusion
4D chess to get red states to buy electric cars
Yeah and the bashing of the Twitter ERG swag was just offensive and insensitive. Came across very spiteful and mean spirited.
Burning waste correctly is actually a really good way to recycle. For example, Vienna incinerates it's garbage and plastic to provide heating for almost half the city. The emissions from burning 1 persons yearly garbage is estimated

It's estimated that incinerating the entire annual waste for one person in Vienna produces the same carbon emissions as driving a car 100 km. [0]

[0] https://youtu.be/Ml0gXre_V-U?t=80
I'm probably giving Elon too much credit, but I think his Twitter takeover and subsequent offensive behavior is a part of a concerted effort to improve Tesla's brand in red states, specifically Trump Country. The Tweets that many view as "cold-hearted" are embraced/worshipped in Trump Country. The Tweets about Nancy Pelosi's husband and "pronouns are prosecute/Fauci" are perfect examples, just to name a few.

Why would Elon care about his and Tesla's brands in red states? Well, it seems Tesla has pretty much saturated the tech-forward, eco-friendly, upper-middle-class car buying demographic. Everyone in SV/CA that was gonna buy a Tesla has already bought one. Time to find new markets: red states.

Red states have generally had a very low opinion of EVs. Elon is just trying to sell the sizzle, not the steak. He could promote all the cool tech of Tesla vehicles, but it would generally fall on deaf ears. Coal rollers don't care about battery tech, but they do care about owning the libs, and Elon's their guy now.

Furthermore, Tesla's Cybertruck is gonna ship eventually, and its destiny is Trump Country. The bulletproof panels, unbreakable glass and ginormous size are all features that resonate in red states. I'm sure many Cybertruck owners will utilize all the cool features, but I'm guessing that most just want attention, just like those obnoxious Hummer H2 owners from 20 years ago. Then there's the Tesla Semi that will need to be at least accepted in red states in order to be successful.

And that's just cars/trucks. Tesla is also expanding its power grids, and I think Elon views red states like Texas and Florida as integral to this. Red state governments will be a lot more receptive to Tesla's power grids if Elon is already considered political gold. There's a lot of opportunity in Texas, and I think Elon wants to get to the front of the line.

And lastly, I think the icing on the cake for Elon is replacing Trump as the King Of Owning The Libs, effectively neutralizing Trump's greatest strength, making him seem old and lame. My understanding is that Elon butted heads with Trump when he was president, and now he's doing everything he can to keep Trump out of the White House, either hoping to get a more friendly Administration or simply to get back at Trump.

Or, then again, maybe Elon's just a jerk with a bunch of money.
His own daughter never wants to talk to him again and [in]directly called him a bigot. It’s pretty cruel to be such a dick to your child.
Been following this project since before the rename. Is anyone using this in production (1M+ notifications) that can share her experience?
Sounds more like he thinks he's chaotic good, not a blind villain.
Because might is right, and the USA is #1 ;)
> Might be easier to hire people who show technical strength at something

Yeah, hire for intelligence and curiosity. An intelligent and curious developer probably studied algorithms to a useful level, if you don't understand them well you either aren't smart or you lack the curiosity to look into new topics.

A generalist developers who isn't even at that level in their subjects isn't worth their salt, I'm not sure why anyone would want those. A person who mainly knows different frameworks like rewact, angular, spring, mongo, sql and rails isn't a generalist, they are just your average specialist web developer, hire them if you want to maintain web stuff but not for anything interesting.
Sulfur is yellow, why not go with that
Citation needed on whether omicron infections don’t confer immunity to the deadlier delta variant. This is likely not true, so what we are seeing is a billion and quarter people speed running through omicron, which all things considered isn’t as deadly as delta. Whatever horrendous stuff happening there, Id say it’s equally possible it’ll prolong for a long time, or can end rather quickly in a month or two.
> AirPods charging cases already are

They are not. Even latest models from September still use Lightning and wireless only.
>Charging cables contribute such a minuscule amount to landfills it’s laughable.

Do you also include that actual charger and not only the cable part? Can you show me your numbers, do you mean by weight/volume , CO2 wasted in creating and shipping the chargers ?

But there are more benefits by using a standard port, I can use a Samsung charger for a table in my Asus phone, I can share a charger for 2 products and not buy a new one if the old one is gone.
It's like being the first monkey in space. You're standing on the shoulders of giants.
Thanks for the interesting read and the update. I really empathize with the struggle between wanting to help but not wanting to take on too much responsibility (and risk) for somebody you don't even know. I've had bizarre experiences like regretting trying to help a bipolar woman who'd had way too much to drink or being stuck between a hooker, her temporarily detained pimp and their meth-addict buddy. I still try to help when I can, but I think I've definitely become more cautious and hesitant.
Glad that someone else found use for it! Happy holidays :)
How did you come to terms with how he failed upward with X.com and Paypal? He tried to ruin Paypal but was rewarded with $180M. SpaceX and Tesla being Elon’s wouldn’t be a thing.
There seems to be a current attempt to get this kind of dangerous nonsense accepted as 'normal'. No doubt the next step is to go for some public support from a 'celebrity' en route to a fully funded trial. Awful awful awful.
It's plausible. I don't know how Musk looks from the point of view of, say, a pro-Trump Republican, but from my own biased point of view he doesn't come across as a serious businessman with conservative or libertarian leanings, but rather as someone who has, for some reason, begun making unpredictable self-destructive decisions. I think he's probably losing a lot more potential customers than he's gaining.

There may be a political aspect to it, but the way I look at it is that he's an ordinary fallible human. We all know people who would make a big mess of things if they took Musk's place, but we don't usually worry about them all that much (except maybe on their behalf) because their ability to help or harm other people is limited.
Last summer we hiked the Bruce Trail in Ontario, Canada, and discovered for myself that the local laws are NOT so free and permitting. You can't just set up camp anywhere you want, only on predefined campsites and trails. Without that freedom camping is -much- less fun.
I think your argument might be interpreted as encouraging Leetcode interviews, which I'd disagree with.
Ok cool so just plot 2 prices as a function of time. You're the one who brought up "complicated proofs", but doesn't apply here.
I think the author is just trying to be smart using 'encrypting' instead of 'encoding'.
Shouldn't the horses wear spacesuits?
I'm wondering a lot how things would look if we would stop emulating 100 year old tech and build a CLI environment from scratch today.

Do some projects in this direction even exist? Or are we going to stick around with abstractions of things even most people's grant great parents haven't ever seen because this tech was already long obsolete at their time?
I think he meant “Bond villain”. James Bond.
Is this simply an apriori argument? Do you have any evidence to back up your claim beyond your reasoning?

I don't find it very persuasive, and based on my own experiences being a generalist for the majority of my career, I can say it certainly doesn't apply to me. My compensation is >$500k a year and I've been a software engineer since 2010.
>Are all of you guys really THAT engineer to the degree that you act like it on this site?

I love this question. It touches upon a phenomenon that I’ve made light of repeatedly on this website.

My answer is this:
This isn’t a website for or of engineers. It’s largely a website to peddle “Goop”-style lifestyle nonsense to people that desperately want to be called engineers.

It isn’t a bunch of engineers, it’s a bunch of folks that have read some stuff about engineering in order to help become the next Gwenyth Paltrow or Tim Ferris or Jessica Alba. It’s probably one of the funniest currently-surviving circular firing squads on the internet.
Don't think so. For example some devs I know just love following an elaborate development process with as many quality gates as possible. Some like to glue as many complex frameworks together into a solution as possible. Some just love to do the same things the same way again and again.
Wildcards don't.
I use 2 Thinkpad P27u-20 monitor, they have thunderbolt 4 with daisy chaining, ethernet and power delivery.
Basically the docking station is in the monitor.
This brings up the topic of algorithmic tacit collusion which is something I hadn’t considered before but seems likely to occur
>I fear to end up with a lot of skills and potential unused.

The sooner you can achieve a lot of different unused skills & potentials, the better you can end up with fewer of them in disuse.
How many people are alive who worked for VW in 1937? I skimmed Audi’s wiki. What does it have to do with Nazis? Because it was an active company during the rise of Nazis? Yeah of course. The company was run by capitalists. Just like most companies. We know socialists weren’t running stuff. They were executed.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35027728/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33884644/

here are a couple studies showing that covid can cause immune system deregulation effects.

there are plenty more if you go and look.

even mild cases have been shown to cause last impact to the immune system.

There are several preprints that speculate this immune system deregulation is partially responsible for the abrupt spike in rsv and flu happening.
I stopped drinking alcohol 4 years ago (a few failed attempts over the decade but this one stuck).

Some people will be quite happy drinking heavily, way more than I was, but it is about how you feel as well as the units drunk.

I read a book called The Naked Mind - it is similar to Allan Carr’s Control Alcohol. I read it over a few days and it worked.

Made a few changes compared to previously attempts - main one being that I do not have substitutions (so no alcohol free beer), as it would be a small step to drinking again.

If you are considering a dry month, have a read of one of the books - it will only be a few days of time but will at least make the dry January much easier.
There’s a Bayesian stats approach to spaced repetition: https://fasiha.github.io/ebisu/

AFAIU, SM2 computes the datetime of a next review, whereas Ebisu models a probability of remembering a given flashcard. It seems it’s a more straightforward representation that’s more amenable to implementing functionalities like “show me 10 least remembered cards”.
Organisations are built by interesting people on top of boring people.

Boring people makes for better building material, they are easy to work with, put them somewhere and they will do their task, without them you wont get large lasting organisations, the value cannot be realized without a combination of both.
Except that Musk talked about speeding up development of new features, promised that and even made steps toward making that happen.

His plan was not to keep it running with skeleton crew.
Nah, I don’t think so. And what are you going to do about it?
replace <every single software developer> with <every single natural-born software developer>
Mil-spec means the cheapest product that can be mass produced, marketed from a buddy of a guy that makes up the red tape somewhere high up the chain. Certain things are good, in spite of mil spec.
I wish the authors won't be demotivated by this if they ever see this top comment. Borg is such an invaluable project done by volunteers. They don't deserve the blatant abuse demonstrated by the OP. Even more so when the reasons are either the OP ignoring a well written documentation or some unreasonable demand to degrade the security of the software by prominently showing how to disable encryption for a remote backup system. The notion that having the setup command generate encryption keys is so "elitist" that it warrants abusive insults is ... beyond me.
Ad blocking helps a lot. I have almost zero exposure to marketing. I do not follow anyone either, so I'm not exposed to their consumption habits.

It helps.

The other part is to ground your identity in a different set of values. There are many circles in which frivolous purchases are a sin. There are many people who find virtue in economy and restraint.
In the US it gets a little crazy: Land is separated out into square plots in quite a few places, especially the later-colonized west, think 'chessboard'. Companies buy all the white squares, leaving the black squares as public land. Which is now entirely inaccessible from anywhere except their private land.

Lots of shady duderanch companies do this.

There's an interesting legal dispute: Is crossing diagonally from one 'black square' to the next 'black square' tresspass? Technically unless you are infinitely tiny, your bulk does theoretically pass over white square.
See https://arcan-fe.com/, in particular Lash: https://arcan-fe.com/2022/10/15/whipping-up-a-new-shell-lash...
Let's assume it is. And? I'm still going to use it. And so will everyone else.
I think it is well established that repeat COVID infections have an increasingly severe impact on your body.

It is also true that COVID can weaken your general immune system.

But that doesn’t mean that getting COVID won’t increase your immunity against a future COVID infection, temporarily at least, just the way the effectiveness of the vaccine is temporary.
Nuclear Power Can Rebalance China’s Energy Mix
For those of us who are geographically challenged: https://archive.vn/vtqJ5
You could develop interpretations of classical mechanics (CM) in a similar way, but nobody does it as CM doesn't seem counter-intuitive to us. Quantum mechanics, on the other hand, is very much not intuitive, and the different interpretations are just a coping mechanism to deal with that (IMHO). Some of these interpretations actively harmed quantum mechanics research for decades, i.e. the original interpretation of what we'd call strong quantum measurements today.
Having and/or abiding by personal principles is hardly virtue signally — to the best of my understanding, it’s just called having a moral compass.
LG Innotek has unveiled a continuous telephoto zoom for smartphones
How much is that in "libraries of congress"?
I love these types of guides, especially when they cover pieces under the hood like TTYs.

I find that most people who don't use terminals don't do it out of pure preference for GUIs over CLIs. Instead, they use GUIs because they simply don't want to spend time learning how to use CLIs.

If they did, I bet 90% of people would move over.
Sandboxing and monitoring/controlling API use of 3rd party scripts sounds really interesting. Are there any limitations of the webworker approach to this? Compared to eg using a js-in-js interpreter.
He is grifter business guy able to raise money that made tesla big through combination of charizma, cult of personality and bullying business associates+employees to take advantage of them.

He is alson bad at actually running companies and his personality cult ia breaking up now, so the overvaluation is ending along with that
Interestingly, in Yorkshire, where there is the Rights of Way, which gives you the right to pass through private land on a specific path, I had the opposite experience. I can't count how many times I had to pass through ploughed fields, the arrow sign pointing roughly in the direction of the other side of the field, and in between there is... nothing. If it is a popular path then others might have created a faint footpath, so you don't have to tread on the wheat or corn. Maybe this is how the owner wants to discourage wanderers?
I think that's all of us, really.

I'm reminded of Heinlein's quote "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
Correct, James Temple interviewed us directly, other publications are just regurgitating him.
No. Killing poor depressed people isn't a failure of the welfare state but a deliberate choice by the people behind this program
I wonder if there's something going on similar to the Curse of Dimensionality: when we reduce to one dimension at a time, there's way more interior than surface, and we see overwhelming overlap; when we take the gestalt in all dimensions, there's way more surface than interior, and we see separable populations?
Ad blockers also block by path, they do catch GTM.
Nobody involved with Ethereum is opposed to making money or building services that charge fees.
For me the most important bit is that if he had any checks and balances at Tesla / SpaceX / life in general they would've reigned in his Twitter behaviour.

Any normal CEO would've had a big discussion with his supervisory board if he damaged his companies' brand like this in Twitter.

The fact that he seemingly doesn't have any accountability on it worries me the most.
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/ai-photo/id6444911377?mt=12

i’m using this one. pretty good so far. same use of efficient apple stable diff engine.

as well as this monster on mobile:

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/draw-things-ai-generation/id64...
Yes, and regular people who use open source software understand that they have the freedom to modify and redistribute open source software. On the other hand, there is a minority that tries to sell proprietary software by misusing a term that originated in the open source community and incorrectly applying it to software that is not open source.
I think it should work for facts, but I haven't personally tried much of that. Right now, it doesn't make a distinction in how it schedules each type of question. I have an update coming that should make it way easier to play with it for this type of purpose. The changes are still not in a formal release, but they are in master and the docs at https://trane-project.github.io/generated_courses.html should give you an idea of how it will work.

For music practice, I find it really helpful. Simply knowing the next thing you should practice without having to think about it too much is very helpful. I find it easier to practice for longer without getting bored as easily. If I get frustrated with something, I can get another question very easily. I find myself not realizing half an hour or sometimes more has gone by, which is not the case as often when I don't use it.
Cool nick, does it refer to a character or the animal itself?
Tangentially related, Spain's coasts are public domain and therefore do not require freedom to roam: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ley_de_Costas_de_Espa%C3%B1a

(Unfortunately, English Wikipedia does not have a translation)
I'm a supporter of euthanasia for people with terminal cases requesting it. This Canadian law is putting us several decades back
I truly wish we had this south of the border. The public footpaths in the English Midlands seem hedged in by one Private Land No Trespassing sign after another.
Taking a drug that gave her intense and persistent diarrhea is not safe for an eighty year old who already had trouble staying hydrated.