skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with the sentiment but imo software 'engineer' isn't wrong. It is in the sense that it's obviously unrelated to motors/engines but the word comes from the Latin ingeniator; to contrive or devise.
I think if every single great discovery in the course of humanity had to have been "well planned," they would have never happened. Like I said, most of the "disruption" and "innovation" happening in the startup ecosystem is far from. And projects of that scale involve little to no unknowns so long as a properly experienced team is attacking them.

But when you're talking about AV or fusion power (or even much smaller discoveries that sit on the vanguard of human knowledge), it requires the kind of leap into the unknown that all great discoveries have necessitated.
I would love to have a service that cataloged all private equity takeovers so that I could migrate away from them. Every time they milk the brand and slowly atrophy.
>I need to stop expecting better from adult /g/
Evidence for Oxonium Ions in Ethereal “Hydrogen Chloride”
go ask the pillar
You think there’s only one suspicious thing going on at any given moment?

There’s probably hundreds of new things at this very second and probably none of them are going to result in anything, but no one knows that for sure
I mean, you just push customers out of the market. I've still got the same 960 I've had for years, and that's when I bother to use my desktop, which isn't often anymore.
Not having staff didn’t seem to stop them overselling what they can handle, however. They took a risk on stretching as far as they could go in an ideal environment and here we are.
Actually, using Org mode and the Hyperbole package in Emacs solves all the problems listed in easy to use ways except you get much more editing dunctionality rather than just the features requested. Don’t reinvent the wheel; just learn something that runs everywhere and solves your problems. You start Emacs once and then rapidly edit files from the command-line by calling emacsclient, not restarting Emacs.
I didn't have to provide a fingerprint or signature to travel to Europe, only when I applied for residence in a Schengen country.
People pass lots of other things onto kids. Leaving aside debates about estate taxes etc., it's unclear that royalties from creative works should be uniquely disadvantaged.
Sure thing, I'll have a look at it tomorrow. Would you be so kind and share your browser/OS so I can try to reproduce?
MechE here. I argue that what I do, designing medical devices, is exactly the same. More an art than a science, and more similar to software engineering than any of those other things you list.
We actually do have one, about to be released: https://github.com/adamharrison/lite-xl-plugin-manager

Comes with a plugin to provide a gui in lite-xl. Once this gets to 1.0, we'll probably start bundling it with the `addons` release.
actual title == Acid Personalities

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/acid-personalities
No again. That Harvard epidemiologist speaking in an offhand way made it seem as though the only people who needed to take the vaccine were the elderly and their caretakers, which is emphatically untrue.

What he likely meant, though didn't communicate, was that only people with prior natural infection need not take it.

But even that is misinformation, though it might be his professional opinion. If it is his professional opinion, it verges on malpractice, because it was indeterminate at the time to what degree a natural infection destroyed immune memory cells. We have later found evidence that severe covid-19 cases do in fact disrupt immune memory [1]. This is a thing he should know to be wary of, as measles famously erases huge swathes of immune memory.

This in addition to the systemic effects of huge spikes leading to moderate to severe cases going without proper care as a result of a squeeze on resources...

It was a bad take, and everyone reading it should have been told it was a bad take.

[1] https://news.uthscsa.edu/immune-memory-less-durable-after-se...
Honestly, the other possibility is that Congress finally gets off their butts and squares it up again. And then the "losers" are the GenX folks that have been delaying retirement to budget for the 74%. I don't really like the thought of having to work five more years than I really have to, just from the uncertainty around whether Congress will fix it or not.
How does this compare to Sublime? I ask because that's my simple/fast editor of choice currently.
Well, do you think there is a truth, understandable by humans, about the nature of the universe?

If you think there is, what better guide than our best theories of physics so far?

So of course what the nature of the universe is doesn't really affect anything, on a physical level, but our sense of what happens after we're gone does in fact change our behaviors. E.g. Most people contemplate with more horror the possibility of all humanity being wiped out than their own isolated death, even though from the individual perspective it is the same.

Somehow things that cannot possibly matter to us physically still matter to us intellectually.

> It is no mercy to know there are kinder universes out there, for with them come those more cruel.

Well, that's debatable. For example, if you're finding this universe to be particularly cruel, perhaps it is a solace to think it's just one of the universes you must endure, and in some other universe you're having a much easier time.
I am not sure what I would use for chat. Jitsi (mentioned below) looks interesting.
De-Google your life. Perhaps Search is fine - but absolutely remove all dependency on Gmail or Google Accounts.
I would instead obsolete natural language and have a few proper precise specs on how to call things, behaviors etc.
What a pukey post. We get paid more because our jobs are more difficult and generally make a bigger impact. You make me sick posting this.
Care to link the interview? I love Karpathy's work.
This saves millions of tonnes of CO2 and pollution
The plastics manufacturer can’t possibly control or even know the details of your local waste management system. They’re telling you what the item is made of. Whether your specific municipality has invested enough to recycle that material is not knowable to them.
Grafana offers one of the best solutions for storing and navigating through telemetry data, but there remains a challenge in using this data to generate insights. Our goal is to address this issue, even if it means occasionally reinventing the wheel. This is a necessary step at this stage.
If you value your privacy, don't own/use a mobile phone.
This is no longer the case as of late November 2022. You can now assign multiple keys to both IAM users and root users.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/you-can-now-assign-mul...
Really, compared to lightning USB-C connector is pure trash. But compared to USB-A I concede it is an improvement.
I know, and I'm saying that whatever Tesla is doing, along with those "mitigations" you mentioned, is crap because of the several crashes where it has failed to detect big stationary objects in front of the car.

I haven't seen comma doing stuff as dumb as that, so I'm also betting on comma's approach.
> the problem with equities or bonds alone is that even with a good allocation it's hard to protect yourself completely from retiring into a recession

I've never understood this logic... Even if I retire in a recession, I only draw down say 5% of my equities each year. Recession lasts say two years. So only 10% of my holding is liquidated when valuations are low.
The article misses that we do not know how classical world that we perceive arises. Ultimately according to QM the whole universe is just single wave function with no probabilities. But this contradicts our experience of the classical world including that we measure probabilities.

So we need to explain that to avoid various very ad-hock notions of classical measurement device and similar routes.

There are attempts to explain the classical world using a notion of decoherence, but that have problems with little progress in the last, say, 20 years to address them.

Then there are ideas based on Everett works that perhaps it is a conscious itself that perceives the classical world and the real world is the wave function. But then such ideas do not explain the exact numerical probabilities.

The interesting resent suggestion was that the probabilities were not really physical but rather represent the lack of information in Bayesian sense.

In past that was used to construct various hidden variable theories, but the new take is that the classical notion that the state of a system can be fully described by its properties at some moment in time is wrong. One also needs to know some information about future to fully describe evolution of the system. This is very speculative, but at least it is fully compatible with relativity and explains probabilities. They simply represent lack of knowledge of boundary conditions in the future.
same with Twitter. Elon's been explicit about the need to sell users' data more. I'd update your privacy settings at the very least
Remember, it’s stain LESS not stain FEEE. It merely stains less than regular steel. Not that it is unable to stain at all.
Haha I remember when I first realised that.
For the ~75,000 travelers directly impacted, it will probably have some long-term impact in their purchasing decisions.

But for the 329,925,000 other Americans, many of whom have a long history and belief in Southwest’s reputation for customer service and fair policies? They will have forgotten by next week.
Sure, maybe they should be that way. But until they are that way, this doesn't seem like a feasible solution.
Jesus that's right, I forgot they had turned off braking, fair enough to the Comma folks.
Sorry, just to clarify, your point is that genocide is fine because other countries are harming the environment?
If you've seen Margin Call, you know the scene I'm thinking of right now. The "I Built a Bridge" scene.

Beginning in the mid-70s something went horribly, horribly wrong with the way capital handles risk management, resulting in "real stuff" being undervalued by orders of magnitude, since it was by nature riskier. Hence that aforementuioned scene.

Russian-style command economies failed in some part because they lacked mechanisms for borrowing money from the future. The American system is staring failure right in the face because of its inability to quantify what future value implies. I imagine future history books will look at the two systems in parallel, the latest chapter in the ongoing story of telluric states and the thalassocracies that separate them. With all the non-nuclear states huddled underneath in their shuddering quasi-sovereignty.

This is probably the most flame-worthy thing I've ever said on HN, so go nuts.
Another option would be a cheap laptop (with a proper external monitor, keyboard etc) coupled with a cloud desktop. I feel like I don’t fully understand all the pros and cons of that approach though.
Ask HN: Know any comprehensive lectures/materials on workspace ergonomics?
Have looked at YouTube and Reddit but haven’t found anything substantial; most videos are 5-10 mins long and don’t explain things like light, how distance influences perception, etc. Curious if anybody knows more comprehensive materials/literature on the subject.
Even when they used Windows, they didn't install anything, at least consciously. Keeping they system up to date was probably the most advanced thing they were able to pull off.
These sound crazy enough to work! Assuming you can work out what exactly is a "farfalle bun".
I've noticed this https://github.com/open-spaced-repetition/fsrs4anki set of modifications for the Anki algorithm is popular in the Anki Discord. Might be of interest to those exploring the code.
>$1m in the right assets could become $4m in youre scenario with the same purchasing power of the $1m before inflation.

Yes, the "place bets in a rigged casino to beat inflation" strategy.

A terrible idea for people over 50 that are looking for a rock solid retirement solution but when the government is robbing savers, one of the only options.
I didn’t mention anything about signing?

I said encryption. You can do encryption all kinds of ways. In this case, I am talking about encrypting your own data on a client and not allowing a server to see it. This would just require a secret key derived from a password ran through a password hashing algo.

You only need asynchronous crypto when you involve another party, so it would play a role in a trustless architecture, but I am unsure what your point is.

When I say “verify trust” of a system, I am referring to a product making a claim, such as “your data is private and we don’t sell it” — then backing up the claim by building the product in such a way such that it is impossible to sell it. Encryption + open source is just about all the way to proving that claim, and it can be verified that way.
Cloudflare Pages works well as a serverless option for this, and without the separate deployment for functions, so no CORS required. Couldn't recommend more.
Yup. A welder's helper is a lot cheaper than a welder, not to mention all the gear time that produces no value for anyone. You want to set things up to the high skill workers are as much as possible able to spend their time on the high skill task.
The correct answer is that, while it is of course true that they were just humans, we label them as giants in retrospect due to their accomplishments.

However the fun answer is: Voltron. For example our smartphones were built by Steve Jobs piloting a Voltron’d up giant. It has Tesla as one hand, Edison as the other, and their rivalry drives a lot of the dialogue. Von Neumann and Clerk Maxwell make up the torso, and the main villain for the first couple seasons is actually Maxwell’s Demon.
I'd love to know where you're reading that "you’re a bad doctor if you won’t give your patients lethal injection drugs." As with Canada's abortion laws, doctors aren't required to perform the procedure, but they must still provide assistance to patients who require it. If doctors are given a free hand to apply their own moral code, then what's the point in having a law that legalizes and regulates a particular medical practice?
> From store clerks to firefighters, from office administrators to CEOs of companies providing useful products/services at a large scale.

I run a small software business, but also work part-time as an EMT and volunteer as a SAR medic.

I make approximately 12x more from my software business per hour worked (and I'm the lowest paid employee in the business) than I do working as an EMT (and obviously the volunteer isn't paid at all). I could make a lot more again in industry.

As an EMT, I work with people who are skilled, educated, hard-working, diligent, and who make enormous personal sacrifices (familially, financially, and mentally) for their patients. That includes the paramedics, nurses, doctors, and even SAR heli crews we hand over to.

And yet, to a rounding error, none of them will ever earn as much as I do as a part-time software developer.

Yes, there are other non-tangible benefits to working in healthcare - after all, that's why I do it.

There are also enormous costs, mostly in terms of time and psychological cost. And almost everyone I work with (although not all) could make more money working less hours in a better working environment.

So my hat goes off to all the labourers, but especially those I mentioned above, because they almost always have better options, but they don't leave. Almost always because they care more about their patients than their own personal bottom line.
I have no stake in the Comma vs. Tesla, I just don't think the Comma approach can get us all the way to a full solution either.

What I think is interesting is that if you assume that there's still a couple of new ideas left before the whole thing can work, it matters who is the most poised to adopt (or even to have) the new ideas and turn them around into a product.

I also don't know who that will be. A vertically integrated company like Tesla? A tech supplier like Waymo? A nimble startup like Comma?
> most of the people around these parts of the continent (Eastern Europe) don't care about the novels themselves

[Citation needed]
A friend of mine had this boyfriend once who ran a business that used recycled glass. Something to do with producing high quality sand for filtration systems and some other interesting processes (can't remember exactly what it was anymore bummer). The sand was made out of ground glass from wine bottles. As he told me, his process required just the right kind of glass and it had to be very, very clean. There was substantial investment into washing and label removal, to produce the right inputs. He said it was barely worthwhile, and he said that most plastic and even glass recyclables are just too dirty and too mixed up for it to be worthwhile. Al and Fe cans and Cu wire on other hand are absolutely a go.
I wish we lived in a world where our governments had integrity, prioritized the interests of the masses, and could be trusted to use powers like this in pursuit of those interests. Sadly we don’t.
> Curious to know where you see this false advertising?

Musk has been lying about full self-driving for years: https://jalopnik.com/elon-musk-promises-full-self-driving-ne...

Tesla has already been done for false advertising once in court. Tesla didn't even try to argue the case: https://electrek.co/2022/12/12/tesla-ordered-upgrade-self-dr...

Now Tesla is hoping to avoid being done for fraud by calling their "full self-driving" a "failure" instead of an outright fraud: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/12/business/tesla-fsd-autopi...

But with years worth of lies behind it, and especially because they've been selling it to customers and still haven't delivered it, it's tough to make the case that it isn't fraud.
What I don't get is why people are more concerned with how Qauntum Mechanics works than they are with the way in which, for example, electro magenetic waves travel in a vacuum. Like we can "physically" understand how sound travels, and we can "visualise" that as a "mechanism" right? But we have no similar way of "physicalising" the way in which light travels, but no-one seems to have any trouble accepting that. Quantum states seem to be no different: they're just a way things work, that we don't have a good "macro physical" analogy for.
Critical sensitive data? You can access the lists directly in several different formats, all publically available... Wouldn't be much of a sanctions list if you couldn't

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/financial-sanctio...
Why do people like to track famous people's planes?
You made an imaginary scenario designed to make the AI look bad. Of course that’s not a great display of the use case.

How about this?

> Book me a table for me and Michele tonight at Kingsley’s.

> “Okay, I checked in at Kingsley’s but there’s nothing available until 9pm. I see you have an early flight tomorrow and won’t be returning until Friday so may I suggest The Lancaster instead? There’s space at 6:30. Michele has rated The Lancaster a 9/10.”

> Sounds good!

> “Reservation confirmed. I’ve created an event in your calendar and invited her. Also, it looks like there’s a basketball game happening downtown tonight so I suggest leaving by 5:37pm”

——

I think it’s hard to see past the uncanny valley of AI but the reality is that we’re not going to abandon AI when it’s only 85% there. You could say the same thing about speech-to-text a half decade ago (“I can’t imagine fixing the mistakes will be faster than just typing it yourself”), but I dictated this entire post. Technology moves quickly.
> What I find strange is that some of the best software engineers are not as strong at Math as you would expect.

I actually trained to be a commercial pilot prior to becoming a software engineer and I suck at math, which people would expect is extremely important in both fields.

Granted, in college I still had to get through advanced aerodynamics courses and stuff like that, but I studied just enough to pass those. In software engineering, I use almost zero math and I've been doing this now for decades.
I did that to an extent but depending on the weather and moods (sometimes both) I get FOMOing again.

There was a documentary about a solitary girl shepherd in the mountains. Most things in her life were source of life and liveliness. Nature, hill sights, calm, animals.. the more she did, the happier she got. So even if her life looks poor or lacking .. its quite the opposite.
There is no project where you find perfect architecture combined with clean and fully tested code that reads like a poem.
You must master the chaos. Entropy is inevitable and yesterday’s genius design is tomorrows legacy junk haunting developers with massive constraints and bugs.
From a purely technical perspective, every software should be entirely rewritten when development hits architectural limits and boundaries. And this happens during early development already. But in the real world you have to earn money, people leave taking their domain and specific project knowledge with them, and management doesn’t have a clue about how computers work, yet they pay your salary.

Professional software development is not about perfect code - but code that finally earns you alot of bucks. It’s about applications that people need and use.
The most important indicator for professional software is that is solves the initial problem.
Code quality, architecture and user experience come after that.
Hats off to just... non-engineers in general. Some of the most important people in society like nurses, teachers, and drivers get paid absolutely terribly and are being forced to fight tooth and nail just to get a pay rise that matches inflation. We tap keys on a keyboard and drink coffee in air conditioned offices (or at home) and get paid stupid amounts.
I am the author of bupstash - https://github.com/andrewchambers/bupstash which has many advantages over borg in my biased opinion (like air gapped decryption keys and better performance). Feel free to check it out.
Perhaps https://youtu.be/qTBAW-Eh0tM at cost of breaking symmetry
This is probably tied to how deeply ingrained the overselling habit is in the airline industry in general. They're legally protected when doing this, and it's why that doctor got dragged off that flight.
>it has zero marginal value.

Sounds like it has some marginal value, otherwise, by definition, you would not want it.
I'm predicting a 5-10% average decrease in my commute time from this.
That's a reasonable point but the solution - as with all things backup - is diversification. Otherwise if everyone followed your logic then no new backup software or storage service could ever become established no matter how good it actually was.

Given that all of the options being discussed here look technically better and in some cases more than an order of magnitude cheaper than other popular backup services and software discussed on HN in the past you could afford to run full redundant backups with multiple combinations of software and backing storage and still have more options for a much lower price than a few years ago.
How NFT video games crashed and burned in 2022
> the imagery has proved controversial. “For many priests, who were young in the 1970s and 1980s and personally came up against the repressive Soviet machine, which targeted the church, they are in shock and they can’t get over it,” said Sergei Chapnin, a religious scholar in Moscow. “This is not really an Orthodox cathedral, it’s a cathedral of our new post-Soviet civil religion,” he added.

Very similar to the Nazi takeover of churches.
is the public wifi advice still relevant today with HTTPS?