skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree this is smart management by Walmart. But it makes sense for taxpayers to ask whether the operant regulations & safety net should be changed such that Walmart had to shoulder a larger portion of the burden for keeping their workers employed.
balance: the perennial virtue of the under-achiever
There's some valid doubt [1] on whether the recession is going to happen, or if we'll muddle through on near-zero growth for a bit. But that's beside the point.

It's a good time to read up on investing now, figure out some asset classes (real estate, securities, gold, crypto, etc) that you think you could fairly evaluate, and then be ready to buy when you see stuff priced below what they're worth.

Investing is risky, so don't put all your eggs in one basket.

[1] I read this in two places, and forgot both, sorry.
> Manhattan COL is completely ludicrous.

But the general consensus on HN is that density is good, right?

At some point, does it become bad?

Or is density only good for well-paid engineers?
The 3D printed gun debate and how it applies to gun control misses a few important things.

- Most countries that have gun control, have strict control of ammunition. It may be possible to 3d print a "gun", but it is going to be hard to find ammunition for it, unless you go the home made route for that too.

- Domestic or hobbyist 3d printing is not going to produce a particularly strong gun, it's most likely going to only work once or twice before it blows itself apart. There is a good chance the person using it will significantly hurt themselves.

- They will have very poor accuracy, it won't be possible to rifle the barrel on a 3d printed gun in a way that will spin the projectile.

- You don't need 3d printing to make a rudimentary gun, one can be fabricated relatively easily by a somewhat competent DIYer in a home workshop. It would probably be better than a 3d printed one too.

The point is, the arguments around 3d printed guns are mostly media driven, if someone is intent on hurting someone else, they will find a way to do it. 3d printing or the availability of designs is not enabling that.
So, not this data exactly but broadly similar data (Japanese publications of differential GPS corrections) have been used to spot North Korean missile launches in the open source world.

https://www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1216884/detecting-mi...

has more info on that. Essentially the corrections for each satellite can give you a map of what the ionosphere looks like, and so having more satellites is better. If there were publicly available dGPS- or dGLONASS/dBeiDou etc. archives available in other countries it would make this even more useful. If China or Russia published these it would be very useful indeed for triangulating the flight path through the ionosphere.
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And the car behind it braked with minimal impact (hard to tell, but you dont see the tesla jump in any major way like the subsequent cars do)... So it didn't completely cut off the car behind it.

> short of mind-reading.

This is called defensive driving and it involves running "what if scenarios" and being prepared for even those. "What if the tesla has a tire blow out and comes in my lane" Is something that can be thought of any brand of car.
> Uber, for instance, has found success through paying "employees" effectively below minimum wage.

Yeah, but think about why.

Specifically, why doesn't Uber have any competitors that pay better? The only other major player in the US market is Lyft, which is such a clone of Uber that a lot of drivers work for both of them.

This happened because the market won't bear the kind of prices Uber, Lyft, and any other entrant in the market would need to charge in order to pay the drivers more.

This is a perfect example of my previous point about how regulations can constrain the market but don't create demand in themselves: if the government said all Uber and Lyft drivers needed to be full-time employees with benefits and a higher wage, even though the market won't bear the prices needed to make that happen, Uber and Lyft would go out of business. Instead of having low-paying jobs those workers would end up with no jobs.
I don’t have the same interpretation of her words. But she glosses over what she means because it involves introspection and this essay is almost anti-introspection. It isn’t, but the author devotes zero inches to it.

To me meaning is made retrospectively. She’s right about experiences and so are you, you don’t choose most of what you experience, but afterwards you must assign a meaning to those experiences. As a writer Shrier provably takes that for granted (curse of knowledge).

I agree she went too far in her rhetoric, but I still feel it’s an excellent article.
The goal of gun control (et al) isn’t to eradicate the problem entirely but rather to reduce its effects substantially by making it harder.

This has been proven a successful approach in a multitude of countries.

Now I’m not disagreeing that you also need to solve the other side of the problem but it’s not an either / or scenario. You can tackle the problem from both sides.
I also am a bit surprised by this. AI is back to being the hotness now that crypto blew itself up. I suspect from reading this quote:

"Many of the industries we serve, such as e-commerce and consumer technology, have been buoyed by the pandemic and are now experiencing a painful market correction."

that they had an established segment of customers that were experimentally looking at ML to augment their core business, and how they could leverage with their data. Perhaps these companies are pulling back spend with whispers of a shaky 2023 economy.
Yeah, and that's a big problem, that leads to people not really having the choice at all, because they are forced to keep up with people who value productivity over safety.
Yes, that's how it generates more precise answers.

Thanks for the feedback on the authentication. First time using Supabase. I definitely need to fix that.
3d printed guns are as difficult to control as media piracy, which is to say, it's impossible.
If someone doesn't drive in the US their chance of being caught with a handgun is basically zero unless they pull it out (which they shouldn't be doing unless their life is in danger and legal issues are the least of their worries). I wonder how often pedestrians/passengers get patted down in Canada.
the just dev has questionable privacy view, used to copy all Justfiles on github

- https://github.com/casey/just/issues/1163
- https://github.com/casey/just/issues/503
Correct, but if you read and watched the video you would see the Tesla changes lanes and slows to a stop in response to *zero* events ahead of them.

It is a neat fact to bring up but that doesn't apply here. The Tesla is still at fault and you would be hard pressed to find any adjuster or courts agreeing with you thanks to this excellent video evidence.
Ah, thanks. Missed the agent context.
Related-ish, but Apple's macOS APIs are peppered with references to NeXTSTEP. I find this charming. For example, NSView (spelled out - NextStepView).

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nsview
> IME rent stabilization has more variance than you're describing: my first independent apartment was rent stabilized, and I didn't have to pay any broker fees. This was in South Harlem.

When was this? I'm talking about the state of rent stabilization today - 2023 - not 2021 or earlier.

These days, you might happen to luck into a rent-stabilized apartment, but if you're actively looking for one, you'll be very hard-pressed to actually successfully rent one without paying through the nose.
Afaik overdosing on pure heroin is rare and generally only happens when the user relapses and goes back to the same dose before they quit, instead of starting with a smaller dose.
This sounds suspiciously similar to "AI-generated content is stealing from the content it was trained on" and I really don't agree with that. There's no reason AIs shouldn't train on content containing heart and soul, as long as it's legally available to the real humans running the AI.
> Compared to porting an app between which other 1980's languages?

Say from one C-compiler to another. C is still alive and kicking, Smalltalk not as much as it used to be.
That's a UK motorway, so assuming the national speed limit applies they'll be travelling at around 70 mp/h.
I've said it before, but this isn't stopping with guns. One fallout of the availability of 3D printing is the ability of anyone to construct high precision parts, specifically ones needed for weapons. If AQ Khan was still operating today I'm certain this would have been a large component of his operation.
I buy this argument by pointing out the necessity of sleep for core brain functions. Good luck living or working well if you’re not sleeping well. And yet, how many of us have gone years without good sleep?
New Algorithm Closes Quantum Supremacy Window Random Circuit Sampling
well clearly it was open for business.
What Mini Electronics Are Inside Tiny Wearables?
Coinbase is so well run that it will probably outlive cryptocurrency trading, at least briefly.
The null hypothesis here is that your rent controlled (or stabilized) landlord is worse than your average New York landlord, which is debatable!

There's all kinds of context being missed here: rent controlled units tend to be in pre-war buildings in very nice neighborhoods, because that's where the housing was built in that era. They're also frequently in co-op or condominium-owned buildings, where the owners took the building private but still have to respect the pre-private holdout leases. They also tend to be larger than their non-controlled price-point equivalent, because they weren't chopped up during housing boom cycles.

Is it an unequivocal dream? No, for the reasons you said. But for every single family I know, it's a fantastic deal and an opportunity to live and access things that would otherwise be far outside of their means.
Woof. Adafruit + Raspberry Pi in a shipped product screams to me that they did not have a real electronics guy on their team.

https://ukdepartureboards.co.uk/ is the British equivalent of this, and it seems to do everything right (don’t own one, but have seen on Twitter)- optional subscription, and nice looking hardware (seems like they contracted out for that). Though at the minute I suppose there are barely any trains running here :)
The key to surviving on BS in finance is getting other people to pay you fees for investing their money.
NordVPN’s no-logs policy passes its third audit
It's counterintuitively a great time to start a business! Lots of poorly-managed startups are going to fold, which increases talent availability and decreases competition. Having a startup that has found product-market fit and is ready for growth coming out of the recession is an interesting opportunity - there was significant discussion of this during the the initial COVID downturn (obviously in a very different interest rate environment re: seeking investor funding)
You Think You've Seen It All
Building blocks of life found in meteorite that crash landed in Gloucestershire
Are you actually signed in? I get all the trash if I'm using anonymous browsing or whatever, but not when it knows who I am.

The "Shorts" section can be hidden pretty easily.
Kinda click-baity and not a lot of substance, prob not worth the 5 min reading it. Article TLDR - work is part of life (duh) and you're just trying to integrate everything.
The optimum middle is to try to figure out the most achievable pathway to help people to as much health as possible regardless of where they’re at, while accepting where they’re at, and encouraging persistence in searching for achievable steps out of sickness if none are available.

There’s an incredibly sad but inspiring documentary called “The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off” about a man named John Kennedy that died of a genetic skin condition called EB at 36. He did everything within his power to make the most of his life, and was brilliantly dedicated to squeezing as much meaning and good as possible out of his horrible situation.

Failure to attempt moving away from and transcending sickness is itself possibly the worst form of sickness, and something that can be easily cured by just having someone genuinely loyal and rooting for you, even if only your inner self. What sick people need most, more than simple compassion and accommodations for their problems, are people genuinely rooting for health/trying to find solutions or grieving the difficulty in finding any.
Open AI platforms in nursing education: Tools for academic progress or abuse?
Pay attention to the second author of this paper (which, unfortunately, seems to be paywalled)
For me (late 50s), I find that I don't feel productive as I use to be and can think of several reasons

* the project I'm on is not "mine". I joined a sub team of ~30 programmers who've been working on a 5 year project. I'm not familiar with the code. this in contrast to previous projects where I was a lead / main contributor. I wrote the initial implementation so I had a very clear view of the structure of the project in my head.

* the project I'm on is not a passion project. I got very luck that most of my career I got to work on things I wanted to work on so I had passion to make them great. my current project I don't feel that. I'm sure part of it is coming in late. I think it's great project but my heart isn't in it the same way it was for many past projects.

As a counter example, I got permission to prototype something on my own for a few weeks. I worked ~80 hours of over time those few weeks because I was so into it and I felt super productive because it was 100% my code that I understood, no waiting for code reviews etc... I appreciate code reviews but compared to prototyping without the feeling a productivity without is incomparable.

* my passion for coding seems to have dwindled. maybe this isn't true given the previous paragraph but coding things I used to spend time exploring I have a hard time working up enthusiasm for like I used to.
Pretend to be virtuous by posting about some issue on twitter. Even better find someone to publicly shame on twitter.
I'm also very curious for hear from expert lispers. I've tried to find the sweat spot where lisp would fit better than what I already know: shell for glue and file ops, R for data munging and vis, python to not reinvent things, perl/core-utils for one liners. But before I can find the niche, I get turned off by the amount of ceremony -- or maybe just how different the state and edit/evaluate loop is.

I'm holding onto some things that make common lisp look exciting and useful (static typing[0], APL DSL[1], speed [2,3,4]) and really want to get familiar with structural editing [5]

[0] https://github.com/phantomics/april
[1] https://github.com/coalton-lang/coalton/
[2] https://renato.athaydes.com/posts/revisiting-prechelt-paper-...
[3] https://github.com/fukamachi/woo/blob/master/benchmark.md
[4] https://tapoueh.org/blog/2014/05/why-is-pgloader-so-much-fas...
[5] https://github.com/drym-org/symex.el
Watching Americans try to justify gun culture and why it isn't the real problem is always baffling to me. I do wonder if you're expressing genuinely held beliefs or if your head is wilfully in the sand.
You know, I've never actually watched Silicon Valley, but I still recognized the quote because I've caught clips here and there on YouTube. I suppose now would be the time to binge-watch it.
Banksy Ukrainian print project blighted by 'hostile attacks from Russia'
You could try Rocket.Chat, it's kind of like Slack but open source and self-hostable: https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat
I always wondered who is the customer of Wolfram Alpha asking for solution of an integral?
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I think you’re being too harsh here. Everyone learns by mimicry. Understanding the why always comes after. Even if you know the why before you won’t understand it deeply until you try the thing.

You should reflect on it after you try it on, but coping options of those around you is perfectly natural and normal, but at some point you need to reflect if those attitudes reflect your reality and experience.
> that while conscious and not in any kind of distress?

I'd be less understanding, yes.

But at this point it's presumable that the autopilot was in "distress" (avoiding a perceived issue). And when such a thing comes up, real or false, the drivers behind need to be ready to react. And several of the cars did so quite well actually. The only reason this is a dramatic incident is because of the like 5th or 6th car that hits everyone else hard.
Stockholders have cash in the game. workers have skin in the game; they need foos and shelter.
It sounds like you haven't been in the situation the parent is describing.

I have and still am. We have stuck one ancient piece of software in a docker container and have our fingers crossed that it continues to work. This software is OLD, early Perl 5 old. Nobody in the department understands Perl or wants to. The business (read: product owner) has deemed it unimportant to update or understand, but I assure you that if it stopped working, it would affect millions of tax payers, upper management would find out (read: VP, CEO), and heads would roll.

Everything is fine, until it isn't.

Your thinking from the perspective of a startup might be true, but from the perspective of a company that is many decades old and has a dozen layers of management... perhaps not so much
Fun story about the 3-4Y window, one of the execs at my company was having a Q&A, and he gave an example in another question a new set of components, saying that he expects them to be in use for the next 20Y. I asked why does he think he can keep the know-how and outsmart the competition (components were part of algo trading and other trading related things) for the next 20y with just this investment, and he just downplayed my question as an IT guy wanting more money/work. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> Linux phones needs a Steve Jobs.

How about Todd Weaver? https://www.crunchbase.com/person/todd-weaver
Agreed, this feels more like a "share if you agree" chain letter to me - viral ignorant outrage.
I think it is both. It seems to me that initiation of this mess was Tesla's fault. At the same time this pile up was fault of later cars not paying attention.
I read somewhere that the largest amount of "stolen" guns are police weapons. Either from theft or lost by police.
Dividend paying stocks will be pulling from the value of the stock. The 4% you get will immediately drop the value of the stock by 4%ish.

Dividend paying stocks may not be a great option for most US people (and maybe others) unless they are in tax-advantaged accounts. You will be taxed on that as income and not capital gains, which would have occurred if you had a stock that held value and then sold it when you needed to.
There seems to be a lot of people here conflating the effort it would take to make the change with whether the ask is justified.

Europeans committed genocide in America - that's not a questionable statement, that was the stated policy of the early United States government, as well as that of most colonizing powers. We then named a bunch of things after the folks we committed genocide on, and made a bunch of racist caricatures of those people and slapped them on buildings, sports teams, and other cultural institutions. The survivors of that genocide are asking we stop doing that. It's a reasonable ask. It's probably not going to happen in this case, because it's a lot of fucking work, but it's a reasonable ask. They'd also like their land back, as well as their worldly possessions, maybe an apology, and, like, whatever else you do to make up for trying to wipe out several distinct entire peoples, and that's also sort of morally hard to argue with, even though it's also not going to happen. It's possible to say that a claim is justified and also that the work to do it is sufficiently large that it's not going to happen. It doesn't feel good, but it shouldn't.
It will just come in through the open border like all sorts of other things now do.
Nice try NSA, but no.
Fitting right in with Nicaragua and Zimbabwe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...
It seems like the slight speed advantage was in uncompressing the files beforehand on the HDD essentially skipping a step that had to be performed on every boot from NAND.
Did you know that the military commander-in-chief and generals do not put their own lives in the fromt of the battle?
That's pretty radical on the diet. Was it difficult to adjust? I'm pretty thin as it is so I'd be worried I'd waste away!
There's no need to be that dismissive and rude.
> No, the carbon is released when the plants die

Thank you for repeating exactly what I said?

Anyway, it’s not “net new” if it’s not reproducing on average with >=1 offspring per its life.
Of course Stephen Wolfram would (implicitly) beat me to this hot take: Wolfram Alpha is, and has been, more impressive in its domains than ChatGPT is at anything in particular.
As of today, Haiti does not have a single elected official
Of course, this often works the other way as well: a project is failing or stalled by the "wrong" theory being saturated through the team, and it can only be fixed by replacing individuals and developing new mental models of the problem.
That was 2018.

I just checked, and the same unit has been off-market since 2020 at...$5 less than I was paying for it. Similar units in the building are going for the same rates that they were in 2018.
I dismiss any argument that appeals to "common sense." It has no logical meaning.
In this case, it makes sense when one is familiar with Canada's news media landscape.

Ideologically, CBC has tended to be very far to the left, and over time has become even more extreme.

About a year ago, a journalist who'd worked at CBC discussed the situation:

https://tarahenley.substack.com/p/speaking-freely

In my opinion, CBC consistently puts out some of the lowest-quality and least-objective "news coverage" that I've seen from the major and minor news providers in Canada.
This article echoes a few of my most unpopular opinions.

* The current generation could not invent the internet. They don't have the attention span or the culture for it.

* People who spurn well thought out technologies like SQL or relational databases, are doomed to re-invent them, badly.
Im amused to see that this is almost exactly the same idea I came up with for the ChatGPT-sucks-at-facts problem.
By that theory, Coinbase already saved their lives since they'd be homeless if they weren't hired.
Best comment I've read in a while
And yet it hasn't emerged as a problem, because the friction and potential legal outcomes make home made firearms undesirable.
Broadly speaking, anyone drawing broad conclusions on the basis of education is wrong. Anti-MBA, anti-engineering, anti-non-Ivy, anti-Ivy, et cetera. To the degree there is information in these conversations, it’s someone holding these broad-brush views being generally unqualified for higher leadership.
IIRC Musk wanted the auto industry to standardize on an "Open AI" for autopilot, to waive liability and build consensus around ethical decisions.
Deere to allow farmers to repair their own equipment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34305831 - Jan 2023 (211 comments)
Even if all the vehicles following each had the same following distance and reaction time, each of them is going to encounter a vehicle stopping more quickly than the one in front of them did. So even if everyone performs similarly, the cars at the back are going to hit harder.
Last company I'm worked for named all their services after Toy Story characters and no one knew what anything did. "So Woody talks to Buzz that lives on the client's server and then pushes the data to Pizza Planet where Sarge queues it up to Bopeep". I hated it