skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought this was an interesting portrait in time of Kansas City (and by extension, other midsize midwestern cities). I'm only only passingly familiar with Kansas City, though. I spent some holidays there 15-20 years ago with a former girlfriend's parents, and at that time I'd say that the provincial effects being described were still there, but fading. It's possibly my impression was because they had moved there from California, but if so, perhaps that's a relevant recent development.

If we assume for sake of argument that the author's description is accurate for 35 years ago, I'd wonder how much things have changed since. Do current KC residents recognize the city that is being described? My guess would be that since then there have been a lot of national trends that have homogenized country (reducing the distance between the Coastal and Flyover Elite) but also a lot of fractures that have divided the previously more uniform midwestern metropoli.

Any current residents want to do a point-by-point evaluation?
Since the Korean War, yes, that sounds about right.
Keyword search and pagerank had working solutions decades ago.

Hotz was trying to make a car controller that had never been done before, by himself, and then he wanted to """improve""" search with no explanation of what that meant that I saw.

I think if he was tasked with taking twitter from no search to "has a search" he probably could have managed it. A team of five people definitely could have managed it.
Want to make lots of money and never run out of work? Learn cobol.
People won't move until heavens fall down on them.

And than they will start complaining that it's other peoples fault that they didn't move.
>> A single tutorial will give you a CI CD pipeline with reproducible artifacts

Have any good links for this?
Microsoft Looks to Add OpenAI’s Chatbot Technology to Word, Email
This really wasn't true for earlier developments like Photoshop, though. People assumed that it would remove the need for specialist graphic designers, but in reality it made graphic designers much more productive and drove the average standard of graphic design much higher. The result was that the increase in demand for graphic design matched or even exceeded the increase in supply.
It's always felt more like a estimation, scheduling, and politics problem. I have yet to see the issue of DAG ordering be a problem IRL for PM. (i.e. human issues since all the major platforms already support task linking and more, Jira is really good here and the performance issues are improving)

Seems this framing is more about finding a reason to use Neo4j, or write a post about it at least.
There’s a tidypolars package that appears to be well-maintained https://github.com/markfairbanks/tidypolars
Apple getting into ads is not what Steve would have wanted. And all teh "well wall st." responses can stop typing because Steve didn't give an f about wall street.
>there's a chance it goes straight to $0

Since Tether is fully backed the chance is really small.
That is fud!

There is absolutely nothing wrong with expressing an intent to say in the U.S. legally.
She could sing it from her balcony if she wanted.

Her employer can file for an H1B visa before her opt expires. Seeing that she is not a Stem student she gets no extension on her opt.

She doesn't need an attorney for this as her employer's attorney is the one that handles such.

The question is now, does her employer want her badly enough and do they possess the ability to get her a H1B? As an English major this one would be tricky.

I am not an attorney by I have first hand experience with such and much of the immigration system as I had to navigate myself through it.

It's really a lot more straight forward than one would think (if you didn't break any immigrant laws and proceeds).

The USCIS website is plenty helpful for that.
Heads up to fzf users who used to use fzf's Ctrl+R, and would like to now disable it (to use fish's that has syntax highlighting) without disabling the rest of fzf's shell keybindings: I filed https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/issues/3115 , "How to selectively disable Ctrl+R shell keybinding (while NOT disabling Alt+C & others)"

EDIT faho (fish shell maintainer) chimed in the issue and describes how to ask fish to erase the custom binding after fzf keybindings load! I confirm it works :) . Pretty delicious fish. Thanks faho!

fzf_key_bindings # load fzf shell keybindings normally
bind --erase \cr # restore built-in-fish>=3.6.0 Ctrl+R history
That’s the problem - I don’t have the money to pay someone to work full time for a year or two
Isn't the whole idea that you would build something new to escape the competition of the current monopolies and succeed? "competition for losers" might be running the show, but it's also the pump in the cycles of disruption. It should always be running the show.
UC strike energizes unprecedented national surge of unionizing academic workers
Want to Avoid Death? Maybe Cryonics Isn't Crazy
The training process looks at pixels. Gets an impression of the relationships between words and curves in images. But, to say it “remembers pixels” is pretty loaded language that implies copying pixels into the model file.

I’d like to see examples of using SD to copy some specific piece of art that hasn’t been plastered millions of times across the internet. Sure, you can get a decent Mona Lisa knock off. Maybe even a strong impression of the Bloodbourne game cover art marketing material. But, reproducing a specific painting from Rutkowski would be quite a surprise to me.
For me, I had to find some things where you can enjoy it alone, but also find a community and sometimes be social: Roller skating, Pinball tournaments, board games (and board game bars). Pinball especially has been great for me, as it has a near unlimited skill ceiling, but is also fun and interesting even when playing poorly.

To find community, check out Instagram for local people in your hobby, and follow the trail of suggestions to the big local “community” accounts. E.g. my metro has 2-3 big roller skating community-run accounts that announce all of the events.

I personally found that making time for a “hobby” that was also athletic was a huge mood stabilizer and positively impacted the rest of my life as well. Highly recommend!
https://archive.ph/Gufdi
> The book is an epic story closer to a Tolstoy novel than a mere biography. It’s about a city and a man’s impact on the city. It’s about all of the people whose lives he benefited and whose lives he ruined. Without that sense of scale, the ending doesn’t work. You don’t have time to build sympathy for Moses and to slowly lose that sympathy. And to finally finish with that conflicted love, hate, pity, and awe that I left the book with.

I don’t disagree with any of this.

> All the details matter.

This is where we disagree. I think 30-50% of the book could be cut and you’d still be able to accomplish everything in the first quote above.
Related:

Mundaneum - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29449341 - Dec 2021 (31 comments)

Paul Otlet Envisioned the Internet Before Computers, Without Computers (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22043441 - Jan 2020 (14 comments)

The Internet Before the Internet: Paul Otlet’s Mundaneum (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21560749 - Nov 2019 (2 comments)

Old ideas come back as researchers envision a more structured Web (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17327039 - June 2018 (6 comments)

The Future of the Web Is 100 Years Old - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10611015 - Nov 2015 (25 comments)

Mundaneum - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10104269 - Aug 2015 (2 comments)

Mundaneum - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9783046 - June 2015 (6 comments)

Dec. 10, 1944: Web Visionary Passes Into Obscurity - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=988008 - Dec 2009 (2 comments)

Amazing anticipation of the web from 1934 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=81030 - Nov 2007 (0 comments, but interesting)
No difference at all. Let's read books written by an AI. Play games designed and coded by an AI. Enjoy art painted by an AI. Debate with an AI on the internet. Listen to music composed and performed by an AI. Pretty soon, let's watch movies directed, edited and played by an AI. In the process, let's give the same AI also all the prompts, so it can learn what we want to read, play, enjoy, listen to and watch. Let's remove ourselves from the whole picture. Enjoy decay.
For games you don't need randomness; you need a function that returns next in a series of uniformly distributed numbers (which RNGs happen to satisfy). But more importantly, you do need determinism, for the reasons I stated above. We're calling that function "random" for the same reasons we'd call another function "dial", even though there's no telephone involved.
PC-98 music also has a very distinctive sound that’s worth a listen:

https://youtu.be/EJ_k_QdlNYE
Another cool demo generating textures with stable diffusion directly in blender:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG7B29FBZKU
You can get 256 cores of Zen4 (with 8 GPUs) in a box. That's a lot of compute. You definitely can be compute constrained but if you are writing efficient code you can do a lot.
A short introduction to Entity-Component-System in C++ with EnTT
Attercop: In-line shell command generations with natural language
So you don't believe that scarcity can capture and hold any value? Only utility can do that?
In Germany filming strangers without consent is forbidden.
No, this will not make a noticeable dent.

Apple's branding and marketing are too powerful for that to happen. An obscure court ruling matters to people on HN. To the average consumer, it never happened.
Exactly. It's quite bad. In the case of ChatGPT, it could probably be mitigated by prefacing each interaction or each answer with a warning "I'm just a machine that makes stuff up; don't take what I say too seriously".

But for all the talk about "benefiting humanity" and being good to the world from so-called OpenAI, what we get instead is a constant affirmation that it's never wrong, with the upbeat tone of a dystopian policeman.
That's my real concern with ChatGPT. That it will be used to fill up ad-infested sites with crap generic content for even less money than paying pennies to a new college grad to spew out 5,000 words a day.
Great to see a post from a colleague at thoughtbot
The problem is no one can calculate a Sharpe ratio for crypto. The variance is not well understood.
> Sometimes I feel I'm the only one on HN who is in favor of free markets.

Most people are for free markets that have no negative externalities. The problem is that very few, if any, markets have no negative externalities, therefore they cannot be completely free.
Not only took me a long time to understand this but also almost always surprised on why Wi-Fi continues to be ON despite having turned off from control-centre in iOS!
Terrible choice indeed!
It's a much lighter read than those, but if you haven't read it before, I suggest Project Hail Mary.
Welcome to finance: if you're not being pedantic, you're probably trying to sell a lie. Verb tense absolutely matters.
"With iPhones running iOS 14.6 and below, Apple’s Personalized Advertising privacy setting was turned on by default, leaving users to seek out the control on their own if they wanted to protect their information. That violates EU privacy law, according to the CNIL. It doesn’t cross the Europe’s GDPR, though; the violation falls under the more obscure ePrivacy Directive of 2002."

They had the wrong default setting. They changed it after 14.6
It depends what you’re trying to say.

Showing the home of a typical HN poster would be very different than many working poor in the United States.

The transition from craft work to industrial production and assembly changed many aspects of life. My home is an urban single family detached house built in 1924 as a partially finished home that could be adapted by the owner to be a two family or you could finish the bedrooms upstairs. We did some research and the first owners of the home worked for the phone company. So not a super expensive home then, but there is still custom craftwork masonry, good trim carpentry (custom built-ins, custom millwork, etc). Today those tradespeople don’t exist. To a 1920s middle class person, a modern high end home would look unfinished in comparison.
It's an implementation detail, but it's very convenient and simplifying, like a lot of Erlang implementation details.

If you take out enough simplifying implementation details, you no longer have a powerful system built from simple parts.
I'm running Asahi Linux on my macbook, and the trackpad feels amazing there! Especially pixel perfect scrolling and gestures in mutter.

I only have two minor issues:

There doesn't seem to be a working stop scroll event when using kinetic scrolling in Firefox. On osx you can stop kinetic scrolling by just touching the trackpad, but on linux you have to scroll a little bit to slow it down.

And generally the kinetic scrolling isn't yet consistent across applications. Firefox has a nice implementation, but it feels quite different from Gnome apps, and then some like gnome-terminal don't have working kinetic scrolling yet.
Interesting! I’ve noticed less hangover effects when drinking herbal tea before bed as well. I even use unintentionally have a/b(ish) tested this with water and have much better results with tea.

I thought maybe the warm water was doing the trick, but maybe now ill test different tea. So far team with tulsi seem to work well for me.
Milan Curcic's Modern Fortran book is in the mail on its way to me right now. I'm pretty excited about taking some time with that after reading a chapter from the ebook version.

At the same time I'm looking forward to complimenting it with another go at Silvanus P. Thompson's Calculus Made Easy so I can hopefully get a better understanding of the models described in the fortran book. (Been working through Khan Academy material in the meantime as a prelude...)

I've also got the latest installments in Sammy Harkham's Crickets series and Sam Sharpe & Peach S Goodrich's Viewotron series on deck which I've been saving as a treat. They're both published so infrequently I wanted to save them for some time can sprawl into my reading.
What exactly is an example of a new state?
> When you're older, you don't have as much time, but you have money. Then (in my opinion) you should be able to use money to get on par with the people who have spent all the time gaming you spent at work and with your family.

the problem with this is that you assume "all the time gaming" is a bad and nonfun thing, at that point you're essentially paying the developer to not play the game. Sure those situations do exist, but they are design flaws* that should be fixed. Accepting a quick way to get thru them gives the developers incentive to not fix them but to actually make them more prevalent, and this has been happening in games more and more, just look at overwatch 2 and the hero unlocking speed as an example on a huge AAA game.

>This is why people selling MMO accounts is a thing. People with money want to enjoy endgame content with friends who have unlimited time.

This could be argued as a reason for selling currency, but for selling accounts I harshly disagree. The vast majority of people that buy accounts in MMOs do it to get "stolen valor" such as buying gladiator/rank 1 accounts in WoW or exclusive items/mounts/etc. The endgame activities most take part in takes orders of magnitude more time to progress in than the lead up to it nowadays, makes no sense to buy an account to skip it if you're genuinely time constrained. I could see that being a relevant case back in Ultima Online days for setting up a new PK character but that's not really a thing today in any big capacity.

*: some exceptions exist to make balancing passes I suppose, just to not speak in absolutes
I stopped buying from them.
Popita – A time-tracker extension to keep meetings on track
This is the first time I have seen such a complaint against bibtex. Yes bib files are finicky to write correctly, and bibtex can be a pain to use. But bibliographies are never "imprecise, missing important info or plain wrong." I've written 100s of pieces with latex+bibtex, papers, websites, reports, books. bibtex always makes citations and bib entries look like what I or the publisher need. If something is missing, then one is using the wrong style.
Hello folks, I recently created this extension for my team's needs. Basically it helps us keeping meetings on-track with it's timer.
This is very welcome. Elixir is ill-suited to command line apps out of the box.
For it be worth doing for a hedge fund they'd need to be able to put on a sizable trade. Let's say $1mm but probably a lot more. Is there enough liquidity to do this? I have no idea.
Small nitpick: this collection of filing cabinets as well as the theorized electronic version of it are centralized projects of curated information that really in no way resemble "the Internet" and would better be compared to a library or encyclopedia. Many such projects to build a central repository of all human knowledge have been undertaken at various times throughout human history going back thousands of years.
None of those are a complete replacement, except maybe Lyx, and it’s based on LaTeX.

> HTML and CSS have practically replaced most non-maths uses of Latex.

Huh? You must be totally ignorant of the uses of LaTeX.
I had this experience with midjourney until I found out there were certain keywords I had to include to enable their newer engines
You wouldn't need the police for that if you own the car, right?
https://ggcr.es/
There's also a scale issue. If a product is not standardized, that Goldman trader isn't going to work with 'a couple hundred dollars' mentioned in the piece.
Money largely gains its value from its ability to be used to pay taxes. If there is someone who controls land and an army and says "this is valuable and you have to pay a certain amount to me at certain intervals" then it is valuable, at least within that political configuration.
You could (should?) ask others in your company at the C-Level to give you a high level briefing on what they work on, and how they think about their work. They may also have favored books, materials etc.

Coming from a technical background where you've likely had to understand and work on complex structures, I think you're well positioned to understand the structures in your organization.
I had a similar machine when I was in highschool - a Texas Instruments Professional Computer. It had the same basic form factor and build quality as an IBM 5150 PC, an ISA bus, and MSDOS 1 and 2 (so int 21 worked), but the BIOS was incompatible. That was always a bit of a head scratcher to me, since even if the hardware ports and video memory were laid out differently, you could still make the BIOS interrupts compatible.
Tether is the support mechanism underlying the entire crypto market.

You're basically betting that the crypto market will collapse ... but the exchange/broker/whoever you're dealing with will survive and have the necessary funds to cover your short.

It all seems rather contradictory to me --- you think it's all going to collapse ... but at the same time you're willing to bet that your little chosen piece of it will somehow survive just fine. And not shutdown withdrawals at the first sign of trouble (like others have done) so you can collect your payout.

This is almost like playing the lottery --- winning is pure dumb luck beyond your control.
Some more biology, among other things. Didn't get the chance to formally study biology in college after 10+2. I was mostly a "hard science" (phys+chem+math) guy and only later I learned to appreciate the true beauty of the subject.
I love how just straight up ads make it to the front page now, LOL.
Kinship Trade Partnership Model for Obsidian in the Halafian Interaction Sphere
> The brain isn't like a piece of silicon and you really can't use an analogy like that.

Of course it's not like silicon, and that's why it's an analogy. Neither is a lobotomy anything like a sex change operation.

The basic structure of this particular analogy is highlighting that:

- Solution A: Literally destroys the machinery

- Solution B: Brings about changes in how the machinery operates by altering the processes running on that machinery

That these processes are further self-modifying is interesting, but irrelevant to the point.

The implications of these outcomes are meaningfully different whether we're talking about silicon or organic brains.

> I simply find your point that transitioning is not permanently changing the brain very silly.

This is not the point I was trying to make, and as I pointed out in the beginning of my comment, the entire point of any medical operation is to "change the brain", either directly or indirectly.

My point was more about the nature of the change, and how the literal destruction of a brain is a very different kind of change and is therefore an even more problematic comparison to make in the original comment.

Going on a road trip also permanently alters the brain.
The details of building and wielding power is the point of the series.
I wanna know the rest of the survey questions!
> Saying Islam feels far too strong. There are still groups of Christians who demand the death penalty for practicing gays.

If you read the news there is certainly a stronger impact by one group.
It tells me that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, i.e. what one may perceive as ugliness, countless others will view as beauty or, at least functionality. I personally think that the ugliest design in existence is Python but I admit my opinion is not common. Moreover, I use Python myself, since syntax is not the only important thing in a language (the ecosystem is Python's undisputable strength). It is also unclear to me what specific 'ugliness' in TeX is fixed by, say TeXmacs. Is TeXmacs internal language dramatically (or any) better than TeX? Does not seem so. The WYSIWYG option? There are WYSIWYG editors for TeX as well.
Where are my Git UI features from the future?
Neat; anyone know if this is going to be released anywhere?

Would love to see this implemented generally for other text adventures!
OP is either trolling or mistaken, the given solution is completely wrong.
They didn’t necessarily choose anything. As the feudal system broke down, those peasants were released from the land. (ie kicked out)
I don't use Stocks or News and I don't use the App Store for discovery so I don't see ads. I am fully bought into the Apple ecosystem. The second I see an ad, I am dumping all of it.

Obligatory Bill Hicks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHEOGrkhDp0
An Effective L-Shade Algorithm Incorporation Roulette Wheel Selection Strategy [pdf]
I'd love to help with this, as I've been thinking similar thoughts for the past several years, and writing a bit here and there when i feel motivated.
It’s too bad, because the nature of that grass created the economic conditions of Johnson’s early life
Crossing the Chasm is a must read. The Challenger Sale too. Among the other references in sibling comments
You gotta use sculpting tools like ZBrush / Substance Painter or 3d Coat to do make models like a low poly mouse.
It was nightmarish.

The scene that stayed with me the longest was a person working. She was in a space the size of a small closet. There was a small pot of soupy dough and three hot plates. She scooped dough and poured it on the plates. When they were cooked she removed them and put them on a stack. Then she did it again. The narrator said she worked like that for fourteen hours every day, making mu shu pancakes for the restaurants in the city (Hong Kong.) That was it. That was her whole life. Slaving like a robot.

It's good that they destroyed it.
People have certainly done some dumb things in the GPS vein. That said, if you're taking confident navigation directions from either a person or a computer, it can be hard to make a split-second decision that something "doesn't seem right." (Obviously some of the more extreme cases still shouldn't happen.)