skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It very much looked like you were assuming the person was black because of their conviction. Ignoring the appearance of racism, it also completely voided everything you wrote because you were talking about the wrong person, making it all effectively meaningless.

Just putting this out there: I once worked with a man who, when he was 17 and in a gang, shot and killed another man execution-style. He spent a long time in prison. He was also the most humble person I've ever worked with, who had a genuine understanding of who he was and what he did, and had an undeniably deep appreciation of the second chance he was given. Try to consider that your feelings and thoughts towards people who do bad things spills over into characterizations of other people. These days, as part of my job, I talk with a lot of people who, for example, have spent years in jail and found not guilty of crimes they were accused of. Their lives were ruined. Not just because of the time they lost and all that comes with that, but also because of the apathetic cruelty that was inflicted on them during their time in jail. It's absolutely heart-wrenching. The way you speak, by minimizing people you don't know and never will, reminds me of the people I've talked to on the side of the jail who calmly rationalize their own cruelty.

Anywho, have a good life.
Nintendo does have a pretty strange corporate structure though. A lot of their games are made by separate companies part-owned by Nintendo whose headquarters is coincidentally on a floor of a Nintendo office building.

It even applies to their QA department (https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/Mario_Club).
Notes on the Spanner: becoming a SQL system paper
https://www.history.com/news/mohawk-skywalkers-ironworkers-n...

[warning: auto-play video]

It is an interesting history of the Mohawk ironworkers who built NYC. I came across another exhibit once that said that the ironworkers originally took the jobs because, culturally, they appreciated the risk and heroism, and then it became a tradition of the tribe. In fact, it was probably this risk tolerance that kept them working without harnesses and lifelines for as long as they did.

At the end of the above article, it says that 30-50 ironworkers still die each year.
> Contrary to the article, balance is impossible first because our economy and low-paying jobs are designed to lock people in them, creating a cycle of living paycheck to paycheck and barely surviving financially.

There is no conspiracy or design, that's just the reality of any economic system. No system has ever existed that didn't involve the vast majority of people working -- and it will always be the case unless we find a way to generate enough wealth to live on without doing work.
> 0 mistakes seems like a pretty extremist and impossible standard.

Perhaps, have an upper limit for the speed at which these "beta" features are illegal. I don't know why Tesla doesn't support "self driving" feature only at lower speed, where the risk of fatal collisions is lower.
I've noticed my reading ability has been impaired as I've gotten older, but I think it's just a concentration thing. Have you thought about ADHD drugs?
The Art of Japanese Portable Record Players
8 minute overview of deployment compared to release and why you need to treat them differently.
Should we use flutter or React Native?
We are a team of 2 founders.
Our app can be compared to instagram in terms of complexity, with images, social components and infinite scrolling.

We are very undecided between using something like Flutter or RN. Flutter would be our preferred choice although we can't find many big app made all in flutter and the ones that are (Hamilton) are laggy.

Developing in native would not be optimal from a business perspective, given the market we would access by also having Android, and as a team of 2 it's hard to code for both platforms natively.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!
First, so the fuck what? Is it so wrong to have different goals than "rise up the corporate ladder and make stacks on stacks on stacks"? It is not morally wrong to prioritize different things.

Second, if we consider "achievement" to be measured by income I have far better work-life balance as a software engineer than the person who cleans my house, despite me making 10x what she makes. There doesn't appear to be some global correlation between working hard or long hours and pay.
"OKRs are not productive for our level of the organization and take up too much time, we shouldn't copy a practice just because Google used it"

its usually just a reminder about how many things are causing context switching and how that limits productivity
for sense of taste and smell I have noticed three things:

- when I am fasting, I believe the hunger itself tweake smell and taste +100 (wonderful)

- if I am fasting, my nose is clearer - this could lead to a more mechanical reason that smell and taste are better

- hot foods accentuate smell and taste. Try biting a sandwich and then take a sip of hot coffee or water - you taste the bite of sandwich more
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Worth noting that this quotation is spoken by Polonius in Hamlet. According to Wikipedia:

> He is chief counsellor of the play's ultimate villain, Claudius, and the father of Laertes and Ophelia. Generally regarded as wrong in every judgment he makes over the course of the play, Polonius is described by William Hazlitt as a "sincere" father, but also "a busy-body, [who] is accordingly officious, garrulous, and impertinent".
They will test you as soon as you go to the GP or hospital

So I think if they was a relevant uptake in COVID cases that would be news everywhere
Coming Soon: Beef Coffee Chocolate Without a Side of Environmental Destruction
Ask HN: Best Speech-to-Text Software?
Siri (on Mac os) and google Assistant leave a lot to be desired. I'm willing to pay for a tool that will work for live-transcribing into an editor so I can work on longer documents without typing so much.

Bonus points if it would work to type arbitrarily in vim or something.
Who else thinks that if a tolerance of the thickness of a sheet of paper, in a mechanic/maintenance setting, could cause the death of over 300 people, that there's a striking lack of fault-tolerance in the design.
>If drugs are legal, and people are antisocial homeless people who support their addiction with crime

They wouldn't need to do that if it was sold at free market prices. Even better, i they were anti-social to the point of causing trouble we could lock them up for a couple weeks now that we didn't need so many prisons to hold non-violent drug offenders.
Lol. Ironic, truly, and likely the excuse made by Musk.

He shipped a car which is Not designed for Today.
Apt keeps complaining that the HTTPS certificate cannot be validated?
Would be awesome to detect chords played on Midi keyboard and score points. I'm thinking of implementing something like that as I need to practice for my music theory course (one from Max Konyi which I really like so far)
Ok, I never said there weren't smart people still around.

But I stand behind what I claim. A large collaborative, and disinterested project like DARPANET could not get off the ground today.

Are you seriously arguing that the generation who used pocket protectors and HP calculators didn't have an advantage in concentration over the one who's been shown to distractedly check their phones every 15sec in case a cat might be doing something interesting?

But really the argument behind your argument seems to be that there is a monotone increasing function to 'progress'. I'm arguing that it's not and that sometimes we regress.

We can't even agree on what is real anymore, isn't that a serious disadvantage?
Ask HN: How should managers elicit honest feedback from their teams?
I'm fairly new to managing developers, and I'd like to get feedback from my team on what I can improve.

How do you elicit quality feedback from your team in a way that lets them be honest and open?

Personally, I've always felt reluctant to give negative feedback, even with managers if felt were open to it and that I had good relationships with.

Thanks!
It won't work anyway, content is spread around so quickly by people that you don't have much control over it anyway. Something you mention you want to keep away from AI will be copied to a place where AI is allowed and your work will be used to learn algorithms anyway.

Treat your work like your private photos - you don't want something on the internet, to be freely used by anyone for anything - just don't post it. This is the only safe way, no matter what you believe.
Is Japan's software industry killed?

If you're asking why they don't have a Google, Microsoft, Apple, or Facebook, could it just be because they speak a language that's only useful in Japan and not anywhere else in the entire world?

If you're actually in Japan they have tons of apps, tons of software, tons of games, tons of many things "software".

Certain things fit Japan better than others but for example Mercari (the ebay of Japan) is 1000x better than anything I've seen outside Japan.

Japan's feature phones ran rings around the rest of the world's phones until iPhone.

There are certainly other factors like possibly underpaying, not valuing experience, etc... but I think the basic premise of the piece is probably missing the forest for the trees.
Consult a neurologist, specifically.
My neighbor has been waiting since Dec 20th for his background check to complete, so he can get his new shotgun (not a handgun, not even a semi-automatic). Given how far back he is in line, and how much it moves in a day, he is looking at mid-february to get his shotgun. Our state is intentionally slow-walking all background checks while they try to win some court cases centered around some recent gun control ballot measures.

He has a concealed carry license, which means he already completed a very detailed background check within the last 2 years in our state, and usually, approval takes something like 10 min for concealed license holders since the already have your info.

Note that the federal law says if a background check takes more than 3 days, the dealer MAY give you the weapon, but most retail chains will not honor that, since they are worried about liability. That wording was put in to make sure that states and the FBI would not try to slow-walk things, under-hire, etc.
Yeah well most startups begin with good intentions until someone throws $10B at them. As they say, everyone has a price.
I don't have much to add on the reading issue, but huge respect for "I've gone back to school into a medical degree." at 45
Tesla software appears to not be designed for today's roadways.
In the past, I have found Stephen Wolfram's air of superiority off-putting[a], but in this case I find myself nodding in agreement with every point he makes in the OP. I highly recommend you read it. This proposal, in particular, sounds like a great idea for improving ChatGPT in the near term:

> ...there’s the immediate opportunity of giving ChatGPT computational knowledge superpowers through Wolfram|Alpha. So it can not just produce “plausible human-like output”, but output that leverages the whole tower of computation and knowledge that’s encapsulated in Wolfram|Alpha and the Wolfram Language.

To anyone from OpenAI or Wolfram here: PLEASE DO THIS.

In many ways, what we're seeing is a modern-day rehash of the "classic AI"/"structured"/"symbolic" versus "deep learning"/"connectionist" approaches to AI, with people like Wolfram coming from the "classic AI"/"structured data"/"symbolic" tradition. For a good summary of both approaches from someone coming from the other tradition, read "The Bitter Lesson" by Rich Sutton: http://incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

There are AI researchers seeking to bridge the two approaches. Here's a recent example that seems significant to me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34108047 . See also this comment referencing Google's MuJoCo and LaMDA: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34329847 elsewhere on this page. Maybe we will eventually find that the two approaches are actually not different, as people like Marvin Minsky contended?

[a] In my experience, Wolfram makes even Jürgen Schmidhuber seem humble by comparison, always claiming to have done or thought about new things before everyone else. AI researchers may occasionally get 'Schmidhubered,' but everyone who claims anything significant in math/physics/AI sooner or later gets 'Wolframed.'
> Both underfunding and overfunding can cause inefficiencies, there is a sweet spot in the middle where an organisation would be at its most efficient.

I can't help but think that efficiency should be a secondary metric when it comes to health care. If you can get the same treatment, capacity, resilence etc. cheaper, go for it – sure. But as soon as you start to save money by sacrificing those more important metrics the price will be paid in human lifes eventually.
Microservices are hard
This has been happening gradually for years and is continuing to spread. Renaming Mount McKinley back to Denali is probably the best known example.

It's a good thing. Certainly better than the governor of New York renaming a bridge after his dad (who apparently would have balked if he were still alive) and spending millions on new signage to do it.
Malls are cool again. They could sell theirs.
Redundant:
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FTFY
I'm older than you and also have trouble reading but I figured out the problem. I've spent so many years skimming articles on the web that I'm having a hard time breaking the habit. I'm reading "Spare" today by Prince Harry and it's a struggle, but I'm managing to slow down and comprehend each sentence and each word if necessary before moving on. I'm doing this because I want to start reading books again in my retirement.

You case sounds different though, like it might be something organic. Are you taking a medication that makes you less sharp? Bipolar meds certainly do that. Do you have headaches that might indicate some problem? Have you had Covid so maybe have brain fog from long Covid? Are you depressed and anxious? Do you drink a lot? Etc... Good luck figuring it out.
we should be asking why the hell are our fixed costs so high?

Yes.

Start b eliminating real estate investors and forcing landlords OUT of residential real estate entirely

This does absolutely nothing to address the situation that X people want to live where Y units are available, and X>>Y.
A crippling problem was that there were only a tiny handful of scriptable apps.
> So Luntz suggested shifting from calling it “global warming,” which sounds scary, to calling it “climate change,” which at the time at least sounded much less intimidating. It was apparently luck that it ended up being the more accurate term anyway.

This doesn’t check out, it was a more accurate term so it stuck due to no opposition to it. By then it was clear climate can change not just by warming as a result of man made activities. The movie “The day after tomorrow” came out on 2004 (so production started a bunch earlier) using a popular perception that things can freeze from good old CO2. (They do explain it in the movie, since this was during the transition of terms)
I would definitely seek medical advice. Start with your PCP. They’ll be able to refer you to a relevant physician, maybe a neurologist or psychiatrist. Anecdotal, but your experience sounds similar to a friend of mine who’s dyslexic + ADHD. AFAIK that would have have shown earlier but I’m not a doctor!

On another note, have you tried any text to speech software? I used to do that in school when my eyes were tired or I just felt like listening.
It's just better to quit your job every few years and take 6 months off. And then find a new job that pays more. I haven't done it yet but I've been thinking about it for years.
Last I checked they see deep learning training as a niche market, their strategy is to try to win big contracts (HPC etc) and then supply software specifically for that. Then "the community" will supply software. Having spent a bunch of time beating my head on this and related walls it's not clear to me that they're entirely wrong from an economic standpoint. Remember that 2/3 public cloud providers have their own chips as well as NVIDIA's so it would be tough to negotiate a good deal. As a user it's super irritating to be stuck on NVIDIA especially when Jensen gets up on stage to say "haha, Moore's law is over, stop expecting our products to get cheaper."
Super fun! The copy feature is really nice. What does the label that looks like "Y22" mean?

I skipped over the link a few times because I thought it was the picoSYNTH[0] again which was up here a few weeks ago. It was free to download then but looks like you have to buy it now and I don't see a place to try it online. Think I'll grab both, need to put my PICO-8 to some use.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34097936
In 2020 I set out to build something very similar[0]. This was before I even knew NYCTrainSign existed. I started with zero electronics knowledge and learned a lot. My prototype has been running solidly for way over a year and while I've always hoped I would be able to turn it into an actual product I could sell... doing so proved challenging.

Really what blocked me the most was CE/FCC conformance. I have done a lot of research into it and I couldn't figure out a way to get it without a massive investment upfront ($10k+). If anyone has experience in that area I would love to talk, my contact info is in my profile.

Who knows, maybe I will get it to a point where it can be sold eventually. I'll certainly write up about my learnings from the project at the very least.

0 - https://twitter.com/d0m96/status/1427055272980328460
Fine, but if we are to lower the threshold from perfect to some mistakes, then this category of error needs to he empty. Phantom braking is in a less severe category, as it is manageable. In this case, I think the driver or following car could’ve escaped an accident.
I've also gotten this feedback from my boss, that I was accidentally setting a standard of prioritizing work in a way that might lead others to think that's what they should be doing. The way I handled it was when people were sharing what they had done in their off times (a) preferentially talking about interesting non-work things I'd done, (b) being clearly supportive of others doing non-work things, and (c) not being the first to bring up a story if I was going to be talking about work things. I also tried not to send work-related communication to others after hours if I was doing some work later in the day.

("I want to do work all the time" is not a way I usually feel. I've just as often had trouble working while at work, let alone keeping myself from working after hours. And there were also times when I was working fewer hours than was typical on the team but at odd hours that could erroneously have given the impression that I was working extra hours.)
We could make it illegal for people to sell it if they have previously been associated with the drug trade.

Instead it would be sold in Walmarts Pharmacies, and they would make 10% just like they do with much else they sell.
I fully agree with you there. I think we’re going to have very fucked up generations for the next 50+ years as a result. I’m quite worried.

I didn’t either. And it’s taken me into my 40s to correct many of those issues myself. I got lucky in that I had childhood trauma and neglect which forced me to be self sufficient, but many people don’t have that even.
> There aren't that many "somewhat competent" DIYers with appropriate milling equipment and skills

A gun is a tube and a pin. No milling is required.
As opposed to right now, when I'd have to buy it from a street dealer?

Think through the question before you ask it.
* Talk about what you were working on for the past week.

* Talk about what you observed your colleagues had been working on, just to get some team context and make sure you aren't too narrowly focused on your own work.

* Talk about what you want to work on, in terms of your own interest and motivations, and how well you think that aligns with the business direction or any OKR/KPI that leaders care about.

* Talk about what your manager has been working on and whether there's any work your manager could usefully delegate to you.

* Talk about what your leaders (directors / VPs) are working on and whether that would have any impact on your team's work.
Not my understanding of this situation ..they pulled into another occupied lane and hit the brakes...so neither generalization is so simple a case to support.
That's true. If you're already in the business of hurting people, then it's a good way of identifying those you're trying to hurt.

I pass no judgment here. I only mean to admit my incorrect assumption.
I found immediate relief to fatigue from BCAA(branch chained amino acids) and I got no major extra benefit the next day so it must have been my diet. Certainly going to keep taking BCAA I get so much energy. Great thread overall !
It will be harder for a small academic lab to afford MI300, whereas everyone can purchase a few cards costing $1500. And even if I had money to buy MI300, I wouldn't - it is a too risky investment, because we have no idea how suitable they are for common AI research workflows. They need to lower the entry bar, so that people can try out their hardware. Even 80% of the performance of 4090 would be enough at an appropriate price point.
Think of how you can maximize the impact on your organization, career, and personal well-being-

- Ensure that your manager understands what motivates you. This has a profound impact on the opportunities that you will receive.

- What impact have you made on the company's operations over time?

- Where do you intend to head with your career? What is your 1, 2, 5 year plan? Does not have to be set in stone but having some idea can lead to an insightful discussion.

- What opportunities lie ahead? What can you do over next 6-12 months to steer your career and maximize impact on the organization?

Do you see your manager as a mentor? Might be a great venue to seek mentorship as well.
This is a good example of negativity bias.

So you have to remember all these random names matched up with their functions, memorizing all of it, because that is far better than one of them being misnamed and having to remember that the broadcast-service does something else.
Obviously you have to take other precautions and not just blindly try to validate any email you get. But my point was you shouldn't reject an email only because it fails regex validation.

Also, those services don't ding you if you get a single bounce from a new email. They only start penalizing you if you repeatedly send to the same email and it bounces. You could always put checks in place to store previously failed email addresses.

And if your business is generating a bunch of take signups, it sounds like you need to put some rate limits on your sign up page.

And of course that's not deliverable, you can't use a : outside of a quoted part. :) But that is actually a perfect example of why you can't use a regex. Maybe they modified their mail server to accept it.
Sony closed SCEJ/Japan Studio and moved PlayStation to the US branch, where it's now being run by people only interested in AAA games following the Hollywood movie + collectathon + puzzles where nearby NPCs yell the answer at you after 30 seconds formula.

So I don't feel like they're demonstrating Japanese software quality at the moment. The Alpha series cameras are pretty nice, but not as much as they could be.
> How does this interact with individual or career growth? I don't want to work for the manager who insists I stay on the first few projects I worked on at the company forever...

By documenting your work and/or mentoring a junior employee to pass on your tribal knowledge.
It was deemed infeasible because it was infeasible.

It took 2 generations time for computers to improve enough that it became feasible. And also a huge unexpected discovery about 20 years ago, that you can pre-train a neural network and cost your costs by an order of magnitude.