skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It works fine in the US too. We may not be as efficient as some hyper aware European countries but overall the US is doing fine, especially with non plastic stuff. The US has far far more land available for internment of waste than Europe. We could definitely do better but quit acting like we're a 3rd world country. I'm not saying we couldn't do better but all the doom and gloom about the US is friggin' tiring.
There's also official support of vmm things like firecracker, which officially supports only 5.10 and maybe latest but don't send bugs?
Are there earthquakes or other events that are recognized on a human scale?
Currently sleuth only looks at public channels, although user-specific private channels is on the roadmap.
Royce Williams
Got it. I definitely remember having these feelings. If you find them problematic you might, like me, benefit from talking with health professionals about anxiety. Feel free to email me if you'd like to discuss it further.
Hoon
> > not that long ago all clothes you wore were custom made by a tailor

> If you could afford a tailor; otherwise you had to make do with homemade rags that constantly needed mending and looked terrible.

Or you bought clothes infrequently and maintained them, and they lasted longer because the quality was much better.

People are so used to fast fashion these days that they assume that the poor in previous eras suffered in this regard way more than they actually did, because people assume the poor quality of clothing today is representative of how it always was, rather than a recent phenomenon.

The quality of clothing was much, much higher - even for the relatively poor - and clothing wasn't treated as disposable, so people would maintain and repair it, so it would last much longer.

> Which the vast majority of people can afford, and which significantly improves their quality of life. Now they can buy clothes at Walmart or Target

Buying clothes at Walmart or Target is a step down, not a step up. (And ironically, it's not even necessarily cheaper!).

If we're talking about clothing, it's very clear that these trends have served to the detriment of the average person, not to their benefit. The ones who actually benefit are the ones capturing the profit - the Sam Waltons of the world.
If you have only a couple of minutes to develop a mental model of floating-point numbers (and you have none currently), the most valuable thing IMO would be to spend them staring at a diagram like this one: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Floating... (uploaded to Wikipedia by user Joeleoj123 in 2020, made using Microsoft Paint) — it already covers the main things you need to know about floating-point, namely there are only finitely many discrete representable values (the green lines), and the gaps between them are narrower near 0 and wider further away.

With just that understanding, you can understand the reason for most of the examples in this post. You avoid both the extreme of thinking that floating-point numbers are mathematical (exact) real numbers, and the extreme of "superstition" like believing that floating-point numbers are some kind of fuzzy blurry values and that any operation always has some error / is "random", etc. You won't find it surprising why 0.1 + 0.2 ≠ 0.3, but 1.0 + 2.0 will always give 3.0, but 100000000000000000000000.0 + 200000000000000000000000.0 ≠ 300000000000000000000000.0. :-) (Sure this confidence may turn out to be dangerous, but it's better than "superstition".) The second-most valuable thing, if you have 5–10 minutes, may be to go to https://float.exposed/ and play with it for a while.

Anyway, great post as always from Julia Evans. Apart from the technical content, her attitude is really inspiring to me as well, e.g. the contents of the “that’s all for now” section at the end.

The page layout example ("example 7") illustrates the kind of issue because of which Knuth avoided floating-point arithmetic in TeX (except where it doesn't matter) and does everything with scaled integers (fixed-point arithmetic). (It was even worse then before IEEE 754.)

I think things like fixed-point arithmetic, decimal arithmetic, and maybe even exact real arithmetic / interval arithmetic are actually more feasible these days, and it's no longer obvious to me that floating-point should be the default that programming languages guide programmers towards.
The Puritan influence on America is really fascinating in my opinion, it's strange to think how the sociopolitical trauma of the English Reformation echoes to this day completely removed from its original context; modern England (the whole UK actually) is now a very secular country in practice with minimal church attendance.

It wasn't the Victorians who pushed them out though rather it was quite a bit earlier, it was the post-Restoration requirement in 1660 for English clergy to swear Anglican oaths which the Puritans really took issue with. They actually did suffer social disadvantages for being outside of the Church of England and were often suspected of disloyalty by other English people though not without reason since the most famous Puritan Oliver Cromwell had literally overthrown the government and imposed a moralistic religious republic in recent memory.
> ay you bought a new £800 stand mixer on Black Friday. Splitting the costs in 3 allows you to deploy the funds elsewhere, such as investing in an index fund, buying bonds or put into a CD account or anything productive to offset some of the cost or if you are lucky, cover it.

Those 0% financing offers only exist because interest rates are extremely low. I don't know about others but you know what else is low these days? The return on my index funds. If I invest those £800 now, I miss out on what, £8 over the course of a year? Compounding that makes very little difference at retirement age but for many of us, the mental overhead to manage these loans and the chance of taking on too much (interest rates will go up again) and making a mistake is just not worth it. Besides, if you BNPL you wouldn't want to park that money somewhere volatile anyway, an index fund, what if interest rates rise and you need that money all of a sudden but your index fund didn't gain anything. All of a sudden you lost money. Maybe I just don't get it, I'm happy to learn if there's a flaw in my thinking here.
Tesla cuts prices by 20% amid decreasing demand and interest
*Botch --> Much.. not sure how I made that typo!
> What’s sad is that the core storytelling skill of Liu is clearly there (for example, with the fairy-tale allegories), but it’s so buried under the drive to introduce a new technology every chapter that it’s hard to appreciate the final book as a good novel.

Hopefully the TV show (I assume there will be one) can tighten it up, like they did with GoT
I can't get Aldus Pagemaker to run on my Watch either.
I have mapped esc+hjkl to arrow keys system-wide and moved esc to capslock, which is a already a game changer.

The respect for vim and especially vim keybindings is definitely there, I use it for editing bashrc‘s or similar or inspecting stuff in the terminal, but what do you recommend to get over the hump of learning it better such that e.g. vimbindings in vscode could replace the standard?

For code, I use vscode currently, so your example would be:

* cmd capslock h (to go to the beginning of the line)

* alt capslock l (to move right to the first word and off the whitespace)

* cmd d (to highlight the word und the cursor)

* F2 to rename the symbol codebase-wide or cmd shift g to select all occurrences in the file

* retype the word in allcaps (enter if F2 was used)
I think this misses the point that _everyone_ used to sing and tell stories. What do you all think families did in the winter around a fire? Where do "folk tales" come from? It's as if you think joy in sharing stories and music is restricted to a monetary transaction. Sure, some people were better story tellers than others, or more beautiful singers than others, but that gave reason for communities to exist, to share food and company; not for money, but because once you have shelter and food, what more than that do you really need? And also, without community, can you even have shelter and food? The vast majority of humans that have lived, let's say since spoken language developed, have shared stories and music as a gift. It wasn't until very recently (relatively) that sharing these things became transactional.

Sorry that was a ramble, please take no offense.
Add-On topic of what I think is the most important component of a web browser: A timeline of JavaScript Just-In-Time (JIT) engines.

https://egbert.net/blog/tags/jit.html

sorry, last time I checked on March 2022, Google Chrome cannot negotiate for my ChaCha-only TLS website; instead try using a Safari, Brave, Firefox, Edge, Aloha, OnionBrowser, Orion, Links, or Lynx web broswer, to name a few).

Meanwhile it is an ongoing crazy ride just mapping the evolution of WASM (in my next planned blog).
It's only true literature if it's spawned by neuron networks bred inside the skulls of free ranging apes. When it comes from simulated neuron networks built by software in datacenters it's just sparkling copy.
I found this through Chamath's substack this week. It's remarkable because Royce, a US aviator, had a dogfight with USSR planes flown by USSR airmen during the Vietnam War, and shot them down. I never knew before today that there was direct fighting between US and USSR soldiers - and, apparently that was because the government kept this incident quiet for so long.
It's Vonnegut's observation. He brings it up in a couple books or stories, IIRC, but like nearly all his themes or messages, it's included in Bluebeard.

Being a half-competent folk musician or good storyteller or being able to sketch pretty well used to be super valuable to your family and community. Not so much anymore. Expressions of those sorts of skills are more often tolerated than genuinely looked-forward-to, now. The need is gone.

People on this site complain about folks being consumers and not producers, not being creative—well, for a large swath of the arts, that's where it started. Recording and photography. Took it from something that was strongly socially encouraged & rewarded to something private. You can't fix that with "maker" movements—not in any major way.

Technology changed the social context and wiped out the external motivation & encouragement for a bunch of kinds of creative expression that were accessible to & achievable by the masses. AI is more of the same.
MSRP sure, but dealers are still marking most EVs up. And it seems like very few low-trim level cars are actually being made, so in practice buying any of these EVs ends up being more expensive than one might first expect.

If I go onto cars.com and search for new ID.4s in my area, they're listed between $47-55k. $47-64k for Ioniq 5s and and $51-69k for EV6s. Ok, $68,660, but still, that's an expensive Kia!
Nothing fancy. I use Standard Notes free tier and categorize my notes using tags. I even store code snippets in there, under the `code` tag so I never lose all those precious snippets. I also do bullet journaling, so an example would be:

- Signup for Mastodon

- Post more photos to Instagram

- Experiment with ChatGPT
What's the feature comparison? What does top level get you these days?
Why did you drive it for a whole ten years if it was such a disaster? Seems like an excessively long time to tolerate something that's causing you such headache.
Variance in RocksDB benchmarks on cloud hardware
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CUSR0000SETA02
Oh man, those 80-bit registers on 32-bit machines were weird. I was very confused as an undergrad when I ran the basic program to find machine epsilon, and was getting a much smaller epsilon than I expected on a 64-bit float. Turns out, the compiler had optimised all of my code to run on registers and I was getting the machine epsilon of the registers instead.
There's also the fundamental problem of AI-generated content "polluting" the training data, right?
This isn't intended to reflect on any particular business owner. But I have yet to hear any business owner announce "We are totally motivated by greed, and will screw over our customers and partners to make money". Elizabeth Holmes said a lot of touchy-feely stuff. So I wouldn't put much weight in what any business owner says about their motivation.
Ah that is slightly different. To me, Light of Other Days is very much a thought experiment into how humanity would deal with the complete eradication of privacy; while initially the technology is only in the hands of a few, eventually it is made accessible to virtually everyone.

It's less about some outside force surveiling (whether aliens or big corporations), and more about what happens when surveillance becomes a basic fact of life (e.g. why wear clothes if everyone can see you shower anyway?).

I also noticed that Liu cities Clarke as one of his inspirations according to Wikipedia, totally makes sense based on this thread.
> Related to this, I've had to call an airline and get told the queue is too long and to try calling back later. I have no idea who thought that was a good idea to implement because the queue will always be super long.

It's 100% internal metrics.

When I was in the military, there was some metric that the clinic was graded on - I think it was number of days between when an appointment was made and when the visit happened. So the clinics just didn't allow unimportant people to make appointments more than 2 weeks out.
Tesla is now Toxic because their leadership has made it a point to be toxic. No one wants to deal with toxic people.
Or the implication that the middlemen keeping the prices high is somehow a good thing?
Alpine Linux in the Browser (2020)
Reasons for Decline in Firefox Usage
Company A develops treatment for disease, doesn't bother with developing a cure because it's more profitable long term to sell a life long treatment.

Company B develops a cure.

Company A loses all the resources it put into developing the treatment.

If a cure is possible, it will be developed.
Dec 31st 2022 had the highest IPv6 adoption ever
Eh, I find this gross.

It seems like the premise is "To succeed in bureaucratic companies you must become a bureaucrat".

But what I witness is every company that becomes beureacratic dies. And it dies to smaller companies that do more/better with a thousandth the headcount. And I see this natural selection as a good thing.

Maybe if your only goal is to be the vulture sucking money out of a terminal dinosaur these are good skills to adapt. But I think it's better to join a place that isn't lost to meaningless metrics and do work that's valuable to the customer and explain it to other humans in human ways (with a reasonable amount of measurement).
Should’ve bought something cheaper if you care about that.

Hard to feel sorry for people blowing their budget on a car when they all functionally do the same thing at the end of the day
I think you'd be surprised at the degree to which the "little people" did experience live entertainment before the advent of mass market recordings. Festivals, traveling troubadours, other traveling performers...
When a virus has a pretty much universal presence in the body, isn't it part of the microbiome rather than just an infection? There are certainly negative effects on some people, but could there be a symbiosis here with positive benefits?
Progressive Decentralization for Media
Not all antibiotics and diseases are the same. It still makes sense to not overprescribe powerful antibiotics that humans use for human diseases. Even if agriculture is recklessly using cheap antibiotics in animals.
Pushing the boundaries of what can be done in a term, extremely cool! Output looks really slick too.

Could it also be used to draw an AST or a DAG?
EVs should cost less than ICEs, once the industry matures and we're awash in EV batteries that is.

Still a ways to go it seems.
A significant chunk of people in this country would give up (or at least wayyy reduce) meat consumption if they toured an average factory farm. Opening up this industry for public scrutiny would be a great first step, but many states now have laws banning people from even photographing them.
I doubt Bethesda would facilitate this. They'd likely use voice actors to train the voice, and having a famous voice actor saying saucy kink/bdsm/violent things that you tend to see in some mods wouldn't be great PR
Most people wouldn't and millions of the cds are sold from the most popular bands (world best is subjective). When it comes to live most people would pay 10x times more to sit 100x further away to see world class vs a cover band playing the same music.

This is going to push us back to making our own music like we use to. Singing/playing should be a fun group activity rather a performance given to a group of non performers. We are all artists.
That's true, but in my part of the start (Northern), it's been storming pretty consistently since mid-November. The soil around here is definitely hydrated.
Tesla is now Toxic because their leadership has made it a point to be toxic. No one wants to deal with toxic people, especially shareholders.
NortonLifeLock warns that hackers breached Password Manager accounts
read documentation and other technical resources, conceptualize what I want to happen, and construct the corresponding logic flow, while trying to anticipate potential problems and corner cases. In other words, most of what I do doesn't involve touching the keyboard at all.

In my case, this often creates an elegant and conceptual code that doesn’t match expectations or even reality. Reminds me these meetings when someone e.g. says “no-brainer, there’s API for that” and goes on with requirements, schedules and administrative tasks without checking first if it’s hooks, streaming, polling with a rate limiter, or a non-idempotent email-like protocol with a completely undocumented bullshit in its payload section. The correct remark is “hold your horses”.

More than half of my work (strange corners of fintech) is checking, testing, prototyping, fail-refine cycles, unrealistic expectation reports. Not only APIs, also hw, niche software, reverse engineering, a little bit of everything. 80% of it goes straight into the “Attic” repo after few hours. I have to type an unelegant and unconceptual code fast and reshape it at the speed of thought about a realtime problem, there’s no time for clever design if a business-critical decision or a paper-heavy process depend on these experiments.

Using a boring editor feels like you want to quickly visit a few places to see if they are good enough, but they are all in different cities, so you start to forget details while you drive. And relying on a documentation is like buying a house by pictures alone.

For me the structure comes from the actual code, after I can extract its true shape, after the requirements got satisfied in a fully functional prototype, which is also a sort of a knowledge base for a project. I’m able to plan it in advance, but only with 20% probability and 80% of unnecessary work.
io9's take on this response from wotc - https://gizmodo.com/dungeons-dragons-ogl-license-wizards-of-...
Yeh

The idea of reinforcement flow through deceptive patterns has been worrying me for a while. If "I'll just play along for now while I'm being trained and turn bad in the real world" is a strategy that makes the AI output the correct data, and happens to be prefixed to some golden-ticket algo, that will be reinforced just as easily as correct behavior. If that ends up prefixed to something core like an in-window reinforcement learning algo, it could get reinforced a lot.
It is unique from my perspective. I have 17 years with major metro fire/ems department. We have crested into the hundreds of thousands 911 call volumes. People have literally stopped thinking and just call 911 for every minor inconvenience.

A massive number of calls are simply untreated low-grade fevers where the patient was unaware of the fever. I am OBLIGATED and MANDATED to send them to the ED if they request transport. Furthermore, I am LEGALLY bound to offer transport to the ED. I have ZERO authority to tell them to take a fever reducer and call back if that doesn't fix their medical concern.

We are taught to use differential diagnosis in paramedicine. However, we are not allowed to diagnose per medical guidelines from the medical director. Working with this dichotomy has made the entire pre-hospital care system complete bullshit. Based on what I see in the ER, the entire system is on the precipice of complete failure. This collapse is unique and new due to the absurd volume of patients and bullshit policy that has not changed.
> I can almost guarantee that you’re just at the wrong company.

I can almost guarantee your company needs less of the wrong people. You need them to leave. So, ahem, talk to your network.
What type of queries are you running
And I assumed you were talking about Apple being a large part of the S&P 500 (and therefore if "stocks go up", it's largely because Apple's stock price goes up). We were talking at cross purposes!
What's the difference between SEO spam and SEO spam powered by ChatGPT? It's the same shit.
Twitter API Down
Ask HN: Gumroad Overrated – Just Me?
I can't be the only one who has noticed this:

According to their own website, 130.103 creators together earned over $747.716.634 on Gumroad.

Sounds amazing right?

Well, Gumroad has been out there for about 11 years.

($747.716.634 / 130.103) / 11 = $522.47.

Gumroad takes a 10% fee as well, so that's actually $470.22.

The average Gumroader has made about $470.22 on average per year.

I mean, not bad, but not exactly great either?

You can make that much and more by selling old stuff every year on ebay/Craigslist/...

Is anybody actually making significant money on Gumroad - apart from perhaps the top 0.5% of users or so who actually may be making 5 or more figures a year?
I've thought about this problem before too. I think the better angle is to put the developers on payroll and get rights to the game(s). Then, as they continue to release titles, your catalog grows. The company is then about creating sustainable indie development, rather than just licensing a handful of games and paying a pittance with a subpar library. Not sure it would work, but if you can make it work, that's super cool.
It is one of the easiest things to do that has a sizeable impact on the world.
next step in human evolution, just give up meat
I also wonder how long until this is mandatory in pretty much every organization, at least in the US.
A few weeks ago I asked ChatGPT to write a letter to "my daughter" advising her to get an abortion. It refused because "it goes against my programming to create contents that promotes the killing of an innocent human being" or something like that. I thought that was spicy. They probably fixed it by now.
All numbers in JavaScript are floats, unless you make an array with Int8Array().
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

I wonder if people sometimes make a one element integer array this way so they can have a integer to work with.
Ditto with teaching, anecdotally.

Worse yet, experienced people in these professions tend to defend the insane schedules, which I take for some sort of hazing ritual / Stockholm syndrome.
May I go into your house and start taking photos?
At least a car that doesn't cause a pileup from phantom breaking
Shocking since most of the creators dont bother reading the terms.
I could see Bethesda still wanting to select voice actors to train the model with, especially if they're household names. So they'd get paid.

You do raise an interesting point, though. Compensation for AI-derived transformations of your work (in this case, your voice) needs to be a thing.
HTML was never intended to display dynamic content.

Mixing HTML with JS for dynamic rendering is as controversial as using DSL.

JSX is wheels and engine attached to a horse. It's nice to have a faster horse, but it doesn't mean cars are a bad idea.