skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you don't intend to speak to me, you don't need my phone number.

I would amend that just a little: If I don't intend to have you speak to me, you don't need my phone number.
Exactly. There is no way a single person can understand even the 1700’s state of the art for every single scientific discipline, let alone the 1800’s levels.
Even if your technical point is true, "right tool for the job" goes beyond the rigidity of the technical.

I use an ORM because it is cheap, easy, quick, uses a known quantity database which is readily available and deployable and allows me to solve my business case with relatively low complexity exposure and risk.

Best tool for the job. Best, as subjectively defined by me, for my needs as I see them in this un-black-and-white world.

Idealism is the enemy of done and I care about done (with proper engineering constraints) much more than "right". I care even less about trying to define a vague approximation of "right" when there's things to get "done" and the ORM I use is tried and tested to get things done.

That's my use case. Done. That's my tool for that use case.

Everything else is balancing debt, risk and entropy. Right doesn't factor into it for me.

It is quite liberating.
I drove cabs PT in college. Usually the night shift on weekdays, which none of the FT drivers liked because demand was light.

One night, I got a call to a suburban address, a little white Cape-style house. It was a guy in his 30s, glasses and a mustache. He seemed a little anxious, and explained that he was visiting his mother at the hospital - St. Elizabeths in Boston. Something serious. It was just him and his mom living in the little Cape.

About a month later, the dispatcher sent me to the same address, again at night. It was him. His mother had died and he was absolutely shattered. Utter despair as I had never witnessed close up in my young life. I can't remember where he wanted to go. Honestly, I think he just wanted someone to talk with. And I did, as best I could.
Wealth has curious ways of keeping you in arrested development.
A performant way to do a whole bunch of GIS analysis on spatial data authored by humans and used by robots. Ie. "when a user uses these web-based CAD-like tools to adjust the city plan of the robot space (eg. rules of the road, laneways, destinations, etc., does it produce a usable result?"
Did the links I provide help with context? I am attempting to be helpful.
Yes, it comes as standard with Emacs too (M-x doctor).
Oh that's easy, wait the 3 months and then quit.
Subcontract out among your friends to make up for the immediate work you can't take right now.

Spend an afternoon to setup some branding for you data/ml company and when dealing with customers, mention you're a company and that they're not just hiring one guy but that one of the team will handle it.

I'm in a similar position.
I'm saving money to build my house, I don't want to quit my main gig just yet and I'm trying to ramp up an agency doing mostly web development and I had good results offloading part of the work to other people. Learning to rely on external resources is crucial if you want to scale your business.

Best of luck!
The tech industry in Mass us there because of the universities. It doesn't have to do with non competition agreements. Also, the tech industry in California is an order of magnitude larger than that in Mass.
> how is it possible to do Python web development without first learning what WSGI is?

You'll be surprised to find out that there are many software developers who are "fast learners", but actually are shallow learners. Or to put it more kindly, they are not-so-curious learners, i.e. they only learn just enough things they need to accomplish the task at the moment. It's not necessarily a bad trait; but sometimes if you don't learn the fundamentals, it will cost you more (time, effort) along the way.
For these purposes, magical thinking is the assumption that favored conditions will continue on forever without regard for history.

There is nothing "magical" about being naive and ignorant of history.
The wording will be very important to prevent abuse but the stated aim is reasonable: "It is intended to deal with protest groups’ changing tactics, such as slowing traffic to a crawling pace by carrying out walking protests through big cities."

I think it is fair and reasonable that the police be able to remove people who block the flow of traffic on roads. If they are peaceful and well-behaved maybe let them have their 10 minutes but then it should be possible to remove them.
Interesting thought. If I sign up then sign in, can I change the Dark Theme to a Light Theme or are we held captive to a Dark Theme like Amazon Prime and Netflix? That could be a strong potential alternative site thanks!
Simple Semantics for Defaults in Catala
I am quite annoyed that youtube app always defaults to low quality for me, even though I ve set multiple times my preferences to be 1080p
perhaps I am underestimating how much Google takes that reputation into account, but I do still doubt there are many examples of a company with as many bags of cash as Google deprecating $50+ hardware that can only be used with its software, without offering a replacement product or service
HVAC can do that and it’s not too expensive. You do need to run water to your unit though and there’s quite a bit of maintenance as humidifiers create mold, etc.
Was that so difficult to understand? Error messages for people (users) who use awk/mysql…
Which is why I think companies should have to “buy you out” in the event you get another job. If you get an offer and they want to exercise the non-compete they have to pay you total comp for that offer otherwise you can work there.

I’m sure in a forum of devs you’ll will think of plenty obvious “hacks” which are just fraud and our courts are perfectly capable of sussing that out.
Some people can "hear" videos even though there is no sound:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-42237092
You'd need one of three solutions to make this work:

1) Long refrigerant pipes. This is unacceptable because it increases the amount of refrigerant in the systems (refereed to as the charge of the refrigerant). Refrigerants are powerful greenhouse gases so it is important to design low charge systems.

2) Another process fluid (e.g. water or glycol). This adds expense (more pumps and heat exchangers). You'd increase the cost of all these systems by a lot.

Also, both 1 and 2 involve running a new set of single use pipes around your house.

3) Make a "single appliance" household. A design like this has been tried - single AC/heat pump hooked to fridge, freezer, oven, dishwasher, washer/dryer, and water heater. The problem is that you really have do design the house around this and it is quite limiting from an architectural perspective.

Combined AC/heat pump and water heater is a thing though.
> GPT-3 doesn't want to solve your problems. It just wants to make you click on it.

Surely GPT-3 doesn't "want" anything. It doesn't actually have desires, does it?
Hmm instead of patching node, is there any tech that lets you make a virtualized file system on top of existing files? With that we might be able to design a system that resolves some of these module requests in a better way.
for those places where the scop is low, you have to drill for heat.
If that's not possible then maybe a system where you can burn wood to suck the heat out of that.
An answer on Super User points to a Windows 11 "known issues" entry:

- https://superuser.com/a/1763041

- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/sta...
Yes I've seen that happen as well, forgot to mention it thanks!
Avoiding side effects is great, it allows you to construct big programs by reasoning about the parts that make them.

FP also taught me a lot about types, which allow me to define even better the parts that construct big programs.
Linguistic prescriptivism in the wild, fascinating.
If its any consolation Mozilla will never threaten the browser engine that is used by the company that provides the lion's share of its income, just saying.
> The things that keep the west alive are abstract, unfathomable concepts to the Ummah.

As a Muslim, this is so incorrect to the point of almost absurdity. Just because you have encountered one person who appeared to you that he did not understand or comprehend a certain topic you were explaining, does not mean that the rest of the Muslims are the same. I can point you to many many youtube channels (just as an example) on Muslim scholars, sociologists, and more living both in the Middle East and in the West who have been discussing very nuanced sociopolitical topics and how they relate to our religion.
I know a guy who was wrongfully persecuted for his non compete, it didn't even apply, but his former employers had friends in high places amd proceeded anyway. He lost his new job and it completely upended his families life.
This is actually probably the best comparison Latest Intel Mac MBP to M1/M2 MBP. A lot of discussion here is about windows and OEMs not doing enough. If that were the case, then why couldn't Apple work their magic on intel Macs? They had pretty crap battery life & performance too compared to their new stuff. I doubt they would have gone through the work of developing their own processor if it were just a matter of getting power states and clock boosting right in the software...
> complaining about Twitter only after new management is admitting that the primary quality you don't like is the new management.

So the thing about Twitter (and actually I think this is something Musk badly misunderstood) is that Twitter users, particularly long-time Twitter users, have a love-hate relationship with Twitter. It's always been a bit of a broken unpleasant mess; there's a reason that Twitter users affectionately call it the hellsite.

Previously, federated services were a nice idea, but there was never really the push needed; significant numbers of people weren't sufficiently annoyed with Twitter to leave. Now, well.

(I pretty much expected this to happen once Saint Car bowed to the will of the Delaware Chancery Court, but I've got to admit I thought it would take a lot longer, via a thousand cuts. This API thing feels like such an unforced error.)

Also, this has served as a timely reminder that, even if the private service you like (or love-hate) is fine now, it could at any moment be taken over and ruined by a weird idiot. Even if your interests align with the platform's interests, you can no longer assume the platform will act in its best interests.
Dead neurons do not come about because of ReLU's discontinuous gradient. It is because for large regions of parameter space (i<0) the gradient is 0.
>current chilling-effect bullshit of overly vague and broad non-competes that are never intended to see the inside of a courtroom

I worked for a very small company for a number of years quite a while back. We basically wouldn't even look at someone who had a non-compete even if it "probably" wouldn't be an issue. The risk of having to fight some big tech company--who might also have been clients to some degree--was just too great.
The recommendations, main home page, search etc are still there if you want them - and you can get recommendations from friends, family, and people on other social media.

Personally I watch perhaps 20 minutes of video per day, and I've got enough subscriptions to give me that much content, so I don't really need content discovery. Or at least, not the type of content discovery Youtube has to offer me!
I don't make a lot of "games", but I do make a lot of tools these days (native OS GUI/console-cli etc.). And I feel like Godot wouldn't really be a good fit for such things, or am I wrong?
But unfortunately (unlike before) you can't default to "Following." You're defaulted to the "For You" tab on every hard-load, or app open (following a close) and you have to click or swipe over.

At least before you could click that "Home" icon and switch to "Latest" and it would reasonably stick.

I gave Twitter a lot more leeway than I should've through all this due to network effect and intertia, and I regret that a lot. When this "For You"/"Following" thing happened I actively went back to Echofon and Tweetbot, and was planning to make a subscription just to avoid what I was seeing on the first-party app/website. And now I can't even do that.

Wouldn't be surprised if Tweetdeck is forced to move over to the "new" Tweetdeck (which is just a wrapper for the web experience) soon.
https://returnyoutubedislike.com/faq

"A combination of archived data from before the offical YouTube dislike API shut down, and extrapolated extension user behavior."

You're retrieving like/dislike data from that site's API. And when you set a dislike, it gets sent to Google AND returnyoutubedislike.com

Given I watch Youtube in a FF container not logged in, I'm not worried at all. But I could see how some people could be concerned .
Any source for this? I’ve never heard of this and am curious to learn more.
Great investigation work and excellent writeup!

Out of curiosity: did anyone end up filing issues or PRs against these tools as a result of either of your articles?
This is something that is valid more for societies like US, where being rich is seen as proof of 'hard work' and 'making it'. It defines your social status and actual social worth, therefore not being rich is like a stain.

Its even built-into the terms used for describing it - someone's 'net worth'. As if a human being can be qualified by the amount of imaginary numbers attached to his or her social identity.

So becoming rich from poor gives a proof of 'making it' and therefore being a 'valued member' of the society who does not 'laze around' but 'works hard'.

Its early Puritan Christian belief repurposed as a social norm, really.
Even if I need to use my real address, I’ll use the “address 2” field to say something like “Amazon sold my information”

I’ve had quite a lot of third party junk mail with this kind of stuff on it over the years.
Check the latest version. You’ll get options to remove (auto disable) all of “privacy toggles” during setup and to auto add local account same as host system (and remove data and online account restrictions) once you click to start flash
Thank you for this thoughtful and articulate reply.
> Something that has frustrated me to no end as I've started making good money is that I can't use any of it to improve the lives of people I actually know. They aren't going to take my money! They're doing just fine thank you very much. Even broaching the subject could ruin a relationship.

There was a period when we had this "dance" with part of my family, who had a rougher patch financially, but tried not to show it. We'd occasionally help them out with shopping (as they didn't have a car, but we did), and always conveniently "forgot" to take money from them, or "accidentally" mixed their and ours grocery so we had to pay for both, and the receipt would "somehow" get "misplaced" along the way. I think both sides knew what's going on, but neither wanted to talk about it directly.

But I guess it's better to maneuver around feelings of pride like this, than having to defend yourself from family members and "friends" who do want your money, quite actively, as I hear is a common problem faced by those who get a windfall.
> His English is very good, but the concept of inalienable rights, freedom of speech, and freedom to yell at our politicians .. he was intellectually incapable of understanding this, his society had brainwashed him so thoroughly.

I don’t think that’s a charitable or logical framing of his point of view. Unless you’re religious—which the American framers were—“inalienable rights” are an illogical concept. In the state of nature, you are free to say whatever you want, and the people around you are free to beat you to death for it. It’s only when you have a civilized society that the concept of rights makes sense. Roughly speaking “rights” are simply rules society agrees upon for how individuals relate to each other (e.g. private property) or how society as a whole relates to the individual (e.g. free speech). There’s nothing inherent about any arbitrarily selected set of “rights.”
There was some shenanigans there too. The land was owned by the county and the theme park was allowed to use it. Then at some point in the pandemic (I'm not totally clear on the details) the land was given (sold for very cheap?) to the theme park owner to keep the park there. The park owner then turned around and immediately (like not even a week later) sold the land out from under the park.
Discussed yesterday:

Wyoming SJ0004 – Phasing out new electric vehicle sales by 2035

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34395111 (25 comments)
I understand what you're saying, but isn't there value in the notion of being able to chat with a historical figure that one would otherwise never be able to do? Stepping away from the obvious like Socrates, I'd love to be able to chat economics with David Hume. What I'd really like to do is chat with friends all of whom are familiar with Hume, but the problem is that I don't have any friends who have any knowledge at all about him, that's if they've ever heard of him at all.
The BlockTube extension can make shorts disappear. In the options, check "Block Youtube Shorts videos". I also block all videos under 59 seconds, since they're effectively shorts. You can also block channels and never see them again.

Combine this with normal adblock, SponsorBlock (to skip the mid-video junk), and Unhook (to hide junk features of the platform), and the site becomes much more useful.

This doesn't solve: the fact that YT will still dip from an endless supply of dreck to keep your recommendations annoying, search results being full of click bait and repeated results, and the fact that watching hours of video on YT is at best marginally better than being a TV addict.
Over the years, I have built some internal apps by nesting aiohttp in a python process. Usually this starts with me having an existing process and finding I want to add a web interface to it, for example, as a dashboard. What would be the advantage of putting a commodity web server between the application server and the user, rather than having the user’s browser directly talk to aiohttp?
> I've wondered where that comes from, nature or nurture. And how common it is.

Altruism is deeply embedded in all men, because it raises our chances of securing a mate. Nurture probably has some degree of an effect, but it's one of the most basal instincts.
If you have a resistance electric furnace, that is essentially true. With gas, you add the electric generation and distribution losses, which is a pretty big difference. It does cost more to run an appliance than to heat with gas.
I could be wrong, but I think we're saying exactly the same thing. :-) I agree, anyway.
On the other hand I wonder the chance this leads to an extinction level super virus.
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Good to hear! I'd like to see Servo and Firefox switching to Vulkan from OpenGL on Linux.
No, Porsche added gears for better efficiency.

Only applicable at autobahn speeds --- which explains why Porsche is the only manufacturer thus far to see a need for this.

I seriously doubt this will become typical --- simply due to cost reasons.

Battery cooling I'm not sure though, it's still circulating right

No, natural thermal convention in most cases.
No, because the light can escape through windows.
Dart2JS is still a thing, but sort in JS is stable now since 2019 so DartVM should make theirs stable to stay compatible with Dart2JS.
I subscribe to Tidal, which has master quality recordings. One’s headphone choice is orthogonal to the music player you use, so if you can pick a very high quality one for a standalone MP3 player you can use that same one with your phone.
I think this new sort of AI-powered language model assistant search will be interesting once it trickles into end user control. Injecting ads requires the model output to be under central control where the they can inject ads. But when we get to the point that we can just automate our browsers to fetch 1000 pages and generate summaries locally, ads will be toast. There is a massive battle for control over generalized computing brewing because the ad networks need to force us to not build.
The idea is not to replace earth but to have a second earth
inhabitting both concurrently.

Hence, keeping earth inhabitable is important, since you don't want to give up your fallback easily.
I understand why you would categorize the person you replied to as being ignorant of caselaw and constitutional law. But he hasn't said anything racist, and I think that accusation is an especially charged one that can unnecessarily turn up the heat on a discussion without shedding any light.
I realize that there are many times when non-compete clauses are examples of big companies punching down at low-level workers, but I've also watched them work out well for the low-level workers too. At least two of my friends have been good enough to be poached by competitors who were willing to pay them to take a 4-8 month vacation until the non-compete ran out. They loved the long vacation.

All things being equal, a fluid marketplace with many options is best for all sides. Businesses that are too strict with their non-competes also risk driving away potential workers. In my experience, the businesses only ask for the non-competes when they're giving someone a significant amount of responsibility.
As you said, losing spatial awareness is only an issue if you are forced to share space with cars where drivers often don't pay attention and try to murder you. If you are on paths/trails or in the middle of nowhere then its not a big deal. You don't hear the mountain lion stalking you regardless if you are listening to music.
A good start would be a clear explanation of what values the model has been trained with.

Of course, this is why we like to know what background/upbringing/education our colleagues had - human models also have training inputs that influence the values they promote.
> allow firms to hire people on the condition that they'll stay a few years once they've be trained and can at least recoup the cost of training

I favor training, loyalty, seeing a system through a lifecycle (rather than job-hopping before you see both cause and effect), etc., but...

Requiring an employee to stay at a company, especially in our current not-very-scrupulous business culture, sounds like a recipe for indentured servitude.