skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Trust me, we would not want to live in a world where you can't kick someone out of your business

Can you elaborate on this please? It's not immediately obvious to me that's a bad thing (within reason). I'm not talking about removing all ability nor about all businesses. I'm specifically talking about a severely restricted ability - you can kick people out of a public venue if they're being disruptive, causing a public nuisance of some kind, or not following the publicly posted rules for the venue that you are clearly enforcing evenly. But other than that, you can't just evict people. You also obviously need to make it a crime to hire people to harass the people you dislike to provide cover under the pretense of kicking both parties out which is what will happen with such a policy.
> Elsewhere, the former Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe — who last year was forced to resign following a popular uprising against his decision to ban fertilisers and pesticides

I stopped reading here.
We thought we'd ignore all this: "ChatGPT" is taking over the world nonsense and share some of the discussions we've been having while trying, at the very least, to research how our views on the future of humanity might actually align with some of the research being out there.

We're still learning - but we wanted to share and learn along the way!

Enjoy - neutronsalad.com
Living in the PNW, I'm building a new house and I've chosen a dual fuel hybrid heat pump system as per https://www.bryantbing.com/products/hybrid-heat/

I'll also have solar + battery. Should be able to run the furnace & fan but not the heat pump (too many kW/h) during a power outage and thus heating with gas. It'll run off the heat pump for 90-95% of the year, only using gas on the coldest days, or during an outage. To go full heat pump for 100% of the year you need to seriously upsize the heat pump(s) and you wouldn't have performance during an outage.
It's not mean, it's just a statement of a fairly obvious pattern in his career, which should influence how much weight we give to one of his predictions.
yeah but what about content discovery?
Can we please do mandatory arbitration agreements next?
I used GNOME 3 and definitely think the opposite.
If you :set autoindent you'll never need to indent using the tab key. Indentation happens automatically as you write code.

In the very rare cases where you need to change the indentation of a line, there's == or, if that doesn't work, you can indent a line forth and back with >> and << .
I'm moving to the Amazon rainforest..
Production is cheap, engineering is expensive.

If you raise your prices too much, people will switch to competitors. This means that nobody is buying your product, so you'll never get to recoup the engineering expenses. Even worse, you'll become known as a manufacturer with unreliable pricing, making your chips very unattractive for new designs.

Having a steady and well-known demand might be a lot more valuable than the short-term profit you can squeeze out of the current shortage.
If someone does something bad after buying the ticket, then banning them might indeed be okay (depending on the details, of course). My point is that once you hand over legitimately purchased tickets to people, you shouldn't be able to deny them entry because of anything that happened prior to the purchase.
Have you considered thinking and or making faster ;)

I really wanted to reply just with "skill issue" but I feared the meme would be missed and we're already on the lower end of what HN considers good discourse, just know I'm entirely in jest here and I wish good luck with all your maker endeavors.
Laser Lightening Rod
An ambitious experiment on a Swiss mountaintop has demonstrated that a laser beam also can help guide the path of lightning, extending the effectiveness of the Franklin rod high into the sky.
Little disappointing that he points out/measures a huge source of slowness, but unfortunately we can't really do anything about it (for valid reasons, he points out the tool fragmentation, etc).

Originally, I was hoping that "fast module resolution of huge projects" is something that Deno would have solved from day 1 when they said "meh we don't need npm" and had the opportunity to clean-slate the design. Granted, they do support npm now, but personally I think they only had to back-peddle because their non-npm approach didn't have any huge advantages (i.e. perf wise) for most users to bother with.

Like if Deno had fixed this "30% module resolution overhead for large test suites / app startups" when it first came out, I would have gotten our app on to it immediately.

IANAE / I haven' tried it yet, but I believe bun's `bun bun` command is the best (only?) innovation trying to tackle this problem:

https://github.com/oven-sh/bun#bun-bun

I really should it try, my hope is that it's the "I am _immediately_ moving to bun" carrot that Deno never delivered.
It's a byproduct of the process of cooling the air
It's like the saying 'scott-free.' No one intends it to denigrate anyone except for the subject of the sentence. The great majority of these saying have pretty much lost all connection to their origins but people keep insisting on resuscitating them and will take offence on behalf of a perceived offended person. No one really believes all red-headed children are the result of an illicit relationship.
I have about 1050 US gallons (4000 l) of water storage in my house. The very effective wooden carburettor heating system is heating up the water storage. Then you use the water storage for next days until you have to re-fire.

That is a standard package provided by many companies from Austria and Germany.
It's a matter of capacitance and safety against being broke. Being broke and needing services at age 95 is a pretty bad spot to be in. Dying at 85 instead of 95 and, as a result, dying with $1-2M in assets isn't nearly as bad.

If the present is any predictor, I'm sure we'll spend adequate time and other resources (financial and not) with them while we're alive, but in order to minimize the chance that we'll become a financial burden to them, we're very likely to live in a way that will unavoidably present them a surplus at the end.

If that's lazy, then we're proudly lazy, and we come from a long line of lazy people.
The "Remind me later" pattern is completely user-hostile and is getting more and more common.

The way in which we communicate with our software is through these buttons. In a sense, it is our 'voice' to click something. The software uniquely can re-cast your voice into whatever it wants you to say. In a way, it is a sort of mind control. A nudge to think the way they want you to think.

The software that we use to communicate with our world needs to be our own agent. Anything else is morally wrong.
> Also, different but related: seems like GPT-3 could be used to jumpstart a new forum where you don’t have a lot of users. Build up a big spreadsheet of topics, then let the AI flesh them out to seed some discussion content.

Word. There will be a large portion of the internet dedicated to bots talking to other boys.
> they have forgot the lesson

They haven't _forgotten_ it, Saint Car is _ignoring_ it. People in Twitter would absolutely be aware that the last attempt (which for all its problems was still infinitely more ordered and less user-hostile than this one, of course), didn't go so well.
> health and science reporting

Is part of "well meaning members of the public" just as "YouTube commentary" is and "random celebrity that Googles something and repeats it on Twitter."

And quite frankly, so are scientists themselves. I have met far, FAR too many scientists that do not know the very first thing about statistics and yet feel competent to reference other people's research.

This is why I say it's a big pile of leeches for more than half this stuff. Sure the incentives are misaligned, sure its reporting, sure this and that. But what we really need here are people to say "no you idiot leeches don't do dittly squat to fix this problem."
A few things I haven't seen mentioned.

Make sure you have connections with your coworkers you wish to remain connected with (for friendship and/or opportunities).

Make sure you have no personal data saved only on your work computer.

Advocate for open sourcing any small utilities or other code that you have written so that you can have good public code samples.

Make sure that you have non-work access to retirement accounts, paycheck stubs, etc...

Finally, be willing to leave first. (For many) it can be hard to not have your work as part of your identity. Remember that businesses cannot care about you, just people in them.
How are you replying to them, if they're shadow banned? Wouldn't that mean their comments aren't visible to the rest of us?
Non-competes should fail under restraint of trade. Always.
The design of the selfie compiler is inspired by the Oberon compiler of Professor Niklaus Wirth from ETH Zurich. RISC-U, the target language of the selfie compiler, is inspired by the RISC-V community around Professor David Patterson from UC Berkeley. The selfie garbage collector is inspired by the conservative garbage collector of Hans Boehm. The design of the selfie microkernel is inspired by microkernels of Professor Jochen Liedtke from University of Karlsruhe.

That's quite the pedigree! This is a very interesting project to dig into, starting with the book.
There are lies, damned lies and statistics. Looks like the entire article is premised on a single StackOverflow trends chart (really, everything else is opinion). For an alternate set of data points here is Francois Chollet)

https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1615020986298138626
I like that. A Notification Center vs. modal reminders…
Does anyone know where the Godot 4.0 source is? I don't see any branches or tags for it on the main repo on GitHub. I've only seen the pre-compiled dev snapshots. It would seem weird for them to develop an open-source project behind closed doors. I must just be blind?
A good chunk of the United States (and a number of other countries) uses forced air natural gas heating. If you fall into that group, you can install a "whole-house humidifier" that injects steam into the hot air plenum, distributing it around the house. This makes the air less dry (obviously) but also has the side-effect of actually reducing the need for heating because air holding moisture feels warmer than air without (hence the oppressive heat in the humidity of summer), meaning you can lower the thermostat.

Unfortunately I have only seen commercial humidification units that boil water into steam with the use of natural gas. Without exception, everything for sale for home use uses electricity (you'll need 230V minimum, single phase will do just fine) to boil the water, which is costly (though this year natural gas prices have risen or even doubled, but even in states with cheap electricity it's probably still cheaper to use natural gas).
Banning (most) non-competes is likely good policy, particularly agreements that do not provide for payment during the period of enforcement. But you also have to ask whether the FTC is the right part of government to make this decision.

The States have 50 different approaches written into their laws on how to deal with non-competes. Some ban them entirely, while others curtail their scope or shift the burden to employers to justify them, and many do not regulate non-competes at all. A rule by the FTC that preempts the laws of every state for all non-competes regardless of scope without any specific statutory authority is the wrong approach.

The FTC is justifying this under Section 5 of the FTC act, which in relevant part prohibits "unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce." This kind of wholesale preemption of state law regardless of context seems like an awfully big change for such a broad and vague statute. Underscoring this point, the FTC has not historically used Section 5 in this way.

Expect to see this challenged in court.
it sounds like you accidentally set your request rate limit about four orders of magnitude lower than the other limits, because you set them to 4000 requests per hour, which is about a ten-millionth of a laptop

by contrast the 512 megabytes of ram is about a 64th of a laptop and the 712 megabytes of disk is about a thousandth of a laptop

this results in absurd situations like this one, where a purely static web app collapsed under a load you could literally handle on a commodore 64 on dialup

well, i guess with tls you might need a 25-MHz 386 on dialup
I had two fairly magical musical experiences with old guys during my college days.

One happened during my junior year. I lived in a house with two other guys, who were out of town for the night, so I was home alone. I was short on cash so decided to just stay home, and I was playing guitar out on the stoop of my house drinking from a bottle of cheap wine that was left over in the fridge. I was pretty delighted when two drunk guys threw a fiver on my porch as they passed by - I was definitely not playing to any level that deserved money, but it felt pretty awesome.

An older hippie looking guy came stumbling down the walk. He stopped and asked me if he could play something on my guitar. I was immediately nervous that the guy might run off with the guitar, but I hesitantly handed it over to him, and he strummed out a song which I had never heard before (Bob Dylan's She Belongs to Me). He was no rock star - his chord changes were sloppy, his voice was raspy and maybe a little off key. But he shared a wonderful song that I love to this day, then thanked me for letting him play and continued on his way. What a cool little moment, to meet this random stranger and be able to share that music.

The other moment was even more strange and magical, and happened about a year before. A buddy and I had been holed up in the house watching TV and smoking pot for a while, and we stepped out onto the stoop to have a cigarette. It was a beautiful spring afternoon, and we were just chatting, goofing around with accents and silly jokes, enjoying the fresh air and the leftovers of our weed high. All of sudden we heard this strange, ethereal music coming from down the street, and went silent as we strained to hear the sound. From the street corner emerged a man in a forest green suit, with a long white beard, carrying some sort of harp, and playing it beautifully as he walked by. The guy didn't acknowledge us in any way, and we were far too shocked to think of anything to say as he passed. We watched him walk away, still playing this almost angelic music, and the music faded as he got out of hearing distance. My friend and I stood there in stunned silence, until one of us asked, unbelievingly "did you see that too?" I never saw this guy on campus again after that day, but my friend and I still joke about the time we saw an actual wizard on campus. If I hadn't had a friend with me, I'm not sure I would believe that it was real, I'd chalk it up to some vivid dream or hallucination or something. But again, what a magical thing to have happen.
Different geographies have different requirements. You're not likely to need to face a week or more of no power after an ice storm in -10'C in Ireland.
To me the whole point of saying "maintenance mode" is to tell people to only expect things like necessary security patches and critical bug fixes instead of new features. If those things aren't happening, then there isn't any maintenance going on.
A solution doesn't have to move us away from fossil fuels all by itself to be a useful piece of the puzzle. Even if heat pumps were only viable in places that don't regularly get super cold in the winter (which isn't true), that's a huge number of places covering a large portion of the population. A lot of the US, for example, gets hot enough in the summer that you want central air conditioning but also gets moderately cold in the winter. A heat pump system can cover you all year round with the same exact system. If you install a backup heat source, which can be electric by the way, that covers even more potential installation locations.
Freelance is a very different thing than actual consulting by the way

What I mean is working for a consulting firm is substantially different than what you do as a freelancer.
> in obvious ignorance of the enormous recycling potential for EV batteries.

While that may be a perfectly reasonably opinion, simple reporting of facts would have been nice. It seems like it's getting harder and harder to find information that isn't editorialized.
I'm not an expert, but IIUC the financial industry tends to pay full "garden leave" for employees serving out their noncompete terms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_leave , presumably partly for this reason.
But they are only mentioning PhysX as a reference for a high quality phsyics engine.

The only tried to integrate Bullet.
I'm not seeing comments about the quality of India's customer-facing pro-grade IT staff here. I've been out of the Unix sysadmin game for a few years but I'll just go ahead and say that IMHO they seemed to be excellently educated and trained, with most workers being multilingual and multicultural. Is IBM making a mistake moving AIX dev jobs there? I am certain that they would not make such a change without considering the quality of the staff there.
I find most “suggestions” to be bad distractions that I am best guarded from. Custom CSS helped me block them on my laptop, but on my TV and phone I now just watch everything on Plex[1] instead.

It’s a lot of work, but Plex looks beautiful and helps me stay disciplined about what I’m watching, like a sacred space on my TV and phone. I download YouTube videos, movies, and TV shows and organize them on Plex, so I don’t have to hold my breath through ads and suggestions to watch them.

[1]: http://plex.tv
Define backup? I have a heat pump as my only source of cooling/heat, but it does have a single heat strip in it for the couple days a year it gets too cold for the heat pump alone. There no "second fixture" to maintain.

This is common for my area.
Networking Advice for Introverts
Last year Ryan Hoover shared some helpful DMs with startup founders on raising capital, pmf, introversion, remote work & lots more.

With his permission I collated these in 1 place on my app Quda:
https://askquda.com/page/ryanhoover

The Q&A on introversion really stood out to me!

What other tips have you got for making new connections when it doesn't come natural to you?

Q: Was wondering if you had any networking advice for introverts? My main worry is I feel like I don’t have anything to offer and 'pick your brain' always feels one-sided.
Ryan Hoover: As a fellow introvert, I can empathize. :)

You're right that the cold "may I pick your brain" ask isn't very effective in meeting people or building relationships. Instead I would try to be helpful and get involved in communities that are aligned with your interests. More on...

Being helpful: This can be in the form of proactive 1:1 outreach or broader content/community creation (start a newsletter, podcast, meetups, etc.). The key is to be consistent and stick with it. I used to blog almost daily for years and published hundreds of essays before starting Product Hunt. Doing so helped build a small but relevant audience, and some of those connections led to lasting relationships.

Community participation: Putting yourself out there creates serendipity. You can do this online and IRL, but the key is to be authentic and avoid transactional conversations.

If you ever feel anxious, know that many others likely have similar feelings and try to embrace the confidence to get out there. After all, what's the worst that can happen? :)
> be on the hook for continued compensation at some proportion of the employee's former wage to actually exercise the privilege to deny the employee work in a specific field

Yes. The proportion should be 100%, plus all benefits (401k, health, continued vesting of equity, etc). If you're being denied future employment then the employer can pay for it if it's that important to them. Possibly even more than 100% if they're preventing me from going to a company with a substantial increase in pay.
> I'm collecting a ton of money now that I don't know what to do with.

Why not increase your desires.
Servo was a PoC browser that did not need to become an actually usable browser by itself, but it served as a test bed for writing browser parts in Rust so they could be used to replace bits of Firefox (Gecko).

Now it seems they are pushing for Servo as a browser and goal by itself.
Wow I was expecting this to have happened in the 70s or 80s.
> Is it all that different from doing a background check on any one who wants to, e.g. work at your company, date your daughter, or visit the White House?

Yeah, it is different, because a background check doesn't show anything related to your political beliefs. I might be forgetting some small details, but it is basically just criminal history + employment history + address history + some basic finance stuff like credit scores.

Also, running a background check on someone who wants to date your daughter is kinda weird. I hope that a potential suitor encountering such a background check would laugh and walk away the second they get asked.
Also, from earlier on:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/14/saudi-ara...

This piece by the Washington Post Editorial Board published in September 2022 actually mentioned one of the two Wikipedians but described him merely as "a writer, translator and computer programmer" – so the Wikipedia connection wasn't clear.
No, that sort of thing only matters if you're going to have a lot of people watching the video.
I mean it's a relatively young open source project. It took Blender 25 years to get where it is now and it still has some major flaws compared to the paid competition, and will need extensive rewrites if it wants to move forward because right now the C part is a horrible mess.

Godot isn't going to compete against Unity or Unreal anytime soon. Godot's team doesn't have billions at their disposal like Epic or Unity.

edit: Blender also had major advantage aside from begin free, it could do physics and volumetrics for free when the commercial competition required yet another paid plugin just for that stuff, so why pay when the free solution does more than the competition? and let's not even go into requiring separate paid rendering engines for the renders to look decent...
sorry, it's baked in

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen_hypothesis
> limited controls for navigating around the 3D viewport

I still haven't figured this out yet. It's really weird it's so difficult to navigate the viewport, which is a really basic operation for a 3D engine. I've made plenty of levels using the unreal editor, but I can't figure it out in godot.
I use the following prompt (just an example; in a real scenario I would describe the situation in greater detail).

Example of prompt:

Three Minute Therapy is based on the teachings of Albert Ellis who developed Cognitive Behavior Therapy. It is a short-term, low-cost process that is most effective if you are looking for a scientific, in-the-present, active treatment for coping with life’s difficulties. Use the A-B-C-D-E-F flowchart described in Three Minute Therapy Exercise (TME) to address the following concern:

I made a mistake at work and now people are making fun of me.

Example of response:

A: Activating Event: I made a mistake at work.

B: Beliefs about the event: I am embarrassed and embarrassed that I am being made fun of.

C: Consequences: I feel anxious, ashamed, and inadequate.

D: Dispute: My mistake does not define me. Mistakes are normal and part of life. Everyone makes mistakes, and I can learn from this and move on.

E: Effective New Belief: I am capable and this mistake does not define me.

F: New Consequences: I am able to take responsibility and learn from this experience, and not feel embarrassed or ashamed.