skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many people per year needlessly die as a result of drunk driving?

Okay, now I bet you're not suggesting that we outlaw alcohol, right?
If people are having a hard time dealing with AI safety with ChatGPT, can you imagine the absolute horror of AI safety for a robot that responds to human commands and is in some ways more agile than a human? The crime accomplice possibilities are endless.
I would assume they did by using their data on how companies progressed, raised money, hired and died/exited.
The point about innovation really struck a chord with me. I think most people really hate fundamental change which makes life more difficult.

However, users do like convenience: if you make something that is quite onerous to do, but the new method proposed is much simpler, has fewer physical steps to perform etc., they do tend to adopt it.

Which makes me wonder about the whole OTP thing...
That would be a good thing!

If the host doesn't take steps to eliminate the parasite, eventually the parasite will eliminate the host.
Oh, come on. Everyone knows about A3 and A5.
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Exactly. I can be a 10x programmer, or I can be a 0.1x programmer. It all depends on my (external) work environment and (internal) motivation. I'll bet a lot of developers can say that, perhaps even the majority.

It's unenlightened to say that the 10x programmer is a myth without, as the author suggests, asking "why" a few mre times.
>I love Firefox, but I kinda hate it. I just don't hate it as much as I do Chrome ... I just lament how good it COULD BE.

I could say the same about many things in the Free software ecosystem.
yes, i speak alien
I'm pretty sure that quote is from Star Trek: Insurrection.
I got an email notice that the program was ending. I expect everyone who's used Smile also got one.
> I also started getting shipments coming from warehouses on the other side of the country, something that never happened while I was paying for Prime.

That doesn't sound entirely artificial to me, though? It seems more likely that they're reserving stock in closer (and likely, more expensive) warehouses for people who are paying for two day shipping, either by having a Prime membership or by paying for the shipping.
I just re-read by October PGE bill. My NEM distribution charges at peak were $.61/kWh.

My peak generation charges were a further $.31/kWh.

I don’t pay the NEM number until end of year, but I just paid it and it was another $500 of accumulated NEM charges.
True, but I don't think the thief knows that the police gave them to me! Additionally, the DA said this person has a criminal history and may end up going to prison for this offense. In any case, if they did show up, they'd do so whether I have the records still or not!
Your argument doesn't take into account power dynamics. When negotiating price, each side comes to the table with bargaining power. If bargaining power is sufficiently uneven then you really can't claim they'll come to a fair agreement.

When an amazon warehouse worker has to pee in bottles to meet a quota do you think the worker and amazon came to a fair agreement? Or perhaps amazon had more bargaining power.
Rise relative to sea level.
These extensions are killer, and are the primary reason I use Firefox. No other browsers have similar functionality at all that I've found.

For me, it's the best setup I've found in terms of cookie/session management. By default, I do want every new tab I open to come with a clean slate of no cookies, local storage, SQLite, or whatever other storage/tracking mechanisms are invented. If I need to open up a Google service, I simply open a new tab in my Google container. Combined with a good password manager to quickly login to lower security accounts, it is a marginal increase in work managing sessions, with the benefit of not tracking all your cookies and history around everywhere you go. The features aren't perfect since it's not a workflow optimized for consumer simplicity, but it works for me.
I was about to say the same thing. I get decent albums in somewhat not great condition at flea markets in the $5 range, but most record stores aren't selling anything that cheap these days. Everyone has discogs and can see what things are selling for and set their prices accordingly. And I'm okay with that. Everyone needs to make a buck.
"Men are judged by utility."

I didn't realize this until recently. Rude awakening. Even the most close relationships turn out to be quite transactional.
All the water starts to be attracted to the point slightly further from Northern Europe.
> The pickup artists are on the bleeding edge of the "craft" if you can call it that.

A lot of people are picking up on how PUA types are actually annoying grifters who think bullying women is flirting, or even that some forms of PUA are actually blatantly sociopathic.

A lot of them are pretending like they have some special insight beyond the fact that they a.) are conventionally mostly attractive b.) are at least a tiny bit charismatic c.) had enough self-confidence to try doing literally anything at all.

I hate having to deal with the aftermath of endless men approaching me at random who think "being an asshole" is flirting. It's so annoying.
> So it seems imminently reasonable to me that, rather than give a couple hundred bucks a year to thousands and thousands and thousands of charities, to instead consolidate that to fewer charities where it can do some sizable good.

Specifically, where it can most efficiently buy image and influence for Amazon. For profit corporations charitable donations, like any other expenditures of corporate funds, are made to advance the commercial interests of the corporation.
> Their problem is that it is very very hard to make a business case for humanoid or quadrupedal robots that is not better solved by more standard automation systems that (for example) don't have to be charged every 30 minutes or have to climb up and down the stairs.

This reminds me of the realization that the difference between a Star Trek replicator and a microwaved can of Campbell's soup is about 30 seconds. We already have robots all around us. Microwaves cook our meals, washing machines do our laundry, dishwashers clean our dishes, etc. The time savings are immense but these devices do not resemble how humans perform the same tasks.
Wow, an improvement to a website that is actually an improvement. Reads way easier. Can I get Confluence to look like this?
I went the other way with it. Bought a ream of A4 and I use it for everything. I hope it causes chaos.
I've also seen this spider, and upon close examination it appears to be using a large dump of URLs, many years old, including non-public, non-guessable URLs that could only have been harvested from some sort of browser/plugin data breach.
They ended up adapting this scene for the 'High Fidelity' TV series that had a single season on Hulu.
>This is surprisingly honest for corporatespeak

This reminds me of a cartoon that shows a field of sheep and a billboard with a wolf captioned "I will eat you", and one of the sheep says admiringly, "He really tells it like it is."

We need less, not more, of this. Ending this program is absolutely wrong, and the wrong is not lessened because they are being honest about their greed.
I guess the question is: What do you do?

In my case it spans a range from typical office/email applications to mechanical 3D CAD, software engineering, electronics CAD, various specialized manufacturing tools/applications and graphic design software. It's varied enough that there's no way I could use a Wacom tablet (I have a few). The trackball seems to be the best common denominator for everything but running tools like Photoshop/GIMP/Corel. In that case the preference these days for us has shifted to drawing tablets with built-in displays (https://www.xp-pen.com/).
Western powers didn't give up their doctrine easy. There was entire movement of anti-colonialism and non-alignment, sometimes followed by the wars for liberation - French Indochina, Vietnam, Algiers, just to mention few. If there were no wars, I doubt that western powers would give up on their colonies on their own.
And the smile program was another example of that. Had to use the correct url or nothing went to charity. They could have made it a setting for the user, or an option during checkout.

I bet if the offered round up for charity in the checkout process the funds collected would dwarf those raised by the smile program.
As a devil's advocate, would all people against $2 salary be also support a call on maximum salary? E.g. A software engineer with 2 years experience cannot get more than $25/hr because that is the just global average decided?
I was surprised to learn that the most direct lineage of the “folder” metaphor in Windows 95 (the first Windows which featured it in its modern form) was likely via NeXTStep.

This is derived from Steve Sinofsky’s excellent Substack[1], which walks carefully through the history of Windows 4.0/Chicago/95 and unambiguously describes Gates’ competitive target as NeXT & Jobs.

Once I read this, it was hard to un-see how obviously Win95 was inspired by NeXTStep in both design and aesthetics.

[1] https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/
as someone who’s been in your position my intuition is the rose colored glasses view as well. i don’t know the situation exactly, of course. there are other excellent jobs out there. you are not your job. good luck with wherever this change takes you!
If you like any of the covers, you can get album-sized frames for them. Instant art for the house, and makes you look like a Man of Culture.
They note:

> If you are a Multi-Account Containers user who has already assigned Facebook to a Container, this extension will not work

(along with workarounds)
So basically after all that, you are quitting an in-office role for a remote role.
Who says the exhaust from an automobile is toxic?

Some references would be helpful.
A4 is an antimemetic paper size
I imagine there could be ways to make their philanthropic donations more efficient. What I'm saying is I doubt they are actually going to donate this amount, and achieve greater impact (however that is measured). I imagine they are going to launch programs that they were already going to launch, donating to whatever charities they favor for other reasons. For example, if they're building a new office somewhere, they can give a bunch of money to charities in that community, to build goodwill in the community.

But these donations are not done purely for altruistic reasons — they're calculated decisions that also help the corporate entity. There's nothing wrong with this, and they'd still be doing good. But it's not the same as letting your customers decide where to donate hundreds of millions of dollars.
You can coroutine if you want, but it's not difficult to write an efficient interpreter - some keywords are "direct threading" or "code copying JIT".
VW ID.4 also being shipped without heat pumps due to semiconductor shortage
Or, a more cynical take is that I only seemed to get reminders to go to smile.amazon.com if I had arrived via an affiliate link. I always suspected that it was a money-saving strategy, that if I clicked the reminder and arrived at smile.amazon.com, that maybe they wouldn't have to pay the affiliate commission. But I never looked into it at all, so that was just my pure speculation.
That seems to only be true for the BEGIN EXCLUSIVE statement, which sounds like it's the entire point. Sqlite is generally a bit more bring your own batteries by design, so if you care you would add timeouts at the writer. Unless I'm missing something.
I suspect that saving the cost of managing AmazonSmile is the primary motivator. That's a lot of overhead! Two thousand pages of charities, most of which are collecting less than $30. I'd bet there are hundreds, if not thousands, of charities that Amazon was paying more to manage collection/disbursement than the actual charity received. (Or maybe not--there seems to be a minimum payout of $5.00, starting on page 1881.)
Chess engines aren't a done deal. Besides NNUE (which I would consider more general) that are outright better than handcrafted eval functions, the dust hasn't settled yet between the more specific AB pruning stockfish vs the more general MCS lc0.

Yes, stockfish has been generally slightly stronger, but in the near future with better NN architectures I could easily see this changing.

And even then, chess is probably an example of something very narrow that you can deal with specific methods. Humanoid robots are probably the opposite, and you probably need AGI for them.
Non-conformity soon becomes conformity with a different haircut.
> No VC wants to be funding the next Theranos or WeWork.

All things being equal, you’d rather not fund failures. But VCs care more about missing Facebook than getting conned by FTX. Most of their investments go to zero anyway.
Buddhist monk microbiome study reveals impact of meditation on gut bacteria
Two excellent books on Diogenes and other Cynics;

1) Diogenes the Cynic: Sayings and Anecdotes translated by Robin Hard.

2) The Cynic Philosophers: From Diogenes to Julian translated by Robert Dobbin.
It sounds like the bot was making about one request every 3 seconds. I'd hardly call that "aggressive".
"The dream of humanoids is that they should be able to do all the things that we do, right?" "we" is a stretch here, since the speaker has never worked at any of the activities their robot can play-act at doing.
Just playing devil's advocate (I don't have much of a dog in the fight):

* SQLite's replication isn't built in, you have to use another library (LiteStream, LiteFS, etc) to achieve it. That in itself is an indication it's not inherently designed for such, and at a minimum will require a lot more testing to ensure your HA/DR failover scenarios work like you're envisioning. Perception matters.

* Litestream, LiteFS today are in "beta mode", fairly DIY, mostly CLI and YAML configs, making it comparatively complex and error-prone to configure vs. most n-tier databases which offer OOTB replication via GUI, and it's usually just a checkbox with cloud PaaS databases.

* "No one ever got fired for choosing IBM" there are tons of blogs and walkthroughs of setting up HA/DR for all the major RDBMSes, it's a safe choice if you run into any issues, whereas you might find yourself deep in an obscure dev forum debugging Docker dependencies or networking protocols. It's a risk.

* Needless to say, commercial support also matters.

* On LiteStream's own tips page ( https://litestream.io/tips/ ) there's a subheader called "Data Loss Window", if I were competing in any way with this solution, I think I'd bring that up pretty early.

Broadly, I think it'd be fine for a lightly written, mostly read OLTP system that's relatively stable. Anything else and I might get itchy about relying on just the WAL for replication.

SQLite fills a great ethos of "no muss, no fuss" but replication a lot times is 100% fuss.
Can’t it just scan the client? For email at least, I feel it can just read your inbox or whatever and store the results of the analysis locally.

You were very active with this friend for n years and it dropped off. Drop them a line.
I’m glad, actually! I had some more direct feedback that I didn’t submit. It wasn’t clear at first, for example, if it uses GraphQL or offers an alternative that is as powerful (the answer seems to be “GraphQL or TypeScript,” whatever that means). It says it’s a framework for any backend, but then the diagram has a special WunderGraph server in the middle of it. Most people haven’t thought about different ways to structure a backend, and even I (as someone who worked for Apollo, though right before it became Apollo) am not totally sure what it means to compose APIs using a graph. Or “transform a database into a toolkit.” A lot of full-stack developers still have only a vague notion of what Apollo does, I think. Also, does this new thing enable best practices and make them easier? Or is it trying to supersede best practices with new practices? I think a lot of education is in order.
Exactly. People forget that there used to be (up to about thirty years ago) a large number of people employed as "file clerks". Their job was to file and retrieve on demand paper documents in filing cabinets. When relational databases became practical, this information was stored and retrieved electronically and the entire job of "file clerk" was made obsolete.
What if the thief stole the car, filled it with vinyl, and left it where it could be found to enrich the life of the owner?
Explode in what sense? People aren't really having kids anyways. China's population decreased for the first time in 80 years recently.
Yes, giving these robots AGI is extremely scary, literal skynet stuff.

But that's also what makes humans useful.
Yes and small charities like this are generally volunteer-run and a very high percentage of their income goes to their charitiable purpose.

Large charities leech off the existence of the problems they are claiming to solve. If they actually solved them, they wouldn't be needed any more. Name any large organization that has ever worked itself out of needing to exist. And their executives make a lot of money.
Ask HN: Don't the new AI systems risk an era of reduced sharing of knowledge?
I think lawyers would disagree, and that the extra word is there to limit legal exposure.
Yep! Happily, with kids.
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Lovely, thank you! Thinking of giving this a shot. Let me know if you post about the font anywhere.
> A reality check, a "what you've seen today was staged", a "don't think this was real, and then make poor life choices". I liked the integrity of that.

I think it shows something different from that: "the stunt you saw was real". As in: there were no wires, camera tricks, editing, or visual or special effects. Just someone extremely disciplined and good at what they do, trying many times to get it perfect.

I don't think the only thing preventing people who watch his movies thinking they could fight a gang of people using a 10'step ladder [1] is the blooper real..

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrRFzwPE0d4
I agree, being able to articulate the value you and your skills will bring to a company in a fresh and succinct manner is a superpower for any job market.
the point is there's not really a way for us to tell which is the "substance". It's all just correlations and it's all just a matter of what aspect you choose to highlight
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Was it even possible to do in the app?
I don't understand what it would mean for life to be better for the collective but for none of the individuals, what is it that you are expressing?
She said alot of words that were pleasing to their ears.
I think it depends on expectations. I can't imagine how anybody raised in the west would expect exclusivity a) after a couple of dates and b) without a conversation.
The irony is that this whole mess is caused by "sender pays" EU style regulations. Be careful what you wish for.
Lol while we're going with the troll accusation (yeah I realize you said "trolling" not "troll" but it's just a back-door to the ad-hominem attack), I'd like to point out the person refusing the relation of the banking measures which came immediately before the riots (and even have a wikipedia page which describes the subsequent anger and violence) as somehow being not a cause of the unrest, is a self described ex "investment banker." Who'd of guessed it.
I assume this will simply allow them to increase their margins by eliminating what was, essentially, their special affiliate program for charities.
My second paragraph was specifically talking about the gigantic difference between operating a stateful application vs. a more typical stateless app + stateful DB. Most people aren’t deploying to Fly.io (yet!), so making Litestream work sounds pretty high risk to me :) combined with the lack of pedigree I led with, I just don’t see litestream as a good answer to “I need a HA database solution” for most people.
I'd just want to stick around to see how things panned out, it'd be pretty interesting.
While I would definitely say it's a good idea to study harder questions, my experience has been similar to yours in that I don't recall ever being asked a more difficult leetcode/HackerRank style question in an interview.

That being said, I've never interviewed at FAANG before. I suspect they are the ones who would be asking the tougher questions if only just to reduce the absurd number of applicants they receive.
> very very hard to make a business case for humanoid or quadrupedal robots that is not better solved by more standard automation systems

It's a general robot vs a specialized one. The only reason why it's a hard business case is usefulness vs price.

Why do you have a washing machine that sits there doing nothing 95% of the day? You literally dedicate usable space to this.

Obviously, the dream is iRobot (not the 2nd gen) and possibly like Startrek where working is optional and purely a pursuit of a dream instead of a necessity of living in the modern world.
You burnt out because you ate too much free food?
What’s interesting to me is that Amazon appears to be the former. Bezos wanted to start an Internet business, and he thought that books were a good way to do it. He was much more interested in the business model than anything to do with books specifically.

Apple and google seem to be more of the latter
Temporary containers are the final solution to cookie based tracking, just like how forwarding services like Simplelogin (not affiliated) is the final solution to email spam. They have very similar underlying principles: reduce exposure by reducing the power you grant and starting afresh every time to avoid information leakage. With temporary containers, only whitelisted sites can have persistent storage and they are isolated by containers. All other sites can have cookies only within the same session, after which temporary container cookies get cleared. Combined with general content and script blocking solutions like uBlock Origin and resistFingerprinting, we can have reasonably good privacy.. for now at least, until the trackers catch up.
I was wondering about it, why the hell they develop 2 different container extensions ?
Go to smile.amazon.com, scroll to the bottom of the page, and you should see “Your AmazonSmile”. Click on that.
I’m not defending Amazon here because I don’t think they are doing it for the right reasons, but I wonder if direct donations to charities might actually go up enough to more than compensate for this change. I was ashamed recently when I learned how little the charity I support was actually getting from the Smile program. The Smile program let me feel good about supporting the charity while remaining woefully ignorant of how little the charity was getting in return. If I donate directly, I will know more acutely how much (or how little) good I am doing.
11/8.5 = 22/17 = 44/34 = 1.29

17/11 = 34/22 = 1.55

These have the property that they alternate aspect ratios every size, so you have to go up two sizes (4x area) to get back to the original aspect ratio.
Full Self-Driving Capability is not capable of full self-driving.

(An honest name might be “Full Self-Driving Aspirational Future Upgradeability with Limited Self-Driving Capability”, but that probably wouldn't sell as well since it would set realistic expectations.)
Managers that do that are objectively shit managers. Sure, if your employee whines about every little thing expecting you to fix it all the time, turning it around on them is appropriate to foster some level of help-yourself capabity. But if your employee is selectively choosing to bring an issue to you as a request for assistance, turning it around on them is the same as 'fuck you, I'm not helping'. Bad manager.
People don't quit jobs, they quit bosses. That is the kind of boss you might consider quitting, because they are poor at their job and do not have your back. In fact they are not even really listening to you.
Never underestimate the pettiness of a bureaucracy
What are tree-style tabs?