skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think my point still applies to making friends. Someone has to put in the emotional and logistical effort to schedule a first "hey, let's get together outside of work/school" evening. That can be a big hurdle to clear. And then a second meetup. And a third... until you are actually "friends" and not "two randos with shared interest who tried to meet up once and it was awkward".

Finding potential friends, I agree with your advice. Following your own interests makes you an interesting and attractive person, and finding people who share your interests sets you up for healthy friendships.
ARPU could be smaller but the user volumes would be much higher. In absolute terms it could be a significant portion of revenue. Netflix perhaps is not doing as well in these markets, presently.

There are reports that Netflix is doing badly in India, for example, which is a massive potential market.
The smell of these things just screams cancer-death. When your senses are throwing up such powerful red flags, it pays to heed those warnings.
Great story but I had no idea who he was. Found on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Proteus_Steinmetz
It's a little hard to compare across countries in Europe, even within a small country. I'm in Denmark, but outside Copenhagen. $90.000 isn't a terrible salary and $100.000 is pretty doable for a senior developer, dev-ops or operation person. You can go a bit higher in Copenhagen. That's not for the FAANGs, that's for the companies that a desperately looking for employees.

Other countries have much lower cost of living, so I don't see the issue with saleries being lower in those countries.

Again very much depending on which country you're in, I'd say that $50.000 is a starting salary, perhaps on the low-end, for a developer fresh out of school.
That probably has more to do with nexus for tax reasons than salary band advertising requirements.
Let's pin it down!

To choose an element from every one of a set of sets, we must describe the method of choice as a halting algorithm executable by a Turing Machine.
Except not knowing about btrees for MySQL will likely mean you don't understand how to write good indices.
> It's also party because India has a robust ecosystem of local companies that handle payments, including real-time payment methods such as UPI that are specific to the country and these are already well integrated into Amazon.in

Just to add, UPI is actually no longer limited to India. Several other countries either are currently using it or have contractually agreed to and are in the process of integrating it and rolling it out.
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Any tips or pointers on activated carbon air filters? How do you monitor the filter capacity and know when to change it? (Especially since based on my online reading, carbon filters, unlike PM filters, just start letting VOCs through as opposed to "clogging up")
Paper maps can have pitfalls to their usage. The family of James Kim ended up lost in the Oregon wilderness because they took an ill-advised route based on using their paper map. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kim
McKinsey acquires Iguazio, a leader in AI and machine-learning technology
Yeah I think there’s a big Marvel and Star Wars fatigue factor that isn’t talked about enough. Only the hardest of the hardcore fans can keep up with all that stuff. Regular people and casual fans pretty much only see the big blockbuster movies and maybe watch the Mandalorian to see what all the baby Yoda memes are all about.
Better keep that copper out of exterior walls. It doesn't stretch and rebound like PEX when the water freezes. Those who care about homeopathy can run their drinking water through a loop of copper.
That's only true if you are educated and from the west. Otherwise, it's much harder to legally (or illegally) immigrate to germany. The USA is a lot more open to immigrants, and in my experience, there is more xenophobia/racism towards non-western immigrants in germany.
I think there are also ways to help with that. Whole house filters (to get more than just microbes) as well as copper stubs from the walls.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/The-Plumber-s-Choice-8-in-x-3-4-...
I will always +1 for yabai, closest thing to i3wm I have found on macos
> Look at nature

> parasites

I sense contradiction. You literally used an example of an evolutionary strategy found in nature (parasitism) to somehow support your theory that nature is not corrupt.
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Synchronous Observation of Bell Nonlocality and State-Dependent Contextuality
I don't understand why do you think it's "past its sell-by date". The wealthiest country in the world had a statewide blackout when generation dropped really mildly compared to intra-day, intra-month, and intra-season variability of solar/wind, and you just dismiss it? On what basis?

If the storage will need to be built out, then your argument about costs is disingenuous in the world without fossils, because those costs are currently masked by fossil generation.
Breaking down the full argument is very subtle, sure.

But, at the outset, we can simply observe that the "safety" Rust provides is memory safety, which is a non-issue in a dynamic language.

To say that Rust is as safe, or more safe, than a dynamic lang is false. It's strictly less safe, since by construction, it is a language where allocation is managed by the programmer.

The whole argument about "saftey" in the sense Rust addresses is between languages of "manual allocation". To imagine that any of these language is "safer", is to have misunderstood a great deal. Rust is about enabling an otherwise C-programmer to limit the impact of manual memory handling, it is *not* to prevent eg,. use-after-free errors in javascript. Since there are no such errors by construction.
> So 2 Bulldozer integer "cores" were together barely faster than one old AMD core

This sounds like a wild claim : I went from a better than midrange 3-core Phenom to a worse than midrange ~~8~~ 4 core Bulldozer, and my singlethreaded performance not only did not nearly halve, but has even improved !
You'd think the prompt would need to be a bit more engineered. How is ~100 words + a search results page a competitive advantage?
Layoffs are usually family within company graphs, with this family then naming the "guys" necessary for the departments to do there job. Means, you have dead weight forced to identify the vital organs, allowing to fire the "medium" weight. Yes, connections or talent are everything. No, its not fair.
Serverless PostgreSQL on Replit
I think “equiconsistent” just means that (one can prove that) if one is consistent, then the other is also consistent.

Doesn’t mean the collections of things they can prove can’t differ.

For a weak example, aiui, a formal system is equiconsistent with any conservative extension of it, but the conservative extension can (in the cases one would usually speak of) prove some statements that aren’t in the language of the original system.
Preprint at <https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.05385>
Yes, the blurriness comes from the movement of your eyes. A constantly-lit piece of paper would also look blurry.
For general US construction, there are single-source cost-plus service contracts. Which incentivizes construction to do only the necessary and charge the max possible for it.

In contrast, a concrete milestone service contract with re-bid sections of the contract that miss their milestones can create a competitive construction landscape.

Things I am omitting. Red tape slowing down construction.

Changing the incentive structure can probably help boost efficiency on the provider side.
He's simply suggesting new materials be banned by default, and research and studies that prove it is safe are needed to allow a material to be mass produced.

It's always funny when people pretend such policies would be the end of the world, when Europe has been doing this for years.
Stripe was among the first payment processors to get approval for a Payment Aggregator license, which was just introduced.

https://business-standard.com/article-amp/finance/rbi-clears...
> I believe this is why we're seeing some of the industry starting to experiment with pre-fabbed homes that are modular but can be constructed using the automation we see in car manufacturing.

Are they doing anything different than what was available in a Sears catalog 50 years ago?
Book may have been on the front page last week but I assure you very very few people in the US have insulation above and below their foundations or incredibly air tight houses.
> Welcome! It's great to see that you're interested in Nix.

I sure am! What is Nix?
If all you're doing is making one little html page and pushing it up with rsync, then just download the .css file into your folder and carry on.

The existance of other methods doesn't preclude you from doing it whatever way you want to. The CSS file is right there on github to download https://github.com/micah5/PSone.css/blob/master/PSone.css
I know where you are coming from, but I don’t agree. Voice Assistants were always a toy. It was pretty clear from day 1. Using LLM as a replacement for search is an intriguing possibility. I have started using it alongside Google and Wikipedia to try to break into new topics. It is useful in a new way, but its ability to make up info is a flaw that may prevent it from ever being a truly helpful tool. Nevertheless, it has a proven value and a place in the world right this very moment.

I can certainly imagine a more refined and truthful version of this that can cite its sources and access real-time data taking over Search, but we seem to be a long way off from that dream still.
I came here to say that ^^
It's a convenient narrative. We're all suffering because the workers are too lazy!
Not bit-for-bit reproducible. Package builds can be nondeterministic, binaries can have embedded timestamps (e.g, build time), and so on.

They should be semantically equivalent, but it's not fully guaranteed.
Look at what was just passed months ago, the Chips Act, now ask why companies like Intel get to keep the billions they were given.

Two article may shed some light.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technology/intel-l...

https://time.com/6222411/intel-layoffs-chips-act/
Karpathy is the reason why Tesla is now behind in a lot of their own AI areas.

You're supposed to tell the idiot Elon that actually, sensor fusion does work, and maybe we shouldn't remove radar and parking sensors.

But he didn't listen, and now the world is waking up to how shit Tesla's are. That's certainly part of why they're being heavily discounted right now. Just in time for the market to see the ROI on Elon's new bird shaped husk of a company.

Google is not behind in these areas in any technical sense, Karpathy just doesn't know what he's talking about.
"What is the role of school?"

There are really only two possible answers in the current public school systenlm:

1. Whatever a broad consensus of people want them to do.

2. Whatever a slim majority can impose on the rest.

As consensus evaporates, we are left with the latter. This plays out in red/blue states differently.

Eventually, we may need to move to a voucher system so that the parents just pick a school that they like.
My GF has been telling about how there's a lot kids at her school that don't know how to tell the time on analogue clocks anymore.

She says it's because kids don't interact with analogue clocks much anymore and Covid lockdowns meant that a lot of kids never learnt it in school either. So apparently there is now a generation of kids who are around 10 - 12 who have no idea how to read the time from an analogue clock.
These two words have the same meaning
> His nickname is niksnut, which means "good-for-nothing".

In german that would be Nichtsnutz. Would the english word deadbeat mean the same?
Not sure if this is a snarky comment or not, but we are not building Snowflake, instead we are building the layer that goes on top of it. There are many businesses out there that have their data scattered across different platforms / tools / technologies, and our goal is to provide them visibility into their data, and let them get to the insights as quickly as possible without focusing on the infra.

Our vision here is to bring the same set of abilities to the business even if some of their data lives in Snowflake, some in BigQuery, some in S3 and some in an Excel sheet somewhere. We are working to get to a point where working with all of these will become an easy task, without sacrificing governance, quality, speed or cost.
Man...is it just me or does Hacker News really love John le Carré? Or is it journalists? Don't get me wrong, his books are great with good eye for character and plot. They're dreadfully slow, but that's just his style. I'm mostly amazed at the frequency to which articles about le Carré make the front page.
Royal said it's going to release new products this year. Keep your fingers crossed.

I have the HP-15C app on my iPhone and it's my primary calculator, even though I have pCalc.

I still have my 1987 vintage HP-15C, and it is an heirloom of my house...
The mental drain that driving with assholes sucks, not having to do it is great. also the risk of death from those assholes is 1 in 101. Staying at home has risks, like Fire or smoke 1 in 1,450
Choking on food 1 in 2,745
Way safer to not drive if you don't have to. We have become used to motor vehicle deaths, they are just a statistic until it happens to you.

https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/all-injuries/preventable-death-o...
It really depends by what you mean by inferior though. Yes, old homes (pre-WW2) were built using old growth wood that is rot and insect resistant. And they overbuilt the structures in many ways. Of course we have some selection bias as the old homes that were not built well (of which there are many) are simply not standing any longer. So the old homes we see today were probably built very well with the materials of the time.

Saying that, those materials (old growth wood) aren't around anymore. I think the industry went through a bad patch from the 1950s through the early 90s where A LOT of construction was bad and we didn't really know what we were doing with the sudden change to engineered materials. We didn't really understand vapor barriers because old homes didn't have them and didn't need them. They dried themselves out because they were so drafty and the old wood wouldn't rot easily. So when we moved to rapidly grown pine and engineered wood and insulation we didn't account for moisture very well and those homes have rot issues. Then we came up with water barriers but didn't account for water vapor and moisture would slowly get trapped over time and begin to rot the structures.

However, today we have an excellent understanding of what make for a quality dwelling. We understand insulation extremely well - where to put it, what type to use where, how to keep it dry), we understand vapor barriers very well and they are made to block liquid water but allow water vapor to pass outside, etc. Windows have excellent R-values today compared to old homes as well.

But yes, you can build cheap homes today that are crap. Code does reel you in a bit but I've heard of code in some areas being so bad it would allow you to sheath a house in cardboard essentially. Insane.
Also the real wages have not increased much but all the expenses have, it's just demoralizing
It's not interpreted vs dynamic, it's static vs dynamic typing. Python and Typescript are dynamically typed languages with optional AOT type checking, meaning it is valid to write code that would fail typechecking or is impossible to typecheck at parse-time (in other words, types are only guaranteed to be checked when the code is executed, but types are always checked!).

There's also a sliding scale of "weak" to "strong" typing (I don't want to attempt to define it). C is the canonical example of a "weakly" typed languages, but imo C++ fits that as well - unless you follow the idioms of "type safe" programming, which makes it difficult for a programmer to write code that is not type checked. The difference between a weak-but-statically typed language and dynamically typed language is that it's possible for a programmer to write code that is never type checked, leading to potentially undefined behavior. C++ needs a notion of "type safe" programming because it is possible for a programmer to write such code. Contrast to a language like Rust or Haskell, where it's close to impossible to write type-unsafe code (without explicitly saying you want to).

My point is that implying "safe" programming also implies type safety misunderstands that such safety is close to meaningless in safe programming languages. It's just so much harder to write type-unsafe code it's kind of pointless to bring it up, unless you're writing C and C++.
Housing is a mass customization market more than a mass production one. Most people don’t want to live in a modern Levittown. They want some space, but they don’t want the exact same set choices in their house as 1000+ other people have made.
Is there one for windows?
I think commercial in this case just means a product that a consumer can buy as an end user product, vs self made.

The point of the distinction being that most such products, like your phone or electric toothbrush, have a lot of safety regulations almost like the food supply, where the entire store, every store, is a safe space where if you can even buy it, then it's safe for you to use at least as directed. I was going to say "you can't drink antifreeze" as part of the "as directed" part, but they're even removing the classic ethylene glycol from that now.

So they are attempting to suggest that consumer 3d printers are posing a safety danger on the general population by being equally available and equally marketed as any other consumer appliance like coffee makers.

It's probably not completely wrong to say that people should not be led to believe that an fdm printer is as harmless as a coffee maker.

They should still be acvailable, just treated more as tools with a few different safety and toxicity considerations. Like how anyone can still buy a gas weed trimmer (until they ban them) but it's clear that it is not to be used indoors because it generates toxic exhaust, nor used by small kids or unsupervised because of the business end, the gas, etc.
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supply-side blame-game
Really? I think a country like China could shutdown the export of Fentanyl precursor chemicals to bad actors almost overnight if they chose too. Im not suggesting the CCP is manufacturing it themselves but that they are happy to stand aside and do nothing. Not a conspiracy theory at all.
Absolutely. I heard from 6 different ppl in a week, some technical others not so much say that openAI is producing OS software for free. The use of the word “open” fooled lots and lots of ppl who believe their software is open source and free.
Yeah, I don't want to rain on a parade; I think about it as opportunity for people who care about the project to rally around. I know plenty of people care about the user experience, but the current efforts seem kind of superficial and limited. It kind of feels like efforts are geared toward making Nix slightly better for its current user-base: individual, super-technical users who are really excited about package management and functional purity. Sadly, this misses out on Nix as a package manager for larger organizations (packaging their own software as well as configuring their hosts) as well as individual users who want the benefits of declarative systems but who don't want to learn a ton about package management, functional programming, Nix minutia, etc.

IMHO, it seems like there should be a UX working group that starts with broad scenarios and personas and develops a vision of what tooling should look like and works from there, rather than haphazard, incremental improvements on the current state of Nix tooling/workflows/etc. It could be interesting to look at how the Rust project makes big ambitious changes (they seem to do a really good job from my vantage point). Again, this is my view from afar as someone who has never run a big open source project and knows relatively little about package management (though thanks to Nix, much more than I ever wanted to know!).
Thanks for the suggestions for Crestron NVX and AV Pro Edge. I did some browsing and saved the recommendations. They seem like possible (if expensive) solutions.

Right now I'm mostly looking ahead. We're doing a major remodel and expansion of our house and I'm trying to plan ahead: What are my options in terms of functionality vs simplicity vs cost. At the very least I will want to run giga-bit Ethernet (or at least conduits) to most bedrooms and livings-rooms to allow for some future possibilities.
I used to regularly visit a hacker space that was constantly on the verge of getting evicted because their laser cutter fumes (vented out of the building, through numerous filters) were pissing off the whole neighborhood. Laser cutting is no joke. Eventually they changed their policy to only laser cut wood. Wood smoke is still carcinogenic, but I guess the smell of wood smoke is more familiar to people so it gets fewer complaints.
Among various other hazards associated with intelligence measurement and the Stanford–Binet test specifically, the measurement is age-normalised, which means that a given IQ score aged four is relative to peers, and is not directly comparable to adults.

So far as I know, Mensa follow this standard, so the admission has more to do with the organisation permitting a younger member than with a four year old necessarily out-scoring adults on an absolute basis.

The history of youthful prodigies is decidedly mixed, though a 2016 article suggests above-average adult accomplishments and satisfaction (based on research from the 1940s & '50s).

<https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2016/07/fate-child-prodi...>
Revenue - yes

Profit - no
My wife runs a riding academy and she's been resistant to any kind of online or off-farm marketing, relying instead on word of mouth. She thinks we get a better quality of customer that way and we have little trouble keeping our herd busy.

Of course our business is centered around repeat riders, it would be a very different business to organize trail rides for strangers.

Our barn is much smaller than most (7 horses at the high water) but it has been consistently profitable. A barn with more horses and a large staff could bring in more revenue but costs will be higher too. There is a barn down the road that has nice facilities but has had several managers and has only been viable with the last one. We know another troubled barn with an alcoholic owner who has a large off-farm income that has struggled economically and has a legendarily bad safety culture. (I took 10 rides there before we were in full swing and had 3 'near miss' accidents)
"Congressional approval rating" is a dumb and misleading stat and I hate that it's reported on so much, especially in contexts like comparing to to e.g. the President's approval rating.

Maybe you love your representative and Senator(s) but your party is in the minority. So, you don't approve of Congress.

Maybe ditto on the liking your reps, but Congress is always doing really stupid shit even when your side's in charge (like the goddamn own-goal "debt ceiling" bullshit) simply because they can't rally enough support to make that junk stop, so you don't approve of Congress. Or maybe your side controls both houses and the Presidency but still can't do jack-shit because of Senate rules, or because some other Senator or two (not yours) in your preferred party like playing both sides to advance their state's interests at the expense of everyone else—so you don't approve of Congress.

Maybe you like your reps and your side is in charge but you've really taken anti-politician stand-up jokes to heart, or follow media that highlights and exaggerates all the stuff you hate about reps on the "other side" even when yours is in charge, so you tick the "disapprove" box.

And so on.