skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> re-inserted imperial rule (i.e. the Japanese emperor was again the ruler)

Eh, not really. The real military power behind the restoration was the Satsuma-Choshu Alliance, the Emperor was mostly[1] a convenient figurehead, and many of the Shogun's retainers transitioned smoothly into nobles and bureaucrats in the new system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiji_oligarchy

[1] It's complicated though, and reams of paper have been written about eg. Hirohito's actual responsibility for WW2.
Yes my girlfriend has the same experience. Can eat wheat in Europe but American wheat causes digestive upset. Appears not to have bad reaction to barley or rye.
Good youtube video here that covers a lot this, quite an interesting watch even if it just confirms what you have already been seeing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48AOOynnmqU
Indeed. Such a drag to share the spoils with the proles who built such a successful company.
Show HN: Never delete the wrong thing with rm -rf again. Improvements welcome!
> bus, and

The current reality is that these aren’t options, in most American cities. My 20 minute commute is a 2.5 hour bus ride, according to google. My 20 minute commute also puts me into a neighborhood that I can afford.
Wikipedia [1] has a problem statement that I find explains the game quite simply:

> the busy beaver game aims at finding a terminating program of a given size that produces the most output possible.

The Busy Beaver Challenge website [2] also has an explainer page with interactive Turing Machines.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busy_beaver

[2] https://bbchallenge.org/story
That's not how this works at all. You produce a certain amount of value that the business appropriates, and then you get paid a small portion of the value your produce as your salary. That's why it's the business owner who becomes and not the employees. The only way you would be paid the exact value that you generate is if you worked in a cooperatively owned business.
Speaking of keeping up with inflation: AAA video games have been $59.99 for like fifteen years. Sony has been flirting with finally inflation correcting this and a lot of people freaked out for some reason. I wonder if 2023 will be the year this takes hold.
Interesting hobby! What sort of hobby requires FPGA designs and MATLAB?

(And to clarify, I didn't mean long-running background processes while idling, so your answer was perfect)
I agree with the overall premise. However, some of it depends on location and specific factors. Right turn lanes could be less dangerous overall in areas with little to no pedestrians as distracted drivers would be more likely to rear-end a turning car. In a city with lots of traffic, that right turn lane might be more dangerous.

"Education and testing alone won't stop drivers from making mistakes."

It very well could. Many of these mistakes are founded in ignorance. I see people doing things like passing on the right/shoulder and having no idea why that's dangerous. Or they have no idea what the vehicle dynamics are like for their car. Doing something like a skid pad or autocross (TireRack had a driver safety program associated with them) can really wake people up to their vehicles limitations. Things like following too closely on the road is generally not a true mistake, but a product of what is essentially negligence.

Edit: why disagree?
principal eng, architect et al must rely on managing devs for any meaningful project.
You cannot claim past bias on skin color and argue for future bias on skin color. That is what you're doing and it's cognitive dissonance. You need to break down your arguments to their base, instead you're just putting a cognitive block in place to stop yourself from doing that.

Are you trying to deny his skin color kept him from pitching? By your own admission this pitcher was good and was only stopped due to his skin color. Therefore, the fix is to look at the skills he had as pitcher and drop the irrelevant skin color requirement, correct? And yet you're here trying to promote switched bias where we look at skin color FIRST instead of merit. That is the base of your argument whether you want to admit it or not.

You can falsely claim MLK didn't want a society based on merit and wanted skin color to count for everything, I don't really care, it's not all that relevant to my point. Arguing that some people might have an underlying bias for skin color also isn't really relevant. We do not, as a society, just stop trying to move forward because a few outliers might impede 100% progress.

I DO want a society based on merit because the alternative is a complete collapse of what we have. A society based of diversity of skin color (which is a really superficial useless diversity) above merit based skills is a dead society.

"I wish you luck learning anything that doesn't match your opinions."

Are you looking for someone to just be submissive to what you're claiming and not challenge you? Are you sure I'm the one that needs "luck" here?
I'm pretty sure that this is exactly what the poster above is refering to: they would profit more out of longer contents due to the way their ads placements work, but they have to adapt and propose shorts anyway.
Ah Żabka - the cancerous monopoly franchise that is a symbol of the homogenous bland post-modern life in Poland.
Is it? That hasn't worked out great for Brazil so far.
Yeah that was my first thought. It's illegal not to have a fixed address AIUI.
If you think 90k is shit, you should really consider not living in NYC, LA, of SF. 90k in most non metropolis cities is upper middle class.
I used it because I liked the Mac font rendering but I had to use Windows for work.

These days with hidpi screens the difference between font rendering between windows and Mac is negligible though. So that's not a factor anymore.
These exact things are alredy happening in Google search right now and people are still using it.
Indeed, please do take some time to read his other writings. Some choice examples:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/aim/

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=26
The New Madrid Seismic Zone
Is there a picture of this wearable being worn by someone, preferably with a resolution greater than 480x320 pixels at a distance where the torso is in view as well?

I'm not uninterested, but at this price point, selling a ~400 euro device that I didn't know existed until 30 seconds ago takes a bit more convincing, especially with a gif showing 1.5x the original size and calling it 8x zoom.

Seriously, the only two images I could find are 500x333 (the monocle comes in at 61x66 pixels if I'm being generous with the edges) where the person literally has to hold it up https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/623cc6cc56889b045032bfc1/62a... and 319x306 (crops to 20x20 pixels(!)) https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/623cc6cc56889b045032bfc1/637... where there's again a hand hovering. It looks stable nor comfortable, to me, but I don't know, it's not like there's a video with someone casually wearing it while talking to the camera or doing something.

Open source being listed as something you can toggle off is also a bit ironic to this FOSS advocate :-) but the spirit is there and it's definitely a selling point that it says the platform is under an MIT license! Let's get that app on f-droid and I'm curious to see it actually in any user's proverbial hands!
this is just a thought experiment, but instead of "no obscurity open rules engine" for blocking spam which can be used to help create ever more creative $pAm, how about a "no obscurity open rules engine" that all acceptable posts must meet, a sort of Turing test. Then the stuff that was allowed through would at least be readable.

remember that post a month back (and of course all other recently discusseds) for stylometry, to use writing style to identify authorship? would it work to require posters to expose a unique "voice" in their posts, and where banning of your style would definitely be something you'd want to avoid.

This is a thought experiment to talk about. Yes, there are obvious criticisms, but would it also produce something "we can have nice things" useful?

obvious criticisms are sort of like "what about the children!?" concern trolls (this is meant to be hyerbolic and biased): "what about PopulationX, the half literate know-nothing n00bs who are barely surviving under repressive regimes, they may all sound alike, but we can't silence their voices!" Which I agree with, we don't want to silence their voices. But again, this is just a thought experiment, I bet all the super high quality well informed thoughtful posters would in fact sail through the system. So the question is, does PopulationX actually all style-sound alike? (where population X is the concern you raise, not the fake one i just made up) maybe they are just as distinctive and the system would actually work for them too.

and the criticism "this is not going to work because it's just spam filters with more steps and a minus sign" is not an adequate criticism because (a) spam filters do exist, and are deployed, and do take care of a bunch of spam. and (b) yes, what I'm trial ballooning here is similar, it would just distribute some of the work of maintaining the tasty spam rules to good posters who might get some sort of "you can't post hot grits here, naked or petrified" warning, more frequently then they currently do, hopefully in some way that would be useful for the community at large.
This sounds right, but the actual statistics show that—for the average American—every minute of cycling increases expected lifespan by at least one minute.

Obviously this is an average and won't hold true for every American in every locale.
It lessens my capacity for sympathy towards them, because they don't need to work as hard as they do to make a living, they simply do it for the ego and adrenaline rush.

And this was the most avoidable situation possible for Elon, notwithstanding how many fires he's putting out that he himself set.
Leaner alternatives do exist. Neutralino is one of them
Yeah, I hate price hikes as much as anybody, but the fact that gamers pitch a fit if anyone contemplates moving the magic $60 price point is not sustainable. In real terms, games have been getting 2-3% cheaper every year for like two decades, with a huge cut this year due to inflation. It has to move eventually.
This isn't incorrect, it's just ambiguous. The JWST did indeed "take the first pictures" of a planet outside our solar system (https://www.npr.org/2023/01/12/1148626359/nasa-webb-telescop...). However, we have previously directly imaged other exoplanets using different instruments—it's just that this exoplanet in particular (LHS 475 b) has never been directly imaged before Webb.

It's the sort of question where you would expect an expert (or a thoughtful layperson with access to a search engine and a few minutes of spare time) to give a better, less ambiguous answer. However, since it is technically correct, I think it's a fairly minor sin in the grand scheme of popular science education, which commonly propagates actual falsehoods without the help of generative ML—e.g. iodine always sublimes rather than melting, aerodynamic lift relies on equal travel time of air on both sides of a curved airfoil, etc.

re: this particular ambiguity, one does wonder what the model was "thinking", but I suppose it doesn't matter because we'll never know.

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I'm not sure if I think this technology is good or bad, because I don't really understand how most people use search engines. When I use them myself, I think I am fairly sensitive to ambiguities and logical contradictions, cross-checking multiple sources to extract a high-confidence answer or walking away if I'm not satisfied that I've found one. Most folks on HN are probably the same way, and I don't think generative ML can do better than us, yet.

On the other hand, will Bard's results be better or worse than e.g. taking the first Quora result as gospel? I would honestly guess that, on average, Bard (and ChatGPT, etc.) will do better. So, less critical users may get better results from these systems.

How many people are in the former camp, and how many in the latter? Of course, changing the dominant search paradigm will have an effect on all users. It also remains to be seen how the search vs. spammers arms race will evolve with the advent of generative ML search tools.
Mukarram Jah, Heir to an Opulent Throne He Abandoned, Dies at 89
I will alphabetize your switch statement
School boards have kicked parents out for reading these books as they are too explicit for that forum: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/florida-school-board-remove...
Do you honestly believe that chickens are a good animal model for human behavior?

I don’t think you do.
I’m optimistic about Google. I think SJZilla is gonna have to make a performant browser first.
>when you work as an employee you are getting bunched up with other people

If you are the best on your team you should either be mentoring them as a senior or find a new job where you'll be challenged
I loved living in DC, but most of the engineering roles were low pay and old tech. The biggest DC tech employers are government contractors that charge for butts in seats so talking about the volume of jobs in DC doesn't mean much.

Hopefully Amazon's HQ2 will improve things.
The reasoning is:

Google should continue to maximize dollars per click. They have an established revenue model and should not try to disrupt themselves. Short term profits over long term profits are favored by Wall Street.

Microsoft has a tiny portion of the search and ads market. They have no substantial revenue to protect. If they try to disrupt search and succeed, but kill the click through ratio and number of searches per user in the process, that’s no problem for them. They can steal away Google’s users first and worry about making money off it later. They might even make search less profitable in the long run and something that offered as a loss leader to get users into the rest of their ecosystem.
I think that the most annoying omission from the standard academic paper format is the year of publication.
An In-Depth Look at WebGPU
I remember reading about this project first in 2014-ish, how long has this been going? Seems like this is a ton of work, only to be able to encode constraints to maintain correctness and performance like you can in a memory unsafe language. The latter has always allowed to "postulate" dropping identity by value copy and to encode 1 to 1 relationships by direct embedding.

I think I've been corrected in the past, where someone pointed out that managed languages don't have to be like that? What are existing approaches that allow for better control than traditional Java offers while retaining a convenient syntax?

Concerning the languages I know -- memory managed, reference only models always come with the possibility of indirection at every turn due to not having the distinction between dereference and member access (not in the syntax and not in the semantics). It's very hard to infer from the code if a dot operation is an injection, mathematically speaking. I believe that is the reason why I've always felt "safer" and more precise in memory unsafe languages.

I also think that some of the newer languages are misguided to hide the distinction by using dot syntax for both.
Extinguish?
Major owners of US companies basically choose the CEOs and have a say on everything they want to.

For instance, msft CEO is on the board of directors of starbucks. And everything is like that in blackrock/vanguard galaxy. It is public info on internet, and you can start on wikipedia.

Then it is more the other way around which is unlikely to have any truth to it: it would be hardly believable that actual owners of big tech companies do not have any say to big tech steering.

There is some kind of exception: amazon, still mostly own my Mr Bezos, then driven by himself. Once he sells his shares, vanguard and blackrock will become the actual owners of amazon (they are right behind Bezos)... but I don't know what kind of relationship between him and vanguard/blackrock (you would have needed heavy investment to build amazon from somewhere and "be chosen" to get the money to be able to do that).
Sure, but they made an ad bragging about it. It’s funny that they fucked that up.
Anybody who is able to get the HPV vaccine should get it. I’m too old, unfortunately.
If anyone ever asks me "I want to burn out as fast as possible, what should I do?" I will send them the link to your comment.
Jokes aside, I think that I had very similar experience, and it does lead to burnout
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I tried it too.It will be a nice toy but as part of search it's getting in the way by making the search experience longer than it needs to be. Plus, it looks like they are starting with a set number of questions. So,what you can do is very limited. It's going to be a long time before it's considered useful as part of search. I suspect that people are going to start to hate it before it becomes useful if MS is not careful. It's a potential clippy all over again.

It will be a killer for MS office but not for search now.
Right. Imagine how badly you have to mess up your support lifetime to look bad next to Google. Yet Samsung manages it.

Although Google does have a decent track record for device support lifetime, so long as you rely on a service that's getting completely canned.
It’s not too early. This AI bubble is no different to the GPT-3 hype.
It's so obtuse as to not be genuinely believable. I have no reason to believe you struggled to understand the poster's meaning to the point that you genuinely offered that as a means of creating greater understanding.
Author is ignoring the value of building a network of engineers and professional relationships that will withstand any particular gig. This is the mode we have for building solidarity among developers.

Software is unique as a means of production precisely because it is a much more efficient way to turn labor into capital assets (software programs). I think the way out it presents us is to start software focused businesses that are wholly employee owned without VC input; bootstrapped as employee cooperatives.

I'm working on this right now, although it's a hard climb to figure next steps. Anyone else interested?
By "tech industry", a lot of people here tend to mean internet ad companies and/or startups designed to be acquired by them.
cable was originally sold so you could pay your way out of sitting through commercials. that was why cable TV started.
The average American is biking for leisure. If they had to bike on their commute it totally changes and instead of a planned low-risk leisure route you're on the highway to hell in the thick of rush hour traffic. It's completely incomparable.
I have a friend at Nvidia who worked on the GPU for the Switch, and so worked closely with Nintendo employees, and he said he was appalled at how much more he made than people at his equivalent seniority. It's pretty bad.
> It's still easy for many good engineers to switch jobs for a 40% pay increase, and in ML people are making more than they ever have at large US tech companies.

Uh... I'm not sure that's the case here otherwise those folks would have been reassigned instead of laid off.
> At least in Finland, home ownership seems to be common among the people in their 30s and 40s I know, regardless of what they studied or didn't.

You cannot call it home ownership, when these people are in decades of debt for their houses. 20-25 years is what I'd consider lifelong debt, if you enter it in your 20s. And for many it makes financial sense to go into that lifelong debt. When the parents croak about when they're halfway through paying, they have the option to sell the inheritance and can get free from the debt. To finally take back control of their life - but in reality to refinance and get a car and continue to feed the banks.
These people don't even want freedom. When I read their posts, I almost can't believe they're not bots created by Apple to promote and normalize their interests.

I just wish their shitty decisions didn't affect me. Unfortunately they do.
Clear Type is not "Clear Type". Windows has been through several versions of Clear Type and the version in Windows 10 even is different from the 1.0 that launched with Windows XP and is still for odd reasons what most people think about when they think about "Clear Type".

An ever-increasing amount of text in Windows since Windows 8 has been using DirectWrite, much more than "Clear Type". A lot of people still colloquially lump DirectWrite under their idea of "Clear Type" (the GDI+ Clear Type and DirectWrite are obviously designed to "get along" and live side-by-side and share some characteristics) but there's even more of a "version difference" between DirectWrite and Clear Type than many think especially those still thinking of "Clear Type" as in the Windows XP setting.

To my understanding, Windows 11 doesn't do anything substantially new from Windows 8+ other than it has iterated much further on moving as much as it can of "everything" in the base OS rendering to DirectWrite and out of GDI+. (But DirectWrite itself has been around since Windows 8. Though I'm probably making a similar mistake in thinking that DirectWrite hasn't changed substantially much in its versions since then.) Presumably that has been a motivating factor in the taskbar rewrites and context menu rewrites that many dislike about Windows 11, removing more and more GDI from common paths.
>A currency that doesn't inflate, doesn't get spent. It gets horded and stops acting as a medium of exchange.

So you are saying Bitcoin made saving value possible again?
"Join the waiting list" is what turned me off. I'm already trying hard enough to use Windows 11 without a Microsoft account (local only) so that I'm definitely not signing into Bing on Edge. Next step they'll require me to link the OS to it.
Buy a Deskcycle, ride 2 hours a day at resistance 3 or above. Done. Alternatively, standing desk, walk 2 or more hours daily at 3mph or greater.
If it's any indication, I posted a link on a related topic earlier today and it made the front page, so I think folks are definitely interested in the topic ;-)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34696635
On the contrary. Now that AI is here, big data is going to be more alive than ever.
I'm almost 60. I'm a part of the "naive utopian hacker culture" - I started working on the GNU project in 1986. And I'm telling you that this conception of it - as something alternative to political power, class warfare (or at least, an understanding of class) and "that old stuff" - is just completely invented bullshit (invented in part by ESR, who I went out to a rave with back in 97).

I built/build things ... and I'm telling you that your analysis is wrong. Yor antipathy towards what ESR terms SJWs and to unions and the understanding that a class war has been ongoing whether you want to admit or not is blinding you to reality that "naive utopian hacker culture" might have been a good driver for technological "innovation", but it has never been how the world works, nor will it be.
Everyone loves to complain about how bloated Electron is. No one offers a solution that performs as well in supporting all of modern webs technologies.
At some point you need to see what people know to measure their progress and help them.
It seems most people -- including you -- do not know they need safer roads, inspite of all evidences. It is extremely dangerous to bike anywhere in most cities of the US, and this is just an example.
The stated goal of the improvement is not to reduce speeds, but to reduce roadway departures. I would wager wider shoulders can do that even in the face of marginally higher speeds.

And your assumption that higher speeds are unsafe is unfounded- unless you want to eliminate cars altogether (“there is no safe sex/speed”), a given roadway has a generally safe speed and typically this would be calculated and considered in the widening of the shoulders