skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Find a bunch of podcasts you like. Take long daily walks.
How many consumers outside of the HN echo chamber are complaining?
Evolution is a tyranny to small minded people.
I love the gym, but hate cardio. I'll have to do cardio though, so my solution is to just bring my phone or ipad, and put on a 30-45 min episode of whatever and do a low-intensity cardio workout. Doesn't work as well as HIIT did for me, but is about 1000 times more enjoyable.

Being able to focus on something entirely else did the trick for me.
All of that happens to me as well. I just don’t see how it couldn’t be explained by prediction from probability distribution.

The fact that you can’t find a word could be that you’re stuck in a Markov chain wall or loop:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34688673

The thing is, we just don’t know how any of that work. Our speculation is as good as any.
> Imagine (10 years ago) being able to use an FB version of Siri/Alexa to "connect me to that girl Megan from my 5th grade classroom". Sure sounds compelling.

I agree that fbs value was/is the social graph. But you’re saying that there was a lack of voice UI? Or lack of a capable mobile experience? I don’t see how any of that could have been more than marginally helpful in reducing the friction of adding a friend on a social network.
What XMPP clients are good to pair with Dino when chatting with people on other platforms?

I've heard Conversations is good on Android but I'd love to hear about interop with iOS, Web, and Windows/Mac clients if anyone cares to share anecdotes
federalism? more practically, because there's a greater diversity of values?
Perhaps it's poorly worded, but we do need better business/CRUD/GUI standards for HTTP-based apps: a state-ful GUI markup standard. Attempts to get DOM & JS to do desktop-friendly GUI's well keep failing after 25+ years of trying, with clunky results & long learning curves.
> This is always mentioned, and it's just not true

Are you saying there's a building style that's not criticized while it's being built? Could you give an example?

The rest of the paragraph instead focused on people not living Colombus, OH, which I'm not sure how you got to. The primary reason people aren't flocking to Colombus OH is because of the lack of jobs. People tend to flock places because of economic opportunity, not because of architecture.
This was bound to happen.

When companies are fat and happy with growing revenue and employees are hard to find, accommodations are made. But that never lasts forever.

When revenue gets squeezed and people get laid off, its easy for companies to say “either come into the office or find another job”.

My guess is that very few workers will end up with fully remote roles.

More than before covid, but not much more.
The Crypto Critics Corner (Cas Piancey, Bennet Tomlin) is excellent:

https://cryptocriticscorner.com/
Unless perhaps your home is on a rural property with enough acres.
"But only hypothetical markets (and perhaps some fungible goods) are completely elastic."

That's exactly my point.. You can't change the price without changing the volume.. and that's why you cant pass on costs. The item is already priced at the optimal point in the price-demand curve. Moving the price based on cost increases, only results in lost revenue. The only companies that are able to do that are the ones that haven't priced their goods correctly to being with.

"then it’s reasonable to expect consumers value perception to increase by a similar amount."

You seriously think consumers know when the prices of the inputs for an item change? And then they adjust their perceptions of the item based on their detailed knowledge of how the product is made? The average consumer doesn't know how anything is made or what any of the costs of an item are. Go ask some random people what they think a credit card costs merchants... nearly guaranteed you only get wrong answers.
"Exact same"? That's a colossal assumption. A company the size of Nintendo will absolutely make improvements to the new iteration of the engine - some clearly noticeable to players, some not. Thinking back historically, many game series used the "same" engine. Quake 1/2/3, Halo 1/2/3, Command & Conquer / Red Alert, Witcher 2/3/Cyberpunk2077, Elder Scrolls 3/4/5/Fallout3/NV/4 and so on (too lazy to think of more). Further, think of how many games are made with Unity, Unreal Engine, etc. Yet further, check the credits list of Breath of the Wild -- they absolutely have the workforce to make serious changes to the engine and work on a compelling new game in concert: https://www.mobygames.com/game/switch/legend-of-zelda-breath...
> Would anyone have been surprised to see "Nintendo will lay of 10% of its workers" ?

It would be highly illegal in Japan. Nintendo has boatloads of money, so they can’t claim downsizing due to business pressures.
People who management see as irreplaceable may get exceptions. That isn't helpful for most of us. People who feel that their job security is tenuous will not even ask for fear of being cut. As people are being laid off by the thousands, that's basically everybody.
"...looking more like Mexico than Switzerland."

I'm confused. Is this something specific about Mexico vs Switzerland landscape or culture or strictly economics (GDP per capita)?

Also, the idea that homeownership is about wealth-building is not true in many highly advanced countries, including Germany, France, and Japan. They don't have the "housing casino" that exists in US, Canada, UK, and Australia.
I'm just going to shrug here. If it's cheaper why wouldn't they keep doing that?
That’s a very good question. Hubris? I guess?

What I mean by that, was I was REALLY invested in the project: not the business case, or the brand or anything else about the company, and particularly not the CEO. I REALLY wanted to complete the project as a badge of honour for myself.

I’d built 4 x tech teams of a total of 25 senior devs up from nothing, entirely re-wrote the broken legacy backend systems and switched over flawlessly, under-budget and on-time, as well as gave the other teams I managed the autonomy and trust to rebuild front-end and mobile systems using best practices. We had a great engineering culture that I was proud of.

I had known from the very beginning that the CEO was a loose cannon, but I stupidly thought I had the experience and willpower to keep them under control and largely out of the way of the tech team. I was so horribly wrong.

When the above rebuild of the backend was finished they placed an incompetent buffoon in charge over me, threw out the roadmap I’d created and started micro-managing the senior devs. When he was shouting at one of the senior devs for daring to be 5 minutes late to work, I took him aside and said “you just can’t do that, these people are hard to come by” he fired me on the spot.

So, yeah, hubris.
Too often management is seen as a promotion from IC when really it is a career change.
If I release an object it drops to the floor. This is fact.

But this is not a scientific fact.
Another one is "-best" when looking for just about anything.
I wonder how many people actually use/prefer old.reddit.com ?

Seems like everyone I know uses it ... Even the ones with reddit accounts.
I know TONS of people (including high paid people) who refuse to pay $3 for a good app and instead opt for the free knockoff with tons of jank and nonstop ads.
Going beyond Newton's laws is an advanced topic even for college. Newton's laws are also accurate for terrestrial uses, it's just when you get into astronomical things with massive distances and gravities that things are different.

Starting out teaching celestial mechanics to kids is never going to work.
Was expecting a pocket sized rifle
Why if you can do that in a browser? Isn't much simpler? I don't want to install an app for every stupid thing. It's just simper to open the browser at a particular URL. The browser is a runtime environment capable (with PWA, that are not supported on iOS) of doing 95% of things a native app can do with decent performance without needing the user to install anything at all.

Anyway nowadays apps are even built with web technologies (such as React Native), would just be simpler to have only the web version, a single codebase that can be used with an iOS device, an Android device, a PC, a smartwatch, a TV, whatever. Distributing an app is a pain, especially for iOS, you have to submit it for review, Apple has to approve it, you cannot do certain things, why? I get that on Android is simpler, just install the APK and done, but unfortunately there are a ton of iOS devices out there.
That's what I said, Webkit has recently sped up their development, for all the wrong reasons.

As for Firefox, as much as I sentimentally align with it and still use it, it's a dead browser. I have access to some analytics of websites with a billion+ views/year and it doesn't even show up. It has like 0.5% market share on mobile.

They're irrelevant in this iteration of the browser wars.
This is exactly the kind of thing ChatGPT is awesome at.
I'm a little afraid that the geographic information file will be too large and further increase the size of the app, so I'll try the simple, but imprecise way first, and if I can't do that I'll come to you, thanks!
Scientists Develop Compound That Kills So Efficiently They Named It After Keanu
> The way posted speed limits are set in the US is not based on safety.

You need to advocate for street redesign, then.

In California, most speed limits have a relation to the median speed that drivers drive on the roadway. If you want them to drive slower, you need to design the roads so that they drive slower.

Unfortunately, you will be fighting the local residents who don't want to spend extra time on every task because their local roads are so slow.
One tooth is strictly less time, less commitment, less cognitive overhead than all your teeth.

Simple as that.

Of course this is just the regime that helped me build 4 or 5 brand new daily habits in under two years, all of which I had tried and failed several times before. YMMV.
That's an anecdote. I've also had shitty experiences with Samsung products. Maybe it's a mixed bag but I hear more bad than good without going out and looking for it.
When I ask ChatGPT for links or "where can I learn more about this?", it has provided good references. Doesn't mean they are necessarily the exact references, it's likely the responses draw on many at once

There are examples already of people building on ChatGPT to provide references. It will be fine, we will manage through
Powers not delegated to the federal government are reserved to the states or people, education has not been delegated to the federal government.

Many do not want Montana lawmaker influence anywhere near their child’s education standards and vice versa.
Gifting Labour to Big Business: Twitter API changes
Reminds me of this regret-rant, which basically wishes they'd gone into Delphi/Lazarus:

https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/r59nzr/i_regret_goi...
Agreed. After trying out Matrix, SimpleX Chat, and XMPP for everyday use with my spouse, XMPP has been the most reliable and has instant message delivery.
Godot Editor (Beta) Arrives to the Play Store
Having briefly dabbled in Kotkin before returning to C#, this is one thing I really miss. C# has added non-null reference types but there's a number of places I really wish it acted differently.
Ioannidis published very suspect studies with misleading design and motivated reasoning during the pandemic. His credibility is low on this topic.
Education is run mostly by states, and school districts themselves are their own level of independence/ authority beyond that.
BP posts record profit and boosts investment in oil and gas
Can you please explain your analogy, then? What do you view as analogous between these two commentaries and why?

Edit: I think you provided half the analogy in this reply, but I can't perceive the connection to Raymond's article or understand why you are drawing that connection. To reuse your quote, what is the connection between engineers refusing to "go the extra mile" as described in the OP, and the creation of "a hell-pit of competitive grievance-mongering and political favoritism for the designated victim group of the week"?
Music you purchased has been DRM free since 2008.

Most of the studios participate in MoviesAnywhere meaning a movie purchased on iTunes automatically shows up in your Amazon, Google, Vudu, etc library.

How many apps that you purchased that have an Android equivalent aren’t based on cross platform subscriptions?
Commercialisation of the power source still remains a long way off, though several major breakthroughs in recent years have given hope that it will be attainable within the next decade.

Nuclear fusion power has been '15-20 years away' for 70 years now, ever since artificial nuclear fusion itself was invented in the 1950s. I venture to say that it will still be '15-20 years away' in 50 years time.
You are refusing to look at the counter-evidence I provide with regards to people trying to de-bunk the 3 navy videos.

GOFAST: The "goose" would need to be flying 100 knots to account for the wind speed https://twitter.com/the_cholla/status/1603518927891357696

GIMBAL: If the DoD would confirm the range of the object was 6-8 nautical miles (which has been confirmed by the pilots on the mission) than this object performed a "vertical u-turn" where the rotation directly correlates with the change in direction https://twitter.com/the_cholla/status/1620220980839993345?s=...

FLIR1: Hasn't been debunked has a plane. https://twitter.com/MvonRen/status/1599796010506924033

All of the attempts to debunk the videos require very specific assumptions that are not proven. The GIMBAL object was not 30 nautical miles away as Mick west says. The GOFAST object is going against 120 knots of wind, West is assuming there is no wind at all. The Tic-Tac is exhibiting instantaneous acceleration and no plane today can do this.

Nothing about these videos has been debunked. The DoD could put this to rest by releasing the additional sensor data, but they won't because the sensors are highly classified.
Government should do it, that way we can be sure it is honest and correct.
Imagine what Michelangelo could’ve accomplished if he was tasked with managing a team of painters.
Food has been increasing too. It’s actually more visible to me that my ¥600 cereal is now ¥750.
The dictionary is the Minecraft of the literary word. Buy one and knock yourself out!
Even if we were that charitable why not discuss scientific hypotheses in a school? "This is what we know, this is what we suspect, this is what we do not know." -- best way to teach about the world and also to keep an open mind. I love that way so much more than teaching a subject as if we had answers about everything. Sure you need to be clear about it but that is no reason for a state legislature to get involved.
No, they're the worst of both worlds. It's design review than makes them look ugly. If it were true that people just don't like change then people would love brutalism by now.
We do, but states can over-ride them with their own choices. There are many layers of government in the USA - Federal, State, County, City, and sometimes even more granular. There are also school districts which have their own policies, and that doesn't even get into all the small government entities that even Americans don't think about much like library systems, utilities, water districts, etc.

Between all that, one layer of government having standards is not always as meaningful or decisive as one might think.
I'm not defending it -- but it's because it's a federal government, not a centralized government.

One of the key tenets is therefore that governing is left to the states if there isn't a compelling reason that it needs to be done at a national level.

Things like national defense and regulating interstate commerce can only be done nationally, so they are.

But education is actually one of the classic examples in a federal system where it's hard to argue a compelling reason for nationalization. To the contrary, it's argued that if states are free to experiment then they can come up with better education standards and copy each other organically. But they can also tailor education to meet their local cultural values and history.

Of course, more and more things have become "nationalized" over the past century just because it's more efficient and less complicated. But wow do people argue about it.
20 years in savings is astonishing.
I use FB via browser and this is constant on iOS. If I am going through my feed and I click a link to another site, it opens a new tab and when I return to the FB tab I see it reload the page and I lose my spot. If I try to scroll down to find the same item I clicked on (because for example I feel like commenting), it's almost always gone. Nowadays I just take it as a reminder that FB is either deliberately manipulating me or just doesn't care about the UX, so I close the FB tab. I'm not doing extra work to make up for their user-hostile decisions.
Yep, the web sets one free, there's no lock-in, no permission. We can't have that.
That sounds suspiciously like something a 134 year-old company would do to ensure its survival over the long term.
So kind of like outsource workers but one might argue this has a social guided justification.
sounds like a contract to me. doesn't mean they can'fire you for a made-up reason though if you don't.
Zoning controls the type of housing that is developed, and thus far typically represents the interests of NIMBYs without explicitly saying as much.

Sure, changing zoning from "light industrial" or "commercial" to include some level of residential is often welcome, and is generally a good idea. But such changes are not the crux of the battle over housing. We don't actually want towns to grow in every direction without bounds, as a general rule: we want them to have sufficient housing that the people who need to live there can afford to do so. That typically requires dealing with the zoning laws that prevent increases in residential density ... i.e. NIMBY-ism.
Not disagreeing, I was speaking more in the abstract.
It'll get pretty tedious to have to check every little factoid spewed by an LLM. At some point you'll get used to it and stop checking. It would be interesting to see the distribution of how long this takes for a population sample.
Every job I've ever had (in the US) has been an at-will contract, meaning both I and the employer could end it at any time for any reason. This seems to be the norm in the US. So if a company decides they want me to come to the office, and I refuse, either one of us can end the agreement over that. This has always been the case. For me, in the interview process, I make it clear that I am a remote only employee and if the company ever wants me in the office, we'll have to part ways.

Edit: European countries tend to have more legal protection against companies being able to fire workers at will. I wonder if this is why so many of my European friends that have corporate jobs seem to have a hard time convincing their employers to let them work remotely.
I like to take explore the living areas of most Euro cities I've been to--Paris, Glasgow, Rome, Florence, etc. I spent a semester abroad in Paris about ten years ago and spent most of my time in one of the recently-built satellite towns, which was a mess of concrete and cheap modern buildings. The actual generic middle class areas are usually several steps above the American generic middle class areas, but I concur that most of the new builds are the same cheap, boring, new-right-now approach.

It's quite depressing to me that so many people unthinkingly accept the premise that there's no time to build society to any standards that someone would be proud of or pleased about. It builds an apathy and almost a resentment to any sense of time or place within its residence. It's a lack of culture enforced by architecture.

A good example is advertisements. They clutter every public space and make people simply ignore what they're seeing. "Just an ad." People will go hours through a city and never look up because they already know what's there.
I’ve seen these types and they seem to live in some alternate reality where they want to die on very strange hills. Saw one guy ruin his job because he refused to implement an internal tool because he didn’t like the privacy policy of the tool (his concern was that the external company hosted too much company data). Very trivial things become pointless wars.
Ummm... sounds great.

Except that scientific facts are not democratic; they exist as they are, regardless of your or my opinion, I've never seen scientific theory presented as anything but "this is the current most effective explanation of the facts", and academic freedom is a subset of protected free speech.

Politicians should not be even in the same continent as setting curricula.

This is a general assertion that "regent picks were as hard left as possible", without the slightest bit of context as to the actual meaning of that statement. What "hard left" policies are they pursuing? Or is it just as "hard left as possible" in the context of an entirely anti-science right-wing caucus, meaning that they still have a slight tether to reality? (and sorry, but the entire basis of right wing rhetoric has been entirely anti-science and anti-education for the past decade; there is zero credibility there.)

Let us be clear: In a democracy, all of the institutions of a society are independent, starting with the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of govt, and also the societal components of the press, academy, industry, religion, charity, etc.

In an autocracy, all of these societal institutions are coerced and restructured to bend to the will of the executive or religious leaders.

This is nothing less than a key component of a broad attempt to destroy democracy.

Stop trying to justify it; it makes you look like an autocrat.
Utterly baffling.

Even with a short commute, I am still so much more productive at home than at the office.

Everything I need for lunch is in a kitchen in the next room, no more going out to lunch, wasting time looking for food or cooking.

Long commutes suck energy and time out of what would otherwise be productive hours.

Even the bathroom takes longer to get to and use in an office.

This move at large by the industry makes almost no sense to me. Only way it does is if these are actually targeted layoffs, or managers have a pride/visibility necessity of being seen with their peons all together.

Edit to add: They can also let those pricey RE contracts expire, save on electricity, water, and internet and all the other subscriptions and services they were paying for by having a centralized office. That's a large chunk of expenses they get to put onto employees, and for the most part employees are ok with it!
Fermentation was used by most / all? Ancient cultures to provide year round veggies. But yeah. Probably not in caveman days.
Some pharmacies will always tell you they're out of stock to see if you're willing to wait to order them, because they're afraid of facilitating abuse. Rite aid is notorious for that.