skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 520 construction took out a gas station and a small but varied grocery store on the south side of the highway. I believe the Montlake library was a drug/grocery store long ago. And there used to be gas stations at 24th and Boyer.

Currently I'd guess the grocery options are Monts, Little Lago, Eastlake market, and Petes. But I doubt many people do all their shopping at any of those they are closer to convenience stores than grocery stores.
Leaded gas is on the (long overdue) way out, now that there's finally an unleaded option approved for the entire piston fleet.

A modern piston plane can get the equivalent of 30 MPG, and fly directly to its destination. So there's no need to rag on it.
Well, yes? There have been numerous sites trying to offer this but the problem is that the number of mentees outnumber the mentors at 1:infinity. There's little incentive to helping beginners and it quickly becomes expensive if you want to pay programmers market rate for their time.
> But a grocery store? What's difficult about that? Just convert a house.

The difficultly is making the typical residential dwelling compliant comply with existing regulations like the Americans with Disabilities act and complying with things like commercial insurance policy requirements.
>These are quite readily available from many other retailers and sometimes for even cheaper than $300.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Western+Digital+SN740+NVMe+2230

where? Aliexpress and eBay?
It does work if you intend to stay in ARM mode only, and will crash if THUMB-mode code calls the function. ARMV7 will do the mode switch automatically and not crash.
What crappy beer demand tells us about the economy
In the densest parts of European cities, the delivery lorry stops outside the supermarket just before or just after the shop opens and they unload quickly. Often, that pretty pedestrian street full of shops has road access to the rear, but not always.

Parking regulations are written to accommodate this. The pedestrian streets in the centre of Copenhagen allow deliveries from 4am to 11am, but I think there may be additional restrictions on large trucks as they seem to be out before 8am. Rubbish collection is also at these times.
and use the original headline (assuming no A/B testing) "Clark Foam’s Demise, 10 Years Later"
I am sorry for the inconvenience. I am still learning how to build a nice and efficient website. I will analyze what happened and try to fix and enhance !
I'm not sure what you're saying - people living in towns near military bases do not* walk up and down the local creeks with Geiger counters any more than they compare soil samples against lists of plausibly leaked toxic chemicals. Maybe they should start, but I mean, that's not a good normal.

*Edit: Except when they do.
We know this quite well here in Colorado Springs: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/23/chemical-col...
But it's also not like every scientist (vs environmentalist, can't we just stop with stupid generalization and classification like that?) would be in full support of going on with nuclear as civil power source, and there is also more than pure science to consider.

Stuff fails (from waste disposal processes to planes falling out of the sky) not because we have not understood the science or almost perfect processes established, but for many various reasons?

I think it's also unfair to claim poster before as feeling attacked, and then giving statement about his beliefs, which you don't know. So could do the same thing here?

Those grounded facts extrapolated to the complex practical reality is again itself just belief, and could do the same here then...
God I wish this could be me so bad. But they do some really crazy stuff to hack this and I just don't have the time or mental capacity to learn.
This was a strangely ill-conceived mic drop.
Most likely someone saw it on reddit and posted it here. :)
Is nuclear demonization just political attempts to destabilize the west and prevent us from prosperity that comes from cheap clean energy?

Why are US politicians not allowing building more nuclear and driving prices down?

Are the democrats or the republicans pro-nuclear? I will vote for whoever is more pro nuclear.
Any sort of mass transit system requires a certain density of locations and passengers to make sense. While there are certainly urban centers in the United States that answer to that description, a good chunk of the country doesn't. There was a recent HN article that talked about this a little bit (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34475508). Whether your goal is to cut emissions or cost, it seems like there would be a good chunk of the States (in both space and population) where more net harm would be done than good.

On a less strictly policy level, the idea of "punish everyone until they do what I want" makes me at least a bit uncomfortable. On top of the authoritarian undertones to it, there is the more basic idea that clearly a large amount of the population doesn't believe that switching to an EV is in their best interests. People can certainly be wrong, but disregarding the signal out of hand seems a bit short-sighted.
Anytime I see an alternative to Elastic search on HN my first thought is how much of a shame it is to use something other than Lucene for text search because of just how powerful it really is.

Elasticsearch is a pain to tune and partition, and the JVM brings a whole set of operational issues but what's the point of better read/write performance when the actual search performance is worse?

I guess this makes sense for use cases where you care more about speed than the quality of results.
Good news is on the way: AI is going to make it so that nobody will every trust anything that doesn't involve seeing a flesh person. The whole internet effect is about to be reversed because it is going to be easy to fake literally anything on it.
I was just reading in Vice[0] about talk like this. I am not saying OP is necessarily saying this but it does seem similar.

[0] https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7g898/walkable-15-minute-ci...
ChatGPT and Github CoPilot are best viewed as tools with limitations, but there are ways to check their output. How about asking ChatGPT to look for flaws in a snippet of Github CoPilot-generated code, or using the auto-comment function on CoPilot to do the same with some ChatGPT-generated code?

This is a decent way to check machine learning systems. I haven't tried it in a while, but if you take a text in English and run it through about five different languages sequentially on Google Translate, then go back to English, the result can be interesting.

The author's point might apply to people who are learning a computer language for the very first time. You have to learn the low-level intrinsic complexity by hand, it can't just be dropped into your head in a big chunk. To paraphrase Euclid, "There is no royal road to geometry, or to programming."

Where these tools are pretty great is when having to write something in a new language. For example, if you've never used Javascript but are familiar with C, you might ask, "what's the JS equiavalent of a C struct", or if with Python, "how do I constuct the JS struct equivalent, with its fields being the keys from this Python dict" and then "how do I populate the fields correctly using this json object as the source" and so on.

However, this approach could get one into trouble, if you didn't know what object lifetime was, or what scope was all about, or the difference between a shallow copy and a deep copy, why having many references to a single object might result in data corruption, etc, etc.

Also, often the output or recommendation is just wrong, or very poor code style, so it needs further checking with search engines, usually something like "known issues with library x" etc. That's why I'm not really convinced paying for them, especially on a limited budget, is worth it, at least not quite yet.

Incidentally, I really dislike the subscription model all these online services promote, with no option for just purchasing a service for a given block of time and not having to manually halt the payment.
Nobody said the incentive will cover 100% of the conversion cost. TFA quotes a conversion at around $14,000.
> I wrote up exactly this in a short email to the company that made the Yahtzee game. They did not reply and just silently fixed the bug, right after my email. I was disappointed and stopped playing.

I love this. It's one of those things that's entirely intelligible to me but I imagine would be next to impossible to explain to a Martian.
I see. For instance, it might not have been them who made it up, it could have been someone else.

However, given all of the information known at the time, there's little evidence to suggest that anyone aside from them was responsible for the assertions without evidence, which again leads to the same logical conclusion.
Does your cup of water become irradiated from having a hot spoon stuck in it?

I think the water is mostly safe. At worst the water will have little slivers of radioactive material floating in it but that’s only if something already went wrong, so I imagine it’s cleaned before being discharged.

Ultimately you can also cool it down and reuse it, so you might not need all that much water relatively speaking.
Breeder reactors work by having less useful elements capture neutrons and turn into more useful elements.

Capturing all of the fission byproducts and reversing the process is going to be so technically difficult and energy costly that, in this context, it might as well be impossible.
Zig not having a text-based preprocessor is a feature, not a bug though. From the
pov of a multiplatform coder who's used to exclude platform-specific code with #ifdef/#endif, Zig's behaviour is completely logical (because that's the only way it can work without a C-style preprocessor).
Interesting point. One other very important point is what those batteries will be made of. Using lithium is really only necessary for batteries that move with the devices they power, because it's so light. For stationary energy storage, lithium is overkill and you may be able to use heavier storage solutions (sodium instead of lithium, sand batteries storing thermal energy, etc.) for installations.

There's also still the real possibility that we develop suitable supercapacitors with graphene or other extremely cheap materials. I don't know what the process is for recycling graphene but considering it's pure carbon I doubt it will be much trouble. I know supercapacitors are not batteries but the advancements in one can definitely help cross-pollinate advancements in the other.
Yeah, waiting for them to finish up so Rob Cockerham can go into a COSCO and have some fun slightly altering the price tags.
I wonder what it tells about employees selection and their level. Was it harder to get into Google/Meta 5-10 years ago than within the hiring boom?
> What you wrote after that is such an assumption.

Not quite. There is an underlying assumption, but that's not it. I can demonstrate the asymmetry between the past and future. For example:

Suppose I flip a fair coin, and I make a video of the coin flip. Let's say the coin comes up heads. I can predict with near 100% certainty (modulo shenanigans) that if I watch the video I will see a coin being flipped and coming up heads. By way of very stark contrast, I cannot predict the outcome of actually flipping the coin again with better than 50% odds.

I claim that this asymmetry in my prophetic abilities (100% ability to predict what will be seen on the video vs 50% for re-flipping the actual coin) is a result of the asymmetry between the past and future.

Note that this is not a circular argument; this demonstration would work equally well in a universe where it is possible to unscramble an egg. All it requires is for there be some experiment whose outcome I can record but not predict, even with arbitrarily advanced technology. The existence of such an experiment is an assumption, but it is a very weak assumption, much weaker than the second law itself. Indeed, it is a necessary assumption for doing thermodynamics at all, indeed, for doing anything. If I can reliably predict the outcome of any experiment, that means I know everything that is going to happen before it happens, including my own actions.

So yes, I have to assume that I cannot be omniscient. Or maybe a better word here would be "hope" because being omniscient would render my entire existence meaningless.
That's the commodore 64 version, the one I shared is the PC version.

It is the same game, but at least for me the C-64 version is running about 1/100th normal speed in Chrome so that doesn't work either.

The PC version just has an issue with the shift keys not working, which breaks the game as shift is used for fine movements.
the supermarket map discounts a some of the very good corner and ethnic groceries that serve specific neighborhoods, which are a worthwhile and important (and imo better) segment of the grocery market. and some of the "no restaurant" locations definitely contain restaurants.
> the same format of argument that convinced me as a learner to use notepad++ for years

Offtopic, but there was a time when that wasn't an entirely specious argument: back when most major IDEs were very heavyweight and bloated, think Eclipse or Netbeans.

They've improved an enormous amount since then, both in their performance and general UX, as well as in the important assist features they provide, to the point that if you're not using those today, you're definitely hampering your productivity.

There's some relevance to the current situation, which is that these AIs are certainly going to improve, probably very rapidly.

> Caveat: chatGPT is a chat program, that it can produce working code in places is a coincidence

Is it? OpenAI has the Codex models - https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/codex :

> The Codex models are descendants of our GPT-3 models that can understand and generate code. Their training data contains both natural language and billions of lines of public code from GitHub.

...but I don't know how/if those might be integrated into ChatGPT.
I have a database containing all the styles with creation date so i can recreate every single snapshot of the site :D
> Most of these unwanted smart- phones are neither discarded nor recycled but languish in junk drawers and storage units.

The people who wrote this must not have kids. :)

All of my old smartphones become PBS Kids devices until they are destroyed. Then they get recycled. Except for the one we lost on a plane. I hope whoever found it found a good use for it.
It would be irononic for the government to subsidize something that they've significantly contributed to increasing the cost of.
And what, is it so?
Yeah ISPs route IPv4 and IPv6 traffic differently. They are after all independent inter-networks.
You need a high intensity neutron flux to make water radioactive, which spent fuel doesn't provide. The kinds of radiation you find in a cooling pond won't activate water, so all you have to worry about is stuff potentially dissolving into it.

Here's a paper on how water gets activated when it cools a nuclear core (which does have massive numbers of neutrons zipping around): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pnucene.2019.103042
Depending on the jurisdiction, courts might strike down or ignore parts of a license. On the other hand, you might not care what a court says, depending on your travel plans.
Sadly I couldn’t afford a campervan, but my car isn’t too bad, just slightly uncomfortable sometimes.

I’ve been daydreaming about this for years and now that I’m doing it, it is actually as good as I hoped. The cold showers, few possessions, no idea where I’m sleeping tonight, it’s all way better than killing myself to make someone else rich. I feel like I lost the past 5 years of my life. Now my life feels like it’s mine again. I’m in control. And if that means I have to pinch pennies, I’m happy to oblige. It’s a price worth paying.

I hope you get to follow your dreams one day too.
> no-one will actually use it because EV conversions are exceptionally rare and generally high priced.

Damn, if only there was a way for the government to make conversions less expensive and provide an incentive to grow that industry...
I’ve been using Eclipse for Java recently and it’s better than I remember it being. One thing I particularly like is that it has a view that’s like the Smalltalk browsers in older smalltalk environment.
On occasion I have written a seeded large n statistical test that passes & the submitted with the seed fixed. I think this is the soundest approach, although it has a "your random number is 7" feel to it.
>They're saying there's a distinction

But OP is saying there is no distinction.
So how about just prompting it with the task of not only producing the code, but also test cases to go along with it?

Somebody please make a SaaS out of this idea, with a fancy tailwind sales page and a “generous free tier”. :-P
"Okay, wow. You don't want me to kill you because you have so much to live for? Umm, sunk cost fallacy, heard of it?"
Ask HN: Why did medium.com "fail"?
Medium.com is still up and running so it hasn't failed exactly, but it's not the best platform to go to anymore when it comes to blogging.

The post quality has deteriorated, and it feels like I'm reading the same posts over and over again. Not to mention the stupid paywall which is infuriating.

Why did Medium end up like this? In the beginning it was pretty good but then it started to wither. Is there any way for a platform like Medium to keep up with high quality posts while also paying their writers well?

Substack has done a good job at competing in the blogging market but it's different from Medium. Medium is more of a social blogging platform while Substack is more of a newsletter platform. Substack doesn't have an algorithm that recommends you content, but instead shows you exactly who you follow. This is nice, but I can't deny that I also like finding new content through a recommendation engine, which Medium also sucks at.
I'm imagining firmware level checks, but both directions should probably be investigated
the "overhire" story doesn't match reality, because the layoffs included too many senior and long-tenured staff who know how to get things done at these companies.
I would like to see a MASSIVE increase in the amount of nuclear power in use around the world.
AND, I appreciate calling out conflicts of interest, astroturfing, and artificial "viral" information campaigns.

Thank you for outing the author.
Your assertion makes no sense. If anything, physical goods should take more people than does cloud software.

These dotcoms hired more people because that's what dotcoms do when they can.
Very cool, and excited to see more "Geometry as Code" tools getting built. In addition to comparing to OpenSCAD it'd also be awesome to see a comparison to CadQuery.
We are trying to build a workflow and it goes like this:
- we sketch the general idea for the article in Notion
- we use ChatGPT to expand on the topic and explore contrarian perspectives to validate the idea
- I do the final edit and use Grammarly and Quilbot to ensure clarity and fluency
- result goes onto our 400k subs newsletter (from a 1mil list of our users who opened any of our newsletters at least once)
- feedback is used to improve on the idea which goes on our blog

From the content creator's perspective, AI tools are of immense help. Finally, we as a small team can allow ourselves to find time and create content instead of being stuck in a constant development loop.
The main problem is that most patents last 20 years. To fix the problem, durations should be dramatically reduced (60% reduction would be a good start) and there should be provisions to protect against patent trolls, i.e. that your lawsuit if frivolous UNLESS you are either the original inventor or can prove an active attempt to commercialize the technology.

There is some good to intellectual property -- it's more of a tuning problem that is currently tuned for the slow moving 1800's.
The inertial model rotation is a pleasure to use, I’ve done the same in some of my programs and while it feels a bit strange at first it does make it easier for me to perceive the shape as it moves.
It was 2020 when the drug was undergoing development.. literally throw everything at the wall and try to stave off the mass death from uncontrolled spread. Fortunately other therapeutics worked as well, the vaccines were developed quickly and had very high efficacy, and subsequent strains of Covid mostly became more mild (this wasn't a guarantee, regardless of how insistent people may be).

The drug works, it reduces hospitalization and mortality in people who take it, but we don't actually need it for the most part so these studies are just further confirmation of that.
The bigger companies don't want to deal with freelancers directly. It's too much work to vet every freelancer's company, go over the contract etc. That's why they buy freelancers in bulk from their list of approved middlemen companies, such as Manpower. Startups, on the other hand, usually hire firelancers directly - they're too small to have a streamlined, heavy procurement process in place yet.
Did you go from high performer to low performer at the same role? what has changed?
Virtually no one who is critical of nuclear thinks that "it's scary" is the best, or even a good, reason for not having nuclear. But loads of analysis have been done on the financials of different energy generation methods and shows very clearly that, except for those contracted to build and maintain the thing, no one sees a real benefit. It simply doesn't pan out to plan and build new nuclear reactors today, considering what we could do with that money (solar, wind) over the 10 years it takes from groundbreaking to first day online for nuclear facilities.
It depends where you live. I used to live in Belltown and did not have a car, this was just fine. But Belltown is right downtown so your choices are either very expensive newer buildings or older buildings that are somewhat affordable but kinda decrepit. But I'm now in the odd Queen Anne/Westlake border area and I think a car is pretty necessary, and if I were in the aggressively single-family zoned places like Magnolia it would be even more so.
Forced air doesn't remove humidity from the air either. Humidity is lost through air leakage in homes. Since the air outside had less absolute humidity in the air then humidity will drop due to air leakage. Most measurements of humidity is relative humidity though which changes with air temperature. So any system that heats air will reduce relative humidity.
Idle comment: a largely-unexamined subtext in almost every critique is that you can substitute "the average person" for "the AI" and the critique is exactly as valid, to the extent that it is.

Where "average" means, imperfect, and somewhere shy of domain expert.

Easy example: "Freelancers paid below prevailing market rate: Convenient crutch or recipe for disaster"

AI bots based on LLM are living mirrors, reflecting the status quo of humanity, and the average human is pretty average, and many are below average and a lot of things.
Ah, I was waiting for somebody to implement something like this.
Now you just need to write a bot that floods github with shitty code, and we've got job security again.
More than that: we are talking about stock sales. Long term sales are not part of tax brackets. 18% flat right now, until the law changes. And it can only increase, since we are now in a middle of mad deficit spending. So deferring taxes has it’s own risks.
Heh, I'm guessing the expression used a large body of water that isn't actually drinkable on purpose? That does indeed sound apt from both sides!

I think asking people out in person sounds like the ideal approach honestly.
My experience with business customers is that they often have lots of tedious requirements for vendors that disappear as soon as you tell them that they cost 2000€.