skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
2008 started in 2006 when the housing bubble started to burst. It was a slow burn through to 2008 when Lehman Brothers collapsed and revealed how bad things were. These things are always cascade failures that start slow and isolated, and no one has been able to predict each domino before it falls. It could be years before anyone can draw a line back to the stage-setting events of the next collapse.

I don't know what they're looking at, but I suspect there will be some fallout as we find out how many complicated investment vehicles were wrapped up and set on top of cryptocurrencies.
> To make a comparison: the US also has many grave human rights abuses, including jailing people for saying "too interesting" things.

The west is far bigger and more varied than the US.

I'd love to see a defense of China that doesn't immediately delve into "US also bad" or "US made us bad".
Shame as Access is really powerful and far easier to use than Excel if you're familiar with SQL.

Pre-web I used it for internal process automation - it required less effort than anything else (including modern capable frameworks like Rails) to provide a lot of functionality to applications with a low number of concurrent users (1-20 users).

I do really miss that - this kind of app is now often implemented with a low-code platform (with expensive consultants) or a web framework (5-10x the effort required for the same results).
VA is a real pain, especially for an indie game dev.

It completely changes your workflow because you need to have your script ready and finalized to record all the lines all at once. Say good bye to iterative development. Want to tweak something or add additional lines? Yeah, that is going to cost you.

I think "AI" based voice generation (well data driven voice generation, I will die on the hill that it should not be called AI as it is not intelligent) will absolutely have a place for prototyping games and having filler voice acting.

The problem is though, that good VA can absolutely make or break a game. Will players really tolerate "AI" voices? I hope not! There is a reason certain famous voice actors are paid good money: it is an art.

People will watch certain shows or play certain video games simply because they have a voice actor that they like in. You can't get that emotional attachment form generated voices.

Voice carries so much more information than just the text. It gives hints to the emotional state of the speaker, their background and education, their intentions. "AI" can never replace top-tier voice acting from humans simply because that would require a general intelligence.
It really is touched a lot. The landscape is basically grouse farming.
If only. Like religion there are many sects of trolls. Including:

* Stupid trolls
* Sexist trolls
* Racist trolls
* Homophobic trolls
* Yo mama trolls
* Anal sphincter trolls
* and random specific trolls too many to mention

There's not enough space in my headspace for all that anymore.
Not sure I would rely on that, but Xerox's docs state that the requirement was introduced as an anti-counterfeit measure by some governments. Counterfeiting currency probably wouldn't be a concern with B&W printers.

Most banknotes are not printed on ordinary paper, but it doesn't stop people from trying. Printers which produce those dots will also usually refuse to print high-resolution pictures of dollar bills.
The companies that can afford to pay for top billing in search results are also the ones that rank in the first or second places for 'organic' results.

Maybe Google simply can't squeeze these customers any further than they already are, but at the same time can't turn back the clock to a time when SEO optimization didn't really exist.
On this note, does anyone know the tentative plan for the upcoming Artemis missions? Looks like they're slated for 30 days, but at least a few of those will probably be spent in transfer orbits. It makes me wonder if that timeline is configured to line up to an exact day-only time window on the surface.
AlphaZero's Monte Carlo tree search implementation in Jax
Maybe he's being sarcastic?
Wouldn't UV-light in ducting generate ozone? Even relatively small amounts of ozone can be harmful.

> When inhaled, ozone can damage the lungs. Relatively low amounts can cause chest pain, coughing, shortness of breath and throat irritation. [0]

[0] https://www.epa.gov/indoor-air-quality-iaq/ozone-generators-...
Contra Kavanagh on Fideism
> the college and graduate students who dreamed of getting lucrative tech gigs once they completed their degrees

many (most?) of us who have been at one of the prominent high-tech companies for a long time didn’t start there. it was a non-linear path with some non-glamorous work along the way.
TIL: In 2018, even the Urbanization Ministry acknowledged that half of the structures in Turkey did not adhere to the relevant regulations.
Regarding your reservations:

1. Microsoft is a pretty big contributor to Linux at this point. Their cloud arm pretty much forced their hand and I don't see that story changing anytime soon. .NET on Linux has been great in my experience.

2. Some libs are, others are decidedly _not_ enterprise driven. The ecosystem is pretty large so there tends to be a lot of options with most packages. Just take a look here, https://github.com/thangchung/awesome-dotnet-core, the ORM section has things as big as nhibernate, which is about as heavy-handed as it gets, to things like Dapper which is about as lightweight as you can get.
In NZ it's massively common in areas that were once only suitable for sheep. But sheep products in the current environment are not worth anything, wool especially so. However, dairy has excellent value globally, So now these farms have converted to diary, but that means they need to improve the grass growth to be suitable for cattle which means irrigation. The last 10 years has seen massive swathes of land unsuitable for cattle converted to land suitable via irrigation in my country. This has led to destructive processes and pollution of rivers and water ways though irrigation and fertilisation. It's our dirty little secret.
Every headline here is missing the nuance and misdescribing the comments out of context. Or removing the caveats that he himself put on the comment. When people preface things with "I think", or "probably" or "possibly" or "good chance" you can't just suddenly turn it around and say they were predicting the future with a crystal ball. This happens so much with Elon's comments it's frankly extremely tiring.

And what, you created a brand new account just to post this nonsense again? I've seen this before.
It isn't regulated in ways that matter. We're down to five Class I American freight railroads. (So we're not quite to Klobuchar's monopoly board... just wait!) Their networks overlap even less than one might think, so there is effectively no competition. Asshole billionaires like Warren Buffett aren't even trying to provide good service, because they figure they make more money burying the organizations under mountains of debt, which is why they have paid the Biden administration to crush their union employees. Over the last several decades, rail freight charges and derailments have exploded while the amount of freight shipped has actually dropped. That's one of the main reasons we have to contend with so many semi trucks on our highways.

In many industries, commercial competitors discover when regulators have shirked their duties. In the rail industry, with no effective competition, many theoretical regulations are not actually enforced. This problem has gotten worse over time.

Your concerns about Amtrak may be valid, but they are orthogonal to the topic at hand.
I am sick of melting the shell of my mouse just by using it every few years, so I’ve thought about building one before. I’d be curious to explore alternative materials for the mouse. If you look at the automotive space, the parts of the car you come in contact the most are usually leather/vinyl/cloth, not hard plastic.
Sugar coat it however you want, it won't fix the issue. It's a failure. The laptop market is so competitive that I'm not interested the moment I see that suspend is broken and battery life is garbage.

Apple will keep milking us until the community can come together and address the compatibility issue. We need an open linux laptop consortium that can address these issues across the board and then manufacturers can deliver a working product and compete on other dimensions, like how rounded the corners are and thin the laptop is. As it stands, manufacturs appear to be cheering they've sold 10 laptops with broken wifi! But it's wifi6e+8g revision 2023 and has a fingerprint reader. Disconnected.

Meanwhile, Apple is laser dialed on every relevant metric and they're rewarded with a closed eco-system and high margins.
One of the most driven* and intelligent people I have ever had the opportunity to work with (Saimir Sulaj) left my company to found a startup that's building far UV disinfection devices:

https://www.uvxinc.com/

*I mean, it requires a certain kind of stubborn determination to do a hardware startup, and I hope he's crushing it.
Ah right, I'm not sure how they're significantly different. Regardless, not having a immutable dictionary-type is just... frustrating.
Can you show that humans aren't just language models?
Dope tool, will try it exhaustively!

One thing tho, when I try the causal analysis feature, it shows in japanese to me (github show all in english tho) is there a knob to turn it to english?
There's a reason I said "quartz watches" and the mid-range absolutely did get messed up by smart watches, so the only thing "dead wrong" is your reading of my post.
Instead of home made, use the most prolific paper you can imagine!
Assuming we take his story at face value, from a legal standpoint you are correct. However, if I accidentally ran somebody over and even if I was not at legal fault I would certainly feel guilty and it feels wrong to me how quickly he pushed it off.

I also find it a bit weird he implied he was driving a car but in the news article it said he was driving a motorcycle.
>Black men commit a wildly disproportionate fraction of violent crime in America.

>I don't see the relation to Kia thefts, though.

I didn't realize car theft is a violent crime [0]

I'd love to hear more about why you think that because I thought you had changed the subject to talking about crime generally.

[0]https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/crimes/violent-crime
Academo: A collection of interactive, educational demos and tools
While there is no test or requirement to join this site (I imagine I'd fail it if there was), I'm willing to bet that there is a certain demographic that is over-represented on HN.

And it's not just "the elite" who will tell their children to get an education - working class people also have aspirations for their children. They know as well as anyone the value that modern America places on labor; not much.
I expect the company was too risk averse, but the individual players, familiar with how blame and credit were distributed there, were pretty finely calibrated in their behavior.
I don't get it. How is his code treating pixels differently according to intensity?
In Washington power can be 2.95¢ per kWh so yes, very!
Teach your mother to suck eggs. :-)

The thing is, in the absence of someone (like an inspector) specifically checking, you can assume that anything that isn't immediately visible uses the cheapest possible materials and the fastest, shoddiest installation.

In my case, it may have been as simple as, "we didn't order enough junction boxes and we're running late as it is; just skip 'em".
It's so like people who do wrong. He's accusing the developers of flouting construction code and jailing them when he encouraged them to take the shortcuts all along!
Lots of younger people never had a watch in the first place, sure, but smart watches appealed to people who would have otherwise bought from, say, Fossil.
Simple.

You look at how companies are operating, how they are treating employees, how they are chasing short-term financial performance over long-term sustainability and simply mirror their behavior on an individual level.

Personally, I am only invested in a company to the degree of making my immediate coworkers happy and making it easier for them to do work. I don't care about the long term (5-10 year timeline) success of the strategic goals for 2 reasons:

1. The company is not invested in me in the long term.

2. I don't have strategic visibility to make improvements anyway, because I am not an executive, so it makes no sense to worry about something I can't control.
What will probably happen next/Free playbook for Recep: claim the videos are deepfaked and fake news, and ban their publication, and jail anyone who claims he ever said those things. The goal is to minimize the spread of this information before the election.
TurnKey Linux: Ready-to-use system images for virtual machines
If you can get your data out of Spotify and into a CSV file, I think you could use Shortcuts to create the playlists and populate them.
Maybe you are on mobile and the parent commenter is not?

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Mac/Adjust-video-sp...
I have started rooting for Blue Origin after Elon Musk turned out to be a right wing extremist. Good to see they are making progress.
They are also recalling packs in the field, my truck is currently at the dealer getting a new pack.
An employee at a local branch office of my former employer was missing their favorite coffee mug, so they send an email inquiring about it via their "intra-office" email distributor, or so they thought...

A short while later, emails from all over the country started pouring in, reporting that, alas, despite frantic searching, nobody in all those other cities had spotted the missing coffee mug anywhere inside their offices, each email again sent to every single email address in the company-wide email distributor. This went on until the IT department (located at the HQ) eventually stopped this little internal denial-of-service attack...

A short while later, we got an update from HQ that the missing coffee mug had been found. Happy ending!
For the author? Totally seems like it would be...
I wrote it poorly and can't edit now, but what I meant was they cancelled 3-6 months down the line at a higher rate than those that didn't experience the outage.

So they didn't cancel right after, but it does appear to affect their overall view of the service.
Specifically with JRE, the AndroidTV app for Spotify was horrible and I cancelled when I dropped PayPal, and didn't bother looking to resubscribe another way. As far as I know it's still pretty bad.
I think it's less about safe, and more about Rust's other qualities. The language lends itself to writing parsers thanks to its syntax and zero-cost abstractions. Match expressions in particular made parsing a breeze when I last dabbled in writing compilers. The way it makes you think about memory management saves allocations you'd accidentally make in languages with GC. And it probably doesn't hurt that rust/cargo are nice tools that guide developers onto writing similar CLI experiences.

In short, it shines for this problem domain in my experience.
Luck favors the prepared and all that.

I have been very lucky at two particular points in my career where I really needed a new job and I found one both times with one email (including one in 2001!). Which was very lucky. But the emails were also to people I had worked with in the past and had a good relationship with.
Vint Cerf: Don’t rush investments into A.I. just because ChatGPT is cool
I recently started recording product info (manufacturer, model, serial number, purchase date, etc.) to a Google sheet and locating all relevant documents (spec sheet, repair manuals, etc.) and saving those to a Google Drive folder. Sites like this are a really great resource when getting everything setup!

Having all this info readily available makes it so much easier to check if my device is involved in a recall right when I see a news story or doing preliminary diagnosis of an issue. I also set the folder to stay synced and downloaded to my phone to have the information available regardless of if the power is out.
The Witcher 2 was the first game I remember really blowing me away in that regard. Sure, it's not quite fully open world (more of a series of small open worlds), but the design is immaculate. To make up for space constraints they definitely leaned into the whole "Disneyland sightlines" thing, where you'll turn a corner and suddenly be a in a new area, with all sorts of fascinating nooks and crannies to check out.
The cave is to reduce the need for cosmic ray and micrometeoroid shelter (it's easier to build in a balloon in a cave than it is to build on the surface and fortify it).

Moon dust is toxic and jagged ( https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Ex... and https://www.livescience.com/62590-moon-dust-bad-lungs-brain.... ).

> In several lab tests, a single scoop of replica moon dust proved toxic enough to kill up to 90 percent of the lung and brain cells exposed to it.
Funny, the guy who made the chipophone (Linus akesson) and other cool audio projects won 3rd place that year. His site was just on hn a week or two ago but I forget exactly what for
I wrote a simple dynamodb style database with a python dictionary and a Google pygtrie ("trie" data structure)

It's still a toy but I kept adding features.

I then kept working on it and added distribution with consistent hashing, rudimentary SQL joins, Cypher graph database queries and document storage. You can even query documents with SQL.

I didn't get around to changing the graph storage to be multimodal.

It takes very little code to write something with lots of features.

https://GitHub.com/samsquire/hash-db

There's an AVL tree that farleyknight wrote and a btree that I wrote that need to be integrated into it.
was curious, all new cars in canada required them after 2007! https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/anti-theft-device-now-mandato...

but now we're seeing a rash of thefts of keyless fob vehicles with a relay attack making me glad my tacoma needs a key
The benchmarks are impressive, and maybe this is a stupid question, but who lints an entire codebase constantly? In my daily use, I just lint on save, and those are smaller files where I never noticed a difference between different linters.
Barnstorming
My truck was supposed to be delivered last week and mysterious got pushed back three weeks. That explains it.
You are correct but there are other possibilities like aliens from other dimensions. That sounds like it would also require high technological ingenuity, but not necessarily. For example, maybe going from their dimension to our dimension is trivial compared to us trying go to their dimension. Perhaps when they trip on something like the dimensional equivalent of DMT they show up on our planet?

Or maybe it’s a simulation and aliens are simply users of the program.

Or it’s just more psychological warfare.

I have no idea what is going on and these are just random ideas, my point is simply that we have been seeing similar stuff for a long while now. We say it’s not us or china. If it’s not us or china, I don’t see it being another countries. If it’s private companies, what are they doing and why? Flying without transponders is highly illegal and unethical so maybe some sort of massive criminal organization that is highly technical and super secretive but that seems improbable. It’s not extraterrestrials exceeding the speed of light or extraterrestrials from the solar system because those are also improbable. So WTF is it then?
> Does performance matter more when the decision maker is also using the software? If any econ grad students are reading this, that’d be a good thesis topic.

As a former Econ grad student, this is a case of what's called the principal-agent problem, which is a widely studied issue. From Google:

"The principal-agent problem is a conflict in priorities between the owner of an asset and the person to whom control of the asset has been delegated. The problem can occur in many situations, from the relationship between a client and a lawyer to the relationship between stockholders and a CEO."
Tangential, but do any python users have a tool they like for testing that fully-formed doc comments (e.g. Google or numpy style) are correct, meaning the arg names and types reflect the function signature?

Pydocstyle, pylint, and ruff will all check for some amount of presence and format, but if a type is wrong or an arg missing, you're on your own, AFAICT.

I found pydoctest¹, but it looks somewhat unmaintained, and bugs like "doesn't work with relative imports" makes me hesitant to use it.

¹https://github.com/jepperaskdk/pydoctest
It was legal to have a gay marriage 20 years ago. Is that not a meaningful change?
One early Saturday morning around 1975 I walked into the Berkeley Physics Dept. student machine shop. A bunch of nerds were clustered around a big lathe that no one ever used because it had so much backlash. Chucked in the lathe was a vacuum flange monolithically attached to a broken glass tube that menacingly stuck out from the headstock. Inside the glass tube was some black gritty shit. The ways of the lathe had been carefully covered with pristine Kim-Wipes. I gathered that this was part of a mass spectrometer.

The black shit were Apollo moon rocks that this group had analyzed for isotopic abundance. This grit was being reclaimed from the spectrometer glass-tube flange part. “We have to account for every last gram of this NASA sample.”

There was a little residue off to the side. I touched it.