skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I brewed my kombucha, it was all about how much time do you spend on brewing. In the start it's just very sweet black tea. As time goes, sugar gets processed into acids. With a lot of time, it turns into very acidic mix so it's definitely not something to enjoy and probably not healthy for stomach. So depending on how much time do you spend, you'll get something in between which might be not very tasty or might actually be very tasty.

You can also swap black tea for green tea or other liquids. I'm think that kombucha does not care, all it needs is sugar and tea is for human (although I might be wrong about it).

I actually liked it, but it requires too much housekeeping, so I abandoned it.
I honestly don’t know if the “you’re posting too fast” is something applied manually or an automated system built into HN so I’m not going to comment on that.

I do know that I only had to deal personally with dang once and it was a very enjoyable experience.

As for user abusing flagging, again, that’s up to the users. It’s not up to dang to override what most users do I believe.
Perl got this right 20 years ago.
AMD just released a 5nm product a few months ago. Apple’s M1 is a year older. Apple funded 5nm
You're showing a lot of recency bias. There's no "woke fad as we know it". There have always been people advocating for social issues, just because the latest wave is the one that's the most prominent in your mind doesn't make it any more special than the others.

Please stop saying "cope". It's a meaningless ad hominem, you're accusing GP of living in denial of something and trying to "cope" with it. Very dismissive.
One reason is to understand how such a man could come to rule. And how the people can be so easily fooled to revere such evil. Lest we forget and allow it to happen again.
Meta has barely any spin on what they are trying to accomplish with the metaverse. It's out in the open that they want to create an all-encompassing privacy-destroying monopoly (sorry, platform) to suit their revenue and profit needs. Either Zuckerberg is so out of touch that he actually believes people have the same goals as Meta (possibly, considering how comically bad Meta's presentation was) or he doesn't care. They obviously see themselves as being the ones running the metaverse in Snow Crash, so I guess from their perspective it's a great time.

How many brilliant minds signed off on that metaverse presentation I wonder. I'm still shocked. That's a lot of either coercion or people that enjoy smelling their own farts. They spent billions on it. Did I mention I'm still shocked? Shocked! None of it makes sense.
I wonder if there are other industries engaging in this kind of price fixing scheme under the guise of "AI SaaS"?
I don't mean to put words in his mouth, but when he said "SEO crap", I think he meant "scummy marketing crap", not SEO specifically.
Where running away is too frequently "enough".
Interestingly I work at Ericsson Germany and we only got notified of this today. Just six days ago I commented:

> Oh no. Since a large part of many medium-large sized tech companies' management style seems to consist of "copy what Amazon and Google are doing", I am scared of what silly decisions in other companies this might inspire.

I feel that my model of Ericssons upper management has been validated with one more data point, which is one reason why I would not be all that bummed if it turns out to hit me.
"The one my great grandfather would have used" could you well-actually that one as hard for me please?
I was surprised to see this citation in the linked paper

> Alan M Turing. 2009. Computing machinery and intelligence

Did he invent a time machine too?
I would recommend to anyone using the arduino framework to switch to PlatformIO. It’s just a plugin for VSCode so you have all the benefits that come with that ecosystem.

Arduino is great if you are happy with one single massive file for all your code (I know you can add additional files, but it’s not intuitive).

For large projects that needs to be split up and architected use platformio.
I couldn't resist and clicked your link, but thankfully it is early and I couldn't quite understand how to port it to the `f . moveRight . f` format.

So really it is a shame that nothing can be done about golfing this further and I will be content knowing that... is what I'd like to say if not for the several [1] characters [2] I have at my disposal for a last level.

Thank you for sharing though, I also was amazed by the sed one. And just to make it clear since sometimes these things don't communicate well over the internet, I'm being a little facetious here: if you actually want to spell it out for me I'm not going to be upset (but if you don't, I'm also not going to be upset :) ).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34924577

[2] https://reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/11953ov/squeezing_a_so...
> Publishers editing books of their own accord after the author is dead to please imaginary mobs -- something else entirely.

In what sense? The ownership of the copyright is the ownership of the right to create derivative works and refrain from publishing the original. That's the law and the whole of the law.
Also described in http://hummingbirdclock.info/
Absolutely insane level of integrations and reverse engineering across a vast, unruly tech stack. Additionally with a hard deadline, I can only imagine the difficulty of delivering this, especially without too many bugs.
Bad assumptions and comparables. Why would you compare "number of wars" and why would you arbitrarily stop that comparison at WW2? Other problem is just being in a war doesn't make it unjust, Korea is a good example. I'd actually challenge you to list out post-WW2 wars (actual troops on the ground) if you want to try to make this a point. We should include during WW2 as well since Russia joined up with Nazi Germany to invade Poland, Finland, and other countries or would it be convenient to forget about that?

Second you have a faulty premise re: "why do NATO need to expand". NATO doesn't need to expand, and whether it's at the borders of Russia or China isn't really relevant. NATO expansion that has occurred where it does border Russia (NATO doesn't expand or border China so already you're showing either a lack of geopolitical knowledge or you are just spewing propaganda) has been at the behest of those countries which seek to partner with NATO to provide security guarantees. Russia has invaded them in the past, the US has not. End of story there. Easiest way for Russia to not be "worried" about NATO is to stop being worried about it. Americans and Europeans don't really want to engage in war in Europe, and especially not with Russia since there isn't anything to gain.

> And now we want to point against India or China not acting against Russia.

Mainly because Russia engaged in an aggressive war against Ukraine, but if you're going to accuse some countries of trying to win economically against Russia then you have to include all countries that want to win economically against Russia, and that includes China and India who are more than happy to pay low rates for Russian oil and gas. If they cared about Russia they'd seek to stop the war so sanctions are lifted and Russians can enjoy a better standard of living and both China and India could return to paying 2x-3x prices for Russian oil so Russians can profit. Instead they want cheap oil.

> Even now countries like Yemen etc are suffering. But do we have sanctions against Saudis? No. Instead we still trade with them and US even sells weapons.

And China and India buy Russian oil while they engage in an aggressive war. Bad logic on your part. Not to mention other issues such as genocide against Uighur Muslims in China's own borders.

> USA doing well economically when Europe suffers not just in Ukraine. But we don't want to ack that. Why do people can't acknowledge that? We Europeans are doomed in couple of years. Took in lot of migrants and also dancing on tunes of USA.

US has been doing well economically regardless of whether or not Europe "suffers". If you hold that the Europe is doomed and just dancing to the tune of the USA then there isn't anything you can do, you have no agency, and you should stop caring and just try and enjoy your life.

Or you can accept that the world is much more complicated than what you are suggesting, and maybe Europe wouldn't be doing so bad (as you say) if it wasn't on the receiving end of a wonton and stupid Russian war to satisfy some butthurt dictator's imperial ambitions. Whoops.
Happy to leave it here, thanks for the discussion.

To summarize, I think you've identified area's where there are potential problems that could be improved. However, as an engineer, blockchain wouldn't be my first (or second) tool that I'd use to solve these problems.

Using NFT's to do ownership of art is interesting, and maybe in a niche area or two people will use it, but ultimately runs into issues since it doesn't address theft, loss of wallet or other practical concerns. NFT ownership only ever proves ownership of the NFT, never of anything associated with NFT.

For trading, the main claim you make is these banks don't trust each other. Yet clearly they must trust each other, or someone, for the trade to finally finish.

All blockchain does is add in something else you must trust - but this something else is wildly complicated and complex. For example, chains can become worthless or attacked and taken over. Users can decide which chain to follow, sometimes leading to splits where assets are essentially duplicated on each side of the split.

So yes, I don't doubt that there are some serious problems that can be fixed. I just find that NFT's/Blockchain often make claims that are not unique to them but introduce problems that are hidden and glossed over.
It’s cool espressif is funding this, I’m especially interested to see how networking plays out as that seems like an area where rust would excel, the complexity kind of blows up quickly once there.
Could we use a phase-locked loop instead of a sliding window FFT? I guess only if you're sure the recording contains no splices?
I forgot to mention in that example that it was infinite rockets, infinite grenades, no shields (so basically one hit), on beaver creek, Halo 1's smallest map, that was probably a couple thousand square feet total, with 32 players. Absolute, wonderful, fun for a while, chaos.
You also can't justify something by saying "it's been fine for decades".
Do you disagree with the described strategy? If you think a market is relatively saturated (as I assume the US is from a telecom equipment perspective, especially given growing suspicion of foreign suppliers), wouldn't you allocate your limited resources to markets that have room to grow?
Those synthetic voices drive me insane. Nothing makes me stop watching a video faster.
I'll take it over no existence, if I'm a human. (I'll probably pass on being a chicken on an industrial farm, thanks)

I'm a wild human no matter where you put me. Anything can happen.
>Ah, but that counter assumes that there isn't some transaction aid that crypto currency also brings.

Except it doesn't.
Improving how credit cards work under the covers
If people start trusting these bots too much how would the following outcomes be avoided from causing people harm?

(1) Coaxed into giving personal information
(2) Manipulated economically into buying stuff the other party is trying to dump
(3) Manipulated politically to vote for whoever is backing up the project
(4) Collect the "wisdom of crowds" and use it against them
(5) Help marketers sell people more stuff they don't need'
> I could easily imagine a world where I get "crypto currency" that I can use across games.

Why would any company use a decentralized token to let you purchase things when they could simply make their own store currency/points and sell that instead? Look at all the F2P games that have in-game purchases, they all use points that are sold by the publisher that are bought with dollars because they make more money that way. There is no incentive to allow a decentralized currency you don’t control for in-game purchases.
Alphabet shuts down Everyday Robots
Sad news but wasn't unexpected - everyday has had zero openings for a while. I liked some of their work, really cool stuff.

Alphabet went through many shots at robotics - they owned Boston Dynamics not too long ago and acquired a bunch of companies then before selling all of it to SoftBank because the guy who was heading the initiative left (or let go?).

Until recently, they had Everyday Robots, Intrinsic (which acquired most of the company that maintained opened source ROS - Robot Operating System and a bunch of other cool startups), there are robotics teams at Google Brain and also some other teams at Google Research.

I'm really starting to hate the incoherent culture at Google. Yes, I'd call it a culture problem - it's always one guy or a team that comes up with a plan, tries to create an entire team for that without considering what Google already has been doing or did in the past, do some cool stuff for a while, and then promotions happen, priorities change and they shut down the team.

I don't trust any of the new Google products anymore - Maps, Gmail, YouTube, and Google Photos are the only ones I used and will be using (until there are better free or reasonably priced and feature-rich alternatives).
It sounds like you tried briefly to be a manager (of 4) and did not succeed.
> That is insane imo. Anyone below director is useless, and the director should just report to the VP or CTO.

Cool. Advocating for fewer layers of managers is very different than what you proposed in your original post, which included the phrase "Get rid of eng managers."

> I’m not taking career or technical advice from an associate/manager because they’re usually the worst ICs and overall lowest performers in like 80% or more of the time. This is how they struggle to stay in the game. You have probably heard many people who are the best IC say they don’t want to manage.

But you will. They'll just be called a Tech Lead and they'll have manager responsibilities.
Also worth a read about an upstart computer company being sued.

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

I always wondered how Apple Computer Inc. were allowed to enter the iPod business without being sued again.
Most of the rest of us don't.
This is the proper solution but it also shifts the goal posts in a way that is dramatically easier for the certain groups to attack and win. You also have to equip the teachers with the materials and skills for that conversation and they have to be up to that task. There are bad teachers that just want to have the kids read books and then test them on content. There are also different theories of interpretation, there is a school of thought the divorces the artist from the art and wants to study the art on its own merit regardless of the views of the artist. I think it's dramatically easier to attack a particular conversation about the artist and historical views and fight to remove that from a class than to "ban a book." There are efforts like the 1619 project which basically exist because of that. I think there are also a lot of class rooms where the teachers don't want to have those conversations just due to classroom culture and dynamics; think a suburban class room with 19 white, probably heterosexual, middle class kids and 1 black kid; how do you have that discussion and not single that student out?

Roald Dahl is a very interesting target here, editing "fat" out of the description of Augustus Gloop, I assume, was to be more gentle towards more portly folks. The character seemed to have a real eating disorder though, those are real issues that real people also suffer with. Does a discussion of bulimia and anorexia need to accompany Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? Is it read at an age appropriate for that? Was this edit even material? It seems like the real theme is one of greed and humbleness and the eating disorder is just a foil.
Highways are 10x safer than non-highway miles, and AP may be selectively engaged in only the safest situations.

A population study would be tricky to do, because all recent Teslas have Autopilot and Teslas as a whole are newer cars driven by rich people, with a heavy bias towards California. Further, Teslas have automatic emergency braking independent of Autopilot.

So you can’t compare accident rates as a whole, but you could compare accident rates of, say, new Mercedes or BMWs with Teslas in California, which have roughly the same capabilities and are driven by the same rich people (though possibly slightly older).
I've taken the Lake Shore Limited overnight from NYC to Chicago and loved it! Would love to try the California Zephyr next.
> It seems more likely that a bunch of dorks are running around unsupervised trying their best to make lemonade with whatever budgets they are given

Probably not, Zuck is announcing it.
> I saw that the chip itself is surface mount, would I need to make my own PCBs to be able to make more "permanent" projects with it?

If you want to directly use an RP2040 chip: yes, but you can do that for a few $ at e.g. jlcpcb where they can directly assemble the SMD components on the board for you. If you build your own "more permanent" project, you most likely want to build a PCB anyway, to integrate all the peripherals and connectors you need. Otherwise there is the RPi Pico board which is a small PCB with the RP2040 on it. It's the standard "small PCB where you can install a pin header" type of development / eval board.

> Also, what kinds of external things I would need to get started, like specific programmer hardware, etc.

I helped someone else with an RP2040 project recently and apparently all you need is some crystal for the clock, some flash chip for the program code, potentially a voltage regulator, and either a USB connector or an SWD connector (or ideally both). If you have SWD, you can program and debug the RP2040 from another RP2040 based module (there is "SWD programmer" firmware available, there is also the "Raspi Debug Probe" available now), and if you have USB and add some form of boot switch, you can directly program it via USB.
The issue is time scales. Plastics take thousands of years to degrade but we only really use plastic products for a few years. What can we find that hits a sweet spot of, say, 10 years? Wood does this well, and it’s mostly cellulose. So is paper and this stuff.
Doesn’t seem to be working?
You have a lot of old people that can't work and not enough people to take care of them and also run the country.
Of course old networks are still operated and maintained. 5G is exclusively "cloud-native" (i.e. microservices on Kubernetes) and most common core components are written in Java, Go and Python. So while Erlang is still being used and ran, most new code is not written in Erlang, as far as I know.
> Can money buy happiness?

My friend, money can bring temporary joys, but true happiness must come from within. As I wrote in The Sum Total of Our Happiness(1), the true goods are those which reason bestows, and these are substantial and eternal. Money can buy us certain advantages(2), such as a physician's care or a teacher's education, but these do not guarantee true happiness.

In fact, money can be a source of unhappiness. Riches can lead to pride and unpopularity, and these can be damaging to our well-being(3). We should recognize that money can be a convenience(4), and we should be grateful for it, but it should not be our ultimate source of joy.

True happiness involves understanding ourselves, embracing our own moral values, and developing our inner strengths. Money can be a tool to help us achieve this, but it is not the ultimate goal.

(1) The sum total of our happiness must not be placed in the flesh; the true goods are those which reason bestows, substantial and eternal; they cannot fall away, neither can they grow less or be diminished. Other things are goods according to opinion, and though they are called by the same name as the true goods, the essence of goodness is not in them. Let us therefore call them "advantages," and, to use our technical term, "preferred" things.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/Let...

(2) You buy of a physician life and good health, the value of which cannot be estimated in money; from a teacher of the liberal sciences you buy the education of a gentleman and mental culture; therefore you pay these persons the price, not of what they give us, but of their trouble in giving it; you pay them for devoting their attention to us, for disregarding their own affairs to attend to us: they receive the price, not of their services, but of the expenditure of their time.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_Benefits/Book_VI#15

(3) It is this antecedent cause which inheres in riches; they puff up the spirit and beget pride, they bring on unpopularity and unsettle the mind to such an extent that the mere reputation of having wealth, though it is bound to harm us, nevertheless affords delight. All goods, however, ought properly to be free from blame; they are pure, they do not corrupt the spirit, and they do not tempt us. They do, indeed, uplift and broaden the spirit, but without puffing it up. Those things which are goods produce confidence, but riches produce shamelessness.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/Let...

(4) Nor does this follow from our (Stoic) system alone the Peripatetics, also, who widely extend the boundaries of human happiness, declare that trifling benefits reach bad men, and that he who does not return them is ungrateful. We therefore do not agree that things which do not tend to improve the mind should be called benefits, yet do not deny that these things are convenient and desirable.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_Benefits/Book_V#13
Ads shown were up 21% last quarter on minimal user growth to make up for cost per ad going down 17% according to earnings report. Facebook is absolutely shoving as much ads in as they can at this point.
So the real issue is IP rights being extended to an estate after an author's death?
> Organizations around the world are once again learning the risks of not installing security updates

Organizations around the world are once again learning the risks of running crap software with poor quality.
Oh look 8%, what a shocker.
> I believe that no interpretation of an artwork can be right or wrong.

This is objectively wrong. The Girl Wearing a Pearl Earring is not a statement about fascism. The Spotify logo is not a depiction of child labor.

Now, this artist may feel that way about their own work (and that's neat!), but it is a huge overreach to apply it to all others. Every artist is different.

I am so tired of these conversations about art as if it's a mystical monolith. No, you don't get to make blanket statements about literally all art.
Human height remained unchanged for 2k years in Milan, finds study
Size isn't everything when it comes to armies. See: Russia and Ukraine, USSR and the US in Afghanistan, Afghan army and Taliban, Boudica and the Romans, etc.

Nuclear weapons and the fortified long-range artillery that can shell Seoul are the main point of concern, which are essentially a small-scale version of cold war era mutually assured destruction. The number of people in the army as such? I'm not so sure that's really something that's all that meaningful.
I don't know. I think you need to start with the "world in a rectangle model" to build intuition.

Then you can blow your students' minds with the possibility that the "rectangle" is actually the unknowably massive timeline of the entire universe, from the Big Bang until its heat death, and all of our models and reasoning are conditional on some subset of that gigantic world-rectangle. In my opinion, the power of this philosophical leap is lost without the basic geometric intuition.