skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah it zigzags a bit but it hovers on the two sides of +/-12, placing it around 0 would mean half the world operating on a work week that is shifted by one.
If it’s climate change then wouldn’t we see teens raised in families who don’t believe in it having happier lives and less suicidal tendencies.

I mean we were taught extensively about climate change 30 years ago when I was in school, I don’t really thing the urgency has changed that much, if anything it feels less doomsday than some of the things we were told in school back then. Don’t recall anyone being that dramatic about it either beyond making sure to recycle.
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I don't see how they could, iMessage is severely lacking in features compared to WhatsApp and users don't like change, iMessage doesn't need to have feature parity but it has to be massively better - and so far it's not
I am sure none would claim that the US has not produced great things, but in an economy of world wide trade, even the US is very much dependent on foreign products.

Just for one high tech example, the most sophisticated chips in the computer you use (whether desktop, laptop or phone) are almost certainly produced in Taiwan, who in turn rely on high tech manufacturing equipment from Europe.

You're welcome, too! Isn't international trade a great thing?
Meh, I honestly dont think you lose or gain anything going either way. Spoken language is messy AF and I honestly don't see it helping.

Case in point, people might think you are conflating nuclear bombs and mass if you say "this ship weighs 5 megatons".

Also depending on who you ask, gigagram either sounds like way more, or way less, than 1000 tons.

And for scientific writing, 1e9g is about as clear and explicit as it gets.
what was your answer?
Thanks for sharing the z-index issues! We're going to fix them asap.
The person I'm replying to replied to someone discussing a profit maximizing entity which is the context. I understand there is value to other behaviors but corporations don't
Humans have no reward circuits.
From a practical point, won't it be hard to know if the app is working if you can't see e.g. a field that the reader skips?

It might be outweighted by that you are good with the tools though.
I receive more spam than legitimate messages on WhatsApp. But I also don't use it a whole lot.

I suspect that, a bit like email addresses, being very selective about who you give your "address" to is the most important bit.

Sadly, phone numbers, unlike email addresses, are such a small address space that it's possible to just message all of them.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Google+in+1998
An it's about the phones even in the most pedantic way, because it's about how the phones have changed.
> none of that exists on mainstream social networks

I may have missed the memo that YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok et al aren't considered "mainstream" anymore.
> If you’re meeting with one person and they start doing it [...] just sit there in silence waiting for them if they’re distracted by it. This works surprisingly well and it’s funny how often people apologize

I've tried everything to get people off phones when we meet, this included. It works for the first couple of times but then they get desensitized to any form of feedback and go back on their phones. Which causes the chain reaction you mentioned and more people go on their phones.

So now I simply don't meet people who do this. Fool me once and so forth. I tried to be understandable about it, I tried to not to feel bad when they do and not take it personally. But this is draining and I always end up feeling uncomfortable and having negative thoughts. So now I only meet with people who are interested in interacting with me. Problem solved.
I never had a smartphone. My social life did get worse when everyone around started getting smartphones. You could say just make friends with other people who dislike smartphones, but it's tricky when most people I come in random contact with (at work, in other environments) use smartphones.
I cannot imagine a world where "the norm" of human interaction would be with people in other times zones.
Fair enough. At the end everyone will be laid-off because of a "market disruption", by email and without true regrets. Why should any good engineer desire less than working remotely?
Or you can just convert it into minutes...
To be fair, you could achieve the same in C++ by only implementing `operator[]() const`.
Yes, it is as stupid as it sounds

It's a messaging app, you can either pretend people will give 2 flocks about not being able to message you "in the right color", or you know, install Whatsapp or any other competing messenger
not only that, also the people I spoke to and the feedback loop :)
Definitely agree with this article, Im a teenager(17M) who doesn't keep a smartphone(shocker, I know) and the frequency with which my friends bring its usage into conversation is definitely frustrating and awkward at times. A lot of people basically now gauge the worth of others by the followers they have and it’s ridiculous. Then there’s also the hate accounts being made to target other individuals on Instagram and the like. Social media really has made people more shallow in my opinion and reduced the chance of actually having meaningful conversations with friends.
It really depends on the language, Japanese takes much longer than Spanish for English speakers for example.

And yeah, you don't need to invest several hours each day - that's unrealistic for most people. But I also think you get nowhere by doing just 10 minutes a day, even if you do it every day for years. You need to set aside time for conscious learning, e.g. on weekends. Then you could e.g. do the 10 minutes a day during the weeks for reviewing vocab, or reading short texts, or whatever.

I don't think you can do it without the occasional "crunch time".

(There's also the fact, of course, that the better you get at your target language the less will consuming content feel like a chore to you and so you can tolerate more of it, and even enjoy it.)
Severely lacking?

You can build basic app functionality into iMessage, something you can't do with WhatsApp.

The desktop app for iMessage is simple, but efficient and gets the job done. The WhatsApp desktop app is slow by comparison.

WhatsApp has the user numbers, but it has never been the best when it comes to functionality.
Media want attention which is correlated with the number of zeroes in the header.
Just tried this on macOS but it must be a different 'units' command as it won't accept that input. :-(

However I just discovered that if you hit command spacebar and paste that into the spotlight search it gives the right answer! Spotlight has always done simple unit conversions but it didn't used to be able to do calculations with units in them. I wonder when that was introduced...
I mean, I think that's kind of fair. It is an issue with React that this can happen. On the other hand, it's pretty much always possible to work around it within React without switching to another framework. So IMO if a team is shipping a React app with performance issues then that's on them.
That's okay, ChatGPT probably can pass it for us.
> No easy way to see dependencies without viewing the package derivation source code.

nix-store -qR `which python`

> No easy way to see "reverse" dependencies, period, as far as I am aware, short of basically grepping the entire nixpkgs repo, and even then you won't get a totally accurate answer.

nix-store -q --referrers `which python`

This and many other querying commands are explained in the Command Reference of Nix manual. Have you read it? [1]

[1] https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/command-ref/nix-store.ht...
I suppose it makes sense to at least power the AC with them, as its drain correlates with the amount of sunlight.
Facebook Messenger is pretty spammy for me, as is Twitter DMs.
Ask HN: Font Size Changed on Mobile?
I just noticed the font size for HN seemed to be a bit smaller on mobile?

Doesn't seem to be due to browser because other sites looked the same.
It’s not just phones. It’s social media combined with phones.

Social media is toxic but when it’s confined to a browser on a computer your use is somewhat limited. Making it so portable allows people to always be addicted.

The worst part of social media with phones is notifications. The social app literally vibrates in your pocket and demands your attention, taking it away from anyone you are with. A PC never did that.

I have no social apps on my phone and turn off most notifications. I do browse some things like this site but when I put it away it is away and doesn’t pester me.
I think you’re conflating different projects.

There are projects that aim for a better user experience, with better command line interface, defaults, performance and UI. These are of course breaking changes and the programs can’t be used as drop in replacements. Some examples are

- ls => exa (https://github.com/ogham/exa)

- grep => ripgrep (https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep)

- cat => bat (https://github.com/sharkdp/bat)

- tree => broot (https://github.com/Canop/broot)

The person you’re replying to was speaking of a different project - uutils (https://github.com/uutils/coreutils). These are drop in replacements with identical interfaces (modulo bugs).
SimpleX: The first messenger without user IDs
Big difference is the old products didn’t cause serious climate change that threatens the long term survival of our species.

I think we can afford to take a minor hit of competition to avoid that fate. Unless people honestly believe that BEVs will simply stop improving if ICE vehicles aren’t around to provide “competition”.
This is just dumb. The plane has a compromised design that they tried to paper over with software.

None of the design issues have gone away with better software.

None of the management and engineering culture problems have gone away at Boeing. And even if they had done a 180 on both, this particular plane is still compromised.

All they did is the minimum amount of work to be able to fly again.
This text is panik driving "journalism". It ignores that women in Europe are now on average older than 20 years ago during a pregnancy. Thus the risk of anything bad happening is higher. Without age-adjusting, it does not really help much.

Also risks without comparisons are often meant to focus on one issue, and ignoring lots of others:

All races and origins, female, 20-24 years (CDC)

... All causes 5,485 100.0 50.9
1 Accidents (unintentional injuries) (V01-X59,Y85-Y86)2,502 45.6 23.2
2 Intentional self-harm (suicide) (*U03,X60-X84,Y87.0) 672 12.3 6.2
3 Assault (homicide) (*U01-\*U02,X85-Y09,Y87.1) 428 7.8 4.0
4 Malignant neoplasms (C00-C97) 313 5.7 2.9
5 Diseases of heart (I00-I09,I11,I13,I20-I51) 195 3.6 1.8
6 Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O99) 140 2.6 1.3

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/dvs/lcwk/lcwk1_hr_2017-a.pdf
Optical sensors and other parts of the NLAW rocket
That’s more or less how it shows on the terminal screen. Scanlines were part of the experience.

You can manually trace over the ROM bitmaps and make the contour - I did that with my 3270 font.
I'm not preprocessing the recording. The thing I mentioned with considering VAD, if that's what you're referring to, is that I should somehow trim the files.

In order to minimize my interaction with my phone during the bike ride, I press a button which records 1 minute of audio. If I know that I need more time, I press it again before the minute ends, this then starts a second recording in parallel which also lasts one minute. So I just have to press a button and can forget about it. This is because I noticed that I usually don't require more than one minute to record a thought, and if I have multiple, I can put them in multiple files.

But since my recordings then usually consist of 20 seconds of audio, the 30 seconds at the end are only silence (with wind and tire noise). Whisper splits the files into 30 second segments, and apparently tries to find voice in each segment, so the remaining one which has no voice causes Whisper issues, where it starts hallucinating. This is why I would like to trim the files.

I now noticed that the service doesn't add punctuation and capitalization, so the funny thing is that I took that output and posted it into ChatGPT like this: "Correct the following: '[text from whisper]'", and it does an incredible job of fixing even words which Whisper erred on.

-

Whisper:

ich habe gestern erste tests mit open ai whisper gemacht um nozizen [sic!] zu transkribieren

[ Yesterday I did my first tests with open ai whisker to transcribe nozizen [sic!]. ]

es waren teilweise recht gute ergebnisse vor allem mit medium

[ there were some really good results, especially with medium ]

latsch [sic!] natürlich besser aber da sind die anforderungen zu hoch

[ latsch [sic!] better of course, but the demands are too high ]

wenn ich da einen server draus mache könnte ich mal eine zeit lang ausprobieren ob sich das lohnt

[ If I make a server out of it I could try it out for a while to see if it's worth it ]

auch für anrufe der anruf der antworten

[ also for calls the call of the answers ]

-

then ChatGPT:

Ich habe gestern erste Tests mit OpenAI's "Whisper" gemacht, um Notizen zu transkribieren. Die Ergebnisse waren teilweise recht gut, vor allem mit "Medium". "Large" funktioniert natürlich besser, aber die Anforderungen sind zu hoch. Wenn ich einen Server dafür bereitstelle, könnte ich mal für eine Zeit lang ausprobieren, ob sich das lohnt, auch für Anrufe und Antworten.

[ Yesterday I made first tests with OpenAI's "Whisper" to transcribe notes. The results were sometimes quite good, especially with "Medium". "Large" works better, of course, but the requirements are too high. If I provide a server for it, I could try it out for a while to see if it's worth it, also for calls and answers. ]

I'm sorry that this is in German, but I don't have anything in English I've been testing on.
And it comes with my 3270 font!
Number of kids in my 4th grade class that stealth-watched Eddie Murphy's, Raw: 2

Number of kids that learned all the "worst" parts of it in the following weeks : the rest of us.

One kid diving down a rabbit hole is not necessarily an act of isolation. There's also the motivation that some hole divers like making their peers squirm.
can you share what made you drop the smartphone? I wish my kids were like you and would like to push them in this direction
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Is this using the new GPT 3.5 turbo model?
Show HN: Chippy – ChatGPT in Discord
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Ok but I was talking about dedicated messenger apps, not the messaging feature of what are basically social media apps. Those are all full of spam if you've got enough contacts and liked enough things.
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> The US is still littered with railroads

Far far fewer than there used to be

> Building a road and running trucks on it is just more affordable.

Only if you discount negative externalities.

And you can't even know that for sure.

The cost of operating rail is easy to calculate. Too many independent agents to accurately price automobile GDP (for lack of a better word).

> is too slow for time-sensitive stuff

Not if you have more trains running more frequently.
Its a case of induced demand[0]

0.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand#:~:text=Induced....
You are confusing your work with your life. Never be butthurt, it is only your work.

Collectively ? Hell no, are you a commune ? Don't you have the spine to speak up for yourself ?

Also unless you own a share in the company, it is not yours, so it is not your decision and not your reponsability. Additionally leading a company is not an exercise in popularity.

Therefor your resume should always be up to date and you only owe allegiance to number 1 and your prime interests, i.e. yourself ( and by extension to your kids, your life partner, your parents and longtime friends ).

It never hurts to know your value as an employee, so you might as well take a few interviews, if only to get more experience in negocitating your value as an employee.

Also for this very reason do negociate a sign-up bonus and don't hand in your notice until the bonus is credited to your bank account.

Good luck!
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Sounds like you're just too bad at engineering to get stuff done on such a schedule. Why don't you get your brain checked out? Most normal people can easily get productive work done 4 days a few working 4 productive hours a day. If you think this is entitled, that must be since you are unable to achieve the same thing. In that case, I implore you to look for early signs of cognitive issues, since if you address that, you might find yourself able to enjoy things, get stuff done quickly, and not force yourself to burn out for someone else's paycheck.
Don’t forget to shame A16Z and Chris Dixon as well. Those guys were complete scumbags around the crypto space
gentle reminder that browsing comments on HN makes you more isolated and less happy
Not true in Google’s case: https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-chin...
the entire point of TPP Was to exclude China...
> From a practical point, won't it be hard to know if the app is working if you can't see e.g. a field that the reader skips?

It wouldn’t be a very good test if they weren’t first provided with the expected outcome…
Coincidentally, a few minutes before opening HN I wanted to check a domain name on Gandi¹. I seldom use it and didn’t recall how it was spelled, though I remembered it’s not like the other Gandhi² and that the difference was in the “h”. So I tried ghandi.com and gandi.com before doing a search for “gandhi domains” and finding the correct one: gandi.net.

In contrast, I have never forgotten or mistyped hover.com.

When in conversation with friends, it often happens they have a problem and I vaguely remember a service I’ve seen (perhaps on HN) but never used. If the domain name was memorable I say it and they open it to check later. If the domain sucked I may struggle to remember it. Maybe I’ll search for it later and maybe I’ll find it and send it to them, but it will heavily depend on how much they need it and how confident I am that I can find it again and it will solve their problem.

Because they’ll be following my recommendation, if I can’t remember Gandi but I do remember Hover it’s the latter who will get their business.

¹ https://www.gandi.net

² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi
I can say they do give Australia Post riders lots of training.

I have a relative who did rider and driver training for learners. As well as the general public, they also ran Australia Post training courses which were large, regular, and took a lot of time.
Insert on lookup is convenient but encourages either double-lookup patterns (contains + get) or unintentional inserts. I very much like Python's setdefault -- except for its 10-chars name.
AFAIK that's still the case. Who messages who is saved with matrix as well though. This shouldn't be a comprehensive list of what's better than signal only a list of everything available in the space. Imho everything in the list is better than telegram and whatsapp, but depending on your use case nothing is good enough and you must fall back to briar or something similar.
I did a two week experiment where I carried a small notebook and a phone with almost every app disabled. Whenever I would find myself wanting the answer to some question and couldn't just look it I would write it down in my notebook and then look the answers up later, if at all. It was sort of fun, maybe I should revisit it.
I'd say that the biggest problem with time zones is that most people confuse them with time offsets (which unfortunately is what you are doing). A time zone is a geographical area. That area can run on different time offsets - "times". So the UK runs on UTC in winter, and UTC+1 in summer. It's wrong to think of the UK as being in the "UTC time zone".

This may seem pedantic, but the confusion causes real problems with software.
I don't think this is the case. They don't film animation cells anymore and the animation is done on a computer but for most shots they're not CG models. Even in the pre-HD era they've done a few shots where CG helped.
A startup I worked for during the .com bubble gave up and returned the remaining cash to investors, something on the order of 10 cents on the dollar. One of the VCs joked? that it was the best return of the year for them.
I like the idea of just meeting up more. If I have no phone then that’s the only way to go.
Rust with Py03/Maturin fills that role for me. And it works with Java/JNI too.
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Study is from ASPI - Australia Strategic Policy Institute - a DoD / MIC funded 'think thank' whose primary purpose is China threat inflation, in order to fluff up defence spending budgets. Wouldn't put too much into any table they produce, they are a compromised actor
Could you clarify whether the JSON format shown here is really intended to be used by developers vs. the "chat format" shown in https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/chat/create ?

The "chat format" looks simple, extensible, and clean. The JSON format shown in https://github.com/openai/openai-python/blob/main/chatml.md looks ad-hoc, confusing, and (as noted by others) likely to lead to mistakes and injections.
> just say “it’s not important” and move on

Admittedly I'm a bit older, but with my friends I explicitly say lets argue it out. That's part of the fun of debating when something came out or who was in what movie. But, I didn't have a cell phone growing up so wondering about something and trying to reason it out was normal.