skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a strange takeaway when it’s obvious that the value of housing is not the problem, but the devaluation of our currency by out of control government spending that is to blame.
Curious why you think trucking would have a bigger societal impact? As to why Google et al. are aiming for passenger vehicles, there about 4 million semi trucks in the US and over 290 million passenger vehicles.
Oh yeah, I've played the game and some of dlc and didn't even know about them.
turns-out basically yes: https://www.platformer.news/p/how-a-single-engineer-brought-...
“It was then rejected for something else and at that point we just gave up and never bothered to resubmit.” This would be an interesting post if we had even the slightest bit more detail.
"LIMITED TIME OFFER", in other words this deal is available all the time, indefinitely, and it's not even that great a deal.
I don't equate entrepreneurial success with knowing what you're talking about. Even Elon's entrepreneurial success is debatable with there being many stories of SpaceX and Tesla being successful despite Musk.
I guess, if they survive any power cut at all, they are probably not taking their time cues from the main's frequency. I agree with your wager that they probably run on low-voltage DC and perhaps have a capacitor somewhere to bridge short outages.

Where do you live that you have frequent enough brown outs to notice these things?

I have a time switch. It looks entirely mechanical, but I suspect it gets its time signal from the mains: it doesn't seem to drift at all. If there's ever a power outage (which happens from time to time when our breaker trips, not because the real mains is down) it just stops advancing the time, but doesn't reset, because it's all mechanical.
Probably plenty, they're just not famous.
> > if you're trading equities

'Trading equities' is a profession borne out of anxiety, stress and overstimulation from information.

The real 'who cares' test is when you have an intuition that some news could make you money if you study the scenario and execute the trade well, but instead you say 'who cares!?' to yourself because it's not worth the mental resources that will for sure take you far away from the present moment.

So in other words it was never the news as much as it is always yourself.

The cause of and the solution to any external problem lies inside the skull of the observer
Re the website: I checked this out, I love the concept, it's super cute and relatable! I love the idea of de-guiltifying relationship maintenance. It's a thing we all struggle with. Gamifying it, and making it fun, is a wonderful idea.

(Sadly I'm not the person to test this iteration. Houseplants are my personal guilt-and-torture machines. I realized this early, and haven't had any in decades.)

But the plant metaphor seems sticky and attractive, especially for plant lovers who struggle with IRL relationships.

A couple of meta observations. One, relationship maintenance is hard for everyone. We feel like "it's just me, I'm so anti-social." But it's not us! Everyone feels that way. Online social maintenance is overwhelming.

Two, our self-criticisms can be distorted. I recently apologized to a friend for not following up on an email exchange. They didn't even notice, and certainly weren't offended.

Three, the best strategy by far that I've found, for tackling social overwhelm, is ruthlessly pruning out guilt-trippers and passive-aggressive needlers. Seriously, 80% of my guilt was generated by 20% of my contacts. The mental peace from doing this, is many multiples of the small social loss.

HTH. Carry on. It's a great concept.
I do this as well. Our design system in-progress has 32 components and only 3 are rendered with templates.

They are fast and easy to write and easy to modify for sure. I wouldn't mind having the code look more like the output (without a template) but it's not something I've been missing...
People will give time to people that add value to their lives. If you're targeting a market where you can't add value because you don't understand it, you have to get creative.

What has worked for me in these circumstances is to - no joke - offer jokes. Your initial message has to be witty and fun, and then you need to make sure they have an actual good time in the interview (and also ask some solid questions). If you can do that, they will give you referrals.

Once you get a couple of these calls done, you'll have a general understanding of the space you are targeting and can move on to other methods.
We have that too, recent change, in some of our downtown streets but they are not very wide so I think it's closer to 2 seconds and as a driver, I really love it.
Totally disagree; if you can be a dumb-dumb in two domains, you're going to do a lot better, overall, than just being a dumb-dumb in one domain.

Wanna know why? Cuz you're not actually a dumb-dumb. <3
Markdown is an unmitigated compatibility and extensibility disaster. It was designed as an authoring format, for which purpose it’s tolerable (though it’s still got major problems). But it was not designed as a publishing or general interchange format, and it’s completely unsuitable as either. (You start by saying, “when we say ‘Markdown’, what do we actually mean, technically? CommonMark? GitHub Flavoured Markdown? &c. &c.”)

What this means is: sure, use Markdown within the scope of your app if you want to (compatibility and extensibility aren’t problems there), but at the protocol level, use something sane instead, like HTML with some kind of whitelist on supported elements and attributes (and yes, I will admit that HTML whitelist inconsistency is a problem too, but it’s by far the most convenient approach, and considerably wiser than using a format like RTF or Office Open XML or OpenDocument Text, and generally more sensible than designing a new minimal markup format from scratch).
Let me ask this - when was the last time the Chinese government apologized for something?
As opposed to… public parks and preserves? I guess I don’t follow your point.
They still sell the game on the Mac, and by all accounts don't really miss out on the revenue from not being in the Mac App Store (this isn't the only app they've chosen not to distribute there)
I generally just include a note about how easy it is to find my contact info in comments where contact would be welcome. I’m often surprised that some people bite.

Other times people have intuited this without me explicitly saying so. To credit the HN community, these surprise off-site contacts have been 100% positive so far. (I really hope I didn’t jinx that with this comment.)
There were a bunch of apps back in the day that could hook into MSN Messenger to provide a whole bunch of functionality like this. It could tell you when people closed their chat windows.
Many people share this desire, which is why real "social networks" have moved to invite-only groups on chat services like Discord, Whatsapp, Slack etc. It turns out they're actually a better way to keep up with the real people you know, without any annoying ads or influencers crowding out the organic content.
This post’s writing markedly improved right when it started talking about teaching board games and dropped right when it stopped. I think it’s because the author’s passion for this anecdote about teaching board games distracted them from consciously applying that peculiar staccato style.

I don’t know the reason for the staccato style. Self-imposed onto their content because it’s good for engagement? A technique for generating content when they don’t have any? The linguistic analogue of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, brought on by repeated Twitter concussions?
And whats the economic value of 1 mile driven per truck vs passenger vehicle?

Cheaper truck transport also opens up more cost competitive manufacturing, factory placement. All of these will be highly deflationary.

In a remote work world a large percentage of the workforce only has to travel for discretionary, not economic reasons.
I think maybe the service just takes more people than he thought.

You could make the argument that "it shouldn't take as many people as it did" i.e. the code quality "is bad"

Or you could say "this is hard and takes people to make sure it works."

You will always find that "the code is brittle" as you get rid of more and more people if your assumption is that the service should run with no oversight and no people
Got a job elsewhere a couple downturns back.
The thing you have to realize is this is a cult. Like Scientology they are always inventing new language that's designed to make insiders become incapable of communicating with outsiders.

Sequences is like Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, something that ensures real critical thinkers don't feel welcome.

This article contains numerous features that conform to the style guide for lesswrong including: (1) spammy crossposting for SEO (even good sites like arstechnica and phys.org do this today), (2) trigger warnings ("more technical than usual"), (3) random bits of praise for the cult leader (now EY is a "literary critic" but he's going to be a war hero like L. Ron Hubbard one of these days.)

Apocalyptic talk like theirs is dangerous: it's the road to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_(religious_gro...

I do appreciate the shout out to structuralism, maybe they have been reading what I've written. Structuralism was a fad that dated to when linguistics was pre-paradigmatic and people thought language was a model for everything else. After Chomsky developed a paradigm for linguistics that turned out to be a disappointment (could be applied to make languages like FORTRAN but couldn't be used to make computers understand language, privileged syntax at the expense of semantics, etc.) the remnants moved on to post-structuralism.

The spectacular success of ChatGPT and transformers in general (e.g. they work for vision too!) has made "language is all you need" seem a much more appealing viewpoint, certainly it is a paradigm which people can use to write a number of papers as well as hot takes, fanfics and other subacademic communications.
That's not how it works. I should know - I've submitted things to the FDA.

If the Chinese vaccine manufacturers wanted an FDA review, they can pay a fee and get it.
I got https://mitta.us to do it right off the bat:

bold-thick-fulmar~> !calc what is the 10th fibinnaci number?
brilliant-ermine|> Writing code.
// filename: synth_fib.js
// version: 0.1.1
// description: Fibonacci number calculation
var fib = [0,1];
for (var i = 2; i <= 10; i++) {
fib[i] = fib[i - 1] + fib[i - 2];
}
Sidekick(fib[10]);
brilliant-ermine|> 55
Having read the other article about EA's botched SimCity release, I had come across this trailer earlier today.

Does anyone have any interesting links, papers, references, etc. for implementing a city simulation? I really like the idea of agent-based models and actor systems, and I think it would be a lot of fun of learning about the science and engineering of the models behind these types of games.
I think that's besides the point. Shouldn't you have the option of deciding whether your data is sold or not?
Nice references, thanks for sharing!
Aside (and this is not meant as a rebuttal), it’s interesting to me that nobody denies that managerial roles only have so many “slots” (e.g. can’t have 5 CTOs or 7 VPEs, or Directors managing teams of 2 people), and yet, nobody decries the lack of opportunities for those in the management track.
Well, all of the components are less sensitive, not just traces. Also, a lot of the old machines weren’t designed to be cheap.
Ironically, scientists love to do this! Take a new area with promising results, hype the shit out of it until the worst and/or least ethical scientists truly create a pseudoscientific tangent out of it, and then drop the area entirely for a decade because now anything vaguely associated with it is taboo. Labeling real science as cargo cult science sounds to me like cargo cult science with extra steps.

Granted such a violent burst doesn't always happen when an academic bubble is created. But at times I've found academic backlash to be shockingly irrational in its breadth. I think the most common factor is when the pseudoscience makes it to the point of having an impact on actual humans. But it is still sad to see a state when even tenured faculty will shy away from public discussion of certain questions because of vague associations, as it feels entirely unscientific to me.

The funniest part is when the area reemerges with a new name, as if extremely surface level branding is actually important to receiving grants or publishing papers. Well I suppose it is unfortunately, but this is one of those cases that feels so thinly veiled it might as well be scientific satire.

My personal favorite example is the galvanic skin response hype from 50+ years ago, which morphed into more of a fringe science primarily because of flaws with lie detection applications - flaws that should've been extremely obvious concerns to test just based on the OG literature + common scientific sense. In the last decade or so it's been revamped as electrodermal activity and unsurprisingly shown great promise for certain health applications.

EDA is presently the main focus of a big group at MIT, it has been included in some Fitbit models, it is used in FDA approved devices for epilepsy monitoring, and overall the relevant publications per year keep trending back up. A far cry from the looks you'd get if you discussed galvanic skin response in certain supposedly scientific circles back in the day.

In absolute numbers the rebranded GSR has actually already fully recovered from the couple decades of low research activity, though relative to total academic output now versus then it probably still has some distance to go.
Am posting this article mostly to showcase how sloppy much of the current reporting (and thinking) around ChatGPT is. Take this snippet, right from the top:

Millions of people are already using apps like ChatGPT to write books, create art, and develop code.

No - millions of people have tried these apps, motivated by some mixture of serious interest and, basically, shits and giggles. That doesn't mean they've used the apps to actually create useful stuff (for either business-grade use, or for sale, regardless of value) in those categories.

Or maybe "thousands" have -- but not millions.

Then again - if facts don't matter to ChatGPT, then why should they matter to journalists out for an easy puff piece?
I'm pretty sure I am. I've even had a manager tell me in a 1-on-1 "not everyone has the potential to be more than a mid level". Here I am 10 years into my career and still a midlevel.
That is the cost of equity.

Note that the system also has many holes, so the categorization isn't perfect. Its possible for a large number of students to belong to the categories only on paper. So you don't even get equity in the end.
HN was ahead of the curve on NAC, Ivermectin, and Vitamin D during COVID while the experts screeched in dismay. I’ll take medical advice from the Internet any day, over the experts.
His moonshot would be python
Teams would use 1GB RAM for each DM window if they did that.

And the download button when someone sends you a file would still not work.
I have zero cello skills but I can discern between Yo-Yo Ma and a beginning cellist, or even between a brand new beginning cellist and a slightly more advanced beginning cellist.

"You can't judge X if you don't have skills in X" is a tired trope.
Not all WASM files are in the same ballpark. This one is 500K while esbuild is almost 10MB.

https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/shiki@0.14.1/dist/

https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/esbuild-wasm/

That's no knock on esbuild. esbuild benefits from having been built with golang and wasn't designed to be run in the browser. (tinygo can run go in much smaller but you give up some of golang's power)

WASM is fast becoming a standard thing.
> The change in question was part of a project to shut down free access to the Twitter API, Platformer can now confirm. …

> But in a sign of just how deep Elon Musk’s cuts to the company have been, only one site reliability engineer has been staffed on the project, we’re told. On Monday, the engineer made a “bad configuration change” that “basically broke the Twitter API,” according to a current employee.

https://www.platformer.news/p/how-a-single-engineer-brought-...
I was in the industry before this greedy trend accelerated out of control - I know first hand how much better things were before. I’ve seen a colleague choose death over the abuse the average H1B gets subjected to. The sooner this lie ends, the better for all of us.
What I mean is that there's no way to indebt whole future generations.

Wealth might be distributed unequally, but debt over all is still a zero sum thing.

I agree that many people in many countries spend too many resources on education. Especially students' time. See Bryan Caplan's book The Case Against Education. See eg https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/7t59x1/revi... for a review.
pydantic 2.0 should arrive this Spring with lots of Rust enhancements.

https://docs.pydantic.dev/blog/pydantic-v2/
I largely agree with the advice, it gives you more context on the root of the problem when other specialities & you get a better idea of their priorities and what they value in their specialty.

It’s also more interesting than you realise sometimes.

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But for a bit I got hung up on the “unfair” part of the title… I was telling myself “this doesn’t mean what unfair means! there’s nothing unfair about this, it’s perfectly reasonable! What they really mean is it’s a low hanging fruit and of great advantage for ppl to do this!!”

Then it occurred to me, in spite of that — I still understood what they meant. So is my criticism really true? I mean they effectively communicated the point that it is of great advantage. I guess this is just a colloquial meaning of the word unfair.

And with that, I’ve made peace with click bait headlines

Edit: various typos
many years ago I worked on the windows firewall team at microsoft. it was common practice to get to a certain milestone of a project, then purposely ditch the code and start from scratch. I haven't seen this practice since then, but that part of windows was one of the least hated-on at the time.
It's a rather odd memory I have, but IIRC IETF hummed and hawed about certifying XMPP. As I recall it, there was a plenary where the IESG/IAB was taken to task by the WG participants who basically said if the IETF didn't get of its bum and WGLC the docs, they were going to make a lot of noise and walk to another SDO.

I totally did not understand what was the issue. I suspect, but only suspect it was the intersection of the vendor specific aspects of closed-walled-gardens, and not entirely grokking applications-layer specification in a body which focuses on the transport-network-routing layer problems a lot.
Even their smallest European cars take up a lot of space
Yeah I agree with you. Corporate messaging is still corporate messaging. If you go the candor route, it's a tactic of many you can employ.
Matrix is working on bringing that world back, and works pretty well, although configuring a homeserver with the necessary bridges is more difficult than pidgin was.
Yeah, there are a lot of situations where NAT is actually preferable. Not everyone is going to need inbound ports, and the stability you get by having internal addresses is a feature, not a bug

Tie all your network config to your IP space provided by your ISP and now suddenly it's a pain to migrate to a different ISP

Or, if you want to carry your own IP space, now you have the administrative overhead of managing that (and, now you have to go with higher-end business internet service that may be more than you need, just to support bringing your own IPs)
Unique genetic variants linked to the ability to keep time to a beat (2022)
yes it is in fact worse.

you can choose another company, you can't choose another government, and it can imprison you
I feel like giving "tools" to a LLM is a "has science gone too far?" kind of moment
North Korea threatens war with US
KIM YO JONG SAYS N.KOREA WILL SEE AS DECLARATION OF WAR IF U.S. TAKES MILITARY ACTION AGAINST ITS STRATEGIC WEAPON TESTS - KCNA

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/north-korea-warns-us-against-shooting-down-missile-tests-2023-03-07/
> I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens, who, reading newspapers, live & die in the belief, that they have known something of what has been passing in the world in their time... General facts may indeed be collected from them... but no details can be relied on. I will add, that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors. He who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false." - Thomas Jefferson

This is not new. Don't subject your mind to this dreck.
Alex Gibney is making a documentary about Elon Musk
I don’t think we’re getting back to Earth

Score: 34.4 point crash
Speed: 187.5mph
Angle: 122.8°
Time: 88 seconds
Flips: 7
Max speed: 187.5mph
Max height: 2336ft
Engine used: 11 times
Boosters used: 49 times
https://ehmorris.com/lander/

Amazing.

A fast crash, but it could be faster

Score: 82.9 point crash
Speed: 689.8mph
Angle: 56.2°
Time: 79 seconds
Flips: 0
Max speed: 689.8mph
Max height: 725ft
Engine used: 3 times
Boosters used: 46 times
https://ehmorris.com/lander/
Planners are not dictators, they’re bureaucrats.

My understanding is that there are actually a fair amount of planners and engineers who like walkability, but that they fairly often get overriden by politicians. Local politician elections have fairly thin margins, and the most motivated voters and the most motivated NIMBYs tends to overlap.
You'll never believe this one weird old tip, but...

I don't think there was a story in this blogpost so much as a humblebrag about a never-fail technique for teaching board games. Certainly it had nothing on the craft of storytelling, which itself is dominated by marketing-message literature of this sort. The relationship between story and teaching is baldly asserted from authority and then never brought up again.
When – and How – To Keep a Poker Face at Work
Me thinks you just don't listen to enough people complain? :D I've certainly heard those complaints. More than a few times.

Now, I'm fully onboard with what I think I read as part of your main point here. Management is a skill and it can be funny how few folks in the non-management world will acknowledge that. You can see similar with coaches. And it seems to be human nature that we love building a hierarchy up to a single point. Even in very distributed organizations.
U.S. solar panel imports from China grow, alleviating gridlock
Yes, I have also noticed that Shiki is slower. We use it in our blogging platform for code block highlighting and posts with code blocks are noticeably slower to save than posts without them.

Are there any alternatives that supports VS Code syntax but faster?
Familiar. Hedgewars was for about half a year on the top page of free apps before Apple demanded that the GUI be rewritten in something other than Qt, something no one had the time to do, so it was pulled.
Edison has invented just about everything at this point