skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Embracing constraint has been, in my experience, a far more effective driver of innovation than any other tactic.

I think of Muxtape far more fondly than I do of Spotify or iTunes.
Tesla is not going to be able to make many Tesla Semis per month due to the absurd number of batter cells they consume but that might not matter because they make no economic sense.
> All you need to do is free people from having to make money, to meet basic needs. And people Will have children again.

This meme needs to die. People in poorer countries have more children than people in rich countries. Within countries poorer communities have more children than richer ones. There might be some exceptions but this broadly holds true across the world.
Everything is so far apart because America is very large, not because they spaced things out with parking lots. But it does sound funny to make that the reason.

"Yup, this big country was spread out by parking lots."
Thank you for writing this! I am Bengali, and did not know this about Rash Behari Bose.
Tell HN: Google search is getting worse
It seems that Google is suffering from gpt influence, and started putting gpt everywhere.

I was searching certain words and the interface drastically changes based on what they think of the word. Then again, the auto completion is apparent hack of some gpt models in a rush.

It really used to be cool and stable, at least for me. Deep learning is not a magic hammer.
Do you think the US was not justified in destroying the terror camps that Al-Qaeda was operating in Afghanistan after the US was attacked on 9/11?
Why not? America is large, land is not really in short supply, except in dense cities.
‘The Green Knight’ Movie Review (2021)
I don't know, power concentrates plenty in unregulated industries. Google has owned search for over two decades, and it's not like there's a ton of government regulation preventing anyone from starting a search engine. pPople have tried, they just haven't succeeded because Google was that much better and that much farther ahead, and they used their advantages to widen the gap. The same is true for advertising, it's not like the government was stopping anyone from competing with Google and Facebook, but other companies just couldn't get there.

I'm not sure that AI is going to look that different. Is there any reason to believe that if OpenAI wins the majority share, that any competition is going to be able to dethrone them?

We could imagine a world where the US government broke up big tech companies in the late 2000s or early 2010s, and it sure seems like that world would be in a much better position today, due exactly to increased competition. Instead we have a bunch of big companies that don't take risks or release ambitious new products because they're too busy trying to defend their moats.
And there are probably millions just as smart as him but not as connected and middle or lower class so they’re going to unheard of state schools. This dude had every advantage handed to him + hard work so of course he’s the guy.
Shouldn't the compiler warn or error on unreachable code?
Open source doesn't protect the commercial interests of the producer. It protects the rights of the consumer.

It sounds like Prusa doesn't understand that central premise, or is coming to terms with how hostile open source is to traditional business models.
I still think this looks like CGI https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ODY6JWzS8WU&t=702s
He may have to do the sound system that way, but in my opinion using an FPGA completely defeats the point. You might as well just do emulation (which already exists; there's a Commander X16 emulator for developers and the curious). The whole fun part of retrocomputing is that it is based on real chips, not emulators or FPGAs (which amount to the same thing).
> Apple Macs only work as soon as you unbox them because Apple controls both the hardware and software

Yeah, there's something to be said for hardware-software co-design.

I think Alan Kay said something like "People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware."
A majority of millennials are homeowners. It's maybe two or three points behind where the boomers were at their age.
Wow, the buddy/uncle/friend of a friend with very vague but scandalously phrased corporate secrets strikes again!
this is glossing over corporate investment into rental housing past the 2008 crisis.

there are drivers beyond "Munich is sexy + supply and demand"
>I don't think going to "fake space" for a minute is really going to be interesting by the end of the decade.

That applies to the suborbital flights conducted by Blue Origin and Virgin today, but not Starship which is orbital class.
I remember it had a little window in the door and if I accidentally looked at it, I would realize I was spinning and Instant Nausea.
The first paragraph says:

> It was supposedly created as an attempt to "take back power for the directors as artists"

But the actual "vow of chastity" says:

> Furthermore I swear as a director to refrain from personal taste! I am no longer an artist. I swear to refrain from creating a “work”

So is the director an artist or not?

Ctrl-F for terms like "directors as artists" in the Google Books view of the cited source has no results. I think the "directors as artists" quote may be a fabrication.
People forget about the old interest rates. I have a credit card with a lower rate than my parents' mortgage back in the 80s.
I lived next to the testing range for this engine for the past few years.

It sounds amazing from a far too. The shock diamonds it creates have an audible rumble/rhythm to it.
>On the other hand, unemploying a large enough segment of society at once might finally force some change in the system, rather than letting it continue limping on in a slow burn

Proof of employment required to vote.
Then it probably means which side you'd be on if you were American.
I'm always baffled that people complain that the code provided is not 'performant enough' or 'is too verbose', etc. It's usually providing a solution that is the most typical solution given by all programmers - but the beautiful thing about it is - you can ask it to adjust the code to match a given constraint. Just like your colleague. Only usually far, far better honestly - because you get a response in about 3 seconds, and iterate to the answer in about a total of t minutes, rather than receiving something (maybe it's good, maybe it's entirely missing the constraints) .. in 4 days.
RAND study on this: [1]

Recommendation: "To mitigate the higher likelihood of adverse performance-related outcomes, require that waivered recruits and those with a documented history of marijuana or behavioral health issues have Tier 1 education status, have Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT) scores in categories I–IIIA, or be age 22 or older."

"Tier I education status" means high school graduation. AFQT scores of IIIA or above means above the median intelligence for the military.

[1] https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR4431.html
Has any corporate attorney ever been disbarred for filing frivolous lawsuits against individuals on behalf of their company? It's certainly not a common occurrence.
One has to take into account that Stability AI's CEO might oversell AI's abilities in order to get more investors.
If you weren't there for the 8-bit era you'll never get it. The point of all of this (and related projects) is to create the ideal 8-bit computer that never existed in the era. Sure modern technology is better, and you can write emulators or "fantasy consoles" like PICO-8 or TIC-80 that run on modern hardware, but that seems like cheating -- like creating a biplane with a jet engine.
The C-5 Galaxy can transport 127 tons and land at normal airports with at least one order of magnitude lower per kg prices. A C-17 can transport 77 tons. More importantly they can actually unload their cargo once they land. A Starship would need either special facilities or an as-yet undersigned integral crane to unload cargo.
Karl Marx is not only the most influential economist of all time; he is many orders of magnitude more influential than Keynes. Only an American could be clueless enough to think this is up for discussion.
Maybe it's a generational thing? I grew up using the computer in my bedroom, I have known friends for 10+ years online only and I've used to async communication from participating in guilds thoughout many games. I'm used to timezone differences through state of the guild meetings being held at awkward times and from running an in-game logistics company with important strategic deadlines due to wars.

Working online and communicating through slack & zoom seemed very natural to me because I've used slack/discord/irc through jabber/trello/mumble/ts3/custom forum software throughout my teenage years. Continuing that into working in an online-only environment feels very natural.

Some guilds literally have HR people that contact you when you first join to make sure you can login to the documentation (usually a mediawiki setup) and see the guides for setting up auth for all the services. They have been practicing onboarding people remotely for all of their existence.
>If eastern Germany is still affordable like that then it might be for a reason.

I'm not German, but you can't complain there's no affordable housing when there actually is, but you just don't want it. Just because you only want to move only to a specific city you like, that has the "right vibe", where others also want to live, it's not society's fault you're too picky and you think you're too good for other more affordable cities. Beggars can't be choosers. That's like complaining about starving with a plate of Big Macs next to you because it's not what you like to eat.

>Don't move there unless you pass as a German and speak the language.

That's total nonsense. Plenty of foreigners who don't "pass as German" live in East German cities just fine. And why is it so bad that you have to learn the local language when you move somewhere? Do you not need to speak English when you move to the UK/US? The official language in Germany is German, not English. Best learn it if you move there out of respect for the host country and to integrate and become part of society.

If you're lazy about integration and learning German, and only want to move somewhere just to make money and party in expat bubbles secluded from the German society, in cities where English is the majority spoken language, then you can't complain they're unaffordable when everyone other white collar yippie expat wants to do the same. Again, beggars can't be choosers. That's like complaining there's rush hour traffic jams, when you're part of the traffic jam.

And I got news for you (not you specifically, but others who have this mentality): whenever you move to a new country as a foreigner, you'll always be at a disadvantage for housing, especially if you don't speak the language, and just because you got a visa for a white collar job at some startup making the fifth best food delivery app, doesn't make you a special snowflake worthy of the German society to turn itself upside down for you and roll the red carpet and make life super easy for you. It's still your job to integrate in the country you choose to move including dealing with the unpleasant things.

You(We)'re not special. 99% chance you were given a visa and got hired there not because you've got some super rare skills nobody there had, but because of wage dumping. You moving there puts downward pressure on wages and upward pressure on rents, meaning the government, landlords, and business owners can profit from your presence there. We're basically cattle in the economic machine. You should be aware of these facts and factor them into your decision when it comes to immigrating somewhere, as it's never a free ticket to El Dorado as many delusional white collar expats (tech workers especially) think.
Funding anti-low carb studies? Personally I advocate for lower carb diets in general but do you have evidence for that claim?
Astronaut Garrett Reisman worked for 7 years there and is on record stating that is all the stress he could handle.[1]:

Jim Keller has a history of joining a company to start a project and then leaving once it is complete. He did this multiple times in his career and was with Tesla until they completed the self driving computer. He has also left behind a team of stellar well known people.

I am not too sure about Andrej Karpathy. I dont know if we have enough of a history to know when he chooses to join and leave companies.

There must be a lot of lower level engineers who have to be developing all these amazing subsystems in the car and other products.

Wonder what the turn over is for the really skilled people. Maybe the truly burnt out people or just stragglers are the ones you are encountering.

[1]:https://youtu.be/GNG6ZzDh9C8?t=420
One of the problems that people forget about when designing their ideal political system is that the principal / agent problem is everywhere.

When it comes to keeping your country (or region) livable, nothing beats personal engagement and a little vigilance.
1. Define "works".

2. Provide examples of sites that do not "work".

It's possible that people might disagree on the definition of "works". For example, perhaps web developers might be biased toward a definition that puts them in control instead of the user. If I can retrieve information from a server with HTTP requests then the website "works" for me. As a user, I certainly do not need to use Javascript to make HTTP requests. Nor do I need to use a particular client.

One could argue that even HN does not "work" completely without Javascript. For example, the script at https://news.ycombinator.com/hn.js will not run.
The problem with being able to request permissions is that the extensions will then not work without it. So in reality you often don't have a choice.

Ultimately of course, it is folly to assume you can have privacy with a browser made by an ad company.
The iPhone manual exists as an Apple book, you can have it on-device in the Books app: https://books.apple.com/book/id6443146864
This is how Area 51 works, for example. There is a commuter flight that leaves from a smaller general aviation field in Las Vegas, and goes back and forth between the Air Force base multiple times per day. Civilians working on the site live in the city, and yet can be at work way upstate in the desert in less than an hour door-to-door. It’s a good system and not too expensive to operate.
All of these companies cutting perks after decades of luring people in to work is peak corporate behaviour when you want to show your investors that you are well behaved. Conveniently forgetting how they got there in the first place....
Why ask that which you can readily lookup?

a 1,100 kV link in China was completed in 2019 over a distance of 3,300 km (2,100 mi) with a power capacity of 12 GW.

High voltage is used for electric power transmission to reduce the energy lost in the resistance of the wires.

Since the power lost as heat in the wires is directly proportional to the square of the current, using half the current at double the voltage reduces the line losses by a factor of 4.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current

Kept in mind that magic beams (microwave, laser) also fan out and meet resistance and lose power in transmission.
You are comparing something like 20% or 30% or 40% of the population, to Adolf Hitler.

If that's a fair comparison – society's future isn't looking bright.
> Even in a world where AI-assisted code reigns — being a distributed systems expert might be the key to unlocking AI in every program.

This is the aspect of AI that most software developers are either missing or willfully ignoring. AI in itself is a very narrow and deep topic which requires immense amount of domain knowledge and skills, but deploying AI solutions and using AI for business applications is mostly not about AI, but about distributed systems. That is the area where an increasing amount of "labor" will be deployed, and hence the job market is going to see a steep demand for engineers.
I remember reading that that use case doesn’t really exist, especially for the US military. Stuff they need a lot of, they pre-stage, and an airborne invasion requires massive logistics, including the entire follow on ground invasion. It’s not just a matter of getting the paratroopers there quickly.
Not possible, computing demand is skyrocketing. We’ll be in demand shock for the foreseeable future honestly
He tried to fire a disabled employee via a public tweet without speaking to them privately first, and then had to retract it. This is McDonalds McManager behavior, not CEO behavior.
Wouldn't you be able the say the same thing with single cells, the biological kind.
Not a surprise: you would have to go as far back to 2002-2001 to have two consecutive negative years. high inflation does not affect the ability of huge companies like Walmart and McDonald's to generate record earnings and profits. This is why I stayed invested and did not sell in 2022.
A conversation with Sussman on AI and asynchronous programming (2015)
Not books, but Jason Scott's documentaries on the history of BBSes, text adventures and Infocom were really interesting:

Get Lamp: The Text Adventure Documentary (2010): https://yewtu.be/watch?v=zEJXZ2wnO3w

Infocom: The Documentary: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=OXNLWy7rwH4

BBS: The Documentary (2005): https://yewtu.be/playlist?list=PL7nj3G6Jpv2G6Gp6NvN1kUtQuW8Q...
I think they are referring to the sub-LEO suborbital hops that are being advertised as "a trip to space". Just high enough to clearly see the famous "blue marble" but nowhere close to being able to sustain an orbit or actually classify as being "in space".
Appreciate the deeper details, thanks.
Because honestly, there's not that many people like you. They know this.
I can see how we might come to this conclusion, but we would also need look at which films were marketed the most, which films had wider distribution, which films had better casting budgets, etc…

If franchise and rehashed-to-death-IP films all had more marketing, wider distribution, and more famous actors/crew, of course they’re going to get a higher viewership.
A bit offtopic but this website has literally three fullscreen (mobile) consent boxes.
I think we need to change the income tax code to massively incentivize people to get married and have kids. I’d support increasing the tax rate pretty massively and then introducing a tax deduction of like $20k per kid.

For instance a couple with 3 kids and a home would have around $70k-$100k in deductions (60k kids, 10k-40k in state/local taxes etc). If they had an income of $120k it would be adjusted to like $30k and they’d pay essentially no taxes.

It’s a deduction and not a credit specifically so people that the state isn’t incentivizing clients of the state to have kids.
Curious, which bannings you are referring to? I thought this was a thing of the past.
Grab the gym or golf bag and do a workout.
At some point Sussman expressed how he thought AI was on the wrong track. He explained that he thought most AI directions were not interesting to him, because they were about building up a solid AI foundation, then the AI system runs as a sort of black box. "I'm not interested in that. I want software that's accountable." Accountable? "Yes, I want something that can express its symbolic reasoning. I want to it to tell me why it did the thing it did, what it thought was going to happen, and then what happened instead."

I wonder what his opinion is today.
> When AGI is invented (and I’m increasingly convinced it’ll happen in the next decade or two)

Aside from the issue of AGI being extremely difficult to capture in a proper definition, what leads you to believe this? Recent developments like LLMs and stable diffusion are impressive technology but I don't view them as remotely relevant to achieving AGI.
The WVU PRT is amazing, but impractical. Duke University had a sister system which was decommissioned in 2009. I totally get why they did that, but I'm still sad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_University_Medical_Center...
> Why waste your time?

Personally I don't feel great contributing to the trend of ghosting everyone, and sending a thank you note adds a sense of closure and completion.
I guess that's be the way to detect if the text has been written by the AI - it'd be completely devoid of metaphors and cleansed from anything that could possibly offend somebody. I wouldn't ever call it a "good job" but I guess it's useful.
The private sector's interest aligns with the market, at least on the average, as long as they are not allowed to illegally obtain a monopoly.

The market, then, is assumed to be rational on average, and thus all participants in the market would make decisions in their own best interest, and thus, obtain the best outcome for themselves that is possible. Those who do not choose optimally is then selected out by economic darwinian competition.

The gov't has a role to play, but it does not follow that _more_ gov't regulation makes for a better society.
this is crazy. in 2015 i paid 480 eur in berlin for a 20qm room, then 1050 for 101 qm (on 48k eur in a 3 person WG) and then 1355 for 50 qm in hamburg (neubau).

never had an 8% increase tho, that’s rough. it was a different world in 2005 for sure
That list was from 2021 when rents were high, but not ridiculous. Back then, the slightly higher rents were offset by the lower income tax rate.

In the last 12 months, though, it's become obscene. It would definitely top the list.
I’m not really sure what American food is anymore. What does an American food restaurant have abroad anyways beyond McDonald’s. Maybe a soul food or texmex place in Beijing counts as such?
Compliance and internal politics? :>
I drive a 2021 Toyota RAV4. The CarPlay interface takes over the whole screen. It also does so in every rental or borrowed car I’ve ever driven.
I saw a church in Chicago that has a brand new copper roof. It looks quite striking since it hasn't oxidized to blue yet.
Transcribing bird sound as human speech
The DOD can’t account for 60% of its spend and keeps failing audit.

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/19/997961646/the-pentagon-has-ne...
And breed.
> So, it IS a Linux distribution with other userspace that's not made by GNU

So, it IS a Cummins distr^W car with other car parts that's not made by Cummins? Despite the big blue "Ford" everywhere on the car and in the documentation?

Another litmus test I often amused by is how when where is a report of a bazillion of Windows infections (especially those when a user should explicitly run the payload, not just a drive-by) then it's Windows problem, but when there is a report of bazillion of infected Android phones and tablets then of course it's not Linux and therefore it shouldn't be chalked up in any "Amount of infected computers per OS" graphs, lol.

> So, it IS a Linux distribution

Humans tends to omit unnecessary repetition and overall tends to shorten things when it's fits their current situation.

But that doesn't make "an operating system distribution based on Linux kernel with system instrumentation and userspace common to other popular operating systems based on Linux kernel" equal to "Linux distribution" or "Linux".
TFW are used to drive down wages.

international students do purchase houses for their families out of country - it happens more in some areas than others.

And if someone couldn't get in as a student, they might try to get in as a TFW and spend their family money on a home - I don't know how often it happens but its allowed because TFWs DO buy houses.
It's not really relevant - he can save for downpayment on a house in most places in the country in a single year while also paying down his loans for a phd. He's so far out of the norm at his income that houses that are unattainable to most people are within reach. Sorry he chose to take out loans to get a phd and has to pay it back - I didn't make that decision. But he can definitely afford a home.