skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not just mobile home parks but many small cities and even entire counties have zoning laws prohibiting manufactured homes, which even has the effect of blocking the assembly of some quite high end products that come in 3 or 4 huge "chunks", totaling something larger than a double wide, and are assembled together on site.
For people that do these kinds of projects, I always wonder how much progress is getting made in an average night of poking around. I'm only able to make big leaps on things by just eating up evenings. Are some people just really good at picking things up and making progress?
Ask HN: How to stay interested in my current job while I work on a side startup?
I am a well paid engineering leader doing what should be fulfilling work but all I can think about is my side project and I have to work really hard to stay interested in my main job. I want to just work on my company and I am finding not doing so a real struggle. I wish I could hack on my product 24/7. Anyone have any advice on how to navigate this friction between my ambition and paying the bills? I still want to do a good job for my employer until I can move to fully focusing on my startup. Still very early but I’m coding day and night :)
When I read the first lines of the article, “sleep apnea” already jumped to my mind. Good for the author of finding and fixing the root cause of his sleep deprivation. No ways a few hours of sleep could be normal.
Acceleration of U.S. Southeast and Gulf sea-level rise amplified climate variab
Original: Acceleration of U.S. Southeast and Gulf coast sea-level rise amplified by internal climate variability

NOAA: https://cpo.noaa.gov/News/ArtMID/7875/ArticleID/2820/Rapid-S...

WaPo:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/04/1...

About double the global average per WaPo edit-about 5” from 2010.
Funny how anti-nuclear people never admit that the last 30 years of anti nuclear opposition have lead to 1000s of deaths, 100000s of people less health and more cost then any theoretical nuclear accident.

Its totally ok to argue that the government should have shared responsibility for health care. But arguing that government should control the energy production in a sensible way and adopt the risk for that is somehow crazy. And yet they end up doing it anyway as we have seen in the recent crisis.

Had the government simply adopted a nuclear strategy from the beginning it would be vastly cheaper, population would be vastly healthier, grid operation would be far easier and energy security for the next 100 years would not even remotely be in question. It wouldn't have forced the German right to make a devils deal with Russia and the Left would have gotten their carbon free grid.
What the fuck??
Looks awesome, good job.
I'd quite like a twilio script I could host that enables voice to voice with ChatGPT over a phone call, but for messaging apps (I'm gonna to try yours, though would prefer Signal) I'd
personally prefer to stick with typing and use Apple's transcription (the default microphone on iOS keyboard) for any voice stuff - still wanting text back.

This is (in addition to the fact that Apple's works pretty well for me) mostly because that way I get to see the words appear as I'm speaking, and can fix any problems in real-time rather than waiting until I've finished leaving a voice note to find out it messed up. Bing AI chat, for example, trying to use their microphone button just leads to frustration as it regularly fails to understand me. But maybe Whisper is so good that I'd hardly ever need to care about errors?

I do suspect I'm an outlier in terms of how I use dictation, checking as I go - at least based on family members, they seem to either speak a sentence then look at it, or speak and then send without looking - so for them, off-device transcription would probably be welcome as long as it even slightly improves accuracy rates.
Since Sabine Hoffstader labeled the whole string theory (and some particle accelerator physics) as unscientific she shouldn't engage in the very fringes she appalls.
Side note: Dmitry (creator of RePalm) is a treasure and his impact on the Palm community cannot be understated. He has a world-class depth of knowledge of the inner workings of these things and is one of the key players in extending PalmOS device capabilities today (patching ROMs, new hardware, etc.).

He also contributes regularly to apps the community is developing, teaching us hobby devs new tricks. :)

As someone who still uses PDAs regularly, I can't express enough gratitude.
Dear manufacturers of driverless cars: let's see how they do in Boston. We'll be here anytime you're feeling brave.
100%, I keep seeing this argument being trotted out like every country should have a race to the bottom to keep billionaires within their borders whatever that means.
It’s certainly an intriguing idea worth investigating. But for me, the process of creating the cards and being forced to distill what I read was critical to the success of using SRS.
Man pages are too long and technical for 70% of casual use when the answers are a Google away. Normal usage patterns don't involve using every option, and that's what man pages are focused on documenting.
Roger Bacon (1214 – 1292) – Biography (2003)
I think they’re trying to convey the idea that all aspects of child safety became something that could (and should) be packaged, marketed, and sold, and that any social safety nets society might offer are insufficient or that you’re morally deficient if you rely on them, and those things combined left parents feeling they had to buy lots of stuff to keep their kids safe.

I know there’s no universally-agreed-upon definition of neoliberalism but from where I’m standing it would appear that it heaps praise on people who find a way to monetize things that people hadn’t previously thought to monetize (like child nutrition or play) and that it casts scorn on people who don’t take command of their own destiny, so I can sort of see a connection?
Thanks for this comment! Quick note - for clarity and conformity with standard notation, it would be good to have parentheses around the denominators of those ring quotients (in those cases like x^2 - 1 where they contain multiple additive terms).
Similar Outcomes in Men and Women After Transcatheter Tricuspid Interventions
The Dutch tax incentives were quite attractive, especially on lease cars, but it's been (being) dialed way back because it's costing the government too much income.
IPv6 provides a sufficient number of addresses that every single person on the planet could have billions of dedicated addresses and there would still be plenty more available without fear of running out.

We have effectively run out of public IPv4 address more than 15 years ago. As a result most people have what's known as a non-route-able address (NAT). NAT allows devices to hide behind the privacy of a router and can communicate out, but other side devices cannot access the inside devices. That is good for network privacy, but it completely defeats application communication. That then means almost all application communication connects through some central server, for example if you want to share messages on social media you send then to a social media server instead of the intended recipient.

Contrast that against telephones. With phones everybody has a unique address and you call the intended person directly. There is no central server.
Oh I was way off, I doubt 2019 was much different. I'll adjust my parent comment.
> Spaced repetition is, by far, the most effective cognitive hack I’ve used.

I totally second that. Well, sleep and exercise do amazing things for you too, but if you need to memorize things, I don't know of a quicker method than spaced repetition.

Check out Leitner system: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leitner_system

Flashcards Deluxe supports Leitner, I don't know about Anki?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.orangeorap... (I have no relation to that app, I just find it incredibly useful).
Sounds like k3os, although it kind of surprised me when k3os development was stopped. Agreed: something like this almost seems inevitable. When you just want Kubernetes, managing the underlying OS and packages just feels like a waste of time.
France transition from coal and oil to almost 100% nuclear in 20 years.

I'll wait here for any other country to do remotely as well with 'renewables'.

Lets see how Germany did after 20 years of their Green revolution ... mmhh yeah they would have done a lot better with nuclear.

Nuclear was the fastest scaling of any energy source ever discovered in the US. Faster then even oil. But then regulation changed and basically forced all plants to be totally re-engineered and new designs had to be made. At the same time coal became massively cheap and at that time the idea that a green source should have some kind of advantage was simply not viable.

Had nuclear given the same intensives as renewables, it would have been adopted in huge numbers. For example, a simple law that states all utilizes need some X% of nuclear would have totally changed the US. Renewables got that incentive, nuclear never did.
Standard should be relative to human
Midjourney v5 Photographers Reference Sheet
Did something similar (without voice) that runs on an esp32. This way I don't need any server or keep my desktop machine running.

Supports Telegram and Discord.

https://github.com/floitsch/ai-projects/tree/main/chat
This is amazing! I’m super excited. I loved PalmOS.
"That pays for facilities and education programs and funding the department itself."

Buildings, rooms costs rent from each department.

Departments have expenses. Salaries to pay. Equipment to upgrade. Sometimes costs go over or researchers suddenly leave for whatever reason. The department they worked in is holding the bag on that.

Literally all that .57 or whatever part of every of every dollar you bring is going to the university to do with it how they like it. You're always working to make someone else more; that's why they hired you.

Now why is it going through the same people all the time (like grant management I presume?), Because grants have limited amount of money and people that fund research like to know the money was spent the way it was supposed to and the university itself likes to know all the money its researchers are bringing in and avoid conflicts of interest.

Edit: I also forgot to include, don't forget that like part of your pay you don't directly see, it's a about a third more, which goes to your benefits.
> Cows and ruminants have been roaming the Earth for a long time. If they were a huge contribute to global warming, it would be pretty hot already.

The number of cows has of course massively increased over time.
Key quotes (italics mine):

"In some areas, this has led prices to surge. In Texas, where 10 of the 34 mines are connected to the state’s grid, the increased demand has caused electric bills for power customers to rise nearly 5 percent, or $1.8 billion per year, according to a simulation performed for The Times by the energy research and consulting firm Wood Mackenzie."

"The additional power use across the country also causes as much carbon pollution as adding 3.5 million gas-powered cars to America’s roads, according to an analysis by WattTime, a nonprofit tech company. Many of the Bitcoin operations promote themselves as environmentally friendly and set up in areas rich with renewable energy, but their power needs are far too great to be satisfied by those sources alone. As a result, they have become a boon for the fossil fuel industry: WattTime found that coal and natural gas plants kick in to meet 85 percent of the demand these Bitcoin operations add to their grids."
>constexpr has to checked for leaks and UB so as long as there is coverage at compile-time

Source ?I am not sure constexpr give any garanty regarding UB and/or leaks
They're already doing it. At least this way they won't have as many horrible skin ulcers. The situation is inhumane.

Consider the principles from another perspective. The leading causes of death in the US are diabetes, heart disease and obesity related conditions. Should we prohibit fast-food franchises, TV dinners and sedentary lifestyles?

As you said, "Do you want to live in an obese society?"

Logically, opposing prohibition isn't the same as endorsing obesity or drug abuse. There is an important distinction here.
Platform engineering is not just for devs
Except gag orders an unenforceable in Sweden so it’s just BigCo intimidation
We have the technology to live quite comfortably at the south pole, the main question is money and budget, and dollars per kg of the fuel and food and other consumable supplies to keep it running. The south pole station having nearly zero local resources except for fresh water is not a bad analog for mars logistics.
It's not quite as extreme as the US, in the city center you can manage okay without, but it's mostly not an option.
Despite the limitations and hackiness of the approach, this instant-boot feature at least attempts to serve the user?

I don't see any "rate your experience" popups, nor login/signup prompts, nor ads, nor endless amounts of whitespace and the (few) options hidden behind a catch-all "burger" menu.

This thing was actually built to a much higher UX standard than most software nowadays.
I think it's worth pointing out that your statement is true by definition, perhaps not true by implementation in these cases. It's not like UB produces _random_ behavior, it's just not specified what compilers _should_ do in those cases.

Of course, cannot be relied upon.
I think the article ranking is probably good enough.

Where I have more trouble with is with comment-ranking within an article. The interface makes it hard to understand conversational flow, and of course that flow changes over time according to whatever the algorithm does. This makes it very hard to catch up later on an article’s comments and get a view of what has changed since my last view. Maybe there is a way to do this via the interface, but if so it’s not obvious.
What the world can learn from a lobotomy surgeon’s horrible mistake
Follow that money, it’s doesn’t go where they say.
https://archive.is/HjXYo
You're right, and I hate it for that reason.

However there are not many other levers to be pulled, and any price reduction in what are expensive vehicles will benefit the wealthy.

The obvious alternative (make ice vehicles more expensive) will actively hurt the poorer car owners more.

I honestly don't see obvious better ways to drive ev uptake
Wait.. so we're going to stop shipping millions of tons of coal to China. A country that accounts for 20% of our GDP. We're not even going to scratch the coal off the walls. Sill article, that really equates to blowing a raspberry at a bon fire.
What makes them unusable? It seems like simple constraints in CSS are fairly common, eg. percentage widths. Is it that only simple constraints are understandable / usable?
> People with good choices and support primarily choose non self harming activities.

That’s not true. People in the west have so many more choices than people in my dad’s village in Bangladesh. But it’s people in the west who are destroying themselves with drug and other vices.
That's very exciting. Some day a a mere mortal might be able to play a facsimile of a dozen slightly-different hand-made Dumbles.

One thing that this approach (and profiling) might not be able to do is what Ben Adrian's sound design team in Line 6 did, where they've come up with some delightful "amps" in the Helix that don't have real-world equivalents. For example, my favorite, the Ventoux, which he describes like this:

"The idea was to create a “coveted boutique amp” that had a different origin story. Most coveted boutique amps come from modified black panel fenders or modified marshall circuits. I wanted to do the same thing, but base it on the early 70s Orange circuits and the mid-wattage Fender Tweed circuits."

I'm not sure how one would to that with a NN approach.

Edit: now I'm wondering if one could make a large model trained by all the amplifiers, and have it dream up amps that don't exist.
> 16k textures

You'll need some serious horsepower for this, but Mari does support 32k textures. I believe the only other app that does is Mudbox, but that's pretty much Autodesk abandonware.

It's been a bit since, but I've used both Mari and Painter in the past. When it comes to painting I prefer Mari's projection painting system over Painter's traditional paint on model system. However Substance does have a lot of nice functionality to let you work very quickly, particularly when using Painter in conjunction with Designer. It's too difficult to make a proper comparison typing on a phone with one thumb. Mari just provides a different workflow and very deep level of control over things (designed for VFX first rather than games).

As for cost, yeah, Foundry stuff is not the cheapest. For individuals you're looking at just shy of $700USD/yr for Mari if you can handle up-front costs, saving two months, otherwise it takes you a bit over $800 when done monthly (annual plan paid monthly). This compared to the Substance Suite, primarily Painter, Designer, and Sampler, that's available for $50/m or $550/yr.
Well they need ways to justify their jobs and advance their careers. Which is perfectly understandable, UX is almost always is secondary to that (as it should be from the perspective of individuals).
Is there a recommended Palm device for modern use? What software do you use on Linux/Mac/Windows to sync the PDA?
It's the world we already live in. Continuation of the war on drugs mentality just leads to horrific outcomes like the one being discussed. And those outcomes have a wildly outsized impact on people who were born into unfortunate circumstances.
I don't really think you can stop them at the global financial system level, but I would think at the national level, a country could at least control their financial system; it doesn't seem like you have much sovereignty over your nation otherwise.
How Not to Die of Botulism
Great writeup. For those interested in the subject there is also PumpkinOS (https://github.com/migueletto/PumpkinOS) with accompanying blog posts going in to details.
You could have a default "will be wiped after <x time>" policy / notification up front, plus an option to change this (in either direction, one way to "only store this in RAM not the DB, and wipe it as soon as I close this window - or maybe after an hour of inactivity", the other way to "please never delete (we reserve the right to delete anyway but will keep for at least Y days/months/whatever)". And also a "delete now" button to override. And then a cron job checking what's due to be deleted and wiping them from the DB/memory?

Of course, it maybe also adds more pressure to keep the server more secure without private conversations being accessible after a reboot...
A lot of reasons below are valid. And also the technical context addressed by one of the other comments. But beyond that, as a company's size increases, the proportion of value contribution from the code is increasingly augmented by the functions of marketing, sales, support and distributions. The value of code in isolation diminishes so much, the risk is usually not worth it unless it is something very unique like GPT.
Two big issues I've noticed with post ranking are:

1. There seems to be a group of people that abuse the flag button to get stories downvoted. You notice this when highly upvoted stories with a lot of points suddenly drop from the top and fall quickly beyond older stories with many fewer votes. For instance, there seems to be a group that was mass flagging submissions about Rob Lee's recent death until one was made that didn't mention his cause of death and explicitly forbid discussion of it in the comments.

2. Partly because of #1, you can have a topic with a lot of votes at the top of the page suddenly drop to page 5 and disappear within a very short amount of time. This significantly lowers the incentive to spend any time writing a thoughtful response or researching useful information, because even spending 20-30 minutes on a response might mean that no one is going to see what you wrote.
> But who wants a capsule hotel for the homeless on their street?

The same people that don't want the homeless literally sleeping on their street?
let ϴ = 0/0 then 1*ϴ = ϴ = 0/0 = (0*0)/0 = 0*(0/0) = 0*ϴ it follows 1 = 0 and thus x = x * 1 = x * 0 = 0 = y * 0 = y * 1 = y for all x and y
Conclusion: Dave loves to talk and make videos but his overly simplistic approach is dubious at best.
> why don’t we

Because that would lead to absolutely terrible longterm outcomes due to obvious reasons.
> In my opinion this type of comment is the core problem with AI alignment these days. [...] The current GPT models are not going to "wake up" or accidentally take over the world. This is very obvious. [...] Executing "arbitrary code" that InstructGPT models outputs based on your instructions is not a danger.

I meant to comment on the security aspects of sending confidential information to models and letting them generate output that will be immediately executed on your own machine. People also chain models together and let them generate output that will be interpreted as the next model's input. If done without guardrails, this is done ideally in a sandboxed environment.

Too often, I see this type of code just ran on one's machine. As the projects attract less technical people, they may not be aware of the dangers of running such code locally and can see a portion of their data being wiped or exposed.
These sound like expected growing pains for such complex software, and that there are rapid and effective iterations in progress. I salute SF and its residents for putting up with this and suffering such delays, making a sacrifice that improves it for the rest of us. Their tolerance will eventually save lives as well as improving mobility all over.

I just hope that they will continue to extend that tolerance to still allowing human drivers for a long time after automated ones are more safe. It's almost inevitable that there will be a story like this someday about the hazards of letting humans disable their auto-pilot.
People in oral cultures tell stories as a source of mutual knowledge in the game theory sense (think: “The Emperor Has No Clothes”) on matters they cannot talk about either because they resist explicit expository formulation or because they are embarrassing and anxiety provoking. The communal story is thus a source of shared value and mutual affirmation. And the academic profession of literary criticism came to see itself as a repository of that shared value. Accordingly, in the middle of the 20th century it turned toward interpretation as its central activity. But critics could not agree on interpretations and that precipitated a crisis that led to Theory. The crisis has quited down, but is not resolved.
> “A couple of years ago, they developed a proof of concept, but nobody’s heard anything from them since,” says Bataille. “The hope is they are close to hitting commercial scale.”

That kind of a strange thing to say. Boston Metal has been progressing just fine and have been sharing some of their progress online and are in talks with lots of different partners.

I don't think the industry is confused of where they are.
My kids got a few MEGA Bloks sets when they were younger, and 1/1000 is an incredibly generous description of their tolerances. Things just... didn't stick together consistently. They'd just fall apart.