skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are two problems I see with just saying this

- "working on yourself" is left unclearly defined

- the assumption that you have to "work on yourself" before you can get in front of other people (apologies if that wasn't what you were insinuating but I've been given this advice by others)

Addressing the first the most obvious way that society deems "working on yourself" if I had to guess is going to therapy. Well I have troubles going to therapy because evidently some part of my brain related to forming any sort of human relationship (romantic friendly business or therapeutic) is stunted. For me the interest you speak of and work ethic for dealing with humans over objects just fades. They can be as enthusiastic as possible and I can completely forget they exist after a week if they aren't physically in front of my face by then. And there are plenty of states of apathy in between. So therapy doesn't work out that well. I go back to those people who recommended therapy for advice. They say "well go to therapy again, wrong therapist." At that point Im willing to believe theyre telling me that because they have no idea how to deal with me and want me out of their sights asap so a professional can take the brunt of my miasma. And that is a legitimate tactic when dealing with severely depressed people, see "codependence", it is just the truth. At that point I cant bear to be around them any more

Addressing the second, I think that would contribute to more alone time for someone seeking self help, whereas experience by doing is better for learning. Though, by now Ive learned the hard way that dragging my clearance-shelf mind into someone elses good time feels like it would be selfish to them and unfulfilling for me, but thats me personally

So my new idea of working on myself is just trying to stay employed as a single living thing and hoping I can retire without any more mental defects forming. Sometimes I feel empty. Maybe I got the wrong idea.
> I haven't seen a single one of these and with the Chinese market as large as it is I'm sure that they could stay away from other markets for a long time without exporting their BEVs to countries where they will have to face competition from established Western brands.

Sure, but they aren’t. These Chinese EV manufacturers are coming for the world market.

Volvo is now owned by a Chinese company, Geely, and they’re manufacturing EVs in China based on a Geely platform for global export[0]. Polestar, also owned by Geely, is a Western market EV brand exported from China[1]. BYD is already planning to build factories and sell cars in Europe[2].

[0] https://asia.nikkei.com/Editor-s-Picks/Interview/Volvo-to-ex...
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/26/polesta...
[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-07/byd-build...
Much higher confidence to not mess up those gravity assists? Control and sensors have come a long way since then
Biologists use the word “female” to describe organs or organisms that produce eggs, and “male” for those that produce sperm; animals do not have socially constructed genders.

Sad times when such disclaimers are necessary.
But it could become a new Concorde, on the way to the mythical AGI... only affordable for some, never profitable.
> Honestly, it's a completely different job as an Engineering Manager vs being an IC

This is the right perspective, in my opinion. The way I think of it is that its more like you are the coach/manager of a sports team and not a player. Sometimes the best players do not make good coaches and sometimes players that are mediocre/bad are really great coaches/managers. Its a different role. If you approach it with the mindset that your role as coach/manager is to help your team's outcomes be the highest they can be (which will differ based on the make-up of your team) then you (and your team and your company) will do well.

In business/management terms this is called servant leadership - serving others to help them grow and succeed. Traditional leadership is typically the accumulation and exercising of power to "move up" a hierarchy - much like in the animal world with wolves or lions, etc.
> He was asking about the complexity in relation to the size of the input string,

But you don't try checking if the entire string is in the dictionary regardless of n - you only ever check if it's in the dictionary if it's shorter than X+1 where X is the longest string in the dictionary. As the input string size grows, the dictionary lookups are capped.
Usually you need a good product and then Google contacts you...
There is increasing newfound appreciation for that early 3d visual look though. You can see that in new games being clearly inspired by that look, for example Dusk (with "overwhelmingly positive" rating): https://store.steampowered.com/app/519860/DUSK/
Artist's impression of a black hole, more news at 6.

I guess all the crypto hype is now AI hype. Can't wait to see the wave of companies renaming themselves from X Blockchain to X AI.
The thing is, and this is especially true for hobbies and entertainment- I’d rather read up on what people have said and apply MY OWN algorithm to it.
Well, thank you for informing me that I should never ever buy a Volvo
AI Can [Almost] Clone Your Favorite Podcast Host’s Voice
The job of administration should always be to _reduce_ the bureaucratic burden of an organization.

Think of a small firm that doesn't have a dedicated admin and/or accountant. Leadership and productive workers might constantly be dealing with admin tasks themselves, it becomes a mess quickly and no one really knows how to do these things efficiently, because it is a skill in itself. The boss often becomes a bottleneck, workers have to deal with inconsistencies and so on.

This is why an admin is hired: They are the lubricant of an organization. Make everything smoother. Say "no" at the appropriate times. Organize internal knowledge and time tables. Set up meetings etc. They are there to make everything _easier_ and smoother for the rest.

If administration becomes its own, self-perpetuating thing that invents arbitrary rules, instantiates committees and process rigidity, it becomes a complete burden. A polished turd that makes the appearance of neat organization and professionalism, but is rotten on the inside as it's spreading and encumbering everyone else.
Such an odd article. PR piece?

We have them in Australia and they’re utter junk. I read all the hype and was interested in an affordable electric runaround car for school/shopping runs etc.. but a 15 minute test drive is enough to tell you that Toyota/Tesla/any-major-manufacturer isn’t worried about BYD as a serious competitor.

Of course they sell well in China. It’s a Chinese brand. American cars sell well in America. More news at 7.
Then it will still lay eggs just the same.
https://archive.ph/MB3Oj
With 70% of revenues from hundred million battery powered devices a year is a big deal.
My primary objective is to stay abreast of the latest AI technologies since they are bound to influence my work eventually. I do not want to wait until a school child with better AI skills replaces me easily. While pursuing my Master's degree, I relished gaining new knowledge. However, since then, I have only acquired the skills required for my job. AI is an unfamiliar topic to me, but it fascinates me enough to dedicate time to learn it as if I were taking a computer science course. Although I am uncertain if I will ever be able to utilize everything I learn, I derive pleasure from studying a good book or course. This is one of the reasons why I am here. ( I rewrote my original response using chat GPT)
Climate change: Fossil fuel emissions from electricity set to fall – report
Janet's approach seems a little strange to me in that it's opt-in rather than opt-out. In CL or Clojure, you just normally can't have this issue due to the package or namespace system (e.g. you have to go out of your way to define an anaphoric macro that will work anywhere). Clojure doesn't have a separate function namespace either, but since backquote will automatically qualify symbols with their ns unless you opt out, you don't need to use any strange (at least to me) unquoting approach.

The "separate package" issue is really a non-issue, especially in Clojure where you have a different namespace for every file. Some people prefer a separate package for every file in CL, but even with one-package-per-project, you only have to worry about your own code. Anyone redefining functions outside your package isn't going to cause any problems with your macros.
BYD Seagull. $9,000. 74hp engine. 30kWh battery, which is good for 300km using WLTP, so probably 150 miles using EPA methods. Euro safety spec.
That depends on who "you" are.
Linux distros these days tend to ship modern python package with a python3 executable, no python executable. Many distros still support a python2 package, some install that as a python exeutable, some as a python2 executable.

iirc. homebrew on OSX installs python as a python3 executable, no python exeutable.

Hopefully no-one should support python v2 in 2023 ?
The remnants of duodecimal are still in English, for that matter. Eleven, twelve, dozen, gross.

Twelve inches to the foot used to be a round number.
I don't know how successful, but I loved Inbox. The current GMail is still not close, so I'm phasing out my Google mail account.

I also enjoyed Google+ despite Google's attempts to make it worse at the end. Still miss the discussions there. A few of the communities and people moved to forums or similar, but several I've lost contact with.

A good friend of mine had built his business around the Google Earth API. He made simulators for employee training as well as games.

Another good friend still relies on Picasa, as we haven't found anything that fits his image managing needs in an equally easy way. Sure it still works, but for how long who knows.
There's a recent episode in the Citations Needed podcast [0] (episode 179) that discusses public libraries. There is a bit of history that is presented about Andrew Carnegie's contributions to the current system we have today: how the US library system started out with private funding before transitioning to public funding.

[0]: https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-179-from-budget-c...
Relational, non-relational, large data, and analytics are tested on the DP-900 Microsoft Azure Data Foundations exam. Core data principles, relational and non-relational data, and Azure data services are tested in the exam.
Flying office – global homeoffice network
Could I get your opinions on this idea?

- - -

Flying office

Not the one that flies, but the one that you fly to.

Quality controlled home office flat globally.

Same: office chair, table, monitor holder, monitor, phone table holder and/or webcam, carpet, socket splitter, high internet speed - measured, calm quiet neighbourhood / building.

Basically stay at the same flat, change the environments around.

3 page whitepaper with details and real life problem explanation: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hOEJvHG3diHtqN3mTX7ZZl7r...

- - -

I posted it as side idea into YC, but dont think I will get any feedback there.

I would like to understand why is nobody doing it, or atleast not right, as apart from getting target users from other platforms it would create new ones by removing barriers for those sitting on sidelines.And it is basically just about creating and enforcing correct points for some target existing listings.
It's going to be an interesting year. I wonder what the music industry is cooking in regards to generative sound. They'd be the ones to force us all to install a damn rootkit, they need to update their business model beyond the 1900s
This kind of reminds me of a VSCode vs emacs comparison.
Oh yeah, I'm fully aware of that. Somewhat ironically, the one device (garage door opener) that I did allow to do its cloud thing works so poorly that I gave up on trying to make it work and turned off the WiFi. The remote open never worked, the "notify me when the door is open after 9pm" alerts would arrive days later, etc. And, of course, the user interface looked and felt like one developed by an industry where the existing UX was a single button.
You can buy them in New Zealand. I've seen quite a few BYD Atto around. Considering their price they're pretty attractive feature wise.
I'm curious what edge cases you know about or have bitten you with pickle. The main ones I know about are that it's not blazingly fast (though cPickle mitigates this a bit), and, as a possibly related issue, pickle actually uses multiple incompatible serialization protocols that are subject to change whenever a new Python version comes out.

It's also insecure in the sense that you can pickle and unpickle more or less arbitrary Python objects and object structures, so there's no way to trust a pickle from a source you don't control, unless you want to start down the rabbit hole of encrypting and signing your pickles. But that's actually never come up for me in practice.

The incompatibility issue has always been the bigger deal for me. You don't want to upgrade Python and then have to deal with converting all your model weights to a new serialization format, too. An unstable data interchange format is absolutely an oxymoron, and all but rules out the idea of using pickle in production for much of anything. The best use I can think of is for RPC between clients you control and trust, but I just can't bring myself to have that level of trust, even for a service or host that I'm sure is fully under my control.
Not just the USA. We had a Carnegie Library in our suburb in New Zealand back in the 1960s.
If deletion is murder then why not simply take it offline? It still exists as data. Cold storage is digital jail.
Ah, an unwanted kiss. I think, in the real world, spilling some (warmish) coffee on someone is a reasonable retaliation for an unwanted kiss. Once it enters the bureaucracy then they get called assault and require disciplinary action.
The purpose of photography in science is to record observations.

Using AI to "clean up" the image is doctoring data to match expectations, which is bad science.
Maybe LLMs can reduce the work week at least. 30 hours, 20 hours even?
It sounds like China is subsidizing a new state champion and it's time to treat them to the same treatment we gave their former state champion. Sanction it.
It makes no sense: it depends on the product, really. Prof. Patrick Winston used to say, ten years ago: "Machine Learning does what we do deterministically, but badly". Now, scale and new techniques at this stage have enabled ML to achieve amazing outputs, in areas where we could not get similar results deterministically. That does not mean that it should be used for everything. You are not supposed to use hammers instead of screwdrivers just because hammers become fashionable.

You should probably clarify your concern.
Could you elaborate on just how it is more powerful?
Ask HN: Would you attend an event in virtual reality?
Such as a concert, open mic night, fitness class - maybe on something like VRChat or Meta Horizons Worlds.

I have used VR fairly extensively (on a Quest 2) but rarely to attend these sorts of scheduled events or meetups. I have gone to group meditation sessions in VRChat, which was OK.
SaaS appears to make more sense when money is free. From the vendor perspective, the present value of a subscription is higher, so it's worth pushing. For buyers - I'd speculate that many SaaS products look better when you're not trying to pinch pennies, and so it's an easier sell.

Overall, there's always funny business that can go in involving annunity-like products when lots of money is chasing high returns.
It's simple math even my non business brain can comprehend, you are selling a product, if the customer is not bringing it back himself, and drops it off at UPS or if you have to send your rep to pickup it costs money.
But you decided against charging for that, as your value proposition, now that you have the market covered/cornered, you plan to go back on the value proposition. How is that not baiting and then switching. If Amazon never offered free drop off and increased the price it's a business change. But free returns is one of the main value propositions, customers fell for over other players.
>Linux came pretty close to being usable for the general public (not gamers) 13-14 years ago. Then Gnome 3 happened and broke everything, then Wayland happened and broke everything again.

Funny how that just keeps happening, isn't it?
Thank you for the kudos, the book recommendation, and the really good question!
> but the Pixel is a success and it doesn't make sense to compare a high-end line of products on a per-unit basis to cheapo phones

Compare it to high end products then, and you'd still come up short.

There's also the reason why I pointed out "in the context of Google, and Google products": it's a tiny product made at great effort and expense that Google clearly doesn't know what to do about (they haven't even supported their own phones for more than three years until recently).
I am convinced at this point that the brass at Google doesn't even know about Keep. It'd be dead a long time ago.
They're doing both. Quoting from Figure 1, "the model first generates new code, then the code is executed and the model explains the code. The code explanation along with the execution results constitute the feedback message, which is then sent back to the model to perform more debugging steps. When unit tests are not available, the feedback can be purely based on code explanation."
> American cars brands mostly fail outside the US

Ford & Tesla customers the world over beg to differ, and GM is sold in many countries under different brands as well. The top 20 has a number of Chinese players and they are definitely moving up year-by-year but the top 5 has been unchanged for years: VW; Toyota; Stellantis; MB; Ford. Tesla is a bit player and BYD isn't on the market so it is impossible to rate them other than as a successful domestic player.

If a Chinese manufacturer would succeed in the West my money would be on a JV between VW and FAW, BYD vehicles under the Toyota brand is another option. A Chinese manufacturer going it alone is likely not going to succeed due to the way previous Chinese brands have been received by these markets. Geely played it smart, they have acquired Volvo and with their Polestar brand they are now moderately successful in the EV only market, with 80,000 vehicles scheduled for delivery this year.
No doubt that is why I'm embarrassed by my cynicism. I was a kid that would have had also sort of interventions that would have helped me academically. Our school tries to keep class size below 15 and there is a classroom helper. All those interventions take paperwork and that could be the problem with workload. I would like to think a good school administrator could develop a good strategy so that eventually the daily paperwork creates the end reports.
Do you have a reason to believe (c) is true in practice?

I strongly suspect many interviewers (myself included) would have a few "top issues" and significantly favour candidates who pointed them out.
But as the candidate you don't really know which issues will seem important to the interviewer.

It's not an irrelevant exercise though - code reviews are a real part of many roles and making sensible choices about what to comment on is a necessary skill.
But it is hard to avoid turning the interview into an exercise in "guess what's on the top of my list"
Germany to switch off last remaining nuclear power plants
Between ISP's, Proxies, and Payment processors there are lots of extra legal ways to shut down anything you would like to on the web.

All it takes is enough money and/or political power.

The thing is this isn't new. Traditional publishing had throttles at the publisher, the seller and the library. Freedom of speech is not requirement to broadcast.
You talk to Charlie Munger and his beloved BYD is all he talks about.

How come these guys always get it right? In China the story is never as single "buy good businesses cheap", as we know that in China if you don't play politics you'll get kneecapped.
You seem to believe a description like that is a recommendation, but it might be the opposite. Any corporation is a place where Not-Invented-Here virus spreads rapidly, because a) there are numerous problems and edge cases that develop at large scale; b) there is manpower to charge at them; c) there are incentives to do just so, and appear as definitely hard working to the management. That aura even spreads externally, in particular, to this conversation we have. If something is made by a hip company, it's a gods' gift to mortals, if it's from uncool place, it's definitely a rusty tech working on punch cards. (I am sure there exist at least one example in which the same person or team did both.)

Of course, they must have had valid reasons to use LevelDB for some components in Chrome. It seems that Minecraft-like world generating games are also a good use case for it. What I'm saying is that Google doing something does not automatically mean you need to do the same at all.
How do you define architecture, and 'beyond'? IMHO addressing almost any real problem involves much wider concerns, and actually of a different nature, than just basic data structures and algorithms and their properties, that these puzzles test. They are just a small part of what it takes to produce something useful, and often not needed at all, or can be easily googled.
> Once China introduces the EV equivalent of the Chevy Spark (which was one of the cheapest ICE cars ever, with an MSRP of $13K just last year), that has a range of around 100 to 150 miles it's game over for many of these American manufacturers.

> American and European price gouging will come to an end soon enough.

Just like how cheap Android phones in Asia resulted game over for Apple, Samsung etc. in the past 12 years?
re: nokia vs apple
We have them in English too: https://www.google.com/search?q=multiplication+rock
That has filters in its weights
https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html

Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people":

First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization. Examples are dedicated classroom teachers in an educational bureaucracy, many of the engineers and launch technicians and scientists at NASA, even some agricultural scientists and advisors in the former Soviet Union collective farming administration.

Secondly, there will be those dedicated to the organization itself. Examples are many of the administrators in the education system, many professors of education, many teachers union officials, much of the NASA headquarters staff, etc.

The Iron Law states that in every case the second group will gain and keep control of the organization. It will write the rules, and control promotions within the organization.
That is like asking for travel tips from someone that has never been there.
Try GCam. It's not officially supported by Google outside of Pixel devices, but people have tried porting it for other phones. https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/google-camera/
> less human programmers

I would guess the substantial opposite: maybe less "real" programmers, probably more people. I wrote nearby, «There will be ... more accessibility[ - ]and more bad quality».
Governments at multiple levels have also imposed additional compliance mandates on schools. It now takes extra work to gather the necessary data and submit official reports. But there is a lot of waste in most school districts and much of that work could be automated.
I believe that BYD also actually supplies batteries to Tesla for their Berlin's gigafactory.
Long Island Artificially Intelligent Tea Company, here we come.

(But would vegans drink it?)
GitHub Accelerator: our first cohort and what’s next
> Once China introduces the EV equivalent of the Chevy Spark [...] it's game over for many of these American manufacturers.

Then why aren't the streets full of Chevy Sparks?