skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Self-domesticating seems an interesting evolutionary track for the survival of a species. Elephants may have a bit of a hard time totally committing to it, as they're somewhat large. I have a hard time visualizing a herd wandering around a large city - although I do enjoy the clever elephants that cross streets and seemingly "thank" stopped motorists, or elephants that steal food from trucks they've stopped (obvy I can't tell intent)
> The Sapir–Whorf hypothesis postulates that a person's language influences their perceptions and cognitive patterns. Stanislav Kozlovsky proposed[8] in the Russian popular-scientific magazine Computerra that a fluent speaker of Ithkuil, accordingly, would think "about five or six times as fast" as a speaker of a typical natural language.

This seems to assume that one is thinking in their spoken language - but is that generally the case?

Outside of reading, writing and communicating, I damned near never think in natural language.

I don't know about other people, for anything technical I'm generally thinking in structures, not words.
Google doesn't even want to have human interaction, and Google's reputation for sure didn't help it in chat and social network spaces either.
And I'm sure Google doesn't even want to work it with restaurants and drivers, because you can't just put an AI algorithm to deal with their issues.
Small businesses go through a lot to just edit their own listings on local businesses, I wouldn't wish Google to be the middle man for my deliveries.
Really cool resource and congrats on the launch! It would be great to see more supported countries, I guess beside some technicalities, it will be the same for many?
You have twice my professional age, and I have come to the same realisation.

I want to earn enough money from my business ideas to spend the rest of my time on hacking on niche languages, distributed/anonymous networks, etc. and as I grow older, to use computer and programming just to maintain a modern off-the-grid life (so working on my smart grid, automating my cabin-in-the-woods life)

Computers and the Internet have gone from being a lifestyle, to just a tool.
It says Active. What does that mean?
How has your experience been with runtime errors? One of the things I like about Elm is that for pure Elm code, there's very little surface area where a runtime error can occur.
Taxi service that only runs in the middle of the night and a very narrow corridor
Thanks, I'll definitely give that a try.
Drone planes are good for the military because they move all the risk from the pilot to the vehicle. Drone cars are bad for civilians because they move all the risk from the driver to the vehicle. What you’re suggesting would quickly replace America’s mass shooting problem with a VBIED problem. And it wouldn’t even save any time or effort! You’d still need to concentrate on driving the car.
I bought my wife a Yamaha Arius YDP-184 and she loves it. It's not 100% like the baby grand she does lessons on, but it's close enough for most purposes. It has a MIDI interface, but it's not really easily portable.
> Wtf kind of company is Xfinity running?

What made it even worse was that when internet was down, I thought I'd just watch TV, which I also had through Xfinity. Nope, even though I could see and hear the channel, the STB requires full connection to operate, so my show would be on in the background, but 80% of the screen would be taken by a dialog telling me the STB could tune channels.

As it turns out, EVERY SINGLE REMOTE CONTROL PRESS received by the STB is then round-tripped to an Xfinity server, so when the internet has an issue, you can't watch TV. That made ditching cable and moving entirely to streaming a very easy choice since it killed cable's main advantage.
It's what you get when you put intelligent, ambitious and arguably insecure people in a high pressure environment with status/economic rewards and punishments. Also yes you are judged based on output not how cordial you are in the workplace or whatever. Sales I guess would also qualify.
Somehow this seems scarier to me than self driving cars.

1. Driving without the physical feedback that comes from acceleration, braking, taking a turn too fast, etc.. is really hard. Maybe they could overcome this with simulators of some sort, but I expect that would be too cost prohibitive.

2. I want the driver that can think to have skin in the game. I don’t want them to be able to drive off a cliff, or in to a crowd, from the comfort of their couch.

You could probably overcome this with some sort of hybrid model that simply doesn’t allow stuff like this. But at that point you’re still having to develop some pretty sophisticated self driving technology, and you still have to pay a driver. Not sure who is motivated to do this.

3. What’s the point? You still have to pay a driver either way. Sure you get some cost savings by being able to switch out tired drivers instantly. But in the end, the most expensive cost is paying someone to sit there and drive.
Tech job hunts are easy in good times. (e.g. leave one employer, take a day off, interview at another employer the day after that, start working the week after)

Academic jobs are nothing like that.
I think being angry is a natural and healthy response to the current economic reality. The juniors you’re working with have it right. If the CEO is going to make 100X as much as me, I’m going to do my best to work 100X less than they do. Hopefully we’ve reached a timeline where we no longer acquiesce to rampant inequality.
Speaking of swing, Eddie Van Halen would swing fast rhythm stuff that on casual listen would appear to be straight 16th notes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GJO2SovRgU&t=12m42s
Its kinda embarrassing, but I have no idea how all this rythm stuff works in music. I mean I get the basics of the notation, but I don't understand the idea of dividing music into small chunks. That is to say that to me you could do away with the time signature numerology and bar lines in sheet music and it'd be all the same. And indeed you can make music like that, notably Satie composed music in "free time"[1].

These days I realize that my experience is atypical and many (most?) have some sort of intuitive feel for this thing, it's not just me being dumb for not understanding fancy music theory but that my experience/perception of music is different.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_time_(music)
Reminds me of the rewards that were offered in the 1700s to build a marine chronometer that would allow for the accurate computation of longitude at sea.

See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude_rewards

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harrison
A bit of a heavyhanded way to put it, but one of the strengths of Ableton in my experience has been how easily you could import third-party plugins to supplement the lackluster native tooling. If you can't bounce those plugins to the Push along with a project, that severely gimps the functionality.
It certainly padded some aspiring politician's resume, though
Me too. I'm a very experienced dev and solidly competent in Haskell. In the end, Haskell and its ecosystem was a horrible time-sink. Bottom line: I get far more accomplished elsewhere.

Good riddance Haskell.
Well some people in the UK, and myself, disagree.

The purpose of a “brand” is to reduce confusion. So that customers know what they’re buying.

So I don’t want to buy “an artificially manufactured food in the category of milk”, I want to buy milk.
Their DLC flows aren't that different from something like Sony's.
But that doesn't create any profit, it's only a convenience for some random number on a sheet.
Also managers probably don't like remote work in that industry :p
The recipe writing team at the times has recently made a note of how each recipe is independently tested by other, non professional cooks with normal kitchen equipment. I'm skeptical that the recipe was never tried with a conventional oven.
Yes, the US Navy has resumed celestial navigation training.

https://www.npr.org/2016/02/22/467210492/u-s-navy-brings-bac...
Are you talking about Biden?
AI Startup Anthropic Raises $450M for Safety-Focused Chatbot
Run the formatter, and the brace-based mistake is easy to spot too.
Please remember to turn the servers off when you go on strike.
This is very much college/program specific. My tenure track wife has tried with two different different universities to get tenure credit by writing an open access text book. In both cases (R1 programs) neither would recognize anything except 1st/2nd author publications in peer reviewed journals. They would not recognize textbooks.
As usual there is a relevant XKCD:

https://xkcd.com/2767/

I've also been surprised at how often the times listed in a recipe are outright fiction. There seems to be little reason for it except in cases where they want something in a "30 minute meals" type category that it really has no business being in. Or maybe the meal only takes 30 minutes if you have your personal sous chef do all of the chopping, prep, and oven preheat for you ahead of time.
I'm not sure how one gets to anything like 10x. Uber drivers maybe making minimum wage driving their own cars are just not that expensive.
Meta sells Giphy to Shutterstock to comply with UK regulator order
Platforms are somewhat shielded from liability for user provided content. How does that work for IPFS?
As someone who once worked in mobile games for a decade, I hate mobile games. I was naive to think I could change anything.
The way I understood the story back then was that they wanted a license deal with MSFT just like MSFT had with the hardware companies. MSFT wanted to just buy them out. Lawsuits, court, and so on finally forced the sale of the company to MSFT for the amount in the settlement.
I think the CMA has much more leverage / has been given much more power in recent years
Not even that. I live a little outside the centre of Amsterdam (I could walk to De Wallen in probably 30 minutes comfortably.) Most residents don't go into the centre because it's a mass of tourists who haven't learnt how to walk outside of bike lanes. In my neighbourhood, there still aren't that many cars, the footpaths and bike paths are wider, and it's generally calm and quiet, and I sit on a moderately busy road, a small street off it will be much quieter still. There're a few cafes that I go to that are a bit more central, but it's still mostly outside the really busy area.

I think most people's - even a lot of Dutch people's - experience is getting off at Centraal and walking to some bar in the centre, or going through the shopping areas, and then extrapolating that to everywhere else in the city so all they imagine is that busyness.
Show HN: Open-Source, AI Powered Notebooks for SRE Teams
Swap Runbooks for Notebooks and solve your incidents faster
Only a mention of taxes, claimed to be offset by the 15%+ wage increase. No mention of housing costs...
> Spinning up the legal structure, figuring out all the local regulations and getting permits (it's not 2010 anymore! Many countries and cities regulate ride sharing pretty heavily) in a sane timeline is close to impossible.

This is nonsense. Google has more than enough legal resources to handle this. So much so that it would be nothing more than a regular 3-6 month project that would be assigned a small team of lawyers inside their org. It's no different than any other regionally-regulated product launch at large companies.

Not only that but Google has enough money that they could just hire away some folks that work at Uber/Lyft to get a huge jumpstart on any such project. Even if they didn't need such expertise they'd probably still recruit and hire those people just to be safe; to get the perspective of people with experience.

Big companies have big legal organizations and they don't actually operate that differently from the IT orgs that so many of us on HN are used to. For example, they would probably divide up the task on state-by-state basis with lawyers certified to practice law in each respective state assigned as SMEs or to-be-SMEs. They would do their research and for bigger states they might even have county-level SME lawyers or at the very least paralegals that focus on that particular region. Big cities would probably be assigned their own teams of SME lawyers as well.

It's like any given complex programming task: Divide and conquer. Rolling out a new highly-regulated product across a large region is a highly parallelizeable procedure.
No contradiction.

The second half said that Alphabet had choices on who to partner with, so they could play them against each other, so Waymo had the upper hand in negotiations.
He works on private branches to avoid speculation and pressure. Example, he gave this presentation yesterday:
https://gotoaarhus.com/2023/sessions/2529/elm-on-the-backend
http://nyerguds.arsaneus-design.com/manuals/Red%20Alert%201/...

99 pages long my friend.

Checkout the manual for StarCraft, which gives you the entire backstory!
Show HN: File-by-file AI-generated comments for your codebase
My friends and I were complaining about having to decipher incomprehensible code one day and decided to pass the code through GPT to see if it could write easily understandable comments to help us out. It turns out that GPT can but it was still a hassle to generate comments for large files.

So we decided to develop a basic web application that automatically integrates with your Github repository, generate comments, create a pull request and send you an email when it is all done.

There is definitely a lot more that can be done but we wanted to gain feedback on whether this is a problem that you face too. Do you often find it challenging to understand complex code? Do you have difficulties in writing informative comments? And if so, would you find value in a tool that can automatically generate comments for your code?

Really appreciate any feedback and suggestions! Thanks in advance!
Proposal: Renaming JavaScript to “Hyper”
It's not (solely) random imperfections - a good drum groove will have intentional specific deviations from the "theoretically exact" (bad) beat timing, no matter if done by a human or a properly engineered digital track.

There is a difference between the crude musical notation and how it's actually meant to be played - a notation showing 4 quarter notes in a 4/4 beat does not imply that the correct way to play them is to literally have 4 identical notes with idential gaps; even without any explicit extra notation (which indicates significant changes) there is an implied understanding that there should be a variation in velocity (and, for a skilled practicioner, not a random one, but placing slight emphasis as required) and a variation in timing (again, for a skilled player not random but e.g. depending on the music genre a slight shuffle or an intentional shift of one beat); this variation is not a flaw of imperfect execution, but required to properly play the music as intended.
My father was a staunch Democrat, former union (UAW) guy. He always said "both parties are going to steal from you, the only difference is that Democrats believe you have to have something to steal first." I think that's a largely true observation even today.

The older I get the less optimism I have that it's possible for any system to avoid corruption and a class system of haves and have nots where the haves just amass power to keep gathering more and more...
Weren't those separate entities found to have comingled funds though?
A hundred percent. Most smart people that work in web3 avoid any kind of long term balance in USDT
Cheap taxis could lead to people abandoning car ownership and this a huge reconfiguration of American cities. (if they end up cheaper than self owned cars)
One thing that hasn't been addressed, given the limited test markets, is whether autonomous taxis actually will actually be popular and preferable among consumers. Theoretically having a car that drives itself seems like a great product/service, in practice it's more clunky and awkward than you would hope. From the experiences I've had, a human driver is undoubtedly the better option. Many things happen on the road were a driver may be forced to speed above the speed limit, circle around the double yellow line, reverse on a one way street. Be a passenger in an autonomous car within an urban setting and you'll know immediately why a human driver is the superior service (and likely to remain so). The "potential" future of every car becoming autonomous driving on highly controlled roads being able to drive in the highest level of efficiency isn't a likely scenario.
The GDPR does make UX worse. If you have to click away a cookie banner, it's because companies love to try to coax you into accepting as many cookies as they can get their grubby hands on. Storing a cookie for session administration is acceptable. You don't even have to announce it. It wouldn't make much sense, because it's less useful than your IP address (for the purposes of tracking). Only if the site wants to do more, it must get the user's permission.

> nanny state

Sadly, technology is nearly incomprehensible to most people, and the state must protect their rights. The rest is either an authoritarian or libertarian fantasy under the pretense of liberty.
notice that "leading" tech companies fixed this, with artificial hazing behavior in interviews, and changing the norms of hiring from two interviews to more than six, as widely reported.
I’m guessing this is a big city problem? I’ve never once experienced this
BeepbeeepBoop to you too and I'm gonna report you.
10sec later:
You are banned from our platform for violation of our safety protocols.
Store looks like a webpage that gets opened in Switch's browser.

They do have a concept of filling up your store credit and then spending it on purchases, so the future microtransaction flow could just grab a few credits that you already have on your account.

Let's hope that never happens.
Binance from the article most certainly does: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/03/27/business/binance-cftc-law...
Cliff was the music nerd of the group, James especially leaned on him to learn a lot of theory
The "best (according to me)" games are still 2D or 2.5D:

Roguelikes

Dwarf Fortress

Factorio

EU4

My theory is that deep gameplay and AAA 3D graphics are mutually exclusive because deep gameplay fundamentally requires "tile grids" of some kind, which don't lend themselves to AAA 3D graphics.

(Diablo 1 and 2 kind of railed against this by taking the approach, "Hey, what if we took a tile-based roguelike and rendered it in isometric 3Dsortof?" At the time, that isometric 3Dsortof was state of the art, I guess.)
Ask HN: Do you use a VPN? Does your family?
Curious to know who here uses a VPN and whether you get your family to use one as well. I think I'd struggle to get people to install it.
Are the improprieties of a cryptocurrency exchange more scandalous relative to the improprieties of traditional finance?
Anthropic AI raises $450M Series C
The CMA's order for Meta to sell Giphy after the transaction had already closed will go down in history as one of the biggest, most mind-boggling examples of regulatory overreach

Their whole argument was based on the fact that Giphy was CONTEMPLATING expanding their advertising business to the UK so the acquisition could hurt potential, future competition. Give me a break

https://www.klgates.com/CMA-Blocks-Meta/Giphy-It-Might-Be-th...
If the CEO is going to make 100X as much as me, I’m going to do my best to work 100X less than they do.

You realized CEO's make that much money after a long career where they were busting their asses as juniors.

You basically made the same argument the grandparent is criticizing.
If you like salmon, and have a costco membership, one of the best, easiest, fastest and affordable meals:

Get the salmon with the (3) butter-herb balls on top of it. (They used to be ~$19 on avg but now they are closer to $29 due to inflation)

Get a Ceasar Salad Kit from the walk-in fridge. ~$7.99 (these used to be $5.99)

Cook the salmon in the oven at 425 for 27 minutes.

Make the salad kit.

Get a bowl and serve salad in an individual bowl and put a piece of the salmon on top. Serves 4. SUPER good. But the salad doesnt do well as left overs, so if you're not going to finish it that night - make the salad in individual portions to avoid a wilted mess the next day.

Also, if you have wimpy-limpy veggies (such as celery) put into an ice bath in a bowl in the fridge for a while (an hour or two) and it will become crisp again.
Obligatory: https://danluu.com/sounds-easy/
The whole song is 4/4.
Ask HN: Startups Outside of the West Coast?
Quick question -

How successful could a startup outside of the West Coast be? What challenges and benefits are there?

I ask because I live the the Midwest (SW Ohio) and am curious about the startup world.

Thanks!
Nintendo's dip into smartphone apps has been disappointing. At the beginning they were doing some interesting stuff, like Miitomo which was a simple social-media-like app where you and your friends basically just answered questions if I recall, I had fun with that for a few months. They released Super Mario Run which wasn't really my thing but it was at least a one-time purchase that got you all the content.

But apparently not even Nintendo can overcome the enshittification of mobile app stores, and we have Mario Kart Tour which is just pay-to-win garbage that uses every dirty trick in the book to get your money. They infamously make you do races with fake online players that look like they've been spending money to make you see what you're "missing out on".

Even worse, Tour has infected Nintendo's actually good Mario Kart offering on Switch, with recent DLC packs including courses from Tour which are the most bland, uninspired, and boring courses in the game cause it's always just generic city streets with some Toads standing around in the audience. Obviously they do it because they already have moderately high-quality models of the maps that they can just drag into the game from Tour, as opposed to recreating something from e.g. Mario Kart 64 or Super Mario Kart (SNES) to bring it up to modern standards. Or making something new entirely.
Show HN: GS-Calc – a spreadsheet with 12M rows
Loading a 4GB+ workbook with over 500 million cells with random floating-point numbers and text strings - 8 worksheets, ~12 million rows each should take less than 30s on a computer with 16GB RAM.

Updating 12 million vlookups searching 12 million rows takes seconds.

Effective use of up to 64 processor cores for calculations applying any functions, including any number of user-created functions that can both extend and replace the default built-in set of ~390 functions.

Filtering, regular expressions, Monte Carlo simulations, pivot tables with up to 12 million rows, scripting.

GS-Calc can be installed on any portable storage device and used without performing any registry modifications. The installation folder requires ~8.5MB.

https://citadel5.com/gs-calc.htm
(incl. YT videos with examples)

Any suggestions, especially regarding the ETL-related functions, are welcome.

Thanks
I DJ for money though I wouldn’t say professionally. I have a separate 2015 MacBook Pro with all my software installed and it’s not connected to the internet except to transfer new songs and manual updates to it.