skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are mods that can do that (literally wipe every simulated traffic off the map) but you can handle traffic pretty easily if you plan ahead.

My last few cities really had no traffic problems at all except for one old main road that I really didn't want to redevelop for some reason.
Being held liable for hosting child porn is a little different than banning people for criticizing gender politics.
Valve may have a flat or open structure but GabeN is their god. Find a better example.
Here are the 3 non-negotiables

1) Managers must lead with intentionality

2) Managers must build trust

3) Managers must respect employees’ autonomy
There are mods for CS that let you zone against the park paths, IIRC.

You can make road-free portions of the city, but you need other mods to handle garbage, etc (basically dumpsters) because without roads you can't get the trucks in.

The latest DLC seems to have some more on that area (roads that ONLY emergency/bus/service vehicles can use).
Ask HN: Why Isn't Rescript More Popular in JavaScript Community?
Hello HN!

Rescript, a programming language that compiles to JavaScript, has been on my radar for a while now. I'm particularly impressed by its strong typing, efficient performance, and readable JavaScript output, among other benefits that it carries over from its roots in OCaml and influences from Rust.

I've found that Rescript is potentially a strong fit for large-scale JavaScript projects, offering strong typing and a robust compilation system that can help catch errors early and enhance maintainability. However, despite its apparent advantages, I notice that Rescript isn't as widely adopted in the JavaScript community as one might expect.

In your opinion, what factors are contributing to Rescript's comparatively limited popularity?

Is it the steep learning curve for developers unaccustomed to statically typed languages, or is the broader JavaScript community just more inclined to stick with what they already know and use, like TypeScript, due to the level of tooling and community support available?

Is there an inherent barrier in adopting a language that transpiles to JavaScript instead of using JavaScript directly or are there certain use cases where Rescript may not be the best choice?

Lastly, how can we help elevate the perception and adoption of Rescript within the community?

I'm curious to hear your thoughts on this. Thank you for your insights!
I don't know how to call this but the ratio of magic versus graphics resolution fascinates me. 8bit games were often very crude, but you got the essential for a gamer's mind to rejoin for hours.
You can configure on Android (at least I can on my Pixels and Motorolas) whether you want gesture navigation or 3-button navigation.

The gesture navigation is similar to what iOS does (not the same), and the 3-button navigation is basically the old version of the Android navigation.

This article could help you understand where Android stands today https://www.makeuseof.com/three-button-navigation-vs-gesture...

I'm a Flutter developer working on iOS and Android apps, my 2cts is that the Android back button experience is more predictable (both with the gesture navigation and with the 3-button navigation): on iOS, the back swipe doesn't always work and sometimes I need to track down where the on-screen back button or back icon is. On ios, sometimes instead of swiping horizontally, I need to drag the panel down, and even though it's easy to figure out based on the screen which one will work, it's one more way of doing things, whereas on Android, I can just hit the back button in most scenarios.
Talk about walkable cities! I loved those games; spent hours in class with graph paper working out optimal city blocks.
ant-hropomorphism?

Yes, there needs to be a statistical distribution of effort for intrinsic reasons --in this case of physics. Even if it wasn't needed, it would exist. The workers can console themselves with the thought that when times get hard, the idlers will be nice, tender, succulent food.
Are there specific claims you would dispute?
Kudos on moving to Debian. And it'll be interesting to see what they settle on for vetting package updates to Debian Sid (Debian's constantly-updated track).

A long time ago, I ran Sid at home, but it was eating up time and presenting risk (e.g., at least once, it made a workstation unbootable). So I moved home and then startups to Debian Stable, which has much fewer surprises, mostly only security updates. Debian Backports (a supplementary package repo that provides newer versions of some packages) sometimes makes Debian Stable easier, in the rare care you really need a new version of a package (and not something you'd normally get from PyPI, NPM, Cargo, etc. or mirror&vet in your code repo).
It's exhausting to argue every obvious point over and over. If you want to claim that well established practices are wrong, it's up to you to bring the evidence. I'm not going to cite studies to prove the earth is round either.
Proven (Dot Lol)
The Secret to Ant Efficiency Is Idleness (2018)
Kinda thing I’d write immediately after reading Roko’s Basilisk
r/all removals over time
Can I rearrange visual elements so my desktop is similar to how it has been in gnome 2, mate and xfce for the last 20 years? Can non-blessed apps get into the systray/notification-area/whatever?

Genuine questions, I've not tried Gnome since the early days of gnome 3 when they broke everything and more or less made out you were a luddite and unwanted loser if you weren't up for a massive change in workflow.
> putting in the effort to be available as the manager

Except that the parent commenter is expecting others to be available to them without regards to other people's working patterns.
I say "thank you" every time because I imagine it gives the engineers a little smile as they read logs :)
Wikipedia is great for many things, but finding neutrality or even attempted objectivity about recent and contemporary events is not one of them. (Then again, it's the nature of the internet I guess). Of course some big events get some splash (like this), but 98% of these shenanigans go unnoticed unfortunately.
I kind of hate it. The meeting is going to disrupt my flow no matter what. I'd rather bang out the day's meetings in an ad hoc but back-to-back way. With remote meetings it feels like there's so much scheduling overhead and in between meeting dead time.
Even if posted more than once on hacker news, there is a interesting forum post [1] from Lucas Pope, the author of Obra Dinn, describing dither mapping in 3d. [2] (2017) has some more links

[1] https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.msg136374...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15766249
it's still kinda there. Halo forge, fortnite creative mode, starcraft 2, mario maker 1+2, etc.
The minivan is cheaper to park than 6 cars. This tax discourages people from using minivans by themselves but still incentives carpooling.
Yeah it is sad. It is unfortunate the war was dropped on them. At least they've put up one hell of a good fight for their country and freedom. Inspiration for the world; I think they're rebuild pretty strong.
The paper lists the first author's institutional affiliation as "RWKV Foundation". However, I cannot find anything about this supposed "foundation" online, and as far as I can tell, the term RWKV originates in this very paper.

What's going on here?
If you talk about monetizing these creative pursuits, then yes, there is a reason to be worried.

But if you are talking about pursuing these creative passions as an end by itself, it's much less relevant.
I hear you, and I think there's some truth in what you're saying, and probably the truth is somewhere between our statements, but I suspect it leans closer to my own position (although of course I'd think so...).

I think making an accurate comparison is very complicated, and if we looked at a large number of factors the wage arbitrage advantage would shrink. I think the seeming "wage arbitrage opportunity" is partly due to mis-assessment of the "sameness" of the contractors being compared.

For example, the average software engineer on the US coasts is much more likely than a software engineer in the US midwest to have gone to a top tier university, and although that doesn't guarantee they are better, there may be some advantage. The extra depth of knowledge or extra grit to grind through a slightly harder education might not show up in an interview or even on an average day's work, but might show up sporadically in ways that save or create significant amounts of money.

(To use a more obvious example, if a bootcamp coding school graduate and a graduate from Stanford both pass a coding interview, and both write a similar amount of "similar-seeming" code on an average day, I still suspect that when hard problems arise, or more sophisticated architecture or algorithms are needed, the Stanford or other top-school graduate is going to more reliably solve the problem and in a long-term better way.)

Similarly, they might live in a tech hub where they are constantly learning new technologies, or the general pace of their life and work might be ever so slightly higher. They might spend more of their free time getting better at their profession. Anyway, I won't try to provide an exhaustive list of possible differences, but these are some things I see that aren't usually accounted for.
The first complaint is about not being able to reach each other and being async. Async is not a requirement of remote work.

Have working hours. Have calendar invites. It's required to make use of in person collaboration so do the same.
Can't blame them, hard to be on invader's side who commits war crimes every hour and be doing it since Georgia invasions.
Yes, I am also embarrassed to say I work in “tech” lately.

It’s just not what it used to be, the new wave of job taking threats and AI harm news, social media privacy and targeting, misinformation is really killing it for me personally.

It’s not that I’m not optimistic about the future, but everything just seems to greed fuelled I hate it.

I saw Google was training a LLM to be able to match and potentially replace Wendy’s assistants…why do that?
Folks, just ignore this rude fellow. A slow cooker is essentially a low temperature heating element and a ceramic cooking vessel. The ceramic dissipates the low heat evenly even on the cheaper ones, and you get a result within tolerance so long as the regulator isn't crap. Just don't scratch up the glaze.

Your optimal slow cooker will have decent insulation (saves on energy) and if you crave luxury, a timer so that you can set it to automatically turn off or switch to "keep warm" after x hours.

You're also in luck because most people never use their slow cookers and eventually donate them to the local thrift shop, so you can pick them up super cheap to try out and decide if a slow cooker is for you. Once you've gotten a taste for slow cooked foods, you can start looking around for what tools will best serve your future culinary ambitions.

And no, you don't need a Le Creuset; that's just for snobs who like to tell everyone that they have Le Creuset. It won't make better carmelized onions.
I thought many of the greens we buy in the winter are grown with Colorado river water in Southern California and Arizona?
has to be pretty big before that happens.
> Colocation is more fun too. You get to have lunch with your team, grab beers on Friday nights, play video games at the end of the day in the office

Lost me. I have family and friends for fun, you should get some as well. Using your employees to fill that void in your life is ... petty, to say they least.

My Friday nights are for the abovementioned family and friends. Which you should, as I had mentioned, consider getting.
Not sure why you call woo woo on what appears to be a practical and promising method to both sequester CO2 and improve soil quality, and all this using a relatively low-tech and cheap technology with material that is already lying around the surface in abundance (crop residues). Nerds need not despair either since one can both just burn collected stalks and husks in a controlled way by piling, incinerating and quenching stuff in a controlled right on the land, or else do the same in a more closely controlled way monitoring temperatures and chemical processes. There's stuff to do for both the bottom-uppers and the top-downers here!
The more VRAM the better if you'd like to run larger LLMs. Old Nvidia P40 (Pascal 24GB) cards are easily available for $200 or less and would be easy/cheap to play. Here's a recent writeup on the LLM performance you can expect for inferencing (training speeds I assume would be similar): https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/13n8bqh/my_resu...

This repo lists very specific VRAM usage for various LLaMA models (w/ group size, and accounting for context window, which is often missing) - this are all 4-bit GPTQ quantized models: https://github.com/turboderp/exllama

Note the latest versions of llama.cpp now have decent GPU support and has both a memory tester and lets you load partial models (n-layers) into your GPU. It inferences about 2X slower than exllama from my testing on a RTX 4090, but still about 6X faster than my CPU (Ryzen 5950X).

Again this is inferencing. For training, pay attention to 4-bit bitsandbytes, coming soon: https://twitter.com/Tim_Dettmers/status/1657010039679512576
Good for you, got kids who need to be safe in schools and walking around in your neighborhood? Do you pay your entire team enough to afford 3 bedroom spaces adequate for a family in the city? I am sure a lot of your employees would have gladly agreed to maintain constant presence / availability for instant meetings during working hours and other measures to mitigate problems that you described. Now they are stuck with 3 hour daily commutes or cramped living conditions.
The Wickedest Man in Oxford
Likewise; I really appreciate being able to section off time and plan my tasks around the availability. If a manager wants to book a meeting for something, there’s usually a bit of runway to get my notes organized.
In-Betweeners
I think you got your hands reversed - most popular/widespread media platforms, both traditional and social, seems entirely controlled by left-leaning interests.
Really tired of this horseshit narrative that a team has to be in the same physical place in order to be productive/successful.

Perhaps it’s more tempting to blame remote work than to blame one’s own leadership, or whether one has the right team.

And, async doesn’t have to be lower-bandwidth. With even a modicum of planning, engineers can be set up to pick up the next most important thing if they’re blocked waiting on a response from someone else.

This is not rocket science. Tons of successful companies have done this since long before COVID.
That's basically me; I keep a decent chunk in savings in case of emergency / downturn and then the rest in stocks / retirement etc. I hate having to invest in the stock market because most of it is gambling and speculation, but at least I can dump it in an index fund and it'll be fairly safe.

There's a reason why a significant number of millennials and below are cheering on for a housing bust and it's because it's possibly the only way we can afford a home.
Heat as a Rite of Passage in the Kitchen
Renewable Energy Is Charging Ahead
At Brown it was common to applaud at the end of the last lecture of the semester, which I always thought was nice, but usually not a standing ovation. Haven't seen it elsewhere.
I'm not sure about the best, but there is a list at the bottom of this page:

https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources

Personally I like the Snowdrift model. Liberapay is also great as its EU based and non-profit.
https://archive.is/OEAho
uh.. you sure about that?

https://www.edexlive.com/news/2021/oct/05/forget-movies-delh...

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Book-piracy-r...
The Hummer EV (why?) weighs 9,063 lbs.

But at least it's electric! And can do 0-60 in 3.2 seconds.
FWIW, Marginalia Search has had nearly a billion rows in a table. It runs on a single PC with 128 Gb RAM.

It's survived several HN death hugs.

Though I would say there are things you can do with a 20M table that you can't with a 1B table. If the query doesn't have an index, it will take hours. Even SELECT COUNT(*) takes like 10 min.
Lol if people saw the way I talked to chatGPT, then they’d think I’m a complete psycho
That kinda feels like the only positive story would be off a really negative aspect. Something like it kills you quick with a heart attack or stroke in your sixties rather than long and drawn out and medically expensive affair of normal death from old age, saving medicair from insolvency.
If these jobs need to go then so be it. It is a net positive to have people allocated to where they are needed.
Timothy hay for example seems to be well regarded overseas.
http://www.acxpacific.com/corporate/
Yes, this is not at all a problem of remote/wfh work. We have 4 hours sync per day, and the rest is async. You can have 100% sync, even with people on the other side of the world. What a crap reason to make employees’ lives potentially miserable.
Different ways of viewing the Goldbach conjecture
Fines aren't capricious either.
First, GPT-4 was trained on images and text, not just text. The images improved its text predictions. Because it has a world model, and they helped populate it. It outputs only text. But just like a Unix program writing text to stdout, nothing about the fact that your output format is constrained restricts the kind of computation you can perform in service of that output.

Input: text and images
Computation: ?
Output: text

I think you're suggesting/asserting that the computation step -- the hidden layers -- must also be focused on text. But there's no such constraint in reality.

I don't think it's such a stretch to see the billions of written words given to GPT-4 as essentially a new kind of sense organ. They make it capable of rejecting the untrue claims made in its training set, because (a) the untrue claims are massively overwhelmed in number by the true claims, and (b) the true claims usually come with links to other knowledge that reinforces them.
> "then press the three-lines"

Hamburger menu?
https://www.mobileapps.com/blog/hamburger-menu

I share your disdain for this sort of UI, but then I'm content with a CLI...
Get to have != Have to have

Tricky for new English learners to see the nuanced difference, admittedly
TBF "Hill" too https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-05-18-fi-251-st...
Not every thread is a discussion about chatgpt.
US law doesn't come into play, it's EU law we are talking about here.

'Meta didn't actual do anything wrong' -> they did.
As much as there is propaganda praising Russia in this conflict, there is pro-Ukraine propaganda, nothing new about it. The fact that you do see one sided propaganda is just indicative of media outlets you use filtering the propaganda they feed you. Or in other words, construct narrative "our side is good, their side is bad".

Why is it so hard for some people to accept that media outlets are filtering propaganda on other divisive topics too?
But the things you are complaining about is mostly a problem with SO users and moderators, and not employees?
I can't speak for all of HN, but I can speak for me.

I maintain a library for a language that does network comms.

All the calls are simply passed to another background thread, and the code in the calling thread keeps going. In other words all the commands are non blocking.

That's for outgoing. For incoming a message is sent to the originating thread (actually to the originating object on the originating thread) and the object can the process the incoming at their convenience.

For me this is async. The request and the response are disconnected in the running code. You might request here, but the response appears over there.

It's easier to understand on the server side. There the object is just chilling, and suddenly a message arrives out of nowhere to alert to an incoming packet.

Sync comms "blocks" the program until the reply arrives. This could take milliseconds, or minutes, depending on what you are asking for. Which means your program is unresponsive in this time.
summary/answer: for your own benefit/sanity.
The Geo Metro was at least common enough that people knew what they were, but they were certainly outliers.

But there were small cars, like the Nissan Sentra and friends.
> devoted large amounts of funding towards hiring researchers with a background in string theory. If you weren't one of those people, you were at a severe disadvantage, and might not get hired at all.

> String theory hovered up tons of cash in university budgets, and majorly fucked over a lot of careers.

This is pretty misleading. An argument could be made - though I'm not necessarily endorsing it - that string theory has crowded out other quantum gravity research programs in the last few decades. But quantum gravity is a small and poorly funded subfield: we're talking about no more than a few hundred people total in the US, fighting over one medium-sized experiment worth of grant money. None of it makes any difference to the overwhelming majority of physicists.
Mostly I find Wikipedia a great source for non-scientific information, and, most of all, a fun source to go through all kinds of weird and/or forgotten things. But cases like this are alarming as these are apparently backed by state actors and national laws.
I've been reading some Buddhist texts lately, and this I feel this article would fit right in towards the appreciation of all lives. I know LLMs are fundamentally matrix multiplication text calculators, but attributing a Buddha nature to them seems to align with the teachings I've been reading. Perhaps someone more familiar with Buddhism can explain this feeling more accurately/concisely. In the meantime, I will continue on having no regrets using a few extra tokens to say please and to treat the LLM with dignity. Often I've found ChatGPT-4 to reflect my tone and having it respond to me curtiously, rather than shortly, really does change my attitude while interacting with it.
At the large company I work at, offshoring jobs to India was announced in December 2021. Same company is now in the process of re-hiring in house because they realized what kind of offshore programmers are willing to work PST hours.
OMB Proposes New Benefit-Cost Calculation Method
10 years ago, a task could've taken me an hour. Since I was learning, I probably charged $15 an hour to do it.

Today, that same task might take me 5 minutes to do and I'll charge $50 to do it.

Why? 10 years ago I was learning how to do it. Today, I know how to do it ;)

I could spend time watching a YouTube video for how to install a bathroom sink. It would probably take me 2 to 5 hours to complete the task. However, I have a handyman who I hire and it takes him about an hour to do it and he might charge me $150 for the installation. 2 to 5 hours and I might do it wrong. Or $150 for my guy to do it in about an hour?

You pay for the professionalism and the expertise.
Updates to Kagi pricing plans – More searches, unrestricted AI tools
ASIOF spoiler below!

> At the Tower of Joy, Ned Stark defeated three members of the Kingsguard and discovered his dying sister, Lyanna, who made him promise to protect her son, Jon Snow, whose true parentage remained a closely guarded secret.

Seems like ChatGPT-3 already knows, unless there's a deeper secret that I'm not deep enough into ASIOF fandom to know.
No, businesses should comply with the law. If all businesses comply with the law it's a level playing field so there is no 'king making'. There is the obligation of the government to take care of those that try to upend the board in order to win.