skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Much appreciated for expanding on the humidity thing.

> Static buildup is a real issue. It's muscle memory now for me to ground myself before touching any electronics. There's makeshift grounding points (metal tape, metal frames, etc) everywhere. I'm still not used to the little shocks every time.

I did wonder about that, and so it is a thing you need to learn to live with. As I'd mentioned in a comment below, I had the misfortune of working in a newly built data centre where the HVAC was still being commissioned/tuned that caused the humidity to drop severely in the rack zones. It was a right pain in the fingers being zapped frequently as we moved racks and other non-electronic infrastructure into place. But it was also comedic as well as you could regularly hear quiet yelps and expletives from others in the team as they too were being zapped :)
I took my name "rugnir" from a compination of two names from a of names mentioned in the icelandic saga. I love these kinds of old mythological epics. I recommend the epic of gilgamesh, beowulf too
Interesting, I'll check it out.

One of the arguments, as far as I understand for the BDD verbosity is that fact that the requirements are easy to communicate with customers and so therefore would be more precise in going from defining requirements to actually building the right thing. How true do you find this?
Then you have workers who end up sleeping in their car because there is no place to rent

Leisure and travel, at what 'price'?
https://www.reddit.com/best/communities/1/

Looks like it's 5/10 of the ones with over 30M subscribers and 9/23 over 20M, I was actually surprised that it's only that many in total for the 30M group.

I presume some might still make the decision given yesteray's attempt at blatant slander by Spez.
Great! I'm going to need something like fpx or fabpide2 with a Lenovo connector and at least 135 watts so I can avoid buying more Lenovo charging bricks for the couch, bedroom, second desk, travelling...
Since this is posted during the controversy, this is not about scrubbing your comments from the internet, but just from reddit, presumably to stop participating in reddit.
agreed. like or hate apple, it does seem they're the only company that consistently seems to test their products with 'regular' people (parents, school principals, construction workers, etc), not people who know what 'sideload' even means
Trigger.dev v2: a self-hostable background jobs framework for Next.js
> but are not as successful year-to-year.

How many times have you had teams in both categories that were mostly the same people and environment for long enough to judge this?
According to this [0] Apple made 93 b over the past four quarters. The Apple watch is bigger than the entire Swiss watch industry [1] but still a minor part of Apple.

My point being that they’d have to sell a hell of a lot of services to outpace the iPhone, and those services are mostly popular because they integrate into the iPhone. And people want the new shiny ones.

[0] https://ultimatestockpicker.com/company-detail/AAPL/

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertanaas/2020/02/07/apple-wa...
Dyson was quite the visionary. LIGO / Virgo gravitational wave detectors have confirmed all this (with much more development from people like Caltech's Kip Thorne and many others):

> "The energy source of the machine is the gravitational potential between the stars A and B. As the machine continues to operate, the stars A and B will gradually be drawn closer together, their negative potential energy will increase and their orbital velocity V will also increase... the loss of energy by gravitational radiation will bring the two stars closer with ever-increasing speed, until in the last second of their lives they plunge together and release a gravitational flash at a frequency of about 200 cycles and of unimaginable intensity."

The Ligo Lab's youtube channel has lots of great videos on the topic, from the sounds made by a pair of colliding black holes to long talks about how certain elements are mostly made by colliding neutron stars:

https://www.youtube.com/@LIGOLabCaltechMIT/playlists
Yeah, there's nuance there and I definitely agree it's not airbnb's fault or responsibility. But the comment was assigning the right to have input on the character & trajectory of a place solely with property ownership, which is foul.
Looks like this is for Europe. I think US needs one too.
> All I can say is that subreddits are built on the idea of autonomy

On the illusion of autonomy.

> Using Twitter as an example when the acquisition isn't even a year old isn't valid, in my opinion. Talk to me in 2 years.

Then why join this debate in the first place?
Adobe will cover any legal bills around generative AI product copyright issues
This comment is settinh of my ChatGPT alarm bells. Something about the sentence structure and adjective usage.
it is in their interest to keep that going to the fullest extent possible.

they will nod their heads and put in some controls, but eventually the dark patterns will come out again.
Nitpick, also because the contrast is kind of funny:

mote: a small particle, speck, atom, "mote of dust"

moat: a deep ditch, often filled with water, as a first line of defence around a castle.
Common energy drink ingredient taurine ‘may slow ageing process’
Time to adopt Nostr as future-proof path.
> Minecraft and Mojang/Microsoft introducing terrible new rules that censor all minecraft servers

This one is different than the other examples

- The new chat system is bad, but not that disruptive like the other examples.

- I believe Mojang/MS were motivated by immense pressure to keep Minecraft kid friendly, predator free and so on, not pure profit (as with every other example). Minecraft's real user base is young kids, and they don't cleanly fit into the power/casual user dichotomy.

- For all of their (many) faults, Mojang has been extremely conservative with Minecraft JE development. BE has issues, but is not that bad, and IMO the whole franchise is a decent example of how to avoid enshittification.
I've been using shreddit for years, and even have a fork of it with some options that I prefer. You could definitely replicate shreddit in selenium or just bs4 or some other crawler. It would be fairly easy, and could have identical features.
IMHO broaden your boundaries a bit and learn a lisp or clojure-based functional style, like grab a getting started in clojure book and work through it. You will learn a lot more than this guide goes into, it's really just looking at functions in a functional style but doesn't spend nearly enough on data structures and state which are really the core of functional programming (and what python doesn't do well out of the box for functional programming).

Learning a bit of clojure will really open your eyes to what functional programming means, and you can take some of those learnings back to python.
Orphan Articles: The Dark Matter of Wikipedia
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/06/us/politics/chris-christi...

“The grift from this family is breathtaking,” Mr. Christie said. “It’s breathtaking. Jared Kushner and Ivanka Kushner walk out of the White House and months later get $2 billion from the Saudis?”

“That’s your money he stole,” he continued, adding, “That makes us a banana republic.”
Why do you prefer Capybara style testing to the Gherkin style testing? Is it primarily the conciseness?
The author essentially goes on to abstract away each thing included in a circle. Take a car or a computer or even an essay. It does take knowing what makes the thing up, which is the exercise.

When done completely, unabstraction leaves you with nothing in the circle. Everything can be abstracted away.

In the case of "I" I make another circle around everything I moved outside the original circle and label is "own". It's what I am responsible for and what I will own up to. I own my mood, my health, the well being of my loved ones, my skills, etc. Then everything outside even that? Should not bother you at all.

But on a day to day basis, you can really only do one thing in any given moment. So remapping the "things" that make up "I" is handy, but most of the day most of it is completely irrelevant. That's an important realization also. If I'm writing this here, my "imperfections" should not be on my mind, and will not be.

I also talk to clients about being better than perfect, because perfect doesn't exist anyway. When doing fulfillment, errors do happen. Even amazon ships the wrong item from time to time. So perfection is impossible. But what if you owned up to your mistakes and engaged your customer and gave them more of what they wanted? They feel the attention, the appreciation, and a deeper connection with you and your service. That's better than perfect.

Fault tolerance doesn't have to just make up for a negative. It can go beyond and provide positives that you otherwise would not give.

A purely analytic objective statement about one thing the Bible kind of gets right: God loves you for who you are. Just think of how pragmatic that is. It prevents us from wasting our time murdering our village of weirdos, as per the article. Of course, historically, humans are known to murder the weirdos in our villages, so that's kind of ironic.
See also: https://twitter.com/cringelinuxmeme
perhaps it would be "fun" to replace the comment with a GPT summary .. in 10 words or less
I've been on Reddit since 2009, and never cared about any of that stuff or claimed I was going to leave Reddit over it. I absolutely am leaving Reddit over this.

I am keeping my account, because I might need it to promote my business (it still has utility in that area and I am pragmatic, I am not going to not do something that could help my business for ideological reasons), but I will no longer be using it on a daily basis or contributing comments/posts unless they back away from this.
Please wait for the ArchiveTeam to finish first.
One of the worst things about reddit communities is how hostile they are to content not on reddit. Now so much content is stuck on there, owned by a company instead of the by the writer.

Post your own blog on reddit, mignt as well have committed a war crime.
I don't think most people appreciate that medical research moves, at minimum, 20x slower than it would with open data access. Doing the simplest possible regression across two institutional datasets is a $100,000 project involving lawyers, de-identification, consents, and a host of bureaucracy. Since most projects end in null results, most don't happen.

These laws, while well-intentioned, kill people.

If you think that's an OK tradeoff, I guess you're free to accept that. But there is very real blood on your hands, the fact that none but the most egregiously common diseases are studied. It doesn't have to be this way.
No need to ban AI from handling legal disputes. Unless you're representing yourself you need a lawyer and there's no way for an AI to act as a lawyer.
Very fair. I wanted to address a more general point. This is not the first reddit controversy, and likely won't be the last. If this is the "Digg" moment for reddit, I'll leave up to Manifold markets :)
The final edition of Encyclopaedia Brittanica was $1,395.
> doesn't hurt Reddit

It absolutely does hurt Reddit, if enough users suddenly remove their whole history from Reddit.

Reddit ia nothing without the content that exists there.

I'll be overwriting and then removing all my posts from there tonight.
> What we need is a legal way for companies to keep the data open, but also require OpenAI and friends to pay them for it.

inherently not possible as then it would not be "open" to begin with.
Frankly, this is one of those articles, where if you know anything about the subject matter being written, you realize its a nothing-burger. Every car in development produces decks that look like this, with a long list of issues, that are eventually reesolved. But i guess the narrative gets the clicks.
There was at one time a Roman slang term for underwear, which was the name of a cardinal who had all the genitalia painted over in some church or museum that the controlled.
There are some differences, but broadly correct (eg., the program is precompiled and the experience is definitely the best in VSCode; plus of course different language).

However, I heard of uPython being used in production deployments, though maybe not in millions of units.

(I'm working on DeviceScript)
Did you write this comment with ChatGPT's help? It's a helpful and well written post. I'm not trying to insult it. But I'm curious. The text seems to say "AI", and I'm wondering if I'm seeing things not there.
Boyhood took 12 years to make, but no one likes it.

The Werner Herzog movie where they moved a steam boat over a mountain (Fitzcarraldo) was incredibly difficult, but most people haven't seen it.

Difficulty can't be the point - it has to be a movie first, if you want to keep people's interest
For deleting posts/comments:

Reddit exists because we give it content. We're the ones bringing value to Reddit. Like any social media, it wouldn't exist without us, the users. Reddit also provides a valuable service as being the host. Reddit is entitled to make some profit off of that.

We contribute content to Reddit for free. Reddit acts as a good host, connects us users together, and makes some money for their work.

But they've been growing increasingly user hostile and greedy. I'm not going to give you free content if you're super hostile to me and other users. Hosting Reddit isn't that expensive, afaik they were already making a profit back when you could buy gold to fund server time? But if you're going all in on ads and maximizing profit, at the cost of my user experience... either you give me a cut of that, or I'm going to leave and take my content away with me. I don't want you maliciously profiting off of my content which I spent my time creating.
> But, sure, fundamentally different: being able to surround yourself with any environment you want. Being able to navigate that environment with physical movement. Seeing a movie that exists in a sphere around you.

I agree there are some people that want it (I am one of those people, Beatsaber changed my life). The issue is the number of those people isn’t that large yet. I know this because pretty much all of my friends and family that tried my Index have said “wow that’s really cool!” and later none of them go buy a headset. It’s just not compelling enough to buy for most normal people yet.
Who gives a shit if Google has your medical records?
I believe it is primarily (a) which automatically leads to (b). While (c) is a part of (a) itself.
I just left a $45B company that has many of the same issues you mention. There were efforts around consolidating competing technologies and vendors as well as a very large "digital transformation" effort which I was directly a part of. None of the efforts went very well for a variety of reasons including reorgs, two competing technology organizations, hard economic times, etc. Another underlying issue I saw was lack of accountability and communication. "Technical debt factory" is a great way to phrase it.

Ultimately, leadership has to make tough decisions cut costs while not impacting the company's continued growth.
Trending Golden Buzzer Performance in America's Got Talent: Putri Ariani
What I think as the most epic and hype Golden Buzzer in the Got Talent history.
Reddit is more than 10 years old at this point. if anyone wanted to use it for LLM, couldn't they just download all of the content through the API while they can? Is 10 years of content not enough off of a site like Reddit?
At its worst the UK was estimated to be less than one week from being unable to supply the civilian population with their rations.

The British mainland isn't anywhere close to self-sufficient on food, and wasn't during WWII. So it needed shipments of food. Literally shipments because it's an island. Now, under ordinary rules of war ("Cruiser rules") you can't just blow up civilian transports moving food, you need to search the ships, find illegal shipments and then you can sink them after making their crews safe. But that's not how you win a war quickly against people with more resources than you, so Hitler ordered instead "Unrestricted submarine warfare" which is if you see a merchant vessel, attack and destroy it, they all drown, too bad.

There's a down side to unrestricted submarine warfare of course, unlike wearing badges with skulls on them (like the Mitchell & Webb sketch, but something elite military units on every side in conflicts have tended to do) blowing up unarmed merchant ships and killing their crews in order to starve civilians is clearly something that bad guys do, so, no moral high ground for you.

However in terms of starving Britain it was close to success. And the British government of the day assumed that, if starved, the civilians would demand their government surrender to Hitler to receive food. Would that have happened? We don't know. The Japanese experience suggests that civilians might just accept starving to death rather than surrender.
I missed the Karpathy part. What did he say was/was not possible?
"How dare you allow me to use my laziness against myself ChatGPT!"
Tech pays Industrial Psychologists, I don't know why we don't put them to work on this.

I restarted my software career doing remote work. I didn't have a problem finding things to do because my responsibilities were clear (read: I had a good manager) and I was self-taught so I already had a muscle for seeking knowledge on my own.

I suspect that remote work success is highly influenced by an equation involving how good your manager is and how much you innately know about what things your role is responsible for which can be propped up or replaced by seniority. I also suspect that new grads don't have muscles for finding/seeking internal and external information on their own, which feels powerless. There's ways to solve all these things without treating all of these folks the same.

Frankly, I think these are all the problems you and I relate to, but what's really solved for the business by returning to an office isn't productivity or happiness. It's a real estate problem.
I do agree with you, it's just the wording in the parent made it seem like a different scenario. When a software friend of mine says "I'm starting a business", I get a very different picture than a software friend of mine saying "I'm starting consulting". If a tradesman says "I'm starting a business" I envision him still doing similar work, but also finding clients, figuring out contract details etc.
When a (perfect) ball is thrown at a (perfect) car, it will bounce off with the same velocity, v, but with its direction reversed. If the car is moving with some velocity -V, when the ball bounces off it will have a velocity -v - 2V, gaining an extra -2V. (This is easier to understand from the car's passenger's point of view, who will see the ball arriving with a relative velocity v + V and bouncing with -v - V, or -v - 2V relative to the ground).

In the ball-car collision the electromagnetic forces are the ones responsible for changing the direction of the ball. But in the binary system, it is gravity. In particular as the shuttle enters orbit around the "incoming" star, the star's gravity will pull it forward mostly when it completed half orbit.

I hope I make sense.

Overall, such a joy to read this paper. With basic physics it makes you dream of sci-fi...

EDIT: typos
I think in general there is a lot of anger or frustration around the fact that Reddit's primary trove of value is content that has been created, posted, and moderated for free by their community. Despite this, Reddit trends more and more user hostile every year, with rules, redesigns, and other limitations that often come across as attempting to punish or hinder the very group that is the core of their value. While I doubt the majority of the user base takes issue with Reddit wanting to be profitable, the potential IPO is coming across very much as a rug pull of sorts to those users.
For tail recursion, you can use this snippet of code:

class Recurse(Exception):
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
self.args = args
self.kwargs = kwargs

class Terminate(Exception):
def __init__(self, retval):
self.retval = retval

def tailrec(func):
def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
while True:
try:
func(*args, **kwargs)

except Recurse as r:
args = r.args
kwargs = r.kwargs

except Terminate as t:
return t.retval

return wrapper

@tailrec
def fact(n, acc=1):
if n == 0:
raise Terminate(acc)

else:
raise Recurse(n - 1, acc * n)

Of course, it will be slow because it relies on exceptions :P
It's not an experience for professional typescript development, but the experience that professional typescript developers are used to.

This isn't in competition with C or C++, it's in competition with micropython. Python isn't a great language except in its ubiquity. I'd rather work in what I know, which is TS. This opens up microcontroller development to JavaScript devs of whom there are a lot of us.

Types are really helpful when dealing with unfamiliar APIs. When doing embedded projects, you deal with a lot of APIs. There are the language built ins, any libraries you are using to interface with peripherals. This project opens up microcontroller development in a big way to a LOT of developers.

Is it what you want to use for a commercial embedded device? I can't say. Is that the only standard? Then you should just be using C for everything, I guess. But something like a Raspberry Pi Pico or ESP32 has plenty of resources to run JavaScript while still being able to manage a weather station or automated garden or security camera or pen plotter. There are lots of applications that don't use the full power of the board.
I think a virtual space has plenty of obvious benefits for productivity and immersion.

The main problem seems to be the execution. Nobody wants to have a huge thing attached to their head for hours. Maybe this will change if headset become as lightweight as regular glasses but we're still very far away from that.
This is why individual action is significantly weaker than collective bargaining.
Where the adversarial AI people at? Write comments that if fed into a model generate nonsense or falsehoods.
There’s identifiable and sufficiently deidentified to meet the legal standard. Removing the userid meets the GDPR definition, but I bet you could reidentify based on patterns or fingerprints, if you really wanted to.
Yeah, MBAs and private equity really ruin a lot of otherwise good companies. I honestly wonder how long they can keep this going in a high interest rate environment.
I don't think it's all that difficult. Message the top 100 contributors of every subreddit that goes dark to ask if they want to be mods, and if they say yes put them on a two month trial.

I remember when Ronald Reagan fired all air traffic controllers in the US, that definitely had me wondering about the wisdom of the move and yet it went off without a hitch. Not a single plane crashed on account of that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Air_Traffic_Contr...
Waste heat seems like it would be a thing? Even at 95% efficiency (which is unrealistic), we're looking at a 12W heater.
> People can, and do, develop long-term issues from acute exposure to bad air

Not for a day, no. At least not for what was going happening in the East Coast. It wasn't like ash and debris was flying through the air. It was like sitting around a campfire. People aren't that fragile. Now, hypochondriacs might think they are (and we have a growing population of those), but they simply aren't. Is it bad for someone with COPD? Yes, but the damage had already been done for years.
No, no it is not.
> or people who think that a city or neighbourhood is "theirs" just because they happen to live there for a long time

If they pay taxes there, it's their money poured into the location, so yeah, it really is theirs, don't you agree?
“Spin” by Brian Springer, 1995 – a documentary about media-constructed reality
I think having a strongly typed language is a great reason to have another interpreted language for IoT/embedded.