skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People invoke Occam's razor too often that it has become pretty much a thought-terminating meme. Occam's razor only gets you the simple, convenient explanation, it says nothing about the truth. Epistemologists understand this very well. It's easy to find counter-examples where simple explanations reflects nothing of reality.
It's basically what an interactive dialogue with Wikipedia would look like, which is still a darned useful thing.
Yeah range frustrates me too. The reason they don't generally do this is that having unsprung weight dramatically affects the cornering performance of the bike. So while it would be great to crank out miles in a straight line on a long journey it would suck going around corners on a shorter trip. Like everything else in biking it's a tradeoff.
The problem is that they will be filled with hallucinations: unlike "human spam" which is based on facts.
>SU

Soviet Union?
I'm a big proponent of EVs, I drive an EV car and work on EV aircraft, but they aren't yet ready to replace every segment of the market.

Electric motorcycles are only just becoming viable, and are a lot more limiting compared to electric cars.

And an ICE motorcycle can be a lot more fuel efficient, and is also lower carbon impact to manufacture, and takes up less space on the street and to park. For a single occupancy vehicle, an ICE motorcycle is a lot cooler than an ICE car; and depending on the use, could even be better than an EV car.

I am hopeful that within about 5-10 years, battery technology and prices will improve to the point that electric motorcycles actually become viable. But for now, buying a gas sipping Honda Monkey and commuting to work on it could be a big step up over a car.
A counter point you often hear is that this way of interacting with computers is only appropriate or enjoyable to a small number of people.
Sam Harris and Marc Andreessen Debating the Future of AI
Interesting. Back when I had Apple Pay enabled bank card I never saw a site where it didn't work. Either there is no Pay or it works. I think the only cases were when the card associated with Pay is not accepted for other reasons (ineligible billing address/country etc).
> Type annotations do not rust make. And lack of types does not Python make.

That is never implied. See the first example in the article.
A 169mpg motorbike (and note that that's a real-world stock model that you can buy and go shopping on) likely has significantly lower lifetime CO2 emissions than any mainstream electric cars. ICE is a big problem but giant heavy vehicles are a bigger one.
I have no idea how search rankings work, but GeeksForGeeks is massively popular in Indian tech colleges. This might be a reason for it’s high rank.
If you added an access log* and display timing to something like this it would be able to drive spaced repetition learning.

* With a suitable permission model of course. Maybe the content could be hosted elsewhere, but the access and scheduling info could run locally.
Where do you see Apple pay on the web? I was excited when it came out, but have only seen it once or twice since then.
How can I get in touch with you? This same thing happened to my sister and now she is a doctor at Harvard and helps a lot of people in the disabled community. She healed her brain and can share how she did it. She was older than you and had less neuroplacity.
you can go with any combination usually

55555 = 25

or

64555 = 25

you get the gist just add the digits til you get 25
Man where do you get the Linux client? They pulled the download from their website.

The PWA is ass.
I'm not in their camp, but I think Marc failed to adequately address / refute doomer's arguments
May I ask what were their roles, also what was the GTM?
> At this point, you’re maybe wondering why we didn’t just write the project in Rust?

Err, aren’t Python and Rust designed to write completely different kinds of programs?

Python => scripting, data stuff, unsafe and slow, quick’n’dirty PoCs

Rust => compiled, system stuff, robust and fast, production work.

If the author is balancing the 2, they probably should have used C# !
It may be misleading, but ultimately the drive still bears full responsibility. If you have a license you should be controlling the car at all times
I don't undersrand why that is simplistic. The solution may not be simple but we live under rule of law and law makers are elected and therefore voters are ultimately responsible. I don't recall billionaires literally deciding elections. They may influence who runs and donate money but even that is a matter of laws that were loosened or can be passed to fix them (e.g.:citizens vs united), but by all means please educate on why that is too simplistic in this context of "blaming" someone.
We've been discussing adding some analytics to our B2B products, in order to get a better idea of usage of our quite numerous modules and so on. We're a small but growing team with around a thousand customers between our products.

The two products are quite different, one a web-based and more of an aid, where retention and such metrics make sense. Here we've experienced companies replacing the sole person using our application, the new hire doesn't get taught about our tool or forgets, and suddenly they're wondering about these bills they're getting. We've got multiple companies where we've successfully sold our product to several times.

The other is a more traditional CRUD application, which users have to use to get their job done. As such retention and similar isn't a very relevant metric. However it has a large number of modules, and a lot of new functionality in each release, so feature tracking is more interesting. Perhaps failure/error tracking too, like how many manage to trigger certain errors and warnings, indicating a potential weak UI.

I mean the main screenshot shows a "Features" panel, but we have several hundred features we'd like to track, maybe thousands depending on how we can filter on event properties. We have quite a lot of core modules, almost all of which are per-country, so we need to be able to look at module usage per country for example. In addition a large portion of our customers have one or more custom integrations (some have over a dozen, again per-country in relevant countries). I wasn't able to see if we'd get the insight we need for this use-case.

In either case we're quite worried about PII, and while it's nice you got GDPR covered, I think we don't want any PII connected to our users. It's interesting to know how many users use a feature at a given company, but we don't really want to know who that is. From what I can gather that should be OK, just use some UUID for each user and leave it at that?

Perhaps these are dumb questions, product analytics isn't my forte and as mentioned we're just exploring the options at the moment, so don't have any direct experience yet.

That said, June does look really interesting. Especially since we don't have anyone who can dedicate a lot of time to this task.
The terrible thing about modern macOS and Windows is that they keep indexing your files in the background. Microsoft and Apple somehow consider that index-based "instant" file search better, yet it's actually extremely terrible and mostly useless. The file search in XP, that traversed the file system every time you searched something, worked so much better than anything modern. Right now I use a Mac app called "Find Any File" that does the same thing.

On other stuff Windows does in the background, I managed to disable Defender and the updater on my VM by deleting their files via the recovery mode command prompt. That seems to be the only reliable way to do that.
The average commute in America by car is 55 minutes round trip or about 2 hours by public transit. That is 12.5–25% more time invested in your job to get your boss at best a few percentage points increase in productivity.
I'm happy I just closed on a house because something tells me affordability will keep being an issue in the coming years.
No, but he had quite a lot to do with killing off National Geographic as a reputable publication. While I realise 2015-2017 is basically a century ago thanks to Covid, it's not so long ago that we collectively forgot that Murdoch bought National Geographic and immediately started running it into the ground, is it? Did we already forget that there was a time before Disney owned Fox?
> This measure will remain in effect for one year, or until Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) receives 10,000 applications. Only principal applicants, and not their accompanying family members, will count toward the application cap.

Only 10,000 people? Sounds like a good, but quickly fading opportunity.
Sounds like working on a software project of literally any kind, minus one's ego necessarily driving the burnout truck (I know that's probably about 50/50)
A person might be forgiven for viewing this cynically as a way for large corporations to reduce the wages they need to pay by hijacking and bypassing the regular immigration system to import indentured tech servants that they can exploit ruthlessly and underpay.
Or they are trying to offer a legal way for people to do what they are already doing illegally
> especially compared to Diablo Immortal

Which the company is and has been spending significant dev time on.

For a criticism like "everyone is busy working on X instead of good things", X doesn't have to be in the same game.
They could be made to work for non-graphics workloads, potentially.
Super interesting! Thank you for sharing. I don't really know much about cheesemaking but I assume the rennet would be the limiting factor. So it'd be eaten rarely.. maybe as often as meat products? That'd be my completely uneducated guess
Except Murdoch, through Fox, bought National Geographic Media, and immediately started running it into the ground, so... pretty sure I'm blaming the right billionaire? Of course there's always room for more billionaires to blame, I'll happily add the Newhouse family to the list of "how to destroy things".
It’s not viable for journalism bc music artists have other avenues of revenue like touring and merch.

The point is that even Taylor Swift doesn’t make very much money from Spotify. What other sources of revenue does journalism have? It’s not like the NYT is going to make a few million going on tour.
International Symposia on Computer Architecture ISCA@50 Retrospective: 1996-2020
Google is about to make life more difficult for custom ROM fans
> All GPT4 and GPT 3.5 data.

It’s super funny that by saying “You can’t use GPT to create training data for competing language models” OpenAI convinced a bunch of folks that GPT would be Super Good at producing training data for making competing language models.

It’s like “Do NOT use these prions to feed competing cattle, we would HATE IT if you did that”
North America’s first hydrogen-powered train debuts in Canada
Thats cause no one talks about Collective Attention available (Demand). Thats not increasing. In fact its getting overloaded and disintegrating from the info tsunami. The UN report on the Attention Economy says only .5% of content produced is consumed. What a useless and mindless achievement of the content creator class.

Instead of talking about that there is never ending jabber about supporting Content Creation (Supply). Cuz People love receiving attention much more than they are capable of doling it out (Goldharber's Attention Inequality). On top of that Broadcast tools have become cheap, distribution has become cheap, content creators a dim a dozen. So its a system with runaway Supply. Now mostly mistaking meeting sudden random huge spikes in Demand for success.

So dont ask your kids to get into content creation, unless they have infinite Trump like self promoting energies.
Yes, banish the thought a government might from time to time fail to act in the best interests of its citizens.
I wanted to build that once. The "cable" of the internet. One subscription, hundreds of websites, plus opportunities for each site to cross promote a little, via deals on ads or a quota of free ads within the network maybe. Plus heavy curation, to make sure every site in the network is high quality.

But it's 99% b2b networking and sales, trying to get websites on board and then negotiating contracts, and it sounded pretty unpleasant for a technical person to pursue.

I don't know why there aren't dozens of these. I guess everybody wants to fully own the platform, and aggregation is unappealing to them. But there's a lot of money just waiting for whoever does it, and it should benefit writers a fair bit too--they'll actually be able to get paid under this scheme; and a $10/month subscription might actually be worthwhile, instead of getting only a single website as it is today
Very promising XuanTie C920 x 64 system, $1200 opening price. The pre-1.0 vector extensions are a little unfortunate but that's the timing.

Really does set up the idea that the sea-change to RISC-V could be fast.
Discussed earlier today, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36505152
US Patent and Trademark Office notifies filers of years-long data leak
Canada is already allowing a large amount of immigration already. Those H1B workers could have already gone directly to Canada.
I think it's actually because people don't like spending money, even very small amounts, for things they have decided fall in the 'free' category. As previous poster said, it's a monkey problem, not a tech problem.
Motivations aside, I think you can recognize the downward pressure that this measure could have on the already abysmal Canadian tech salaries?
Humans pump so much groundwater that Earth’s axis has shifted
Those are jokes, a signature of the writing style of Joel Achenbach, who is a respected and experienced science writer.
> Of course, if you’re the sort of person who deals with errors in rust by just slapping ? on anything that might fail, then you’re more or less just doing exceptions

Well, no, not really. You typically still explicitly enumerate how your code may fail to use that notation (unless it’s a small utility where you just anyhow it), you also have the fallible values clearly denoted as such, and not everything is fallible. And last, but not least, every time I slap a ‘?’ I tend to quickly evaluate what the failure case is, and if it’s something I can’t do anything about at the moment and should just bubble up, or is it something I can actually handle.

So, no, not the same thing as exceptions at all!
Anyone interested in this should also check out Canadian home prices, rental prices, the broken healthcare system and the peanuts that Canadian tech companies pay. You will be glad you did before jumping ship.
What makes you think that’s not the case?
You didn't remember that Disney bought Fox years after Murdoch -through Fox- bought National Geographic Media and started running it into the ground, did you?
Do you live in the GTA by chance? There is still a ban on foreign buyers in effect, even those with a work or study visa.
Also from a quick google search it doesn't seem HeatWave supports Serializable isolation so not all customers will be able to migrate from Aurora. It's not a 1:1 replacement in terms of functionality.
> to import indentured tech servants that they can exploit ruthlessly and underpay.

Except that one giant benefit that this has over H1-Bs in the US is that it is not tied to a single employer and the worker isn't kicked out with little time to find a new job if they leave an old job, which are the primary factors allowing employers to exploit and underpay their H1-B employees.
Just want to say, I appreciate your contributions here, from one grizzled engineer to ... well, I don't know if you're grizzled, but I can tell you're a good engineer. Good engineering isn't a popularity contest, it's a thoroughness contest.
I was going to recommend my former ride, the Suzuki V-Strom 650, which easily covers >200 miles, and can push close to 250 miles, on a tank of gas. Then I googled it and found the V-Strom isn't even in the top 10. The best are hitting 300 - 400 miles on a tank, some by being thrifty, some by having big tanks.

Given that the farthest I've ever ridden in a day was about 800 miles, being able to go all day on two, maybe even just one fill-up(s) seems reasonable.

https://www.bennetts.co.uk/bikesocial/news-and-views/feature...

https://www.visordown.com/features/top-10s/top-10-longest-ra...
It's real,

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/23/how-elon-...
I have this hair-brained vision of a world where all of the content is available on all the platforms that want to distribute it.

In this world, instead of having an exclusive distribution deal with a single company, content creators (tv studios, journalists, sound cloud musicians, youtubers) would price their content at whatever they think it's worth, and make the viewing key available via e.g. smart contract or some other payment system and API.

Apple/Netflix/Hulu/Youtube/Popcorn Time could each have their own pricing model: ad supported, subscription based, usage based, pay as you go with a self-custody wallet. They can also distribute the content they want to carry. They can compete by reducing their hard costs for distributing the content, or by having better recommendation engines or content search, or delivering a better experience however else they like.

In this kind of world these platforms become more like interfaces to a universe of content that exists outside the walled garden. You can choose the interface you like and still have access to any content. You could use a community-supported FOSS interface that you self-fund, that kind of interface might give you access to the whole firehose, or you could subscribe to a hyper-curated Montessori-approved children's portal to content that is educational and not over-stimulating, for example. One can dream!
Eden definitely works better on a dev server and sucks on a laptop, especially arm based mac's (it's slowly getting better but still requires occasional reboots). +1 on the coding tools being great
Why are there so many socialist tendencies on hacker news. Engineers are among the most privileged professionals on Earth. It’s great companies look to reduce costs. Lower cost of goods and services help everyone. Countries that meddle with the economy to keep incomes high end up having lower quality of life.
Lunar Drive in cinema in Melbourne is tragically closing in a few weeks and they did the same thing. Ridiculous rates (council\land tax) of 1000$ a day really hurt them (corrupt bastards), and maybe it would've been unavoidable anyway, but they didn't even try putting up their stupidly low prices.

A carload of up to 7 people is STILL only 40$. A normal cinema would be 22 ish each!! Just charge normal prices!
That's not really a problem for cars, unlike planes.
As long as you do a land acknowledgement first, I agree this policy would indeed be optimal.
Where do you live and do you have apple pay check enabled in Safari settings?

I see it all over. I was shopping for a keyboard literally yesterday and saw Apple Pay on mechanicalkeyboards and splitkb. I also bought Icebreaker gloves not long ago and they also had Apple Pay. This is from a German IP.
Types are really just a way of applying certain tests to part of your code.

In dynamic languages the typing is just moved to the test suite. We can see that with the way type hints are enforced in Python and Ruby - by running a program that takes those hints and essentially runs a bunch of tests.

If you look at the code of Terraform, for example, you'll see that it spends a lot of time trying to get around the limitations of Go typing.

The rise of dynamic languages in the early 2000s was a direct result of the perceived limitations of the type systems of Java, C++, etc. and the ability to use a different way of constraining code (Test driven development, behaviour driven development).

Now it is swinging back the other way with the implementation of more flexible type systems.

Before too long the limitations of those type systems will start to grate and the pendulum will swing back to dynamic languages again - based upon some new innovations there.

Get used to the back and forth in IT. The static/dynamic cycle is but one of many. (Centralisation/decentralisation is the other main one). You'll find lots of work in IT is reimplementing existing stuff in the current fashionable paradigm.
The foreign buyer ban doesn't apply to foreigners working on work permits in Canada.
Nope started by Dustin Moskovitz who was even in the "social network" movie
Or deliver. I doubt that would even cover shipping.
> Unlike in a strongly typed language, the python type annotations aren’t enforced.

Python is a strongly typed language but type checks happen at runtime rather than ahead of time [0]. The author is correct that the type annotations aren't enforced.

[0] https://wiki.python.org/moin/Why%20is%20Python%20a%20dynamic...
FWIW, the H1B program has what - 100K visas available and 780K applicants each year.
Can also swap for bigger tanks... I put a larger tank on my DRZ-400sm cause the stock one is tiny.
Would love to learn what kind of exploration workflows you've missed in Grafana?

Context: Founder building an affordable alternative in the SaaS observability market (hyperdx.io) - I assume your company might have moved when NR introduced new seat-based pricing?
I think the problem is that you all have a poor understanding of death maybe? When someone dies, that person including their whole life from childhood to time of death is removed. Never to come back again. Have you ever been in a situation where you were sure you were gonna die or someone you love a lot suddenly pass away? That's why life is sacred because for all humans, there is nothing more valuable than their lives and if not theirs then it is the life of someone else that is most valuable to them. Everything else you can value is meaningless if you are no longer around to do something with it. Therefore, for anyone who can exhibit emphaty towards others, life is more sacred than all else not just sacred. Because you can appreciate the impact it will have on their loved ones or appreciate how you would want others to treat your death, you should extend that value of life to others in form of empathy. Even to the most despised, unless you have completley dehumanized them as creatures you can't possibly relate to in any way, shape or form. I think that grouping and dehumnaizing is what is affecting you and others.

They did the same thing with the jews, rohinghy, uyigjhur, tutsi,black americans,etc... and no, the fact that billionaires are a small portion of society that are "terrible" people does not change the fact that they are human. And if you disagree, look at how many millions literally starve to death around the world while we have full bellies and excess money and food. I sure as hell don't want to be judged by that measurement to avoid becoming a hypocrite.
https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2022/PSA221221?=8324278624
The FBI itself highly suggests you dont use the internet without an adblocker due to security risks and scams.
I've looked at and done a great many coding interview questions. Lots of them are quite bad, in that the candidate has to have a flash of intuition to solve them. Very few development jobs require frequent flashes of intuition.

That is, coding tests don't give interviewers what they need to see if someone can write code, and they often don't test anything but the most trivial coding skills.

Don't feel bad for yourself. These tests are terrible.
It is pretty amazing how even when government does create decent well intended laws, the diversity of jurisdictions are just so damned effective at maladapting. Government goes centrally, and subterfuge happens in massive parallel.
> To achieve this feat, the technical team at Acerbis engineered the largest motorcycle tank ever used

So, this has nothing to do with fuel efficiency. It is just a question of who can build the largest gas tank.
I second this! Every Apple Pay integration I’ve used has been a flawless, so much so that it makes it slightly more likely I’ll buy a product because it’s so fast and easy.