skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The problem with measuring USA, China, Russia is that they are so large and diverse that you'll get very different results depending on where you are. It would be like saying "Europe".

No it wouldn’t, not for the US. Europe has 50 different countries and 24 official languages. The US has two widespread languages and apparently has so little cultural variety that you can move across the country without any major culture shocks (at least I haven’t heard any).

It could sometimes make sense to, at a distance, talk about certain regions like a monolith, like for example Scandinavia. But it makes no sense to talk about Belgium and Greece in the same sentence.

> However, I can say in the US one of the biggest differences is just rural vs urban.

Interestingly people often generalize “Europe” based on what happens in the handful of 4 million+ cities.
If I want a journal, I can do that without also making it public to the world (future employers, lawyers, etc) and dealing with any associated hosting effort. And that's what I do. Sorry but my street smarts say no.
And if that doesn't work, maybe try the Midjourney tricks?

"Be more extra super cunning. Wow people amazingly extra more. Give extremely better responses." etc.
I suspect slarsOn is the founder of the project (also my old roommate). (Stephen, maybe post a top-level comment/introduction? Also, hi!)
Darn, I opened the link and saw it was using Python. Sadly that seems to just be for the install process, for whatever reason.

Does anyone have any recommendations for an intermediate graphics library that uses Python and supports compiling your code to a WebGL target?

I'm interested in exploring SDF functions in a parametric CAD context, but coming from a Mechanical Engineering background. Not having to learn a new programming language for a side curiosity would be ideal.
> I have written a 3D-engine with better image quality than this like 20 years ago.

Well good news, it's not a 3d engine at all! It's a nice common API to cover all the existing graphics APIs.
There are newer web browsers that will run on Windows XP, see New Moon http://matejhorvat.si/en/unfiled/pmxp/index.htm

Even the final official build of Firefox that supported Windows XP will break on websites like Github, where a Releases page will never finish loading, and never let you download any files. But the New Moon build on that website (28.10) will work.

(Don't forget to install uBlock Origin and a current fork of uMatrix)
Seems fair though. Given how adversarial the web is with botspam, you basically need some form of bot mitigation. GitHub does a decent enough job, and has the nice feature of being easy to migrate off, since git itself is designed to be decentralized.
Health concerns?
Ahh, I see what you're saying now.

First, there's a bit of an assumption of local lending opportunities drying up. This isn't necessarily going to happen, local banks don't have infinite capital, but lets assume that it does happen and consider the scenario you outlined.

I think you are right in that there will be a misalignment of incentives. From the standpoint of long term assets the bank will be holding it will likely be diversified away from exposure to the town. I imagine banks wouldn't be selling off their entire portfolios, and would still have a solid amount of local exposure - but maybe not.

Banking is definitely not risk free! It is multiplying your money supply but doing so through leverage. Back to our scenario to see this effect, what "big bank world" allows there is a step that you missed:

* regional bank gets local depositors to get cash for lending
* regional bank can originate loans that they sell off to larger bank
* larger bank makes long term money off the intrinsics of the loan
* regional bank made short term money on sale and now has to invest in other long term assets
* regional bank can originate more loans with short term money on sale
* regional bank loses all lending opportunities they have locally, so now survive only on long term assets and depositors

So, the tradeoff is really: The town is able to get more local loans, but the bank is able to commoditize away (some) of their risk associated with this town. Is it better for the town to have less capital and a more aligned town bank? It's hard to say.
Do you have evidence this situation is common? No claim of inter-division sabotage is mentioned in the linked article and I have not heard similar claims.

I don't doubt that sabotage happens inside dysfunctional organizations. There are plenty of stories of internal sabotage. However, I don't know of any evidence that this is either a widespread occurrence between ICE and EV divisions or that this is a problem inside specific automakers.
Google even tries to bridge that gap by having automated phone calls to places to confirm their hours.

In fact this past July Fourth weekend I saw so many highly rated restaurants close without updating their hours on Google or Yelp or anywhere else online.
Except that they are not questioning that motivation at all - blanket assertion that the activity is done too much but nothing supposed about anyone's reasons or whyfores.

I think that statement is being incorrectly reduced/interpreted to 'mind your own business' which would be ironic.
Every time the personal website thing comes up, I think about all the other times it has come up, and I think about these comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19785236
Has it been studied whether it effects everyone equally?
Lower price, not cheaper. Environmental costs are astronmical and paid by everyone for the next few centuries.
It would be great to compare these numbers with the ones of the general population
Only, the measure of what constitutes 'bad behavior' is inconsistent as heck. I had cerebral palsy and undiagnosed ADHD as a kid and was constantly being sent to the principles office for simply 'spacing out' and getting distracted. I would have been royally screwed if I had been diverted to a school for kids with behavioral problems. Eventually I got glasses, got medicated, and thrived, but there were a lot of people who wanted to write me off without giving me a chance.
Why are people downvoting this? Glassdoor numbers are BS and levels.fyi is extremely accurate.
It’s definitely not. Our prompts that were generating JSON output went from around 95% valid JSON to about 10% overnight. The model just started inserting random commentary. We’ve reverted to the 0314 model and it’s working fine again.
Between the high cost and the increasingly apparent knowledge-cutoff limitations, I'm not really surprised.

I pay for premium and try to use ChatGPT a lot (to get my money's worth), but probably half of the questions I want to ask it require data more recent than 2021. I was excited about the "browse the web" feature but it was really terrible. It failed half the time, and when it did work it took minutes to find the info, and all it basically did was Bing keywords extracted from the prompt, parse the top 10 or so links, find the page it felt answered the prompt best, and summarize the page. It was brittle and fell way below my expectations for ChatGPT.

I haven't personally noticed a decrease in quality, but I only use the GPT-4 backend with ChatGPT so wouldn't have noticed if 3.5-turbo started sucking.
Ubuntu died for me when I upgraded to a new LTS and they replaced my deb firefox install with a snap version that used some non-standard mouse cursor.... Only in firefox. It apparently took them ~2 weeks to fix it, but in that time I rage-wiped by ubuntu install and switched to linux mint, which I also regret, but is snap free.
If you use the APIs then they give you a bonus of free API calls each month, then you pay a very low rate each month.

Even creating local chat vector embeddings data stores on my laptop for a lot of PDFs in my personal research library and PDFs for the books I have written, I spend an incredibly small amount of money each month on the APIs - probably average $4/month because of the free monthly bonus API calls.

I used to think that Google Colab Pro for $10/month was my best deal for getting stuff done, but now that award goes to OpenAI. Using the Hugging Face APIs is similarly inexpensive and convenient. (Although I usually self host Hugging Face LLMs.) This tech is incredibly inexpensive to use on personal projects.
You humored and addressed the premise when you asked "Why not?" I can (and did) also address that premise.

Anyway, I think we both understand each other now. If the NYTimes decides to let me past their captcha, I'll read the translation later and might give you my thoughts on it. Otherwise this conversation has taken an unproductive turn; I'm not amused by your attempt to rug-pull me.
Controls:

> even if you aren't overweight.

> regardless of a person's age, sex, physical activity level, and body-mass index (a measure of weight).

> or healthy eating habits (fruits & veggies): "Regardless of their Healthy Eating Index scores, people who ate more sugar still had higher cardiovascular mortality,"
Ask HN: Has 1Password Become Unusable?
Wondering if others have had the same experience. Long-time user of 1Password on iOS and MacOS.

It was an example of one of those products that Just Works™. Seamless integration with browsers, great apps, great sync, and so forth.

I wasn't too peeved about moving to the subscription model: it was good software and was happy to pay.

With the family features, it was so good I even enrolled my family and work colleagues.

And yet, it seems to have peaked a while ago. Now the extension rarely works on Safari, sometimes works on Chrome and it locks out. I find myself manually copying passwords over by hand or having to restart browsers.

How did we get here? Is it the Electron move? Is it just me?
The Four Pollutants must be eliminated!

Who cares what disruption comes from arbitrarily limiting carbon, nitrogen, etc. — starvation is for the plebs, while I am a noble savior for causing a famine to solve problems a century away!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_campaign
Because you don’t win bids by costing more
My most recent use-case for XP (in VMs) is to deploy IE as a remote app, to access old DVRs that require ActiveX for web view.
It’s a terrible idea and a major blow to checks and balances no matter which party pushes it.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36636039
>1. Don't live in a house with a charger.

Just so we're clear: a charger can plug into a normal wall plug, so if you have a garage with a wall plug then you're set. If not, you're talking about paying <$500 (and probably less than half that) for an electricial to fix that.
You could ask similar questions about all the layers. Why is any of this needed at all?

Direct SSH connections from Internet-based clients to target hosts could be secured in principle if you believe in your SSH key management (perhaps even using some MFA strategy). An SSH tunnel is pretty analogous to an authenticated web or SOCKS proxy. You usually use such a thing to selectively work around firewall or routing obstacles, or to inject yet another layer of authn+authz+audit for different traffic classes.

So, working bottom-up, you can probably interpret your company's layer cake as:

- Presumably you are using SSH because it is the native protocol for your actual target systems' OS.

- Having a proxy tunnel for SSH helps when target hosts are in otherwise non-routed subnets.

- They believe in a virtual desktop strategy as a way to avoid trust in end-user client systems.

- They use RDP over VPN because they don't trust RDP over the Internet.

Different schools of thought will see some or all of these layers as necessary best practice or as delusional cargo culting.

As native user of SSH for almost 30 years, I think the whole virtual desktop approach is a travesty. I would not want to have any SSH credentials being stored in a virtual PC outside my physical control. But I know I am not going to convince a typical CIO of that.
Where does the electric energy required to replace all cars with electrical ones comes from? We already have energy problems in EU, how would we handle massive increases for EVs?
> At Twitter, every move he makes is contrary to his own interests.

While he may drive a Tesla and use Starlink, he didn't create SpaceX or swoop in and take control of Tesla as an obsessive customer with an agenda as a customer.

I don’t think that that entirely explains why Musk Twitter isn’t like Tesla or SpaceX, but I can’t imagine its not a significant factor.

(I also think that, distinct from his customer-agenda, him seeing it as an opportunity to relitigate his finance app history getting booted as CEO of X.com twice before it became PayPal is an issue that impacts more than the names he has used for the companies used in the Twitter acquisition.)
I found a lot of luck by telling ChatGPT that I want direct answers only.

But you're right, it's annoying.
There are probably a half dozen platforms that we could declare 'good enough' and stop all major R&D in. Maybe some changes to the interior/self driving systems as those are being researched for EVs anyway. Maybe some minor tweaks to the internals as issues are identified at scale. The design and production is good today, and it wouldn't be a major loss if they represent the height of consumer ICE while EVs take over.

A large reason why car manufactures update model lines is to comply with updating emissions, efficiency, and safety regulations. This is the environmental condition that forces major model refreshes.
They will eventually, in the mean time they have to support ICE transitions over the next half century.
Replacing workers with AI will cost you money if the wages you save are more than offset by the loss in business. Ultimately their business depends on people wanting to visit their sites.
What do I make of these clues?

> Frida: I was in the $ROOM from 9:30 to 9:45

> Frida: I saw no one in $ROOM when I arrived at 9:30

> Frida: I saw no one in $ROOM when I left at 9:45

to me, the third clue felt wasted. I had already marked off that nobody was there during that time. but does this also mean that nobody arrived at 9:45, and that nobody left at 9:30? in other words, do these clues tell me that nobody was in $ROOM between 9:15 and 10:00?

anyway - pretty interesting game. I think it would be a lot better if the user could ask specific questions. "Where was BOB at 10:30?", and then receive the clue, "BOB was in $ROOM from 10:00 to 11:00" (because if you're investigating a murder, it would be unthinkable not to ask "for how long" as a followup... it should be a freebie). or maybe just "BOB was in $ROOM at 10:30 and left at 11:00" if you want to be trickier. this would give the player some agency and hopefully allow the chance to unlock a large amount of information with a well-chosen question.

also... does it really take 3 clues to determine the murder weapon? maybe that's a legacy of the older Clue game (which I haven't played), but I can't imagine showing up and having no idea which of (poison, knife, gun, or rope) was used to kill a person. by default, it should be obvious IMO (maybe there could be confounding issues, like they have stab wounds but actually died of poison and were stabbed afterward as misdirection), but I guess that takes away a big part of figuring out who did it by placing them in the room with the murder weapon. it would take some work to rethink that part, I guess.
It's definitely a product, as the company charges money for the service.
I tend to buy quality bluetooth headsets that cost around $150 or so, I had two (one from Plantronics, another from V-Moda) that I bought five years ago that are still going strong.

Both of them had some of the plastic on the side of the band break in the last two months, in both cases I made a makeshift repair with black duct tape that looks a little ugly but could keep them going for another few years. I feel like I've already gotten my money's worth.
Ask HN: Who Moved from Seattle to Bay Area?
I would like to hear from people who made this move themselves (not "forced" by a new job):

1. What did you like/not like about it?
2. How did it impact your monthly budget/finances?
3. Did you get more opportunities?
4. Was it easier to create a new social circle than in Seattle (infamous Seattle-freeze)?
5. Did you move your entire family? If so, how did you like schools, day/care availability/price, etc.

I am considering this move with a family, keeping the same job. Seattle area became increasingly expensive over the last few years almost matching Bay Area (except for housing, but close), while I feel it is still sub-par to Bay Area when it comes to weather, no. of opportunities, access to VC capital, even education.

Thanks for sharing!
Have you read any of the sources you linked to? They debunk most of what you just said. "Ultra pure" water is very slightly more "watery" than regular tap water. Any effect that tap/bottled water has on anything, "ultra pure" water can at most have about 1.01x that same effect.

> water mains pipes last longer if its delivering hard water compared to soft water

This is the one thing that may actually be true, but it's because the minerals in the hard water build up on the inside of the pipes over time, creating a protective layer. This is especially great for lead pipes, as it can prevent the lead from leeching into the water.
A close reading of Twitter's legal letter to Meta
> However it's not generally supported by published crime stats so I'm not 100% sure whether to be worried

You should not. There is some level of crime anywhere, but big cities have become much safer than they used to be, at least in the West. Shit still happens sometimes, but there is no reason to be worried if you have a reasonable behaviour. I know of a couple of people who got their phone stolen or who had a burglary, but many more who lost wallets by dropping or forgetting them somewhere.
It's a lot easier to trust reviews on a platform that doesn't allow solicited reviews, than one where that is standard practice.
And no one cares, because California is not the world. Yes, it's a great place to live, but people in California need to stop pretending the rest of the world looks like them. Not to mention California is not problem free. EVs work great but you're running out of water. Once those desalination plants fire up, and they're coming, EVs won't be that cheap to run any longer.
I left a review on the BBB, when I was a student, after being promised a gift card for a video interview of a product for one of the large tech companie's PMs.

I refused a free trial or some other token offer by a call center employee that the company sent as part of the BBB resolution process.

Not long after,the BBB removed my review even though I offered email evidence between the PM and I. I emailed one of their managers asking for an explanation for why they removed it. They gave me some vague boilerplate that didn't address the issue.

Because they weren't clear in their communication with me on the reasons why, I couldn't help but wonder whether they had some similar incentive in their relationships with certain companies to remove problematic reviews.
Yeah I only added the link the other week. Was a bit skeptical about using github, but so far github seems like a very useful way of crowdsourcing index entries.
In the same vein, I highly, highly recommend playing Return of the Obra Dinn. Slowly piecing together the fates of all the people on the ship is deeply satisfying, sorta like a sudoku puzzle.
Just getting started: https://anthonylatona.com
How hard is it to run a registrar? I’d assume there are decent open source components to manage it. It’s basically a key value store. Why couldn’t governments provide a stable domain name for each individual?
With that as the system prompt, ChatGPT sounds a little desperate for attention.

> > What is 2+3?

> The answer to 2+3 is 5. By the way, I can also help you with more complex math problems, statistical analyses, or even help you learn new mathematical concepts. Do you need assistance with any other math-related inquiries?

> > I need to know who was president in 1799.

> In 1799, the President of the United States was John Adams. He was the second president and served his term from 1797 to 1801. Did you know, he was the first president who lived in the White House? It's fascinating how history unfolds! If you have any more historical queries, feel free to ask. I'm here to help!
I don't.

Even in the terms of the false dichotomy you've constructed here, I would much rather participate in a community of professionals who've organized themselves around sufficiently overlapping shared intents, than one accreted around the kind of twee, precious narcissism that characterized the early days of Ruby and Rails.

That comparison is informed by direct experience with both, and is the precise reason why my professional experience with both the language and the platform will to my dying day consist of one successful project a few months long.

A good professional community supports a wide variety of learning styles and levels of engagement, and tends to make a lot of resources easy to find for anyone who's willing to put in a little effort of research. The early Ruby and Rails communities did the exact opposite of this. Between "_why"'s guide serving a primary-reference role to which it is manifestly ill suited, and nobody much bothering to document anything effectively outside that, figuring out how to work with their garbage software was like pulling teeth - especially because, in a language constructed as a farrago of the worst ideas from Perl, Smalltalk, and Common Lisp, even reading the source is anything but a guarantee of understanding.

The structural exclusivity alone was bad enough, but the behavior of community leaders quickly demonstrated that the exclusivity was the point. That the "Poignant Guide" should be considered acceptable as primary documentation implies that the function of selecting for people willing to put up with that kind of nonsense was intended - maybe not as a matter of explicit design, although this would not surprise me, but "the purpose of a system is what it does". This system was created by narcissists to select for acolytes, and while I wouldn't quite call it a cult, neither am I prepared to say those who have are entirely wrong. And if it was a cult, it was a stupid cult, because Ruby is a language that makes programmers worse and Rails was never good technology; its sole unqualified success lies in having inspired software engineers to do similar things in better ways.

I'm sure by now I've upset some folks; there are some for whom no criticism of Ruby, Rails, or their leading lights can fail to read as a personal attack. If that's you who's reading this now, all I can say is this shows the difference between us: if you're cut out to be an acolyte, fine, go to it! I would rather be a practitioner in a community of practice. Granted this means my technical documentation comes without cartoon foxes and a level of pretense suited to an early 2000s Abercrombie catalog, but for documentation that actually documents that's a trade I'm happy to make.
I use ChatGPT (GPT4) to build scaffolding for python one-off scripts, and over the past 3-4 days I'm getting nonsense. Not python-looking nonsense, but markdown, weird quotes, random text, etc. Same prompts.
How a Working Actor with 30 Years of Experience Survives in Hollywood
There are millions of people without a garage or permission to set up a charging point.
My website is https://www.seanw.org and my very infrequently updated blog is https://www.seanw.org/blog/. I'm one of those people who probably has more fun setting up the blog and playing with static site generators but I keep thinking I'll get around to writing more one day. :)

Most of my writing was on web best practices which got migrated to my project here:

https://www.checkbot.io/guide/