skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Your vote only matters as much as the likelihood that at least one result is decided by exactly one vote

This is entirely wrong. The value of your vote is the relative ratio of the fraction of alternate universes in which you vote in the election and your side wins, over the fraction of alternate universes in which you don't vote in the election and your side wins.

The value of your vote, as a result, is emphatically and enormously greater than the likelihood of the election being decided by a single vote. That's because there is an enormous amount of correlation between you not voting and people in the same voting demographic as you not voting. The question of whether you will vote should be seen as largely a consequence of the turnout characteristics of your voting block, not a free choice of the "uncaused cause" variety.

In fact, the real danger of the your argument is that by taking it seriously, you greatly reduce your voting power by making your demographic that of the tiny group of people who decide whether to vote based on meta-arguments about the value of their single vote. And this particular demographic basically never swings elections, so by putting yourself in that demographic, you effectively make the value of your vote zero.
1. Exercise good judgment about what projects are “away team-able”. Be okay saying “this needs to be done by our team” even when that’s hard. Otherwise you’ll end up with tricky features implemented by people who don’t understand the full context (this sucks very badly)

2. Make sure the amount of process matches the amount of complexity. If the change is very simple or only a few lines, make it trivial to submit code changes that will pass review. (So have really good automated style checks/test suites.) If the change is complex, make sure you’re doing design reviews before implementation, to ensure the away team doesn’t waste time with bad implementation strategies
I live in a "locked down" state - two million people, an area 3x larger than Texas.

We locked down by checkpointing the two land roads in|out of the state and requiring anybody coming in by road | air | ship to quarentine under observation before freely moving about the state.

Truckers dropped or picked up trailer loads w/out contact.

Otherwise people largely moved about freely within the state aside from a few (very few) localised incidents of COVID transfer outside of buffer zones, in each case small areas were asked to restrict movement and mask up until no more cases appeared.

That was kept up until vaccines became available and vaccination exceeded 90%.

As a state with a strong sense of self goverance by people at large this wasn't a draconion top down unwanted imposition, it was very much an overwhelmingly popular broadly supported measure with very proportionally few dissenters.
Totally! As a person driving a project like https://github.com/DAGWorks-Inc/hamilton I couldn't agree more!
You do realize this is pure diffusion of responsibility? Something you can paraphrase as "It could have been anyone" is not an argument for this not to be wrong. I also believe the lack of empathy comment to be uncalled for. You not valuing your personal data doesnt give you the right to disregard mine. Especially with a friend, those dont profit off each other because of a personal disregard for the cost.

Its something worth considering, seeing as it has been two days and unsurprisingly nobody could come up with an actual justification for such behavior.
I would say yes. Most states schools provide excellent value, and I would even extend that to community colleges which provides even better value for their students.
If you don't care about allocations why are you using Rust in the first place?

Also if you are super sloppy with allocations I would expect something like Java or Go would be faster since GC is more efficient.
Can you share the service? Or share how you scrape the content? There's https://readability-bot.vercel.app that is based on Firefox's reader mode, but it doesn't work very well.
My Inspiron made it 7 years before a chip in the battery that identifies the battery as dell authentic died. The battery itself was still 95% good (I mostly used it plugged in, and set the bios so)

Still, a laptop without a battery lost many convenience factors, like moving to another room without shutting down.

Now I bought a M2 max and am mostly pleased. Still can’t say I’m a huge fan of macOS, but it’s serviceable.

I try to get 10 years out of my devices. Fingers crossed.
In theory this sounds like having everything be an internal open source project, where the home team are the core maintainers, and the away teams are contributors. Seems good in theory, though the other comments here make it sound like it didn't work well in practice. It would take quite a bit of discipline to make it work that may not be available within the confines of corporate politics and incentives. I can imagine an away team half assing something then complaining to a VP that the home team is the reason the product isn't released yet who then yells at the home team, who then says f it and stops caring (or other variants of this).
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If you've never coded or used Python before, yeah, go with OpenAI. Otherwise, generating embeddings with SentenceBERT takes 5 minutes.

And from my personal experience Ada embeddings are not the best. They are large (makes aproximate searching harder), are distributed weirdly, and zimply put, other embeddings give better results for retrieval.

Another advantage is that you are not an OA's whim: they just announced the deprecation of some previous model. What are you going to do when they will deprecate Ada v2 and you've built a huge system on top of it? You'll have to regenerate embeddings and hope everything still works just as well.
Are you able to share these blogs? Sounds very interesting.
Spin up your own and own it forever would be my thought, yes. This is definitely a high cost to pay - my thought is that the bias should be much more towards modifying the existing service, but leaving the engineers that own the code to be empowered to figure out how to do this. Rather than having management say you have to review this away teams code, deal with it
None of this is true for those who abstain from Alcohol :)
My laptop runs on Linux Lite, one of several open-source operating systems specially designed to work on old computers.

That use to be a better tip than it is now. These days the thing that bogs the old computer down isn't a heavy OS, but all the heavy sites you visit with that OS. There's only so much you can do to get your old Bay Trail to play 4K Youtube.
Considering how mind boggling slow most software is, doesn't seem we are gravitating to the more performant options..
This is light on details if I haven’t missed a link to another page or something.

Definitely browse the links to the images in the „See:“ section of the submitted page though - the images and videos on the knots and nature pages are beautiful!

Maybe there are useful references in the Wikipedia article:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specular_holography

Edit: maybe this, even though the page is awful to use on mobile: http://amasci.com/amateur/holohint.html
If I understand the article, he received notification of the probable impact area of a meteorite moving fast enough to suggest it probably did not originate within our solar system. Fair enough.

But then his team didn't really find the impact site itself. They just drove a magnet sled around the area to see what it picked up. They found tiny spherules. Okay. That suggests something that was melting in the air. But couldn't that have been from any of a thousand other meteorites? Couldn't it have been volcanic? Couldn't it have been ancient, rather than modern?

Did he also drive his magnet sled in other areas that are not in the impact zone of that meteorite? What did he find?

This seems to be a lot of wishful thinking.
> Maybe if you have big amounts of RAM

Browsers these days have settings which automatically unload tabs to make sure you don't run out of RAM. I personally don't run into issues with 16GB of RAM, so I don't have those settings enabled.

> and never turn off your computer nor close your browser. I like being able to read my bookmarks a week, or even a month later.

Browsers allow persisting the set of windows and tabs you have open across sessions, so this isn't an issue. I probably have a few hundred tabs open at any given moment across a few subject-specific windows, some of those tabs several months old, and I close my browser and shut down my computer all the time. Firefox simply restores the windows and tabs when I open it, so it all works out just fine.
My son struggled to read when he was young. Over the summer we set a goal and attached a payout to it. Yes, I bribed my son to read. The problem is now I can't get him to stop.

Money talks.
I haven't seen anything serious in the field of education. Education can and should be a science. There should be experiments to determine what works and what doesn't work. Instead, we have 5 different preschool pedagogies, 5 different elementary pedagogies, and 5 different secondary pedagogies, and nobody bothering to figure out what works at scale.
Rejecting students is a feature not a bug. If you have a student that attacks other students or teachers institutions should be able to expel them.
There is no incentive whatsoever without profit motive to help others repeatedly in an efficient way

Large organizations just further exacerbate this
There are only two times to use boxed types in Java: when they’re in collection types that take objects (e.g. generics), or when the value needs to be nullable. The first is a language design flaw (imho) that can’t be easily fixed due to backwards compatibility desires. The second is almost always a boundary (DB to app, app to API, etc.) issue that should be resolved quickly, imho.

In existing codebases I’ve worked with, often 90% or more boxed primitives are unnecessary, introduce unnecessary errors (assumed non-null refs vs. guaranteed non-null values) and performance penalties. They have a purpose, but there are libraries that address the first concern and Optional${Type} that are more expressive for the second.
Thanks for the support! We would love to come out and test. Shoot me an email in my profile and let’s stay in touch. Happy to share more.
The F1, then the xen were beautiful PCs in an era of ugly designs. Not particularly compatible, but beautiful.
Yeah. And since Reddit decided to be mega bitches and forced me to quit from their shenanigans, my battery lasts forever too.

I should have quit when they instituted their very obvious alt-right agenda pushing blocking bullshit, but whatever. Better late than never, and forcing third parties out was also a good boycott reason.

I did not realize how much time I spent in Apollo. Damn man.
In the United States, the 1980s was the decade with the highest divorce rates in the country’s history. In some states, the divorces even outnumbered the marriages!
Not run off algae, for starters.
Which one is nyaa-dot-eu?
The smaller unit we are building will have some different payload configs. We aren’t going for glass breakers and such based on feedback and what is most popular on the market (DJI). We want these to help mitigate the dangerous environments in public safety and be disposable. Like a frisbee. Shoot me an email! Happy to chat more.
Another example: Just a few weeks ago somebody released a restoration (painstakingly recreated frame-for-frame from bluray source) of Nadia: The Nautilus Story. This is a substantially cut-down version of Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water that removes a ton of filler as well as many widely hated episodes (island arc). Originally it existed only on Laserdisc, with very poor quality audio and video and no subtitles. A high quality copy of this never existed until last month. No corporation ever would have done this.
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Having something that could be used with confluence would be so nice. Having documentation written and just asking questions about it.
I’m using Pocket for reading articles on eink in spare time - I use Kobo Forma - it has 8” screen and is lightweight and has a decent battery life (unlike newer Kobo Sage). Not all articles are saved though.

I used to do a trick with Remarkable 2/kobo - exporting webpage on iPhone into Dropbox as pdf - resulting pdf is formatted for a small screen

For pdfs and web reading I use Boox Onyx Air - with 10.3” screen and full android browsing experience…
But I need to sit and hold larger screens with two arms, while with Kobo Forma I can hold in one hand while layout down.
Boox recently released Page - 7.8” lightweight android ereader, but I’m not sure that android device would hold battery as good as Kobo Forma.
Related:

You Suck at Excel (2015) [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21847372 - Dec 2019 (77 comments)

You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky (2015) [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12448545 - Sept 2016 (420 comments)
Micro Center for those who have one in their state
Learn Makefiles with the Tastiest Examples - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35936665 - May 2023 (95 comments)
Search for schematics, or look for identifying clues on the motherboard. All the OEMs have more-or-less distinguishable styles and part numbering schemes. E.g. a part number beginning with "LA-" followed by a few digits, then possibly another character, indicates Compal (LA-8331P, LA-4921P, LA-A994P.) Inventec likes to use 6050Annnnnnn (6050A2266501, 6050A2493101.) Quanta uses a few characters/digits code (e.g. ZHY, LX89, ZE6.)
Learning to rock a shaved head is likely cheaper and easier.
Ask HN: Problems for the next decade?
Environment, people, technology are changing rapidly. What are some worthwhile problems or ideas that you think would be important to solve or work on by end of the decade.
This is the attitude you see when someone promotes a salesman to CEO. When you are a hammer, all problems will look like a nail to you.

Even in a small company such as a startup, people have specialisations that only when put together will create some value. It is practically impossible for a lowly dev to estimate how much his work this week have contributed to the company bottom line.
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Working in away team models were my worst time at Amazon and this my worst times in my professional life.

You’re not supported but being expected to deliver by your “home” team. Meanwhile the away team has no obligation to help you. Can spin their thumbs and give you three day turn arounds on code reviews only to move the goal posts and/or hold you to some unattainable standard. For example “all integration tests need to pass” while the integration tests haven’t even STARTED correctly in over a year.

Not to mention the increased visibility and communication that comes with now effectively having 2+ managers you have to report to and keep in the loop.

FUCK. THE. AWAY. TEAM. MODEL.

I’ve lived through it and it seriously burned me out harder than anything else in my life.
That's really neat. Is there a way to script Firefox to do this headless and store an html file (with the single file extension)?
Makes me wonder if the couples real reason is not the smartphones in this article but the fact that the relationship is already incompatible to begin with.
My recommendation is to use a json blob for everything but type (that I would rename) and a unique user identifier (that I don’t see in your schema).

You will never have to query by any of these fields, and the schema is not well defined as you said. Therefore you can load all user properties by user id (or combo type + identifier), parse json blob, access any field you need.

You’ll never need a (painful) schema change.

Hope this helps, good luck!
His biography seems stable and distinguished enough, without the hints of crankdom I expected from the logical leaps and poor methodology described. Perhaps we are seeing another academic descend into madness - or perhaps there are actual feet to this story?

Honestly, it seems like there's a different meaning of "technology" than we first expect. I fail to see how these spherules constitute technology - and how they are unique from spherules found in relation to other impacts or e.g. Martian spherules.
What's your use of Postscript? I find fascinating when people use it for anything other than print related stuff
Funny. Just upgraded to 6.4.1 and got another hour of battery life.
I'm glad to see more options to render content on the backend using stable backend languages (not Next.js).
I've seen too many slow React websites that could have been rendered with simple PHP or else.
> rustup fetches and installs new versions without prompting

I don't think it's true. rustup installs new version only when you run `rustup update`. What parent is talking about is pinning a particular rustc version in Cargo.toml, which allows rustup to download that version of rustc to build that particular project/crate.
I definitely do
None of this is a scientific analysis of the situation so I’m not sure how we’re supposed to take away a lot from this. Obviously it’s not really a therapist’s job to conduct a wide reaching study. Even keeping that in mind, it comes across as a baseless hot take.

It’s already got one major bias built into it: happy couples don’t go to therapy.
I figured out how to solve a 3x3 over a period of a few months. I was the passenger in a carpool for 1.5 hours each day so I just kept at it. Figuring out the move pattern for swapping the corners on the bottom layer was found by remembering and doing different move patterns until it worked.
This is amazing, looks like there's a cli version too: https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/single-file-cli

Presumably you can roll your own pocket now.
hey, this is definitely something I'd be interested, if you do end up sharing it please let me know
its the ability to lower operating cost with less skilled staff.

No need to worry about some some other app using port 8080, dont need to ensure your scripts do a ps and filter out other users stuff, all those kinds of things.

Then theres libraries and vulnerability management which is easier to manage where the blast radius is just a single container.
the way calculus is taught is so far removed from any application. i had no idea what was going on. area under curved and x approaches infinity is all i remember.
What the team is building at Poozle is extremely useful for anyone remotely working with proprietary data across platforms.
Perhaps it is LLM generated, as git says it is ~3 months old - but it links to a page on the TypeScript website which was removed a long time before that, https://www.typescriptlang.org/dt/search
Ah yes, Daisuki. I don't recall it ever gaining that much traction, probably because of the limited amount of anime on it. Government policy ebbs and flows with the short-term success of its experiments, as usual. But I don't see how it could have worked economically, given that anime is expensive to produce and content owners want a good ROI.

In contrast, hallyu/K-drama's cross-border grip remains as strong as ever; they just keep pumping it out for a hungry global audience who'll stream it (paid or pirated). There seems to be a fundamental difference in the appetite for it - K-media probably appeals to more people on the whole, you don't even need the government to subsidise it for global consumption - and thus in the economics of it.

edit: That said, MUSE Asia somehow managed to secure licenses for a good amount of previous and ongoing releases and streams it for free in much of Asia on Youtube. So maybe there's some content subsidising still going on, or at least MUSE has worked out some free-content model with owners that might be economically sustainable.
Same here. My MacBook air easily could go 6+ hours and it feels like the pro goes 2-3. Same workload.
You don’t remember being asked to opt in?

Oh wait that’s because they created that rule for others

Go Settings -> Privacy -> Ads

>>You may still be served ads based on the criteria listed below. Your personal data is not provided to third parties.

Contextual Information
On the App Store, relevant ads may be selected using your search query, information about the page you're viewing, or the app you're downloading. On Apple News and Stocks, the type of story you read may be used to select relevant ads. In addition, information about your device’s keyboard language settings, device type, OS version, mobile carrier, and connection type may be used to serve ads to you. If Location Services is enabled and you’ve granted permission to App Store, Apple News, or the Apple TV app to access your location, your location may be used to serve you geographically relevant ads in each respective app.
What's a good resource to be proficient in perl for shell scripting?

I write a lot of bash for better or worse. I wonder if perl would be a better choice sometimes.
Here is a good list of high-value problems to solve:

https://uia.org/encyclopedia

Any contribution (no matter how small) to any of these problems would be worthwhile, in my opinion.
This would work if the service is stateless (ie owns no data) or the state that it carries can be duplicated without ill effect. A lot of services won't be like that though.
Social justice is also economic justice. I'm not sure why you're talking about these as separate concepts.
I’d say a combination of other suggestions I see:

1. study past examples

2. focus on a selected group that you can incentivize to donate/invest for prestige or similar

3. use money to pay people that make day to day progress

4. what’s unclear to me is how do you make the project continue after your time, you should probably reserve some of the money to plan for this (back to point 1)
From memory, the original Nyaa was nyaatorrents.org -> nyaa.eu -> nyaa.se
> happy couples don’t go to therapy.

Sort of an inverted survivorship bias?
Amongst their issues is the issue of enum vs const enum. These compile to different outputs and support different behaviors. It’s not possible to compile a TS file that uses them without looking at the enum declaration to see if it’s const. It’s no longer possible to strip the types and have something that any JS bundler can understand.
Any of them can look for a new job at any time. That’s the reason for the saying: people don’t leave bad jobs, they leave bad managers.
> But what happens if you inherit a class of students that's barely above "remedial"-- starting one or two grades back on day 1-- what's the right metric for success? Getting all the way up to "at grade level" is probably unrealistic, but should we expect them to make up 1.25 grades per year, or 1.75?

Well, obviously, they've been making less than 1.0 grades per year so far; you'd expect them to keep going at that rate, not to suddenly double their rate.
I’ve gone 4 work days without charging my M1 MBP
Its pretty much like lego these days, everything is fool proof with the exception of installing the CPU.
The way the spiders domesticated them and turned them into logic gates was one of my favorite parts of the series.
Away teaming is definitely a last resort at Amazon, and has all the pitfalls mentioned here - much better to do a budgetary transfer so the host team is properly resourced to make the changes, assuming the feature doesn’t make it into the host teams operational plan.
There arent really a lot of jobs in c++. It might be pretty foundational but all the other languages are much more prevalent. like game engines are c++ but there are so many game engine writing jobs, much more game engine user jobs.
This was needed 15 years ago honestly
I didn't say it should. I'm saying don't worry about it if it doesn't matter to your customers.
I think there’s a browser extension that interacts with all the ads on a page to paradoxically(?) give someone more privacy
Bad people who say bad things are using the internet and must be stopped!

I can’t wait for these childish histrionics to end. Thankfully this phase seems to be passing, albeit slowly.