skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Random feedback:

- On an iPad Pro (iPadOS 16.1.1 - not sure how current that is offhand), the UI is extremely unintuitive and/or broken. Tapping the example landed me in an editor that then took far too long to figure out how to get out of.

- It remembers that the editor is up. Once up, getting out and back to the homepage is next to impossible until you figure out the UI (clearing cookies probably would have worked, but that’s not exactly convenient). Reloading just takes you back to the editor.

- The timeline and one other view (can’t remember which one offhand) just showed a black screen.

- One of the biggest draws for markdown for me is the fact that it, in general, reads like a formatted text file. The formatting “instructions” are almost transparent in that sense. Not completely, but almost. My initial view of the example timeline’s source did not feel that way.

For example, sections:

Section welcome #welcome
Blah blah blah
EndSection

Section foo #foo
Blah blah blah
EndSection

(Ignore my extra caps; iOS is annoying like that.)

“Sections” in markdown would be written more naturally, and the end intuited based on the following content:

# Welcome
Blah blah blah

# foo
Blah blah blah

The extra wordy markup means little, and detracts from readability. Similar with groups. Date formats appear to get somewhat complicated as well. If that was resolved, I think it would be much better.

This is just a surface reaction to what I see; I didn’t do a horribly deep dive. I love the idea. It just needs some work if it’s going to be as smooth as markdown.

JMHO, and good luck in any event. =)
Ok. Am I supposed to feel bad now?

It’s fine if you’re neighbor makes more than me. I bet I have other neighbors that make more than me too.

I bet your neighbor didn’t just decide to own a landscaping business and went straight to his 3 hour days with 8 crews.

Guess what- I worked for myself for 7 years. I had some good times.

I like my “corporate slave” job better. I work when I want and where I want. It doesn’t even have to be 40hrs.

I don’t really deal with customers or deadlines, or making sure other people do their job.

I’m not worried about layoffs. And I’m not wishing for one so I can escape. My boss is the shit. The people high up know me by reputation. They don’t want to lose me. They know I could easily be working for a competitor.

So, what else is wrong with me preferring an employer over working for myself?
Billions?
Reach out to your company’s investor relations group, they might have groups who want to buy in and they can facilitate the process for you.
He coined the phrase which the word is descended from, infamously, on a video livestream
If every instruction is

subleq <a> <b> [<c>]

why does the mnemonic "subleq" have to appear? All it is saying is "do the one and only instruction on operands A, B and possibly C".

Thus:

<a> <b> [<c>]

would be a better assembly language format.
If nothing else, AM reception should be kept as an emergency resource. AM has far better coverage than 'line of sight' FM broadcasting.
> submit incoming html form submissions to my CGI bash script which then in turn adds them to a sqlite database and emails me.

'Sounds like something out of the pre-Perl era. Not saying you can't get it to work but .... why when there's a ton of micro-frameworks such as Roda (Ruby) and FastAPI (Python) which can handle this in a couple of lines of code?
Thank you for CCP propaganda
> what happened?

Key stakeholders in OpenCL started pulling out. The upcoming Khronos spec didn't have the entire industry on board, and both Microsoft and Apple pushed vendor-controlled GPU runtimes on consumer hardware. AMD didn't have the same support they did pre-2010, so a lot of their efforts fell apart.

Again, Nvidia's key is that they thrive in this chaos. They want people to make half-assed Metal Performance Shaders and DirectML programs, because it makes their ecosystem seem so strong and intersectional by comparison. If Intel invests hard enough in the right software, that's half of the problem solved.
As a Physicist, I think this is the best explanation of space junk. With subtitles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1REkejAMnNo
Can I submit Suzerain?

That'll civic ya real good.
Banning alcohol works fine in Muslim countries where there’s not a 2,000 year religious tradition of alcohol use.
But did Terry fell that 4chan were his own people? He probably felt that the HN crowd was, and therefore being ostracized from them could have hit just as hard as the 4chan trolling.
No way. Hilarious. Yeah, I also have noticed that many successful internet scammers, or investment frauds, tend to do it again and again and again.
Your paystub or W-2 show how much tax YOU are paying. Social security is two-sided, you pay half and the employer pays half, unless you know that already, the paycheck itself doesn't say so. There are also additional types of taxes, such as unemployment, the employer pays that aren't shown on your pay stub.
> "Feb. 25, Holmes sends new data about a virus in a Yunnan bat from March 2019"

But the Furin cleavage site is missing from this bat virus which the authors speculated the following after Holmes shared it:

In reference to it, Holmes said, “Bob [Garry] said the insertion was the 1st thing he would add.”

“Yeah,” agreed Andersen, “the furin site would be the first thing to add for sure.”

Garry explained how easy it would be to engineer the virus. “Transmitting a bat virus like RatG13 in HeLa cells and then asking your graduate student to insert a furin site…” he wrote. “It’s not crackpot to suggest this could have happened given the GoF [gain of function] research [which increases infectiousness] we know is happening.”

So no the virus from Yunnan only fueled speculation, it did not provide evidence ruling out a lab origin.
I'm envisioning 2048, but themed around voting drives, with cookie-clicker-like graphics progression, culminating in a "you won all 50 states!" celebration.
Perhaps the modern/mainstream popularization.
Granting that the two effects counteract each other, it is surprising that the crossover point would happen within the range of variation of actual clouds on Earth. My uninformed guess would have been that nearly all clouds' effects are dominated by only one of the two effects—probably, by the cooling effect.
I should point at that astronomical navigation is a remarkable skill that was developed and turned into routine calculations in a relatively short period of time. The first order calculations are based on star imaging and used a Kalman filter,which had been invented just a few years before (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalman_filter#History) along with a star catalog (list of known star locations relative to the sun/earth) and direct observation by astronauts. I think a sextant was useful.

Second order calculations use careful analysis of the signal pattern in telemetry data- IIRC you can see a slow stretch of the phase which can be used to estimate distance and velocity with high accuracy.

Voyager, along with Apollo, stand as the finest examples of human engineering done yet- we got a bunch of people to the moon and back, and built a probe that still operates 50 years later... farther than anything else humans have launched... I'd be lucky if I can deploy my web app once a week.
> and need to be fairly large to be efficient

This statement is not true. Actually the inverse is true, the smaller you can make the disks, the better the efficiency.

See https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ese3.1417

> As disc outer diameter decreases from 100 to 50 and 20 mm, the isentropic efficiency of the miniaturized turbines increases significantly from 21.46% to 30.78% and 32.21%, respectively.
You can get credits at a 95% discount on some sketchy websites
google is your friend ;)
I remember being lectured to half a century ago about the gold standard and fiat money.

If only I had listened.
I really hope not. If I'm repeatedly googling a related set of queries, knowing which pages I've already looked at is hugely helpful.
Ah Major Hayden. Great guy. I remember getting a crash course on system administration in Slicehost’s IRC channel because some idiot ran an ancient Java application server on an open port. We got hacked and I got volun-told to clean up the mess because I was the only person running Linux on my laptop.

Everyone was so nice and I learned so much. I owe them all a lot of drinks. :)
But bash with CGI? Seriously, when there's Perl, Ruby, Python and PHP to choose from? 'Sounds like a security nightmare too.
looks nice but it's US only
> I’m not sure I grasp the argument here. No feature should be switched on until all 23,000 servers have updated to the necessary version?

It's not about having the necessary version. The feature has to be cookie driven, right? Otherwise, mastodon.social wouldn't be able to remember that an unauthenticated visitor has an account elsewhere. Such a cookie almost certainly won't be available across servers (thanks, ad trackers for ruining it for everyone). That means a user would have to fill in that form for every single remote instance they visit.

Think of it this way: suppose a user visits a tiny Mastodon server at social.example.com. They click a user's follow button. How will social.example.com know to redirect the user to the home instance they configured when they visited mastodon.social?

> If I’ve downloaded the Mastodon app without having a server in mind what is the app supposed to do, just list them all?

If someone clicks the "pick another server" option, they're taken to a perfectly serviceable chooser. That should have been the default. It works for all the other apps that don't default to mastodon.social.
But the hotel is the one charging a "resort fee" in the first place. If such a fee didn't exist, the 3rd party website wouldn't have anything to obfuscate.
> FWIW, but now I use `at` to schedule "up" 1 min in future

Any time I’m ever doing a pfctl to change my router’s firewall rules I schedule a “revert to the n-1 rule set” job two minutes from now to avoid the trip to the basement & hunt for the serial cable.

I do +2 because once I was too close to the next minute, fat-fingered the update command & instinctively corrected it. But the change had reverted before I hit enter on the new update, so of course I blocked too much traffic and wedged my SSH connection, triggering the cursing and trip to the basement with the serial cable.
> One of my neighbors runs a landscape business --- no college dregree. He has 8 crews and a manager. I'll bet he makes more than you and spends less time doing it.

I’m really curious how this works, there’s dozens of existing landscaping business near me already established with connections and business relationships who do pretty well. How do you get into such a saturated market?
OceanGate
Resources are finite, they will eventually run out. All resources are finite except those that nature provides as part of its own sustainable cycle, everything else sooner or later comes to an end and the more of nature that we destroy the more we will have to provide ourselves. Resource availability has five stages: we don't have it because we can't get at it, we have access to it and we're actively getting it, getting it has become too expensive (you end up alternating between this one and the previous one for a while), we have to get it from our previous waste material because the original sources have all run out and finally we no longer have it in a form that we can get at it because it has become too dispersed.

Every resource that came as a gift with the 'bare' planet (before life began and exposed by various tectonic processes) follows these stages. So the more of nature we leave in one piece and the more we work in a sustainable manner (maximize recycling, for instance) the longer humanity will survive in a recognizable form. The only other way that I can think of is to go off-planet.
Long Covid is debilitating 65M people. Where is the urgency to treat it?
>In a world where most pandemic safety protocols have evaporated, where is the sense of urgency to treat, or at the very least support, people with long COVID?
One reason why elites tolerate so much illegal immigration is that they will do back breaking labor, often under the table or with illegal papers, and never complain with minimal wages. That labor is needed to keep the system working.

To be clear I am an “open borders” guy but both political parties in the US make a lot of noise but never change anything.
The difference between novels and movies is like the difference between a living person and a skeleton.

Life Pro Tip:

(Part 1) If there is a choice between reading the novel, or watching the movie - READ THE NOVEL.

(Part 2) If you have read the novel, don't spoil the experience by watching the movie. You will always be disappointed by all the good stuff that's left out of the movie or changed entirely.
It takes under a minute with an ancient i5 for me, so I'm not sure what would cause yours to be so slow.
Civics as it's designed to function, with checks and balances?

Or a congress based on 100 year old apportionment & pointless census, a hyperwealthy hyperminority bribing congressmen left and right, then getting receipts for their bribes via Congress's famous lack of a secret ballot?

Because one of those is a fantasy, and the other is the world we live in.
Haha, we need to pit this assertive ChatGPT against Terrence Howard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNAAKTRqdIE (skip to 1:28 to the explanation of Terryology")
This is a baldfaced lie (unless you are engaging a No True Scotsman dismissal of the large number of studies that say otherwise.)
Yes. That’s every employeer outside of kush tech jobs. Again, most people don’t get anything close to Herman Miller chairs and UPLIFT desk.
They are not well polished academia types who publish a couple papers or more per year using their students. I have some friends who do that, they get multiple papers accepted at top conferences every year and make increment progress on a regular basis. These guys are completely against the type here. Off in their own lab with no publications in years, having trouble raising money to fund their research, shifting to part time, then bringing in collaborators merely to get money, their attempt at publication is a mess as a result. Yes, compared to normal academia, they are amateurs or at least idiosyncratic weirdos.

I'm rooting for them, do not get me wrong, but they are not normal academics.
What you may not be aware of unless you are nootropic stacking

The products with Anandamide that enables feedback by binding with CBD receptors are:
-dark cacao chocolate, the unsweetened kind
-Maca

In short words it provokes a runner high...
I was massively let down by Oppenheimer.

It’s 90% interpersonal/political drama (Including a bunch of unnecessary nudity thrown in for dramatic effect), a few token scenes with Albert Einstein, a 10 minute detonation with decent SFX, and a small fraction of real physics and engineering. If you’re actually interested in the Manhattan Project you’ll be way more inspired by a history channel documentary than anything in that movie.
Right, there's nothing wrong with that, but it's appropriate for someone who is hustling the market. Not a policy-maker. Even if it's a government doing the funding, a response time measured in hours doesn't really help anyone.

If anything, it is likely to introduce extreme volatility, jacking up prices because of speculation.
Decades of value engineering reduced cost of appliances that consumer electronics makers need to add bell and whistles to capture more value i.e. there's recent article about Samsung wanting to milk billions in live services from smart appliances. It's dumb but it is what it is when fridge design reach marginal returns on core features like keeping things cold.
A lot of these construction jobs are fake advertisements to try to make it seem like the company employed more people than it actually did. Ton of PPP fraud going on in this industry.
“a blockchain company reports that their patent application for a superconductor was approved”
I was amused to learn that if modern satellites lose contact with earth, they go into "safe mode": pointing towards sun, solar panels fully deployed, everything else except telemetry, radio, and temperature management disabled, waiting for further instructions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_mode_in_spacecraft

Imagine deploying a billion dollar piece of hardware and hoping that it has enough intelligence to keep itself from burning up before you can reestablish
contact!
I have a lot of respect for Dijkstra myself, and quoted Kay with tongue firmly planted in cheek.
In healthcare and there's very explicit rules about how one is to approach, lift and transfer or roll patients, who weigh more than the staff attending to them. Even including a count of staff-per-weight ratio. Sadly, I imagine if one took the same precautions in construction, you'd be told to hurry tf up and you're on your own.
> Standardisation

there is totally standardization. At the building block level. TCP/IP, Protocols on top of that, language standards etc.

Web Apps are complex, why would there be a standard? Just like there's no standard for cars, other than for some of their components like wheels or headlights.
I can't compare cannabis and caffeine because I don't enjoy cannabis so have never become chronic with it; but caffeine is seriously insanely hard to quit. 3-4 days isn't it for me. The one time I kicked it for a chunk of time, it took about 3 weeks before I felt normal enough to feel I'd really kicked it, and lost the craving. I'm very sensitive to the stuff, and I love (good quality) coffee. After a couple months without it, I just ended up back drinking it again.

In comparison, I've smoked cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, and never had a problem quitting. Few days of craving after smoking for a few days, then kicked it. Coffee... brutal brutal brutal
I wonder, why would acid take away cravings?

Related, in 2012 a meta-analysis concluded it helped alcohlics

> a single dose of LSD, in the context of various alcoholism treatment programs, is associated with a decrease in alcohol misuse

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0269881112439253
Oops your bank is insolvent. Press "Bail out" to absolve yourself of all consequences.
I agree with you.

I've been in web dev for the past 10 years and none of the companies I've worked at in San Fran use this tech.

I'm familiar with the space: Gatsby, GraphQL, etc. I took a Jamstack course on frontendmasters, but I chose to skip using it for personal projects.
opting out is a saved setting, when logging back in it undoes it.
Looks... servicable. Is eink finally happening?
> There are not "bugs". There are "defects".

Priceless, I've been trying make that point for years but nobody seems to want to listen.
Shit, we get RSI and carpal tunnel syndrome from typing. What is the weight carried by, or repetition of, that by that vs any trade?
I think the concept of the albedo of the poles is another simple idea that explains why melting poles would be bad and accelerate global warming further, because by being white they reflect back sunlight for a huge area. Kinda intuitive if you have ever touched the black (opposite color) coolers on a desktop computer and felt your hand fry
Texas just nullified a law which required 10 minute breaks for construction workers every 4 hours[0]. I do not even do back breaking labor in the sun and I take significantly more breaks throughout the day.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/23/greg-abbott-...
Yeah, adding "for Arch Linux" seems unnecessary. Could @dang correct the title?
Eh, Australia can fault the space agency if they want. Probably not reasonable right now. If we intend to increase space activity though, I think it would be fair to expect debris gets cleaned up. It hasn't mattered before as we just weren't that active in space, but with 40,000+ minisats expected to de-orbit continuously from now on maybe it's worth thinking about.
The short answer is that Mojang doesn't care about implementing actual, innovative features.

The long answer is that the game is in a managed decline. The target audience is small children so anything not targeted to them doesn't get implemented. "Smart NPCs" isn't a feature like that, so there is zero chance of that being included into the game.
Sid Meiers Civics
These jobs are not generally posted online because it is a fractious world of zillions of tiny business entities that aren't exactly computer or even record keeping centric. Those PM/management type jobs are posted by general contractors which are much more conglomerated and white-collar (not entirely) than the subcontractors they manage. At those levels, trade unions and trade schools facilitate a lot of the hiring, and the rest is often word of mouth and person to person relationships involved, independent contractors and small businesses and whatnot, often operated completely from one person's cell phone. You might go to a local general contractor and say, do you know anyone looking for help for role X or Y? Almost guaranteed they do.

You also won't find hiring signs at large construction sites because it's a significant nuisance to have a stream of random people (usually unqualified) walking into a managed construction area looking for work. I know this from experience.
Sure you can, you just recognize that the person saying it is a very different kind of person.

Who was actually offended by Terry’s schizophrenic ramblings? Is the n word really that disturbing when used by someone without a firm grasp on reality and in the midst of a word salad? Is it racist or just nonsense?

“Rule are rules”… well, people in wheelchairs get a different set of rules and I’m perfectly fine sacrificing some of my own personal comfort to make accommodations.

Why isn’t this the same with mental illness?
Take a look at Oil Shell?

https://www.oilshell.org/
An error has by now become something else, I like the 'defect' term a lot better.
Pumped storage, even in a desert, consumes at least an order of magnitude less water than a nuclear power plant with the same energy output.
Look at what is happening to youtube physics girl. scary...
What do you do now that involves C++ if you don’t mind me asking? I too have a EE degree but have been doing web dev for the last few years, I would like to get back into maybe doing lower level software development or work on something I can use my degree somewhat on.
Ok, I'll bite... What kind of machine do you host this on that can handle 400,000 of these requests (with TLS mind you) per second? That was the load he mentions it handling in 2021, he stopped mentioning requests per day metrics after that.
> I guess the typical upper-middle-class progressive must always be secretly suspicious of themselves, always unsure whether they’d become a total monster if they were to miss a couple paychecks. “Poverty causes crime,” they must scream into their pillows at night, knowing not whether they too would commit atrocities if they couldn’t afford an iPad.

https://twitter.com/wanyeburkett/status/1645439924886290433
You can't reach the button? Oh, you are not too big to fail, liquidation imminent!
Fair, but reading some of the other commenters here they have no respect for him and likely a great ignorance of his contributions to the field.
Demand for SiC chips that improve EVs is accelerating