skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, Western Europe is definitely "streets ahead" of the US in public transportation.

One thing to note though is that costs can be drastically lower if you a) buy used, and b) learn how to do most maintenance yourself.

Most things that typically go wrong with a vehicle aren't that difficult to fix, and parts aren't that expensive, but a mechanic's hourly labor costs tend to add up very quickly.
My impression has been that this looks simply like the result of an extemely rapidly changing economy and economic framework and government. The rules change frequently. In an ad-hoc manner. Even when it seems there are a lot of people working behind all these rule changes - both on the theory and the applicability. So yes of course there is a lot of waste and randomly propped up systems and temporary fixes. And then that's even if we want to argue that say US systems are really built for the long term... which is problematic also with a total willingness to change the rules from one day to the next but nowhere near to the level of China.

Good luck running long term businesses (but some people seem to manage pretty well - survivor bias?) and long term personal or family investments (scary just a bit? - I mean beyond US-style investing?)
Maybe replication should (and probably does) happen when the published thing is relevant to some entity and also interesting.

I never seen papers as "truth", but more as "possibilities". After many other "proofs" (products, papers, demos, etc.) you can assign some concepts/ideas the label "truth" but one/two papers from the same group is definitely not enough.
Can you be more specific about "big players denouncing the 'type of game' development behind BG3" ? I've heard a few things about BG3 development method being critized by some devs and/or companies but haven't read some source material yet.

EDIT: nevermind, Googling "baldur's gate 3 development critics" yields tons of results
Boeing was founded in the Pacific Northwest because aluminum smelting was made cheap through abundant hydro, so this will happen naturally if it makes sense.
Maybe I'm a purist but that sounds awful.. If you want Ryu's moves you have to take his shortcomings. Don't super charge your player into something a backstory can't support
The website dies if I try to figure out who the author (“sam”) is, but it sounds like they are used to some awful backwater of academia.

They have this idea that a single editor screens papers to decide if they are uninteresting or fundamentally flawed, then they want a bunch of professors to do grunt work litigating the correctness of the experiments.

In modern (post industrial revolution) branches of science, the work of determining what is worthy of publication is distributed amongst a program committee, which is comprised of reviewers. The editor / conference organizers pick the program committee. There are typically dozens of program committee members, and authors and reviewers both disclose conflicts. Also, papers are anonymized, so the people that see the author list are not involved in accept/reject decisions.

This mostly eliminates the problem where work is suppressed for political reasons, etc.

It is increasingly common for paper PDFs to be annotated with badges showing the level of reproducibility of the work, and papers can win awards for being highly reproducible. The people that check reproducibility simply execute directions from a separate reproducibility submission that is produced after the paper is accepted.

I argue the above approach is about 100 years ahead of what the blog post is suggesting.

Ideally, we would tie federal funding to double blind review and venues with program committees, and papers selected by editors would not count toward tenure at universities that receive public funding.
Couldn't have said it better myself.

David Graeber has also written a bit about bullshit jobs. His work was some of the first I read that steered me toward anti-capitalism.

- I had to guard an empty room [1]

- The more your job helps others the less you get paid [2]

- On the phenomenon of bullshit jobs [3]

- Are you in a BS job? [4]

- Bullshit Jobs [5]

- Punching the clock [6]

- Policy for the future of work [7]

Links:

- [1] https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-i-had-...

- [2] https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-and-th...

- [3] https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-on-the...

- [4] https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-are-yo...

- [5] https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-bullsh...

- [6] https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-punchi...

- [7] https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-policy...
I would have no idea where to put you. You’re not an individual contributor (probably?). You’re probably looking at executive track. CTO at a company that needs strategy around devices with embedded circuitry? Cofounder at a startup making a hardware play?

The problem is that if I were hiring for that role you’re not on the top of my list because you’re not coming right out of that role. You’ve hired right? As a hiring manager you want someone with fresh successes in the area you’re hiring for. The first five minutes of an interview cover recent accomplishments at the level you’re interviewing for.

Don’t focus on your degree. Figure out where you would contribute the most value and double down on that. Figure out how people hire CTOs and plug into that pipeline. You might need to sign on to a company circling the drain to get current CTO on your resume.

I had a friend who was CTO and the company was facing funding issues. He left and was unable to find someone who was both qualified and willing to take a job at a place where the stock grant was probably worthless. But that would be perfect for you because it gets your résumé refresh with a current cto job, heck, you might even find a place where your deep experience and skill can save the company.

You saw that spin builds on a raspberry pi 4? That’s not right. They could do better if they had someone like you. There’s all kinds of that going on.
I've found that architecture is an iterative process, in my experience.

I write about it here:

https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/forensic-design-docu...

https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/evolutionary-design-...

I call it "Paving the Bare Spots": https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/the-road-most-travel...

For myself, I think that firm architecture diagrams aren't very good. I think that we need the ability to generate one "on the fly," and this is kind of doing that. Not sure that this is the solution, but it's in the ball park.
In theory the lack of sum types sounds like a drawback for Go error handling, in practice it does not matter at all IMO.

So far I have never worked a Go project without a strict linter enabled on the pipeline checking that you handled the case when err != nil. I don't care if it is the compiler or the linter doing it, the end result in practice is that there actually is no chance of forgetting to check the error, and works just as well as a stronger type system while also making the code stupidly obvious to read.
They said they are aiming for september 6 mac release date.
edit2: help I am getting blown the fuck out with concrete examples of AAA games that have been fun to play in the last years
I work (partly) in SEO. One of the main issues that affects search and will get even worse in the future is the post-scarcity environment of the web when it comes to information. Say you had five websites for that each have identical cookie recipes. If you optimize search rankings by click-through rating, eventually all the sites will have similar copy, titles, and page descriptions. If you optimize for bounce rate, you knock out sites that get to the point but also knock out sites that crappy and have bad ui/ux. What about core web vitals? Well again, everyone will catch up eventually. Anything that can be gamified will eventually be gamed.

Now instead of 5 sites with identical recipes, what about 500? 5,000? 5,000,000? How can you even rank them in a meaningful way and does it matter to the end user?

There will be too much of a supply of information, especially when ai ramps up, that no one website will have unique value outside of local significance or if it was made by your mom or someone you like. I think it will be crazy to see what the web looks like 10 years from now. It could be vastly different.
In an ideal world, what would you say should have happened?
hes fruitloops

https://soundcloud.com/talent-tedd-freestyles/matthew-lillar...
I know people that had to take a 6+ month trip to Antarctica for part of their work and others that had to share time on a piece of experimental equipment with a whole department — they got a few weeks per year to run their experiment and had to milk that for all it’s worth. Even if they had funding, that machine required large amounts of space and staff to keep it running and they aren’t off the shelf products — only a few exist at large research centers.
That's just cuz a recent patch nerfed some things
People in general (at least on da Internetz) seem to focus way to much on single studies, and way too little on meta-studies.

AFAICT meta-studies is the level where we as a society really can try to say something intelligent about how stuff works. If an important question is not included in a meta-study, we (i.e. universities and research labs) probably need to do more research on that topic before we really can say that much about it.
Plenty of people are trying to get rid of oil rigs in California. They aren’t allowing new ones anyways.
Examining Rust's New Trademark Policy Through the Lens of FOSS History
Zoom ToS now allow AI training on user content without optout
I remember using the services like the ones listed here, specifically hotline. I actually got started with a clone called Carracho, and eventually moved to Haxial KDX. I met a lot of cool folks on KDX and learned about “hacking” which morphed into a full fledged career in software engineering.
The Indian govt imposed restrictions that a payment provider in India can fulfill max 30% of the total volume of transactions in an year [1]. After that, they have to restrict themselves. This completely avoids monopoly and concentration risks.

This can be done for search as well which makes sure at least 4 players stay in the market at all times. Why isn't US govt doing this?

1. https://www.indiatimes.com/worth/news/upi-apps-may-soon-have...
"why couldn't you just make single family dwellings illegal in high demand areas? And have the state in charge of housing? "

Because I've seen Soviet era housing and War on Poverty projects.

Challenge my assumptions? I think the burden is on you to show that somehow next time will be different
In what way is that at all crazy? These are two entirely different things, and the first one (being interrupted) is bad while the second one (taking a break and doing something mindless) is good. It would be pretty crazy to have the opposite view that the bad thing is good and the good thing is bad...
>Some colleagues will happily backstab you not sharing information about their tools

Oh yeah, that sounds familiar.
Noooo you don't get it, only niche pixel indie games can be FUN!!! /s
Stop with the chatbots. Ai is much more useful to automatically handle things we did not before.
>The difference between the rushed 10mins you get with the NHS and the considered 30mins you get private is amazing. You leave feeling like you’ve been taken care of and all your questions have been answered.

This is true for fairly simple cases. But when something is complex or very serious you want a true multidisciplinary team that sees the most cases per annum - that is the NHS.

A private consultant in a nice office with a very nice efficient secretary is great for their particular expertise but outside of that poor. This is based on more experience personally and with family than I would wish anyone to have.
taxing meat is what I'm referring to as "changing the rules of the game", it affects everyone. But a personal decision to just eat less meat yourself is not going to affect anything, because all you're doing is making beef cheaper for everyone else, and they'll eat more of it as a result.

however, you have to really change the rules of the game for everyone, such that consumption is actually substantially curtailed. even with a country-level tax, you're only making it cheaper for other countries who don't care. We saw this play out with Russian oil last year - banning it from the West didn't make it go away, it just made it cheaper for certain other states to import it. The commodity market is global.

(We can certainly enforce these kinds of rules globally when there is political will to do so - Iran sanctions are one example. If you do business with Iran, you won't do business with anyone who uses SWIFT, or anyone who does business with anyone who uses SWIFT. A line is drawn between the "sanctions-compliant" world and the "sanctions-non-compliant" world and it's generally extremely effective such that smuggling incidents are international news.)

The fundamental point I'm trying to make here is the "capitalism routes around inefficiency/morality". That's what it's designed to do, in the same way the internet routes around infrastructure damage (or censorship etc, which is fundamentally infrastructure damage). By taking a moral stand, you only increase the alpha available for other players to exploit.

These "individual moralistic stand" approaches like personal-scale recycling are inherently less effective than taxing producers, or outright bans. The reason they are pushed is because they are ineffective, and because they stall out the political will to adopt real solutions that would be effective.
I remember living through all of those changes and GUIs! Fascinating to see it all on a single page, in chronological order.
Netscape announced that they were trying to kill Windows so of course Microsoft had to prevent that by any means. It was justifiable purely on a defensive basis.
Battery powered cars pre-date ICE cars. Every car company can make one with no difficulty at all. The real challenge is moving past just putting a giant battery into every car, which is a huge waste of money and resources. It is Tesla that faces the biggest challenge because they have the weakest engineering grasp of car production among all manufacturers.
Why is fluid dynamics considered to be an effective model when we haven't even proven the soundness of the navier-stokes equations?

For that matter, how is QM considered to be an effective model when we can't even reconcile it with gravity?
definitely. this is often the cause of overinflated CEO pay.
Pretty confused what you're trying to say here. Maybe you could try explaining rather than sarcasm?
Yes. Convolution itself has a lot of very useful properties in signal processing (transformation between time and frequency domain for easier compute of LTI systems etc.) But those are lost from the ML literature.
A serverless data warehouse instance sounds like an oxymoron
Hi, thanks. Yes, you can record AppMaps from within a dockerized app. For Django you’d add a dependency on the appmap package, then as the app runs it will generate an AppMap of each request. You can also record test cases. It’s designed to be used primarily in dev, test and CI environments. For full details about appmap + Python, see https://appmap.io/docs/reference/appmap-python.html
Ask HN: GPT4 and Voice?
Is there an app or service to interact with GPT4 (or Claude) using voice? Up to $50/mo (I already pay $20/mo for GPT4).
As with linked lists, pretty much the only reasons for which you might want them are:

a) If your keys are really big, copying them around may be slower than using pointer manipulations; you'd have to benchmark this to be sure for particular cases.

b) You can use use them as intrusive data structures, with one structure in multiple trees or lists at a time, and you can insert one without dynamic allocation.
Just wait until you learn union types, type classes, type providers, and so on. It's even worse afterwards. :-)
This has happened in every other places such a plan has been tried like Spain or Australia. What did they expect?

And really, what else could goog/fb etc do -- what other company or person for that matter would pay someone in order to provide them a service? Governments tax things they want less of (e.g. smoking) so this should be no surprise.
Target your experience towards the roles you're applying for.

> SolidWorks. CAMWorks. FEA. Fusion 360. Siemens NX. AutoCAD. Parametric Design. Generative Design. Design for machining

If I was hiring for a web dev role and saw this I would just think you're not that suited to my specific role.
Skill? Funding? Effort? Nothing? It’s why we have CentOS’s origination before we hired the developers, Oracle’s Enterprise Linux, RockyLinux, AlmaLinux. We have invested massive amounts of dollars & human resources into our CI/CD, QA/QE, and performance testing. Maybe that worries people? That’s speculation on my part.

What we changed (my opinion: doesn’t represent what Red Hat is saying, has said, or will say) was an optimization (or correction for an oversight) to our CI/CD process after making CentOS the upstream to RHEL. We used to sanitize the RHEL srpms of Red Hat trademarks, graphics, proprietary information, embargoed information or source, etc. Since of a lot of the RHEL developers are CentOS, Fedora, upstream developers and this helped especially those CentOS developers. But if RHEL is downstream and already a git pull of those CentOS, Fedora, upstream, then sanitizing srpms is redundant, duplicative and even unnecessary for CentOS’s benefit.
Tech workers don’t need unions though /s
I believe the user "constantcrying" is looking for a "username checks out" response as is popular on reddit. This kind of stuff should stay on reddit, but if it is going to be tried here it really needs to be more clever.
Resident Evil 4 first came out on Gamecube, later on it also came out on PS2 and PC. Then there was an HD re-release on every single console and PC/Steam. And now the remake on PC and consoles.

oh and the original is regarded as one of the best games of all time

I'm not sure if I trust your opinion on anything if you so confidently spread misinformation and then deflect with "oh but little me don't know that!! emoji"
I commend your wife's and the parent poster's admirable scientific approach.
Imslp.org
This is the longest list of "legitimate" interest cookies I ever saw. Totally effed up...
Totally 100% unrelated and you're not allowed to even think about it: Letting in an unsustainable amount of unvetted migrants illegally enter the country (+ never mind the harm that's done to the immigrants that are already here. Never think about that)
That'll show 'em.
It’s weird to be cheering on Facebook, but good for them for standing up to this gross (and incompetent) political corruption.

Our governments are constantly looking for new ways to shovel money to the big telecom companies (and to protect them from competition), and it needs to be meet more resistance. For those not aware, the PBO analysis showed that the primary beneficiaries of this bill were to be Bell, Rogers, Shaw, and some CBC.

But even if that were not the case, this bill simply makes no sense, and could do a lot of harm.
Thesession.org, imslp.org
I find it strange that between zoning laws and property taxes, people don't actually ever own their home.

The government is a permanent HOA with a whole bunch of rules to follow and money go pay.
This. I personally can switch but how do I communicate with my other colleagues? It's hard to convey people to move into a whole new stack without significant effort.
What does technical analysis mean in this context?
I wonder why Meta seems to be so unwilling to participate in negotiations in good faith here. What's different here compared to Australia and Europe, the post doesn't explain that.
Yes looking at someone's profile before replying is sure to get them on your side, keep it up!
I have learned from personal experience to never take healthcare medicals for their words.

Always do your own research. Ask them consequences and how sure they are.

And take into consideration the impact of treatments and diagnosis to the life quality of yourself or loved ones. At times can be hard for doctors and others to look beyond their own worldview.

Personally I’ve had this eczema where I found the correct cream by reading the research on it, and later found out this is also the official advice. Most doctors here just prescribe an old cream out of habit, that contains hormones and often creates worse side effects.

But a bigger diagnosis mistake was a close family member diagnosed with a very bad gen defect that would cause liver failure within a few years. He wanted the kid to start taking unpleasant medicines to be sure. He told us to get bloodwork done (without mentioning the costs) but in the end couldn’t find enough genes that had the mistakes. He wanted to do even more bloodwork being convinced there needed to be 2 genes with the defect, but I clearly told him he was going in uncharted territory, after doing the extra bloodwork he had to come back and agree he was wrong.

One defect gene was found and in extreme health circumstances liver values were found that matched the pattern of a certain disease. Which is why he was convinced it was wrong.

He was a well intentioned doctor, but these academics doctors get obsessed with analysing and diagnosis without always understanding the costs for the patients. Although they try to. In the meantime our family thought the kid was going to die for months and made significant unnecessary costs.
In areas where prevailing theory lines up with reality.

Where it doesn’t, you get situations like dark matter: theoretically consistent extensions with the framework where it intersects with reality or the additions of free variables to make it just so.
It became rather popular during the COVID pandemic. It entered the lexicon as a synonym for online video meetings.
Customers don't care where the performance gains come from. Everybody has access to TSMC so it's their fault if they don't use it.
QR codes: Still a security nightmare?
> who will work the 10% of China's land that's arable to feed 1.4B people?

According to the US Department of Agriculture [1], in the US

"Direct on-farm employment accounted for about 2.6 million of these jobs, or 1.3 percent of U.S. employment"

China is not as advanced as the US, but even if the productivity is lower by a factor of 5, you could end up with only 6.5% of the working population being employed on farms. The Chinese workforce is 733 million people, so you'd need to have less than 50 million employed on farms.

[1] https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/ag-and-food-statistic...
TL/DR: compact galaxies rotate fast enough that their centripetal acceleration limit for MOND. Therefore it should look Newtonian, therefore You expect to "not see dark matter" in them.

FTA: Eyeballing/back of the envelope the NGC 1277 data suggests it falls into that category (me: probably a more careful calculation is warranted). Usually galaxies that fit this are dense elliptical; 1277 is ultramassive lenticular, though to be fair lenticular ~elliptical.
I had the same experience in the last two weeks!

I hadn't been to the dentist since covid. My gf convinced me to try her dentist -- I left with a $6000 proposal to fix all sorts of problems (including the one that sent me there -- a lost filling).

So I went back to my old dentist; she identified the missing filling and a couple of holes "worth keeping an eye on" with a total projected cost of... $300.
That's definitely a karma-reducing opinion on HN.