skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no shortage of ideas for improving real-world processes. Most of those ideas are bunk, and we're constrained by the amount of experiments[1] we are willing to run/fund, and the quality of data[1] that those experiments can collect, and the reproducibility[1] of those experiments.

Having an AI shout random ideas is very easy for software people to grok, but isn't going to help. If you want AI to assist with this, you'd need to build an 'AI' that can run the real-world experiments, and that's a few orders of magnitude harder than feeding a text corpus to an LLM.

'Thinking' about this problem isn't the hard part, the hard part is doing it. Even using an LLM for something like a meta-analysis of existing research is unlikely to find many profitable avenues of exploration.

[1] Experimental research is incredibly difficult, which is a fact that's highly underappreciated by people working in abstract and theoretical disciplines.
I probably should have editorialized it to just be "UPS worker"
I have my doubts an AI will reliably generate results that are scientifically verifiable.

AI interpolates across it's parameter space, but typically performs poorly in extrapolation exercises.
"May have". As if the FAANG company most deeply embedded in advertising, which is synonymous with identification and tracking, isn't just putting on a show of contrition to get the Bad Publicity Machine off of its back. I'll put away my cynicism when the world shows me it isn't warranted. By, you know, not tracking everything with the single-mindedness of a rabid bloodhound in an effort to seeeerve aaaaadz every second of every day to every person on the face of the planet.
> Disappear Tesla and SpaceX and you'd have the manbun and big latte crowd throw a tantrum on ExTwitter and not much else. Life will go on as usual, for all practical purposes it's like you disappeared Tiffany&CO

Tell that to the people who depend on StarLink for rural internet access.
Eventually it will be connected via 5G. There won't be wires to cut.
What were the requirements that led to implementing your own language vs embedding lua?
Really?
If Microsoft disappeared we would see a massive jump in Linux and Mac usage.
If Facebook/Instagram people would jump on the next social fad.
If Amazon disappears people would buy there stuff from some BigBox store.
If AWS disappears that would be really painful for a while before people adopt.

On the other hand.
If Tesla disappears all the competitors will keep milking their ICE cars, since none of there EV make any profit.
If Starlink disappears Ukraine is fucked, yes even if Elon has secretly given Putin access to all the satellites or whatever is the rumor of the day.
The Two Minutes Hate against Elon Musk has elements of Trump Derangement Syndrome, where commentators on the Left seem to compete amongst each other to hate the man hardest. Or to be seen to hate him, at least.

It’s how they signal tribal affiliation.
> > Neither has Ferrari or Rolex but that doesn't make them failures

In fact Rolex, Ferrari, Fender etc. aren't valued at 680 billions. They are valued like status symbol companies . Again like Tiffany & CO.

As they should be, Musk convinced people that Tesla will deliver 'Standard Oil-esque type quality of life jump in the life of the avg. citizen.

Instead it's just a Ferrari made in Silicon Valley. When people will wake up it's gonna hurt many people who believed in this dream, which was more a mirage tbh.
Why doesn’t it benefit society when it is the basis for compensation for large and important creative industries? Maybe it lasts too long given that the life of the author plus decades results in protection lasting longer than necessary to incentivize authors to create works.
Started reading it one or two months ago, still on book 6. Enjoying it a lot, even installed Read Aloud to have text to speech and listen to the stories while doing some household chores.
There's a difference between accounting profits and economic profits.

Growing a company that loses on its unit economics (eg. WeWork) ought not to make founders rich
You're right! Incidentally, he died of skin cancer (this is not a joke, please cover up, wear sunscreen, get checked by a doctor).
SDI, obviously. Did you click the link? My innuendo is thinner than rice paper, it's a joke to prod you into clicking that link. Michael Griffin's entire career revolves around kinetic interceptor based SDI, e.g. Brilliant Pebbles. The only way to build such a system is to develop rocket boosters that let you launch tens of thousands of satellites, which is what SpaceX has been working towards the entire time.
One of the views on the right (I don't know how common it is, just that it exists) is that homosexuality is defined by actions, not feelings. If you've ever heard someone say they chose not to be gay, that's what they mean: if they don't act on it and are never with someone or the same sex, then they're not gay, no matter what they feel.
Lack of sunscreen
The fan sped of your laptop is controlled by the controller on the motherboard which ahs its own firmware, not by windows. Yes your laptops may be the same model, but oine might have different thermal paste application, more dust, etc.

Or on your Win11 install you have something messed up that maybe messes with your HW acceleration when watching youtube, who knows, you haven't really provided any valuable diagnostic info other than "my laptop overheats". Have you tried a clean Win install?
edit: removed as low quality comment
The profits generated and accumulated in the wealthy class should in the long run not exist - theoretically.

But of course they do, and the answer to that is that somebody else is paying the price for their externalities.

I’m not jealous and wish for everybody to be able to achieve wealth, but please with due calculation of everybody involved. Because the goal of this economic game is not that you win and I lose, but that we both win sufficiently and then I don’t care if you have a nicer boat.

But we didn’t play this game, instead your wealth directly correlates with how much you pollute the commons, we both lose. The credit you own has no legitimation anymore. Why should we continue to act as if does?

Ofc the situation is extremely complicated and we can’t just disown or let the polluters “pay back” immediately, but things evidently have to change for this damage to both of us to stop.
AKA "write-only memory"
Python for making 3D models in OpenSCAD
This effort to put Python in OpenSCAD does so directly in OpenSCAD, not as a pre-processor or some alternative, and has generated quite a bit of discussion on GitHub, as well as the mailing list.

Does anyone know what the magic incantation is to install Python 3.10 in msys2 using pacman in Windows?
> Yes, even GPT3.5 is better. I am in uni, and LLMs are probably the best teachers... They do suck at solving problems correctly...

The discussion was specifically about LLMs to write software. Not about university essays or articles or exams. Are you claiming GPT3.5 is better at writing bug-free software than the average software engineer?
You're the asshole

Everyone sucks here
(Because, of course, Scheme folks couldn't resist the urge to use a little recursion in the name of the spec instead of defining it as an iterated series of version numbers.)
There is a Vsauce video[1] about this.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjqt8T3tJIE
Did this in college for some side money. It was definitely "easy" money as well as a view to some interesting characters and business, but now I have some scars in that area that once made a cop suspicious that I was a junky lol. YMMV.
There is truth to this. Notion, etc are far more pleasant, readable, and lend for better organization.
He makes a lot of false claims, but Starlink, and maybe Tesla essentially creating the market for electric cars?
There's quite a lot of climate-change journalism that seems to be less about working to solve the problems and more about agitating against capitalism
I guess it would be better to rephrase it like

> Good, Well Indexed and Easy to Find documentation is everything.
FWIW, I'm still using a copy of the Twitter app from circa 2021.
Doesn’t really matter to be honest, it doesn’t work, it’s covered by warranty —> their problem to fix not yours.
https://youtu.be/BPazh2kDdvA
Do let me know how it goes.
Hailsondes Launch into Thunderstorms to Sound Them Out
Yeah, goto gets a bad wrap imo.

I mean, sure, nobody should be using it for loops, but if you're jumping right to the end of a function (or a while loop) and doing cleanup operations, is that such a bad thing?
I was thinking about “just writing code” with the communication and empathy parts, especially, in fact, though you’re right that they also apply (differently, though I’m not sure if it’s more) to more-senior work.
Robbing Delivery Robots Is Now a Thing
Yeah, this sounds more like a late-00s startup mentality than anything else. Maybe the FAANGs were this once upon a time, but nowadays they are firmly in "stable grownup job" territory.
I offer, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, this lecture:

Don't eat plants; they're trying to kill you! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1cqNDDG4aA

I usually forward it to friends that rant about meat being bad for your health.
The aging brain: is misplaced DNA to blame?
It’s more a subsidy to defense contractors
(There's a whole, very popular, subreddit dedicated to adjudicating "NTA", "ESH", "YTA", and "NAH" in a variety of user-submitted scenarios. It's a hoot.)
Horses are native to North America and became extinct after the introduction of humans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_the_horse

>Fossil evidence indicates that mastodons probably disappeared from North America about 10,500 years ago as part of the Quaternary extinction event of most of the Pleistocene megafauna that is widely believed to have been a result of human hunting pressure. The latest Paleo-Indians entered the Americas and expanded to relatively large numbers 13,000 years ago, and their hunting may have caused a gradual attrition of the mastodon population.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon#Extinction

As far as megafauna and climate, see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revival_of_the_woolly_mammoth
Elon had tens of millions of dollars before starting Tesla. He risked all of it to start Tesla and SpaceX.
Not exactly hard when the right courts and supports people that believe in empirically disprovable things. Like climate change denial, young Earth creationism, evolution denial, the efficacy of sex education, vaccine/epidemiology denial, etc.

Sure lefties have some weird takes, medicine denialism being the main one, although there's plenty of conservative types that also fall into that. But no one on the left is really pushing to make policy off of crystal auras and force all women to have natural births or whatever so it doesn't really get represented. And they tend to not be on the left for those specific reasons.

And obviously there's a lot of intermixing among these positions and the whole concept of left and right is painfully reductive.

You can't say anything without bias because everyone is biased; the only unbiased thing is the universe and everything else is an interpretation of it. You being so gung-ho to call it out shows your bias for example. Me calling you out shows my bias.
Poor analogy given logic gates are deterministic while an LLM is not.
This seems to come from a joke, which some (AI-generated?) sites take literally.

https://www.reddit.com/r/teenagers/comments/o8i3as/fun_fact_...
SpaceX funding is covert US defense spending. It is the most efficient $ spent by Pentagon.

It us economically inefficient but every thing in US defense is so mindbogglingly economically inefficient that it makes SpaceX look like amazing value. (and IMO justifiably so)
That's the point of my last example. By building this on subtyping, you can hoist that shared property out of the cases and up to the supertype. That lets you define state and behavior that is case independent without having to write a bunch of brain-dead matches that go over every case to extract conceptually the same field from each one.

Of course, you can also reorganize you datatype so that the shared state is hoisted out into a record that also contains a sum typed field for the non-shared stuff. But that reorganization is a breaking change to any consumers of the type.

Modeling this on top of classes and subtyping lets you make those changes without touching the user-visible API.
Intellectual Property and the Fissured Economy
They weren't supporting him, they were saying he was like Bukele, and I was hoping Sim was going to clean up the streets like Bukele.
Shit I’ll go months/years without drinking or smoking only to find out that everybody else seems to have gotten away with murder but me.
Congratulations on the launch! It seems very intriguing! I have a some open questions:

- Where is the company based and what is the jurisdiction? Probably you forgot to add the imprint :o)

- Is there a difference between edge and non-edge locations?

- Can data storage be tied to a location?

- Is it tied to github or can it be used with self-hosted gitlab?

- Is there a rough ETA for databases, especially postgres(-like)?

Thanks in advance!
Age wasn't seen as negatively as now, so people cared more about clean attire than particularly looking young.
I was responding in a larger scope of jobs than what are offered in the JC program. I can't find much to grouse about its curriculum.

I will say that it's a damn shame that it's not available for someone like a 40-year old who wants to get their life on track.
It's actually less risky. Most of the launches are of propellant, which is completely replaceable. Reliability of a launcher is achieved by using it many many times, exposing all the gotchas. SLS will launch so infrequently it will be extremely risky.

And you didn't answer my question, so I will answer it for you. If simply transferring a liquid from one tank to another is too risky, then there is no future in space. No activities of any significance could ever be done there. With that established, we can shut down the human space program and lose nothing of value.
It doesn't ban it. It bans it ON PROPERTY.

If someone values getting fucked up all the time more than their career, fine, but don't subsidize that behavior with my tax dollars.

These people are not just getting free training, but free room and board, clothing, tech, and even a stipend on top.
Rethink your take. Censorship is when the government prevents you from saying or publishing what you want. The government's ability to do that ultimately stems from the threat of force/violence.

China's ways of doing this might seem crude to somebody in the US or EU, but boil down to the same thing.

If you continue to disobey either of those government's orders to stop doing something, they will send men with guns to pick you up and lock you in a cage, literally preventing you from traveling anywhere.

That's why censorship is a terrible thing in a purportedly free society, and discussions like this are why mis-application of the word "censorship" to mean things like "waaaah walmart.com refused to broadcast my tweet about how trans people should be beaten up" is also bad.
We can sure hope!
Correct, because it's an article of faith that government must be inefficient among a multitude of other service providers.
> Most graduates of Computer Science programs can, perhaps with some trouble, implement a half decent C compiler in a weekend or two.

Where "most" of course means < 0.1%.
And if it's not, we'd expect people to be investing in solar capacity instead, the manufacture of which has significant associated emissions.
> it would be cool to know how to evaluate compressor health

The best way is probably to monitor low and high side pressure together with motor rpm and power. But I have never seen a fridge with manometers so ... I would listen for vibrations. Like, you can get to know how your machine should sound when happy. If it sounds unhappy, take it to the dump.
You can see this effect even with normal SLR film photos that haven’t been retouched.
This sounds wasteful and like it won't work well unless the space is air and moisture impervious.
Team members should reflect on interactions and give a quick sanity check to whether they may have come across rude, condescending, or aggrieved. And, if they have to ask, they should ask. You, as someone who shares the role of "team member", should be prepared to hear those check-ins in the spirit they're intended: as acknowledgements that everybody agrees that it's not OK to be rude or passive-aggressive. You don't have to absolve people: if they were rude, you can say "thanks, I did take that comment as a little hostile, and I'm glad it wasn't just me."
This should have been embarrassingly obvious to anyone who took data collection and surveillance systems to their logical conclusion. "We" and "1984" gave away the answer to those who weren't smart enough to connect the dots themselves. Yet here we are, on a forum heavily skewed towards a population that helped build it, denying until their dying breath what they've done.
>But we didn’t play this game, instead your wealth directly correlates with how much you pollute the commons, we both lose. The credit you own has no legitimation anymore. Why should we continue to act as if does?

Doesn't that include index funds in your 401k? Bank funds that you might own that invest in polluting companies? And don't wealthier people have more shares of stocks in general?

I am asking someone to disprove my assertion that the article leans on a self-referential argument about wealth and carbon emissions.

Or are we saying wealthy people (top 10 percent, we're told) invest specifically in these companies and not others?

How would a clean wealthy person store or invest their wealth? Real estate, gold?
Kiribati, in more than one way is living in the future. For two hours of the day are 2 calendar days ahead of most of us. (Being UTC+14)
I asked it about UBI and I guess there isn't enough data yet, because it called it "fiscally unbearable and morally unacceptable" (which seems to be what only 1 uncited source said)! At least it admitted consensus was low...

https://consensus.app/results/?q=Does%20universal%20basic%20...

Summary
Top 10 papers analyzed
Some studies suggest that universal basic income (UBI) can generate support for structural reforms and improve mental health, while other studies argue it may be fiscally unbearable, morally unacceptable, and increase wealth inequality.
It seems like they started with the conclusion they wanted (i.e. shareholders should bear financially responsible for the emissions of their investments) and designed a study that would confirm it. A more interesting and meaningful comparison would be of households and lifestyle/consumption habits.
You don't need to be good at leetcode to make a performant and well written frontend. You don't even need to know data structures, algorithms, or Big O notation.
That kind of illustrates my point. Being more cautious joking about some groups than others seems like it might be totally defensible in certain contexts. Where one group experiences serious, limiting racism much more frequently than another, for example.

In a naive view, treating one group differently than another is "biased". But such a definition of bias is pretty useless. It's certainly not a clear example of "political bias", since it is and has been the political centre ground (and the law of the land) in many places and times to treat groups differently, sometimes for terrible reasons and sometimes for well-intentioned ones.
Interesting that latency between Cape Town and Seoul actually improved (decreased) as a result of the cable cut, due to traffic being allowed on a more direct (and more expensive) route between the 2 cities.

More examples in Slide 10 of https://www.linkedin.com/in/dougmadory/details/featured/5001...
There maybe just seems to be some term confusion. Scrum is one flavor of Agile. Kanban is another flavor of Agile.

> The previous system the team was following was something very close to a Kanban system.

The team was already operating in an agile way.
2D Raycasting with Plain HTML, JavaScript and CSS
As far as I can tell, it used to be more important culturally to look and act your age.

If you were 40 and still dressing and acting like you were young, a lot of people would assume you weren't a serious, responsible person and were foolishly trying to hang onto your youth too long. These days the attitude is more like just because you're a grown up with responsibilities doesn't mean you can't cut loose and enjoy life sometimes.
So many of these examples are about TV and film though.

And while Instagram lets you do that kind of smoothing, it's virtually never done on TV and film except as very explicit (and very expensive) VFX. Because it obviously doesn't work to do cheaply in HD on somebody in motion.

Contrast isn't the answer either. Modern high-definition TV shows highlight wrinkles and skin texture more than film ever did (digital cameras simply resolve more detail). And so TV and filmmakers cover them up today exactly the same as they did in the 70's: with makeup.
Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC)
lmao, don't listen to these guys saying you're not cut out for it. The market has taken a downturn and it's hard for everyone, especially juniors. What you need to do is work on your skills. Doesn't need to be "feverish intensity" but just something you can show your skills and develop them like a useful side-project. Don't let your skills rust in the meanwhile. Also, have someone take a look over your resume/linkedin and help you with interview practice. That's just as valuable or even more than technical skills.

Also, lmao at the guy saying you can create a 1B dollar product in 5 years. If it were that easy everyone would be a billionaire.
That ~$5billion per launch includes a lot of amortized R&D and other costs that you are not counting in the 61 successful Falcon launches. It may be that the Falcon launchers are significantly cheaper, but the accounting methods are too different to just compare numbers.
3 times if you count zip2, his first company, from which he netted $22M.
Who's panicking exactly? Most people don't give a fuck. Population control.
Just recently I was reading about OpenSuse thimbleweed rolling release. I read a lot of Great things about it, everyone said it was great.

Then I saw a couple of videos and realized its UI (of their control center) is stuck in the 90s and it has several rough edges (like when installing it, I wont show you a list of WiFi access points, but ask you to manually enter the name of your AP and the encryption method... in 2023).

I decided to keep Mint. So far it's been the best distros in terms of "not having to bother" so much. I use it as my daily dev environment.
Rich landowning cattle ranchers generate more greenhouse gas emissions than vegan college graduates that recycle.
Elephants and humans must have evolved together, that could have helped the elephants.
Weirdly, GCC fails to optimize this, but Clang does (if you make the table static as in the original example).
> I wonder how many people go vegetarian purely for climate reasons ... to what degree?

The numbers are growing steadily, enough to make producers of animal products increasingly nervous.

> giving up air travel, private vehicles, imported fruit and veg, concrete etc

Animal agriculture is worse than transport and concrete together (not just emissions, but deforestation, biodiversity loss, eutrophication, water usage, pollution ...)

We cannot avoid polluting entirely. However, we can minimize our impact as much as possible, and I'd argue that by replacing animal products with plant-based alternatives, people lose nothing while reducing their negative footprint significantly.