skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pre-affiliate. If they're using affiliate links, then they're effectively acting as salesmen, not honest reviewers.
I've literally never seen it on any street that has a proper bike lane, and I've driven in many places with proper bike lanes. Cyclists pretty much universally prefer safe proper infrastructure to sharing lanes with cars and painted bike gutters, for entirely obvious reasons. You're literally the first ever person I've encountered claiming otherwise, so I'm sure you'll understand why you're getting incredulous pushback here.
Yeah!

I guess the thing is that the push is on for ever higher extraction and yields for managers/stakeholders/CEOs and to show it to shareholders and investors and the like. And with higher interest rates where money costs its only amplified I reckon.

I promote a video ad campaign for a client and its insane how much it is being shown for a few clicks. Ad revenue is probably going down in relative terms (or more effort for same results)
The problem with breeder reactors isn't, and never has been, an engineering one. It's a relatively simple process, so far as nuclear physics is concerned. The problem is that the anti-nuclear cowards don't want to make plutonium easily available. Nevermind the fact that we already have one of the largest nuclear arsenals (maybe the biggest, given Russia's gross mismanagement as of late), and pose no real proliferation risk, since we already have all the plutonium our hearts desire.
ah, a topic related to organizational decay and decline. this is an area I've been studying a lot over the last few years, and I encourage the author of this blog post to read this paper on the Challenger disaster.

Organizational disaster and organizational decay: the case of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
http://www.sba.oakland.edu/faculty/schwartz/Org%20Decay%20at...

some highlights:

> There are a number of aspects of organizational decay. In this paper, I shall consider three of them. First is what I call the institutionalization of the fiction, which represents the redirection of its approved beliefs and discourse, from the acknowledgement of reality to the maintenance of an image of itself as the or­ganization ideal. Second is the change in personnel that parallels the institu­tionalization of the fiction. Third is the narcissistic loss of reality which repre­sents the mental state of management in the decadent organization.

> Discouragement and alienation of competent individuals

> Another result of this sort of selection must be that realistic and competent persons who are committed to their work must lose the belief that the organi­zation's real purpose is productive work and come to the conclusion that its real purpose is self-idealization. They then are likely to see their work as being alien to the purposes of the organization. Some will withdraw from the orga­nization psychologically. Others will buy into the nonsense around them, cyn­ically or through self-deception (Goffman, 1959), and abandon their concern with reality. Still others will conclude that the only way to save their self-esteem is to leave the organization. Arguably, it is these last individuals who, because of their commitment to productive work and their firm grasp of reality, are the most productive members of the organization. Trento cites a number of ex­amples of this happening at NASA. Considerations of space preclude detailed discussion here.

Schwartz, H.S., 1989. Organizational disaster and organizational decay: the case of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Industrial Crisis Quarterly, 3: 319-334.
Nothing that requires the labor of others is a human right. That's not how rights work.
I'm working on "is". https://github.com/oalders/is

It allows me to install various things in various environments without getting too deep in to bash scripting.

For example:

$ is cli version tmux gt 3.2 && echo || echo

$ is there go && is there nvim && nvim +:GoUpdateBinaries +qa

$ is known cli version bash
5.2.15

I've also been working on a service to track TLS cert expirations, domain name expirations, server pings and successful HTTP HEAD requests. https://www.prettygoodping.com/
Hard pass. I don't want my browser doing anything except displaying webpages.
> I am always incredibly surprised when people are surprised when I miss deadlines.

I relate with this. Any skilled engineer worth their salt know that there are going to be a lot of unknown unknowns. Slippage is 99% guaranteed.

What surprises me is that managers are surprised at slippages. Like, did they ever engineer anything in the past?

> If I am not allowed any autonomy then could you please be explicit and upfront with all the trade-offs I am allowed to make, all the risks I am allowed to accept and the technical debts I am allowed to accrue?

This question is the one that irks managers. Because in reality, they want to be "own" only the successful decisions, not the failures. And they dare not ever clarify anything because it may end up leading to a failure. BUT, they also want to penalize you for the failure.

Managers are the biggest cop out there are.
> whole blood collected by blood banks that had passed its 42-day storage limit

How often does this happened? I am continually being spammed by Stanford saying they have a critical shortage, and I do almost the maximum number of donations a year. I would hate to discover that it's all a waste.
Also the simple PR / marketing issue... Discouraging customers and making more more NIMBY activity
I started reading this with high hopes. Unfortunately it quickly started to spiral. The procrastinator may well not be procrastinating, they may genuinely be struggling technically. "It's works locally but not on staging" is a technical, solvable problem. Sure, it might be a lie, it might be actually they're off doing other things, but in itself that doesn't sound like procrastination. The lone wolf? When you describe that scenario to me, it sounds like Lisa might not have appreciated the 5th time her entirely male team shouted her down in the last "high energy" discussion. I once got to sit in on a team who would do planning poker, it was arduous, and one of my colleagues completely ruined it when she pointed out it was pointless because they always just deferred to Rik. It was like an hour a week where Rik got to decide what everyone did.

I'm not saying that for certain Lisa wasn't a lone wolf, all I'm saying is that diagnosing people into these categories may do more harm than good. And often the advice that's suggested is just absurd. Treat the people who work for you as people. Communicate with them, let them understand your expectations and when they aren't meeting them and work with them to fix problems where they exist. Most importantly, if you're part of a good team, let others lead, and learn from them and learn to work with them. Often the negative nancy is the person who will throw a thousand problems up the first time you talk to them, and the second time you talk to them they've got a neat solution on how to solve them all. That's fine - now you know, give them the space they need to work.

Oh and also? A PIP isn't a way to fix a problem. It's an HR tool to build the documentation up to fire an employee with the minimum risk of legal problems. It's a way to fire people 99.9% of the time, and you need to know that going in, because even if miraculously it works and the employee improves, you have put that employee on the short list for any layoff and that may well be totally out of your hands.
Or that your body makes more blood in a relatively short time. It's pretty harmless for the donors, except for the recipients' use-case being creepy and batshit-insane.
Most articles we read (even on HN) have very little useful information compared to lines of sentences, maybe this can act as a summary and we can decide if we want to read the whole article.
Hearing from a geneticists about how they can basically "order" custom mice from some kind of demonic device that will perfect breed a mice with their exact specs (including having fun things like cancer) was terrifying.

Something like this kind of: https://www.jax.org/jax-mice-and-services/custom-model-gener...
Bonus points if you can find errors or counter arguments to the topic that are better reasoned.
I used https://docs.rs/shuttle/latest/shuttle/ (which was directly inspired by Loom) for testing a concurrent garbage collector I wrote in Rust. It was really useful to find pathological thread orderings that broke GC invariants, and I'd definitely use a similar system for any concurrent or distribute code I'd write in the future - these types of exercising systems and deterministic reproducers are great.
That's great to hear that you've been using turmoil for this type of work. I'm one of the authors and we'd love to hear about your experience and what we can do improve things. Either a github issue or reaching out on discord works great.

We've discussed improving the tracing experience, and even adding visualizations, but it hasn't been prioritized yet.
> We're certainly setting a record at destroying ourselves.

I know things are bad but historically, I don't know how you can say that. In the 60's, 70s, and 80's we actually were, no-bullshit, on the brink of turning the world into a radioactive glass hellscape.

Despite all the turmoil in the world, I think things are looking up for humanity.
If they sell then how would they rebuild? They’d have no where to rebuild on. They should already have insurance to cover rebuilding.
A list of hashes instead of hosts would be even worse, as it the blocking would be the same, just with reduced transparency. Every time they would add new hashes, people would need to investigate which websites they correspond to.

Quite evil.
could it be you're leaking identifiable bits through the browser?
> overpriced would be if it costs $8k but is sold at $12k. Instead the pricing is crippling, and instead of 8k it's 48k

The average college tuition and fees at four-year schools in 2020-2021 was $19,020.

> and the average student will roll out with between 100k-200k in debt

The average federal student loan debt is $37,338 per borrower.

Like I said, everyone keeps missing the point.
I feel like 100/day is swinging the pendulum in the opposite direction. I apply like 3-5/week and I feel like that's a lot.

Granted I don't live in a tech hub so my options are limited but 100/day feels like you're just spamming aimlessly and wasting your energy on quantity instead of quality.
It's just important to decide what you use it on.

I find these tools useful for articles these days because everything is clickbait and full of bloat and nonsense. Even if it's just to do a first past to figure out if I want to read the full article.

But I do understand your point, I feel this is very important ' a random sentence or point considered throwaway by most people and algorithms could turn out to be meaningful to me.', i've had this issue with book summary services, i've read a book and took completely different meanings or found insight in certain paragraphs that were completely glossed over in book summarys that just changed it into generic sounding nonsense. We need to connect the dots ourselfs and to do that, I believe is not to have someone elses summary of the situation.

However, for everything else a tool like this is useful, there is too much noise in the world, we need tools to filter it and help us understand what is relevant and what is not.
I’m not sure if we want more research that supports what Bryan Johnson is doing
I own this and keep forgetting to read it -- a fascinating look into the reinvention of a nation's priorities from a warlord- and caste- driven monarchy to... whatever modern Japan is now.
The shelf-life is probably the reason for the shortages. You need overhead to meet peak demand, and some of that necessarily goes to waste.
The full process takes me <5:00 in the morning. I don't know how long a semiautomatic machine would take, but I'm lucky enough to have 5:00 minutes to spare for a generally meditative ritual each morning.

I don't have the heated brew head, but my process involves preheating the brew head while I'm "packing the bowl" (so to speak), so there is no "down time".

I brought out the stopwatch this morning, the general breakdown is as follows:

0:00: Fill up kettle, put on stove
0:15: pour beans into commandante (measure by acquired knowledge of how 15g looks in the device coupled with bag-specific fine tuning)
0:30: Begin grinding
1:15: Grinding complete, begin to disassemble and clean equipment, restore plunger position to top of brew chamber
2:00: Cleaning complete, pack bowl while waiting for boil to finish (main bottleneck/downtime).
3:00: Boil complete, pour water into upturned brew chamber placed on granite slab for watertight seal
3:30: Preheat complete, transfer chamber onto device, begin main pour/press procedure.
4:15: Espresso complete.

As you can see the main bottleneck is the water boiling. If I can get the exact right amount for the preheat and brew it will cut the time down a good bit, but if I undershoot it takes considerably longer to bring new water up to boil. An electric kettle (220v??) would help too, but I want a setup that works off-grid.

The nice thing with this setup is that it's so simple to clean that there's no time at all dedicated to long-term cleaning or maintenance. With the daily washdown which is already integrated into my workflow while waiting for the boil, I keep the machine in pristine condition. Compare that to larger equipment which needs occasional breakdown/descalding/etc. procedures.
Which is exactly what the authors of this paper are doing.
Close to half of American adults favor TikTok ban, Reuters/Ipsos poll shows
Nothing! Quite the opposite. You've avoided the typical modern meat grinder approach to hiring devs. If you've been at the same company for 5-6 years or just slotted into a comfy niche then you'll have avoided it. Congrats
Well, it describes what it's like to be in system B. All it says about how to get in is to build something (good? great? flashy?) and hope someone notices.

This clearly does work sometimes, but it's not necessarily the best advice for everyone.
Haha thank you for the encouragement!

You have got a nice generator there! I am very curious what's powering it, as it seems to be instant. I dropped you an email, let's chat!

Re: structure and cohesion- this is where GPT4 vastly outperforms GPT3. For example, it is much better at using a hero's journey and managing plot twists. You can go into the AI settings window and set the model to use GPT4 instead [I'll leave how to get there as an exercise ;)], and give it a try.

Currently the generator works in a very similar way to how you described it:
1. It takes your input and generate a world setting and the characters in it, including relationships
2. Based on the information from above, it generates a overall plot outline, broken down into chapters
3. Based on the information from above, it then fills out the chapters with dialog

Currently the biggest limitation is context length and cost, and I haven't focused on optimizing that yet.

You are absolutely right that a human editor would vastly improve the quality. You can see a lightly guided early pre-generated example here [https://www.mirroredfables.com/?gameUuid=302fe7bf-4ff0-4a77-...]

An AI story editor is a very interesting idea that I haven't thought of before, and it makes a lot of sense. I am going to play around with it!
Good feature, I might actually start using chrome again if recipes are summarized how I expect them to. Generally speaking, there's already a problem with people only reading the titles and basing their opinion of off that. Hopefully this will encourage people to read more, since it will be significantly shorter than the actual article.
This won't affect the people who care about the topic.

I'm not really worried about bias, since from my experience, summarization software will inherit the bias of the creator. Sure, it's behind generative AI, which can introduce more bias but it's not like the original article is hidden. No one is forced to use it.
I'm writing a open-source library (https://github.com/RaphaelJ/libhum/) and a webapp (https://datethis.app:8080/) that detects the Utility Grid noise emitted by electrical devices (A/C, motors, appliances ...) from Video/Audio recording.

It then tries to date the recording by matching it to historical data.

The signal processing part is getting decent. I'm still trying to collect more reference signals in RU, UK, China and Japan.

Tom Scott made a video about the idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0elNU0iOMY
Adyen Plummets as Sales Miss Erases $20B of Market Value
I hung up on my Apple interviewer last year for giving me a horrendous leetcode question.

I asked the interviewer if it was typical work for someone working on the iCloud web app platform and he lied through his teeth, swearing it was.

I’ve got better shit to do.
I agree I just don't think it should be illegal to smoke outside just because of the smell, it seems kind of extreme.
No sunlight for years, no photosynthesis - same pronostic of 95% loss of life id guess
Benchmarking Neural Network Generalization for Grammar Induction
Hardening Cloudflare Workers KV
This what Bryan Johnson did?
Both which school you go to and your GPA try to be proxies for what you can do. They are probably even reasonably good proxies (for some jobs). But on the other hand too many people rely on them, so as a manager you can get great hires by finding brilliant people who are undervalued on those metrics, and thus not as strongly fought over on the market.

And of course at some point in your career nobody should be asking for your GPA or school anymore because by then there should be much better ways to communicate your ability.
> or just to thwart the laziest attempt of abusing a website

Thus the XKCD CAPTCHA: https://xkcd.com/810/
You're describing Tim Cook as some automaton who only cares about performance indicators and believe me you don't know him well if you think that. But the fact is he's good at operations, and not great at products. Not everyone can be great at everything.

Product design is, at this level, about your overall philosophy of product, and product portfolio, how they feel, how they fit together, and what is important, are we going pros, are we going consumers, why, how, etc. What do we want to see more of in the world, what is useful, how can we make it useful, and humane, and intuitive yet powerful. That's the product guy's job. Jobs, Ive, Forstall were product guys. Ive unfortunately kind of sometimes leaning into odd obsession with minimalism.
You can already tell Mullvad users from their IP address. If their browser only reveals that much, that sounds like a win to me.
They will shove ads in it eventually and then it’ll become core to search.
Had to rent a car for pretty minimal, but not easy, commuting on a multi-week long business trip. Got stuck with a Mirage.

The joke that developed was that it was the Mitsubishi Massage, because it shook constantly at any stoplight.
Adrenochrome - is someone remembering this now?
https://status.slack.com/ "Login issues"
It is not democracy when Governor decides, it would be democracy if citizens of burned city vote.
> The more obvious solution is to also use the rear door in addition to the front.

Now you have to play with the airport itself. Most wouldn't have enough bridges to lend two per gate.
In Kotlin and Dart, the better way to do it is extension functions.

Just having free functions that take your data object as arguments is almost the same, but has the huge disadvantage that looking up which functions you can call on the object is much harder.
I found a map of the area around my family’s farm in 1894 super quick. Awesome site!
It feels like we are very close to delivering looped narratives. The timespan is known and events will repeat.

These closed-loop worlds could be refined forever, their denizens even recorded and replayed, in curated gardens of experience.

The conceit is we cannot affect the Objective Throughline¹, but live as only character-functions resolving our own problems.

¹ https://dramatica.com/dictionary/objective-story-throughline
Zealotry on display. How do you know I haven’t inherited a mess of tailwind before?
Assuming a completely understood and materialistic nature of the problem.
Until we planted ~native meadow in our yard (Pacific Northwest), I didn't know there were so many different bees! What I think of as bumblebees vary from almost entirely yellow to nearly all black, with mixed stripes in between, and varying in shape and size, from tip of pinkie to end of my thumb. Then there are the littler bees, often iridescent green or shiny black. I also learned how unthreatening they are; I can get within inches and all they seem to care about is the flowers. The various wasps/hornets I'm more wary of, but even they haven't stung me yet. I like them in the garden because they eat pests. I've only killed one colony, because it was a nest in the ground on the path to the garden.
It's just an instinctive aesthetic response people have. There's - as far as I can tell, based on this thread and many other things I've read - no rational reason behind it. It's all "billionaires bad" and "lol, vampires, weird". If someone has a genuine ethical concern, I'd be interested to hear it.

As long as the donors are adequately compensated, I see no issue with it.
Transmission losses seem like a huge impediment to a global approach.
In all fairness, plenty of people post just to express their opinion or share their knowledge without any intention of changing anyone's mind about anything.
In Marseille, 68 shootings and 30 deaths in six months.
There are worse cities in America, but not many.

https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2023/08/17/a-marseill...
A scattering of small 8-kid daycares (like how the one in the article already is), is good for mixed residential use.

An 8-kid daycare expanding to a 16-kid daycare is what the neighborhood fought against, and sounds like a reasonable to fight to me.
Works on the mobile app for me.
That's precisely why you use the blood of a virgin.
Generally modern litigation assume you follow the following steps: design the problem out, guard it out, then warn it out. Those are ordered steps, so if you can fix the problem with a different design you can't put guards on and call it good, but if there is danger remaining after looking at the design and adding guards then a warning sign is a way out of liability. Many of the dangers listed cannot be solved with a design or guards, so signs noting the danger are the correct response and will be used in court to show they knew of the danger and tried their best to prevent it in the only way left.

Note that these are from the mid 1960s - there is technology today to design out some of those hazards that didn't exist then. Platform screen doors for example didn't exist back then, but because they do now you can no longer warn about someone getting to close to the platform edge, you need to design it out by adding those doors (such doors do not work on curved platforms so signs are still useful for some really old stations that are impossible to remodel). For all the others you have a good case against the railroad if you get hit by a train since they should have doors, fences, and quad arm crossing guards which by design make it nearly impossible to get on the track and thus there is no danger of getting hit.
I assume https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0LCmStIw9E is the one you are thinking of (there was a shorter version that aired in TV ad breaks).

The Think! campaign was always pretty on-the-nose, as you need to be sometimes to get these messages across. The seatbelt and in-town speed limit ones stick in the mind too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKHY69AFstE and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDpOAXfangI respectively.

The memorably stark tone and the frequency they were on TV made these spots ripe for parody, for example this one from Monkey Dust: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsOk9Ln1qOY
You can feed the LLM-generated essay into an LLM and ask it to critique the essay.