skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can replace all this with "beautiful weather, people, nature and H1B friendliness"
Don't know the story about this one and I'm sure the creator is relieved to actually being able to finish it.

I've "kickstarted" a few projects that didn't go anywhere (yet?), and the toil it can be for the creator can be really bad. Of course you don't want to rip your customers but if you are doing this on your spare time and when a project drags over a decade over projected timeline sucks, having it constantly in the back of your mind.

I can feel burdened by my own personal projects that don't get anywhere and those are only for me and I haven't spend anyone else's money either.
I can't decide why this is proof why one should never back any complex manufactured good, least of all electronics, on Kickstarter -- or ...

... proof that I'm a cynical jerk who's missing out. Maybe the things I backed 8-10 years ago that taught me this lesson will actually be headed my way any day now!

Overall my policy is I would back works of art on Kickstarter, but never any item where I'm not absolutely positive "Figure out how to actually make X" is NOT one of the steps on their plan.
I linked to a number of critiques of EA and of utilitarianism.

I’m not super interested in debating the specifics of it, I am just highly skeptical of movements that place abstract formulas at the center, especially ones that have extensive funding from ethically dubious characters.

That’s all I have to say about it. Better critiques are listed in the links I shared.
It should come as no surprise that I'm not a native English speaker.
For a very different take on cooking videos, I recommend "Cooking Terms" [0] by RiffTrax.

[0] https://www.rifftrax.com/cooking-terms
Even in such an event, I don’t see how it would affect end users in an extreme way. OpenZFS doesn’t call home to make sure it’s still legal to use, so worst that could happen is that they are forced to stop distribution and you need to stay on old software until you can move to another storage system.
Over in r/OpenGL, r/GraphicsProgramming, r/gameenginedevs, I and most others recommend

https://learnopengl.com/

https://raytracing.github.io/

https://www.realtimerendering.com/
Yet. You can't expect the electricity resellers to absorb wholesale market shocks forever without passing it on to consumers. The ERCOT spot market has hit the ceiling of $5000/MWh every single day all summer long.
in vim?
California has another advantage that is harder to beat: geographically, it is a nice place to live. Most of the state has a very high USDA natural amenity rating: https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/natural-amenities-sca...
>owning someone else's labor output without working yourself is a pretty antisocial act.

This is what happens when you buy literally anything. What is the distinction you are trying to make?
GitHub Content CDN Down?
raw.githubusercontent.com seems to be returning 503s for all requests.
Unless they have a weird biology that lets them send radio signals naturally?
Google is barely any better, using different methods to maintain Google Play at more than 95% market share for Android apps.

But how does an Android phone get you an Apple CPU? Or to put it another way, if your app customers want the Apple CPU, and they want your app, how do they get them both together without the troll bridge between you?
As someone who moved to the US and finds the gun culture absolutely bonkers, I get the gun culture and why they had it in the constitution.

I don’t get the obsession behind open carry though. What good is people walking around in shopping malls with large semi automatic rifles on their back?
It is defined as theft under the laws of several states. Here are links to a few states' theft of services statutes.

Pennsylvania: https://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/LI/CT/HTM/18/00.039.02...

Texas: https://codes.findlaw.com/tx/penal-code/penal-sect-31-04/

New York: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/165.15

Oregon: https://oregon.public.law/statutes/ors_164.125
That actually makes sense. I'm guessing that it was in Time Enough for Love?
> I was asked today to comment on connections between the Manhattan Project and AI. I found myself surprisingly uncomfortable with the request: my own thinking is still forming, and I'm not yet confident in what choices to espouse.

i have to give some credit to any pundit who doesn't just immediately take some arbitrary position and spend the rest of their career defending and rationalizing it
I just watched someone do a sale of a fully loaded glock for a zip during a smoke sesh. Loaded straight into fairly skinny jeans without checking the safety. Bear in mind that handguns are by far the largest contributors to domestic gun-related homicide (intentional and unintentional) and that most gun control safety targets "assault rifles" and other scary shapes. I don't think this is a nightmare we can exit any time in the near future even in the most ideal scenario.

About ten years ago, i was buying weed from a cop (i got the hookup through his highschool friend). He bragged that every one of the ten or so AR15s on the wall in his bedroom over his gravity bong and below the bullet holes was registered to a different person. Why he thought that might have interested or impressed me is something I still try to puzzle out on late nights.

Interestingly, same city for both events.
Madison, WI. It's cheaper, good culture, nice folks. Come on up! Snow is much better than 110F for weeks on end.
You don't seem to understand German work contracts well if you compare them to temp contracts.

The probation period also applies to you, the employee, if you choose that a company is not for you. Once that period is over, a three month notice period is quite common, so both you and the employer are locked into a relationship.

The probation period balances out how stable employment is once you both agreed that you're a match.
Nothing compares to that monthly AC/heating bill.
Nice. My gotchas form using zfs on my personal laptop with Ubuntu.

- if you want to copy files for example and connect your drive to another system and mount your zpool there, it sets some pool membership value on the file system and when you put it back in your system it won’t boot unless you set it back. Which involved chroot

- the default settings I had made snapshot every time I apt installed something, because that snap shot included my home drive when I deleted big files thereafter I didn’t get any free space back until i figued out what was going on and arbitrarily deleted some old snapshots

- you can’t just make a swap file and use it,
As a CEO and former tech guy (20yr corp and management exp.). A few things

1. Get feedback but make decision and standby it. But be willing to change. Doing things that are unpopular won't be easy especially when you hit a bump.
2. Be willing to fire quickly - including someone that you hired and think they are the best thing.
3. Acknowledge and give credit - Take fault and say you are sorry when things don't go right.
4. Avoid being a buddy buddy, also after parties - you have to wake up the next day look someone in the eye and lead them.

You are the captain of the ship - it's a wild ride, have fun keep your eyes and ears open.
If you use "home row modifiers" (holding down f/d/s/a or j/k/l/; acts as Shift/Ctrl/Win/Alt), then it's less reaching for ctrl.

Although I'd also recommend making Esc available on a thumb cluster.
Fair enough, but do you have that fear when using a browser? I guess a Downloads folder is lower stakes than whatever other working directory you're wgetting from, though.
Happiness and the Meaning of Life
https://archive.is/FRUqj
FWIW you lost our given inflation. Technically, he could have invested all the funds, grown it by 20% per year in the SPY and returned you still a $100 watch for your $100, pocketing the difference

How is this legal?
Ok. I've never actually used Pulumi, I was responding to GP's description. Personally I want declarative for IaaC; some here are advocating for imperative generation of declarative IaaC (and claiming Pulumi as an example), which I think is barely an improvement (but nevertheless..) over imperative IaaC.
This is why the word "lineage" doesn't make much sense. Go back far enough and everyone is your ancestor. Assuming you have enough progeny, then go forward far enough and everyone is your descendent. It's more like a giant braid than a giant tree.
Multiple people intuitively pointed out that the OP is actually quite wrong. The shocking fact, to me at least, is how far this goes: all of humanity share a single male ancestor [1] (and no, it was not the first man to ever live), and a single female ancestor [2], who likely lived thousands of years apart.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-chromosomal_Adam
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve

PS: see also references fromthe linked wikipedia pages
Most Americans only know pad thai, but pad gaprao is where it's at, especially pad gaprao kai dao (with a fried egg that has a runny yolk).

It's not that easy to replicate because of its main ingredient: holy basil. This is not normal basil or Thai basil. Holy basil is a specific kind of basil that tastes peppery and is not commonly available in the U.S. (but grows like weeds in Thailand).

It is an iconic dish in Thailand. When food vlogger Mark Wiens opened his first restaurant PhedMark, he choose to specialize in pad gaprao and nothing else because it was the national staple.

BEFRS review here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3ticHfFo2Q
> Texas makes a big deal about not having income tax.

It's a misleading claim every time it's made.

The people of Texas need to pay for things somehow; they must contribute tax revenue roughly equal to government expenses. If it's not personal income tax, then it's some other tax.

I prefer income tax when it's progressive (higher rates for higher earnings), because it helps equal out the sacrifice: 10% of $10,000 income is much more of a sacrifice than 10% of $1,000,000 income.

It's hard to see how any other tax is preferable. Why would I prefer sales tax?
WhatsApp’s founder first pitch in the community
If you think flat is fair, then yes. If you are coming from California it's quite shocking. People like Elon Musk and his enablers in the media talk about the marginal tax rates in California, but the median Californian owes no or trivial state income taxes. If you transplant that median household to Texas their tax burden is higher, and they are more exposed to housing market shocks than they would be in California where the state constitution limits tax assessment increases to 2% per year.
I wonder what would happen next, if we could communicate with whales, and the language ended up having more than 25 words?

There are just north of 8 billion humans, and something like 850k sperm whales. If even a relatively small percentage of the former wants to talk to the latter, that's pretty overwhelming. Do we open an embassy or something?
Are there a lot of tech jobs besides Epic?

(Seriously, when I was at the airport flying in for my on-site, I heard some of the workers behind the check-in desks talking about going to work there...)
Is that the first thing you checked when you got out?
Tech workers flocked to Austin. Now they're desperate to get out
>No, it can't be theft

Survey says...XXX

Texas Penal Code Section 31.04 - Theft of Service

https://texas.public.law/statutes/tex._penal_code_section_31...
Spun off a thread with the original source for the headlined claim here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37387870
WebGPU in Chrome Canary now supports float16 for faster local LLM inference
Wisconsin summers may not be 110F but they feel like it thanks to the humidity. Visits to Grandma were spent reading old comic books in the basement between trips to the lake -- besides the heat, there were also the skeeters, horseflies, deerflies, and ticks to deal with.

I'd still probably pick Madison over Austin, though.
it was over 100f 30 days this August

https://www.wunderground.com/history/monthly/us/tx/austin/KA...

I barely handle over 90f for few days
Such titles, having questions in parentheses somewhere, look unprofessional to me. I don’t know why.
Yes, all raw access to assets is broken.
Seems like they are tracking the issue. https://www.githubstatus.com/
Locking up corpses to keep them from escaping
Try to read it as someone approaching the whole project for the first time, particularly the 'Workflows' section, it just doesn't really make sense, kind of implies there's something special about running it in GitHub Actions (maybe it means to say that the syntax is similar?) and doesn't tell you how to actually pass the Keep workflow file to keep (which is what will parse it, not GH Actions) at all.

Start with `keep run --actions-file`, then show the file format. Don't mention specific CI/CD, it's not relevant.
https://archive.is/SlDEe
Yes, consulting firms on Epic's coattails. Also biotech
You're not too much of a cynic. While the COL is high in the Bay Area, people still live here and come here because you get something for that money. The pleasant climate is certainly one factor, but there are certainly others.
Quantifying and Analyzing Entity-Level Memorization in Large Language Models
That has already been refuted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37368625

Please read the responses and don't encourage flame wars.
https://archive.is/SrSpM
Someone (who generally is more perceptive) said to me: I can buy a house in Austin that is X time bigger than in the Bay Area. Of course; but then why not move to South Dakota.

The higher housing prices in CA reflect much greater demand - people want to live in CA, despite all the reactionary political media campaigns - and it's for good reason. When Austin prices match SF, then things have changed.

I was surprised that so many people just followed a hot trend on such a long-term, high-impact decision.
It was 110F august 27th in Austin. Average historical climate isn’t the metric it used to be considering the climate now.
The annual tax for my car in California was more than my summer cooling bill in Dallas.
To test, run Chrome Canary with:

--enable-dawn-features=allow_unsafe_apis,disable_robustness

Then, open: https://webllm.mlc.ai/#chat-demo
Wow that is some next level kickstarted disappointment
Ditto. Though I had the chance to live in Austin for 2 weeks for work in the early 2000s to know what to expect.

Being employed in tech AND Bay Area (therefore California) leaves one pretty spoiled for pay, perks, diversity, activities, etc.

Even moving out of Bay Area, like to SoCal, the tech quality of life is just not the same.
This actually happened ? Do we have an example of enshittification ?
Hi from NOLA.
1991-2020 normals are great if you intend to move to Austin in 1991, which I fully recommend because it was dirt cheap and quirky and the lines at the restaurants were much shorter.

If you have to move to 2023 Austin then you have to be ready for highs over 100 for 36 of the last 37 days, and the remaining day it was 99.

It's 86F there right now. At midnight. Most coastal Californians think 86 is a fatal atmospheric condition.
MH370 Flight Path Analysis Case Study [pdf]
Actions is also broken by this. Can't download the checkout action so thus it fails.

https://cln.sh/h93D4417DNwY43X7dy0v
Agreed, sixth is too close to be "everyone" in a country, but the general principle is accurate: we tend to have closer common ancestors than we might think.
https://archive.is/QlbgO
Not...really. Take PBM. (Pharmacy Benefits Management).

Money is "found" in not paying out claims, or chasing the "cheapest to the company" treatment while passing on the more burdensome long term maintenance costs to consumers.

Insurers can be a positive surfacer of unpleasantness. Not before much more unpleasantness is waded through however. See Cigna getting dinged for using an algorithm that 100% rejected first encountered prior auth claims rather than processing them in good faith.

https://www.propublica.org/article/cigna-pxdx-medical-health...
It does mean theres three kids shot dead for every one that drowns.
Isn’t that just redlining with more steps?

Unless your implication is that it’s ok for some people to not have a place to live.
I’m one of those that moved my family from CA to Austin during the pandemic. We wanted cheaper housing and more space, and told ourselves Texas is the future.

We pretty quickly learned that Texas does not feel like the future. The traffic was surprisingly worse than where we moved from (Orange Co), we had an incident with some nut that harassed us at the grocery over wearing a mask, and the weather was absolutely unbearable. We don’t drink or watch sports so it felt like there was nothing to do besides sit inside our air conditioned home in a quiet neighborhood and occasionally get really good barbecue.

We made it almost 3 years, but but the bullet and moved back. California has its shortcomings too, but we have a newfound appreciation for it and will probably never leave.
One neat feature of clipper cards I discovered is that they could be transferred onto a smartphone. As a stored value card, I imagine the process involves a smartphone reading the stored value, zeroing it, and then provide a virtualized implementation of whatever the underlying SmartCard technology is (Java Card maybe).

The first time I used that feature, I instinctively thought that by adding my clipper card to my smartphone, my smartphone merely has another manifestation of the same clipper card as the original plastic card, much like a credit card but with a special device-specific card number, or like a Unix hard link. Of course I was wrong. The actual card itself was transferred.
Income tax doesn't really tax the very rich. They earn their money from assets and generally either don't pay taxes at all, or if they do pay taxes, it's based on long term capital gain rate, which is lower.

High property tax on the other hand, is helpful in two ways:

1. It directly tax the rich who hold more property.

2. It keeps housing prices lower.
The problem isn't so much the average generation length but that generations are not coordinated waves each only having kids with the same generation.
This is quite amazing, both from a complexity, hacking/making and persistence perspective. What an accomplishment. Making a watch is hard. Making a scope is a lot harder. Combining the two is art. Kudos to the person behind it for seeing it through, I'm pretty sure that most people would have given up.
When I had 23 & Me, it told me that I am 95% Ashkenazi Jewish. I already knew this. What I didn't know is that I am 5% Gentile. This made me very happy, and I wish the percentage were much higher. Some people in the more conservative parts of the Jewish community are dismayed by intermarriage. I say, please more intermarriage. A lot more. Two thousand years of endogamy didn't do us any favors at all.
Engineers love nipping at the hand that feeds them, and talking moral while they profit from what they oppose.
Am I the only bothered by the tagline “Now you can tell time and measure current on the go.” ?
An oscilloscope measures voltage, not current.
Thanks for the warning. I really appreciate it.

Unfortunately, I'm kind of up against a wall. I need to use my laptop for work, but I can't keep sending it in for repairs (and I can't afford out-of-warranty repairs). I'm extremely gentle, but my MacBook Air needed the USB-C port replaced TWICE in just one month.

So, I went with the "let's not somehow magically break the physical port" route. I certainly hope the unofficial MagSafe connectors don't blow it out...
The UPI is an interface for the Immediate Payment Service, which is a payment network owned and operated by the National Payments Corporation of India, which in turned is owned jointly by the Indian government and an association of private Indian banks: the Indian Banks' Association.

I personally think a centrally owned service like the IPS is very useful. I just think we would be better off having a permissionless and decentralized alternative that has wide enough adoption to make useful and hard to prohibit, to both provide competition to the centrally controlled network, and to act as a failsafe in case that network is mismanaged and run in an abusive fashion, e.g. locking out those who refused to get a COVID vaccine.
TBF bus drivers are underrated.

There is a severe lack of qualified driver in many places, and the drivers that continue doing their job even as the pay is low and their clients aren't all pleasing to serve. I think they're more often than not the quiet heroes of their communities.
> - if you want to copy files for example and connect your drive to another system and mount your zpool there, it sets some pool membership value on the file system and when you put it back in your system it won’t boot unless you set it back. Which involved chroot

Isn't this what `zpool export` is for?
I was born in TX, moved to LA for a few years, and then moved back to TX for family reasons. I can't wait to not live in TX again. As the article suggests, the government will never represent me in this state, and the things they are doing are reprehensible to me. However, I have a few obligations preventing me from just picking up for something more fitting. The first is lack of firm decision on where to land. Every place will have pros/cons. I hate hate hate moving, so the pros must significantly outweigh the cons to make moving across country (let's face it that moving out of texas is equal to across the country in sheer miles).
> pushed back hard on pretty much any sort of regulation and oversight

I think there's a selection effect going on here: If tech and politicians agree that some policy is a good idea, then tech does it voluntarily, so no regulation is needed. The only cases where it becomes a matter of regulation are the cases where tech and politicians disagree.

For example: Remember the privacy discussion around COVID-19 exposure-tracking apps? If the exposure-tracking apps had been implemented in a naive way, they would have been incredibly invasive to privacy. But tech proactively figured out good solutions to the privacy questions, so it never became an issue. If some politician _had_ proposed regulation saying that exposure-tracking apps needed to protect privacy, then tech wouldn't have pushed back, because that's what they were already doing anyway. But because tech was already doing it, politicians didn't propose the regulation.

So, because an issue never becomes a matter of regulation unless tech pushes back on it, it ends up looks like "tech pushes back on all regulation".

Furthermore, in the cases where tech and politicians disagree, the politicians haven't always been right. For example, GDPR cookie banners are a joke. California's AB5 law is another example, as the original article mentioned.

So, I don't think "boy who cried wolf" is a fair analogy. Tech companies aren't always right, but it's not as if they're automatically opposed to all new policies; and when they do oppose politicians' proposed policies, it's sometimes for good reasons.
My old man, bless him, found one instance of inbreeding going back to 1800 for each one and going back to 1700 on a few.

My son's mother's ancestry is very different from mine.

If anything I think we might live in period of the greatest number of long distance gene flow events in history. And I think this has been true for hundreds of years at this point.

EDIT: That's not to say inbreeding doesn't hugely reduce your number of ancestors, just that the modern world for many social groups has much less inbreeding than earlier societies.
Except the bit where this guy actually delivered.
I think that most people have the possibility to choose, but the cost of choosing (in terms of lost income, lost vacations, uncertainty and risk to immigration status) are prohibitive enough to favour the employers.

Sure, people can upskill or move across the country, but that's prohibitively expensive and not guaranteed to work. A lot of people are trapped by this.