skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a ton of substance but I do see this being expressed often:

> Time and again, every Tesla owner at the Harris Ranch Supercharger had a similar story. Their car wasn’t perfect — neither is the company — but it’s the best option for now to do long-range driving, to get them from one end of the state to another, especially at the front end of a busy weekend.

We have two Teslas and I really enjoy them even with their downsides. But I am _really_ excited for more brands to get a good charging experience on the road (convert to NACS in NA) and can't wait for the competition to keep on ramping. There are some awesome EVs out there hampered a lot by a lack of solid charging networks.

I really want to kick Tesla's butt into gear with more competitors.
If it were me I’d do what would result in a more stress free time 2 months from now. Namely getting some healthy routines set up. It takes about 2 months of continuos effort to make a routine habit, so if you start now you’re golden.

- Work out (saves money on medical bills and keeps you feeling great)

- Cook healthy (saves money and keeps you feeling great)

- Start a (physical) hobby you like (saves you money on other entertainment and keeps you feeling great)

- Do something social (bonus if it’s active too)
Well I can only talk about the tech sector, but basically companies in DE/AT complain that they can't find senior+ engineers for 45k/year (pre-tax) for years now - the salary ranges have been kind of a joke (even at the top end) for quite some time and the whole discussion about the labour shortage is a political straw man.
I do think Cruise's responses to stuck cars needs work but problems with emergency vehicles and drivers happens all the time.

I remember an ambulance was right behind me at an intersection. The right turning lane was free but it was right behind me. I got really uncomfortable because I had 0 idea what to do, if I was supposed to basically break the law and go into the intersection on red so that it could get by. After a few seconds, I decide to pull into the right lane but I guess the ambulance driver had the same exact idea at the same exact time and almost read-ended me. So then I get back into the other lane and he goes through the right lane just fine, like he could have the whole time. I'm not blaming anyone btw, maybe he thought the light would change soon or something.

I wanted to get out of the way, but I had no idea what way the ambulance wanted to go. In my mind, if it wanted to go forwards, it just had to get into the right lane and run the red light (which ofc they can do). I think everyone was equally confused because everyone else just sorta froze to let it go by in the right lane.
timing cooking hardboiled seagull eggs

as an approximate compass, if it has an hour hand (bisect the angle between the hour hand and noon, that's north or south, depending on your latitude, unless you're in the tropics where this doesn't work)

as a heliograph to flash signals to passing ships

if there's a date magnifier, you can use it to light fires

the engraving on the back may help identify your sun-bleached bones ("So, this poor devil was named WATER RESISTANT")
It’s said only people who can’t successfully live in SF move there.
> How many people cared about those schematics?

That’s the neat thing! For most people, you don’t! Until it breaks and you need to fix it, and the manufacturer is out-of-business. But then you can present that strange schematic to your local electronics repairer who can fix it up with a few spare commodity components.
Yes, Procter & Gamble funded it. That seems to like something they might and should be interested in.

Personally, I realized at a young age I was very affected by some fragrances and perfumes. I got vicious headaches and felt sickened when exposed to some of those. It was especially bad at some stores that doused their store with fragrances, and in Churches where both men and women would slather fragrances on themselves before going there.

They didn't bother my wife and daughters at all though and I finally had to demand they stop using them in our house.

Because of that I learned to gtfo of places as soon as I walked in and smelled it. And I started buying my wife and daughters pure Rose Oil because that actually made me feel pretty good when I got a few whiffs of it, and they all loved that.

Apparently I was not even close to alone with those adverse reactions because around mid 2000s stores began to quit doing that and I very seldom detect those toxins when I go in stores now.

I never found out exactly what was that affected me, but it was sure vicious. I think it may have been some sort of "bonding agent" that made fragrances "stick" better and last longer.

Procter & Gamble sells a lot of stuff with fragrances in them. It behooves them to make sure their products are not sickening folks and, if they can, provide some real benefit.
Ah. Here in Russia there are many things that are not considered risky:

swimming in the ice hole in frozen river

eating like everything from nearby forest

driving without seatbelts

not going to doctor when it hurts

While one most likely will go away with it, these things still can be deadly.
Yeahhh. If you're used to the climate of the West Coast, the South (Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama...etc) is going to be absolute hell for you. If they're thinking about going hiking or doing outdoors stuff, you generally can't do that for significant portions of the year without suffering. Most of these places require you to drive everywhere too. The only real public transportation in 99% of the south are buses and you generally would only do that if you had no other options.

On the plus side. There are a lot of California transplants in my area that figured out they could sell their home for millions, build a new copy in my area on a lake with nearly zero crime, and still pocket a million dollars.
What an amazing world we live in. There is nothing interesting about a robotic assisted surgery able to perform more delicate and sophisticated operations than the best human surgeon in the world.
Drying up now page templates and normalizing data in Eleventy
my C Homework
I think the cost of entering is sufficiently low to get convinced that “this time, it will be different”.

There is a YouTuber who collects and dumps them in piles, and it seems like the scooter companies have sufficient anti-theft measures in place to justify that the risk of theft is low.
I don't understand this statistic - even a child's macaroni picture gets seen by their teachers and parents.
Would you say the same to a woman? 'No real man would let your lack of hair get in the way'?
I think they definitely should have a search for past conversations. I assume they will release some version of that within a year. Possibly searching embeddings for the summaries.

I think it would be nice to be able to create shortcuts to plugin combinations or maybe automatically remember them. Because you can only have a few active at once.
I agree and the fact the governments prefer commercial and costly software instead of adopting open source solutions and hire local companies for support and custom development is very disturbing : they spend the taxpayers money to make rich a bunch of already disgusting rich companies. And when this company is a foreign company the damage for the state money balance (and citizens of course) is double.
You don't have a contactless credit card from your bank?
Honestly amazing that the city, and the people are fine being beta testers.

Arguably the family here should be allowed to sue the city for forcing them to be beta testers tbh.
> are regularly looking down at their phone while driving their truck or SUV, all while driving 10-15mph over the speed limit in a residential area.

I live in TN and this has been my everyday experience since I got my license in 2015.
Apologies, I was bringing problem-solving to an emotional support thread.
Could Any Other Jazz Trumpeter Match Up with Louis Armstrong in the 1930s?
Maybe I'm naive but is there a reason why in an emergency situation where the car is stuck, control can't be given over to a remote driver? It seems like in 99% of these situations, the car just has to go forward a few feet or change lanes.
>Still disagree with how it was decided though.

It was through a referendum, with something like 90% votes in favour of banning them:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65154854

Surely it wasn't a popular referendum as only 8% or so actually voted.

Is this the thing you disagree with?
One time in med school we had a lecture by the da Vinci surgeon guy, and of course I had to stick my hand up. “Will there ever come a time when the human hand cannot keep up with the instrument?” The whole room (200 people) laughed out loud, and the surgeon said, “No.”
> I disagree with your OP, a union's power isn't derived by its most powerful members, it's derived by solidarity against a large amount of people.

Large amounts of people yes, but it needs the high-skilled (or in case of the movie studios, the high-demand) people in the boat, those that a company can't replace on a whim. Walmart, Starbucks and the likes - corporate doesn't care even about closing down an entire location just because there's unionization talks. People dishing out coffees or stocking shelves can be replaced in an instant, corporate doesn't (need to) care.

But the high-skilled labor? Finance, HR, admin in the corporate office... if they were to strike in solidarity with the peasants, corporate would have a much more difficult time to replace them.
There are some interesting gifs of interesting interfaces, a couple of it's core ideas were solid, but the examples werent short or concrere enough.

The supporting links also made it hard to get _why_ they were linked without reading the whole article.

Felt more like a blog post.
It's not only impractical, but for U.S. citizens at least, practically impossible. I lived in Switzerland as an ex-pat worker for a few years, so I had a Swiss bank account. Nothing fancy, just a regular post office bank account like 75% of Swiss people have. When I moved back to the U.S. I kept it open with a modest balance since I had a debit card I could use when I was in Europe that kept me from incurring currency conversion costs. Over the years, the U.S. regulations made it very difficult to keep it open. The bank didn't want to deal with it, so they made it hard enough that I finally closed it.

I know why the U.S. does it, but that doesn't mean that I, as an honest taxpayer, have to like it.
I would love to try out being an independent contractor. But I feel overwhelmed. Where do I even start to find work?
The city should be penalized heavily for forcing people to be beta testers.
TLDR: kerosene is really terrible for global warming. If "fire starter" logs are this much of a problem, imagine how much global warming is caused by "smudge pots" - sooty, horrifically polluting burners that citrus farmers burn kerosene, used motor oil, hydraulic fluid, etc. in to try and keep their fruit from freezing during a cold snap.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smudge_pot

We really, really need to stop giving agriculture a pass on emissions.
They should offer a moderated and non moderated server selection choice and let the players decide how to filter themselves
Previously from Willie Soon:

"The paper was strongly criticized by numerous scientists for its methodology and for its misuse of data from previously published studies, which prompted concerns about the peer review process of the paper. The controversy resulted in the resignation of half of the editors of the journal and in the admission by its publisher, Otto Kinne, that the paper should not have been published as it was."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soon_and_Baliunas_controversy

Did it not occur to you to check this?
I’ve tried many, but the featurelessness of TextEdit is what I like about it. “Better” ends up being more distracting. I do like Sublime for actual dev tasks, though.
Hmm, where I live at least (not US) the company still have to act in a way that's in the interest of its owners. They can't do shady stuff just because they're not publicly traded. Or, they can, but it's not any more legal.
This is a reminder that we can, in fact, have Nice Things – if there only were a market for Nice Things.

I'd love to have a decently integrated watch with low battery usage (and generally low stakes for wearing/replacing) which I can also agree with aesthetically. Bums me out that Sensorwatch [1] is the best we can do.

[1] https://www.sensorwatch.net

edit: Sensorwatch is amazing, but not an ecosystem (yet).
Transformers have been industrially ubiquitous for a lot longer than GPT-3, initially in machine translation.
i had never heard of this "smart stuff as a service" before. thanks @codetrotter
Outside of the obvious bias of a site with SF in it bashing Austin.

I'm going to tell the tale of two people. One is a product manager for apple in Cupertino and the other is a product manager for some random non FAANG tech company in Austin.

Both of these guys make $200k which is a healthy salary.
The one guy at Apple, who clearly has a job that has a lot of glory, lives in a 1k sq ft 2 bedroom apartment that cost him $500k. His wife and kid live in Cleveland (to be close to family). He spends 5 days a week in San Francisco and flies back to Cleveland on the weekends to see his wife and kids. His commute is 5 minutes to Apple but he flies out of SFO Friday night (gets into Cleveland around 11pm) and then flies on Sunday after noon and gets back to San Francisco around 8pm. They also did this because his kids would have gone to abysmal Cupertino schools since he could afford a better place zoned for better schools.

The other PM lives in a 3k square foot 5 bedroom house in Austin where he gets to see his kids and wife every day. His daily commute is 20 minutes.

In case you didn't pick up on it, I'm the PM that lives in Austin and my friend is the Apple PM.

I have him over right now for the holiday weekend and i've never seen him more miserable. He told when he sees his kids they change so much each and every week. He admitted that even with his salary, the travel, and paying 2 mortgages (one for San Francisco and one for Cleveland) him and his wife have nothing at the end of each month (thanks to CA taxes). He looks like he aged several years from this lifestyle. He won't be able to take a real vacation back to his home in the UK to visit family because he can't afford it.

My friend is trying to get Apple to let him work out of the campus here in Austin.

Look, I love San Francisco but it has long ceased to be a place where you can raise a family. If you're young (or old and don't care about having a family) and don't mind the rat race, then treat it like you would any over priced metro area. Make your money and GTFO.

In the meantime, I absolutely love Austin. I'm loving the heat, my commute, my house (owning a house in either LA or SF, haha funny), and more importantly spending time with my family in my backyard with the sprinkler.

There's more to life than this rat race and the chill atmosphere of this town is a dream. I wish I never moved to California after my stint abroad.
Periodic reminder that, as a programmer (or anyone who uses a computer professionally/extensively), you need to take ergonomics seriously or you might regret it. The earlier you take it seriously the cheaper and less painful it will be. I was once out of commission for 10 months because of a severe coding-related tendonitis, it was miserable.

I've not spoken to anyone else who was out of commission for so long, most cases of tendonitis clear up in like 6 weeks (not a doctor, not medical advice), but I've met many programmers who hurt themselves.
a triumph of man and machine
Which makes the decision not to fund things like public transit even more ridiculous. But then again, Texas refused to deploy its literal rainy day find when Harvey hit, so it really shouldn’t be that surprising.
What industry is this where all of the ICs you know are making a million or more?
Imagine a huge vat of water, you add some blue food coloring. it swirls around in there, predicting how blue any spot in the vat will be is very hard. predicting the total amount of blue is very easy.

the confidence on global temperature increase is quite high, you can arrive at the same trend that the serious efforts do with a random selection of a couple of hundred stations and without any corrections. I have done this in the past using raw noaa data.

That was sort of my “aha” moment
> Waivers and disclaimers are not a defense against negligently creating a risky situation.

Yes they are. People know the risks and choose to go, it's that simple as far as I can see.

I think any case would be dismissed outright. Although IANAL so maybe not.
Example? The one we were just discussing! Doctors have convinced the government to make medicine a licensed profession, so they got the government to use force on their behalf to stop you attending to someone's ailment.

There's no legal block to you creating your own company to compete with TSMC or Apple or Google, yet, you won't be able to do it. The sheer amount of effort it needs to compete makes it impractical. Entry barriers are usually created by the effectiveness of the incumbents and lack of any way to get customers when you're the worst option.
In the meantime, if you're a member of your local UK library you probably have free access to the online OED using your library card number.
>and generate other pollution along the way. Furthermore, we're digging our lithium brines from the environment, without really understanding what all this lithium will do once it's leached out into the environment or what impact the mines themselves will have.

Our CO2 emissions are warming the Earth and making it unliveable for billions of people in the global south.

The localized toxic pollution problems you mentioned are a secondary problem.
> The US forced countries to criminalize the export of drugs to the US

Are such laws outliers? In how many countries is the manufacture and/or export of drugs (to any country) legal?
Very interesting! Just the other day I've tried proselint for the first time, and became annoyed that I'd have to hack something together to only have it lint over the text in my markdown file. It doesn't ignore code blocks, as it just supports text, as is not aware of any file format.

Vale seems to do this out of the box, which is great, but the suggestion I get, while better than nothing, are still very rudimentary compared to Grammarly[1] (which I haven't used for at least a year at this point).

For example, I've enabled all styles. The alex and write-good ones gave actionable suggestions. Readability however had suggestions of the form "Try to keep the Automated Readability Index (8.83) below 8.", "Try to keep the SMOG grade (11.35) below 10.", "Try to keep the Coleman–Liau Index grade (9.57) below 9". If I knew what that was maybe I could improve my score. Is there another FLOSS tool that can turn those in actionable steps?

[1] And LanguageTool, even if sometimes advertised by FLOSS folk as a Grammarly alternative, it really isn't. Every time I try it, I feel disappointed. Has anyone tried their premium option to see if it's better?
> simply be producing fossil fuels from the waste products of yesteryear?

Capturing CO2 and converting CO2 to fuel requires putting the energy back into the molecules somehow. That requires a ton of energy. So either way don't we need to solve electrification?
And later, when performance becomes important, it is often much harder to improve than early on. Especially with legacy db schemas with a lot of existing customer data.
Okay so where do you get the material to make more trash that would last a few hundred years it would take several generations and hopefully noone experience health problems to achieve this goal.
I see people giving prescriptions in this comment section. I am but a humble seeker. I can not claim to give anyone access to the best knowledge, or even lasting knowledge. Neither, I believe, can any of our fellow commenter. Anyone saying "you must integrate these lessons," or "ignore all else and read these books," are not wrong. They are giving advice that, to them, sounds good and wholesome. Perhaps they are.

However, I would push back against such dogma (and it is dogma even if it is only propagated by a single individual). Here are some of my own personal lessons from my psychedelic explorations:

Do what you are curious about, no more and no less.

Listen to the advice of your peers. Take it as freely as they give it. Yet, if you find no sense in it, also know you are not bound by it.

Be curious. Explore and research the things you do to your body, to the best of your ability, before you do them.

Keep an open mind and an open heart.

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be kind to yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars. You have a right to be here. (Max Ehrmann, Desiderata)

Finally, I believe my best approach to the psychedelic experience is to treat it as a new aspect of philosophy. To me, it is about the art of living well with myself.

I love all you people. Be safe and be kind.
> how we could leverage this new technology to the benefit of the voice actors, by reducing

everyone discussion has someone that’s always like "it'll only assist existing people of that profession"

and here I am training on voices I have the rights to (by simply asking, and with a release form), adding it to media including games with no prior experience, either in some wav output, or rendering dynamically pretty quickly (not quick enough but its coming)

I just don't see the basic economics that support the person with the voice for getting paid for that work at any analog to today's arrangements, and definitely not more. 4 year olds are going to be able to do what I'm doing. the supply will completely outstrip the demand.

I can see studios with prior obligations being committed to giving some kind of royalty, but the history doesn't suggest that those studios will be the one that taps into the market. All of Hollywood exists because it routed around entrenched interests in New York City by going to the other side of the continent and ignoring the contracts, unions and industry cartels. What exactly suggests the same thing won't happen again? That's what I'm missing here. Where is the discussion that puts the feelings aside and doesn't act like they're ignoring that just for the sake of not feeling like they're surrendering.

If I successfully offered something to the market and scaled it up, which I don't have ambitions to do but open to, but if I did and then it fulfills the entertainment register in people's minds and all of this stuff with SAG-AFTRA is moot. If it was procedurally generated trash, the same people that say "I just leave this on in the background" or "its a guilty pleasure" are going to be the same consumers. I just don't see the other outcome, the market is going to get filled with this stuff, and human only content is going to be a novelty for enthusiasts.
I didn't nor do I use Upwork. I'm just saying what the reality is.
Confirm raises $6.2M for generative AI, network analysis in performance reviews
Tech works in cycles, including AI. What's hot today (this year) will be less hot tomorrow (next year) but be hot again in a week (N years). Invest in next week by spend your today/tomorrow learning about it.
I see a lot of different ideas that fall under the flag of socialism, but I keep seeing good results from one disjoint set of ideas being used to justify another which has objectively terrible results.
> That is a fact

No, it's an opinion.
Nor can they verify non-AI assets don't infringe copyright. In both cases they have only the developer's word to go by.
The material in the batteries are valuable enough that it is profitable to recycle them.

https://youtu.be/s2xrarUWVRQ?si=HfRWIIMJbDmFhQ-z