skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was in SFO 2 weeks ago during a layover and overheard a guy talking about being on his way to Austin to do a final walkthrough of the house he was building there. As a Texan with with over 30 years of living in Austin under my belt I asked him how much time he's spent in Austin before building a home here. "A few days he said." I asked him if he's aware of the temp difference between SF, where he declared being born and raised, and Austin and his response was, "Yeah, but it's so much cheaper."

This was a week after eavesdropping on a man at a concert venue talking to someone about recently moving to Austin from SF and being stunned at how little there is to do here. How when he lived in SF he could easily get to the mountains and the beach and there were museums and events outside of Austin's limited music and BBQ scene.

All of that to say none of them are the brightest bunch. They move here because it's cheap and they visited during SXSW or ACL when it wasn't 120 degrees and they they thought "it's so cheap and fun here" without looking at the big picture.
No more queuing at the border: Finland tests digital passports in world first
“A new study published in the scientific peer-reviewed journal, Climate, by 37 researchers from 18 countries suggests that current estimates of global warming are contaminated by urban warming biases.

The study also suggests that the solar activity estimates considered in the most recent reports by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) likely underestimated the role of the Sun in global warming since the 19th century.”

https://www.ceres-science.com/post/new-study-suggests-global...
"Product states are multipartite quantum states that can be written as a tensor product"

"In the special case of pure states the definition simplifies: a pure state is separable if and only if it is a product state."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separable_state
I can't predict what the future will bring in this sector but I'm in the process of building a house and had to undergo through the architectural process and planning (by hiring professionals of course not going at it on my own). I am surprised of how advanced things are with building construction, eg with realtime rendering, unreal engine 5 integration into autodesk revit, actually making changes and being instantly visible with photorealism feels like science fiction. All quantities for materials are calculated automatically which makes cost estimations much more accurate and allows you to play with options and iterate designs in a way that wasn't possible before.

Of course construction is not only for buildings but for someone who had no experience in this sector I was caught off guard expecting to see old fashioned blue prints.
I believe that optimism is the only solution. Yes, it's pretty bleak, we got economic systems relying on GDP growth with corporations acting as governments, but if we decide "degrowth isn't realistic" then we automatically lose.

A tactic that "big oil" et al especially likes to use is to paralyze action that could've been effective if acted on, with doomerism like "oh the climate is too messed up to do anything about, why bother"

By believing and spreading optimism, we will see improvement. Which is also why I'm leaving comments like this haha.
Yet another business model that doesn't add up if you account for all negative externalities. Do you think the founders of these companies knew that before starting?
Inoperable without the robot, which can reach deeper where hand controlled instruments wouldn't be able to.
Hey, Kavita creator here and noticed you don't have any mentions of Kavita for epub readers. Kavita is not a Calibre replacement, but has a built-in epub/pdf reader along with some series-based organization.

https://www.kavitareader.com/
That's not a "problem", it's a choice. Other examples where your "solution" isn't applicable is any code editor/video editing software (any software really) with multiple panels. Software generally don't render as a bunch of floating windows, they render a single window with multiple panels.
> growing ineptitude inherent in so many of our institutions, where despite huge leaps in technology, nothing works, no one is accountable and no one cares.

People who make this argument about "growing" problems so rarely have numbers to back it up.
Not OP but yes absolutely. Run your own physical infra or fail
Did you ride back to the location on a sidewalk and carrying another person on the scooter? If yes, then fuck you very much and you’re the reason I wish rental scooters would GTFO of Prague (where I live and ride my own e-scooter). If no, then I’m honestly sorry about the majority of absolute cretins taking away a great means of transport.
I always struggle with keeping my writing clear and concise, maybe because English isn't my native tongue, so this looks like an incredibly helpful tool to me. Does Vale.sh have the ability to check the prose used in comments? Using this for doc comments would be useful for writing better documentation. The example only shows it being used for markdown files.
Designing a simple analog kick drum from scratch
This was fun. Managed to get a dude in an electric guitar thrown in so Jon Snow could vibe to it in battle.

Unfortunately, the game was stuck in a loading spinner just as Ned Stark rose from the dead and arrived at the battlefield in a Panzer tank.
> HR will definitely reject someone because of the title of a blog post.

> I've worked with some very talented HR people.

No doubt, since apparently you expect worse than useless it's likely hard not to exceed your expectations. What a buffoon.
I don't understand all the debate. The _law_ is that when an emergency vehicle is behind you, you pull over to the side and make as much room as you can in the center of the road. The vehicle did not move out of the way, the company should be penalized heavily, as would a human driver.
> Development of an automated driving option is a safety-critical context, and that requires real-world deployment experience.

All the more reason not to fuck things up at this stage. Precautionary principl is very appropriate with new tech in a safety-critical context.
The only BRICS members with both large and growing economies and militaries are India and China. Calling the others poor and weak isn't trolling, it's just an objective statement of reality.

As for Niger, it's not a member of that bloc nor has it even been invited to join. Regardless of how much uranium they export, they will never have any influence over the international financial and trade settlement system. So, I don't know why you would even bring that up.
> What's the argument for having a laptop?

Nice keyboard for typing.

> Do most people care about 80% of what it does? Especially when I just want to edit some docs, browse the web, and use a few apps?

ChromeOS provides that minimal experience.
>One significant problem with making your hardware dependent on an app is that if you are a washing machine company, you probably don't make mobile apps.

>I tried doing my laundry without a smartphone. This proved to be difficult, since our laundry machines can only be operated with a smartphone app. After lots of struggle, I finally managed to do it, leading me to reflect on whether technology is actually making our lives better.

The problem, as I have been endlessly ranting on HN. Is that everyone now think of Tech, and uses the word "Tech" to mean Software.

I only wish I am wealthy enough to start a NO-Tech trend. i.e Zero or minimal Software. No more digital panel in a microwave, no more endless menu washing machine, No more Smart TV or Smart Fridge. The actual Technology should be in Atoms, not in Bits. Making Washing machine cleaning cycle faster and cleaner.

Apart from InkJet Printer, the so called Smart Appliance is the next one on my hate list.
How would it happen? On a global level, it don't think it will. But that doesn't prevent us from applying it on a local or personal level.
These news sources don't actually care. If you've followed SF news for any length of time, what you'll realize is how extremely thin-skinned they are about any criticism.

"Doom loop!? Stop making it worse."

As if bad press is the root of the problems they face. What that regional tech industry morphed into post dotcom-bubble was a machine that required interchangeable, replaceable butts in seats to financialize existing business models. The city of SF, the Bay Area region, and California as a whole recognize this centrality was key to their successes and less about talent than they'd wish.

The VC community there, which is notoriously trendy and short-term, realizes that they have no leverage or advantage without that concentration. Hence the panic (that's been going on well before COVID).
It shows the state of each replica's log. Click on the leader and select 'request' to simulate sending a command. If you take a replica offline, you can see that it falls behind and then gets caught up when it comes back.
Pluggable hybrids (PHEVs) have never been taken seriously by politicians, here in EU, and I think it is absurd.

Most Europeans make short commutes, so these cars have a sufficient range for the vast majority of drives. They are cheaper, much lighter, and building them uses a lot less energy.

Plus, existing designs and assembly lines can be easily adapted to PHEVs. And in case of long commutes, there is always a gas engine to fall back to and therefore no range anxiety.
Bicycles are dangerous in the US because there isn’t a bicycling culture: The bicyclists (that I’ve seen) treat it as a sport, and the cars don’t navigate around them as if the bicyclists are suicidal, which is the safe assumption to make when you come from a bike-heavy European capital.
Tight logos. Nice work.

Yes, respect your process first. Clearly.

All dreams of growth are insubstantial, comparatively.
That is the leading theory, but we don't have any real proof of it.
The one (very modest) trust I have some first-hand familiarity with, I'm pretty sure the effort and legal/accounting fees over the years long ago negated any tax savings associated with it.
EVs also don't solve the other issues with cars.

Like how deadly they are, microplastics and pollution from tire/road wear, noise in residential areas, the huge waste of area, expensive upkeep of infrastructure, how they make cities less inhabitable etc etc.
Someone died. Stop and think about that for a bit and tone down the stupid "but logic!" BS. Recognize that we don't know exactly what happened and it's worth digging into. This is a great time to practice empathy instead of stroking your ego.
Interface design is, to me, purely an exercise of human compromise. I'm always a little bit amazed and baffled by the people who see it as a fundamental operation that can be understood in it's own terms.
oh no dont speak ill of Ycombinator's startup bros. You will get downvoted!

Loved Justin.TV and how they helped shake up the media industrty up ... all the start-up bro ethos followed there successfully helped kill and bring new media business models (all the Frasier, Seinfeld, etc 24/7 channels on Justin.TV). Awesome!

Applying that same killing it here theory (Cruise trying to rapidly .. rapidly expand in many, many cities while Waymo with its WAY better track record as of late August is expanding to only one city .. Austin) is just down right deadly as we seen with Travis Kalanick's version of trying to kill it and in turn killing a pedestrian. Who cares if you kill business and in turn new business come from that .. that's awesome but killing people to kill it and win this race. Irresponsible and disgusting and again they're expanding to 5 to ten more cities (Nashville, DC, Austin, etc, etc) yet causing chaos in San Fran (Waymo is not & they have been working on this tech since 2007).
It is not a fact we have to allow these corporate experiments on the roads with our sons and daughters.
Mushrooms are incredibly varied, and I feel you just have not experienced good/strong mushrooms. I had trips which were indistinguishable from dmt.
It is much, much too late for "maybe some other process will save us". Electric card are the solution that is already working. If we had all electric cars then transportation would no longer be the biggest problem.

We will not have spare renewables for a long time. They are all devoted to residential and industrial.

If fossil fuel companies wanted to fund solar to hydrocarbon, the time was three decades ago. Now they need to realize that electric cars are technologically simpler than the vast complexity of internal combustion, and they cannot reclaim that with "but wait..." any longer.
> If you're borrowing money using a mortgage in order to invest in stocks, that's probably not particularly smart.

If you have both a mortgage and investments, that is almost literally exactly what you’re doing.

If your mortgage is below a 4% rate, this is almost certainly a great idea. If it’s above that, it may be a reasonable approach (up to a point).

I have a mortgage at 2.375% and I can assure you I intend to pay it off over the full 30 year duration. Every early payment is an enormous opportunity cost compared to leaving it in the markets over the remaining duration.
> And more importantly, property taxes can go as high as or low as needed which keep downward pressure on home prices.

The major downside of this is that it forces out the lower income folks who originally owned the property. I saw so many families who bought houses 40-50 years ago in Austin who had to leave because of the property tax increases.

If you’re serious about laying down roots in a town like Austin, you have to be prepared for wild increases in property taxes, which can really eat into your portfolio long term.
TL;DR: old human hand based surgery breaks the jaw to get to the area of the throat where the cancer was. Causes lots of complications after; or is simply deemed too hard.

The robot is more dextrous and thinner and can do the surgery without breaking the jawbones.
You do realize that while the artists, animators, and programmers you're talking about actually make a liveable salary on that, the voice actors mostly don't?

It's gig work that you're incredibly lucky to get a consistent amount of. And it takes a lot of training. A lot of these people are servers at a restaurant or drive for Uber to make ends meet. They're not making programming-level money on the side, nowhere even close.

The union is trying to ensure that the minimum payments for voice actors are reasonable, and that if you do get lucky enough to get a decent amount of work during the year, that it is something you can live on. (And remember that you'll probably audition for 50+ projects for every 1 project you land.)
This is an odd article. Just a massive Elon hit piece with little of substance.

I'm certainly no fan of Elon but this is not journalism, it's just an I-hate-Elon blog.

It makes the typical lazy assumption that all EV charging happens at fast chargers, which is not even close to being the case. Most people charge the majority of the time at home, and in California, approximately 60% of electricity delivered to your home comes from carbon-free sources.

The site linked to from the article, "Elon Musk Today", is kind of interesting. It claims to track things that Elon said he would do, but hasn't, and sure enough there are plenty of these, but it includes things like making X "The Everything App" and starting a program to research how to convert CO2 into rocket fuel.

Are they really complaining that these things haven't happened overnight? That's just petty.
Nokia N91 with a Hard Drive
I think this illustrates well an issue I have with the whole clean code thing. Utilizing slightly obscure language features isn't unclean, some times they're the cleanest solution.

Some people may not know what currying is and be confused by the code, that's okay. They can ask or Google it and then they understand.

The important thing is that the system itself is clean, that code is organized in a way that makes sense so that everything has a natural place to be etc. Loose coupling is a big one.

People talk too much about shot that doesn't really matter like names or whatever. Sure they're important but that's like saying conditional statements are important in programming. Yes they're important but it's week 1 stuff. Learning to do good work takes years, we're way past naming and stuff.
I have never figured out how average global temperatures can be such a sure thing. Where I live (rural US) temperature forecasts for "right now" are always off, sometimes by three or four degrees. Currently the NWS says it's 98dF out, while my own thermometer reads 79dF, almost 20 degrees off!

I imagine this inaccuracy is because the nearest stations are over four hours away. I also imagine four hours to the nearest station is common for a large portion of the globe. I suspect this difference in forecasted temperature and the actual temperature is increasingly large the further back you go in time.

It seems like there is a lot of noise and dirty data to be so confident about a couple degree increase.
imo it means that you should also own a place to live in.
Focus on the basics and seek what’s profound. For example, you might learn a ton from implementing your own computer algebra system, and the code is extremely valuable, but also extremely basic. The difference between 10x engineers and average ones is a tolerance for busy boring work like strict TDD (test driven development).

Learn about strength training and cardio. Taking care of your body pays dividends long term.
Comparing Hardware Wallets
> Charge the operating company with a ticket

I agree, it seems like such a trivial solution to implement that I am baffled that no western city has done it. Laws against blocking pedestrian spaces surely exist already so they only need to be enforced. If car rental companies can designate parking spaces for their cars, surely scooters can too.
while some might disagree with the politics of CA and that's their reason given the chance if affordable, a lot of people would choose to live in CA and around on the of the 3 coastal cities.

We moved from NYC->SF->Denver->San Diego and CA always pulled us back once we left.

My wife isn't from the US and from a third world country. She said something that stuck with me. You have people in her country that wanted nothing but the chance to live in the US and then you had those that hated it and laughed at everything wrong with the country. She said they secretly would move in a second if they won the green card lotto but just make fun of it because they will never get a chance to move to the US.

I have a feeling CA is a bit of the same for some people.
I have been hearing about Da Vinci for years and Wikipedia says it was being for 200,000 surgeries back in 2012. [0] The manufacturer claims there are about 7000 of the units.

Is this remarkable? I would imagine that it saves thousands of lives a year.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da_Vinci_Surgical_System
Great article.

It seems like the classic music industry is in many ways like the VC model. Fund/invest in many startup bands, with the goal that one in a hundred get huge and return massive profits.

The end of the article talks about Bandcamp as an alternative, which is in some ways analogous to YC.

Is this an acknowledged similarity across industries? Are there other industries that have a similar model?
We believe that decentralization and centralization are not in opposition, but rather complementary to each other.
No link to the map, no picture of the whole map. Unbelievable.
I quite enjoyed the BBC’s take on this story: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66682673
Nitpick, "The core purpose of graphics in a GUI is not to be pretty" - Maybe for programs where it is for user reading and modifying data. But I'd argue that is only a fraction of interfaces. Small business websites are very much made to look a certain way, to make you feel the business is competent and trustworthy. You only really need the data that is their phone number or contact details or inventory specifics.

But yes, data-based UI is just assembling data in the shape that a human brain can download faster, which can be more efficient if tailored to be brain-specific (e.g. a notes app is laid out by the user who will consume the data).
Middle-aged guy complains people don't seem to care about him and everything is going to the dogs.
You reminded me! Yes, it needs to start from the local level, in an organic way. But doing anything locally and organically is already winning (participating in local communities is a sorta solution to problems like logistics and politics)
You don't punish the individual, you punish the company. Then the company can access logs and pass the cost to the customer that violated the rules.
Yeah.

I have a dedicated outbound sales person who pings their network for referrals every few weeks. Their job is to weed out noise + educate + convert hourly to project based billing

Went into a lot of detail on Reddit a couple years back here

https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/ommiww/commen...
90 seconds is fast. It’s often longer than that. Besides safety straps, there’s leads, transfer from scoop/backboard to the full stretcher, bags, goo, more secondary vitals to take..
I don't use GTK, Qt because macOS provides its own UI toolkit (+electron etc). I don't use MySQL, I use Postgres (not copyleft). I don't use Blender. I use the default compiler of the OS, so I don't use gcc. macOS switched to zsh (not copyleft) so I don't use bash either.

GPL isn't wildly popular by any possible definition of the term. It was more popular in the past which is why there's a base of software that still uses it, but find me new projects written in the past 10 years that are GPLd. Especially if you look at language ecosystems like JS, Python modules, whatever. Very little GPL there.

The purpose of the GPL is to create a self-reinforcing free ecosystem that outcompetes the balkanized proprietary hellscape that preceded the free software movement.

Well in that case no, it utterly failed. Most popular client operating systems today: Windows, macOS, iOS, Android. Only Android uses GPL components, only the kernel, and the hardware is typically proprietary with no portability anyway.

Most popular server operating systems: AWS, Azure, etc. They use the Linux kernel to provide your software with basic services like TCP/IP and timeslicing, but otherwise these are fully proprietary platforms with their own APIs, own filing systems, and which you can't even run locally at all regardless of how much you're willing to pay.

GPL's influence had its heyday and peaked a long time ago. It isn't a threat to anyone because it has been universally rejected by the current generation of developers. Hobbyist hackers use Apache/BSD licenses, just as corporate hackers do. Neither support the principles of copyleft, and even when code is released under those licenses Cathedral-developed operating systems with no development community to speak of dominate.

BTW, Microsoft release their IDE for Linux because it costs very little to do so and Linux is no threat to them anymore. The world moved on, Azure is the new Windows and people struggling with Wayland are fighting yesterday's war.
> Scooter driving in an illegal manner? Charge the driver and the company.

As someone who frequently has to dart myself and my puppy out of the way of these jerks—almost always on a narrow sidewalk beside a busy arterial—this kind of sounds nice. But I can’t imagine how it would work. Even if I could scramble fast enough to snap a picture while keeping pup safe, would it be actionable?

As it is, on the rare occasion it’s just me out walking I’m content to play chicken with them and try to hold my ground. But I don’t take those chances with pup, and trying to get evidence (however useful) would involve the same risk.