skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But I don't know if any training really makes someone a good people leader who didn't already have some natural talent at it.

I think that inherent talent (by which I mean "a deep and genuine interest") is important in any field of expertise, including management. But I also agree with Adam Savage's opinion on this: you can achieve 80% mastery of anything through practice. Getting that last 20% requires talent.
>It's hard to imagine highly valued (either culturally or monetarily) art without scarcity.

I disagree entirely. The Mona Lisa's value is greatly expanded by its free availability -- the one-off image on my wall is scarce, but it will never be a cultural icon, that is antithetical to scarcity.

A value of art is reflection (the mental process), but this is magnified enormously if society can reflect on the work, reference it, abstract from it, view it and develop freely from it.

Great pop songs are great because everyone has heard them and we have shared experiences around them. There is no such thing as a scarce pop song.

(This is one of the great crimes that arise from copyright terms being great than a couple of decades, society doesn't get to riff on the important icons of its recent past.)
> In NYC, people are nearly all strangers and in a big hurry

Maybe you've only been in midtown Manhattan? I live in a Brooklyn neighborhood where we bump into people we know constantly and no-one is rushing around madly.
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I use old vintage touchtone phones on copper lines at my stores. I use them because they just always work, even when the network is down and the power is out. Now Bell Canada is starting to send me letters saying they are discontinuing support for copper lines and that I have to switch to fibre even though it costs more and I already have the internet connection i need from a different company. Very frustrating.
Guinness world records are well defined and some are kinda arbitrary. In some sense, I'm sure the driver is there to satisfy the rules of the world record. In another sense, I'm sure they're there to have a load of fun, too.
That's some of the most blatant language I've seen in a while on the topic of class warfare.

Labor needs to organize and wield the power they hold.
Been using YNAB for 7 years and have been pretty happy with it. They use the “envelope-based” budgeting philosophy as well
see also: George Lucas "fixing" the star wars movies and making the originals impossible to find.
Phrased a different way, but yes, we're saying the same thing.

The AI revolution is actually just the next increment in automation of all these things.
Youre right that my list is wrong.

Downside to HN not having editing and deleting, is I cant retract my misinformation. And I earned 7 votes for that nonsense. :/
Also, which of my 1,000 test suites are flaky, and when did they start being flaky?

Flamebox almost got this right, but groups by wall-clock instead of git sha:

https://flamebox.sourceforge.net

The screenshot is most of what there is to see. Clicking a test run opens the test log.

Does anyone know of a currently-maintained alternative with a less-bad dashboard?
I keep hearing conflicting accounts of ROCm. It is deprecated or abandoned, or it is going to be (maybe, someday) the thing that lets AMD compete with CUDA. Yet the current hardware to buy if you're training LLMs or running diffusion-based models is Nvidia hardware with CUDA cores or tensor hardware. Very little of the LLM software out in the wild runs on anything other than CUDA, though some is now targeting Metal (Apple Silicon).

Is ROCm abandonware? Is it AMD's platform to compete? I'm rooting for AMD, and I'm buying their CPUs, but I'm pairing them with Nvidia GPUs for ML work.
There is much more to documentation than just API documentation. A documentation window in a text editor isn't shareable either.

Also, who'd actually want hand-holding from low quality content?
I like this analogy. To all intents and purposes, that's a diamond. To all intents and purposes, this is pop music.
Still wouldn't get close (in the performance sense, where the effort to time gained is logarithmic in nature).

This car weighs 309 lbs. The batteries alone in a Model S weight 1200 lbs.
god i love django. it could use a little bit of modernization and modularization to ease the json api and deploy pain points, but it's still the best python web framework by a long shot and it would be deserving of way more manpower than it has.

but emoji laden docs and 500/month patreon pay better than contributing to established things i guess
Yea it just vents. This might seem odd but it’s cheaper than maintaining a cryogenic cooling system. Very well insulated containers are cheap and heat gain only occurs along a surface where they’re storing a large volume. So losses per day end up being trivial when they’re only paying ~0.5$/pound and selling it for 3$/pound.
I'm not sure what you're talking about. You're not audio recorded when you vote. And voting doesn't provide a more publicly verifiable, accessible record than a court record does -- today, you can sue an employer and make statements in court.

I'll have to bow out of this convo at this point I think as we seem to be talking past each other, or at any rate you seem to be talking about something different than what I thought we were discussing.
Unrelated, what does "TFA" stand for? The only thing I can come up with is "the fucking article", which I really doubt is correct.
Maybe? But as they say, necessity is the mother of all invention.
I tried to make a TEC chip dry ice maker. It was hard to manage all the heat the TECs made. I ended up with an elaborate water cooled device with a large copper block acting as a thermal mass interfacing with a TEC tower and 3d printed insulated chambers etc. I got a little bit to freeze, and I could get temperatures close to freezing nitrogen, but eventually my wife made me clean up my huge mess in the dining room.
Killing the Plus plan is the worst part about this. The cheapest paid tier is now $2000 / year, putting it out of range for side projects.
Ample pay to hang out with your friends, and skilled editors?
That’s great, courtroom drama sounds like an excellent angle.

I was thinking of “king hearing petitions” as another potentially interesting scenario; it could go either into minutia that requires cultural knowledge, or strategic stuff like the game Crusader Kings where you need to understand the geopolitical allegiances of the time, the geography, and the national economy.

More generally I have been wondering if games like “start a company in a simulated sandbox world” could actually teach transferrable Econ/Business/startup skills. There is a lot of territory to explore here.
Honestly, Unreal C++ isn’t that bad or hardcore. It’s fairly high level, and Unreal APIs are pretty well designed. You spend way more time dealing with Unreal specific stuff and your game objects than dealing with C++ issues.
Ahhh, that makes a ton more sense now. As one of the aforementioned soda-bottle-bomb-making-youngsters, I had no idea what people's legitimate uses for it were outside of party tricks.
It's crazy to me in 2023 we're still writing new C/C++ code for something with as enormous an attack surface as a web browser.
For anyone interested in “The Art of Prolog”, which seems to be quite expensive as a print book, there is an Open Access version available as a PDF at MIT Press:
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262691635/the-art-of-prolog/

I might be buying the book if I really like it to support the authors, but it’s great that they made it available for everyone.
Finley (YC W21) is hiring customer success managers in software (US remote)
Covid patients breathe out large amounts of virus early on
Scott Aaronson made a comic with Zach Weinersmith that explains quantum computing in an entertaining way:

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-talk-3
> The notion that bigot is primarily synonymous with "racist" is a modern change;

And primarily a US-American one, it seems to me. I wasn’t aware of his change, and the definition marked as “obsolete” above is actually what I think of as the word’s literal, non-metaphorical meaning.
Share the game!
If you don’t want to be their customer, that’s your own free choice, but it still doesn’t mean that they’re getting their email lists from illegitimate sources.
How does that work exactly, because at some point the JVM must call the native socket/file/etc API’s right? That isn’t any difference than in .NET, is it?
Like many people, I took a college course that talked all about Socrates and we read the Apologia and stuff.

I had assumed that it was basically all fiction. That there was some guy who kept being annoying by asking questions, so much so that he was put to death, it's just a little too cute to be historical fact.

And that all of us discussing this stuff as if it actually happened is actually just an exercise in reiterating the truthiness of the underlying idea; that if we said it was fiction at the start, we'd be doing lit analysis, rather than philosophy.

Right?
Worth noting you are ignoring the 30% that app stores take off that gross, which Unity still counts against you.
> Like I said, Python or any other language can fix this issue by changing the entire mindset of how documentation is built.

Please, please, I beg of you, in the name of all that is holy, do not push for SEO bloat in documentation!
i mean, the vocals sound like they belong. the entire song sounds ai generated - bland, vacuous. sounds exactly like when i turn on the car radio in 2007. might as well just say fuck it, put out a full album of ai tracks. go wwe, its fake wrestling who cares.

we're about 3 years away from ai making 5 star sounding tracks with vocals and lyrics.
Still have the Data Becker book on my bookshelf, in German: Amiga c fur einstieger. It thought me C and German at the same time.

Also had the full series of amiga reference guides, which is actually available online: https://archive.org/details/amiga-intuition-reference-manual...

Rom kernel ref guide is also nice to see again: https://archive.org/details/amiga-rom-kernel-reference-manua...
I have installed the apk directly right now from an old old source. I am going to try the f-droid version again soon and see how it goes.
TAG EVERYTHING - I'm with the sibling comment. I highly recommend the templater plugin.

Just choose a template immediately that has the creation date, and tags.

Tag your notes, just attempt to be consistent with the tags. Obsidian has some crazy powerful plugins that let you build it to your workflow - but if you start by tagging everything you'll be set moving forward.

I personally like the unique note creator to prepend dates.

Quickadd+Commander lets you make buttons for individual templates. Dataview is also very useful.

It took me two years before I really started personalizing it, I currently have templates for "regular notes", "weekly meeting", and "q/a notes". I'm adding notes to list my #wip as well
I’ve thought about getting a home phone again. Ready to give up my old mobile and tired of tracking. But a lot of things in life require a phone number, even if many of those times it should not.
1. there's no clear indication whether the Tor userbase grows. Indeed, I would suspect the constant mobile is a hindrance
2. There's no clear indication in which direction the online CP people grow. They can be more or less over time. I am unaware of any studies because it's obviously extremely hard to measure.
You're arguing in bad faith, just stop, you've been a total dick to the community and you keep digging this hole deeper.
How often do they update their baseline?
> I thought T-Mobile significantly cracked down on SIM-swapping internally

They've cracked down so hard that the only way to do SIM swaps is to talk to a human who can be (and still routinely is) socially engineered. Self-service changes have been blocked for over a year "to enhance security".
And on the other hand, you have the community setting up achievements that I would argue are pretty bad. Parasite Eve, for example, has achievements for beating each boss without using the game's magic system.

https://retroachievements.org/game/11277
Energy harvesting makes more sense for ultra-low-power IoT sensors with a battery life of 2-3 years being extended to 5-10 years.
> I'd take a step back, and ask what makes art (music, visual, etc) valuable.

> To that, I'd respond "scarcity."

What is your definition of valuable here?

If you're referring to value to culture/society, I think you're very far off-base. The most culturally valuable artistic works are ubiquitous, the opposite of scarce. Art isn't really able to have any culture influence if it only impacts a small number of people.

If you're referring to monetary value, you're also dead wrong lmao. Look at the top 100 most-paid artists of the last decade, and tell me how hard it is to find and appreciate their entire artistic catalogue for yourself.

The argument that scarcity = artistic value doesn't have any basis in fact, and is the sort of thing that would only be shilled by someone trying to con you into buying an NFT.

> It's hard to imagine highly valued art (either culturally or monetarily) without scarcity.

hahahaha what? Compare the monetary and cultural impact of that one "ultra-scarce" Wu-Tang album (monetary: $2m, cultural: none) to the impact of Taylor Swift's last album, which is available on every streaming service (monetary: $200m+, cultural: very high)
To be honest, people are saying that we should have never abandoned the gold standard, which is a bit more nuanced.

>The gold standard is effectively no policy because it gives control of the money supply over to control of the gold supply.

Hayek (he too had an econ degree I believe) could argue that advocating for the gold standard isn't necessarily advocating for "no policy." It is advocating for a different kind of policy, one that places more trust in market mechanisms rather than central planning.

>Advocate for better policy.

No matter how good of a policy you have for predicting Roulette numbers, your policy will be just as good as choosing at random, and most likely worse. Hayek would argue that there was a "knowledge problem" and no amount of econ degrees can solve it.
You've said a lot of the things I was getting at.

> Hatsune Miku is a red herring I think.

I don't think we'll get more of these.

> I expect we'll see more Milli Vanillis too.

Completely agree, and definitely what I was saying.

> Possibly there will be curated such avatar/music generators, and more than likely, many of them will be naked.

I would make the case that pop musicians would be less popular if they freely got naked. The teasing of maybe being able to see a bit of rarified (and real) flesh is definitely a big part of the equation, which you're not likely to be able to reproduce with what people think is an AI.
Or possibly reinstalls, or even something like the user hitting the "generate new ad ID" button. Do they clarify such situations?
I agree, but some people also like that kind of thing to prove how far they got in a challenging game. So for that I think some retro games would really benefit from that kind of achievement. Like the famously difficult games such as Ninja Gaiden, Battletoads, etc.

Also, some of these "pointless" achievements can be used as a negative proof. For example, the lack of a "weapon used" achievement with the presence of a "last boss defeated" achievement proves you beat the game without using that weapon. This allows players to contrive challenges not foreseen by the explicit implementation of an achievement.

Now, one issue is that on basically every platform, achievements are tracked per ownership of the game, so you can't scope down the achievements like that unless you only ever play the game with that challenge in mind. But in RA specifically, whose accounts are not tied to ownership, you could potentially make an account just to track a specific challenge, and have a public record of _your_ achievement.
First you learn the conventional wisdom.

Then, you learn that the conventional wisdom is wrong.

Finally, you learn that you didn't actually learn the conventional wisdom the first time around, typically by rediscovering it yourself.
Is that "telemetry" or just "low-effort achievements"? Lots of modern games have low-effort achievements, in part due to requirements to put in achievements even when the game developers don't want to do so. (Some games do a great job integrating achievements or even making entertaining gameplay elements out of them; others, not so much.)

In the case of RetroAchievements, perhaps someone was enthusiastically adding achievements to that game without thinking about how fun they'd be?
> The mainstream Christian theology is that Jesus will return in order to wage war on non-believers and secure earth as the heavenly dominion of the believers

That's really not the case, not in the literal sense anyway. Also pretty much all mainstream Christians do not spend any significant amount of time thinking about when will Jesus return and and what will happen then.

> Then Jesus can come with his flaming sword and slaughter ~billions of people.

I bet if you asked the pope what he thinks he'd say that's not what the Catholic faith teaches and he's literally infallible (well technically only in very specific cases but let's just ignore that since we're just saying stupid edgy stuff for no reason).
It's good to question things, but this does not imply Bitcoin is a good alternative to what exists. Bitcoin has lagged index funds and inflation considerably since even early 2021. Anyone can cherry-pick the bottom like in March 2020, but if you want to play that game, since late 2017, when Bitcoin peaked at 20k, it has still lagged something like QQQ and other large cap tech investments by a large margin. Overall, Bitcoin has too much volatility and comparably weak returns--that is, investors are overpaying in terms of volatility relative to what they get in terms of gains, which is indicative of a very poor sharpe ratio. The days of getting rich quick with Bitcoin like in 2010-2017 are over for good. At best maybe it will go up 30%, but the gains never hold anymore.

This is why shorting Bitcoin is so profitable, and I have been shorting all year and late 2022 with great success whilst being long tech stocks. Unlike stocks, there is no constant floor of buying pressure from buybacks, the fed, earnings, etc. Management can prop up stock prices with hype/bogus PR, but this is not possible with Bitcoin. No amount of bullshit or hype by Cathie Wood , Peter Theil, Larry Fink and others is enough to make Bitcoin go up even a little, and whatever little gains it does muster, are forfeited in hours or days.

There is no need for Americans to hedge inflation with commodities or Bitcoin given that the US dollar is the global benchmark of wealth, in which all other wealth in the world is measured against . The dollar falling 10% against the yen does not mean Americans become 10% poorer, unlike the converse for Japanese people, or other other ex-US country that udnergoes currency collpase. Real estate and stocks have proven to be good long-term hedges for inflation and preserving dollar-denominated wealth. Already, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq are up big this year, having recovered most of 2022 losses.

Again, even if you think the fed is a 'force of bad' by creating asset bubbles and other problems, this does not imply Bitcoin is a hedge or the answer.
Why is it so important to get back? That implies people need to go there, I think? Why?

And would it really not be possible to get to Enceladus and back (w/o people)?

The gravity there is so much less than the moon.

Or is it just the distance to and from Enceladus, and possibly nothing for a slingshot?
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I think loyalty in this case would be better described as tolerance.

I hate Cox Cable. Seriously, I fucking hate them with all the vitriol I can muster. Even just last week I called bitching about the fact that I'm paying $170/month for an internet connection that hasn't stayed up for more than an hour over the past 3 weeks (I'm paying for extra bandwidth to be able to backup data).

But I've been with them since the 90's because there are no viable alternatives and every time I call AT&T they refuse to tell me which areas they serve fiber in. years ago I was once told by an agent that they have an agreement with Cox that they confirm or deny given a specific address but they cannot tell callers which area they have fiber in.

So I tolerate them because the alternative is clearly worse.

That's not loyalty, that's lockin. I'd absolutely drop them in a heartbeat if the alternative was reasonable close in performance.
This has already happened in one way for many years, in emulators/simulators of pinball games. The Pinball Arcade does this, and has its own leaderboards for the achievements.

It works by monitoring the internals of the pinball computer emulation, either looking directly at the RAM for cases where the memory locations are known, or at the display output for alphanumeric or dot matrix patterns that announce a particular event such as a jackpot or multiball or wizard mode.
It’s certainly possible, but is it a good idea? Would be interested in general sentiment from those working in that codebase. (Though FB uses Hack so I think there is a general tendency at Meta to scale whatever happens to have been used to build the first version, rather than decompose and rewrite some pieces.)

IG’s Django must be pretty weird since the ORM will be driving Tao/Ent, rather than a normal SQL database? I wonder what the code looks like.
I know what you meant, but I feel compelled to be pedantic and point out they aren't really "self-powered", except the ones with a crank on the side, and even then that was just to initiate a call. The power comes from the switch it is connected to (though TBF to your turn of phrase they are "self powered" in the sense that the signal lines and power lines are the same).

As far as the old Bell System went: if you look, the old CO buildings have big parking lots around them (sometimes on all sides, and fenced off; other times actual parking lots on one or two sides. Those used to have huge diesel tanks in them (dunno if they still do this). The basements of those buildings we full of -48V batteries (dealing with H2 outgassing was an engineering issue). IIRC they were supposed to have a week's capacity, though that seems implausible to me.

Our current system is more capable but much less resilient.
Once the map between entanglement and exponential parallelism is clear, quantum computing becomes a breeze /s. Seriously though, entanglement is the root of what makes quantum computing useful.

One subset of problems that are solved exponentially faster are those that intersect with tensor products. Entanglement essentially "is" a tensor product of the probabilistic state space of two qubits.
Most Unity games are mobile apps. Some suits probably saw the numbers on installs and saw dollar signs, but never thought about if it was a viable pricing model for most of their actual customers.
It probably had a vortex tube in there. I've seen them for sale, but never really had a need for enough dry ice to ask if it was worth buying.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex_tube
it rlly be fuzzy
Remember: It's impossible to criticize a business for unilaterally altering previously existing deals (this change is retroactive) because you should have been able to see in the future and know ahead of time that this change would hurt your business and thus Unity was the wrong choice.
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