skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I for one have had an incredibly great time that I've greatly enjoyed getting to hang out & socialize with all kinds of coworkers. I'm so glad I've gotten to connect with these people, in a less pressured way that the actual work environment seems unable to replicate. I've learned so much about people's lives, and learned so much background, and shared so many interesting stories.

This feels like the end ya'll; another scary nail being driven in. I'm in a top 10 city in the US. At least half the establishments used to be open till midnight every night, and now the city is going to sleep at 10:00. The meetup scene has collapsed; the industry has literally no social functions left for people who do want to opt in to hanging out & shooting the shit & swapping tales. The city center is dead as shit; no chance to swap stories & mingle there. My work division used to do trivia and board games and happy hours and all sorts of other things, but we've lost headcount and lost critical mass & lost the social drivers; now it's so hard to get people to do stuff. Tonight was a pretty nice all company happy hour and almost no one from my division was interested. It was a great night.

I've been at places where a lot of people had to really plan & make sure it was ok for them to do social activities; home or other commitments kept them busy. But every place I've been, folks have been eager to hang out, even if just for a bit. Sometimes there've been slowdowns but the resistance now feels new & difficult, unprecedented to me. I know I'm over-projecting my current experience, but I can totally see & immediately grasp where we are a as a crisis point, where common bonds & worthy good cameraderie - not corporate run, top down edict, but genuine bottom up socialization - happens. I don't know what the world looks like if we lose these cohesion points, if we stop having exchanges.

There's a lot of good reasons for negativity & skepticism. There were real costs. But fundamentally I think that view is twisted, that it is wretched & sad to not acknowledge & embrace the opportunity & to recognize the upside. The world has, in my view, become far more quiet & isolated, & not all workplaces are great, but I hope many people have had good workplaces & good colleagues & can recognize some merit to having better than formal at-will as-necessary purely-industrial relationships. I don't want work me to just be a robot.
Yes, I pulled the numbers out of my ass - just like you did. It's just my opinion and I was just trying to make a point with an example - not hard facts. I never presented it as hard facts.
Everything in your first paragraph usually flies at a typical suburban Courtyard Marriott in the USA. However your story took place at a 5000-room megaresort in Las Vegas, where security has to be much more serious. Most visitors appreciate that.
I’m pretty sure alcohol, cars, and guns do more harm, but good luck making them illegal.
Can folks help me a little here, please. Sure this is an awesome announcement. I now am considering to buy a ChromeBook even more seriously.

My reluctance is, can Google, tomorrow (before 10 years) feel that, ahh no we are bored of this so let's not do it. Google has a history of introducing stuff that people start to rely on and then kill it; I still wish Inbox had not been killed by Google.
I sure hope so. I like piracy, porn, and gambling and would be extremely pleased to be directed to any business in those categories that chose to sponsor an open source game engine.
Interestingly, we actually do exactly that, although our underlying LLM is OpenAI-based, so we would have avoided the error in the first place :)

> I disagree with the idea that this is basic human anatomy

When I say basic, I mean something taught in second or third year anatomy or physiology courses; or first year medical school.
i'm a big fan of hardware token - connected via usb/nfc!

especially because there is no need for a mobile device and they are fairly cheap.

and: because they are cheap, i'm using at least 2 per account/service where such keys are supported.

if i lose the one on my (physical) key-ring, i always have a working replacement at home ... :)

just my 0.02€
I assumed he meant; 'lingering unease ( among mathematicians) about physicists playing it fast and loose with pure and pristine math'
Thanks! I will look into it.
> It's so curious that Dawkins, of all people, seems to be complaining that unorthodox thought -- that is to say, a rejection of traditional religious doctrine -- is expressible in the English language.

That's not what he's "complaining" about at all. In fact, quite the opposite - that certain political and/or religious groups are _making it impossible_ to express unorthodox opinions that run counter to their dogma and catechisms, and that this is being accomplished through the control of language.
But in that case there is a meeting of the minds where one party is supposed to read the terms and object to any that are unreasonable.

It's very different from the situation where one party retroactively changes conditions.
If it's truly like that, you're usually not recruiting at job fairs but through friends and friends of friends.
I think this is actually a reasonable middle ground. People who want to get high can do so cheaply, without brands with large marketing budgets pushing people to do it and having drug dealers in our central business districts.
> I don’t just distrust the study, I distrust the model and the risk assumptions put in place.

We're talking about the most studied food additive in history. There isn't a single study or single model we're talking about here, it's a large body of evidence.

> I don’t need a nanny state to shove down my throat things I don’t want. For what it’s worth, I’d be happy for everything to be deregulated and everyone taking their own decision.

Then be comfortable making your decision that way. There's no need to misrepresent scientific consensus to justify a dislike for aspartame.

The fact of the matter is that "aspartame causes cancer" is a claim which is not supported by any rigorous science by anyone with any "model".
Fake ID? Did you read the story? He did not have ID with him when he requested a replacement room key.
OkCupid’s problem wasn’t pursuing the “marginal” user but rather not being able to capture the “mainstream” user and staying niche, while Tinder was the first dating app to bridge the divide. Tinder did it by making the experience less awkward and more casual, similar to how most people start flirting and evaluating each other offline: by looks and vibes. As a result more people were on the app and there was more choice, which sealed the dominance.

I tried OkCupid for several months in 2013 without much success. Then I tried Tinder for a few months the same year and met my wife. Very different experience from the author of the article.
Jordan Peterson has some interesting thoughts on how the psychology behind environmentalism, wokism, social justice warriordom etc. has a lot of overlap with the psychology behind religion. And when he says that, that's not a shallow dismissal of something he disapproves of, because he's actually pro-religion.

The problem is the fact that people who hold these viewpoints see religious people as their enemy, so they're weirdly blind to how they themselves are religious. And it's a young and immature religion that hasn't yet been through the formative historical chapter of the Spanish Inquisition, the witch hunts etc., and the reckoning that followed. History will repeat itself.
Since the example was golang, I personally love uberFX to define modules and dependencies between modules. When you do it that way, unit tests become really easy.

It isn't necessary with golang to do this at all, but it really helps build consistent structure throughout the entire app, so I do it.

Speaking from personal experience. I built a small golang process that ran on around 25k worker machines. It had to be bug free cause if it crashed and stopped running, it meant updating a whole lot of computers across multiple data centers, by hand.

We unit tested everything and the project worked out really well because of that.
Due to the way surface tension works, many fewer than 1 in 1000 water molecules are wet.

There’s a kids science experiment where you coat your hand in the right powder, dip it in water, and it comes out dry. I can’t find a link to it though.
I hate asking the question "is this function called from different places, or was it extracted only for aesthetic reasons?".
I'm against drug prohibition in general. I think it has been an abject failure. Strong regulation makes sense for the most dangerous drugs (cannabis certainly isn't one of them), but I don't think any drug should be illegal. I don't believe it's the government's job to save you from yourself.

Making a habit of driving 100mph on a motorcycle will probably kill you about as quickly on average as either of those drugs, and is more dangerous to other people to boot. Should motorcycles therefore also be illegal? If not, why not? If the goal is to stop people from hurting themselves, why are you only focused on one particular way that people can hurt themselves?
Something to note is that this not only impacts water pipes, but also building foundations. Foundation damage as a covered peril on insurance policies in Texas is not common, and it’s already the #1 state for foundation failures.

https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/long-stretch-excessi...
I get that the WSJ needs to run these sort of pieces every so often to sell papers, but "No One Wants [Whatever]" think-pieces should be treated the same way as the overly-speculative question headlines that led to "Betteridge's Law" in the early 2000s.

Office culture, like the rest of culture, is cyclical. People are reactive, and tend to move in herds. Given an intense external stimulus like the pandemic, we should expect to see waves of behaviors propagating out through time for at least the next few years.

During the pandemic, nobody was in the office, so right after the pandemic, there was a boom in office socialization (in some quarters). Now, apparently according to WSJ, the pendulum is swinging back. This isn't indicative of very much, except that there was a big shock to the office-work social system and it's still not stabilized.

In particular, it's not especially suggestive of what the steady state will be, once these perturbations diminish.

I think we probably have several more back-and-forth cycles around everyone-works-from-home! vs. 40-hours-in-office-or-bust!, before the market works out what the relative value is (to the employer and the employee) of having people in the office and paying for a physical office for them, vs. the flexibility of working from home and of having a potentially international hiring pool. There are benefits and hazards for both parties in either arrangement.

My personal feeling, just based on how the job market has tended to stratify in the past, is that we'll see multiple approaches within each industry/sector, based on how fundamentally creative the work is.

The organizations in a particular sector who are really pushing the boundaries of that industry, who are actually advancing the state of the art, will likely be in-office cultures, because nobody has yet found a substitute for in-person communication particularly as it applies to creative problem solving. But those will represent a small tip of the workplace iceberg, sitting atop (and demanding higher rates than) a larger volume of companies whose work simply isn't that fundamentally creative or challenging, and have to compensate by offering flexible / WFH arrangements, and actively court the employees who are more interested in work-life balance than in working in their industry's version of the Manhattan Project.
How about this: most code has hard chunks or even sections that can be nearly impossible to figure out without a significant time investment. We can skip the intermediate steps and just move straight to a document that explains the architecture so that we may stop trying to jump through hoops to avoid writing non-comment documentation.

The amount of places I’ve worked at that don’t even have accessible DB schemas is mind-boggling.
End to end tests only, for you! They’ll find your bug in 30 minutes or you get your money back!
Author's Mastodon post: https://fosstodon.org/@north/111057335768073441
Well, I have seen in many of the other compilers that there is a limit on certain things, sometimes there is a limit on the number of lines, or number of executions, someone is asking for a sing-up etc. I tried to keep it completely free from any of these. That's why "freecodecompiler". (and I don't store the code)
In that case the real secret is how to convince your clients they are getting 6x the service level of a 2k customer while really giving them the same thing.
The risk of explosion cannot be overemphasized.

Methane will ignite when in concentrations of 4% - 17% in air, but with hydrogen the range is 4% to 75%. Hydrogen also has a higher flame speed than methane. (Boom!, not Whoosh!)

Given hydrogen's propensity to escape from containers these properties make it unsuitable for domestic uses.
Crypto miners stabilize the grid; they don't hurt it. They're compliant with the current regulations.
I use 'ruby-units' with ruby's 'irb' in order to do complex unit calculations. It's an excellent library and with some helpers one can write:

(U('45 mi') / U('1.20095 gal')) >> 'km/l'

It doesn't come with an imperial gallon, but it could be added. It's also fun to do stuff like:

(U('3.99e33 ergs/s') / (4 * Math::PI * U('1 AU')**2)) >> 'W/m^2'

To get the potential available solar energy output at earth's average orbital distance from the sun usefully expressed as Watts per Square Meter.

Anyways, what I really got from unit analysis was a more useful and fundamental understanding of electronics. Getting an intuition for how Tesla's relate to Weber's relate to Volts and Ohms and how the Coloumb relates to the Ampere and Siemen and how they all combine into Henry's and Farad's both to ultimately lead you right into Joule's and Watt's. I really wish I was taught the material that way.
2.5. The guy who reads the abstract then skips to the figures.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

Yeah bare metal is hard that's why it made me sit up a bit when I read your comment.

PEEK AND POKE was precisely what I was thinking of!

I guess there could be a layer of psuedo-assembly that has a common target across platforms but easier said than done. WASM is interesting and RISC-V just got my mind racing which lead to thinking about FPGA's etc!

Sorry, getting a bit carried away these are just thoughts not requests :D

but how cool would it be to have a RISC-V processor either on or coupled with an FPGA for 'ROM' that booted directly into Endbasic and gave bare metal access.

You're talking full time team there though probably or certainly someones life work.

EDIT: Sorry I somehow missed your second paragraph re: linux init etc which makes a ton of sense.

A long time ago a crazy friend and I tried to write a wifi 'driver' for BBC basic using the socklib library and got surprisingly far (in emulation).
How much could car price be reduced by eliminating non-required technology?
Sure it does, they are great storage OSs. A NAS doesnt need GPUs.
It didn't have search, trending topics, DMs, a web version, non-Instagram account creation, or availability in Europe. All are very popular. No real innovation over Twitter either, but that's not unexpected.

This is excusable in a normal startup MVP, but not when you promote it all over Instagram.
How do you keep your keys up to date? Or, if you need to onboard a new key because you lost one, how do you know it's been registered with all your services?
It seems to me, depending on the town and where I live geographically around it, I might still find having an EV to still be easier than an ICE. If you're like 50 miles outside of the nearest town, you often don't have many options for getting gas. Depending on how things are, it could be a bit of a hassle. If most of the amenities you're going to visit (the trails and what not) are within around 100mi or so from home, the EV is going to be an easier vehicle most of the time seeing as how you can just "gas up" at home instead of potentially having to make a long trip into town.

And speaking from a self-reliance mindset, wouldn't being able to fuel your vehicle with energy you can produce off-grid be even more anarcho instead of being reliant on massive global supply chains to get your weekly/biweekly fix?

But I do get it, if you're routinely driving >100mi deep trips into the wilderness its not reasonable to have an EV. Currently. Maybe things will be better in a decade, maybe they won't. I imagine the world will look a good bit different in this regard in a decade.

It definitely all varies based on where you are and what you need. I'm definitely not one to argue all vehicles should be EVs, I do think people should be able to make the decisions which are ultimately right for them. You actually do pull a boat to the lake a good bit? You actually do hit up offroad trails? You take your horses around in a horse trailer? That's awesome, have fun. But I do see a good chunk of people who aren't honest with themselves about what their actual needs are, and overall it leads to sub-par outcomes for a lot of society. People driving giant pavement princess brodozers to their office jobs in dense urban areas all because there was that one time a few years ago where they helped someone move a couch and hey wasn't that just so handy. They impart a lot of negative externalities on the people around them.
I share similar feelings.

<armchair anthropology time>

I recall a recent genetics study[1] concluding that the homo sapiens (or direct ancestor) population bottle neck was ~1000 people for about 100,000 years.

My mind immediately wondered whether that length of time was long enough for some evolution to occur that reflected those conditions. Surely that world was insular for the people/hominids and extreme enough that survival was at the forefront of nearly all behaviours and social phenomena.

If any of that rubbed off on our genetics and all of human evolution and history since has not provided any sufficient forces to alter those traits, then it stands to reason our psychology is somewhat hard wired for catastrophic/post-apocalyptic in-group survival defensiveness/aggressiveness beyond even our animal/primate cousins.

All of that rests however on what time periods are required for evolutionary changes. My vague memory of studying a tiny bit of population genetics is that big changes can happen pretty quickly if there are factors capable of altering the size of the population substantially and that persist for a few generations.

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Otherwise, yea ... seems pretty obvious to me that our world (global society) and its complexity is very much a "reach exceeding grasp" scenario for our species.

Generally, I suspect greater stability and prosperity is rather possible but would require a drastic change in what we prioritise in our education and upbringing, where I would guess that we have a fundamental choice between what is compartmentalised or distributed in the way of social thinking, processing and decision making. It seems to me we've de-prioritised the average ability of the population to effectively participate and understand broad social and economic issues and decisions, and, are instead emphasising specialised/compartmentalised economic roles.

Naively, I would propose that investing in more distributed social/economic understanding would be better for society at large, which has arguably taken place with modern wealthy western civilisation. But, in line with my armchair anthropology above, I wouldn't be at all surprised if plugging more humans into the broad social issues of the day, however good attempts at their education etc have been, will naturally lead to tumult and division that is inevitably irrational and driven by inapt or misaligned psychological drives.

Going sci-fi on this ... it's curious to think about whether the "great filter" may simply be whether a species evolves intelligence etc by following only a narrow, and therefore unlikely, set of evolutionary paths or biological/geological histories that confer the required innate traits for being able to scale up to larger and well coordinated civilisations. Like, could the ice age dynamic of our planet have limited the possible evolutionary paths a species could take to those which make population scaling difficult and unproductive?

[1]: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq7487
The MAGAS have taken over the GOP. Rank and file GOP now openly espouse Qanon precepts. It’s standard fare to speak of gutting support for Ukraine and of support for Putin. We witnessed a physical coup attempt Jan 6th, rallied by Mr Trump and yet his GQP colleagues are literally running interference for Trump, attempting to stymie any attempts at accountability.

Barring some extremists who call FDR “radical”, I cannot see the case for “both sides ism”
It’s apparent to me that ONE party has chosen attempting to gain ABSOLUTE POWER in lieu of helping the nation or staying true to the constitution.

The stacked Supreme Court is a point in case: McConnell blocked Obamas single appointee that he had a right to appoint and this was a violation of the constitution.(no mention of election calendar in appointments)

Trump then railroaded through Congress an unprecedented 3 justices!
Unheard of. Absolute power grab. No surprise that they overturned Roe v Wade.

I see América on the precipice and the GQP trying to push it over the edge.

If Trump gets in in 2024, we won’t see presidential elections again. He admires banana republic dictators and hates due process
https://archive.is/9A6fx
The biggest Bluesky exploit is not mentioned in the article, which is they hold your private keys.
Because the user/writer is completely unimportant in an endless flowing sea of anonymous text.

I reject both of those assertions.

Authorship matters. Comments are not anonymous, but optionally pseudonymous, where reputation (karma) is explicitly tracked.

The significant point of karma tracking isn't the accuracy of that karma, but the tracking of it. Other measures, such as flags and moderator admonishments, are also presumably tracked, at least by mods.

All imply that reputation is an integral element of Hacker News participation.
We have laws preventing 100mpg speeds on any vehicle. We also have laws that govern how a motorcycle should be driven.

The government can't ban everything that has a risk of death. You could die if a tree falls on you randomly. The government isn't going to ban trees. It has to do with the magnitude of the problem to society. Motorcyclists getting killed, although a problem, is not that high of a problem to society in the US.

Are you a software developer or work in tech? There are millions of things you can do to improve your product but you always prioritize the most important ones first, right? Best bang for the buck. And you'll likely never reach the improvements at the bottom of the list.
Sort of like a Goya in a Harrod's handbag?
The Generous Space of Alternative Game Engines
I guess the system worked around that limitation by hiring people with ideas and have them sign NDAs.
Gaussian Splatting: The next big thing in 3D [video]
Reminds me of something they mentioned on https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Billion_Dollar_Code series: Google asking small startups for a sales offer, copying the startup instead, and using the offer as a shield against future lawsuits (look, they only thought it was worth X)
Also, the Java sample starts with the C comment. It still works, because it's the same syntax, of course, but it has the wrong content.

Edit: my bad, I totally just clicked on the wrong one!
Read the source, it's a few hundred lines of code. It's very much possible to treat is as your own app code and "maintain" it.

Kudos to the author, the best thing about this is that the source is concise!!