skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the New Yorker article is embellished - as it recounts two conversations he had with a "young man" - when it fact it was a young woman and it was one of his associates and not LeMessurier who had those conversations.

edit:Wikipedia says that Lee DeCarolis came forward in 2022 to identify himself as the person who had spoken to LeMessurier. His story is here: https://onlineethics.org/node/41606
As a dev at a company that almost exclusively uses HOCON for application configurations it's really sad that it doesn't have a bigger audience. I guess Lightbend is mostly to blame for that.

We used it in our python projects as well for a little bit until we hit a bug with how pyhocon handles certain references and we just switched to using the java implementation to serialize configs for python apps into JSON...
Default No to AI Training on Your Stories
Is Snapchat using variable interest loans to finance its operations? If not, I’m not sure how this is true…
Given the Tao idea that the truth that can be spoken is not the truth, is it not possible for both the "hippie on acid trying to be profound" and the articulate scholar-poet to give voice to the same truth through different lenses?
When Microsoft announced Windows Store he was one of the biggest fud spreaders about it. And everyone was praising him about it.
I did one of those once and tried for three months to drive really carefully.

in Boston.

it basically broke me and my driving sanity for 6+ months and made me a really worse driver for a while, maybe permanently?? and my rate basically didn't change at all.
In concept, in a lot of ways: yeah, it fits. Or it's extremely similar in goals and mentality anyway.

In legal terms: it's massively different because non-Brahmin isn't legally recognized as a protected minority race, so there are essentially no explicit guards or support in place.

Pretty much only the legal use of any of this is relevant for a legal blocker on discrimination, so it can get oddly pedantic at times. The goal is to stop widely-known and well-documented discrimination, but the terms are whatever will achieve that in a legal environment.
The Norwegian secret: how friluftsliv boosts health and happiness
I remember my mother explaining that parents will die one day, that sucked.
That makes sense. In lieu of a reliable objective measure of an employee's impact, the next best thing is to trust the managers judgement. I would still question how effective this is at selecting the "unproductive" workers; I guess it really depends on how good the managers are.
Actually, one of the issues I saw in a company with a large Indian population ~20% was that some brahmin would discriminate (and talk smack) about other brahmin (by name/family) who didn't dilligetly follow (eg dietary) rules. I've occasionally seen catholics, baptists, jews, and muslims do sumilar things. A-holes gonna a-hole.
Correct. A large hill/small mountain's worth of debris hits the Earth every year. That includes micrometeorites that without an atmosphere, would pepper the Earth's surface.

It's also the reason why any Moon base would be buried under layers of regolith to protect it. Glass domes on the moon are sci-fi fantasy.
> Using IntelliJ to edit YAML files is a bit much

Not if those YAML files are part of a larger project, which they quite obviously are.
What is that specific technical meaning? A quick Google search suggests definitions for the term are all over the map; Wikipedia aliases it to "code generation," which is a whole family of processes (including program synthesis and model-driven development).

I'm not seeing anything immediately obvious to exclude AI-synthesized code from the "codegen" label.
Towards Collective Superintelligence
The benefit, in the eyes of leadership, might be that the consultants/devs are easier to replace which reduces risk.
Layoffs were 6 months ago.
Apple has invested a lot in making sure that they STAY in "an order of magnitude better position". They know that the ultimate winner in personalized AIs will be whoever has the best edge hardware. That is why they have been investing so heavily in special purpose on-device chips for running neural networks.
You're not understanding the point of the comment. The Flighty team did some amazing engineering work for anyone who doesn't pay.
S-expressions don't have associative arrays (maps/dicts/objects), which are very important for config.
Sure. But you’re on a site called “Hacker News”. I’m not sure that there’s a more perfect topic of discussion for a site with that name.
Again, how did you measure that? Because that sounds like the same kind of MBA crock.
Does this signal that OpenAI is seeing the limits of their own technology being hit just around the corner?

There is already no shortage of investment and hype around their core product - but it definitely does not seem like something you'd want to cram into a physical product, and definitely definitely not something you'd need $1B to develop.

This smells like "Open"AI is on-ramping to the final stage, cashout.

1. Raise $1B for a device blessed with Ive cool-factor for maximum hype and sales

2. Launch this device for $999 ($1299?)

3. Record-breaking IPO shortly after

4. ???

5. Everyone realizes they don't really need a $1k device to tell them "As an AI language model, I can't answer that question" fifteen times per day
> Aren’t castes like micro races?

Yes. A combination of prohibitions on inter-caste marriage and the propensity for the upper castes—the ruling classes—to interbreed with India’s rotating cast of West Eurasian conquerors has lead to genetic differentiation between its castes [1].

That said, clarifying this statutorily is cleaner than punting to the judiciary.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC311057/
That's not really how gravity works. Gravity is time-symmetric, so it doesn't have the kind of “sucking” behaviour that vacuum cleaners or river valleys on Earth have.
This is the situation where net neutrality falls over because there's very often more demand, even at 1.5Mbps for a stream, than an airplane's link can provide.
EVs don’t know or care where their electricity comes from. You can clean up the grid and EV emissions magically improve. This isn’t something ICE vehicles can do.
It would be nice if you could send a POST request to open the door if you want some fresh air.
https://remmina.org/

The promise behind this sounds like the holy grail of Remote Access.

Is it Linux-only for the clients? Or can you use Mac and/or Windows to reach a Remmina server?

Edit: looks like it is RDP protocol compatible? If so, WOW, that's cool!

From https://remmina.org/authors/:

> I've been using Remmina now for several years. I love how it's integrated into Ubuntu by default and how I can access the multiple platforms I have to support in one application. I mostly use RDP and VNC (Ultra VNC).
IANAL but I think you're basically right, however judges and lawyers are human and may not be aware of these finer granularity "micro-races". I'd like to think this bill is a case of "explicit is better than implicit"
You mostly have to ignore these AI solution hopefuls.

They're living in a momentary dream that AI LLM tools will solve all our coding problems. They don't and reality hasn't hit them yet.

I don't know any real seasoned dev who is getting a 30% boost because they installed Co-Pilot. The tools poop out too many errors/fake-garbage to be useful to devs working on battle hardened codebases.
Isn't caste a hierarchical social system? Are races hierarchical?
> have to study Zen and Buddhism.

You will get the most from Taoism by studying it with the mind of a beginner or a child than entering into it with preconceived ideologies.
Cant wait for first 2 to 8 GB ram swap hack. Power button is nice, but implementation in custom PMIC once again means its unrepairable https://hackaday.com/2023/03/24/dead-raspberry-pi-boards-pmi...
Probably about the same level of smooth as getting X Windows working well on Windows.
"If your top 10% productivity workers just got a 30%+ productivity boost"

Is that really how it works? It seems like the biggest gains are actually in the less skilled segment.
Same, with Gnome it worked amazingly well for me. I didn't even have to install anything since it's built in to Gnome (under Sharing -> Remote Desktop)
Are you from the area? I was under the impression this place is a vast open field, surrounded by farm land. Can’t imagine how you would restrict access.
We've thought about this question a lot at Mito[1], where we're building a spreadsheet that code-gens Python code for you as you edit it. For us, it's been useful to decompose the question of "what code-gen is good for" into a few sub-questions that help us think about how generative AI approaches effect us:

1. Why is it necessary to generate code in the first place? Can you just skip to the "solution?"
2. Why is just writing the code by the hand not the best solution?
3. So you do want to do code-gen, does it make sense to do it in a chat interface, or can we do better?

As a Figma user, I'd answer these in the following way:

> Why is it necessary to generate code in the first place?

Because mockups aren't your production website, and your production website is written in code. But maybe this is just for now?

I'm sure some high-up PM at Figma has this as their goal - mockup the website in Figma, it generates the code for a website (you don't see this code!), and then you can click deploy _so easily_. Who wants to bet that hosting services like Vercel etc reach out to Figma once a week to try and pitch them...

In the meantime, while we have websites that don't fit neatly inside Figma constraints, while developers are easier to hire than good designers (in my experience), while no-code tools are continually thought of as limiting and a bad long-term solution -- Figma code export is good.

> Why is just writing the code by the hand not the best solution?

For the majority of us full-stack devs who have written >0 CSS but are less than masters, I'll leave this as self-evident.

> So you do want to do code-gen, does it make sense to do it in a chat interface, or can we do better?

In the case of Figma, if they were a new startup with no existing product and they were trying to "automation UI creation" -- v1 of their interface probably would be a "describe your website" and then we'll generate the code for it.

This would probably suck. What if you wanted to easily tweak the output? What if you had trouble describing what you wanted, but you could draw it (ok, OpenAI vision might help on this one)? What if you had experience with existing design tools you could use to augment the AI. A chat interface is not the best interface for design work.

ChatGPT-style code-generation is like v0.1. Github Copilot is an example of next step - it's not just a chat interface, it's something a bit more integrated into an environment that make sense in the context of the work you're doing. For design work, a canvas (literally! [2]) like Figma is well-suited as an environment for code-gen that can augment (and maybe one day replace) the programmers working on frontend. For tabular data work, we think a spreadsheet is the interface where users want to be, and the interface it makes sense to bring code-gen to.

Any thoughts appreciated!

[1] https://trymito.io, https://github.com/mito-ds/mito
[2] https://www.figma.com/blog/building-a-professional-design-to...
I don't see any reason to believe that Tesla stories are specifically targeted for suppression by the HN software or mods/admin. The topic is highly polarized, lots of people always get downvoted and flagged in these discussions and this triggers automatic systems for flamewar suppression. Compare the rank trajectory of this discussion to other equally polarized and contentious discussions and you'll see that nothing special is going on here.
> This framing assumes that the teaches had an accurate risk assessment, and the parents didn’t, but in retrospect we have seen that depriving kids of socialization was much more damaging to the kids than covid exposure was.

A few thoughts in response to that:

1. This is not the assessment of my friend at all. His kindergarden, btw. remained open during the whole pandemic and the parents that made him question his life choices were the once who sent their kids despite clear symptoms. So the children that have been deprived of socialization we are talking about here, are the ones who were ill. Something that happened to literally every generation there ever was.

2. In that moment the risks that were weighed against each other weren't just about the kids. Kids were one of the biggest contributers to the reproductive factor of the virus. So the choice was between moderating that R-factor so it is smaller than 1.0 and have the infection numbers go down or having it above 1.0 and risk saturating the health system (which can only handle so many infected people at once), which would also risk the lives of totally unrelated people who never got infected with Covid at all, but had chronic illnesses or accidents.

So on a level of "humanity VS virus" it was pretty clear that A) reducing the R rate till effective vaccines got distributed is a good strategy and that B) we had to ensure a good balance with the side effects of said reduction measures. At least where I live children have been the hottest discussed topic and every measure that affected them was very carefully (some would even say: too carefully) chosen.

Now we could do the math and calculate how many human lives that would translate too and then pose the question whether the "business as usual for kids" is truly the ethical right choice, given it clearly pumped up up the R factor and all that. On the one track you potentially have kids with psychological problems (back then this was just a guess) and on the other side with near mathematical certainty a pile of corpses, which are all older.

Now this is a hard ethical question and all depends on just how badly you predict those kids are affected, and how high that pile of corpses is going to be — but let's not forget there is always the benefit of hindsight.

Back then it was quite clear what had to be done to beat that virus. The matter of discussion was just whether individuals and organisations were willing and able to do it. Many were able, but not willing.
How do you measure everything you are claiming?
I’ve always wondered why I get slack and email notifications when I’m on a Southwest flight with free messaging without paying for wifi. You’ve finally solved my mystery!
How are they damned if they do?
Does anyone use YAML 1.2? It fixes many of the problems with YAML, but I've not seen it in the wild.
I highly doubt that brand-new Raspberry Pis and used PCs on eBay have anywhere close to comparable failure rates.
How many of those apps are wrappers around a browser through?
Snap also innovated by figuring out how to drive obsessive-compulsive behavior among teens with snapstreaks. And even getting them to pay to restore snapstreaks if they missed a day. This is what the brightest minds of our generation are working on.

https://help.snapchat.com/hc/en-us/articles/7012318024852-I-...
Huh? It’s perfectly okay. My wife and I have the same rules, and neither of us feel hampered by it. We don’t seek out opposite sex friends, and most events are by sex anyway (sports, board game groups, book clubs, etc.)

Even at the gym, men hang with men and women with women. It’s just how it goes.
I was a consultant and worked for Citicorp in that tower in the mid 90s. Someone that I worked with told me this story. I don't remember anything else about the project, but I remember him explaining how they had gone in every night to weld plates across the joints.
Yes for statute miles, but it is also one nautical mile per hour
If you can't describe a thing, then you have to talk around it and hope you given the listener enough contextual clues that they figure it out for themselves.

Given that, 81 chapters seems appropriate for an amorphous subject that we can't yet define in language.
There's also a rust implementation:
https://github.com/fralalonde/strict-yaml-rust
Herbert Marcuse
Airlines, coffee shops and similar entities providing Internet as an ancillary service were not subject to these rules when they were in effect.

The rules primarily target ISPs selling directly to customers.
- the "shin jin mei" of sen ts'an

- "On Zen" by Daio Kokuchi

- "Shobogenzo" by Dogen. I especially venerate the loose translation (or paraphrasing) by Brad Warner.
Breast MRI is usually done prone, and scans of the sternum or sternoclaviclular joints.

It doesn’t seem to make much difference, but maybe I just haven’t noticed? I did have someone who was too claustrophobic to have a pelvis scan request to go in prone (and look out). We for the scan but it was a bit compromised as the hip joints then moved with breathing.

Probably relevant, breast cancer and possible outcomes is a lot more scary than a sprained knee.

Some things that help include giving a mirror to see out, a blindfold or showing patients that both ends are open.

It’s definitely related to control somehow. Patients try to negotiate how far they go in or to come out for a few seconds. I always bring them out at that point, but once that starts it rarely ends with a complete scan.

Subjectively, the rate of claustrophobia is going up. This, despite scans getting quicker and scanners larger and more open.
This is cool - thanks for sharing
I agree that the term "self-service analytics" (especially the 'analytics' part) and "insights" just passes the wrong image of the real need of business users out there. It mixes 'strategic insights' with 'operational needs'. And I think self-service needs to be about operationalizing data. Sales managers are not necessarily looking to 'analyze' data or 'get an insight'. They need answers from data to manage their team. They need to track well-defined KPIs. See how their salespeople are doing and be able to have a productive meeting to tell them what they are neglecting. Customer success people need to "pull some data real quick" on the usage of the product by a certain client before a meeting.

These things happen all the time. And yet most companies out there think that the solution is to just build a bunch of dashboards, foreseeing what everyone will ask in the future. And then nobody checks the dashboards. Or finds the right one. And then they have a team of SQL translators pulling data for ad-hoc questions. That's silly IMO.

I'm obviously biased as a founder of a self-service analytics company based on AI (https://www.veezoo.com). But this is just my 2 cents on a topic I really care about.
game engine companies keep me being amazed by what they build, but their businesses don't seem to be very profitable?
There are a lot of guides out there like:

https://unboundsolar.com/solar-information/diy-solar

https://www.renogy.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-diy-offgri...

You may also want to watch some YouTube videos about how other people have installed their own. Mostly they are off-grid, but there are a few grid-tied systems as well. For the grid tied systems I would recommend buying plans like dymk did. A bill of materials and a plan will help a ton.

Based on the kit DYMK showed in his breakdown I think he used SelfSolar:

https://selfsolar.com/your-solar-journey/
Inso 8.0 – Scratch Pad, SSO, Real-time collaboration, AI testing
I tried to change the flight level by PATCHing altitude, but it seemed to require authentication. Oh well.
I thought these were some good ideas. In my experience I vacillate between "omg the singularity is here" and "this actually isn't that good for X specific task".

I very much trust the output of LLMs to be well-designed, but I don't trust things to just work, especially if the system is complicated. I experimented a bit the past few days doing a task myself (building an interface in an existing project), using AI assist, and trying to get AI to solve completely (GPT-4). The solve completely pathway failed and I found myself in an interminable loop. AI-assist was a solid experience.

Anecdotal but consistent with Figma's observation
> So, Microsoft Edge now comes with an equivalent to Apple’s Private Relay

It's only 5GB for free. Microsoft doesn't have a paid option yet so we'll have to wait and see what that costs.
This is a common stereotype, but wholly inaccurate on both sides. We in the West are coming out of a long cultural period several centuries where that sort of analytic, rational style has been particularly popular, so it's easy to mistakenly assume that it is representative of the entirety of Western philosophy. It's not.

Likewise, we in the west are in a period when certain specific Eastern philosophies, notably Buddhism and Taoism, have become widely known and popular for the first time in the West. It's easy to mistakenly assume that they are representative of the entirety of Eastern philosophy. They're not.

Western philosophy has a deep and broad mystical and esoteric tradition that routinely does what you describe as an essentially "eastern" practice. More recently, postmodernism discards all that analytic precision in favor of vague impressionistic primacy for one's personal experience, and has become by far the dominant philosophy in many parts of the west. Postmodernism was (according to its progenitor Martin Heidegger, who was incidentally a Nazi) explicitly and profoundly influenced by Taoism.

Eastern philosophy, on the other hand, has its own well-developed "excruciating pedantic detail" traditions such as Legalism[1] (among others) that routinely do what you describe as an essentially "western" practice. They have been profoundly influential in Asian thought, yet they are not currently popular in the West, so we just don't think about them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legalism_(Chinese_philosophy)
Don't Die e-book by Bryan Johnson
It's about inflation (see https://www.ecb.europa.eu/mopo/strategy/pricestab/html/index...), but there's a relationship because their interest rate informs the interest rates across the region they maintain monetarily (practically the baseline, where every other lender adds their margin on top), and the interest rate is the strongest tool they have at their disposal to adjust inflation rate.

So the central bank interest rate isn't targeted to be 2%, but it will be somewhere close to it: too high, and they drive inflation well above 2% all on their own. They can stay lower for quite a while (see the past ~15 years) but that was already considered an emergency situation.

Before 2008, the ECB moved between 1.5% and 3.75% (https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/policy_and_exchange_rates/ke...) with at most 16 months at a time above 3% which was followed by a bump down to 1%.

We'll have to see where things go from now, but the recent shift of their language towards "2% in the _medium_ term" indicates to me that we'll stay in the higher end of the spectrum for a while instead of quickly trending down again.
How is the software support? That’s the main thing keeping me on rPi. I tried Pine64 and it was terrible. Never could get my PineBook Pro to boot reliably.
To me this sounds like competition driving down prices, which is great for consumers.