skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right turn on red is the best American invention
Information like this--the link and the discussion--is why I love HN.

Unlike others, though, with posts like this, I'm thinking about wood stove use and burn piles in my part of rural America. What does the Census data say about the use of central heat? What is the health of those who live around me and rely on wood stoves? What can be done locally to transition folks off of wood stove use? What positive health impacts will we see? What can be done via public education to reduce the installation of fireplaces in new homes?
This argues that humans are evolutionarily superior to cats. Which might have some sort of bias, given that you are (I would assume) human.

That being said, I honestly don't know and so I'm asking; have we homo sapiens lived longer than cats in our current evolutionary form? Or are cats more "stable" and long lived than humans today?

Because I think maybe it's possible from an evolutionary point of view, that maybe, the author is right. That cats are a better description of evolutionary success than humans.

Cats might indeed be stuck in a local maxima. But maybe humans are too? I'm not seeing a lot of new variation in our species and we aren't really living much longer.

Granted, humans populate better (even grossly) compared to cats, but that's maybe not the only marker of success. And we are seemingly heading towards self-destruction as a species, which is definitely not a marker of evolutionary success.
That would help the startup scene (at least in the form of less risky VC), but real estate I'm not sure. Canadians are mortgaged up to their eyeballs. That 5y due date is coming up for a many folks with 2-3% mortgages, and will add a $1000-1500/mo drain to their budgets. Canada is not a place where you can easily capture a 12k/y raise.
Yes, exactly. And agreed, it’s not clear. (Hopefully I conveyed wide error bars, my whole point is that certainty seems unjustified at this point in time.)
Gödel Escher Bach? Or maybe that’s just me!

Gonna get through it one of these days…
HN is superficially liberal (in American terms), as a side effect of being a technology community: technology causes progress. I have lived in the American South my entire life, and see that HN has a strong, conservative undercurrent.
I actually don’t doubt Musk’s sincerity. He’s always been an opinionated user of the platform. I still think he’s under the impression he bought a technology company, not a media company, and has stopped listening to contrary opinions.
This is a really interesting read, thanks for the write up. I had no idea they were running these customer services on k8s, given that it is untrusted code and containers are not the best isolation layer. Are there any pointers on how Render approached running untrusted code in k8s?
It's possible much later in career when you establish yourself in a certain domain. You become valuable enough that you working half the time (or even just consulting) is more valuable than 2 other employees.

But people who can do that are also probably in positions to retire early already. Either with PhD's and 10+ years working on some now-extremely-valuable tech (think AI if you worked on it in the 2010's, or data science in the 00's) or some otherwise reputable name in their industry.
What a wonderful experiment! My favorite type of posts on HN.
Its basically just sprint demos. I wouldn't do them every week, monthly is fine.
Spain might be a bit more sensitive about it due to the 2004 Madrid train bombings. Trains to/from Barcelona might also be considered high-risk due to the Catalan independence movement.
Have you considered using py-appscript to trigger AppleScript events natively from Python?

https://github.com/hhas/appscript/tree/master/py-appscript

I’ve only ever used the Ruby version of Appscript to be honest, but if the Python version works the same way it would seem to be ideal and would obviate the need for AppleScript entirely.
The only real solution for pedestrian safety is to remove cars from roads through severe pedestrianization.

Until we have the courage to put the value of walking and biking in front of the value of parking and the fear of traffic, our roads will continue to be unsafe for anyone not in a massive SUV.
Yeah kind of. I think of it like DRY though. Most people aren't good at interviewing. Everyone does some random thing they think is better then the rest. But really it's uninformed. Just like you wouldn't implement your own hash map for most cases, you don't need to do a technical interview for everyone. I had one company do three seperate coding rounds. How many candidates do they have, what a waste of time for everyone.
You'll need a new bucket for Software Version: Never
Agreed! After blocking Twitter I either see nothing where an embed is supposed to be, or only see emojis rendered in the middle of an otherwise blank area.
> What is the range of uncertainty on that system after 3 decades?

On a NUCLEAR BOMB? Who cares if it's 50% bigger or smaller than expected? These are not precision weapons.
Your picture of the human condition predates the agricultural revolution. That doesn't mesh with your idea that evolution happens in the blink of a couple generations.
It could also be illegal activity, e.g. insider trading.
Bitcoin has had plenty of time to see widespread adoption. Its numerous flaws have become apparent and the ecosystem is so infested with scams and get rich quick bullshit. Good luck!
I did this too! Not on a notepad, but on a Royal typewriter, age 10. My dad had a telecommunications consulting business, based on a remote Univac mainframe he rented time on. He'd bring his Texas Instruments Silent 700 printer-terminal home from work, and I'd sometimes get to play Adventure and what-not if he wasn't using it. I vividly remember typing my first BASIC program on the typewriter, one afternoon after school, and then waiting excitedly for him to get home so I could actually type the program into the terminal. (Pretty sure the program was: 10 PRINT "HELLO" / 20 GOTO 10.)

EDIT: This would have been ~1976.
Hahah, oh dear, and you claim to be early 60s too? And yet here you are still acting like a teenager on the internet. It's fun to be young, but you have to put it behind you at some point.
I took the opportunity to learn an alternate KB layout (Workman) and I think that has been beneficial for my hands, which are average to slightly smaller than average, so QWERTY movements like T are a slight stretch. Have also got the split KB (Kinesis Freestyle Edge, which is OK. Would like something that can run QMK or similar). Also paying attention to the little nags and working them out is definitely valuable. For, e.g. I run 'g sta' (git status) often, as well as 'g lscm' (git log -20 --pretty etc); now I use Bash bindings to run both with Ctrl+j, and 'cls' with Ctrl+l. I've even started using the KB's 'action keys' (I.e. those ones that aren't part of the standard ANSI/layout) for Winkey+1..n to spare my left hand the awkward chord from winkey to the number row. I also run a trackball for dev and a mouse for gaming so that I split my use over different muscles. Hoping it all keeps any kind of injury at bay.
I wonder if OP can solve the AppleScript startup speed problem by rewriting it in… JavaScript? For half a decade now the underlying framework and the command-line tool (osascript) support AppleScript and JavaScript equally well. In JS there are simply a lot of things in the $ object.
Oh my goodness I didn’t even think to check if something like this existed! I will certainly check it out (although I do get a bit of delight from the core loop being AppleScript)
If you enjoy this kind of "games in places they shouldn't be" thing, here's some more very silly projects:

- Fontemon: a game in a font https://www.coderelay.io/fontemon.html

- Dungeons & Directories: a text adventure in your file browser https://wheybags.com/dungeons_and_directories/ (disclaimer: I made this one)
Proliferation Matrix: Word Mashing
It isn't so much the physical limits but more the cost of manufacturing a physically more complex board. This is why most low end GPU's typically have their memory bus width cut down to save on PCB and RAM complexity costs.

An extreme example, the phone I am using has RAM running at 1.8Ghz but on a 16bit bus. Anything to keep costs down.
> I had to test each cable by plug in an SSD then speed test the SSD.

That's actually not a bad solution. The speed of a cable doesn't matter unless you have a device that needs to be fast.
Something tells me being closed source while naming it OpenIPC and pretending to be under MIT license mighty be a bigger factor.

Being russian and clearly trying to steer project towards drone use https://github.com/OpenIPC/sandbox-fpv doesnt help either, we all know what russian drones are used for right now.
Not really. They’re really aren’t very many Indians in the US living anywhere close to the poverty line. The second part of your statement also assumes they were rich before they came here. They come here poor and then get rich. This may be different in Canada of course.
These are the kind of weird experiments that keep me coming back to this site. Amazing.
Comical. California politicians are going in the wrong direction on essentially every single thing people care about. No, we want traffic to go faster. Yes, turns on red are safe.

How about a crack down on vagrancy, shoplifting, and illegal immigration instead of taking away faster traffic?
Profits accumulate to asset holders, and individuals have a fundamental cap on how much they can rationally spend. If individual asset holders have too much capital - then there won't be enough spending to keep the economy moving, resulting in deflation. Even in the case that large asset holders are efficiently lending capital, this situation can occur due to interest payments.

The US Government effectively acts as the borrower of last resort in this situation by being the only place where a large asset holder can safely store capital and spending the borrowed capital. It would be possible to perform the same activity with taxation, or policy decisions that raise the base wage in the economy, or by simply printing more money - but the activity must be done to prevent deflationary spirals from occurring.

Printing money comes with the con that asset holders will end up with more capital. Unfortunately, there is no guarantee that such holders remain obligatory savers, and they may begin engaging in irrational spending.
It may be better to say that they want to maximize effective outrage. Or put another way to 'optimize' outrage. They are really good at it.
Oh I had no idea - thanks! I’ll play around with that.

V cool to get two super helpful AppleScript comments in 5 minutes!
We have it - closer to $5000.
https://aussietrains.com.au/the-ghan
MiniDisc Hacking
Debian's x11-apps has a collection of what I think of as pretty old-school-ish apps. They all feel monolithic: the app is both a backend and front end.

There is no decoupling, where the same headless app has different possible front ends.

An example of a popular headless app is neovim. You can run it in headless mode, and then connect different gui clients to neovim. A lot of the projects here are good examples of independent clients: https://github.com/topics/neovim-guis
Hochul just got a bunch of funding through

The MTA doesn’t need more money. At least not yet. It needs a complete and total overhaul in all aspects so it’s no longer the least efficient transit agency in the entire world.
A German Semiconductor Debacle [video]
Where did you go to? Asking for a friend.

30-40 mins away from downtown isn't better to me (in fact, so much worse. But to each their own..). Maybe Uxbridge or something?
I had a similar problem with my dog, when I was a kid.

From that day forward, whenever I opened the door to let her in or out, I had to prove to her that the door was really open, usually by putting my arm through the space, or whatever.

She was the best dog, ever. Despite her -- not irrational -- fear of glass and screen doors.
Any reason why palm or cohere models are not here ?
Why does one need to create an account with an email?
I climb and the typical position at workstation of hands pronated + shoulders forward sucks for postural health. I currently am dealing with bilateral proximal bicep tendonitis from excessive climbing and even being at the computer for a few minutes aggravates it. I wonder if it's possible to rig something up to be able to type in a supinated hand position and if it would be not super infuriating.
Israel Declares War ...

Against whom?

The legalities of Declaring War mean that you have to have a specific nation 'to be at war with'. I see nothing in this excerpt that specifies anybody. As the excerpt stands, it means that Israel is at war with every other nation/state/group in the world.

Sounds interesting to me. We could get Monaco, Venezuela and Inner Mongolia to pal up and send over an expeditionary force.
Banning it instead of fixing the drivers. I guess that is the easiest way to fix the immediate problem but it's not a long term solution to the problem that as cars have gotten smarter drivers have gotten dumber, more distracted and more of them on the road.

I really think there needs to be some continuing education requirements for driving. What we have in this country is the vast majority of people learned to drive when they were teenagers in a basic driving skills course and then never learned anything else. So there's decades of experience in only the most perfunctory driving skills. I firmly believe that most have forgotten the rules of the road and could no longer pass the written test. Considering most written tests have been redone to no longer require obscure fixed distance measurements, this is pretty scary. Anyone who has a driver's license should be able to pass the written test as the same thing you do when driving.

Maybe some sort of randomized testing lottery every year. Each year everyone's name gets tossed in to a hat and 20% get pulled for taking the test and luck protection so it's at least once in 5 years. Taking and passing an accredited advanced driving class with behind the wheel time would exempt you from the lottery for 10 years.

I don't know if that's the right solution but something needs done to get people to realize they are in charge of heavy equipment and mishandling it is dangerous. Too many times have I pulled up second to a stop sign and the first person seems confused about who goes, or they have no clue what to do for a flashing yellow light. Idiots not knowing how (and when) to safely make a right turn on red is a symptom of a much larger problem.
Only if it’s debt financed.
> Now they want $80+ for it.

That just means that you're seeing closer to the real price instead of subsidized price.

I'm holding out for the RISC-V boards. At least I'll be able to get real documentation unlike the RPi boards.
Containers are just one isolation layer of many we've built into our systems over the years. A topic for another post, and happy to chat if this is something you're working on.
Interesting plot. It would need to have multiple parallel plots where each nation with a nuclear arsenal thinks they are the only one that has lost their nuclear capability. Hijinks ensue as each tries to bluff the national actors.

Nuclear weapons are not very useful when you have good intelligence and a distributed ability to delivey vast amounts of precious-guided weapons.
B61s are aircraft delivered gravity bombs, a relic of the 1960s. It’s an entirely different category compared to the short range ICBMs that Russia employs from mobile ground vehicles.
1:1 Gundam in nearby Yokohama: https://gundam-factory.net/en/
A WARNING for anyone who thinks this article doesn't apply to them:

If you are reading this post and thinking, "oh I don't have these problems, I'm going to read something else", I encourage you to pause.

Having been in this industry for a while, I have seen RSI-type injuries happen to HUGE portions of my colleagues. I've met many people who have changed careers over this.

The reality is that spending 8-10+ hours a day in front of a keyboard is grueling on the hands, wrist, and arms (not to mention it can be for your back and neck as well).

It isn't a matter of "if", but "when". For some the result is more impactful on their daily life than others, but it does affect nearly everyone to some extent.

So I encourage anyone who is still young, thinking this is a post for "old people", to consider applying some of these principals today in hopes of pushing these problems further down the road or maybe even to put you in the minority of people who never have to deal with them in their career. The apple mighty-mouse thing (whatever they call it now) is horrible for your wrists and hands, throw it in the trash. Consider investing in some of these tools now, so you don't suffer later.

In a similar vein, take care of your posture which can save you from back problems and neck or spine injuries later. Sit/stand desks are great options and readily available now (and relatively affordable). Consider an ergonomic chair as well, and don't be afraid to spend good money on it. You spend 8-10+ hours a day in it. It's worth spending $1,000 on a desk and $1,000 on a chair that will save you thousands in medical bills and a priceless amount of avoided pain down the road. It's funny to me how many engineers making $150k or more a year and won't spend $2,000 on a good desk setup (which lasts for many many years). If you have a work-from-home budget, spend it on ergonomic tools, not a fancy monitor with a higher refresh rate.
Frankly, the rivalry (if there is one) probably plays less a role than you think. Amazon is the one launching these and Bezos no longer runs Amazon.

Other posters have already pointed out why Amazon would want this. Since they have the money to spare why not roll their own instead of being at the mercy of another company for what could be crucial infrastructure.

As for using SpaceX, the person who owns it operates a rival internet satellite network, it’s a conflict of interest.

If Amazon doesn’t support an alternate launch provider, SpaceX will have a monopoly and then they are in trouble.
What is the actual problem? Amatuer astronomy is more difficult? Or is someone alleging that this is impacting SotA astronomy? Or is this a Kesler Syndrom thing?
> Quebec also has automated enforcement cameras that will issue fines when they detect drivers who exceed speed limits or ignore red lights.

Don't issue fines, issue points.

Including for turning right on a red - you don't drive ahead on a red, so why is driving into a crossing tolerated.
> MOTIVATION = EXPECTANCY x VALUE / IMPULSIVENESS x DELAY

This is actually a good thing! I think that's why procrastination is so natural. This is not a criticism of the article, but an attempt of explaining why procrastination is not just a thing to fight, more like something you need to work with.

Let's frame the problem in terms of money and games, as a simplified model. I can give you the chance to play a game in 1 year where you have a 50% chance of winning $100. How much are you ready to pay me now for the privilege? Of course, you want to make money.

The first step is to multiply the chance by the prize, here, that's $50. So if I offered you to play immediately, you will want to pay less than $50. That's the "expectancy x value" part of the equation.

Now, the delay. many things can happen in a year, one of us may die and you will never get to play and win your prize, and you'd want to take interest rates into account. Let's say you go with 10%/year, so that's down to about 45%, that's your "expectancy x value / delay".

Now "delay" factor always increases with time but it is not linear, for example, I used interest rates for my toy model, which is an exponential. This is where we introduce "impulsiveness", which is more like a function than a factor, so I would rewrite the equation as "expectancy x value / impulsiveness(delay)". As a function, impulsiveness is always increasing and depends on many factors, but generally, the more impulsive you are, the faster it will climb. In my toy model, it is represented by an interest rate.

So, the "procrastination equation" actually maximizes value!

A more practical example would be the famous marshmallow experiments where a kid is offered a single marshmallow, and if he doesn't touch it for 10 minutes, he gets a second one. It can be seen as a test of delayed gratification, but it can also be seen as a test of trust. The experimenter may come back to steal the first marshmallow instead of giving a second one, and to be fair, outside of an experiment, if you see a plate with a single marshmallow somewhere and leave it alone for 10 minutes, it is more likely that someone else will eat it than someone putting a second one next to it.
Only launching one 10th of their warheads? What are the saving the other 90% for, exactly? The next nuclear war? A rainy day?
The funny thing is everyone knows the right turn on red but they are never taught why that's allowed and that sometimes left turn on red is allowed too when the same conditions apply.
Cloudflare D1 now allows you to create up to 50k databases
If the evidence is strong enough that this will save lives, then it is exactly the thing elected officials should be doing. It's not like this is some radical policy. It works just fine in NYC.
To be clear, it would depend on some (equally small) libraries, so it's not like 500 lines of no dependency C or something
Or, shocking, let people take a flight if they want.

(I low-key hate flying btw and prefer trains for shorter distances)
Also take frequent breaks! Get out of your chair often. If you're literally sitting 8-10 hours a day, you're doing it wrong.
Wow, looks super comfy. Tailscale really seems to be doing everything right lately.
It's not just inflation; actual real interest rates are now the highest they've been in a decade[1]. This is how the fed works -- raise real rates until demand for goods drops. Today's real rate is still not particularly high, but at the margins a doubling of the cost should lead to some drop in activity, and in borrowing.

Look at a company like Apple[2], which has something like 100B in debt. After setting aside the 60B in cash, thats still 40B that they will eventually roll over into high cost debt, or unwind the business line that the debt fuels. Probably a mix of the two based on margin and risk.

But once you start cutting business lines, you cut revenue and that usually leads to lower share prices, since equity is basically priced on a 15-30 year forecast. Which I think is why patio11 says that all tech compensation plans are an option on interest rates or some such.

[1]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/REAINTRATREARAT10Y
[2]: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL/key-statistics?p=AAPL
Well, with enough regulations like this, they will get rid of enough people with cars that it won't matter.

Not that I like car-oriented cities. I find them very unlivable. But making it harder to drive without making it easier to transport seems backwards.
In my experience/understanding, one's emotions are a better explanation of procrastination than an insufficient ability to "delay gratification".

For example if you feel anxious/hopeless/overwhelmed, you might not perceive the theoretical eventual gratification as a potential outcome, or might avoid thinking much about a task at all. Seen through this lens, the subdivision trick is more of a way to manufacture a provisional motivation framework and engage with a task in a less emotionally threatening way. (With the hope that this framework can either carry you through the task or can be discarded after your negative emotions have been reduced)

I realize this doesn't directly contradict any points you made, but to me the procrastination equation doesn't feel like the most fruitful mental model of procrastination to start with.
> The dataset's proportions don't match reality's proportions, which leaves the AI with an inaccurate perception of reality.

People have this problem as well.