skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like a problem with the system, and not a problem that should be projected/blamed on individuals. No one likes paying taxes, but I believe most people are willing to contribute to the common good when they know that it is actually going towards the common good. I feel this way at least and have a decent sense based on anecdotal conversations that a lot of others do too. I am willing to pay more taxes if I know that it is going to directly help people around me, and raise the quality of my entire community. Unfortunately that is often not the case.
I’d read that story!
https://web.archive.org/web/20231107161231/https://www.natio...
Something being overhyped implies grifters will appear but grifters don't imply that something is overhyped. I'm sure people were the same with cars and transistors. People definitely were breathless about smartphones the same way when they came out (everyone was selling apps that did exactly the same thing as websites) and they've changed the world for better or worse.

Crypto and AI both attract get rich quick bullshitters but I think AI right now is actually a crazy unexpected sci fi tech while crypto wasn't good for anything except fraud, gambling and the black market.
Keep in mind Barcelona and Madrid are some of the densest cities in the whole Europe. It's one of the reasons why COVID took such a big hit at the beginning of the pandemic.
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> But workers looking to express support for Palestinians say they face hostility.

Russians: "First time?"
I'm a coder and it's helped there (although needs constant hand-holding and fine-tuning, yet is still useful)

I wrote a couple commandline tools to do things like autogenerate commit comments or ask it questions from the commandline and return the right bash invocation to do whatever I need done https://github.com/pmarreck/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/functio...

Random thing I did this morning was see if it could come up with an inspiring speech to start healing the rift between israel and its neighbors https://chat.openai.com/share/71498f5f-3672-47cd-ad9a-154c3f...

It's very good at returning unbiased language
Ok, so political opinion then.
Hello! Founder of Mintlify here - would love to hear what features were missing for your use case so that we can work on them.
Hardware rendering, lol? It's just a website, not a video game. My system is quite powerful. At least high-res OpenArena runs like a charm.

Why do I need GPU to access the information - that's the question. What did they do so the website works worse than a 3D video game? Obviously I am missing something.
I haven't seen anything about this do you have some sources for reading about this?
dude its just the alt key
Looking at those, I could just feel myself plugging my 3DFX2 card into my Matrox Millenium II.
> The problem is: What do you do on an overcast December day with no wind?

You burn green hydrogen in turbines. A simple cycle turbine power plant is maybe 5% of the capital cost of a nuclear power plant of the same rated power output. And because its used so infrequently, the fuel costs are quite tolerable.

The hydrogen is stored in salt formations, which the UK has in sufficient quantity.

There are other more complicated e-fuel schemes with the same effect.
There are a number of 90 year old chain smokers without lung cancer too.
I don't know that it's sexist per se, but if you use it to predict the outcome of future interactions (which I am assuming you do since you actually posted it here), then that is an example of bias. IANAL but probably actionable in the US.

So if your remark is, "In my limited experience I've worked with only 10 female engineers and the eight good ones all wore dark clothing and wear glasses. That's a funny and unlikely distribution!" then you're good.

If your remark is "I can determine if a female engineer is any good based on whether or not she is wearing dark clothing and glasses" then you probably have no business working in the field at all.
I did a write-up because it was an example of broken text "in the wild" rather than in technical references. Also it takes me a minute to think of () as open/close parens instead of left/right parens.
> I was just using this same number with SMS on dumb phones... why would I switch?

We did use SMS extensively in the early 2000s. But many people also used things like Google Talk (and MSN Messenger on the PC) early on as it allowed you to send more than just text. MMS never really took off because not all phones supported it the same way and a lot of carriers charged for it (it also felt clunky).

Once you get used to one app, it's easy to move to another one. WhatsApp quickly took off as it was very easy to set up (install, enter phone number, you're done), worked on literally any phone OS and was simple to use.

It's a bit like wondering why everyone is using Slack when there's E-mail.

iMessage was a non-starter because the iphone was just not that popular here (and still isn't what the majority use in most countries), so using an app that only works with a phone that less than half of your friends use made no sense.
They'll have to deal with the companies like blackrock who was buying out the supply of homes and making them uninhabitable and forcing them to resell it. That would make a much greater difference than Airbnb.
I'm in the process right now of moving from a M2 MacBook Air to a M3 MacBook Pro. I was going to use Migration Assistant but decided last minute against it and decided to "rebuild" from scratch. I'm three hours in on re-setting everything up the way I want it. Does it suck? Yes. But I know exactly what I installed and gives me the ability to purge things I no longer need.
He also left $200M for the Summer Science Program. https://www.forbes.com/sites/marybethgasman/2023/10/12/200-m...
In so many words yes, it's just a little oversimplified for humor.
Ok that's hilarious!
How prevalent is flaring/venting?

Anecdata: Right before the apocalypse, I drove from Midlands to El Paso at night. There were miles and miles long stretches lit up by flaring.
> This is always repeated, but could you point to studies documenting in which cities it is illegal?

You don’t need to look at a study, you can just look at zoning and land use maps for basically any city in America. Areas zoned single-family are not allowed to build anything else. There are multiple articles on Wikipedia[0][1][2] about this topic with literally hundreds of citations to primary and secondary sources. What a frustrating question.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoning

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-family_zoning

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoning_in_the_United_States
> One perspective I've been thinking about lately is how the rise of Crypto has been hugely beneficial for AI

No, it wasn't. Crypto made GPUs scarce and expensive, and prices haven't come down yet. Crypto set AI back in many ways, including the infestation of grifters who have moved from Crypto to AI
I'd consider leaving my SRE position to help them out. I refuse to move to SF though. Call me OAI!
How do you find products that don't have a lot of plastic waste in their manufacturing and supply chain?
Okta reinvented the TLS wheel and put a single SAAS provider into the middle of the wheel to manage it for you. They also added identity and access control from the center.
I looked into it when I was 20 and decided that the risk were not worth it. Of course things are probably better 25 years later, I haven't checked again. But then again at almost 50 I now cannot work at a computer without reading glasses and surgery still can't fix that.

A large part of the risk for me was I discovered I can get prescription safety glasses, and if I can't see without glasses I will never risk forgetting to put on safety glasses when I need them.
Wow, weight lifting is seriously ‘gate-kept’. GP needs to chill, he’s being elitist, and forgetting PTs are super expensive. I followed Stronglifts to 110kg, and just started again after 4 years. It’s fun. It’s easy. You focus on few, simple exercises, so form is easy to do well if you try.
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What about just staying with older version, if you don’t have capacity to upgrade?
What a great comment. Thanks for writing this out.

One more thing to mention here is that Software Engineers are paid more because the industry is able to scale well to individual engineers outputs.

One thing where Software Engineers differ from a lot of others is asymmetric input and output. A single change in production can save millions of dollars easily. This is possible but difficult to do in other engineering fields like Construction, Hardware etc.
https://archive.li/EIflS

https://archive.today/EIflS
Techniques for leveraging Impostor Syndrome to enhance your role as a manager while emphasizing the significance of embracing discomfort, fostering self-awareness, and cultivating a culture of continuous learning.
Eagerly waiting for Intel and AMD to offer hardware to do it.
> users perceive beautiful interfaces as easier to use

But what a one user regards as beautiful is regarded as ugly by another and they both disagree with the creator about how useful it is.

And some interfaces that outsiders regard as very ugly are beautiful in the sense that they are supremely useful to a skilled user.

Over the years that i worked on applications for designers we had to repeatedly explain to incoming computer science graduates that the user interface was deliberately crammed full of information, that it was no accident that the type size was the smallest that was readable. The users could glance at one screen and see without thinking about it that the design was good.
I appreciate your response, and don't want to go too far off the thread here, but as a software developer/architect myself, how can that possibly be true?

The state of the environment that the IoT device is sensing or controlling, has to match local reality. Therefore, the state that's actually on the IoT's MCU is the true state that matters. (Any state stored cloud-side could be stale if the MCU is disconnected, or misses updates) Ergo, if the cloud service is showing or manipulating the state of the IoT device, it has to read or command the IoT in near realtime, implying some kind of constant/realtime connection.

This would be the same mechanism a local-first connection would use, right? What am I missing here?
Hamas polled at 53% support in 2021. [1]

Just one data point, but provide contrary data if you have it.

[1] https://apnews.com/article/hamas-middle-east-science-32095d8...
Good observation! Fasting in general is usually at minimum 8 hours, which is also around the time we sleep. There seems to be some evidence that the longer one fasts, the better the benefits. You would be surprised how many people in the US eat right up until they go to bed, and then eat breakfast right after waking up. So for some, extending the fast 2-5 hours is no small feat.
The dark-calm periods are solved by burning e-fuels like hydrogen in turbines.

Europe has the geology for cheaply storing many petawatt hours of hydrogen.
Imagine game theory implications of all countries agreeing to something like this, monitoring to make sure they actually do this and eventual fraud that will take place. No thank you.
Can people still get insurance to cover stuff like Ozempic (generic or otherwise) even if its technically prescribed off-label?
I like to use it for one-off scripts. For example, I downloaded a bunch of bank statements the other day, and they had a format something like, "Statement-May-1-2023.pdf" and I asked GPT for a powershell script to convert that to "2023-05-01-BankName-Statement.pdf"

It saved a bunch of manual work on a throwaway script. In the past, I might have done something in Python, since I'm more familiar with it than powershell. Or, I'd say, "well, it's only 20 files. I'll just do it manually." The GPT script worked on the first try, and I just threw it away at the end.
A similar thing happened with Star Wars Galaxies. Part of the original pitch was that like <1% of players would have access to the Force. Only from there with super hard training could they be Jedi. This matches the lore of the universe, Jedi (especially in the OT era) are the most rare creatures.

This was accurate, and would make seeing a Jedi in the game world the coolest thing imaginable, but it was a disaster for the finances of running the game.

Obviously, EVERYONE wants to be a Jedi. So they re-tooled it so that anyone could. Eventually the whole game was replaced with another MMO that was set in the ancient ages when they were common.
Properly "fixing" leaking wells involves getting a workover rig on site and pumping 10-1000 barrels of cement. Not to mention developing a plan and submitting it to the state for the well work permit, which hopefully comes before the rig gets on site. Rigs will not do work without a valid permit. I used to be a PM for well abandonment.

Minimum cost would be in the $80k-100k range. Double or triple that if you run into any issues. My most expensive abandonment was around $400k, which was for a simple, vertical 5000ft well.
In some small, mildly strange way that brightened up my day.
Cause and effect is not a political opinion
'Kill Switch' Mandate That Could Shut Down Your Car
I am having trouble evaluating the merits of this claim. It seems to be primarily one sided reporting right now.

Anyone have a good idea if this will actually provide government actors the ability to shut off your car remotely?

Because that seems bad in a very nonpartisan way.
> The segregation of state away from pure functions is the "state" of the art right now in terms of modularity.

I've heard pure functions described as "having no side effects". So "being pure" means having no state of its own, as well as not having an effect, changing the state of anything anywhere else.

> We don't fully know how to maximize modularity when we have state and functions working together..

Doesn't that describe Object-Oriented Programming, at least some aspect of it, like classes which bind state and methods together? The difficulty, in my experience, is that there can be many, many objects with their own state, affecting each other's state in a complicated web/graph of effects.

> functional core, imperative shell

This approach of "pushing state up" to the surface, I think is the way to keep all states in one place, with every change under control. Better yet, to have immutable state, with every effect/change producing a new state.

> Once your program is in itself a combinator composed from other combinators

In this context, does a combinator mean something similar to a pure function? I see on Wikipedia:

> Combinatory logic can be viewed as a variant of the lambda calculus, in which lambda expressions (representing functional abstraction) are replaced by a limited set of combinators, primitive functions without free variables.

And the meaning of "free variables":

> In computer programming, the term free variable refers to variables used in a function that are neither local variables nor parameters of that function. The term non-local variable is often a synonym in this context.

Aha, non-local variables. That smells like global or external state.

Right, I think years of programming have taught me to intuitively notice mutable state, especially when a function is trying to reach out and make an effect on some state outside itself. That goes against modularity, unless it's managed intentionally.
Cutting removes the original content and puts it on the clipboard. If you could really cut a file, it would have to disappear until you pasted it somewhere.
I'm open to a use-case here that isn't obvious to me, I'm not saying you're wrong. But I don't understand why I wouldn't use `display: none` for an offscreen element or a hidden dialog/overlay? Screenreaders do skip over `display: none`, right?

If I'm moving an element offscreen but not full-on hiding it, in my experience 99% of the time it's because I want it to be visually hidden but still show up for a screenreader. `inert` gives me the opposite behavior by default. I'm trying to think when I've ever wanted an element to be visually hidden from both sighted users and a screenreader, but also couldn't do that via normal CSS.

Again, open to learning more, but this still seems to me like an attribute that should be generally avoided. I can think of some use-cases; maybe I have something like a chart where there are a lot of focusable elements but where the experience is awful for keyboard or screenreaders and I want to basically declare bankruptcy and say, "no, I don't want it to work with those controls at all, it might as well not exist for those people."

But those situations seem very rare to me.
> correct positions and there now exist a way to fix CMD-tab so it does the only logical and sane thing: switches between the last windows.

Hahahahah no. Even if you use Kaliber or remap keys natively, and somehow manage to get this to work, it won’t work all the time. And if you switch between external and internal keyboards (like, when you take your laptop to a coffee shop), forget it.
Reminds me when my 6th grade history teacher taught from the old testament. Of course, with standardization maybe that doesn't happen much anymore.
The State Department (https://www.state.gov/briefings/department-press-briefing-ma...):

QUESTION: Do Palestinians have a right to self-defense?
MR PRICE: I’m – in – broadly speaking, Said, we believe in the concept of self-defense. We believe it applies to any state.
[...]
QUESTION: Do [you] regard Palestine as a state? [...] You don’t in the context of the ICC and the UN. So are you saying that you do not – if it applies to any state, are you saying the Palestinians don’t have a right to self-defense?
MR PRICE: I was making a broader point not attached to Israel or the Palestinians in that case.
QUESTION: So they do have a right to self-defense?
MR PRICE: I’m not in a position to debate the legalities from up here.
https://www.wired.com/story/right-to-repair-cars-hackers/
Why aren't you saying the same thing about hotels? They're taking up space that could be made into living quarters for people.
We don't have to be happy about it, but we can't stop this new technology any more than we could stop the invention of the steam engine or the printing press. Technology always displaces jobs; that's largely the point of inventing it. By reducing the human labour required to produce something, it allows us to produce more using fewer resources and frees up the labour to go work on something else. This is why we went from 96% of people needing to work in agriculture to 4%.

I might lose my job over this at some point in the future, so yeah, I'm worried about my personal well-being. But you can't put the genie back in the bottle and avoiding use of ChatGPT today isn't going to help.
I think polluting the data with random shit is the way to go. The mix of ads becomes somewhat entertaining, including the knowledge that I'll never buy any of this stuff.
Visual design work, coding, messaging, strategy, and law consulting.

Using it for basically every component of my startup.

Image generation and image interpretation means I may never hire a designer.
> Any external network connection must be disclosed to the user. The car must come with instructions how to disable it

> All functions of the car must remain permanently operable

I think this needs to be refined a bit. As phrased, you're just making any features that use network connections illegal.
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Skateparks offer many tacitly permitted opportunities for excessive physical risk taking amongst the young.
My remark is closer to the former. The latter would be silly, but an excellent tweet. I'm in the Damore camp on this issue, though.
I would estimate that it started with Brown v. Board of Education in the mid 1950s. As racial integration started we saw "White Flight" from city centers. Naturally, those people exiting the cities wanted a way to enter the cities for jobs, education, entertainment, etc... So then we saw the construction of Urban Freeways in the 60s and 70s.

Before then, cars were unaffordable for almost everyone. It was kind of like owning an airplane nowadays. It was doable, but most didn't bother unless they really needed one since there were more affordable alternatives and you could walk everywhere you needed to go anyways.

Since then, things have only gotten worse as we slowly make cars the only viable method of transportation through land use requirements and neglected infrastructure.
> But either way, building sufficient storage to do anything other than peak-shave is very, very, very expensive, so we'd be better off with nuclear even at a 2-3x cost overrun.

This is only true if you imagine batteries as the only storage technology. But complementary storage technologies, like hydrogen, allow 100% RE to be achieved at a cost that will likely be lower than what nuclear would allow.
As a complete Apple non-fanboy (I have an Android phone and run Linux on my Framework laptop; yes I'm one of those people), I don't think your argument holds water.

If I send a message through the Android Messages app, I know it will get to its destination (well, modulo occasional SMS unreliability). I don't have to know or care if the recipient has the right app or not. Everyone can receive SMS.

I do have a bunch of other messaging apps on my phone, but, for the most part, I've had to actively get people to install those apps in order to use them (or they've explicitly asked me if I have so-and-so messaging platform).

For people I tend to chat with often, I'll usually try to get them to install Signal if they don't have it. But otherwise, I don't really have the energy to evangelize anything, so I just use SMS (or, if I'm really lucky, and they also use Android -- rare! -- RCS) with them.

I'm frankly just completely sick of this situation. If iMessage & RCS were both built into the Android Messages app, I probably wouldn't use anything else. The only reason I use other platforms at all is because I like E2EE, the ability to send photos and videos that don't have to be downscaled and recompressed into oblivion, and non-terrible group chat management. iMessage and RCS fix all of those things.
> Unemployment rate tends to hover above 20% and I think it has the highest rate of students dropping out of basic education.

The first claim is true, but there's a lot of under-reported economic activity, and a lot of fraud (people claiming they don't work when they actually do), so the unemployment rate figure can't be trusted.

Your second claim around the highest rate of students dropping out of basic education needs a citation.
Our previous TV used the Roku OS and also had the option to use the device without an account or internet connection.

What we found was that it still dedicated a lot of space to features that required the non-existent internet and on more than one occasion it started suggesting that we should connect to the internet. I am pretty sure that if your kids accidentally click on some internet-required thing, it will take that as a signal that perhaps you've changed your mind and want to start using it as a smart TV. I find that annoying. Also, menu navigation was agonizingly slow :)
> not because the person who wrote it was incompetent.

You haven't seen it yet. Some developers should be barred from the industry. Criminally incompetent.
I really empathize and am glad you pointed this out. I needed specific exercises to fix my abductor/flat left foot, which were wrecking my hip.

Body progress is slow, but it feels wonderful to have something you can control, master, and is directly rewarding.

Kudos for sticking with it :) Good luck and keep building protections around that knee.
One of the best parts of the Kingkiller Chronicle books is the discovery of a piece of pottery that suggested the historicity of a mythological evil figure whose stories were already ancient.

Even if the dating is most likely inaccurate as a structure, I got that similar surreal emotion when I learned about Gunung Padang.
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