skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's too cheap to pollute the planet, the solution is to price in the externalities, tax everything the amount it costs to clean up the pollution it causes, then spend that money cleaning up the pollution
I believe coffee enthusiasts here all know James Hoffman's YouTube channel already, but for the others, it's really worth your time and it might even get you seriously into coffee (especially if you have a hacker mindset), or at least, into James Hoffmann ;).

See for example these playlists:

- The AeroPress Series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxz0FjZMVOl2858ytsWi9...

- The Moka Pot Series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxz0FjZMVOl1Zot3qiJ-w...

- Understanding Espresso: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxz0FjZMVOl3MuAzK5l3g...

- A Beginner's Guide to Coffee: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxz0FjZMVOl0sUXHoxf7s...

- Weird Coffee Science: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxz0FjZMVOl1Dmfogt84Q...

- Classics of Coffee: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxz0FjZMVOl1o_0fuLmLE...

I'll stop here but really the whole channel is awesome and interesting.
Nevermind "AI". Fact is, most startups are doomed. Only small percentage succeed.
I understood that they are still keeping the actual Weta "tools" part with it's employees?

These 265 are just the people worked in the "professional services" part of the business and were doing actual VFX stuff for Wētā FX and not on the tooling part.

Edit: I was wrong, 275 was the entire workforce of Weta Digital when Unity acquired it back in 2021. So yeah.. it seems they just almost literally burnt $1.6 billion..
Vanguard is an investor-owned mutual company, so that's one and the same, no?
Heh remember reading this in 2014... but still waiting for the pitchforks. The mind control is too strong.
Sure but this is not easier than putting a camel in an industrial sized juicer and then pass the camel, in liquid form, through the needle's eye.
I have a (mostly) DYI smart-home, I mean, DYI as in "a Frankenstein of vendors and devices glued together by Zigbee, MQTT and Home Assistant", with some hard-deps on it in a couple of rooms and that gave me some bad nights when thinking about "what if I sell the home one day?" but reading the threads here I feel reassured: they will probably just rip it away and put some low-tech solution and call it a day.
Nice, I don't recall I ever saw `x >>> 0`, bit it reminds me of the infamous "x goes to zero" operator `x --> 0` [0] and its even more expressive sibling, the "x slides to zero" operator [1].

[0]
https://stackoverflow.com/q/1642028/493553

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/8909176/493553
>the post office has banned scheduled sick days for the rest of the year

This sounds like an oxymoron. Is this a union thing, or does one have to know when they will be ill is the US/working for the post office?
Maybe. Having been a 10-year old when both of these languages were available, my main goals were to make things that looked cool to share with friends and family. My dad set me up with a BASIC256 environment around the time it was released, and I liked it because it gave immediate feedback and had a built-in graphics interface.

JavaScript: Cool language, but I was not excited about all of my work happening in a web browser. I wanted to make imperative programs, but most JavaScript tutorials were focused on enabling little DOM manipulations that were not very exciting to me. Plus, the heavy focus on Async programming went over my head. If NodeJS was around when I was first dabbling with JavaScript I probably would have stuck around with it more.

Python: Probably the best thing to introduce to a kid these days, but I used a shared family Windows computer with restricted users and setting up environments and package managers was always a pain.

I ended up spending a lot of time with Scratch, mostly for the collaborative online community.

Overall my trajectory was BASIC256->Scratch->C++->Python/Java/everything else
Twitter's a classic case of addiction for me.

It hooks you with a quick dopamine rush but also sneaks in some low-key anxiety.

The buzz comes fast and goes fast, while the anxiety creeps in slow but hangs around longer.

When I'm stressed, I go after those dopamine hits, but they just end up making my stress worse.

That's why I've stopped using it and feeling much better for it.
> No more having to re-type code because I'd used-up all the line numbers between line 110 and 120.

Line numbers are arbitrary, you can just use GOTO to jump to some out-of-line code then GOTO back at the end. It gets a bit spaghetti'ish if you do it lot, though.
Selling on Amazon in dozens of countries requires only one from, that from the US. No other country.

Even if I don't sell in the US. Even if I never go to the US. Even if I have no company in the US.

Imagine everyone in the US selling on Amazon needing to sign a German form, and a French form, and a UK form, and a Spanish form etc. with no intention to sell in these countries.
This could potentially spell a long-term sustainability of most climbing crags in the world, which are on some form of limestone/dolimite or similar.

What happens is that thousands of climbing shoes with tiny bits of dirt eventually polish many holds, altering the routes and always for the worse since those really polished parts that everybody has to use become unreliable and everybody avoids them like plague.

I was thinking of spraying a thin film of some acid or similar to make surface rough again, but this eventually wears down the rock (although it could probably last few centuries till you run out of it).

Anybody knows about anything actually being done, instead of me just fantasizing?
I know, but it works well with X11.
Technically, a jail is for people not yet convicted, and prison is for the convicted.
In practice, a lot of people just use the terms interchangeably.
Don't fret, its more along the lines of a punchy ending than a twist. I wouldn't expect that knowledge to damage your enjoyment of the book
More taxis mean more CAPEx, mean utilization goes down off-peak, bothe of which result in lower profitability.

Robot driver or not, basic financials and operational constraints still apply. They can only be ignored for quite a while if a company has endless VC money, unit economics ultimately catch up so, always.
Beam Me Out of This Death Trap, Scotty (1980)
That's all great, but does it qualify for a hero?

They did't do anything with the cash except piling it up and multiplying. By all means they could do that - don't get me wrong again, but that doesn't make them heroes, does it?

Their videos are by far _not only_ sane advice out there. They are good, but any decent book on the subject value much more.
> Amex as not widely accepted. Especially drops when traveling.

Only nutters use Amex whilst travelling (or at least non-US nutters)

The double-conversion gotcha is a real killer.

Everything gets converted back via USD.

So for example, if you have a EUR Amex card and you go to the UK, the AMEX flow is: GBP -> USD -> EUR.

And they take, IIRC 3% from you on each leg of that double-conversion.
Are you aware that there are Cybertrucks in show rooms right now? And the launch event is tomorrow? [0]
Tesla has already delivered 21 Semis to Pepsi. [1]

[0] https://www.tesla.com/cybertruck-delivery-event
[1] https://www.freightwaves.com/news/pepsico-praises-tesla-semi...
Looking at the difference page, it's not BBC BASIC as one might remember it. But that's not possible outwith actual BBC Micro hardware, complete with Kenneth Kendall's voice in ROM. And I suspect that Kenneth Kendall cannot be open sourced. (-:

It looks like it has preserved the spirit of BBC Micro development on modern platforms, though.

The use of INKEY$(-256) to determine underlying platform is amusing.
The thing I will always remember Munger for was his downright cruel psychological torture on students: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXd7Y3HvUj4
You're left with wisdom, not nihilism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_that_I_know_nothing
Could you be more specific - what's crap about it? I found it awesome that I can host it on a server similar to phpmyadmin and give out access to my staff. And the app itself is very good IMHO.

The developers have full admin access to their computers, but not the DBAs and the Business Analysts. They can't install anything on their computers. So giving them an URL to work with was a huge win.

If you want something like the old pgAdmin, try DBeaver.
> It seems telling that nuclear, the only technology that could legitimately threaten the oil and gas industry in a short amount of time, is also the only technology that got more expensive as more capacity got installed. Why do you think that might be?

It's because every time safety fails, we find a way to solve that problem, and solving it costs money. Sometimes a lot of money.

So Chernobyl absolutely confirmed that containment buildings are not optional. Fukushima resulted in increased requirements for availability of backup power in case of a disaster.

Solar and wind don't really have that, because if a wind turbine falls apart in a hurricane, it's not really significantly different from any other random structure doing the same thing. Being killed by a chunk of turbine blade in a hurricane is not different from being killed by a chunk of a house, and in general not very likely because they rarely have people living right next to them. So we don't demand that wind turbines can survive anything nature can throw at it.
unless the previous owner was a rockstar renovator who only left "the work is self documenting" on a postit
When Iraq occupied Kuwait, all out assault was launched within months.
Israel continues to occupy lands for decades and brazenly keeps committing land theft in addition to mowing the lawn on a regular basis in violation of the international laws. US obediently keeps shielding it from the law with the UN Security Council vetos. Something very disproproportionate there indeed.
Even this Israeli newspaper is amused at this history of slavery on the part of the US govt.: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-02-17/ty-article/.p...

And US violates its own law in donating this huge pile of murder weapons to this occupying party: Section 502B(a)(2) (22 U.S.C. 2304(a)(2)) stipulates that "no security assistance may be provided to any country the government of which engages in a consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights." https://sgp.fas.org/crs/weapons/IF11197.pdf

B'tSalem/HRW/Amnesty have voluminous records of the said violations.
On the Science of Creepiness (2015)
Ouch.

But accurate.
The suspicious part for me would be the CEO laughing like it was nothing. Also yes, one would expect it goes the other way around, when you messed up big, someone will come to you. But the world is big and maybe it happened like this.
No - there's a surprising number of "classic" British cars that are kicking about the US as collectables.

https://www.beverlyhillscarclub.com/1964-rolls-royce-silver-...

Interestingly a mate back in the 90s used to g to the US from Australia and ship back container loads of classic British cars and car parts sourced cheap in the US at a time when that fad was on the wane there and bargains could be had that sold for a good markup in Australia.
>Researchers have observed that less mentally-demanding activity during sedentary behavior induces a higher risk of depression

"induces" clearly implies causality. This is not true, the research only found association. Awful. These articles are at the point now where they just outright lie
It's the 4th round of layoffs in under 2 years
Goldman is known for servicing ultra-wealthy and business clients. Consumer finance seems like a completely different beast to me.

Tighter margins. Lots of low-paid call center staff and low-paid managers to crack the whip. Folks at Goldman would rather be on the golf course doing shady deals with Trump and Musk.
"Really surprised at how rural postmen are using their own cars."

In rural areas independent people bid for routes. So they provide their own vehicle and are independent contractors.
Call it DDoS and not unspecific clickbaity
So I'm weird in some way because when I lay on the right side the contents of my stomach seems to have much harder time reaching my oesophagus than if I lay on my left side. Am I reading what you wrote correctly?
I'll do some mental experiment here - supposing I am not well off and I met you. You are way better - and I will forcefully take part of your wealth.

Now I am doing much better. And seems to be an achievement per your statement.

Does that make me a hero? Or even just a decent human being?

Being well is not much of achievement if we don't look at bigger picture - how it was made and if it was put to work at greater good.
Same I like it because it sucks and I think it’s great fun to laugh at the fact Elon thinks it’s cool.
> this stuff about how unit tests aren't tests for units but rather tests that are units is nonsense. the term has been used to mean 'tests for units' for about a century

Is that in the article? I've never heard this before. Unit tests are tests that test a "unit" as opposed to integration tests which test how "units" work together. Of course when it comes to code, what one might call a "unit" is more arbitrary than what one might call a "unit" in an electronics project, which is I think one of the points the author is making.
There are some lyrics by a band called the Divine Comedy (how apposite) that used to make me smile:

The cars in the churchyard are shiny and German

(Distinctly at odds with the theme of the sermon),

And during communion I study the people

Threading themselves through the eye of the needle.
> local governments assured him $400,000 in *checks*

> carriers drive miles of lonely routes in their *personal* vehicles

> Routes meant to take eight or nine hours are stretching to 10 or 12.

> post office has banned scheduled sick days

That country is so foreign and bizarre to me.

They work 12 hours shifts in their personal car. And what are "scheduled sick days"? Looking it up those are paid sick days? Are there non-scheduled sick days?
I can't say about NASA, but I can say about my experience at ESA (European Space Agency), where I worked on Mars lander hardware. You have very very formal procedures and detailed checks as soon as you approach any parts which is going to fly.

The simplest task you can imagine takes incredible proportions (for good reasons).

Disconnect and reconnect that plug? Please inform persons X and Y, person Z must be present, only person W can touch that plug, and do perform a functional test according to the procedure in this document before and after and file these reports etc ...

Cleaning a part? Oh glob. Get ready for 3 months of adventure talking to planetary protection experts and book the cleanest room in the continent.
You're making me wonder: What's the difference between a graph DB and an ontology/knowledge graph?
Diners is accepted everywhere Discover is. It's smaller than AmEx, probably, but it's all over Korea, for example.
Yeah, games are in a weird place because console dev kits were paranoid as all hell when it came to usage. There'd be office mandates purely because you couldn't take those home, nor even remote into one without a bunch of red tape. There's still remnants of that to this day, which is probably why they couldn't be even more aggressive on remote status.

That is fortunately one big thing loosened over COVID, though; could never imagine having a devkit in my own house before 2020.

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can't speak too much for the vfx industry. I imagine its similar culture and NDA contracts in terms of where content can "stay".
Those books had tremendous impact. BBC Basic was the first programming language I ever saw, in a children's book in a library, years before I ever got to touch a PC. It made computers seem so straightforward that it felt natural to reach for one as a tool or a toy. I've only ever seen a BBC Micro in a museum.
Thought this was going to be about the Irish. Am disappointed now.
I think there's a transition period, as with Meta and Alphabet. For as long as it's all hosted on the twitter.com domain, it doesn't really make sense to abandon the name Twitter.
Any cost cutting measure is silly when they choose to have their HQ in SF over Copenhagen.
It's kind of ironic that my $TSLA winnings went directly into getting my new Porsche 911 track upgrades
In my company we resorted to name many internal tools and libs after birds.

It becomes a problem though when you want to publish open source tools or libraries. These days it becomes very hard to find a name that isn't already attached to a Github repo. Finding a name that is googlable, unique, somewhat intuitive and descriptive is a problem that does not scale at all.

I'm not surprised the NSA ended up generating names for their tools. At least that's what they seem to do judging by names like Eternal Blue, Double Pulsar, Dander Spritz and the like. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow_Brokers#Fifth_leak:...)
First known case of over-engineering for house documentation.
Are we sure that those arent based on stable diffusion?

No code black box, and we get to tease the closed source companies for wrapping FOSS stuff.

Midjourny I'm most convinced is just a SD with a fine-tuned model. That would explain why everything looks like pixar and can't follow the prompt.
I have seen anecdotes of people struggling with payment processors when making these products. What's your experience?
agreed

but then the government also has the power to make any opaque government agency fully transparent

and for cases like USPS the only reason they might want to not do so seems to me to be corruption and/or hidden subventions.
Many people looked up to him, until they realized that they were being tricked with empty promises. The reaction of realizing that you have been lied to is quite strong and lasting.
I feel Dibley should have a pudding bowl hair cut and goofy teeth. Am I just of a slightly young generation?
Starbucks annual revenue just hit $35 billion, so I'd say they're still overwhelmingly a coffee company enjoying a nice float on $1.6 billion.
Id just like to know if the people who buy things on that ecommerce can look themselves in a mirror, if they can detach themselves from the pain caused to workers and other people just by clearing their conscience because it should be someone else to regulate or get better contract, sometimes I wish that the hell of dante is true and there is a group made for the ignavi for real where they can suffer the same pain that is suffered for their ignorance
W-8BEN form is the most obnoxious form I've ever seen. It's written in incredibly opaque and obtuse language and covers far too many scenarios.

And the most incredibly annoying thing about it is that for most UK companies (dont' forget if you are a limited company you need the W-8BEN-E variant!) you probably only have to fill in about 5 short fields. So it only really needs to be half a page. However working out which fields is virtually impossible and I'm still not entirely sure I fill it out correctly.
Mitsotakis' plan for the sculptures is extremely self-serving and overall sucks for Greece. It effectively legitimizes the possesion of the Parthenon Sculptures by the British Museum, overturning decades of challenging the legality of the acquisition.

The TL;DR of the Museum's claim over the sculptures is that lord Elgin purchased them from the Ottomans, but somehow the purchase and removal permit documents were lost. That is a very shady claim. A modern day parallel would be puchasing Ukrainian heritage artifacts from Russia, and losing the transaction papers.

So, I'd say good for Greece! PM Sunak proved a great friend to the country.
Relational databases got advanced enough (with recursive CTE's in SQL, and soon with the newly standardized Property Graph Query, which adds a much welcome bit of syntactic sugar) that there's just no point to a general purpose graph DB - plain old RDBMS can serve that use case just as well. "Graph" based systems might still be useful for doing highly advanced, math-based network analysis on large sets of data, but that's a very different thing.
AI Text prompt to SVG illustration
Beside the culture (losing everything twice in the last 100 years),

I think money transfer plays a big role. Germany never had a culture of cheques and switched from money to money transfers early on (before WW1), so most stuff in Germany either I pay by money transfer ("Ueberweisung") or a company takes the money from my account ("Bankeinzug") - like mortages, cars, rent, electricity, travelling etc. In the US credit cards partially replaced cheques (and added credit, duh!), which was never something in Germany. The only use of cheques in Germany were traveller cheques when travelling - and then only to get money at the hotel.

Even for the catalog business people payed by invoice and money transfer (and the catalog companies gave you credit).

What is left, like groceries, is often paid in cash.
Facebook renamed itself as Meta. Google renamed itself as Alphabet.

So it should be MANA.
Are UFOs the Forbidden Frontier of American Democracy?
Oh absolutely. The phrase "I'm sorry you feel that way" disconnects you from the other person, and if that is an appropriate thing to do, then it's an appropriate phrase to use. If someone is trying to guilt-trip you into action that you don't morally need to take and don't want to take, then use this phrase. It asserts your boundaries.

Also, I'd take issue with the phrase always being passive-aggression. Sure, in certain circumstances it can be used as a passive-aggressive move, but in a situation where you are using it to handle someone who is coming at you with a terrible manipulative sob-story to try to pull you into their fantasy world where you have to help them at every turn, then using this phrase is not passive-aggressive - it's just protecting yourself.

Other similar useful phrases are: "I'm sorry to hear that", "That's terrible", "Okay", "Right", "I see".
I imagine breaking a leg would be an unscheduled sick day, but getting chemo therapy to treat an aggressive cancer would be a scheduled sick day?
The Marvin Attack: New RSA Timing Attack
Home automation is for me exactly the same as designer kitchen or designer day room.

Yeah it was great for the previous owner but it sucks for me as I have different tastes and needs.

I am going to rip it all off and do what I want.

But in reality I just don’t buy anything that is advertised “one of a kind” because I know it will be more of a hassle to deal with it even if it looks cool.

For me cool looking fancy stuff does not add value but rather lowers the value because I know I will have to rip it all of which is just more work. I also rather buy apartment/home with some default IKEA kitchen because I know then it will be super easy to rip it out and replace with what I want. Where most of the time I think I would just stick with that default IKEA depending on how long I plan to own the place.
We are actually working with semantics / ontologies. The graph database is just our engine for storing the data. I am starting to think whether an ordinary SQL database could be just as useful.
Sometimes the only winning move is no to play
Surely this is a variation of this anecdote attributed to IBM's Watson

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13419313

"> A young executive had made some bad decisions that cost the company several million dollars. He was summoned to Watson’s office, fully expecting to be dismissed. As he entered the office, the young executive said, “I suppose after that set of mistakes you will want to fire me.” Watson was said to have replied,

> “Not at all, young man, we have just spent a couple of million dollars educating you.” [1]"