skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to assume your comment is in good faith. In which case, yes, they are more important than almost anything else. Modern humans spend more and more time indoors, and this has catastrophic consequences on our mental and physical health. Even in properly sized apartments, most of us have too much CO2 in our rooms. But worse (and especially in the US), there is all manner of ghastly outgassing from furnitures, fumes from cooking, germs from other people and whatnot. This is in buildings that are not too cramped to begin with (unlike Munger hall).

Not every college student is an outgoing, life-of-the-party, loves hiking type. And the trend thanks to the ubiquity of screens means more and more teenagers are shut-ins. In which case, the deleterious effects of no sunlight and no fresh air are even worse, especially at a developmentally-important age.

But what is worse is the hubris of billionaires who think they know best. It's what Maciej Ceglowski calls the lack of imagination at the top. What do the billionaires of our society, our overlords, want for the rest of us? What are their hopes and dreams, their utopia? Elon Musk wants to terrorise Mars with nasty bacteria from Earth. Bezos wants to run driverless cars around the city to replace public transport. And copy Musk. Page and Brin want to cure ageing, cowards unprepared to die both of them. Dipshit billionaires want shitty things like AI assistants who see and hear everything, lithium cars instead of walkable cities and trains. They want us to have Tide buttons in our houses so we can order it like a Pavlovian monkey. Dipshit billionaires convinced we're living in a simulation. Assholes buying bug-out bunkers in New Zealand. Or fuckers like Altman hoarding gold by the tonne, and gas masks from the IDF, while they pillage and rape San Francisco and its former residents shit on the streets and then sleep there.

And now, they even want to take away our sunlight and our fresh air. Even though the architects telling them otherwise railed against the idea, and resigned. Hubris like this gave us open offices. They want their chattel to be well-behaved and do what it's told. Sit in your privacy free 1m2 'office', drowning in the din made by your fellow plebs, during the day, and sleep in your windowless prison in the night.
I didn't think it was that bad, but can I say that I love how thoroughly bad content has become synonymous with generative AI?
They "probably" had your idea in the back of their mind for 10 days, and didn't remember that?

Document their timeline, versus the timeline you made and continue to make your updates.

Is there a feature you could add? Like muting the sped up ads? If you can demonstrate an "echo" of features, that'll go a long ways to proving your position.

But can you do anything about it? Not really, unless you hire a lawyer in their jurisdiction.

I had this problem back in Y2K when someone was stealing my work and not attributing it to me. They even stole the history portion, and simply cut/replaced with their name, using the exact same wording. But all I could do was annoy the hell out of them until they stopped. I actually found the customer they were dealing it off to, and informed them, using the wayback machine to prove that everything in their docs was actually my material. That finally put an end to their shenanigans.
Growing number of US children taking melatonin for sleep
>> It seems like nobody knows how to build things anymore.

>The Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Germans, etc might disagree.

It's funny, after riding the Chinese HSR network, this quote from the article had me shaking my head:

"California is spectacularly behind schedule and overbudget on its quest to build the world’s slowest high-speed rail.

It seems like nobody knows how to build things anymore."
I doubt MS would care and eM likely pays some sort of licensing to MS I'd guess?

do iOS and other 3rd party exchange clients have to pay anything to MS?
Not now, btw what account do you have
Depending on where you are on the midwest (e.g. if you’re in Moline working for Deere) 100k is pretty close to the 250 your friend gets in SV. I’m pretty early in my career too but I started out in a small town in the Midwest too (not originally from there) and it was very dreary. Hard to make friends and hard to date since people get married very early in those communities. Just saying I relate but I wouldn’t sweat the comp difference.

If your main goal is changing location try applying for jobs at your current company. You’ll have an edge over other applicants and your boss will probably help if you ask to connect you with people. Just my two cents. Once you’re relocated it’ll be easier to find opportunities outside your current company in your new city.

I think we’d need more details on your career goals to offer any more advice than that. If a startup is your goal, can you say what industry or niche? There’s a lot of opportunities in hardware, especially in B2B. Personally I’m jealous of you hardware guys
No billionaire earned his money but got it by exploiting others, especially if you make your money through investments.

If you point that out it's always called envy and jealousy.
It seems like WFH is a "perk" when company is in cut down expenses mode, and RTO is mandated when it's thriving.
When we 1st separated in 2011 my ex-wife and I along with our young daughter stayed in the same house for about a year. It was definitely not the most comfortable of situations but I've had worse living arrangements in my life.

After selling the house we both rented town houses. We should have done more communicating about that because we unknowingly ended up renting 2 doors down from each other. That was the living situation which couldn't end soon enough.
Files are just a bunch of bytes. No harm in putting them in a database.

There were some benchmarks, I couldn’t fine where SQLite was faster than native file system at retrieving, searching and adding files to a large directory.
I see a few comments describing how their documentation that they handed over went without love. I'll add a different perspective. I bought a fixer upper (really just needed a face lift) from a couple who's parents lived there but passed away. The only thing left behind was a plastic bag of appliance manuals, some old receipts, and most importantly, a sheet of paper with dates, when things were updated, and how much it cost. This has been extremely valuable to me, allowing me to take the guesswork out of figuring out how old my A/C or furnace is, when the basement was remodeled, or how much carpet was ordered for the spare bedroom. This was a blessing to have as a first time homeowner and I am very grateful to have had that handed down.
The dog would get sleepy, just not for good reasons.
Aww what kind words! Come stay at our place if you're ever in the Southern California area :)

If you want to copy my outfits, I find all of my strange clothes at Anime Expo every July! I just purchased an egg sweater from a vendor I found there:

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Surely there’s a greater opportunity cost in the death of a child with their own life ahead of them than a middle aged adult?
This is not a new phenomenon.
think of it as a data point that’s richer because it’s wrapped in a context and includes meta data as well (I’ve been doing Pydantic recently…)
I ran cpu benches there a while ago and it actually performed better wrt single core performance than the newer shit so not all bad
To the end user, everything at Google has become shit or not changed at all. I am sure GCS is great but most people don't use it. What they do see is search becoming more ads than content and search not even including any relevant search terms in "here are your 1000000 results". I actually go to yandex and bing if I want to search for a specific search term.

Let's not talk about friends losing all access to their accounts, forever.

I switched a whole firm off GCS when their troubleshooting by 'senior' techs was just copy and pasted boilerplate too many times. The way I set things up was cloud agnostic at the time. Not something that is possible at scale.

Can anyone else be trusted? Probably not.

Can you trust someone on the crack-pipe full of advertising dollars?
I don't like tweet-chains (x-chains?) that should be a blog post. I also don't like blog posts that should be a tweet.
That’s hilarious!
That billionaires prioritize profit over people is just a fact and nothing woke.

Otherworldly they wouldn't be billionaires in the first place.
Sure if it isn't a losing material information in that process. It is easy to compress anything to true/false if you're willing to live with information loss. I think material information was lost in the aforementioned "Country X can't build anything" hot-take.
Exactly my thoughts as well. Labels and stickers in appropriate locations. E.g: my house has junction boxes with circuit labels in marker. Notes for appliance specifics, filter sizes, etc. This way the information can be found at the relevant location, does not get deleted, or goes behind a paywall.

Us tech people love to over-complicate things sometimes.
Whatever their reasons, the end result sounds good for employees.
Coming out as trans and getting to be myself.

Deconstructing and reconsolidating my early childhood trauma.
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America has the most productive economy in the world by dollar. We make everything from rockets to disposable forks. Don’t confuse meeting a price point with a lack of ability.
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How do you see the linked issue?
I own my home and will be selling it at probably-a-loss next year because I have no use for it anymore. It's far larger than I need and I am no longer partnered. I'll be renting a studio or 1br and am very excited. I would love to sell this place to a young family or couple looking for a starter home.
It's ultimately about practice: Spain's first high speed train was massively over budget, and seen as a boondoggle. If building had stopped there, it would have been a curiosity, but the government kept asking for more track, and with practice come better results.

It's difficult to succeed in early projects of all kinds, but it's not just people that learn: organizations do too. Set up good incentives, and be OK with early failures. And if you lack expertise, but someone else has the knowledge, just hire a few experts away.

On most problems where America is very inefficient, it's either a matter of lack of practice or horrible incentives. If there's a cultural failing, it's unwillingness to deal with those bad incentives.
oh -- well if we're going _there_ then for sure add Brueggemann to your list. His "The Prophetic Imagination" is incendiary, even 40-odd years on.
I am guessing from my personal experience, but for the most part people tend to ask more repetitive technical jobs (like testing motors) to people lower in the ladder, so (relatively) less experienced people are going to touch the parts more.

Then such people are doing the "actual work" and overloaded with tasks, working overtime is a rule rather than the exception. The justification for this is that he was "getting experience" for trying to move up in his career. So all good.

Most people are going to remember that he messed up, rather than that he was working overtime to meet expectations, maybe except for the guy that pat him in his shoulder, he saw enough to understand it.
Massachusetts becomes fifth state to make prison calls free
That’s a really good point I haven’t thought about before. For all I know, Ford indeed could’ve been even less revered than Musks and Thiels in the timeline where internet was already commonplace back then. Legitimately thanks for bringing it up.

That makes quite a lot of things about the current time more difficult to comprehend using historical precedence. Because a lot of the fundamental things about living in our present time are exactly the same, yet unprecedented in significant ways. I guess the same could be said about almost any time period in history though.
That’s a good point, would be curious to understand more what the testing setup is like for these kinds of systems.
I work in TV. During my first job at a small market station 30 years ago, I was training to be a tape operator for a newscast. All the tapes for the show were in a giant stack. There were four playback VTRs. My job was to load each tape and cue it to a 1-second preroll. When a tape played and it was time to eject that tape, it was _very_ easy to lose your place and hit the eject button on the VTR that was currently being played on the air instead of the one that they just finished with. The fella who was training me did something very annoying, but it was effective: every time I went to hit the eject button, he would make a loud cautionary sound by sucking air through his closed teeth as if to tell me I was about to make a terrible mistake. I would hesitate, double check and triple check to make sure it was the right VTR, and then I would eject the tape. He made that sound every single time my finger went for the eject button. It really got on my nerves, but it was a very good way to condition me to be cautious. Our station had a policy: the first time you eject a tape on the air got you a day off without pay; the second time put you on probation; the third time was dismissal. I had several co-workers lose their jobs and wreck the newscast due to their chronic carelessness. Thanks to my annoying trainer, I learned to check, check again, and check again. I never ejected a tape on the air. It certainly would not have been a half-billion dollar mistake if I had, but at that point in my career it would have felt like it to me.
Arguably most apps have a relation to the real world - chat and live video sharing, etc.
I'd love to try the software products from these countries, but I can't deny that some of the very things spoken of in the article came from the origins of which you speak.

Samsung made Tizen, and many of the 'TVs with eyes and ears' out there.

BMW was apparently the flagship for heated seats as a service.

To be fair, Nintendo is pretty good at innovation in both hardware and software, but not so much at cutting edge power these days. Or, like, people trying to have fun with friends (whether online or in tournaments).

I can't speak for China on your list; would love to hear of some battle tested counterexamples though.

All of that said, greed is undoubtedly a leading cause for many of these industry wide ailments. Why innovate when you can coast? Why invent something in your spare time for nothing when someone can pay you good money to transform JSON?
Sad to hear about that. It's one of my dreams, after finally purchasing a home, to add a nice wood fire oven in the backyard. I'm guessing you don't have the pictures anymore? Would love to see them.
Legislation: https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/HD822

> When the law goes into effect next month, Massachusetts will join Connecticut, California, Minnesota and Colorado in eliminating prisoner phone call fees.

Have been following this topic since Ameelio’s Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23042558 (2020)

https://www.ameelio.org/
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I was just on a campus this past weekend and half the windows were blacked out by the residents themselves. Natural light shining into where you sleep is overrated.
You should get this added to the Wikipedia list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace
Sure, trap probably wasn’t the best word choice.
6000 children so far, not including those whose bodies are still under the rubble.

https://www.unrwa.org/resources/reports/unrwa-situation-repo...

> Maybe we should start running footage of children killed in car accidents to encourage people to drive more safely?

Yes.
I'm not sure what the typical severance package at Unity looks like (or whether they offered to buy people out, etc.). A typical package is around 3 months.
These are minority opinions from people who are clearly confused or otherwise. You can completely ignore them. This entire article is click bait.
That quote tells more about Zinn’s views than anything true about the world. Explains a lot about that propaganda piece of a book that has little to do with actual history.
> Youth really is fleeting.

So is all of life.

Signed, a 60 year old
We don't need more trucks that look like every other truck on the market, just like we don't need more sedans that look like the same boring bar of soap. I'm not a huge Tesla fan, but I'm glad someone out there is taking some design risk rather than just copying the look of every other vehicle out there.
Maybe. I got one, wife got one. we merged accounts as soon as it was available. It's our #1 used card by far.

I've been 100% satisfied with the Apple Card & Savings.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10425828/
Use of GPT-4 to Analyze Medical Records of Patients With Extensive Investigations and Delayed Diagnosis

"Six patients 65 years or older (2 women and 4 men) were included in the analysis. The accuracy of the primary diagnoses made by GPT-4, clinicians, and Isabel DDx Companion was 4 of 6 patients (66.7%), 2 of 6 patients (33.3%), and 0 patients, respectively. If including differential diagnoses, the accuracy was 5 of 6 (83.3%) for GPT-4, 3 of 6 (50.0%) for clinicians, and 2 of 6 (33.3%) for Isabel DDx Companion"
Really glad to see this work and result. My PhD dissertation 25 years ago (pub cited in group's Science paper) focused on laboratory synthesis of dolomite at lower temperatures (less than hydrothermal), but since then focused on virtual (kinetic Monte Carlo simulations) experiments as a means of understanding crystal growth. Really happy to see this fundamental progress.
Fair point, although in my experience SDXL still isn't great at non-square ratios. I end up just cropping them to the ratio I want.
Is this maybe one of those "if something is hard, do it more often" things?
i mean, even they would say n=1 is not science. but then if longevity science cant guarantee your living slightly longer then is it even worth it lol
> How fast should programs boot? How long should it take to make bug-free software? How long should a smartphone stay relevant? How much mining should it take to live? How many steps should it take to get to my local grocery store?

None of this is really relevant. None of these questions 'need' answers.

What do the customers need? Where is the market for my goods/services? These questions are relevant.

People know and love to build things. The things they build and invent are then taken over by middle managers, project managers, high level executives, and politicians.

It's not the builders or makers that can't build things, it's the budget constraints, board-room death spirals, and project management to death that makes projects hot-garbage.

We can't build things because they won't let us. We show the powers that be a 7 course meal, and they make it a McRibb. Sure it's tasty, but it sure ain't what we wanted to build...
KeenWrite[1], my Markdown text editor, was written with variables in mind. I've made a "theme" for the documentation for my house, called Domus.[2] You could get something producing PDFs in an evening.

Profile has my email.

[1]: https://keenwrite.com

[2]: https://gitlab.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite-themes/-/tree/main/d...
Armagetron Advanced: a Tron clone in 3D
Once you're in America the etymology is irrelevant. If it can tangentially relate in any way to race then it must be about race and viewed through a racial lens at all times.
When the author mentions that tree I can’t help but notice ;)
Well China may have a HSR. But it's sort of bankrupt on arrival outside of the main metro's. China has the luck in this scenario of being free of oversight, and able to create it's own money. Most western Infrastructure isn't built in a vacuum that allows it to arrive as a gold plated entity.
"Interesting how the Arab countries do not want to help Israel forcibly displace Palestinians who choose to fight for their land and freedom."

Fixed it for you.
That explains the old blooper reels that were popular on TV in the early 80's, where the reporter would be talking about something, and get video of something completely bonkers in the background instead.
"No billionaire earned his money"

only the young and feeble minded live in absolute

"exploiting others...if you make your money through investments"

the covid shot that saved your life was supported by investments
I don't think you'll see me saying anything about the accuracy of Israel's numbers in this thread.
Nintendo purposely doesn't focus on cutting-edge or power. Hasn't since the the mid-80s. Having fun with friends is a core concept of what they do. Hand a Switch to a group of people to play party games. It's really interactive and social.
The article says it was widely known that large doses of lead are toxic but says they found that 0.08% lead in gasoline was safe.

Today it's widely known that large doses of solanine (a compound in potatoes and tomatoes) are toxic, but the amount commonly in food is thought to be safe. So we haven't banned potatoes.

But even if some insane or evil scientist invents a harmful compound that becomes widely used, I'd be mainly angry at the US Public Health Services, or the equivalent public health agency in other countries. It's their responsibility to only allow safe products. They conducted a study on leaded gasoline and decided not to ban it. And every other country allowed it as well.

So we have to conclude every country's public health agency was either corrupt or incompetent, or that the harm from leaded gasoline at the dosage used wasn't obvious at the time. (Or both.)
Adam Savage has an interesting (45m!) video entitled "Epiphany on the Science of Measurement!" where he gets a bit philosophical on accuracy and precision (using gauge/Johansson blocks as jumping off point):

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE7dYhpI_bI
> Maybe it uses AAA batteries instead of coin cells or something.

It does, which is a big selling point for me. I’m trying to standardise on rechargable AA/AAA batteries wherever possible. A lot of devices recommend you only use alkaline batteries because of the extra voltage but I haven’t actually found one that doesn’t function on 1.2v eneloops yet.