skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wonder why the 94% care so much about a phone that they do not even intend to own.

People around you see if you have the shiniest, most expensive toy or not. It's stupid to care about it — but we're stupid and that's nothing we can really do about it. Comparing yourself with others and caring about social status is something that's built-in very deep in our psyche by evolution. It's irrational to try to ignore or completely conquer something so foundational to our being; the best we can hope for is to channel it to something better.

Of course, HN is full of people on autistic spectrum or adjacent (me included) who may not feel the same emotions or psychological reactions as a neurotypical. But, once again, it's irrational to judge an average human being by yourself in this case.

It's irrational to expect humans to not have any irrational thoughts or inclinations.
I asked my doctor if I should have a sleep study done because I snore.

She said, “I can tell you right now that it’ll say you have sleep apnea; that’s all they ever say.”

Yes, I found a new doctor but with so many people being diagnosed with it, I do sometimes wonder.
My high school (a private American boarding “prep school”) required that students have small unpaid jobs around campus, the most common of which was nightly classroom cleaning. You’d come by your assigned classroom in the evening and do a light vacuuming, wipe down the boards, straighten the desks, empty the wastebin etc.

At the time I hated having to do it, but I’ve come to really appreciate its purpose. It meant that if you made a mess in a classroom, you very likely knew the person who’d be cleaning it up, and in a place where a good number of the students would have run the risk of never touching a vacuum cleaner in their entire lives, it provided some degree of grounding in service to the community and a democratizing effect–everyone participated, not just the students who needed to, ala college Work-Study programs.
I tried using Arch for my work machine for a bit. It might be better if I only manually run updates for security stuff, but that's management time I could spend doing my job, not polishing my tools.
Eh, I think that's a different thing. The line between machine and electronics is pretty blurry when you get down to it. Is an LED attached to a mechanical switch electronics? What if the switch controls a transistor that switches the light? A relay? A CPU? What if it's an incandescent bulb on a mechanical timer? The distinction isn't super clear, and a lot of electronic circuits are much less complex and more reliable than a mechanical replacement. Is that good or bad?

I think the discussion here is less about "uses any electricity at all" and more "uses internet connected DRM to be actively shitty"
...and why would there be? People are free to be stupid if they want.

I really hate this attitude that every little danger has to be regulated.
The bill the end user receives being zero doesn't change how telecom billing is set up. The fact that it's "Free" and costs are hidden from the user in America isn't exactly uncommon.
You might enjoy this: https://www.joeydevilla.com/2004/07/30/the-breakup-style-of-...
So this is one thing that I don't understand:

> No matter which node [...] you get roughly the same experience.

How do you mean this? Besides HN, I'm on some big guys, a few discords, and some private groups. Some of the big guys delegate moderation to private participants in each sub-forum - of course. NO TWO of these have the same rules. Not even close. Some have fundamentally different basic rules of conduct. Many of the moderators enthusiastically want to block "the bad guys" but they mostly agree to each other's label on that in spite of their rules being all different. Basically if someone was lynched by some other group, that's good enough for them.

I'm willing to be amazed that it works but for now I do not believe that two of these systems actually will agree long term to use the other guy's forum rules.
I live in the US and I doubt the student cleaning tradition ever gets imported…but it reminds me…

I’ve always wondered why we don’t ask sufficiently old children to make their own lunch at school. Surely a sixth grader is capable of making their own lunch and it’s a huge opportunity to learn about nutrition and basic kitchen skills.

I obviously don’t think that a 12-year-old child should be deep-frying french fries but there’s a lot we could find for them to do.
Where do you host your mailserver?
I mean that's kind of silly.

Everyone doing "hard" work, whether it's a software engineer developing novel algorithms or a PI at a lab researching open questions spends at least 80% of their time grinding through operational necessities. Writing tests, writing grants, debugging... nobody is sitting a a chalkboard 100% focused on the bleeding edge.

GPT turns that 80% into 40%. That's a lot!
> I can assure you this won’t work for Google

I can assure you that it absolutely does work at Google.

I've done multiple interviews at Google, and have received a job offer from them, and every question I got asked was one that I had heard of before. (This was for an L4 position, so mid level. Also, it doesn't matter what happens at L6 or higher, as that is comparative rare for almost anyone who is doing interview practice).

Maybe your question is super secret, but the vast majority of other people's questions are not.
"National interest" doesn't necessarily trump the desires of citizens, and the government can hold multiple conflicting interests at once.
humans can't be trusted to not censure information they dislike. corporate or private people will all follow their own self interests. there is no version where this ends well.
The odd thesis here seems to be that the lufthansa flight has to bear the entire burden of the delay. Eventually there will be a gap when you have runway space free. Rather than shove the lufthansa flight in right away, then cause every further flight to be delayed until that gap appears, lufthansa has to wait for the gap themselves. "No visual approaches" is treated as a sort of deviance which the ATC won't allow the effects of it to cascade to anyone but lufthansa. This added context makes it clearer exactly what the OP article is criticizing: the ATC had the complete ability to let the lufthansa flight land whenever they liked, but was choosing not to, and there are certain negative effects which that choice could have.
My anecdotal experience agrees with this. Long/intense cardio doesn't improve my sleep but weight training seems to. Occasionally I have to struggle to stay awake to keep my schedule, which is marvelous compared to struggling to fall asleep!
Depends what level of meta you're thinking about it on. Female writers make converse mistakes and write e.g. a male character who doesn't care whether he's good in bed, or doesn't even conceptualise that as a metric that one ranks people on.
>> My solution since 2002: don't answer the phone.

I have two children. Doesnt happen often, but I've received calls from my kids' school. Twice the kids got hurt on the playground and needed to be picked up. The call can from a random number from someone at the school, not the main number.

I have also received calls from pharmacies about order verification for much needed prescriptions. And received calls from doctors' offices about last minute re-scheduling.

Not answering voice calls seems like a solution that works 99% of the time and drastically fails 1%
The problem with hands is that more fingers are between fingers than to left or right of fingers.

So, a finger should probably be portrayed as between other fingers.

You can see where this is going. It can't.
The world has already decided to disconnect 5 countries from the global banking system, effectively keeping them locked in the dark ages....
Oh my goodness, hello! Pamplejuce has been a life-saver-- having github actions with pluginval proved to be an absolute necessity when building and linking the hacked encoder libraries. I love reading your juce blogposts as well. Thank you for all that you do!
> The idea has never been that another kid spit on the floor and I should clean up his spit, that would have been handled differently

OK, that's the difference between USSR and Japan.
They definitely want you to subscribe.

I find their detailed reports really valuable and use them often before big purchases. It’s $40/yr and I definitely save that much by not going with my gut or asking on Reddit.

Recent example: with their analysis, I found that the Kobalt $300 lawnmower will more than meet my needs; I don’t need the $500 DeWalt lawnmower.
You want loud? Try Coqui frogs in Hawaii. Loud enough to keep people from being able to sleep. Loud enough to make them literally go insane. Loud enough to make people commit suicide, or at least accidentally drive their cars off the road due to lack of sleep.

A single tiny 22 millimeter frog can emit a sound of 91 decibels. Now, ask yourself what happens when you get a bunch of them together.
I remember these ideas being taught in my elementary economics classes in high school. It seemed mainstream and less fringy then.
I think you underestimate how ineptly run a lot of these highly-regulated, legacy industries actually are.

They care, but in the way most people care about not being fat. They still can’t make the necessary lifestyle changes to do anything about it even if it is their most ardent wish.
economists when people aren’t rational economic actors: shocked pikachu face
WikiRaces – Realtime game to find Wikipedia articles quickly
I don't think a 12-year-old should be eating deep fried French fries as a regular part of a school lunch either... Nothing wrong with a sandwich.
Its finest, not it's

https://youryoure.com/?its
When I was a student, this was the norm for all students from elementary to high school in the Philippines. We even have a rotation of who will redecorate the classroom bulletin board. At times, a section/class in the school will get assigned to clean up the entire schoolyard. I also remember replanting a long-ish plantbox for our Home Economics subject. This, by the way, is in a private school with its own janitors. Nobody complains, not even the parents, because that is just part of what your responsibilities are as a student.
>Why the hell should I clean up the mess created by my classmates?

Isn't that the entire point? To teach you that the "someone else" who cleans up your mess is actually one of your peers, a person just like you.

Asked another way, why the hell should one of your classmates clean up your mess? The answer to both is you shouldn't leave messes for others to clean. Making kids clean up messes from their classmates teaches everyone to clean their own mess.

Whereas in the US, all schools have a janitorial staff. In general, janitors are looked down on as the absolute lowest of social class. It creates this mentality of not giving a single fuck about the mess you create because "someone else" will clean it up. And because they're a lower social class they somehow deserve the mess you make.
Meta: "Big breakthrough last night. Excited to share our work with you soon."
Apparently you don't remember when the Tesla Model S scored 103 out of 100 possible points on Consumer Reports' test: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2015/09/teslas-model-s-breaks-c...
Making tools, such as bending wire to make a hook in this case, is distinct from just using found objects.
Thanks for the comment! I really love the quality and attention to detail you folks put into your plugins, and I had no idea you made Lossy into a pedal. So cool!
Do you think email would be a success if it was invented now?
Memorizing questions verbatim means that you will often get questions that require only a single line change in your solution.

Furthermore, if you have a memorized solution, you can spit that out in 5 minutes, and then spend the next 30 minutes trying to figure out the slight change that you need to do to make it work for the minor change that was made.

Speed matters. And having stuff memorized makes everything else easier.
Yes I do agree that a lot of people don’t utilize their utility and just drive them because they are large and comfy. It’s silly. It’s hard to differentiate these people though, sometimes I drive my truck with the bed empty, and just by looking at me you wouldn’t know I was the type of person who uses it for its intended purpose most of the time.

It’s difficult to judge unless you actually know people that own these type of cars.

Anyway, I was just curious what you thought the solution to the problem was, since I agree that it’s silly many people own these things but don’t need them, but also they are a very empowering tool for others. It kind of seems like a tradeoff we make.
The big push is currently towards microLED displays because of the high brightness and fast modulation speed. Yield is not yet good, and there's difficulty in growing all colors on the same substrate. Picking and placing different color LEDs onto the same panel is not cost effective. Red microLEDs are also not yet as bright as blue and green.

There was a push towards micro liquid crystal panels with laser illumination to create holographic images with depth. There are several startups still pursuing that, but the image quality isn't very good at the moment.

The latest advancement has been in the optics with moving to pancake lenses to reduce the length of the optical path from the display to the eye. The Meta Quest 3 has a smaller form factor than previous generations because of this.
So you installed 2 60A circuits?
Self Operating Computer Framework
I emailed HN and received a very nice reply. It's been unflagged now and wasn't done so by moderators.
https://ehmorris.com/lander/ is really good and made a big splash here on HN earlier this year.
People always talk a big game.

But by then there should be well in excess of 200-300m people on Threads.

Many of them will want to converse with Mastodon users and vice versa and I am sure there will be instances available that will be happy to allow that conversation to happen. Because ultimately it's all about users not instances.
The publicly released part of it is all promises and no substance. Neither the alleged language nor the alleged game are available and I'm sceptical that they ever will be (we're well past the time where one would reasonably expect them to have come out if they were ever going to). The likes of Xanadu or the Mill had really cool demos, but that isn't enough to make them not vaporware.
There is one, it's called Hallo. I have it and don't have a single friend on it yet which is a shame. There's a few more "healthy rules" like no influencers, no more than 100 friends, etc.

I believe Path tried to do this too, and failed.
Gemini Postponed, "in some respects" as good as GPT-4
> This is also why I feel like everyone should work in some kind of service job for a year or two.

100% agreed. Especially front of the house food service.

It's illustrative to learn that the person in front of you is probably not the person who made a mistake or has any authority to fix it... but often takes the yelling.

There a difference between firmly asking that something be corrected and being an ass about it -- it's called class.

I love the story I heard about an actor (or founder?) interviewing prospective agents (or VCs?) and judging them by how rude they were to wait staff. Because at some point they might not need anything from you... so how they treat the least needed people matters.
What did you intend to accomplish by publishing a cookbook? This should guide your actions.

Do a blog search on how other people market their books. I remember there were was a very detailed post on HN by someone who profitably self-published a technical book.

You already got very solid advice from others, talking about how you are the unique factor about this book.

Often, a book is a (fairly ineffective) way to monetize on your existing following.

Speaking engagements and workshops. I've seen authors bundle x-number of books as part of a paid speaking engagement (helps you close business / tax write-off?). I've also seen people do a free speaking appearance and sell books to the audience afterwards. Consider doing that that in-person or remotely.

Think about why people buy cookbooks. And what kind of person would like your cookbook in particular. Where does that person hang out? How do you reach them? Who else can give you visibility in front of that audience, and how can you partner?

Watch out for advertising costs during the holidays. At work, our marketers say that costs went up astronomically. Might be a good idea to wait for Jan.

(I am in the marketing world but don't have experience marketing books)
I remember hearing about this language almost a decade ago as a kid and never since then.
The efficient market hypothesis taken down another peg
Again, spammers are the reason we can't have nice things.
A minimum complete tutorial of Linux ext4 file system (2017)
And as a bonus you can transmit symmetric gigabit internet over all of your sensors!
Agree. The question also lacks a "when" part. If it were "Would you pay $5 for this NOW?" then the answer has a higher chance to be NO, regardless of whether the other person think it is a good deal. The question is more like a phrasing trap to make the other person look inconsistent.
It's refreshing to see a 100% HTML git repository. Good work!
As a non-American I was always under the impression that the Confederation never actually stood a chance.

But I might be completely wrong here.
That explains it well. It's the number of pointers that a 4KiB block can hold. I got it.

Many thanks.
The United States has $1.08T cumulative credit card debt. Somehow, we've managed to give trillions away to business owners for fucking up their own finances, but individuals should be left to rot in the sun under insanely usurious rates.

I'm not saying it's right. I'm just saying that the only reason that one set of bad decisions gets alleviated and the other one doesn't is because of who donates what. Wiping out that balance would also obliterate a lot of retail banks.
Gotta learn "Looking Down on Those Beneath You" 101
Montessori?
Looking back, I have realized that I never got a job or contract work through the “normal” methods and channels. I have quite a lot of stories for many of the jobs, but here is one fond memory that changed the trajectory of my career.

Early 2000s, I wanted to work only on and for the Internet. I did my “e-Commerce” course and others, but I was hoping from interview to interview without success. In one particular interview, I was waiting with a few others and started tinkering with an open computer in front of me. Adobe Photoshop had an easter egg where you press some key combination to show the splash screen with a sunset scene (or something like that). I morphed a few images together with that, and it turned out good enough that the boss walking in noticed, “Did you do that?”

That’s how I got my 2nd job in an Internet Media company while applying to be an ASP programmer; I ended up working with the Multimedia team, was challenged to work with Macromedia Flash, and wrote a lot of ActionScript.

I wrote quite a bit of the front-end video decoder for VONGO (a streaming service from STARZ), built a few employee tools for Disney, worked as one of the Creative Directors of Razorfish, etc. None of them through official channels or resume submissions. So, I have an ardent respect and soft-corner heart for anyone I interview and have a side project(s). I love listening to their stories about their side project, hobbies, and open-source contributions/work.
The ATC frequency isn't for complaints. The controller needs the frequency free to communicate with other planes. When he says "I can’t have this conversation with you," he literally means that he cannot have the conversation and continue to direct traffic.

What's printed in the article is a summary of what was actually said. The Lufthansa pilot was talking much more than necessary.
Senate bill aims to stop Uncle Sam using facial recognition at airports
I disagree. Being taught to clean up after yourself and to share in the clean up is more essential than learning about igneous rocks and Magna Carta. So many women (esp.) are miserable in their marriages because their husbands have never learnt to keep their home clean.
If the phone companies are billing each other, they don’t they have to know who to bill, per tinus_hn’s comment?
Thank you! It was the perfect weekend project
Re. title, I still like "System Administrator". I'm of the opinion that any competent sysadmin (good luck finding one) has cloud architecture under his belt at this point.
You don't get out much do you? macOS is the overwhelming choice for web development, both front end and backend. Linux is a huge minority.

I know your type. You're the type of guy who likes to characterize himself as an ultra rational automaton. And you carry yourself that way pretending why you don't understand why people would irrationally use anything other that linux for web development. Do you exclusively use vim too? No need for graphics or a gui or a mouse, all you need is letters? Yeah I can see it.

I think the reality of it all is that you're just trying to be different, trying to act like you're better. But deep down you totally get why someone who's not a graphic designer would use a mac.

I think there's one thing you don't know anymore though. The whole macs are only for "graphic designers" is a two decade old thing of the past. Macs are mainstream now. You go anywhere in silicon valley they will more likely be using a mac then they will windows or linux this goes for both developers and office workers. "Graphic design" isn't even a term that's used anymore, they call themselves UI/UX designers.
Leetcode /s
We have significantly worse programmers, that’s what better languages and better processes enable. People that would have washed out when the only option was bit twiddling and pointer chasing can now be productive and add value. That’s what progress looks like.
This is normal human behavior, per Schelling. Social media has made everyone's opinions more visible to others, which often turns out to be antithetical to maintaining friendly relations.
This does an amazing job of showing the difference in complexity between the different models. Click on GPT-3 and you should be able to see all 4 models side-by-side. GPT-3 is a monster compared to nano-gpt.
If anyone is interested in this topic, I would recommend to start from fundamentals, so it would provide some answers on why some "not so modern" frameworks aren't jumping on a "signals" hype-train.

- Incremental computing - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incremental_computing

- Self-Adjusting Computation (Umut A. Acar) - https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/students/acar.pdf

- Introducing incremental (JaneStreet) - https://blog.janestreet.com/introducing-incremental/

- Incremental computation and the web (JaneStreet) - https://blog.janestreet.com/incrementality-and-the-web/

- Self Adjusting DOM (JaneStreet) - https://blog.janestreet.com/self-adjusting-dom/

- Self Adjusting DOM and Diffable Data (JaneStreet) - https://blog.janestreet.com/self-adjusting-dom-and-diffable-...

- Incremental Computation (Draft of part 1) (Rado Kirov) - https://rkirov.github.io/posts/incremental_computation/

- Incremental Computation (Draft of part 2) (Rado Kirov) - https://rkirov.github.io/posts/incremental_computation_2/

- Incremental Computation (Draft of part 3) (Rado Kirov) - https://rkirov.github.io/posts/incremental_computation_3/

- Towards a unified theory of reactive UI (Raph Levien) - https://raphlinus.github.io/ui/druid/2019/11/22/reactive-ui....
I doubt most tool makers make tools for themselves. The guy at the hammer factory isn’t using all those hammers.
Thanks. Though I must blame this one one my phone's autocorrect. Hehe.
what accounts for the large difference in size?
Mechanical keyboard has a headphone jack you might want to use