skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In your future, do households with more than one person exist? Because no matter what the tech is that'll never happen. We have a family, and after dinner if we want to watch a sitcom and laugh, we ... what .... go put on our own individual headsets and lay in bed? What happens on Sunday and it's icy outside, and we want to put a james bond movie on with the booming sound, have a glass of wine while the kids make hot chocolate, how do we do that? If I'm a single dude with disposable income I can see the vr headset with insane quality being pretty awesome, but for ANY kind of household with a family or roommates, I just can't fathom that kind of dystopian nightmare.
Aspirin's bleeding risk is very well studied. You can find many papers showing between around 30% increase in the brain, and around 60% for the gut.
>Why would we assume that any algorithms used to determine 'inspirational ancestry' will only ever be used against machines?

This is exactly the conclusion I've internally come to in regards to this topic.

In my opinion, there exists no possible future in which such a system will not be abused to rent-seek from real artists. The least horrible one I could realistically see is maybe a "Everyone born before Year X is not included in this system." clause, which is still quite dystopian.
I stopped using door dash when I watched multiple delivery drivers go pick up my food, sit and wait for a bit, drive in the wrong direction, pick up food from another restaurant, drive in the wrong direction to another location, then deliver my cold food.
Another technique for dodging [manual] lifetimes is not store references in struct fields etc.
I don't read NPR but there's text.npr.com too
Atlanta just barely OTP (the suburbs, right outside our ring freeway.

Pros: Much easier to make it here than Los Angeles, where I grew up. Government processes are simpler, taxes are lower for my income bracket and easier to reason about. There. Are. So. Many. Trees.

Walkability depends on where you live but is good where I am and even better in Midtown. Where I live it’s a lot like walking in the woods except you have a sidewalk and a Kroger/Wholefoods and local downtown stretch just 20 minutes walking down the road.

If you’re into sports, we have one of everything.

We have a subway that actually takes you places you want to go, including the airport. Larger stations have a park and ride so the last mile isn’t all that difficult to handle. It’s a shockingly progressive transit system for the part of the world we are in.

While LAX is getting better, ATL is such a better airport. I used to hate having to deal with LAX for my work travel. ATL is so much easier to get in and out of and the facilities are top tier. Delta is the dominant carrier and they’re very good at what they do. As a nice bonus, I save a few hours flying to Europe vs LA.

Cons: If you live outside the perimeter, this can be socially the equivalent of living in another state. I have friends that won’t drive 15 minutes to where I am “because it is too far.”

The population is growing very quickly so we have rush hours approximating Los Angeles. Whenever I am with another ex-Californian or an ex-New Yorker, we joke that the locals have no idea what is happening to them and that this is a Baby LA/NY in the making. If this is managed correctly I think it’ll work out ok. We lack any guarantee that we won’t see the problems those cities have today in our future.

While the tax and fee structures are good for me, it’s effectively a regressive tax system for the poor.

Some parts of the city seem to consider paving roads optional. “Put a plate on it” is a common joke referring to steel plates being placed everywhere road work has not been completed. This has gotten better but the “Steel Plate” is an active meme on ATL Reddit.

While Delta is a good airline, the ATL airport should really just be named “Delta Airport”. For work, I travel to some countries in Europe where Star Alliance airlines are the primary carriers. I’m not particularly concerned about the seat I’m flying in, but nothing has caused me as much travel pain as flying in a KLM long haul flight in Economy.

Lastly, you can definitely move to parts of the ATL metro that are unwalkable (as in, no sidewalks and only Strodes between your housing community and other places) and distant from all the city’s points of interest. I wouldn’t rely on a third party to find you a place to live unless you aim for something right in the middle of the city. It’s possible to have a drive that is 20 minutes by flight of the crow take 45 minutes due to the way roads are linked and how the topography affects travel time. One quadrant of the city does not have a link to the subway.
> Even if an API stays exactly the same, something about what it returns could subtly change

Where I work, we call that a breaking change. If a consumer of our API codes for a particular response, and we change that response, then we could break their application.

No one wants to have to validate deeply nested objects to test if they do indeed return the thing we promised to return in our contract...
>They were also VERY suspicious any time you had your graphing calculator out outside math class, and some of the ruder study hall attendants would clear your calculators memory of games.

That would have been a huge bummer becuase I wasn't playing games on mine, I was writing programs. It was actually the start of my professional programming career technically. I sold a copy of the program I wrote via link cable to a fellow student for $1... 8 years before apple was selling $1 mobile apps ;)
It actually does apply.

You'd have to request reasonable accommodations if you have a provable and medically documented disorder.

But also it would depend. A company is allowed to not hire someone if the person is not able to do the work. A company is only required to give reasonable accommodations.
Alma QC.

Pros: small city, super safe, the beach is near and awesome in summer, the forest great any season, affordable housing, winter sports.

Cons: not enough cool restaurants and cultural life, you need a car as it's not walkable friendly.
I think "BIGRELEASE" is not accurate representation of how semver is used. I always understood it as something that introduces a non-backwards compatible change in the API.

This is so that you can specify ranges of api versions that your program could be built with. For reference, here's where I took my understanding:
https://semver.org/
In the situation you describe humans fail constantly. My experience with the medical system has decidedly not been that magically competent back office people call every office you've ever visited to assemble your complete medical history from scraps and effectively organize it for the doctor. It's a constant game of telephone where you have to do most of the work yourself, calling around and giving instructions to receptionists to give to other people to get this stuff done. They can't even communicate reliably between the nurses and doctors in the same damn office to avoid asking the same questions multiple times every time you visit.

What you describe, if it worked reliably, would be an advance over current human-level average performance. And AI will absolutely be able to do it, too. Probably within ten years, though it will take longer to deploy after the capabilities are there.
Thessaloniki, Greece: Great food, great nightlife, all the beaches you could want within a 30 min drive, ski resorts in the winter an hour away, lots of Greece to explore within a few hours' drive. The city itself is vibrant, the waterfront spans the entire city and is very nice to walk on, the city as a whole feels extremely safe.

Cons: It's in Greece, so drivers are idiots, there's government corruption, can't really make a living wage, rents are so high that I'm not sure how anyone can afford to live here, and it's so hot in the summer that you really do want to be at the beaches for those three months.
Buenos Aires City, Argentina.

Pros: amazing walkable (currently) cheap city with basically free public transport in international standards (subway at USD 0.08). Top restaurantes and cocktails scene that I think it is better than NYC. A ~250 m2 apartment in a classic neighbourhood such as Recoleta is around USD 500k. Buenos Aires never sleeps. Good Internet infrastructure with fiber optics. Very social. Things you wouldn't find in other cities which is infinite walk in [1] and [2]. Amazing icecream. Top entrepreneur city, companies are formally radicated outside Argentina. Good weather.

Cons: insecurity (don't pose as a tourist and be careful of using your mobile phone or other devices in public places). Bureacracy at its limits. Corruption in every level. No beach.

It is important to highlight that Argentina is huge and other places are amazing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avenida_del_Libertador_(Buenos...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avenida_Figueroa_Alcorta
I think there's a lot to be gained by not writing Rust like C, to the extent that it might be worth taking some time to pick up another language (maybe a lisp variant?) first.

2.) Be careful because &String is not &str, although in many cases you can pretend thanks to magic of AsRef/AsDeref.

4.) If you find yourself calling is_none, rethink things a bit. Pattern matching and the various destructuring (e.g. if let) features are some of the most powerful tools at your disposal with Rust. This is where experience with something else first (e.g. Elixir) can be helpful.

I rarely introduce a lifetime to a struct/impl.

IMO the big use case here is &str.

Arc kind of bails you out of a lot

While that's totally reasonable it's good to remember that you're essentially trading compile time guarantees for runtime ones. If you can figure out how to beat the borrow checker into submission that's one less thing to debug at runtime.

primitive like u32 and it's borrowed and you had to dereference it or clone it.

The primitive types should all implement Copy which means you should (almost?) never have to explicitly clone them. Dereferencing is another story tho.
There's a section for LLMs, but most major concepts are covered down to linear algebra and some hardware (skimmed through this). Are you looking for anything in particular?
I would encourage people to be more aware of the overjustification effect.

I used to lecture about it often when consulting, and despite that it still reared its ugly head in my own life.

I used to love talking about tech. Because I loved talking about tech and was often right in what I had to say about it, I ended up getting paid a crazy amount of money to talk to senior management at very large companies about tech.

And after I left the industry because I didn't want to be a professional Cassandra for the rest of my life, I pretty much stopped talking about tech to my professional peers, because I was no longer being paid for it.

It took about a decade to realize that I'd effectively cut off my nose because I'd gotten used to profiting off my face. I missed out on what were I'm sure many conversations I'd have intrinsically enjoyed simply because I'd removed the extrinsic motivation for having them.

In an ideal world, the things we enjoy doing that create value wouldn't be extrinsically compensated because they wouldn't need to be as we'd have our needs taken care of by fair distribution of collective profit in an ever less scarcity driven world. Unfortunately it's not a perfect world and likely won't be in my lifetime, so instead I just try to be more mindful to not let extrinsic motivators too deeply into the parts of my life I care about or enjoy.

Work (doing a task for extrinsic reward) is toxic to intrinsically motivated passion.
Haven’t seen The Beaverton. Thanks for turning me onto it.

If you haven’t heard the This American Life episode where they go behind the scenes at The Onion’s writer room, it’s worth checking out. A ten minute discussion over the precise wording of “Thirsty Mayor Drinks Town’s Entire Water Supply” and what makes it funny… amazing to realise how truly obsessive and technically capable they are.
Are you comparing a human child with dogs, chimps and giraffes? Are you saying it's appropriate to communicate with physical violence in this context? What other human-to-human contexts are there where physical violence or the threat of physical violence is okay?

I'm genuinely curious about this worldview, because I personally cannot empathize with this. It's abhorrent to me and my values.
Day trip to ocean - where? Looks like San Diego is at least 6 hrs away. Definitely fair for a weekend trip
How so? One is inclusive (too white, not enough diversity which is a thing we implicitly want) and the other is exclusive (too white, thankfully because we don’t want diversity).
It's a shame no one makes a control board for TV screens like you can often find for old screens like from digital photo frames.
Vancouver here as well, agreed about pros, I’ll add the best summer weather in a city environment (not humid, warm/hot). You don’t need a car to get around other than going for hikes and mountains either, which is neat.

For cons — would consider it safer than any other “city” in North America once you exclude Hastings/surroundings. Safety issues are more concentrated in one zone compared to Toronto, NYC, SF, Seattle and etc.

I’ll add another con — it gets very routine after a few years. You don’t feel like you’re living a city life compared to… basically any other city. It’s nowhere close to Toronto, NYC, London, Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, Tokyo, Hong Kong and etc.
My only experience with Gradle was negative, but that's probably because I'm not a Java dev (or any dev, to be frank) but I was trying to set up a server to play Agrarian Skies classic and couldn't find a compatible bukkit server jar and made the mistake of trying to compile it myself. It just kept breaking and not working. I think it was a Gradle 1.8 project so it was also ancient lol
How do economists have skin in the game?

Many of them eg work in universities and some even have tenure. There's not much skin in the game between any forecasts they might make and their academic prospects.

Economists working for companies often have to help them understand micro and macro-economics. Eg (some of) Google's economists help them design the ad auctions. It's relatively easy to figure out for Google how well those ad auctions work. So they certain have skin in the game. But: what motivation to mislead do those economists have?
It is a shitty idea
Well, if you start taking into account the second-order socioeconomic effects of shooting millions of people who could have led productive lives and could have had children, or the effects of putting millions more through the Gulag system... I get the point, however I suppose the full extent of the tragedy of communism is just way too depressing to really think about compared to thinking about the US' global influence, especially now when similar ideas in Moscow led to another goddamn war. The existence of communism and its history poses a strong moral dilemma, either let it spread and watch the inevitable ensuing devastation, or intervene, but with a chance of your actions backfiring and, formally speaking, "causing" something bad. It's an open question which choice would have been better in which situation, and I don't think it's productive to just look at mistakes while ignoring the overall intent. How do you even count how many lives the US foreign policy managed to save?
Apple is spending a lot of time and money working out how LLMs might be useful
And fewer calories…

And time restricted feeding (ie 8/16 intermittent fasting)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41392-022-01163-z
The key is block all network access. A lot of IoT devices have hard coded DNS so even running a pihole will sometimes not work.
Lived in BK for 15 years. This summary rings true. The thing that lit my leaving fuse was the noise. Once it started getting to me my clock was ticking. Also the moving. I moved 12 times in my 15 years and each time it ate up 6+ weeks and thousands of dollars. Few moves were voluntary. After a while I simply could not even any longer
>better than every cinema-goer

Humorously this submission, and so many just like it, are about people who are outraged that their parents / friends / etc actually like motion smoothing. So...I guess? I remember a similarly boorish, ultimately-failed "no one should ever take vertical video!" movement from a few years ago, again pushed by people really, really certain of the supremacy of their own preference.

>and every cinematographer, animator, producer, and director

Now this attempt to appeal to authority is particularly silly. Peter Jackson -- you might have heard of him -- tried to do a movie at 48 FPS for a wide variety of quality reasons, to be lambasted by people just like you. People who are sure that the completely arbitrary, save-our-rolls-of-film 24 FPS is actually some magical, perfect number. It is insane. Everyone else is simply handcuffed to that completely obsolete choice from years ago, and will be for years more.

I'm not going to convince you, and have zero interest in trying. And I am certain you're not going to convince me. But your argument at its roots is "that's the way it's done, therefore that's the perfect way and the way it will forever be done". It's utter nonsense.
> I think we have to face the reality that web browsers might no longer be considered "user" agents.

If by "web browsers" you mean specifically Chrome, yes. Firefox, Brave, and others are all committed to supporting MV2, and will continue to serve my interests as a user for the foreseeable future.
Coding4Fun Hardware Boneyard – Using the CueCat with .NET (2006)
An external Chromecast stick also works fairly well (assuming you pay for YouTube premium and Netflix etc to avoid ads, but at least not much in the way of bloatware).
Aspen, CO

Pros:

- Can be outside all year round (provided you love snow like everyone else here).

- Tons of activities, culture, and interesting people.

- I get to play hockey and snowboard / mountain bike in the same day, with maybe 20 minutes of time in my car.

- The weather is impeccable (again if you like winter).

- Small town airport is amazing. Get there 15 minutes before boarding and walk right onto your plane.

Cons:

- Small town. 10k people means you run into people all the time, people build reputations, etc.

- Airport can be unreliable in weather.

- Cost prohibitive for most friends or family to visit easily.

- Everyone is white, and mostly rich. Lack of real diversity.

- Eating out is prohibitively expensive and feels extravagant. (Pro to this is I spend more time with my fiancé at home cooking together and eating healthier)

I lived in NYC for nearly 20 years, and I visit for 3-6 weeks a year. I love NYC more than anything, but also for now really love my life I've built here, even if it gets lonely sometimes -- I always remind myself that I was lonely sometimes in NYC too.

Its been really nice to get out of the day to day commute to work, get coffee at [insert favorite local coffee shot], get lunch, commute home, go out to dinner or order in, go to bed, rinse repeat.

I get to snowboard daily in the winter, ride my mountain bike in the summer, see gorgeous scenery on every ride or drive, and really have mother nature as my playground. I am physically and mentally healthier than I've ever been.

But I miss NYC
Seattle, WA

Pros: Diverse areas of distinct culture/cuisine/architecture, with much history built into the foundations of the city. Each neighborhood has its own identity so it doesn't always feel like a huge metropolis. The sports teams are good enough to get people's hopes up, but not good enough to actually win anything recently. If you make good money, it's a wonderful city. If you don't...

Cons: Expensive city. Not every apartment is $2k+/month but more and more of them are. When tech expands, it pushes out locals and prices out many from living good/comfortable lives. When tech contracts, it affects local businesses, especially downtown or in other areas built to support tech and tech workers. Either way, it's not as cool as it used to be to say you work in tech within some circles.

It's a mixed bag and I certainly wouldn't argue if someone said it wasn't for them, but for me, it's the best place in the world I could be. I'm close to family, friends, and great career opportunities (plus I like the rain, and the incredible summers no one talks about)
"Child abuse" is a fuzzier term than many seem to acknowledge, subject to passing conventions and fads. This isn't to say there aren't obvious examples of child abuse (beating your kids, sexual abuse, gaslighting, or all sorts of emotional and psychological manipulation or whatever), but today, giving an incorrigibly disobedient child throwing an interminable tantrum a swat on the tush to shake them out of it gets CPS involved, but teaching strange ideologies approved by the state is fine (in fact, refusing to teach them is now abuse). Even worse, grotesque "medical" procedures and treatments against which that swat pales in comparison.

Generally speaking, corporal punishment as such is not abuse, either. We've just become very sentimental, operating with a flawed understanding of human nature. It shouldn't be used lightly, but it shouldn't be demonized categorically.
Best practices have two attributes, both of which represent consensus among practitioners in the field: that it produces an optimal outcome, and that it can reasonably be broadly adopted.

Email canaries clearly flunk the second test.
Paccar? PPG? Textron?

Clearly, I'm out of touch.
I moved to NYC from SF about 4 years ago. I’ve faced a lot of culture shock and I’m not sure I’d recommend it. I don’t think NYC has what it takes to become an innovation hub, the way SF/San Jose/Seattle are. There’s a pervasive small-c conservatism here, an attachment to tradition in so many ways, that makes it tough for interesting, out of the box, uncomfortable ideas to take root. There are tons of lifestyle pros to living here (entertainment, food, people, transportation), but if you’re deeply interested in technology, innovation, pushing boundaries, etc, then you might not find what you’re looking for here.
Why such strict limits on small trailers?
These do bring back memories for us old folks!
Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale [video]