skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was going to say that. If it's done as a work, you _must_ do it every day, even when not feeling great, so you may lack adequate time to recover. I think adequate time to recover is the difference between exercise that strengthen us, and physical activity that just grinds us down.
Many people feel compelled to work. This removes all barriers.
This year (C++23)
I no fan of Tesla but I am very familiar with cars and assuming everything in here is accurately represented I have to wonder are they paying bribes to the national highway safety and transportation administration? Because if these problems are as bad as this article makes it out to be then NHSTA would be involved and be up their ass sideways. There is a comprehensive database of safety and non-safety recalls and technical service bulletins for cars that is maintained by them.
just in time for new year resolutioners. If only I could get back all the time I've wasted trying to build my "second brain", goofing around building some kind of connected graph nonsese. I cringe at all the time spent doing that nonsense deluding myself that it the way I am going to get organized and finally turn my life of procrastination and ennui around .

Now I spend most of my day chatting with chatgpt for work and personal life. If it could remember and build my second brain for me that would be amazing.

I really dont think any of these tools like notion, obsidian are really practical or aligned to way our brain works.
> One could hope that starting with reasoning instead of trying to get it "emerge" would do a better job.

We did AI starting with reasoning (directly implementing rules of propositional logic) first, it is called expert systems.

It works very well for some things, but after some efforts to expand it with things like fuzzy logic it became pretty much accepted that we'd reached its limit.

You could hope that it would work better, but...
1) Helped me write a very quick and dirty python program to figure out all the possible combinations of 'little letters after a name' (phd, mba, ms, md, esq, etc) that make up a real word in English. Turns out, there's this whole fuzzy matching library in python that does most of the hard work for you. (Warning, this dumb idea is a big nerd snipe, spend your Xmas vacations on something fun)

2) Writing a novel. Newer (as in last month), versions of Claude and the like will now take in whole documents. For work, these are used to help generate better boilerplate. So, I can just upload a style guide and then an old manual to make a new manual to better conform to the style guides we've updated (>99% accuracy, really good actually!).

So, now I can just upload a working draft of a novel/movie script, the character dossiers, the overall plot (quite detailed scene by scene format though). It reads them all, and then spits out the next scene I ask it to. About an hour of polishing the results with the AI, and you have a whole act completed. I'm still going finding all the little tricks, but it's taken the work load down by at least 50x. You can get a B- level novel/script out in under two weeks, ready to send to out for review.

Idea for HNers out there: Take this new version that can read uploaded documents and sell it as a writing aide for all us needy-twitchy-worrywort-small-bit writers out there. Put some auto-incorporation into AO3 publishing too. At the very least, these things get rid of writer's block like nothing I've ever seen!
That doesnt work on a majority of systems yet. Heck, gcc 14 gets it in the 14.1 release next year.
It could be construed as that but company's that do positive things like this should be celebrated.
For what it's worth, Patagonia is a nonprofit now, and REI is still a co-op. They could just genuinely hold these values, not cynically use them as marketing (surprising in this day and age).

Both companies also do a lot of local outreach and environmental sponsorships. I've been a beneficiary of several Patagonia programs, as well as friends and colleagues I've known in the environmental sector. They do good work, and as far as I can tell, it's actually pretty different from North Face, Black Diamond, Arcteryx, etc. Patagonia and REI are the more community-oriented companies in this space.
Patents can't be circumvented with the "Chinese wall" idea that happens with copyright-based reverse engineering. There is no alternative to licensing if you want to use a technology.
I wasn't trying to say that Ruby indeed is 80% faster, but that it's pretty much impossible to drive actual Ruby speed up from Rails numbers, since we don't know nearly enough about the Rails app
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Mostly ideation and placeholder content. Say I have a rough idea for a logo. I'll hammer something in Midjourney to iterate on ideas.
Stagnating yes, but not ending career early. There will be python/java/c/c++ jobs for decades just keeping the lights on for non-tech companies.
While you may prefer that, I wager you wouldn't turn down additional paid holidays as well.
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Absolutely, I have a 2012 Honda now and I can't remember any major issues. Maybe there was one "issue" like ignition coils or something, but I actually don't think so?
Interesting. Do you have sources to read more about it?
Excessive power has been proven to be just addition and multiplication over the natural numbers. So - no, we can't.
I think you may miss how many technology projects fail in companies. A company may have no internal knowledge or skill to make search better, so they get an outside contracting group that produces a shitty product that doesn't improve sales and costs an extraordinary amount for the lack of results.

Quite often the company won't make any more in those long tail sales, but instead better placement of the products they buy in mass.
Something is incorrect.

Clicking the link produces the following: “ ERROR 404

This page doesn't exist
At least not in this universe.”
So many things...

- Write complex SQL queries

- Write Python GUI apps

- Write songs, heikus, and Christmas rhymes

- Write Delphi Object Pascal functions

- Write PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS code

- Create SVG files and ASCII art

- Find bugs in PHP code, Kotlin code, and HTML syntax

- Create HTML/CSS layouts

- Write SEO outlines and blog posts

- Write synopsis of a potential fictional novel

- Write titles for user content in an AI mobile app

- Create UI layouts for Delphi Object Pascal

- Create strategic marketing plans for clients

- Create recipies for a list of ingredients

- Write bash scripts, PHP CLI commands, WinSCP CLI commands

- Write haproxy and Dockerfile configs

- Orchestrated a 70 server CPU/GPU cloud in programming languages I don't know

- Write Python Stable Diffusion image model pipeline code with Diffusers and PyTorch

- Researching romance novel tropes, driveway maintenence, eminent domain, Waldorf, treasury bonds

- Writing professional sounding emails

- Text summarization and analysis

- Stock and real estate data summarization and analysis

- Psuedo scaling algorithms

- Marketing copy

- Code conversion between languages (like C# to Delphi)

- Cost comparisons between signing a Cloudflare enterprise contract and not over 12 months

- Naming a novel brainstorming

and many many other things. A huge productivity multiplier. It's like having 1000 domain experts and junior devs on tap 24/7 that you don't have to hire off Upwork. Also have to be able to recognize when it produces trash.
“I had depended on the idea that scientific research is a sacred trust, not only to the other individuals in one’s group, but also to the research enterprise as a whole.”

The concern of the author is ultimately one of status, preeminence. Of course people motivated by prestige will not always be trustworthy. Her sin isn’t being too trusting, it’s a lack of self awareness.
>a relevant category suggestion

I had waited so long for rating filters, my kids became adults.

However, I was wondering what Netflix got after 17 years of development at $215k-$700k per dev - and now I know.
> Aren't animals trained to do all of those things through evolution? Similarly how GPT is trained.

No. Animals evolved and are able to do those things. Evolution is not training, and evolution has approximately zero to do with how transformers work.
That is actually not correct. The focal length has no effect on this.
It's not common for companies to have many breaks at all in the US — paid time off is a rare luxury for many workers here. The country's culture is riddled with Protestant views on work and its virtue, which when combined with our rampant individualism and disdain for public works leads to The Hustle being an idolized state.

It has its upsides and downsides. Upsides include the country generally being pretty darn industrious and a hotbed for entrepreneurship, and having good socioeconomic mobility prospects for those who (A) don't start out genuinely poor, and (B) are willing to be obsessive about work. Downsides include burnout, dispassionate employees, and an icky tendency to associate poverty with immorality and wealth with morality. I personally believe we could definitely stand to move a little further in the European direction when it comes to labor culture and laws here in the USA.
Emacs org-mode.
Snow is a very good insulator due to all the trapped air, and it’s fairly easy to make thick walls (the same as straw-and-mud block construction - not the highest R value per cm thickness, but if the walls can be 50 cm thick, it adds up). So yeah, a proper snow cave will converge on freezing point - body heat plus lighting will heat to that point, after which the snow melts.
With the ad-supported business model there is a constant battle between doing good for the users and doing good for the customers (advertisers). Most of the GPT spam is ad-supported. Imagine if a search engine didn't care about ad-revenue and could just derank the crap out of ad-supported websites.
OK, but most of those “sophisticated investors” rent out their property to generate a return on their investment, so no net housing is lost. In addition, these investors who you claim are not residents are paying property taxes that fund local services like firefighters and schools while not themselves consuming those services. So why is this necessarily bad?
For 3D printers that's a manageable risk, for laser cutters I would highly recommend against unattended operation. They're fire starters first and laser cutters second, treat them as such.
Obsidian is hardly AOL or Microsoft sized :)

And the second they go full evil, I can just point _any_ editor to the same directory structure and stuff will mostly Just Work.
I thought it was pretty clear that their maid "maids" multiple homes. It's not like there's 16 hours of cleaning to do in one house every day.
Repeated vague aspertions, without clarifying anything or providing specifics. Break out some technicals, please.

Last I checked the grpc transport layer was http with a couple extra headers?
Should've started after the IAP patent troll debacle.
This is not false authorship at all. Many modern scientific works are too big for a single individual to implement themselves: it’s much like modern software development in that sense. Hence the project is a team effort: there are people who are responsible for the design of the experiments, and then specific subtasks are handled by different team members, often with some review. When the work is presented, it’s presented with a complete author list. The presenter is not claiming full credit for the work.
Why is everyone worked up about the software? The hardware is where all the time and effort is and Prusa just hasn't been doing much there. They could be using ball bearing rails or more rigid structure but instead they're just lightly iterating on their existing system of low precision plastic parts.
I would imagine retail workers are discouraged from using PTO over the holiday season
Honest question here. How hard and frustrating is it to keep up with all this junk?

As someone familiar with nearly a dozen scripting languages, I keep trying for something low level like C++, but it seems like these languages are impenetrable at times. It's hard enough to learn the machine stuff and manual memory management, but having the syntax change more often than a toddler's favorite color just makes it all seem impossible.
Will Scaling Work?
Just plain old elitism.
depends on the commenter's time line. Our base expectation for prices is probably something like a trailing average over time (for me it feels like the 20 year trailing average xD )
> but it would have no economical value. Because it is a commodity.

This is trying to redefine the word "commodity". Normal commodities like oil, grain and electricity very much have economic value.
Docusaurus maintainer here.
Can you expand that feeling?
What makes you feel Docusaurus as complex?
Waiting for the Musk lawsuit to try and stop the free flow of this unflattering information.
This is one of those devil-in-the-details things about international comparisons, especially in the social media era where everything is reduced to a one-liner. It's good that people look at this sort of thing, but it's a losing battle.

It's basically impossible to compare anything across countries without a huge number of asterisks, none of which will be read by anyone. For example:

- Education. Countries have different standards for special needs. The have different start times for first grade. They have different curricula. Some languages are easier to learn. Some have split school systems. Some have more private schools.

- Tax. Tax pays for different things in different countries. Denmark has its benefit recipients pay tax on the income they get from the state, boosting the headline amount of tax. All countries have different tax bands, and the bands correspond to varying standards of living.

- GDP. Some countries have a large dark sector. Some countries are tax havens (no idea how that gets booked).

- Health. Some populations are more prone to certain illnesses. Some populations are older or younger.

- Crime. What is defined as a crime varies.

I see it so often that we should look to country X because things are going better there on some measure. But every time, I end up in a rabbit hole trying to figure out whether people thought about all the caveats.
> Two years isn’t a lifetime.

It is in software development. You don't even deny that the project stays source available while developers care about it.

> If there is value left

So, once you've extracted as much value as you want from something, the community is free to have whatever's left? I think "you can have the scraps" is an excellent summation of that philosophy.
Inc actually does this sort of madlibs article all the time

"In $NUMBER (words/sentences), $FOO taught a masterclass in $BAR"

e.g. In one Google search, see how Inc gives a masterclass in the art of clickbait headlines: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22masterclass+in%22+site%3A...
I am not an economist, but I think it's the opinion of many that the only way to defeat inflation is to tip the economy over, and the more the economy resists the higher rates have to go, and the worse the tipping over event is going to be.
Happens all the time. Don't think about it much.

You can write the mods at hn@ycombinator.com, if you wish.
I know of two places to buy genuine engineering lab notebooks, for anyone interested.

1. Scientific Notebook Company <https://snco.com/>

2. BookFactory <https://www.bookfactory.com/>

Of the two, I slightly prefer BookFactory's offerings. Note that there are many, many variants. Unless you are employed somewhere that mandates a particular type – and if you do, they are likely available from your office supply closet – pick one you like. Do go with the bound hardcover style, though. They're much more durable than spiral or softbound.
Bad for the store you mean? Because the customer doesn’t convert (buy) something if it says “hurry only 1 left in stock” because everyone knows that store inventory is inaccurate and they ultimately don’t have 1 in stock, they have 0 in stock?
Steam Deck OLED. Runs much better than my 3 year old Dell laptop that cost $2k, for $500. Steam for gaming is great value as I already have a library of games, and you can play pretty much the entire switch library as well. Simple enough for my 6 year old to use, flexible enough to install mods and whatever. Don't do much gaming anymore due to life and kids, but this device makes it much easier to get started when I do have time.
std::endl is actually not advised most of the time. Using \n is the better alternative unless you need a buffer flush.
>(and not substantiated by data in the article)

They're direct quotes from the article. The article states that wages are increasing faster than prices. If wages are increasing faster than the prices then it is not inflation.

Do you have alternative evidence that leads you to believe the article is inaccurate about this? Or is your disagreement based more on your own subjective feelings and experiences?
> because people somehow thought they didn't feel pain

The boring alternative explanation would be that doctors knew that anesthesia can kill a baby, because babies have a not fully formed lung system; and pain is temporal but death is permanent.

But this explanation does not inflame a social warrior heart in the same way. The rush of outrageine is much lower and less satisfying. Repeating the same arguments since 1820 without thinking a second about it, is much better.
Thing with sanity checks is that reality has a way of getting in the way.

Like when the price of crude went negative. I was lucky enough to work on a trading system that had no check on the price, so it kept trading.
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Posts are flagged by users. So your post was down voted by the community itself.

CNN is not a good source for HN posts as the site discourages repeating things that are from "regular news" sources.
>Are you really so focused on just this one sort of crime, or does your opinion extend equally to all other crimes?

In the US, there are thousands of crimes on the books, which are not enforced and are ridiculous [1]. So no, I do not think that all crimes should be punished.

>So why must all shoplifting by punished, with the police doing most of the work at the store?

This is a loaded question. I don't think the police should be doing most of the work at the store, but I think the police should take the apprehended criminals from the store when called. And DAs should prosecute those, and the judges should try them, that's all. Nothing of this happens right now. This is why stores do not try to apprehend criminals as the same police, DA and judges will happily go after the business and its employees if the criminal is hurt in the process or claims to be hurt[2].

1. https://www.distractify.com/p/ridiculous-laws

2. https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/11/us/new-york-bodega-stabbing-m...
I had migrated to watching Netflix content on pirate sites for the better experience and stayed for the better experience.

> I've been impressed by Netflix search. I would search a name and they do not have that movie, but would suggest a mix of similar movies, movies with the same actors or director.

An excellent, early pirate feature. Good on Netflix for adopting it.
Yeah, I agree. All this note-taking is not about storing information for me. It's just planning private projects, writing long-form posts, and journaling. Mostly dumping down thoughts.
Most of that 20 years is construction time, not regulatory delays. For example, Finland's latest took 18 years to build after construction started. The regulatory delays were significant and on top of the 18 years.
Yep I work on Search as well -- both of these books are excellent.

Website search is... hard. A lot of the faceting still needs to be done by hand. I think there's probably some opportunity for LLMs to make some sort of autotagging/categorization easier, but there will likely still need to be a human in the loop to verify.
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> I suspect it's more a reflection of the anxieties of the public in journalists than anything sinister.

To the extent there is a media response to popular perception involved, its very sifferent than that, nearly the opposite (the journalistic class frustrated at the lack of anxiety in the public), which is why it has increased in shrillness with the positive turn in the future expectations component of sentiment (and why you had to dig into the numbers to find that the “low sentiment” on the economy being flogged before that by journalists as an indicator of negative perception of current conditions was actually all in the future expectations component, with the current situation component being quite positive even when the overall measure was down.)
Neat! In the same spirit I'm trying to put together a minimalist gaming platform for kids that want to learn how to code. The gratification of a game is such that messing with the code if you have access to the source is a given and so far all my kids have taken to hacking on the games almost as fast as they did to playing them. Mission accomplished, nothing like seeing a 7 year old modifying a game and uploading it to a microcontroller, I didn't expect that end result but I'm very happy to take it.
IMO it means nothing if it was just increased credit/debt, which I suspect it was given the trend of the past few years. The only thing increased credit/debt points to is a bigger crash later.
I remember this being shown on PBS Infinite Series. God I miss that show.
The impact this project has on open source communities is something I often think about. To the point, I search on GitHub to see if there are random PRs to add names to Contributors list in other projects.

From those searches and getting feedback, I'm getting the feeling most users see this as a sandbox environment and real open source projects have different process.
Anyone can flag your post, but others can vouch for it. Maybe someone just thought it was off-topic?

Unfortunately, despite the guidelines, the site has a strong tech focus and not so much on interesting biology or other fields.
> instead of asking you they can self-serve. It’s pretty common that by the time they need it you would no longer be at the company.

All lab notebooks are company property. You don't keep them locked away in your desk or take them with you when you leave. Any current or future employee with the right clearances should be able to serve themselves to the entire archive. No need to ask the original author.

Searchability is by far the most significant advantage of electronic documents, but you can get pretty far with paper notebooks if you keep a decent table of contents. Even better if you regularly scan, OCR, and upload your pages to the archive. IMO the inconvenience of scanning is greatly outweighed by the paper notebook's guarantee of immutability. Tools like Notion make it too easy to erase information, either accidentally or not.