skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We aren't far more brittle either; if anything, our ability to ship in goods from other continents makes us far more resilient for anything less than a sudden planetary-scale event.

We are pretty much totally reliant on our current ability to ship food across the world which does make our current situation unprecedented. If we have a couple of years of various crop failures (e.g. due to weather patterns changing), then there will be a significant number of people dying. We don't have the necessary stockpiles to sustain the world's population for the amount of time required to drastically change how we do things.
Studies show young and active have heightened risk of heart disease from Covid
Thanks for responding, and also thanks for making a truly useful product for people who communicate via music. You made a significant difference in my life.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38753465
> I'm not totally sure if we're just talking about two different things - use vs. exercise - but a plain reading of your comments makes me think that you think the best way to improve one's structural reasoning (or "mental debugger" as another commenter put it nicely) skills is to just read more code.

I've already said twice, both in the original comment and in the follow up, that my point is about applied code reading in the context of code review, not in a vacuum. The first time you decided to respond to a made up point which I never made, I clarified it. Now that you're doing it a second time, it's clear you're arguing in bad faith and putting words in my mouth.

I wonder why you keep on arguing against a strawman point that I never made rather than actually responding to my argument. Is it because you are incapable of understanding the point I'm making? Perhaps. Is it because you're deliberately ignoring it out of cognitive dissonance as you know it would weaken your argument, and you'd have to admit that you're arguing for something which is the wrong strategy? I hope not, but that's my best guess.

The rest of your comment is impractical. If a novice is struggling with understanding and working with a piece of code, do you really think the best way for novices to learn is to "figure it out" with a debugger, or do you think they should ask for help through code review or pair programming with someone else working with them on the project?

You seem to be arguing under the assumption that software engineering is a solo sport. I am arguing that software engineering is a team sport and those who treat it like a solo sport tend to underperform and plateau in their skill development.

I stand by what I said. Debuggers are a crutch. Crutches can be useful but you shouldn't rely on them. Learn how to reason about code in the abstract (which you learn to do by learning fundamentals of computer science and applying them in a team context with others who can) and you won't need it because you can compile the AST of the codebase in your head. Moreover, this skill is MOST critical to develop when you're early in your career because it's when you have the neuroelasticity to learn new ways of reasoning about and problem solving with code. I was forced to do this by early career engineering leader mentors and while painful and humbling, I am very thankful for it because it put in place the practical fundamentals for me to architect large, performant, scalable and revenue generating systems from scratch with very little issues.

If someone thinks that's impossible to learn whether late in their career or early in their career, that speaks more to their shortcomings than to an issue in the technique. For what it's worth, many of the strong early career engineers I've worked with (1-2 years experience max) have also been able to do this, and often times even better than many mid to late career engineers. As you may expect, these strong early career engineers end up running circles around their more experienced counterparts pretty quickly.
Seriously just post the strategy with a spoiler alert.
So I read the objection above not as “prices won’t drop if we don’t build enough,” which is perfectly reasonable. But rather as “prices won’t drop if we build enough supply but the new construction is mostly targeted at the high end of the market,” which I think is not true.
> comparing others is a source of joy

We are a social species. And a pattern-sensing species. Enjoying comparing things, especially people, combines our defining traits.
It’s not, it’s applying it to company’s operating in California. The expansion is to all of their customers/clients.

If the company leaves California then the state has no jurisdiction over their business.
Many websites would also like to claim that you're not authorized to access them with an ad-blocker, and spammers would like to claim you're not authorized to use e-mail with spam filtering, and malware authors would like to claim you're not authorized to use antimalware software since all those countermeasures encroach on their respective business models.
I had the same thought. The WIFI controller was magic compared to Bluetooth pairing to a single computer.

Maybe with OPs work we can study and hack the original firmware.
This is where I need to be eventually. I'm hesitant because I'm worried that I won't find any competent installers in my area and I'll end up with leaks, polluted well water, etc... Any troubles with the ground loop so far?
This is a contrarian opinion and probably wrong. If you think current AI models are not economically viable, you need to reexamine your world view
Another essay by Bess Stillman was popular on HN recently, again dealing elegantly with the topic of death: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38635382.

Her husband, Jake Seliger is dying from cancer, that started on his tongue but has metastasized. He has some good essays on his site, too, e.g. https://jakeseliger.com/2023/07/23/how-do-we-evaluate-our-li....
Ah, that’s a common problem with children. You need to wait a few years. They’ll grow out of it.
As someone who also writes blog posts about stuff I'm researching, I don't think authors owe their readers to be 100% comprehensive. It's okay to publish notes. I would be sad and discouraged to see this kind of comment. I would be stoked to see another post that responds to mine and fills in the gaps.

As a reader, I don't need it to be comprehensive either. It's great to find an entry point and I'm happy to do more research as needed.
But "no proof, no evidence, no citations, low-effort, rants, etc." do not mean 'no sense'. And the posting is clearly making sense. The claim "that civilization will collapse" is not an evident truth, so the contrary might be said, without further support. Apparently, the article did not have the necessary persuasive power.
> a freelance cartographer

This guy doesn't fold to Big Map. Fjords his own path, climbs his own mountains and is not fenced into you're completely plain and flat plateau of mediocrity you call "cartography"

No, this man is a pioneer, finding excitement around every butte, jetty and isthmus!

He peaks when you valley, he glades when you marsh, and he is a fertile alluvial flood-plain to your cold, damp peat-marsh of a life. A bread-basket of agricultural abundance and agrarian love-making, the seat of civilization! to your barren Gobi desert of a life.

Carter the Cartographer!

Otherwise known as MAP MAN!
I think that competing to better define joy-stealing is the thief of joy.
Twitching in Sensorimotor Development from Sleeping Rats to Robots (2013)
its really not, thats propaganda. this company truly created the current AI revolution
I'm always amazed how a simple game can be fun
Super cool project!

> even though there's still a lot more to do

A few have asked on this thread already, but since you're already using AI to transcibe, it would be super cool if we can use AI to generate audio using TTS

I quit audible (signed up a few times) because there are very few high quality audio book, even those spoke by the authors are bad (most of them are not pro narrator)

A good AI would be amazing, as they never get tired speaking for hours, yet maintaining the same energetic voice, intonation and pace.
it also wont be such a shock the first time you lose engine thrust.
I think it's more expected than tragic. Old protocols leaked metadata all over the place because their designers isn't know any better. Every single packet used to be tagged with each app's number making it so convenient for every network in between to fuck with your data. Modern protocols reveal nothing until the TLS handshake is complete
Bridges are a somewhat solved problem at this point. Novelty for the sake of novelty when the end product is worse is not good engineering.
> I'm reminded mostly of schopenhauer's remark that reading is simply the replaying of another's thoughts, and video games, especially scripted RPGs, extend this notion of "replaying" to its dismal conclusion.

Is the implication here that reading books is also bad?
Yes!! Foxpro!! I knew I had omitted something but couldn't recollect what it was.
No. Well, depends on the vehicle, but you cannot import US trucks from the US in Europe, they all have a EU-spec build. One of the change imposed is about edge sharpness (bull bar are removed for EU builds), and I think cybertruck is kinda fucked on that point.
I disagree about Watterson's speech. It seems very actionable to me for the common man: define meaning in life for yourself, don't get stuck on the hedonic treadmill, think about what your values are and shape your life around them, etc
Interesting. What's the difference?

I notice, walking around the 'hood, that some people still get the San Jose Mercury-News delivered. Why?

I think they just have to get a morning paper, and if it's getting shittier by the year, well, so be it. You're right, lots of readers have already cancelled, but there's a core of readers who won't. The Merc can raise the price and they'll just pay it.
While most small planes have some form of autopilot, few have the Flight Director-driven "set it and forget it" type of autopilot most people imagine in their heads. A lot of older planes will just have a 1- or 2-axis autopilot which eliminates some of the workload for a pilot but you're still flying largely manually and making sure the autopilot doesn't kill you by.
I’m not sure. I do know that until some of Biden’s changes, identifying tax evasion in the lower classes was hardly possible. The only evasion cases worth identifying were those that could pay enough to help fund the expensive prosecution of such crimes. Now, with greater government power over bank accounts (the 600 dollar rule), we should have better ability to measure tax evasion in the lower classes even though we won’t prosecute it yet.
The purpose of using the TLS layer is to prevent the DPI.
We should as a society encourage and normalize assisted suicide in old age when they aren't happy anymore. Why suffer everyday with no chance of it ever getting better just do some mediation nonsense.
Yup even Android, Chrome on Android supports WebUSB so I usually use it to flash different firmware to my Nintendo Switch on the go.
>The way I heard it, the move from Mar to Jan was not for political reasons, but for tax reasons.

That sounds unlikely. The tax collector rarely limits their payment demands to just once a year, and many businesses operate on a fiscal year rather than a calendar year.
What do you mean by "begin with the premise that the world is going to hell"? Can you name a person who does that? In the context of this particular blog post I think the authors argue quite coherently in favor of their perspective, whether you think it right or not, it's hardly "beginning from the premise".
The main problem with renewable energies, at least in Germany, is that they're not replacing anything, they're just added on top of existing fossil sources, so in the end we still pollute as much and we're still as far as ever from our end goal.

The fact that we consume so much more just hides the truth behind nice percentages. The reality is that Germany burns as much fossil fuel as they were 20 years ago, and on top of that they offer the most expensive end user kwh price of Europe

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/g...

https://www.intotheminds.com/blog/app/uploads/cheap-electric...
I don’t follow this logic, it seems to say Bill Gates is poor because he can’t buy a whizbang from the year 3,000. That doesn’t make sense.

Also Irish were way poorer than English during the height of England colonial empire and in a large part due to the colonization - I.e. Britain was literally taking wheat from Ireland when Irish were starving and fleeing to America.

Please stop making up stuff or just saying random words not grounded in any facts.
> Trim feels academic in a sim. Your stick is so light, it feels like a tiny convinience.

But to me (a sim user) maintaining AoA stability does not feel "like a tiny convenience". It's critical to maintaining stable flight in a desirable condition.

It's not academic; it's highly practical. Not because it alleviates arm fatigue, of course, but because stable flight is nearly impossible without it -- especially during higher-workload moments.

The idea that you can fly properly without trimming for AoA seems to me like a caricatured view of simulator flight.
My personal opinion is that books are there to be used in the way one finds most convenient, not art sculptures to be kept pristine. If that breaks the binding, then so be it.
Does that mean this plant is easy to obtain? That would be cool!

(Edited to add - yes, I can find it online for £25)
RubyConf 2022: Performance does (not) Matter by Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matz) [video]
OK, I believe you, but then, does the trick described in the article work?

I ask because if it works, the principle is the same: using a commonly used protocol to circumvent limitations. It used to be easier to do then, it's more involved now.

In other words: is it possible to tunnel anything through https?
Thanks for letting me know. I see the C swapped to an epsilon - the new model checkpoint (live now) seems to fix that. The \, rendered as , is due to Github math rendering (it renders fine elsewhere). I'll manually edit to remove those.
I love that game. I don't know how much of it is the excitement, but having enjoyed "III" and then going to VII I was pretty hyped when the opening sequence switched to player control. Nobuo Uematsu is a genius, you're basically at the peak of console music and graphics for the time, and it came in a thick box with three CDs.

Materia is on of my favorite systems, too, it made getting new weapons, armor, or materia more exciting than other games because you'd usually have a new way to combine the skills you want, or a far stronger attack with worse skill slots.
It’s a bit frustrating for how much time is spent showing a screen.

However, making the same video with screen capture would require a good amount of editing to also show the toothbrush. Here everything seems to be in one take. I don’t blame him; as easy as it is now, editing is still time consuming.
every walrus article i've read seems to delivered in such a depressing and melancholic manner
It’s the same with FF and fallout series’ for me, I’d much prefer subtitles over voice acting.

It’s like reading a CYA book rather than a movie, I want to imagine their voices, not listen to some goofy voice actor.

Thank said, I think FFX did a decent job at it.
I mean, that was an airplane that flew. This is a bridge that doesn't cross anything, and we already have a ton of bridges that cross things. At best this is an art installation, but we already have a ton of 3D printed art. So the novelty factor just isn't the same.

At the end of the day, I'd be interested in what engineering challenges are being solved here. Does this no-tension-members design scale up to let vehicles pass over a river? If so, this is interesting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_horse_manure_crisis_of_1...

It's the future the great thing about it is that we don't know what will happen. You can either dig a bunker but it won't help you with the general anxiety you feel. You will just have the anxiety in the bunker.
To me the guy who can run a tech company in the valley and a tractor dealership in Iowa usually becomes the MBA bro. They’re good leaders no doubt but they inevitably become some Private Equity bro, just absolutely inconsequential to the larger economy.

I quite prefer the valley environments ability to take deep domain experts and turn them into the best managers of their own technology.
I have never had this happen to me and have never been quite sure what causes it for other people. I sort of assume it’s a PEBCAK thing where someone has their phone configured wrong, but a more fair interpretation is that some cars have badly programmed entertainment systems, which is very easy to believe, and I’ve just never encountered one.
> Ideally one should use the whole posterior distribution of your model parameters which is not the case for point estimates.

This is a historical issue because of some hard-headed frequentist founders, but in modern days the frequentist concept of confidence distribution is gaining acceptance, which is the proper frequentist equivalent of the posterior, so this distinction between Bayesian and Frequentist is disappearing.

Rather than giving specific point estimates or interval estimates, calculating a frequentist confidence distribution allows you to compute confidence intervals for all possible confidence levels, just like the posterior does. See this excellent review paper for more info on this: https://statweb.rutgers.edu/mxie/RCPapers/insr.12000.pdf

The key insights is that a confidence distribution is an estimator for the parameter of interest, instead of an inherent distribution of the parameter.
What's there to be locked out of? I've this brown diode blinking for half an year. Are they disabling the vibrator?
Well, a lot of this comes down to shades of grey.

The modern world is built on an impressive rube goldberg machine of supply chain dependencies and cheap oil. Yes green energy appears to be able to beat natural gas turbine, but we're careening towards 9 billion people.

In particular, we don't warehouse anything anymore. Everything is just-in-time production, and a minor disruption like COVID (which on the scale of 20th century historical events like world war I+II, or earlier pandemics like the black death, is chump change) caused major supply chain disruptions.

I wouldn't dismiss the problems outlined in the blog, just the certainty of the presentation and the binary thinking.

There are two real dangers: first is the combination of species extinctions and rapid climate change collapsing the entire biosphere. The second is an old and forgotten one: nuclear armageddon.
I'm eagerly waiting for 7 Remake's part 2 this February, having not played the original since it was on Playstation & I only had an N64. Having played a lot of SNES JRPGs via SNES9X or ZSNES, I loved the story and character building in FF6, gameplay of Tales of Phantasia and Star Ocean, and overall gameplay of Lufia 2 and Chrono Trigger when I was younger.

I think back and I find that not that many modern games have the same influence on me as those older games from my childhood - I don't think it's necessarily the quality of games has gone down, FF16, Tales of Berseria, YS VIII are all exceptional RPGs, but it might be that we have so many entertainment options these days that truly memorable games get lost when there's always something new around the corner.
> I’m aware I could take raster screenshots of pages and then manipulate them in an image editor. I don’t want to do that, though — I want to pixelate live. For reasons.

I'm totally unclear what the author means by "live".

Is it OK to take a static screenshot and pixelate it as long as it's all inside of the browser tab, rather than pasted into an image editor?

Or do they want to be able to be able to select text, have a blinking cursor, type in text fields, etc. and have all that happen behind the pixelation filter?
Also, the author does not seem to understand how C callbacks work. Gtk uses the same stuff, hiding them under "signals". Qt had an awful hack to support C++-style callbacks through the MOC preprocessor, which, in the end, were "compiled" into C-style callbacks. AFAIK, after C++11 they moved from this.

> If you can pass a const, you can pass a string literal for example, which will then be de-const’d, so you can modify it at will. Welcome to the land of undefined behavior by design!

The author needed to understand what C is - a weakly typed language that doesn't get in your way. EFL (and Enlightenment) was created and led by Rasterman [1], the guy who knows his craft and doesn't waste his time with type-related theoretical nonsense. I find his code extremely readable and performant, and he has a lot of good resources to learn from.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carsten_Haitzler
and? if they got it from ChatGPT they could have gotten it from the internet
What are some bad habits you can pick up?
And you want to pretend there aren't real dangers and your consumer culture cocoon is perfectly safe.
I think you are in a minority.
Ff10 was huge leap at the time and they never looked back.
Voice acting is something most people enjoy and make the story actually enjoyable.
These two facts contradict each other exactly. If you want more housing in a city you want rents to not grow in real terms. What else are you hoping for?
It’s one of the main reasons that people give for being mad about that free U2 album on iPhones.

Prior to that, most folks could ignore the broken behaviour of autoplay on connect that cars did. But once it was there you’d get it playing every time you got in your car.
> the principle is the same: using a commonly used protocol to circumvent limitations

No it's not. The earlier method used only a commonly used port, and did not require the use of a commonly used protocol.
> Ageism is a thing. But ... that business domain knowledge probably leaks away over time.

This is ageism. A 66 year old hasn't lost their business knowledge yet, but they're often treated as though they're already senile.
IMO product people should not delve too much in “how” especially in large projects. Your role should be to communicate the requirements as clearly as possible to the engineering team and stay away from the “how” part as much as possible. I totally get the temptation of trying to influence the “how” part especially if your past life was in engineering. If engineers are not able to do the “how” then you need different engineers.
The docs say it's usually 1-4 hours depending on the book and the hardware: https://smoores.gitlab.io/storyteller/docs/syncing-books

The docs also have a detailed section about the algorithm that goes into how it auto-handles differences between the audio and the text.
> Phoenix stands solely through compression without reinforcement, with blocks that can be easily disassembled and recycled.

Would love to see some time lapse. How does it stay up while you're assembling it?
Between the wooden framework and the crane needed to lift the segments into position, it just sounds like a more complicated way to do precast construction.

They note that 3d printing means the segments can have voids in them, but Spancrete has been selling hollowcore concrete panels for 70 years.
I remember as a teenager thinking that these RPGs were high art. Woof.
ALPN (if set), SNI (ESNI still a draft), IP (unavoidable)
I wouldn't say Xunzi is authoritarian. His school, the Confucians, were explicitly opposed to ruling by force and raw power, and instead thought that a state should rule by creating and following proper rituals for everyone to follow. The rituals would act psychologically to instill a sense of virtue in everyone, and then you would have a harmonious state where the ruler doesn't need to do anything except wear the ritual robes and face south. They thought a state based on naked force (or one based on explicit laws) would be too unstable.
America lost the chestnut, its "perfect tree"