skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's what Chat GPT came up with:

#include <stdio.h>
#define o putchar
#define p main
#define q(a) return a;
#define r ) {
#define s {
#define t for
#define u if
#define v else
#define w while

char x="a partridge in a pear tree.\ntwo turtle doves\nand three french hens, four calling birds, five gold rings;\nsix geese a-laying, seven swans a-swimming,\neight maids a-milking, nine ladies dancing, ten lords a-leaping,\neleven pipers piping, twelve drummers drumming, ";
char y[]={"first", "second", "third", "fourth", "fifth", "sixth", "seventh", "eigth", "ninth", "tenth", "eleventh", "twelfth"};

int p() s
int i=0, j, k, l;
t(;i<12;i++) s
printf("On the %s day of Christmas my true love gave to me\n", y[i]);
j=0, k=0, l=0;
t(;x[j];j++) s
u(x[j]==' ' && (l==i || (l<i && x[j+1]=='\n'))) s
u(!k)r k=1; o('and '); }
v u(x[j]!='\n')r o(x[j]); }
v r k=0; l++; }
}
o('\n');
}
q(0)
}
Some activities are typically associated with folks that adopt toxic traits (gossip), while others who are fairly positive avoid them as it doesn’t contribute to overall well-being.

It’s a personal choice whether you are gossipy or not, but that decision is guided by subconscious factors.
I want to quibble about the idea that “the world isn’t a fragile place,” in the sense that I’m very open to the idea that the conditions for humans to thrive happily might be pretty fragile and we need to keep protect them. It’s just—the bar of “civilization is doomed” is incredibly high.

I mean medieval Europe had civilization, it wasn’t a very pleasant one for lots of the people in it, but it was a civilization. There are lots of outcomes we’d like to prevent before we get to “civilization is doomed.”
Well if you've never nearly starved to death maybe you don't know
Plagiarism and You(Tube)
It was checking for something like “is it 9am in PST / PDT right now? What about EST / EDT?”

Or maybe, “what’s the current time in this list of time zones and then I’ll send notifications to users where it’s 9am”

Or something, I don’t specifically remember. The point is that notifications aren’t generated until they’re supposed to be sent, and we didn’t want that to vary by 1 hour with daylight savings.

And this specific use case aside, I think it’s true that there’s a class of use cases where developers do need to consider DST.
I’m not making an absolute or academic claim, just one based on the majority of comments I see about it. So no source, feel free to disagree if you must.

But some points :

1. The album was given away in 2014

2. Apple Music wasn’t a streaming service till 2015. Prior to that, the music app was only for bought or manually managed songs.

3. Spotify existed since 2006, Google Play Music since 2011, Rdio since 2010, Pandora streaming since 2005.

4. The Music app was (is?) the unchangeable default for when a play command was given.

The album was given out well into the streaming era, which is when most people’s on device library would be smallest.

So yes, it’s likely many iPhone users would have not had any other album in their library. Those who did would be the ones who bought other albums from the iTunes Store or added it themselves. It was estimated to have been given to over 500 million users.

If even 1% of that had cars that auto played , and had no other music, that’s 5 million annoyed people.
What is the benefit of using a remote cache instead of a local ~/.cache directory? Is it only for sharing build results among team members? How do you make sure the build results are not spoofed?
If a US company wants to do business in the EU it must follow EU laws. If a Brazilian country wants to do business in the US it must follow US laws.
No commercial use. Another gift from FOSS loving Microsoft
AI just mastered Labyrinth in six hours
Few games inspired the unexpected wonder and scale that FF7 did. 8 did a little. 9 hit the mark. So did X. Everything after was kinda of numb... I felt nothing for FF12 characters, or for the absolute trainwrecks that were FF15 and FF16. FF15 was an excuse to market real-life products to the player. It was exchausting having immersion broken by nissin noodles ads, and coleman camping gear ads. FF16 is some of the worst fighting I've ever had in a game, with a focus on these garbage cinematics. The brand is dead to me. I'll only replay the classic games, and that's why square has 1-6 pixel remasters at a staggering $80 virtual, and you can't even find the physical version for less than $110 on ebay. That's how bad the new series are.

Now we're awash in a cacophony of copycat indie devs who flood the market with cringeworthy half-finished games that can only copy the wonder of the FF series.

We at-least have hope with stunning remasters like Star Ocean Second Story R, which has that feeling of depth, progress, story, and nuance.
I was never into JRPG in general, to the point that I don’t feel the impulse to own a console.

I guess it’s really preference as I can stomach old Western CRPGs such as Ultimate and such.
How I created a poker solver and made $500k at the age of 23
In the last two years only. FTFY
You don't need analytics on your blog
> I have always been taught the opposite.

I find that sad.

It is historically correct that romanticism was a reaction to the Enlightenment. The thinkers of the day said as much. As I said elsewhere, you can't blame a thesis for its antithesis.

The Enlightenment emphasized universality, and pluralism as the means to coexist given our pre-existing differences. Romanticism celebrates the particular and the local. Many but not all Romantic thinkers extended this to include basically chauvinism for their own particular kind of culture.

The Enlightenment emphasized reason, evidence, and dispassionate analysis. Romanticism emphasized emotion, the inner life, and passion.

They could not be more different, given that Romanticism was conceived as a reaction to the Enlightenment and so its thinkers staked out opposing positions.

If you were actually taught that romanticism was not opposed to the Enlightenment I feel your education has done you a disservice.
That seems tangential. There is nothing particularly wrong with non competes if the worker is properly compensated.

I personally wouldn’t mind a 6 month NY hedge fund style gardening leave each time I switch to a different job.
The hypothetical you don't want to discuss, happened with Hitler and with a few home grown communist revolutions, where there were free elections until they won.

Merry Christmas
Noe valley, Cole Valley, Inner Sunset, Inner Richmond, most of pacific heights / Marina, Russian hill, all of the southwest neighborhoods if you want a more suburban experience, Excelsior / Glen Park / Bernal as well are all pretty safe neighborhoods, even more so a block from the commercial strips.

SF is a block by block affair though, there’s a few sketchy blocks in all of those neighborhoods, you just have to know the social topology of the city.
Byebug and pry are pretty much the first gems I add to any gemfile. But like the other comment said, they break in a few ways that this new irb seems not to.

One thing I can think of is multi line statements (on Byebug). Really annoying to test longer method chains. Would love a debugger that supports it out of the box, as the new irb seems to do.
Appreciate the response. Wife and I looked at SoFlo, specifically Miami, really closely. Even lived for a month. It was hard for us to pull the trigger, but cool to see it's working out for others.

I wouldn't mind being there as opposed to this winter in the bay...
Why Americans May Be Dependent on Processed Cereals
Reading "big features" like "multi line input" makes me feel more than ever that we really need an ultra light weight embeddedable text editor.

I wrote one, and while it's not yet complete I can say it's really _not that hard_

https://github.com/civboot/civlua/blob/main/ele/README.md
Four trends that changed AI in 2023
I'm not in the US. There are housing crises in other countries not caused by weird US problems.
The Most Beautiful Science of the Year
Skepticism is a valuable pillar of science. Extraordinary claims, etc.
I consider this an over-correction that serves to benefit the status quo.
I’m interested to hear why you think otherwise.
> Particularly, it is the predisposition, caused by cognitive biases such as rosy retrospection, to view the past more favourably and the future more negatively.

This sounds like an attempt to bypass the need for an actual argument for your position by painting your opponents as dupes who are in thrall to their cognitive biases.

One could just as well write about "improvism" that it's "the predisposition, caused by cognitive biases such as rosy prospection, to view the future more favourably and the past more negatively." This would bring the same amount of valuable content to an argument, i.e. nearly zero.

It's obvious that it's possible both for things to get better and to get worse, so if you want to argue for one or the other, please bring some actual evidence, not just generalities about an "ism" with which the other side is afflicted.
Space Perspective shows off test version of tourist-carrying space capsule
You write a text containing the JSON with all the data and instructions on how to analyze it and you instruct the LLM to extract what you're looking for (the "prompt"). The easiest way to start is probably the OpenAI API, or you can try one of the self-hosted LLM although I've never interacted with them programmatically.
> And why isn't there far more solar in Florida

One reason might be that Florida likely experiences much more destructive storms on a regular basis. Germany doesn't. Texas and California (the US leaders) also have more protected land area.

The economic calculations look different if you have to factor in the relatively common risk of a hurricane wiping out your entire capital investment every few years.

That being said, Florida is recently surging in solar deployment. https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/florida-is-now-ad...

Texas and Florida are actually great canaries to judge whether wind and solar are actually becoming economically viable. You know that they don't have the politics that would artificially subsidize and try to force them to happen. Like you suggest, if anything, they try to resist. Texas is the renewable energy leader in the US purely because it makes $en$e.
FF7 just isn’t that good. But when a piece of media is your first foray, you will look back on it with nostalgia glasses.

FF7 story is bland, simplistic, characters are semibaked. It is a product of its era, with meant poorly written characters and stories.
You're looking at consumer prices of electricity two weeks after Gazprom stopped its gas deliveries to Germany indefinitely, which lead to a heavy price shock. The graphic also ignores that some countries like France simply prohibited companies from raising prices in 2022. Lastly, the consumer price comparisons are flawed because they include taxes and levies and Germany adds plenty of these. German electricity production is not nearly as expensive as the consumer prices suggest.

The claim that Germany's electricity is as dirty as ever is also not true, the CO2 per KWh decreased by 350g over the past 30 years.
And then the internet changed it again. Amazing to see how different beauty standards are just in my lifetime from the 80s to now.
OP may be thinking of a different game:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/401920/The_Binding_of_Isa...
That's nothing.

You could sit in a bamboo hut wearing clothes made from bamboo, sitting on bamboo furniture, using bamboo chopsticks to eat bamboo out of bamboo bowls.
Advent of Code day 1 in eBPF
Sharing with team members, sharing with CI, and the ability to pull from more than just what's on your machine (i.e. a larger addressable cache than you are willing to keep on disk). Cache objects also compound across projects, so it's nice to ship them up somewhere and have them nearby when you need them.

Re/spoofing, obviously it's all protected with API keys and tokens, and we're working on mechanisms to perform end-to-end encryption. In general, build cache objects are usually addressed by a content-addressable-hash, so that also helps because your build typically knows the content it's looking for and can verify.

That isn't true for all tools, though, so we're working to understand where the gaps are and fix them.
Sales have generally been trending down substantially since FF7. [1] X and X-2 only sold better by merit of both being two games counted as one, and by being released and released on a zillion platforms.

I think in general though there's this weird paradox in games that things we think we enjoy can make games worse, yet it feels bad to try to 'fix' now. I think the best example would be quest waypoints in various open world games. It's absolutely painful to play without them now, but on the other hand when one actually had to pay attention to your quests and goals, it resulted in vastly more satisfying gameplay compared to what's gradually turned into some weird ritual across a million games of fast-travel to nearest location, bee-line to colored dot, skim text, repeat.

No idea who first said the quote (that's been attributed to Gabe Newell) but it's just so true: give players the opportunity to, and they'll optimize the fun out of your game.

[1] - https://www.vgchartz.com/game/226241/final-fantasy/
Well, since I didn't say that, maybe you can enlighten us since you brought it up?
Decline is an inevitable consequence of overreaching and then slamming into material constraints. Prosperity is not exactly sustainable. Inequality can only occur when wealth creation outpaces the distributive functions of an economy.
My only prediction is that we start encountering privacy issues related to training models - whether it’s how user data and PII is used or accidental data leaks.
(Fwiw, group conversation encryption tech like MLS is somewhat applicable, and that's the sort of pattern we're looking at, but it would be cool to know if that's moving to you on the problem of safety w.r.t. builds.)
You’re no fun
Don't be so hard on yourself, we all have interesting misunderstandings about new tech.

Back in the day, late 96 I think with Slackware: I had been using the SunOS and Solaris boxes at work, and a senior engineer told me I should check out Linux, it's Unix on a PC! So, armed with a setup CD, I got it installed and started using it. I thought, this is a very new user unfriendly system, each time I make a mistake, it says it wants to hit me!

bash: syntax error near unexpected token...

I thought "bash" was the system insulting and mock threatening me for messing up. :D
This reminds me of how the Demon’s Souls remake cleaned on a lot of translation issues, but not all. The Maiden in Black is the same voice actor, who speaks in very broken phonetic English, which is generally agreed adds considerably to the atmosphere.
>the only way I track traffic trends on this blog is with vbnla, a hacky little Ruby script that summarizes my Nginx access log.

This is literally analytics. I didn't read the rest of the post, so if you're arguing against things like GA, fine, I'm with you. But any kind of analytics, even GA, ultimately does the same thing, just with a ton more complexity and additional tracking sources.

FWIW this is what Ive used for a long time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31841051
as in "it is very lazslo", "lazslo bs","i lazsloed the fuck out of it" etc. in reference to things such as NFTs, flashy demos built on nothing, marketing driven science, etc.
* for vehicles model year 1999 and older, not more modern ones.
Are you one of these idealists who thinks that if only free markets existed we could maximize well being, and governments’ main function is to get in the way of that?
I agree it’s somewhat dystopian when referring to video games, however I feel some types of games can offer genuine fulfillment. I used to play tennis and volleyball regularly, and although these are sports they could basically be considered physical forms of games. The routine of training and competing against others definitely added enjoyment to my life and was a welcome distraction from anything else that may have been bothering me at the time.

Mindless video games where you chase dopamine hits and programmed stimulus and have no interaction with others isn’t the same.
Noah Smith's sci-fi novel recommendations
> It’s well known that people with lower incomes commit more crime.

No, it's well known that the US criminal justice system is clogged with poor and marginalized groups because that's where the cops focus their efforts, that's what courts and jails are optimized for, and that's how the underclass treated.

https://whitecollarcrime.zone/
RVM gemsets are used for the same reasons one would use venvs, no?
You can get lots of metadata from Crossref.org. See https://www.crossref.org/services/metadata-retrieval/
For context, I'm not taking sides in the frequentist-vs-Bayesian debate, but coming from a practical problem: I'm working on a INTRO TO STATS book right now, and I would like to include a chapter on Bayesian statistics, but I'm not sure what specific analyses to showcase and recommend as "standard" approaches. Unlike the canonical t-tests and ANOVAs of frequentists, Bayesian statistics doesn't have canonical procedures (that I know of) that I can wholeheartedly recommend as "must know" and ready to use broadly.

Maybe someone here might have suggestions?

The closest thing that comes to mind is "Bayes factors," which has some traction (usage), but apparently they have lots of problems and limitations too, cf. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqeWpR6S4XA
Removing two external dependencies from your project is a nice win. I switched a while back. Get used to "binding.irb" and you'll thank yourself later.
You should tell my compiler.
Aren't our deposits gone the minute they enter our banks' systems? Don't they become our bank's debt right away?
When I played it in college - I recognized that playing it fair and square would create undue competition for my studies.

I used the hex edit cheats to max out my characters, and breezed through it in 23 hours. A great decision. I got to experience all that plot, all the mini games, and only compromised the combat build aspect of it. The last battle, even at max stats, was not a cakewalk. There were weapons I still have not defeated.
What exactly do you mean by OpenCloud ?
It just reminds me of the David Mitchell / Robert Webb sketch about "for the first time in history, people are taking orders from their toothbrush".
Extremely impressed at Iowa for seizing its opportunity to be a major wind energy producer. I visited the Iowa State Fair a few years back and they had a big turbine smack-dab in the middle of the fairgrounds, along with a building with educational exhibits on wind energy. Kudos to them.
This game is a dopamine trap that has been bad for my brain (since 2020). I have a bogus entry in my /etc/hosts to keep me from playing it, and yet I too often disable it because I can't help myself. It's like crack.
I think comments here don't focus on the most important point of this study, and article:

- citation: But the findings don’t necessarily mean kids speak more because they hear more speech, he says: Instead, “Adults [might] talk back more to kids who produce more language.”

- article show no evidence of socio-economic difference contrary to what was claimed before

- article have a huge database over the world, which makes it a strong study.

- article is a baby step: the next step are to know if it's talking to the child or if it's talking beside the child, for example.
Yes, but Mercer Island doesn’t really care about Seattle’s crime rate as long as it’s own crime rate is low. Local politics is local.
I’ve occasionally used “auto-resuming breakpoints with sounds” in Xcode / iOS development, and it can be remarkably useful in some situations. But I had to be shown the possibility in a UI, really clever!
Panels are (surprisingly) very resistant to hurricanes:

https://www.solarreviews.com/blog/what-happens-to-solar-pane...

Glad to see the surge in Florida, it's long overdue!
Thank you for the article. ~7 years ago, I realized I have a similar disposition - my best mental state is when I’m in a state of learning and being challenged. The struggle I’ve run into is when I look back and consider what “good” that thing I’ve been learning about has produced.

For instance, I too love video games and have found immense enjoyment in them for many, many years but if I add up all my play logs and realize I’ve spent something like 5-10% of my life playing video games, it begs the question if that time could have been better spent? Has that really helped anyone, myself included? Has it made the world a better place in any way?

Lately, I’ve uninstalled all games and am seeking hobbies that still challenge me but also can bring joy to others. To list a couple:
Cooking - An art really but also quite a bit of science involved. Chiefly though, food brings people together and there is nothing quite like feeding people with your very own creation and hard work.
DIY - DIY helps with my engineering itch, saves a lot of money for the family, and also can greatly benefit others who might otherwise not be able to afford something they really do need.

I have nothing against video games, I’ve played far more than most my age. I really just wonder when it comes to hobbies, is maximum satisfaction achieved when not only you satisfy your own needs but are also able to add to others’ lives? FWIW, this can be achieved in video games through friendships and community formed… I’m just not good at making that an important part of why I’d play a video game.
This allows you to use fzf with IRB. It works with anything that uses readline, which IRB uses. https://github.com/lincheney/rl_custom_isearch

it works for me on linux, not sure about other OS's. Although I'm now noticing that the article linked in the original post says that Ruby has a pure Ruby replacement for readline: Reline. So I wonder if it will not work with more recent versions of Ruby that use Reline?
AI coding tools should be pretty good at translating between Ruby and Python in the next few years. Or any language.
What about x = 1000 ms and y = 1000 hz?
I’ve never been to gab so I can’t say exactly what their content is but I do have a memory longer than a goldfish and I can firmly say that you are not being truthful.

Gab was kicked off those platforms for not touting the “party” line on the covid shot, trans stuff, and other social hot button issues.
Greens (the world over) aggressively attacking nuclear is quintessentially that meme of the cyclist shoving a stick between his own spokes.

In 25 years, when we still have to keep coal plants turned on because we couldn’t magic enough battery capacity into existence to compensate for base load, those coal plants should have giant billboards next to them with this generation’s green politicians.

Thanks for tying a concrete block to our feet.
I was an aviation and space-obsessed teen in 1994. My uncle was a private pilot. He took me to the Oshkosh EAA show that year. Being the 25th anniversary of the Moon Landing they had what was purported to be the largest gathering of Apollo astronauts all on one stage as dusk was falling. After dark I realized I was going to miss something else I REALLY wanted to see.

So after dark I left this "historic" gathering early believe it or not and rushed to the flight line to watch the Concorde take off on the shuttle flight they brought it in for. With nothing between the runway and the flight line it was possibly the loudest thing I've ever heard, and in the otherwise dead darkness the afterburners lit up the entire place, their flame visible almost as long as the tail cone.
Not VII, but I never played a Final Fantasy before, and the internet told me X is modern-enough, good, and approachable, but I'm having a really hard time getting into it. Plus my time is more limited these days. Maybe I should try powering through?