skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's clear you didn't absorb ideas from Atlas Shrugged unthinkingly, which is exactly my point: it made you think about the extremes (i.e. heavy regulation; no regulation).

The key idea isn't that all regulation is bad, but that there is some cost to regulation. Hyperbole is used to exaggerate the cost so it's clear and a more fun read.

I was stunned by how little an economics degree touched on the costs of regulation beyond the deadweight loss of taxation. The degree didn't go into depth on the negative human impacts of regulation (i.e. on both entrepreneurs and consumers). That is, if regulations get too burdensome, entrepreneurs will find it too onerous to create and run businesses, and will either leave the economy or find other hobbies, which, in some cases (e.g. inventions, industries where the second best producer is lightyears behind the best) will come at significant (and often silent) cost to society.

The fact Atlas Shrugged got me thinking about this at all was a win, considering an entire economics degree kinda failed to do so! (beyond deadweight loss)
It is actually possible. It is possible to transmit information by moving a thing (which is sensed by the optical sensor, as shown here). So we can transmit information by moving spaghetti. It is not a particularly efficient method, though.
To quote the best Indiana Jones movie: Flying, yes. Landing, no!
You also have to be sure that the RFID tags can't be easily removed from the items. Otherwise, people would just remove the RFID tags, stuff the items in the bin, get told that they don't owe anything, and walk out scot free.

But how do you do that with blueberries. Does each blueberry have to have its own unique non-removable RFID tag?

There's all sorts of items at a grocery store where it's hard to guarantee the tags can't get removed from the items. That's part of why Amazon doesn't use RFID tags in their "just walk out" stores.
You mean pg? Or am I out of loop on who GP is?
The effort started at the ~beginning of February and ended at the ~end of October [1]. The dataset you link is from April and had "unsafe" content filtered.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gqtmUHhaplo&feature=youtu.be
All banking and finance apps I use have this correctly setup.
In theory but good lord the pitch event circuit here is excruciating and the coworking spaces have way less vibe than people imagine.
An expert consensus is an interesting social phenomena that should be definitely investigated by anthropologists of science.

It tells us nothing about reality.
Matshishkapeu – The Innu Farting God
I’d love to learn about colors if you know any layman level books about it. I picked up something about color theory that was way over my head.
I don't use FB anymore, but Instagram has reverse chronological feed as an option if you want to use it. Majority of users prefer algorithmic, so that's the default, but I do tap the chronological feed every once.
Wouldn't asking rent be the current price for a new lease? Rent control resets for new leases.
People like this are like those extremely hyper-active dogs that should never bee cooped-up in an apartment -- we need to throw people like that onto a creativity farm and call it an incubator.
As a user, I do want an alternative to Apple's Messages app (such as Beeper Cloud or a standalone SMS/MMS client with additional features) that can handle SMS/MMS messaging on iOS. Your choice to use Apple's Messages app does not justify Apple's anticompetitive measures to ban competing SMS/MMS apps on iOS for me or anyone else. If you don't want to switch to a non-Apple SMS/MMS app, then simply don't do it.

It's common sense that when Apple forbids competitors from implementing a feature that they use for their own product, competitors are harmed. Apple previously made Apple Mail the default email client on iOS with no option to change it. After Apple removed this anticompetitive restriction in iOS 14, competing apps such as Proton Mail and Tuta (which used their own protocols instead of the default IMAP/SMTP protocol to support end-to-end encryption) immediately became more convenient to use on iOS.

The issue with Apple's SMS/MMS client restriction is more severe. Not only am I not able to designate a different messenger as the default SMS/MMS app on iOS, I cannot install one in the first place because Apple has banned them altogether.
It is expensive, and software takes time. It just works, and complicated systems aren't really necessary. Kitchens are super busy and people do not have time to play with things. Chances are they are running off a ten-year-old PC with QuickBooks. Over-innovating will detract customers. Users aren't techies. Take your pick.
It's both. Obviously, it's a silly April-but-not-in-April fools joke; but it also seems that it would work (but not be practical).

The spaghetti is just a stick. At one end a relay[1] wiggles the strand of spaghetti to transmit information. At the other end an optical sensor[2] sees the tip of the strand of spaghetti wiggling and receives that information. There's such a setup going in each direction[3] so that each side can receive and transmit.

[1]: https://github.com/peterheinrich/InternetOverSpaghetti/blob/... (the strand of spaghetti that stick going off the screen to the right)

[2]: https://github.com/peterheinrich/InternetOverSpaghetti/blob/...

[3]: https://github.com/peterheinrich/InternetOverSpaghetti/blob/...
DivestOS is the next best thing to GrapheneOS. The founder, Tad, has contributed a massive amount to privacy on android, I've used it for a few years. It's based on LineageOS and has similar device support..
Limits to Growth is possibly the least accurate book ever widely read. They got absolutely nothing right, and it should be read as an example of how “experts” can get things so entirely incorrect despite their credentials and models.
Related / [Dupe]:

GM halts sales of its new Chevy Blazer EV amid reports of software issues

More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38748943
GP = grandparent: some comment upthread. (parent of parent when used literally).
I dont remember this quote from Raiders...
"Far too long and far worse" doesn't exactly sound like something a fan would say.
Reminder that the Times is owned by Rupert Murdoch who also publishes the Sun, and has reflexively pumped out copaganda for years.
Was just discussing this with a younger colleague this past week. I think the conclusion we came to is that:

a) GUI programming (for the web) is hard because the core technical stack that's made up of browsers, html, js, and css is abhorrent garbage (I'll get to what I'm comparing it to in a sec). It has incomprehensible standards and almost no compliant implementation that can make it all work together -- after decades, untold millions/billions of dollars, and unbelievable quantities of person-hours.

b) the layer right above that (the frameworks and libraries) changes so often, are so buggy and fragile, and reinvent the same stuff over and over and over again, and a billion frameworks that all poorly do the same crap in slightly different ways get released every month -- usually built by bored engineering teams with nothing else to do or people who didn't exist in the "before times".

c) My first job out of college in the "before times" was building Windows desktop software. With no real internet resources, a couple of books and whatever Microsoft called their C++ visual dev environment software back then I managed to build professional GUI software in a couple months that still runs, looks, and works exactly like it did back then and made out company quite a bit of money. Later on I applied basically the same ideas to some Linux desktop software using Qt and everything worked fine and was easy. Visual Basic, Delphi, heck even Microsoft Access demonstrated that it's so easy that even relatively inexpert people can create complex and reasonably attractive GUIs.

Point is, we had the technology, it wasn't hard to use, and it worked pretty much flawlessly and the web is such a broken disaster of a mess that it's almost rewritten the brains of the entire industry to just Stockholm syndrome themselves into accepting that there must be something hard about GUIs.
>since it teaches new students bad habits, like keeping their heads down and focusing on instruments.

The chief cause of pilot error is the pilot trusting what he can see out the window and feel with his body, refusing to use or perhaps even in defiance to the aircraft's instruments.

Having a habit of flying on instruments even under VFR is a good thing because the instruments are generally significantly more reliable than human intuition.
Most recreational flying is under visual flight rules (VFR). Your primary reference is to everything outside of you. You will check your instruments, but 95% of the time, you'll be looking outside. At least in the US, you usually aren't under ATC direction. Thus, it's your responsibility to see and avoid.

Flying over the ocean for any length of time is not a common thing recreational pilots do, and when they do, they should be a lot more prepared or flying IFR.
> The crux is understanding what data access patterns you will have and what indexes / data structures accelerate that access pattern

We have a winner. But when looking at SQL tables/Views/Stored Procedures, the data is also stored in order in memory, in effect have a master database and files on disk, with sorted databases and files in memory for faster access.
Thanks! I misunderstood the headline, and thought it was saying that despite covid rents are still higher than the pre-2020 baseline, when actually it's saying that rents are still lower (in nominal terms, and so strongly so in real terms) than the pre-2020 baseline.
Bah, there goes my paranoia. I was already deeply uncomfortable with the amount of information my landlord demanded to sign the lease. Now I know that it has straight up been used for identity theft.
QC is just as solid of theoretical footing at fusion. It is mostly a technical/engineering/materials problem with plenty of room for clever physics to make it easier.
Perhaps OP forgot to do unit tests
I mean that's what's so good about them. The prior is a bit arbitrary and up for discussion. And Bayesianism is honest about it, it highlights that fact rather than trying to play fast and loose and sweep the issue under the rug.
honestly in the post-internet age i would just get on Adafruit, they have so many tutorials and projects that are perfect for a beginner.

as far as a book, i do agree with @nhatcher , i loved Practical Electronics for Inventors but that was before the internet really took over.
Do you mabye mean "GPT"?
Bleak write-up. Question: does it work? In a counterfactual where some of these corporate cultural things were alleviated, what would the impact be in the ability for the enterprise to meet it's goals? Points 1. and 2., I could guess they'd have a positive effect size if measuring a company's success is like it's probability of being able to continue to do business in the near future, but 5.??
Yes for instrument flying, but I would avoid it for your private pilot's license (PPL - first license).

Your PPL is mostly about "feeling" the airplane and looking outside the window, not inside the plane at your instrument cluster. You'll pick up more bad habits than good from flying in a sim for your PPL. It's not that these bad habits can't be fixed, but it'll likely actually _add_ time to fix them.

After you have your private license, by all means, use a sim to help you get familiar with an unfamiliar route/airport/etc. I'll often even watch YouTube videos of landings at airports I'm not familiar with.

For your instrument rating a good sim can actually be quite helpful. You're exclusively looking inside the plane, setting up radios, approaches, VORs, GPS, etc. Having an intimate familiarity with how your various automations work can help.
What's the best we can expect of media literacy?
I think she is onto something here (sans the questionable "bill", perhaps).
As someone who chose NyC over SF to start my tech carrier myself, it looks like it would have been much better if I had gone to SF (from how my colleagues did). NYC was my dream city so I don’t regret it but SF is leagues ahead in terms of tech ecosystem.
It's a broad topic, but in this context I'd settle for an extension of Whatmore's earlier book The History of Political Thought.
Clearly personal preference… but I would say the Bolt is a very strong commuter option. I originally thought I would buy an Kia EV6, then a Genesis GV60. In the end I bought a Bolt and I absolutely love it.

It is 85% of the car I wanted for 40% of the price of the others. It isn’t plush, but it has every modern safety system and everything is where you expect it (vs the toys / Tesla)

Highly recommend it for an around town / commuter car.
Real GCC or Apple’s clang symlinked to gcc?
This is so anecdotal but I remember taking a Lyft from Noe Valley to Taraval earlier this year and the ride went through (I'm zooming into Google Maps for the neighbourhood names) Miraloma and surrounding areas. Basically the neighbourhoods just north of Monterey Blvd. The area just looked and felt really nice, homey, and safe.

I've haven't driven past that area before nor after, but it really made me feel like long-term it would be a nice place to reside in SF away from the classic SF problems you've described.
This is basically how it works in many finance jobs in NYC. Companies pay you for the duration of your non-compete normally at your base salary.

The one catch is that 50%+ of your compensation in these jobs is typically a yearly bonus which is not paid during your non-compete period.

But pretty much everyone knows this and socks away some money to limit the shock. The system works well both for employees and companies. There's some grumbling here and there but legislation like the one proposed in NYC would have needlessly broken a system that works pretty well.
Software was significantly simpler in those days. I don't find it strange that they took a simplified view of software engineering. Specifically because those exact same simplified views still exist today - talk to people who've never worked on large complex systems, and you will usually encounter similar "anti-perfectionism".

People adopt simplified engineering practices when working on simple software by themselves, compared to when working on complex software within a large team.
Good god, the guy was a real life version of “ I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords” meme.
In a country full of guns, why were they notably absent an apparent extremist insurrection to overthrow democracy (and certainly not the deep state)?

Surely the crazy people overthrowing the government would have guns right?
I actually think STAR voting has a chance. The complexity is limited to how things are tabulated, who can't understand a 5 star rating system?
X-Plane has a professional version that's used in FAA-certified flight simulators. The home version on a laptop runs the same simulation code.

Most flight sim games, including Microsoft's, start with performance data on the airplane. X-Plane starts with the shape of the airplane and physically models the airflow. It's even used by aircraft designers.
> I largely agree that if you don't know anything about music but generate some stuff with a very-high-level AI tool then you are unlikely to produce anything that resonates with people for any significant amount of time.

I feel like you're not really making a strong assertion here because of how subjective "resonates with people for any significant amount of time" is. Instead, I'd propose something akin to the Turing test; instead of conversing with someone and trying to determine if they're a computer or a human, the participant would listen to to a piece of music and try to guess whether it was made "traditionally" or by someone who used an AI tool and had no experience making music in any other fashion. I think we're not far from the point where it would be possible to generate instrumental music with AI that would be indistinguishable from a control set of human-created music (either instrumental or with the vocal track removed from the mix) with a certain level of complexity (let's say songs without changes in tempo, time signature, or key, which would give us at absolute minimum a few thousand popular mainstream songs over the past half century, and potentially a lot more). How long do you think it will take for this to be possible (if ever)? If you don't think it will ever be possible, why not? And if you do think it will be possible, isn't this sufficient evidence that there isn't any inherent need for a "human" element in music?
What you've cited is US-centric; it's both reductive and fallacious to categorize this as left- or right-wing, when again, the article states that this phenomenon was observed in more than 60 countries.

Perhaps where you're located it is a predominately left-wing viewpoint, but the rest of the world in general is very much against what Israel is and has been doing.

The casual admission that support of war crimes / apartheid being a US right-wing viewpoint is somewhat unsurprising, though.
It’s not a ground filter, but a virtual ground. The point is to divert current from whichever power rail is further from ground, into the ground from the input device. That makes it so that the two “main” opamps see a common mode voltage of 0V. Opamps generally perform better near that point.

I’m not sure that it’s really necessary here with modern op amps, and the author may have just copy-pasted the circuit from somewhere.
Isn't it rather trivial to prevent this by creating a file with a random filename, applying the ACL, then renaming the file to the correct name?
Be sure to turn on showdead, it absolutely should be enabled with the amount of suppression and brigading and rules-lawyering that takes place
Like where?! The rest of the Bay Area (except maybe Oakland and Berkeley) strikes me as a cookie-cutter, suburban hell-scape. I've visited Palo Alto, San Matteo, Pleasanton, Fremont, and San Jose in the course of my time in the East Bay, and I couldn't help but ask myself why the heck anyone would live there. I don't see anything unique in those places--why not live in a suburb anywhere else, at 1/8th of the cost?
People always talk about ending the killing of children... I think the best way to stop children from being in harm in the first place.

Hamas's strategy of using children as human shields will be validated if they escape destruction, inviting them to do it again and again.

War is hell, in this case I have zero sympathy for the people who have repeatably started war after war after war, condemning the future of their children in the name of religion / ethnicity. 20% of Israel is Arab / Muslim, they are not the bad guys here.
> and I think it’s rather obvious that whatever the brain is doing with learning must be quite a bit more data efficient than what we are doing in AI systems

Yeah and the brain only needs 20 watts of power.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/s/Rw3SjW9oq1
I looked it up after and damn...

>Just a broken guy; got a few screws loose, I guess

>I wasn’t really planning on landing it
Today there’s a new trend of population birth rate collapse doomers that are making the same error of extrapolating trends in complex living systems using math built to understand non-living systems, then freaking out about the results. Different graph slope, same error. They will be wrong too.
Technically true, but the base of Mt Everest is at 5100 meters, which makes it a lot less impressive. The entirely Himalayan range is sitting two vertical miles above sea level.
I feel the same, actually. Looking back, it definitely would have accelerated my career much further than NYC did.
AI is best done in the Linux/Ubuntu/Pytorch/Nvidia ecosystem. Windows has some exposure due to WSL/Nvidia.

Mac is not a great place for AI/ML yet. Both the hardware and the software present challenges. It'll take time.

When I was hacking AI stuff on a Macbook, I had a second Framework laptop with EGPU that I SSH'd to.
I’ve had positive experiences with SoundFlower on Mac. I remember jack on Linux with early Ardour being a nightmare
To me it’s a deep philosophical post in the vein of “what even is memory safety anyway?”

> The piece makes the case that Python isn't memory safe

It’s a philosophy argument tactic. Take something everyone considers to be true “Python is memory safe” then push it to logical extremes. The purpose of this isn’t to learn anything about Python, the purpose is to learn about the extremes. In this case about memory safety.

I think the overall point is that “memory safe languages don’t truly exist” in the purist sense, since every lang must touch unsafe code at some point. However some languages and tools do a better job is isolating these interactions. We call these tools “memory safe”.
I don't recall exactly when it started happening, but I've been having lots of issues with recent iOS versions rewriting not the last word entered, but the word before that. For example, if I start entering "I went to", it'll sometimes correct to "I want to", but it'll do that after I've typed the "to". I've found lots of similar examples. The retrospective nature of the edits mean I miss a lot of them and makes me appear a lot less literate than I am.
I'm no expert myself but recently I did see a flight instructor on youtube with the opposite opinion, saying that people with a lot of flight sim experience were his best beginner students, and tended to get their PPL in the fewest hours.
Even here there are some thoughts you are not allowed to voice. And I’m not just talking about violence/etc but calling out ideas too vigorously etc will get you censored here too. “Flamewar style” is the trope used to justify it.

and in general this site also has a massive trend of people who are losing a debate leaning in to rules-lawyering as a means of suppressing disagreement etc.

“sorry sir you’re not allowed to mention that they didn’t read the literally-one-line parent comment and are replying to the exact opposite of the argument it’s making! Flagged my good sir, this is a forum for civil debate!”

A truly open and free debate includes the freedom to point out that the moon is not made of cheese and in fact I do think less of you for arguing that it is. But that’s back to the “flamewar style”. In reality not everyone is engaging in good faith or isn’t just part of some shitty bandwagon/etc and banning the ability to call that out just lowers the debate, because now it becomes a deliberate strategy that is formed by the rules themselves. Gameplaying rules-lawyering maximalists will ruin anything.

at some level, anti-censorship and curation are fundamentally opposed goals. You can’t have a high level of discourse and also be covering 101-level or incoherent arguments. And attempting to do so produces a false equivalence which results in worse outcomes for truth-seeking. The moon is not made of green cheese and it’s a waste of everyone’s time to rebut that in every single thread, against someone who doesn’t want to admit that it’s an incoherent position.
Has anyone done a tally of all the projects Microsoft has cancelled/ended/failed at over the years?

On the one hand, we’d all love to be part of a culture of experimentation, on the other, it really seems like they whiff a lot. Lots of dead code and e-waste.
Isn't one of the biggest allures to having a diesel truck is being able to roll coal?

(Not judging, I personally like seeing it once in a while. Everything in moderation, including moderation...)
Several communities have migrated elsewhere, some to Bluesky, others to Threads. It's great that there are these alternatives now
The Bay Area is large and the Greater Bay is massive if you take into account people commute in from Sac, Santa Rosa, and Santa Cruz to name a few.