skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Amber Smalltalk - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26128607 - Feb 2021 (12 comments)

Amber – Smalltalk in the Browser - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22425626 - Feb 2020 (1 comment)

Learn Smalltalk with ProfStef - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17940152 - Sept 2018 (6 comments)

Amber Smalltalk - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13112207 - Dec 2016 (48 comments)

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Amber - Smalltalk on JavaScript runtime - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2995689 - Sept 2011 (1 comment)
I guess it would lack a web interface for me to quickly download a single picture/video.
No, by public parking I mean parking on public streets.
> That already crosses into politics. Science can answer if-then statements.

In that case, I will also cross over into politics by expressing the opinion that answers to if-then statements should, when they are available, be taken into account in political decision-making.
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Location: Berkeley, CA, USA

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Technologies: TypeScript, React, React Three Fiber, Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, PySpark

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I have experience in front-end development and machine learning. I am looking for a front-end or full-stack role, potentially in a position where I can also leverage my background in machine learning and data science. As part of my current job, I'm working on developing a recommendation system for matching customers with personalized, card-linked offers; while leveraging my front-end background to develop internal dashboards to summarize and display model performance metrics.
End. in peace
Ah I'd forgotten. Thanks! I've added it above.
I prefer traditional server side frameworks precisely because they have a rigid pattern of doing something. And also because they have been around for a while.

I don't get excited about learning a new frontend framework because I'm fairly certain it won't allow me to do something new. It may be more convenient in terms of syntax or have fewer client side code being shipped, but it doesn't enable me to do something in terms of functionality I couldn't already do.

I would prefer pick one framework and get better at it, rather than learn the templating language of 5 frontend frameworks.
Why would you expect anything different than all the other "our incredible journey" notices? https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com
A couple other Matt quotes (all from a 2k word issue opened 9 hours ago):

> It's so nice to know that the group of bad actors—or the group of good actors who have been so stupid and negligent as to effectively be bad actors—who abused the registry and have recklessly caused problems for an untold number of people who were just minding their own business, "appreciate" our "patience" while they "resolve" the "issues"

> Part of me wishes you guys actually were just malicious. The fact that you're not, and instead did this purely out of stupidity, is somehow even more infuriating.

> do not care about you. I am here solely because you guys fucked up. It's one thing to fuck up privately, and another to fuck up publicly on a small scale, but fucking up publicly on a large scale, through nothing but sheer reckless negligence, trying to execute an idea that was obviously stupid to begin with, is a whole other thing. All of this is so shockingly, mortifyingly unprofessional. What the hell were you thinking?

I have no real problem with Matt, obviously this is a real issue and I have nothing but sympathy (especially for all those that calmly voiced that they were impacted by this), but to shoot all this at a high schooler and hobbyist is ridiculous. I expressed similar sentiments to what you said.
Does anyone know where these employees were employed? I’m a worker in a right-to-work state and would love it if this set a precedent for icing out employers from retribution style separations.
I wonder why that is. Do App Store Applications get extra privileges?

Why isn’t being signed enough for an application to store secrets only it can access in the keychain?
Elon Ma? Jack Musk?
They just need admin access, that's it.
Just a few days ago I was reading a post about how low code wasn't that great, and a poster talked about how they had an intern build their entire business on airplane and they were completely sold on low code solutions.

This is just one of the many times I think that not owning your own stack always comes to bite your ass in the end.
Author here! This post is slightly out of date, as the server now does have a database to handle patron registration, and we've upgraded to 4GB because we needed more RAM to build the extremely long endnotes in Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. But the server still indexes and serves ebooks in the same way!
At least California and Washington.
I just find this very confusing. It’s a fascinating solution they came to. I do wonder how well it would work if not for all the horrible horrible side effects.

But they’re not the first ones to do this. Tons of games have been adding accessibility options in the last few years (woo!). Even as someone who’s not colorblind and doesn’t know anything about the correct way to approach this it seems like a bad idea.

Even if it was worth considering the instant it started causing headaches and nausea and vertigo during testing that seems like it should’ve been a sign you were doing something wrong.

So both the fact that they shipped this and that they now seem to be doubling down on thinking they’re fine is just confusing.
Didn't previous successful tech entrepreneurs in China experience severe hampering by their government?
how are they able to prove this in court though? surely the HR wouldn't be that stupid to document the reason of firing is "criticising the CEO".

also, not trying to be on Musk side, of course he has made some embarrassing and stupid tweets. But if you created a letter that your CEO's public comment is "frequent source of embarrassment", won't you get fired in any other company??

in meta, someone even got fired for being a youtuber, criticising the CEO and spreading the letter is worse right??
Very weird. My life has greatly improved since moving to a walkable city. It’s very nice to walk and get groceries for a meal that day or walk to a bakery or walk to a bar or walk to a store or walk to my doctors or walk to my friends.

When I lived in FL you had to drive everywhere. I’d rather be walking. We literally evolved to walk long distances, and cars don’t seem to be making our lives better with all the externalities getting ignored (air pollution, microplastics, and noise pollution).

I don’t mind if people want to drive, but they should be paying the true cost and not keep a massively subsidized lifestyle that can’t exist without massive federal funds.
Agreed. Bought a 10 years old Porsche 911 for use as my daily driver (still cost a bomb, because Singapore). Great performance and reliable. And a real head turner. And surprisingly parts are readily available (for some reason, UK is the place to import them from, for cheap)
Outside of web applets, set-top boxes, and DVD players, JVM didn't really do much sandboxing. On the desktop or server, it did practically none.
That's not what right-to-work means. Right to work was invented by conservatives to give employees the "right" to not pay dues to a union that represents employees at the company.

It's just one of the many ways employers have managed to weaken unions in the US over the last half-plus century.
Leeway? No. He’s a capitalist and his priority is well documented. Stop pretending he’s at all altruistic.
What part of "cross platform" does iOS match?
Labour laws shouldn't apply to him because otherwise he might... uhh... stop profiting from the labour of others?
I just want to buy something and have it.

You are buying time. Never pass up an opportunity to do that.
Why do you think it would be silly to take the job?

The second two sentences read like excellent reasons why you should take the job (even if they are just a repeat what I already said in different words).

I must have missed something.
> The damages are proportional to the root of the weight

No, road damage is proportional to the 4th power of axle weight. So a car that's 50% heavier will do 5x the damage to the road. (Assuming the same number of axles.)
Doesn’t the NLRB deal with federal laws and not state laws? So wouldn’t this apply to any state?
There is already a lot of private parking infrastructure in cities, and it wouldn't take long for profit-seekers to build new parking garages where demand exists. The new law could include a phase-out period if it's a problem.

Over time the suburban big-box retailers will lose as fewer people will drive cars.
120Hz Valve Vizio TV Hacks
Yeah but come on, the metric system is obviously superior to the imperial.
"1. Give them what they want."

Not a great idea, as people can skew the ecosystem into causing more harm. More ants can increase Aphid populations that spread viral plant diseases (see Huanglongbing or citrus greening disease).

"2. Peppermint oil."

Never tried this one, but seems expensive. Also, most mint products are illegal to import in some areas, given it can carry symbiotic fungus spores that may decimate food crops.

"3. Ant moat. "

Many species have building skills, and some will even build tiny twig/gravel roads/bridges over dangerous/irritating substances.

They are fascinating little creatures, and an important part of the ecosystem. =)
If I had to guess, single characters are able to be encoded as tokens, but there's more "bandwidth" in the model being dedicated to handling them and there's less semantic meaning encoded in them "natively" compared to tokens for concrete words. If it decides to, it can recreate unknown sequences by copying over the tokens for the single letters or create them if it makes sense.
There is no need for a mechanism in this case; building such a thing would be a waste of time.

Honestly, I was trying to respond to your question, and perhaps I was too terse. But I don’t think the mechanism you ask for is possible (or desirable) today. In a future scenario with some type of universal identity there would probably be no need for such a mechanism.
I think they meant that since they are in a right to work state having something like this to show that that doesn’t automatically mean you can be pushed around would be a good thing.
Thus "free speech" being in "scare quotes". You're both right. ;)
why is tesla the only viable option?
You see it that way; I see it as we are taking one major step toward the goal.
From the thread:

> Vizio agrees to pay $3 million for alleged ‘false’ refresh rate claims

Oh man... story thread. We showed Steam Machines at GDC 2015, right? One of things we wanted to showcase was that you could make use of features current living room gaming systems weren't capable of at the time. So one of the segments was going to be a game running on a 120Hz TV.

Native 120Hz TVs were very rare at the time. We settled on a Vizio model that worked for that, everything is locked in at the office. The show was gonna have three demo rooms, we order exactly the same model numbers as our office setup, don't want to leave anything to chance!

Setup day at Moscone, we unpack our Vizio TVs for that segment and set up everything. No 120Hz. Same model number, just a few weeks later on the order. Still says 120Hz prominently on the box. Firmware update doesn't help. Press starts first thing in the morning. Panic.

After panic subsides I make an informed hail mary and walk someone still at the office back in Bellevue over the phone through dumping the EDID of the One Good Vizio, and override that EDID on our demo setups. 120Hz is back.

I can still hear Dalton to someone that was trying to follow up on how boned we were.. "Yeah Pierre-Loup just hacked the TV, we're good after all, no need to change plans..."

I suspect they (half-assedly) patched it out because it never worked right in the first place. When using 120Hz they would underflow every ~20 minutes with a few seconds of black. I don't think it happened during any of the live press demos, it was just one of the short segments.

From Pierre-Loup Griffais
> The damages are proportional to the root of the weight

I'm not sure where the root of weight estimate came from, because you seem to understand the overall effect of weight reasonably well.

In any event, road damage is roughly proportional to the fourth power (not square root) of axle weight (and linear with axle count).
We'll see if there is any real policy change. I hope there is, at the very least to avoid another instance of this mistake, but also to prevent genuine targeted abuse of this policy failure.

For now, NPM is slowly taking all the packages down, and GitHub has forcefully made the org private: https://imgur.com/a/WuSpBQi
Even funnier is that there is no Social Credit System in China, not the way you think there is. There is no record of small offences by the billion and a half Chinese, we're barely even able to maintain proper records in general, let alone useless fluff like a score for each citizen.

I invite you to read this: https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/09/15/china-social-credit-sys...

I quote: "Contrary to common belief, the cities mainly target companies, not individuals. Nonetheless, legal representatives of a violating company are also included in the blacklists to prevent reoffending elsewhere or under a different company. Nationally, about 75 percent of entities targeted by the system end up on blacklists because of court orders they have ignored—the so-called judgment defaulters. The remaining companies are typically collared for severe marketplace violations—for instance, for food safety infringements, environmental damage, or wage arrears. But much of these cities’ day-to-day use of the SCS is banal thanks to the system’s fragmentation and inflation of results."

The gist of it is that it was a grading system for businesses, to distinguish the bad payers, often bankrupts people restarting business over and over. This is ofc not great because we would need a "start over" mindset like in the US, but stop reading buzzfeed-like news about this thing, it's a bit cringe.

We are oppressed maybe, but not THAT good at it. Most of the censorship in China is self inflicted and networked, from the bottom, think "shhh don't say that you'll be in trouble" or "I prefer not to answer that question, wink wink". No need for complicated expensive systems diverting taxpayer money away from the pockets of our dear leaders, when a simple 2-hour interview of one person at the police station can silence an entire social graph of hundreds of people for months :)
Link to a picture of a sample floating beneath a magnet: https://nitter.net/pronounced_kyle/status/174272502945091611...
Jeffrey Epstein: documents linking associates to sex offender unsealed
Perhaps it’s a “obviousness of the coincidence“ kind of thing where if these people had nothing against them in their files and just suddenly got fired very very shortly after criticizing leadership it counts?

That said as history has shown over and over I would not put it past people doing illegal things to document the illegal things they are doing.
The new Prius prime finally has EV range comparable to the Volt. That should be most people’s sedan pick if they aren’t looking for a budget option.
> Norway, sitting on gigantic oil reserves

The US is currently producing more oil than any country at any time in history. [1].

Also the US has much, much larger reserves than Norway [2] Norway has 0.31% of the world's oil, the US has 2.1%

So I'm not sure why Norway's oil has anything to do with this discussion.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/19/business/us-production-oil-re...

[2] https://www.worldometers.info/oil/oil-reserves-by-country/
I was only vaguely aware of Slashdot (and never had heard this effect referred to by that name), and at 30, I'm probably more than a decade older than at least someone in this thread. If you want "weird", think of the fact that a baby named after Hurricane Katrina would be old enough to vote in this year's US presidential election.
do you think writing st is an achievement that merits a turing award

because i've also written a terminal emulator, and it compiles from source in 0.98 seconds https://gitlab.com/kragen/bubbleos/blob/master/yeso/admu-she... screenshot of running vi in it at https://gitlab.com/kragen/bubbleos/blob/master/yeso/admu_she...

(steps to reproduce: install dependencies; make; rm admu-shell admu-shell-fb admu-shell-wercam admu admu.o admu-shell.o admu_tv_typewriter.o; time make -j. it only takes 0.37 seconds if you only make -j admu-shell and don't build the other executables. measured on debian 12.1 on a ryzen 5 3500u)

i wrote pretty much all of it on october 12 and 13 of 02018 so forgive me if i don't think that writing a terminal emulator without scrollback is an achievement comparable to pascal and oberon etc.

not even if it were as great as st (and actually admu sucks more than st, but it can still run vi and screen)
I bought a used Model 3 for a little under 40k with a payment of about $500 / month. I was previously spending $500 / month in gas.

The vehicle is literally paying for itself based on my usage.

Now, if you’re driving less the math may not work out but the cost of fuel alone has to factor into those annual maintenance costs.
Shotwell literally wrote an email telling them they had to stop discussing the issue or she would consider it insubordination then fired them the next day. No need for HR to do anything when the person in charge is incriminating themselves.
I feel like it could be represented in the trace or the debugger or both and eliminate everyone issues.

Devs definitely don’t like surprises, but also absolutely hate their tools not telling the truth.
> This repository is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, which prohibits commercial usage. MyShell reserves the ability to detect whether an audio is generated by OpenVoice, no matter whether the watermark is added or not.

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 only prevents the use of the licensed code within other projects. It says nothing about output. People can (and will) use output generated by this for commercial projects, and they will be completely within their rights to do so.

So detect away I guess.
Where do I enter in my credit card info?
8 out of 13,000 employees wanted to circulate a letter complaining about Musk's tweets and the Labor board claims they were "illegally" fired over this. Which law specifically requires employers to permit every employee to spam the company with their personal grievances? This isn't union organization or whistleblowing. They could use a little more detail on how and why they believe this firing is illegal.
Who's paying for your airport lounge access?
Where foxes thrive, Lyme disease doesn't (2014) [video]
Now that I think of this, they probably hired mice and cockroaches, too.
It's in writing.

- "7. About June 15, 2022, Respondent, by Gwynne Shotwell, through an email
unlawfully restricted employees from distributing the Open Letter."

- "11. About June 16, 2022, Respondent, by Gwynne Shotwell, in an email to all
employees announced that employees had been discharged for their involvement in the Open
Letter."

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/CPT.3... (pdf)
It's interesting when he talks about compounding focus. Feels like you could compare focus compounding to investment compounding. Isn't investment compounding best when you diversify? In other words, isn't unfocused compounding better than focused compounding? Maybe just do a bunch of things with intensity and stop pretending you know what's best to focus on? He talks about that with the 2/3 and 1/3 approaches, but I'm not sure I would know when to switch and start focusing. Maybe that is my life challenge.
I did, but it wasn’t as bad as I thought it might be. This is also the main anxiety I need to get over, I think. With the PayPal article, it was mostly “this isn’t novel” — which was honestly fair. I shouldn’t have used that word when I meant “new to me”. The biggest pushback was from the Threads piece. There’s a lot of concern around Threads federating, and I got some reasonable criticism, but things felt civil and level-headed.
One big problem is that the ceo man-child has made Tesla toxic. This has cost the brand and the market a significant amount of credibility.
Their abysmal build quality and parts monopoly don’t help matters either.
Now he picked a fight with the labor unions of Scandinavia.

I wouldn’t be surprised if he tanks the whole industry.
Then again, there are people who are uncomfortable being happy, people who are only happy when others are unhappy, people who believe happiness is impossible…the list is endless and all of them are valid, even if we don’t agree…or believe they exist…
That's an interesting formula - why is it the 4th power of the axle weight?
It would probably be pretty hilarious to see him do that. It would absolutely not work out the way he would expect.

Is there any well developed country in the world that would give him more freedom to get away with his nonsense than the US?
wishful thinking and a bit too biased towards patriotism. I'm looking for realistic answers here.
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I am not sure what the OP meant, but I have seen at-will-employment and right-to-work conflated. Maybe that happened here, maybe it did not.
Tangential, but this is why I still love Ruby's Enumerable module; it has `#select` and `#reject`, as well as the `#filter` method that people from other languages are used to.
Dumbass "journalists" with the usual clickbait.

Explicitly MORE people are buying EVs:

> Sure, sales of EVs keep going up — a record 300,000 cars sold in the US in the third quarter of 2023 were electric

The only thing they're seeing is "but the pace of adoption has markedly slowed" -- no shit, have you seen the interest rates and price diffs?

And which manufacturer grew the most? Oh that's right the only all-EV one. Just so happens Tesla dropped prices to keep monthly payments roughly the same.
In the US gas/fuel taxes cover only 41% of road costs. All usage fees together is 55%.
It's always worth it... Sometimes, even the downvotes are enjoyable.
https://archive.is/RRJfZ
This would actually be an amazing outcome because there's no way they could keep it secret (it would spur both espionage and intense research), and the US would end up being able to reproduce their formula. It would make things "exciting" again in a way we haven't really seen since the space race.
> when you go to city council meetings residents and business owners ask for more and cheaper parking because it draws in business and keeps street parking available for residents.

Apparently not that much, since that's the point of the article.

> If you let the free market decide the answer will be "a lot"

I'm sure there will still be a lot of parking, but at least it will be

1. Allocated more optimally in space (businesses who don't need it won't build it)

2. Paid for by those who use it, not subsidized by those who don't

3. Built more vertically, thereby taking up less real estate

4. Not in the perfect spot for a bike lane or sidewalk