skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Career aside - I’ve had the experience of being an immigrant in both North America and Europe. There’s no comparison: go to the USA.

This is about more than stats and numbers - it’s about finding a new home, being welcomed, being able to fit in, open minded locals. Even really conservative North Americans are super nice and welcoming if you stick to the rules.

Having said all that, actually getting the right to move there is easier said than done, but totally worth it.
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Bro this isn't a vision, it's been happening, as fast as the global economy could allow, since the 1990s.

there have been some clawbacks -- government regs, realizations that low-cost means you get what you pay for -- but it was going hard before, and will keep going.

a significant portion of HN is either automating, offshoring, or else working next to these trends (if they're not making them happen).
I didn't have a choice at the time - I didn't have the information I do now. Maybe people can gain something from the regrets of my own experience. Maybe it won't apply. Spewing platitudes that might well be true will hardly affect the decision making process of the person in question.
Also predating much of the growth in the Rocky Mountains. The population of Idaho in the 1950 census was 589K, compared to 1.96M today. Idaho is still a very low density state, but at the time there were an average of 2.7 people/km^2, just over 1% of modern Germany's 233/km^2.
However morbid: for anyone (military or civilian) killed in a conflict, the ecological footprint of what would have been the rest of their lives, gets striken from the record, right? I'd expect that to work out to big numbers - people go through a lot of stuff over their lifetime.

In that sense a bloody conflict would be bad for the environment short-term (due to all the military operations etc), but beneficial long-term (due to population reduction).

Of course a lot of environmental damage also results from random destruction of vehicles, buildings, industrial sites & so on.
> so much avoidable suffering

Wouldn't say it's that simple. Life is inherently suffering and everything in modern society amplifies it. If we don't want people suffering from bad diets, then why sell shitty food in the first place?
What is the best opensource forum software?
Sometimes technologies seem to be going nowhere until there's a breakthrough. It's not the usual course (which is to go nowhere and stay that way) but it does happen. It would be interesting to see what characteristics the success stories have that made them different.

Another one I'll bring up is reusable rockets. Talked about for decades, then SpaceX made it practical and won big with the first stage of the F9. I'll argue Musk identified what was holding back previous efforts: that is, they were more optimized for raising funding from government (with all the associated political baggage) rather than achieving practical results.

A perhaps more common course for late blooming technologies is long evolution in niche markets until they break into the big time. Overnight successes that take decades. Photovoltaics are of this kind.

Sometimes a technology blooms because of advances made elsewhere. Arguably EVs have come because of advances in power electronics and Li-ion batteries that came from other industries.
Think of them more as “walblue” and “walgreen”
Teams are what they DO, not what they CAN DO.
Any recommendations on sources for something similar? I've got most of the system set up for the reading side, just surprised at how few good sources seem to be easily findable.
Hmm...

Free:

https://i.imgur.com/mVhVAtj.png

then:

https://i.imgur.com/3g8TI0i.png

Select plan to begin?

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So this is nice for the ideas that one would like to do with basically paint and new appliances...

What will be great is when you can take a pic, have the service convert that via splatter to 3d, do an AI skin and determine a BOM for things that need to be bought to achieve goal - It changed my:

* paint

* cabinets

* stove

* dishwasher

* counter top

* curtains

* floor

etc...

Then you can put together a plan, BOM and budget.

Otherwise its a great tool for non-technical people to imagine some really nice makeovers.

(Also - maybe a good recommendation for users would be to take a pic without anything on countertops - so as to focus on the space - rather than having AI think about your crappy counter-top clutter (that all kitchens have) and just focus on the space. If you could toggle the scene to preclude any counter-top clutter - so you can see empty kitchen next to "lived-in" kitchen"

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SO-- Maybe take the uploaded photo - then do a DESCRIBE on the kitchen to see what elements AI sees in the photo - then try to focus on having it manipulate those items which it was able to describe in the photo - to see if you can component-modularity awreness from the image (meaning it knows there are kitchen cabinet doors - can you have it JUST change the cabinet doors with additive prompts: "OK - now make the cabinet doors glass, keep everything elese the same"

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Its a great project - reach out to as many kitchen+bath remodel SMBs -- they may want this as a customer curation service - imagine if they can walk into a house - take a pic with their ipad - and "instantly" spit out a bunch of options for the homeowner while still standing in the kitchen.

Also, propose this to appliance stores, interior designers, general contractor/remodellers etc.

Wrap a UX around it such that you can give a small Branded app/portal for such companies - imagine empowering blue collar business the ability to market their sophisticated AI visualization services in real time in your home.

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Think about when/how this could wind up being an AR option - just hold the ipad up and have its scan the room and replace+update that what it ses in real time.

So - think down the road - of having AI AR KitchenVision!

Just some knee-jerk feedback.
The nix language itself is fairly simple and it is intuitive. It's the abstractions on top of it that can be more confusing. Particularly nixpkgs.
This is actually incorrect, there's not that much data left to train on. I remember reading an article about it, might have been one of Gwern's or something about Chinchilla scaling, but to produce an order of magnitude increase we need an order of magnitude more data and there just isn't that amount available.
well I think there's a natural hierarchy that emerges from the examples given in the periodic table link.

Spatial: line graphs, scatterplots, and even barplots and pie charts(1-dimensional space). Id throw spectogram and anything with time in there as well.

Geographic: maps (this could be a subset of spatial)

Graphical: graphs, mind-maps, flow charts, all the other graphs-like charts from the examples

Visual Metaphors: those weird examples of they give of steps and a bridge, a slide, etc

Those 4 categories alone capture all the examples from the webpage, and there are plenty of subcategories within them.

So to me a hierarchy / tree seems like a good choice, which is essentially a directed graph (like you suggested)
My experience was similar at a medium size business. We had reusable keys that we used as needed. Once a year, we would run their audit tool and pay the difference.

I never got the impression they cared where the keys came from. We knew exactly when they were coming every year. They were easy to deal with and I don’t recall ever having any issues.

We also had an ELA with VMware and they were awful. We only stuck with them because the software fulfilled a need. They treat you like dirt during the sale and every renewal. In between, they act as if they’re the ones doing you a favor by allowing you to be a customer. The support was terrible.

But oddly enough, they always gave us more licenses than we paid for. Every time, they would throw in products we didn’t purchase and weren’t cheap about it either. It was always like 100+ seats and one time it was 1000.
I agree with you on the large scale, but once I zoom in, my thoughts get murkier. I can't think of any ethical digital advertising, but have a harder time condemning all advertising. How would you evaluate these kind of ads:

- Asking customer to place yard signs on their property

- Small businesses putting physical ads in other small businesses

- Printing shirts, hats, pop sockets, etc. . . and handing them out for free

- sponsoring local events/athletes/scholars

- Parade floats, community bulletein boards, festival/event booths

- wrapping company vehicles

I guess, after typing out this list, none of this is targeted advertising; maybe that's what separates them in my mind.
Off the top of my head

* The Haber-Bosch process (for creating synthetic fertilizers)

* Fracking (strictly in terms of the promise to unlock previously un-usable petroleum reserves, whether or not that's a good thing depends on how climate change affects humanity in the longer run)

* Solar cells

* Penicillin (and antibiotics more generally)

* Vaccines in general

* mRNA vaccines in particular (maybe too early to tell, we'll see if the COVID vaccines were a one-hit wonder)

* Semaglutide (again, maybe too early to tell)
I'm pretty much all the time on Linux. Have used Windows on my gaming computer mostly to compare performance, out of curiosity.

Generally the performance is at least as good on Linux so I stay there. Never had a driver issue.
Be cool if it was actually written by chatgpt plus as perfect rage bait
> The idea that a private individual, no matter how wealthy is able to literally exact a toll on society is ridiculous.

Key recent articles on how the US government is dependent on Elon Musk; how Ukraine depends on Starlink for communications, and how Elon is talking DIRECTLY AND IN PERSON to Putin, while watching Ukrainian troop movements live by monitoring Starlink usage.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-sha...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/elon-musk-pu...

Elon Musk is “wired for war.” At least, that’s what Musk has told Walter Isaacson,
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/09/elon-...
It's been proposed to reopen passenger rail through the tunnel: https://windsor.ctvnews.ca/cross-border-passenger-rail-servi...

Who knows if it'll actually happen, but it's good to see that someone actually thinking about it for once.
But in the same article, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bed_Bath_&_Beyond#Acquisition_...

TBH I had forgotten Overstock existed until the acquisition was announced.
The Steam Deck is really the most delightful electronic device I've ever owned. It's incredible.
In that case I will have to disagree. I run a stock, up to date Ubuntu. Yes, there is a GUI for a lot of things, but I will most certainly run into something that will require me to drop to the CLI before long – which I am fine with, but I am not going to pretend it won't inevitably happen.

My experience is: On Windows, for most enduser use cases (and this absolutely excludes anything dev related), I would expect the user to get by without touching the CLI. In fact, I would assume that any given application will expose all of its functionality only through a graphical UI. For me, on Linux, the opposite expectation applies.
Yeah was considering doing same - build own interface, but $20 in the context of "this is likely the future" seems like the wrong place to be stingy
Nutritional AIDS is the leading driver of the tuberculosis pandemic
Parent commenter said "basically" have 100% test coverage, and I'm not sure what is meant by that. From the text[0]:

> Any program feature without an automated test simply doesn't exist. Programmers write unit tests so that their confidence in the operation of the program can be part of the program itself. Customers write functional tests so that their confidence in the operation of the program can become part of the program, too. The result is a program that becomes more and more confident over time -- it becomes more capable of accepting change, not less.

> You don't have to write a test for every single method you write, only production methods that could possibly break. Sometimes you just want to find out if something is possible. You go explore for half an hour. Yes, it is possible. Now you throw away your code and start over with tests.

[Emphasis mine.]

I can see how this is interpreted both ways, so I'll leave it to you. For what it's worth, I found the book to be an easier read than most books on coding practices.

[0] Extreme Programming Explained by Kent Beck, Chapter 10 under "Testing"
Nothing will change the fact that the people participating in this challenge are not a representative sample of computer science graduates, hence an evaluation of their performance will not really tell much about what kind of performance one should expect from the average computer science graduate.
>not being human editable

Please tell me you know nothing about the Windows Registry without telling me you know nothing about the Windows Registry.

In case the snark by itself isn't useful: Windows provides the Registry Editor which, as its name implies, lets you modify the Registry using a GUI.

If you prefer a text-based method, you can modify the Registry by loading in human readable (and editable) .reg plain text files.

Powershell also provides a CLI environment, if that is preferred.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Registry#Editing
There used to be a company/product called Business Objects aka BO (SAP bought them), which had folks meticulously map every relationship. When done correctly, it was pretty good. You could just drag drop and get answers immediately.

So yes, I can understand if there is incentive for the startups to invest in Data Engineers to make well maintained data models.

But I do think, the most important value here is not the chatgpt interface, it is getting DEs to maintain the data model in a company where product/biz is moving fast and breaking things. If that is done, then existing tools (Power BI for instance has "ask in natural language" feature) will be able to get the job done.

The google moment, the other person talks about in another comment, is where google or 1998 didn't require a webpage owner to do anything. They didn't need him/her to make something in a different format. Use specific tags. Use some tags around key words etc. It was just "you do what you do, and magically we will crawl and make sense of it".

Here unfortunately that is not the case. Say in a ecom business which always delivers in 2 days for free, a new product is launched (same day delivery for $5 dollars), the sales table is going to get two extra columns "is_same_day_delivery_flag" and "same_day_delivery_fee". The revenue definition will change to include this shipping charges. A new filter will be there, if someone wants to see the opt in rate for how many are going for same day delivery or how fast it is growing. Current table probably has revenue. But now revenue = revenue + same_day_delivery_fee and someone needs to make the BO connection to this. And after launch, you notice you don't have enough capacity to do same day shipping, so sometimes you just have to return the fee and send it as normal delivery. Here the is_same_day_delivery_flag is true, but the same_day_delivery_fee is 0. And so on and on...

Getting DE to keep everything up to date in a wiki is tough, let alone a BO type solution. But I do hope getdot.ai etc. someone incentivizes them to change this way of doing things.
Everyone else is also paying their warehouse drones $13.60 per hour and have. been doing that for decades before Amazon, and none of them are billionaires.
You make it sound as if (software) engineer jobs are constantly doing cutting edge innovation, and perhaps as if all engineers are capable of it. That doesnt match my experience. Most of it is a more or less smart combination of standard concepts: Something GPTs are already pretty good at and i'm sure they will improve further.
Betavolt BV100 3V nuclear battery aims to deliver 100 microwatts for 50 years
The "long format (32-column) periodic table" is the one that makes the most sense to me. The ones that put the alkalis (and hydrogen) over on the right don't make sense to me, and putting helium in the same column as beryllium etc. sort of makes sense from the standpoint of electron shells, but completely obscures the chemical properties.
> You're probably using it for graphics though; the graphics drivers are great.

Ah yes. I'm pretty much only using it for games. It does seem that AMD's AI game is really lacking, from reading stuff on the Internet.
> Things like the "accelerator braking" (regenerative braking) exist because they're some of the most important efficiency gains EVs can implement.

I don't get why this needs to be in the accelerator pedal. Wouldn't it make more sense in the first stages of the brake pedal? (I haven't driven one of these.)

Ordinarily, you want to be able to let a car coast, and single-pedal driving seems to get in the way of that?

So, I kind of get it -- you have acceleration, and two braking mechanisms, which adds up to three things, and you need to come up with some natural way to expose that to the driver without giving them a billion controls to think about. So is single-pedal more about controlling a speed setpoint than about controlling acceleration? Maybe you just get used to it?

The lack of brake lights does seem like a legit problem though.
I think the american anti-government stance comes partly from the fact that most citizens are not represented by the government, and their taxes are not used in a way that benefits them. Effectively, it's more of a feudal system than a "democracy", where majority of the taxes go to fund a standing army and to (corporate) lords to do with as they please.
These are common events used by the ad industry as well
Yes, the work visa after graduation is the main source of my worry. I've read the problem for internationals is amplified by the current state of the tech economy.

Dunno if that'll persist by the time I graduate or not. I'm considering switching my major to Electrical Engineering if the university allows in hopes of keeping more doors open.

As for the gap year, this particular university denied it, besides I'm 20 and have been out of school for more than a year already, that plus moving to another country thus loosening my ties to my home country feels like it'd seriously jeopardize my visa application as well in a year.
I see this argument frequently and I never could understand quite where it's coming from.

Throwing manual labor into the conversation is disingenuous since nobody would ever make the argument that some tech billionaire has a harder working life than someone shovelling gravel 16h per day. It's obvious that's not what anyone means, so why even point this out?

Elon Musk may not be "smarter" than the engineers who work for him, but then why didn't they start a company like Tesla? The argument for Elon's success is built into the results themselves. There's no going around that, without serious mental gymnastics.
Thank you I needed to hear this, but I also detest self propaganda. Maybe I need to find a middle ground. Or just reach out to one of my old employers ... which again, I am not a big fan of :)
I've never had an update issue on a Linux device. I update whenever I like, and have never been forced to. Occasionally some items fail due to dependency issues, the error messages are very descriptive, I handle the dependencies and move on with the update. Failed updates are a uniquely Windows issue in my experience, had something like 10-15 of them in my lifetime.
It says they were made and tested but gives no information on what the properties are other than having lower conductivity.
Nice, I'll be trying this. I recently bought a 1L mini PC for home-server usage. It was very cheap and came with an 8th gen intel, only problem is no space for a 3.5 inside but I'll just connect through USB 3.1 on one of those caddys. It's more than enough for home usage. Running starr apps and jellyfin no problem.
Bluefin comes with vscode and devcontainers set up out of the box, we don't recommend pet containers.

We found that people struggle with the pet toolbox pattern so we send them right to the devcontainer pattern. This is an area where we differ from Fedora. It should just come set up out of the box.
I guess Germany and a bunch of countries with no or low tuition per year? Definitely not UK, universities there went crazy. Paying 1k EUR per semester is technically not free but close enough. Stipends are also often available for foreign students, especially when from desired minorities (e.g. Africa).
It's now owned by his son, Matthew Moroun.
Excellent article that shows how to determine the veracity of the ransomware claims.
Ah yes, the classic "if I can't see the bad thing, it doesn't exist" approach to problem solving.
"People won't do something if it's not efficient" is quite a take. Demonstrably wrong, too. People will happily trade off more energy consumption for personal convenience.

As PV goes down its experience curve, the cost of operating an electric vehicle will fall. As batteries go down their curves, the cost of the vehicles themselves will fall. This will naturally push the equilibrium tradeoff point to larger, more energy intensive vehicles.
It's in TFA...
The drive from El Paso to Los Angeles is 813 miles. The drive from El Paso to Brownsville, TX is 829 miles.

El Paso is closer to LA than to another city in Texas.
That is an extremely simplified view of the founding principles of the US. The federalists were a pretty well known contingent of the founding fathers as well.
There's also now regulatory capture. Your bare-metal or VPS solution won't be "FEDRAMP" approved, even though there are fewer moving parts to secure.
Can you provide examples of the states and how this siphons away taxes? Curious to understand the mechanics of it.
Wouldn't that require the reader to finish? Making the reader block the checkpoint from wrapping up?
I was not talking about scarcity, I was talking about the perversions of markets in an increasing wealth gap. There is no scarcity of brand name clothes for example. It's only expensive because people with excess money choose to pay for it, but it cost cents to make and there is no mismatch between supply and demand, and it is often not better than cheaper clothing.

Why would you need a monopoly? They aren't competing on price. It's an irrational market.
Looking at the wiki, looks like the government failed to start a bridge or tunnel for over 100 years

so is it wrong that an individual risked millions of his own money for a "public service" ?

> ... construction of a tunnel under the river ... Construction started in 1871 and continued until ventilating equipment failed the next year; work was soon abandoned
Because GPUs tend to be low margin to begin with. Nvidia putting all these restrictions on them meant running at a loss.

This compares with PSUs which apparently have a massive margin.

EVGA might come back to the GPU manufacturing space with AMD eventually but Sapphire and Powercolor already fill the niche that EVGA filled for Nvidia cards (high build quality, enthusiast focused, top of the line customer support, warranty, and repairs). So it probably was just not worth picking that fight when the margins aren't really there and AMD is already often seen as "the budget option".

If AMD manages to pull a zen style recovery in the GPU segment, I would expect a decent chance of EVGA joining them as a board partner.
I think with the "general abo" which is an expensive[1] yearly subscription to a nearly complete train + city and rural bus network, the Swiss network might be fighting for that first place.

Both have strong points, I would say people in Japan probably behave better than Swiss people.

Obviously, users still often complain.

[1] not that expensive if compared to owning a car
It boggles the mind that the crooks that sold it walk free today.
> They made mid-range models that were completely forgettable and worse in quality than Samsung and LG.

And why this is MS fault?
I’d also suggest losing the “old guy arrogance” before giving it another shot.