skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am quite impressed that the ancient Amazon.com link [0] on the page (with quite a few non-trivial query params) still returns relevant results today. A good case of Cool URIs don't change [1].

[0] http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_adv_b/?search-alias=s...

[1] https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
I used to think like this. It’s mainly because my only encounters with celery were teachers who thought celery and peanut butter was a good “snack” for kids. Gross.

But in cooking, it’s great. The purpose of celery is to break up the rush of flavor that sauce brings. For example in a stir fry, meat and rice tend to take on the flavor of the sauce (or even become enhanced by it). Celery does not. Sauce doesn’t stick to it. Celery adds dynamics to a dish by adding a pause to the flavor. And in the context of a mouth full of meat and sauce and rice and peppers, celery gives it all meaning by being none of that.
x86 has 80-bit precision FPU and 80-bit regs, so the result can be different depending on whether it is a reg-reg or a mem-mem (float64) operation.
Uri Shaked, the creator of Wokwi, is interviewed here: https://embedded.fm/episodes/396
I have frequented the immediate vicinity of People's Park maybe 3-6 times per year over the last four decades, and never saw it as a friendly, inviting place. In more recent years, I didn't even feel it was a good idea to park a car along the bordering streets for fear of break-ins.

I understand the history and endorse some of the ideals that originally led to the park's "creation" (I started high school in the 1960s, after all), but it has now gotten to the point where would-be domestic terrorists are the people most invested in its preservation, as demonstrated by the very recent resignation of a promising young elected representative on the Berkeley City Council.

"he contacted police and considered seeking restraining orders after being 'followed and told to kill himself, and that concerning messages were taped to the door of his home and mailed to him.' He said that those incidents 'often' stemmed from his support for UC Berkeley's proposed housing project for People's Park."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/berkeley-city-councilmembe...
Interesting. EV are 10 to 20% heavier than a comparable ICE vehicle. So, if we follow this 4th power law, an EV impact on the road would be 50 to 100% more than its equivalent ICE. For me that's yet another new data to factor in the equation EV vs ICE.
My personal anecdote:

Parents recently sold their $1.5M+USD house (2021) to the owner of an online transcription/translation company (human staffed) -- an "expensive rich house" where they live.

The free Whisper.app (works on Mac, including Intels) delivers the new homeowner's entire company product [transcription/translation] about 40x faster than real-time-playback, which is hundreds of times faster than any human employee could listen and translate. For FREE.

I expect to see new owner's forclosure notice any moment. Certainly human worker(s) still check over the translations, but for most [potential] customers a perfect document is not necessary, particularly considering Whisper.app is FREE to use off-line [1]. An absolutely incredible piece of software — runs lighting fast on my M2Pro.

[1] https://openai.com/research/whisper/
> When my son’s teacher told my mom she was being appreciated as a grandmother, she emphasized that my mom was special to her grandchildren— a domain over which she could claim to have some authority, being the teacher of my son. This is not fake at all: it is just a feeling that comes from a focus on those features or accomplishments that would give the other person reason to feel good about themselves. You are a wonderful grandmother [...]

But here's what I don't understand. The teacher doesn't actually know whether her mother was a wonderful grandmother -- after all, she just got to know her! I get that the intent is to make another person feel good about themselves, but if you praise anything and everyone, how does this praise convey anything special?

Edit: I guess my actual question is this: How do you tell plain courtesy from actual commendation? When do you know someone actually means it?
You're making a bad analogy. The life expectancy of an indoor cat is around 15-17 years, while the life expectancy for outdoor cats is only 2-5 years.

https://www.petmd.com/cat/care/can-indoor-cat-be-part-time-o... which cites University research.

So, a better analogy would be if you would be willing to die at age 25 instead of 75 just so you can base jump and free climb every day. Most people wouldn't like that trade-off even if it is more fun in the moment.

Not to mention the happiness of the 2 billion birds killed by domestic cats each year. Remember that even though domestic cats can and do survive as wild animals, their population is greatly inflated by human activity. We're responsible for that imbalance in the food chain and should keep our pets away from the rest of the wildlife. We feed our cats and then if they go outside they basically kill birds for fun.

I'd much rather my cat play with toys. It's very easy to keep a house cat happy without putting them and prey animals. They already spend the majority of the day sleeping. Play with your cats for a couple of times a day, provide some solid toys that they can play on their own with, and give them loving attention and they'll be quite happy.
It might even be easier to pick an arbitrary word, and ask it to find the three that matches it.

Asking GPT to just pick any group, adds a lot of extra "mental overhead".

Though of course this works best if all the groups are roughly of the same difficulty.
Turns out they didn't, quite. Tōkyō is East Capital, the Tō is 'East'; Kyōto is Capital City, the To being 'City'. Kyō is the same in each.
Last I heard (admittedly, like 9 months ago) multiple dealerships were willing to buy our 2015 model year Honda Odyssey for more than we paid for it, when we bought it used in 2019. With like 90k more miles on it or something. And of course they'd mark it up farther.

WTF. I don't know what we'll do if this van dies. Paying about $20k for that thing already seemed super-expensive for a car, to me.
Sounds like you were actually using USB 3.1 Gen 2 or USB 3.2 Gen 2[x1], not Thunderbolt 4.
Huh, why is this downvoted?

In the Netherlands, efficiency is part of communicaton, especially in cities. In more rural places people connect a bit more and take time for eachother. These are different rules.

And yes, sometimes Dutch people are rude because they like to be. Different people, different strokes.
I suspect its just a tax break related policy, ive been doing the same shit at US companies (still in EU), and some European companies (in EU) and the US one were the only one asking me to file reports for hours classified as R&D, maybe european ones have no incentive to do that

Id say, considering that, and considering that for these corps taxes are lava, i’d go to look at incentives on taxes about R&D filing
The simplest message bus. (2024)
I implemented this in an hour or two a couple of months ago. It was originally using it as a means to allow LLM agents to talk to each other. It works well enough, and I decided to formalize it into a minimal example and share it.

I find it entertaining to work with systems like this because it feels like programming's version of "spooky action at a distance". That and something this simple is super easy to reason about.

Enjoy!
There are places in the world where a robust continent-spanning grid of renewables could compete with nuclear, but that's also a difficult problem to solve.
>lactose, etc. Those are just varying numbers of glucose molecules stitched end on end.

Not so: lactose is a glucose stitched to a galactose molecule.
> When you live with a spouse/partner, over time you learn to consider your choice of words even in a single language in order to make it happen -- individual words can have idiosyncratic implications.

A long-term relationship grows its own shared vocabulary and idioms that sound idiotic outside of that context.
As a Russian living among Greeks I can not say that I experienced any unusual rudeness. But yes, permanent smiling may be considered to be deceptive and insincere by some Russians.

But anyway: people tend to express themself in many different ways. It is great to be tolerant to others, while trying to be polite and culture-aware yourself.
See my comment here on how they get around that:

edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39006581
Full-mesh typically means each node connects directly to each other node (for some value of directly), so IMHO, a three node system with each node connected to the other two fits the name. I do agree that it's not very interesting with only three nodes.
Could I message you in a few days to run this by you? My email is in my bio.
Please explain in excruciating detail the need for an account to provide a single input box for zip code to just calculate fees? I need a serious breakdown of the logic behind this position, because from where I'm sitting, it seems to me like you could determine someone's "country, county, even municipality" with that single piece of data and no more.
What about a more imperative shape? What if you could have a closure that "goto"s into the parent function scope?

Or imagine coroutines built with `swapcontext` (man 3).
>I do believe that Americans are trained since an early age to display at all times that they're not a threat

Interesting. Since I'm the fish who can't see the water, could you provide me with some examples of this?
I've always had doubts that language is causative when it comes to differences in how we see the world but it's at the very least reflective of them.

Even between German and English which are quite similar you see it in the honorifics, Du/Sie which doesn't just lack a modern English equivalent, you see that difference in behavior. When I speak German in a German workplace you have to actually often think if you're going to "dutz" someone. In English I'm more casual because it doesn't even enter your mind. Not to mention if you go East Asian cultures where it gets even more complicated as age and family relations have their own terminology.
how should he go about doing that?
I have never understood this sentiment about the classes only being a small part. To me the classes were the only thing of value. Not once did I engage with any classmates outside of class on any academic subject. There was no scholarly learning or discussion. I did have those with professors during class or office hours. The availability tutors was beneficial. Most of the rest I felt was a distraction and a waste of time. There was no network to develop. I am not in contact with a single person I went to college with. It may work for some, but most of my colleagues say very similar things.
> This means that the display URL in your ad needs to match the domain that visitors land on when they click on your ad.

This policy is fundamentally impossible to enforce without domain ownership verification. 'It is against our policy' isn't exactly a good excuse when said policy isn't technically enforceable.

Google practices sampled URL resolution (which is insufficient as explained in my blog post) and does not currently require domain ownership verification for the use of vanity URLs.
I mean this coming from the best way possible with no ill intentions, but you really seem to be missing the mark by releasing a product with very thin utility and "writing" blogs that are surface level GPT fluff.

I wish you all the best on your journey, but it really doesn't seem like you are steering the ship at all. I understand you have the best intentions but the work that you have produced seems to be the very thing you are trying to avoid.

For example,

> The AI quiz generator is designed to supplement educators' existing strategies, offering a time-efficient way to create diverse and challenging material.

An AI quiz generator is very basic rudimentary thing. It is much harder to actually design and implement an educator strategy to efficaciously use AI. You seem to be outsourcing everything to ChatGPT while making no efforts at solving the real problems; the very thing you complain about.

I hope you take this with my sincerest feedback, but you need to do the hard work. Not just generate vapid article with chatGPT and say you are doing research. If you are doing the research, your work that you are presenting doesn't reflect much effort.
FWIW I saw the Cloudflare error a few times whilst attempting a comment, though it seems to not have created dupes:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39002310>

(Sort of an anti-example of the problem, people's experiences may have varied.)
I’ve learned tens of thousands of foreign language words using Anki and have always find that having pictures on the cards help me remember the words.

I currently have a (foolish?) project. I’m trying to memorize the 750 cards of a quiz game that we play in the family. All questions are answered by a year. So for example: “What year did Coca Cola Light come out?”.

I have been using Midjourney to generate images for those cards which makes it so much eaaier to recall.

I have a system. I have a person representing each century; Einstein is 1900-2000 and for example Mari-Antoinette is 1700-1800.
Then items represent the decade; a sixties car represent the sixties, jacket with shoulder pads the eighties and so on.

I do something similar for the last digit.

Then I have Midjourney generate such pictures, in a comic book style, and I save the most fun or absurd one and use that on the back side of the Anki card.

The image is often easier to recall than the year by itself
> who can find a contractor work for me

Not sure I understood this. Meaning someone who can find contract work for you? Or find you a dev?
Completely disagree on this.

This is Beeper, a for-profit company, throwing a tantrum, violating the ToS of Apple but leaving Beeper's users and their friends holding the bag.
There’s no first principles reason tobacco is a legal product. If it was invented today, as a product which kills or disables a large percentage of its users, it would be banned.
I have a feeling we would change the tax structure long before the system "collapsed".
Yeah, I mean, for the record, I'd absolutely love being a house cat. No job, all my meals provided, never any bad weather or threats to deal with, and I have a huge playground of a house all to myself. Would you rather be an Emperor Penguin freezing your ass off in the artic making an 100 mile nesting migration?
Pairing was the practice people talked about the most, because it caused the most friction. I'm not sure that I would say it was the essence of XP -- I think XP was about taking collective responsibility, sustainable pace, and feedback. Pairing was a practice to support those values.

I miss pairing. It is powerful on its own, and is shockingly effective when combined with the whole XP thing. But you can still get a ton of value from the rest to XP even with async comms.
A couple of questions/observations as someone born in the UK who emigrated to the US at 25.

1. I wonder when this "difference between culture-driven emotions" fades away. I've been in the US for 35 years now, and I still sometimes sense that I'm viewing interactions the way a British person would (less often than I used to)

2. I wonder how the "noise" of differences between individuals compares in "amplitude" to the ability of culture to shape emotion. Any given population of any significant size will likely contain fairly wide variations of introversion, sociability, communication comfort, positivity, etc. etc. To what extent does or can cultural factors create any sort of coherent pattern "on top" of that variation?

3. Some US habits can be seen as having nothing to do with the relationships between individuals, and everything to do with creating certain social moods. The reason that US retail interactions are studded with "Have a nice day" is not, in general, because anyone actually cares that much about whether your day is nice or not, but because having people behaving in that way creates an easy going, affable mood in which people's anger, disappointment and sadness of the moment is not really appropriate to bring to the surface. It can seem grating and "fake" on early encounters with it, but after a while (maybe a long while), you can appreciate it as a communal, non-coercive effort to "make nice" because everyone benefits from that, on average and over time.

4. US English really needs to re-acquaint (no pun intend) itself with the word "acquaintance" as an alternative to "friend". The almost universal use of "friend" to describe anyone you know (even from the most singular and minor of interactions) really robs verbal behavior about the social environment here of so much subtlety.
Women also look at the pretty men.
Anyone made the opposite product? Human written tests, that an AI tries to make green?
Basically all of that's a rounding error compared to commercial traffic (heavy trucks). They're heavily subsidized by non-commercial drivers, and a Tesla being 20% heavier than a Mustang (or whatever) isn't really making a big difference in that balance.
Hate to break it to you, but it has the same subtext here in Germany
On the very far end of the spectrum you will have something that may look a bit like mathematical notation. Something describing a relationship extremely concisely, but the hard thing will be figuring out what exactly follows from that concise expression.

I can understand how people could see the appeal in this, but I think this doesn't necessarily make it easier to write good software.
If they kept it to something like 5% and don't try to stop alternatives when used with other stores then it's probably not something that'd cause problems. The same is true for any sane pricing of external API integrations regardless of source as charging for push notifications or similar is fine by itself too.

Where they'd get into trouble is by trying to turn these things into ways to move the 30% revenue cut. Just moving the 30% revenue from "rights to be on the one and only store" to "rights to write apps against the device with the one and only SDK" is quite clearly a different motive and forced cost model than having a 5% SDK fee where the developer is free to choose a different SDK.

I.e. "but others charge for an SDK" doesn't allow you to then change your SDK cost model to exactly match what was deemed illegally anticompetitive forced market pricing. It just allows you to charge for your SDK in a competitive way, nothing more.
From an average consumer perspective (not a HN user perspective):

It just works. As soon as I log into my Apple account on any Apple device I can access all of my messages, and seamlessly carry on a conversation on whatever device is at hand. It works with SMS as well, and I just don't have to think about it.

I know that WhatsApp is similar, but their desktop app, especially authentication, kinda sucks (I need my phone to login, and it seemingly logs me out weekly). Whatsapp is also FILLED with weird porn spam, and scammers.
Thankfully Google has become lame.

And this is coming from someone who cheered for Google until I guess 2012, then gave them up but defended them until maybe 2017 - 2019 somewhere and now just hope they are never recovers.

Let them go the way of IBM: continue to exist without threatening general purpose computing.
“If there a difference between another human acting a character vs a model?”

Yes. One is an actual living, breathing human who uses their lived experience in order to bring nuance and feeling to their performance.

The other is a machine.
I believe the MTBF argument still applies to Starlink.

Regarding the minimal risk condition / fallback behavior, a central point of the article was that slowing or stopping are almost always unacceptable on freeways because of the speeds involved
We live in a bizarro world.

Not sure if that was what she meant, I wasnt there. But if I responded that way, this would be the meaning.
Why is it cheaper to have one shift work on a road project that takes months, compared to three shifts working around the clock making the project take 1/3rd of the time? I've always vaguely wondered that when driving through construction zones that are seemingly devoid of workers most of the time.

I assume the workers are paid hourly, so wouldn't the cost be the same? Are second and third shifts more costly?
Of course! The problem is that this "accountability" is the grease on the slippery slope towards doom.

If I need every epic, story, task and subtask to be labelled in the correct way for your organization, then I no longer have an autonomous team that is able to self organize to maximize its own efficiency.

If I don't have that, I no longer have agile. There are better ways than turning agile into a caricature of its former self.
It was always fun seeing new people at the US company I've been working in Germany. The way the Germans fell for all the BS sweet talk in the beginning and just couldn't believe that it actually is BS when you warned them until they actually felt it. It lead to some weird conversations, especially when they tried to clear up a situation which has been created through US BS corporate talk. You had the German speaking the plain facts vs. the American who on one had had to keep their cool, keep the BS running AND somehow deliver the actual message because in the end it was important.

Somehow the Germans learned faster, though.
It actually has one, gst-browser, but IIRC, it relies on a GTK version that is too old, so when we attempt to run it, GNU Smalltalk crashes.
If your company can't find someone after years of looking, the problem isn't with the candidates.
> I run mellanox connectx3 cards, they work immediately with no extra drivers on windows 10/11 and every linux I've tried

Own three, can confirm for Windows and Linux.
The sad truth is that they are actually pushed by society to want it. Of course not to want to "end up looking more like plastic surgery than people", but to want to "try anything" to solve their problem, which is a pure societal construction.
>> I bought a copy of "Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 24 Hours" at a CompUSA

Some of those books were laughably bad. But thing I miss from back then, was the feeling that the book was going to be the key to getting you started writing whatever crazy idea you had for a program in your head.

I think the last time I had that feeling was walking out of Microcenter with a new MacBook and an iPod Touch, ready to make the next Angry Birds...
Or... Build your own cloud and transfer data to your hearts content for free (minus power).
We are writting ton of such tests, on daily basis haha.

That is infinite process, we're all stuck within :-)
The other 007 actors did not used Sean Connery's voice (or face) each one had his own style of playing the character and a unique voice.
Boy I had the same book that I borrowed from a friend. I was truly in love with that book and went over it a few times. My friend ended up giving it to me as a present, something that truly shaped who I am now.
People in lots of the Northeast are, of course, known to be a bit brusque or direct, including the non-Dutch areas. I think it’s just that it has been a busy, high population area for a long time (by US standards at least). When you and everyone around you has to do lots of little interactions all day, you show care by keeping things short and efficient.

Also “bless your heart” is the dumbest expression in the world. Oh wow look at me I’ve said something that sounds nice, but actually it means something secretly rude, maybe, but only I know how I meant it! That’s just poor communication.
I can't take "the lack of a choice is a feature" seriously.

For corporate managed devices, sure. But for personal devices?

If you're happy with the defaults... don't ever change the defaults!

But someone else being able to make a different choice doesn't decrease your happiness.