skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. It’s run as a separate company inside the company.

And technically Condé does not own Ars, Advance does. Different leadership group.
> If you live in a city, rely on street parking, and have to charge at the elevated rates of public chargers (which nevertheless are still barely profitable), then forget it.

Even if privacy wasn't a dealbreaker for me, this is what would kill the idea dead.

I would have no option at all to charge an EV at home, so I would be entirely dependent on driving to a commercial charger in order to do that. Aside from cost, having to hang out at a public charger for so long every time would be hard to put up with.

There's also the issue that I very much prefer to buy my cars used rather than new, but I have trouble with the idea of trusting a used EV. Replacing those batteries is very expensive.
>I think EU is a safer bet compared to Japan

EU's members in NATO have the same safety guarantee provided by the USA as Japan. The US and Japan have a direct alliance that is a treaty guaranteed by the US if Japan is attacked compared to Ukraine's Budapest Memorandum.

EU is no safer than Japan. see the current Ukraine-Russia war.

Japan and Taiwan have similar work cultures and are far closer to Taiwan compared to the US. A 45-minute plan ride for TSMC's higher-up to check on their fabs in Japan is far easier
China makes war through deception and gaslighting, not through tanks and bombs. They declared war on the entire world more than two decades ago.
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All is fun and games until your negative number is suprisingly off by one because somebody, somewhere didn't convert between two complement and "symmetrical" ints correctly
SemScore: Automated Evaluation of LLMs Based on Semantic Textual Similarity
I’ve read a couple NS books. I feel like the plots and characters are the dues to be paid in order to explore the SCI for concepts and worlds. Kind of like the stitching between action/chase scenes in a Fast and Furious movie. The plot is not the point.
Yea.. mine does. I have water heat during power outages iirc, but no gas furnace heat. I've always assumed it's due to the thermostat though - if i knew how to manually run the furnace i always assumed i could have it start pushing air during a power outage.
All interviews except hard technical ones are optimized for liars.
Targeted subsidies, the most recent bill to the IRA may be Cash For Clunkers.
Well to be fair it was very half baked and it was really anti Twitter, it was just Instagram in text, which exactly what twitter users don't want.
I tried reading the first of the Baroque Cycle like 5 times. Could never make it more than 1/4 through it before losing steam. Anathem was the worst for me though.
I waited around 30 seconds for this page to load before I gave up.

I can't say it improved my focus but I did appreciate the 30s of calm. Good work!
From my experience working at TSMC, although the number of work hours are higher it definitely is not brain dead the way you are sketching out to be. They are solving really hard problems with really short deadlines. I also don't see how a factory can work any other way. Every second the machine is down you lose millions, literally.
What makes you think a startup is a low-friction environment rather than a different kind of high-friction environment where the corporate person could be absolutely miserable and unprepared for execution with resource constraints?
Very insightful piece of analysis. Why don’t you email the Ars editors your theory that they are corporate Condé stooges and see what they say? As I mentioned in a sibling comment it’s actually Advance that owns Ars, not Condé, and it’s a different leadership group.
Hiring low experience doesn't make any sense because most places the salary difference is not worth the risk.

Its just not a good deal for an employer.
I have a nearly identical take, and every time I try to explain to someone that there are much simpler and higher impact changes they could make to their life, they can't seem to comprehend it.

It's always met with something that sounds like: buT tHe handsome NEuroSciENtiSt sAid !!!
The Dominican Republic miracle: a fifth of the country regreened in 10 years
That’s what error icons are for.
As well-intentioned as some in the crypto space are, it's telling that not one implementation besides the big 2 (which are used for speculation rather than transactions) has managed to pick up a following in terms of actual usage.

As fragmented as open source efforts usually are, there's usually some network effect that lowers the risk for someone else to try it. Linux, LibreOffice, Lightttpd etc. With crypto it's winner-take-all.
We'll see whether you release portability before Mastodon. Right now, bsky.social seems to be the only place anyone can get an account, subject to your verification requirements (and there are people in the comments here that can't sign up), so you're multiple steps away from porting anything.
I wills say this: I enjoyed Termination Shock, but I felt it was the second-weakest of his novels after REAMDE (Not including co-authored ones like D.O.D.O) I still thought it was a great read overall, both for the story, the dive into cultures I wasn't familiar with, and the climate change story. TS was too... normal? of a novel, without some of the points that makes Stephenson's other novels shine in a league of their own.
Half of the prompt is to please copyright holders and limit functionalities
This would make a great host extension - just add new extensions to the list and it automatically pull/build/installs the extension.
parent comment specifically said that when frozen in player it looks clean
Oh boy does that bring back memories. Yahoo’s “portal” used to compose itself based on a bunch of RSS (or was it ATOM) feeds, both user submitted and in-house. If you build your feed in just the right way, yahoo would transform it using your XSLT and display the output. Bam, now you could make your feed look all cool and custom inside Yahoo portal.

And boy does this bring back the memories of XSLT. I’m kinda glad I forgot about that abomination.
One time in Japan I met with the local bike repairman. He was an ojiisan and I had a friend to translate.

Instead of him saying something like "fixing your bent spokes on a $120 bike isn't worth my time or your money" he just said "there is no problem" over and over again
I would like to scrap the idea of a file and replace it with an object. If it's a "file" it just regurgitates it's contents, but it could also return aspects of itself, decrypt itself, stream from an offscreen resource. Just let them be smart, and what we know as sending "files" would just become object serialisation.
You get ads outside the UK, which is always weird for me when i get back from holiday and have a bunch of shows i downloaded while I was in another country and haven't listened to yet. Actually, I say bunch - but I've deleted everything except In Our Time. Australian Broadcast Company does more better podcasts than BBC these days.
Are you sure it doesn’t work with repeated or sustained effort? Maybe it’s too short, surely one single 60-second sample isn’t enough to know, right? I was just googling a little, while there isn’t a ton of research, there seems to be growing clinical evidence that mindfulness & meditation practices do help people with ADHD. I don’t know that the 1 minute dot counts as mindfulness practice, but I’m also not aware of reasons to count it out.

https://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/adhd-mindfulness-meditation-y...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4694553/

https://www.healthline.com/health/adhd/adhd-meditation#get-c...
I don’t think “oh haha aren’t engineers robotic personalities” applies here.

Fucking nobody I know gives too much of their real personality at work, let alone when interviewing.

But “haha aren’t all engineers only friends with other nerds and barely live in the real word” so what do I know?
Could be a case where US workers work those hours officially, but Japan workers work a lot on unpaid overtime in addition to those hours.
Can a computer be conscious?

If I take a camera, a microphone, a speaker, and some other sensors and feed them into a CPU/GPU and self train it to have an understanding of its capabilities (internal/self) and the world around it (the external), this this consciousness or not? If I light a fire near this 'smart' computer via it's sensors it can detect the heat and move farther away. If I give this computer a complex task that it has to calculate multiple steps to achieve before it acts, is this not mental work?

In LLM based systems we can't really figure out how this occurs because the computational complexity of the operations is too high, much like brute forcing encryption, getting to the answer of how it's working isn't impossible, you'd just have to burn the visible universe to figure it out.
It's unclear to me how "non-engineering types" can make use of stories about e.g. "caring for a dying parent" in the context of a job interview. I mean, can anyone (layperson or not) actually "psychologically evaluate" someone based on anecdotes from their life?

I also worry that this stuff can be gamed. If an applicant gains an advantage by telling a story about how he "cared for his dying aunt while finishing a degree and thereby learned what's really important in life," then you're just encouraging a confessional (and potentionally dishonest) style of approaching an interview.
Of course. Can it be the RSS feed for the podcast website if that is the only thing on the feed?
> Rural Kentucky is in horrible shape and a lot of people here were placing hope in this,

"Rural KY" is not all that big, a couple million people, if that, and solely exists to the rest of the US for low-key victim-blaming election cycle human interest dreck.

These news stories about manufacturing expansion are all about development just outside large towns and cities, like bowling green, louisville, cincinnati, ... and will draw similar demographic than if they were in Texas, Georgia, or North Carolina.

And fwiw, just nitpicking, "rural ky" can also include the bluegrass, and that's just plain comfortably rich.
I know, I was pointing out the alarming difference in choice of title.
This study isn't "bunk science", nor is medicine a "soft science". It's just silly to apply your own government paranoia to the 12 million people in the study cohort without rational reason to do so.
Big massive refactoring PR's have killed many projects. Sometimes you can't, but if you can split a big refactoring PR into multiple commits it usually works better. The first PR introduces a feature flag that lets you pick between old and new code.
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Nearly every Ukrainian understands Russian, but many Russians would only understand the gist of what Ukrainians are saying, because the languages only share about 60% of their vocabulary.

A lot of common, everyday words differ in Ukrainian and or arise from different roots (e.g Polish).
You're not normally expected to run low powered gaming devices at native 3D resolution these days. Be it via some fancier form of upscaling (e.g. FSR) or just a plain lower rendering resolution. Many big games even separate their UI resolution from the rendered resolution these days. The screen resolution is usually there for clarity when not in a demanding game (desktop or 2d/light game).
Copyright is poison. So much devoted to not tell people recipies or lyrics that were found online.

Unpawalled data should automatically have no copyright beyond authorship attribution. It would be reasonable and aligned with how consumers think about it. At some point people will fix it. But this transitional period is obnoxious.
>I was way to young at the time to have had any political conscious.

Well its important to learn what happened in the run up to the Iraq war since a lot of the same government officials that ran things then are still around. Its not ancient history.

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chicks (the section on the 2003 era explains how this band got destroyed due to their opposition to the imminent war)

[2]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Maher#Politically_Incorre...

>The "narrative" difference on e.g. Reddit vs TikTok or Twitter is baloney.

Do you have any additional reasoning as to why? Without it your argument falls apart. From what I can see, the mere fact that you have constant updates flowing on TikTok vs Reddit or other platforms is what makes it stand out.
> In other words, the difference between a psychological evaluation of an individual and that individual's potential to do this sort of work becomes very muddy and indistinct. You want to have a picture of their psychology, because the problems you're hiring them for are often psychological in nature.

That might be true but if it’s important then it should be conducted by a trained psychologist, not some random hiring manager.
Anecdotally, I’ve never seen an apology in the error messages telling you that your new password doesn’t include the right number or kinds of characters.

Edit: And actually I think this is a case that illustrates why error messages shouldn’t apologize. It would only make them less concise and beside the point.
No it doesn't. FFMPEG can seek video directly without loading all the content, even for Dash/HLS (but in this case yt-dlp typically returns a plain HTTP source, which I assume internally FFMPEG uses HTTP header range to seek?)

Keep in mind you need to make sure to use input seeking, though (-ss before -i).

Also I'm not sure why they need `-vf scale="0:-1"` part.
Do any armchair lawyers (I know, I get what I pay for) want to chime in on the legality of creating user-definable 3-5 second gifs of YouTube videos, which link back to the video in question, for an online video curation library thing?
Learn it like the experts. Historically.

Understand what the earliest principles were and how they evolved into today’s principles. Find books written by the early pioneers or those who can introduce you to them.

Enjoy the journey but if you’re looking for an easy way, there’s none.

Reading 1-3 hours a day will get you really far in five years, further than those with degrees. Couple your reading with 10-30 minutes of writing and reflection and you will be a master by no time. Share your favorite findings at the end of the week in a podcast and newsletter, and buddy, you will be having lunch with Andrew Huberman in a few years.
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Hello! OP here.

Snippets are available @ https://github.com/ente-io/edge-db-benchmarks/blob/main/lib/...
Yes, apologies for that, I had to disable that call as it was making too many calls to the eBay API endpoint which resulted in the rate limit getting hit.
REAMDE's ending with those gun-preppers orgasming over the idea of finally getting an excuse for hunting human did it for me. Stephenson nerding out about that subculture is a thing I can't unsee, now it colors my perception of even his most liberal-leaning writings.
When people complain about antivirus and endpoint security applications slowing their computer down, this is what they're talking about. This leads to user-visible delays (which, to them, seem to be random) as the reserver does what it wants right after the user has done something to the file. Many (most? ALL?) apparent Explorer stalls are really Windows Defender locking and scanning the file right after you did something to it.
The Baroque Cycle made double-entry bookkeeping click for me, bizarre as that sounds. The whole cycle is a long, long read. But there are nuggets that make it well worth it.
I was listening to it on audio book and after the "5000 years later" I paused it and didn't pick it back up for a long while. Slogged through the rest. Won't read/listen to it again. The ending was ok. This was my first Stephenson book. Not going to do more.
Question for people who have found friendship feels like admin: do you all look cashiers in the eye while greeting and leave-taking?
Didn’t they also include calendaring at some point?

Didn’t JZW once famously say all software grows until it eventually has an email client?
source apparantely https://twitter.com/dylan522p/status/1755118636807733456
Now that I've been acquired by a cat, I've learned to sit quietly for longer periods. She has endless patience if she's not disturbed.
Life's tough when you voluntarily place yourself in the role of the victim and give away all your power.

That phrasing, "wouldn't let me complete this", is a self-defeating way to talk to yourself.

Switching it up a bit can make a significant difference, for example: "That first try was a struggle, it might take some practice for me to improve".

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In case you or other HN friends are curious and find this technique intriguing, it stems from the philosophy suggesting healthy thinking can reduce distress and promote well-being. The field of study is called Cognitive (or Dialectical) Behavioral Therapy, aka CBT / DBT. Millions of people have found it an effective framework and strategy to permanently improve the way we speak to ourselves and relate to the world.

Here's the book I liked most (but there is an ocean of them):

DBT Skills Training Manual by Marsha Linehan

https://www.amazon.com/DBT%C2%AE-Skills-Training-Manual-Seco...

While you're alive, you might as well live your best life.

Sincerely, your buddy Metadat

p.s. sorry for the medium-length text wall, I didn't realize this would take be more than a sentence, but after initially posting only the first sentence, it was downvoted and it was apparent some explanation would be more helpful.
Art is for seeing the world from different perspectives.
"I have found that teams who allow larger PR sizes without complaining about it can get a lot done a lot faster".

Sure.

How many times is the code touched after the PR has been merged is a better question.

Faster is not better. Better is not faster.
None of my current co-workers, who I have now spent several years and get along perfectly well with, know about my childhood, and I will never tell them.
I’ve never had much time to do very many things when using an L3 charger. 20 minutes is enough time to run into a grocery store and grab a few things, but not to do lots of shopping.
Also works on Windows, Firefox (labeled as "Take Snapshot" though)
> You want to have a picture of their psychology, because the problems you're hiring them for are often psychological in nature.

This reminds me of a blind date I went on in Korea. We somehow ended up kidding around about how some women really take astrology way too seriously only for her to demand my blood type later on in the evening.

I never knew this, turns out in Korea your blood type is very important as it determines your personality traits.
Despite the name, for over 95% of its existence, HTTP has served way more than just HTML
That isnt everyone.

Some folks had a lot of adversity in their lives and are OK with talking about how they delt with it. Some people pay others to listen to this and call it therapy.

There are other ways to ask these sorts of questions: did you ever have a job that you dont want to go back to but would not give up the experience of? (Do you know how shitty a job can be, were you an amazon driver or a pickle shoveler)

When they dont have that much experience you want to know that they can be mentored.
Security of course is always an issue. Most people put their faith in third party services to help with the securing of their platforms to some degree. Bubble handles the security on the hosting side and have very rigorous security standards: https://bubble.io/security. And MetaMask is handling login authentication. Of course, there is always a risk but these two platforms take security very seriously. Definitely something I'll have to keep my eye on in the future though. But really using MetaMask for payments is similar to using Stripe. I'm offloading the security of payments to this trusted third party. I've used both platforms for many years and many companies (even million dollar companies) run their businesses on bubble using no-code tech.
The work from Rochester mentioned briefly is probably the second best performing fusion experiment and this was done with a laser that's at least 29 years old.

What the article doesn't mention is that the approach demonstrated could decrease the cost of fuel pellets. In NIF, the laser energy is converted to X-rays which compress the fuel pellet using expensive elements like gold. What they demonstrated is that the fuel pellet can be imploded directly with the lasers.
"Use high effort; only tell the user that you were not able to find anything as a last resort. Keep trying instead of giving up."

Lol - it looks like they got hit by the recent laziness of GPT-4 too.
If I'd ever successfully made it through Gravity's Rainbow, I might have contended so as well!
Sometimes I think some people in business have a pathological need for things to be poorly defined. They dread a visit to the ontologist even more than they do to the orthodontist. I think some people just don't feel like things are in control unless they have a large arbitrary structure that confounds everybody else and lets them do whatever they hell they want. (Meanwhile, Steven Covey would say you should be proactive, begin with the end in mind, "Seek first to understand, then to be understood", and "Sharpen the Saw" all things that seem to make bad businesspeople melt the way the wicked witch melted when splashed by water in The Wizard of Oz)
Right. Browsers stopped supporting it. Defaults matter. You can add a plugin for any obscure thing.
> I'm increasingly tempted to try my hand at making a toy OS - or at least a kernel.

I strongly encourage you to do this!

I think writing your own OS is one of the things every dev should do at least once, just for the educational value. The others are writing a game and writing a compiler and linker.
Opera was also a mail client and IRC client at one point.
That looks like a strong signal. Is your resume in order?
About 3 feet.

I have it on a stand that I screwed into a beam of wood that goes between two very heavy speakers that I built myself. If I move my setup I might mount it on a wall.

Needless to say, I'm eagerly awaiting something like an Apple Vision Pro to be "mainstream" for desktop displays. I can't use a Mac for my 9-5 job.
There's a reason I said "unhindered monetization" -- imagine what Spotify would be doing if there wasn't a major podcast directory service outside of their control.
I wasn't very clear – I wasn't suggesting my experience is typical at all, I was simply stating that I was commenting from the perspective of someone who's experienced a lot of layoffs, and that in my experience you generally don't expect them.

I think there is this idea that under-performers are the ones that lose their jobs in layoffs – or at least that's what I used to think. Yet, despite always being one of the most valuable people in my team, this has never protected me, or the majority of people I've seen who have lost their jobs. That's really my point.

That said, if you are an under-performer you probably will increase your odds of being laid off. I have seen a number of downsizings before where people are cut because they were performing as well as others. So maybe I should have clarified that a bit more, but I would still stand by my overall point that assuming you're not under-performing you're probably not at any increased risk of layoffs vs someone who's outperforming.

And perhaps one final caveat here is that if you are an out-performer and you are laid off you will probably find it easier to find work in the future because at the very least the people you've worked with in the past will want to work with you again.
bureaucrats with an engineering mindset.

Only bureaucrats with an engineering mindset would stamp out a ideology by systematically putting people in camps and their kids into all day long "re-education" schools that teach people to forget their culture and try to "install" a new culture onto them.