skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Houston, Texas also has an extensive underground tunnel system connecting large parts of the downtown business district and government buildings. It's a godsend during hot, swampy summers when commuting by foot at street level guarantees being soaked in sweat within a block or two, and is probably the most popular spot to head for lunch in the downtown area.

One interesting factor here is that aside from the portions serving government buildings, the tunnel system has grown organically as each piece is constructed and maintained by the owner of the building above. Direct tunnel access from a building is considered a major perk for employees and drives up commercial rent prices in each section's associated building.

https://downtownhouston.org/experience/downtown-tunnels
Palit Releases Fanless Version of Nvidia's New GeForce RTX 3050 6GB
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/RWu8eZqbwgB9zaerh/third-time...

I used this to follow it in emacs before:

https://git.sr.ht/~swflint/third-time

However this one I haven't used looks more featureful:

https://github.com/SqrtMinusOne/pomm.el
If the trucks are otherwise identical the thing you should be most worried about is insiders. The cash being more fungible means you maybe should pay the cash drivers more, so they're never tempted to skim off the top or sell details to the heisters.
> With AI, we have the opportunity to apply the hard lessons learned over the past two decades. Allowing social media to grow unchecked without first understanding the risks has had disastrous consequences, and we should take reasonable precautions this time around.

> Critical harm is either mass casualties or 500 million in damage, or comparable.

So the whole regulatory premise is based on missing the boat on social media, but how many examples are there of social media causing this kind of "critical harm"?
Did you ask to see which questions you supposedly got wrong?
Singapore is an obvious omission based on my travels but many more probably qualify according to Wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_city
This article is pretty shallow and sounds a lot like the people on Reddit calling for the removal of billionaires and how its the fault of the rich that they are struggling without acknowledging the amount of work it takes to become rich. The same people that minimize what people like Musk have accomplished.

If I get paid more, I work harder. There is obviously a realistic limit on how hard I can work. The longer I stay at a company though the more knowledge I have and the more effectively I can utilize my time to accomplish my goals and those of the business.

If I can get a 20% raise somewhere else and do the same amount of work, I will do so. In order to keep me, my company just has to match my new salary offer. Something that they are free to do or reject based on their valuation of what I bring to the table.

A million dollars is a lot of money, but its significantly less if I need to buy a house in California vs Wyoming. The free market does a relatively good job of assigning capital, lets not make up arbitrary caps based on make believe morality.
As if the world doesn’t run on databases. And now the government want to be able to have them shutdown.

People were definitely worried about databases! All the jobs lot for people that did filing! Copying! Typing! It’s easy to look back with hindsight and so, eh no one worried.

Heck, there were strikes when someone first played a record on the radio! God forbid!

BTW: a lot of people consider what they work on being so much more important to the world, and thus they are more important.
Just random questions to test my personality.

"You're not turning the tortoise over, Billy. Why is that?" :P
So advertising is one of the biggest factors in determining the required grid capacity? Perhaps we should charge them for it.
Isn't API out of scope for copyright? In the case of CUDA, it seems they can copy most of it and then iterate in their own, keeping a compatible subset.
One of the guys on my team is a huge Michigan football fan and he preemptively took the day after the championship off. “I’ll either be happy and hungover or sad and hungover”. I’d so much rather have someone be up front and honest than just call in sick
Mornington Crescent
How are patent trolls not "using it" then? If licensing the patent is using it, this suggestion does nothing to prevent trolling.
A salary cap doesn’t change the market rate! It just obfuscates it.

Salaries for public companies locked at 10M/yr? Ok, now firms have to compete on amenities. (Your current firm gives you a free car? Ours gives a jet, a personal Michelin star cook, and complimentary beverages)
The main advantage of index funds is that they're low-cost.

Just like compounding over many years will give you a large pile of money, high fees are like a "negative compounding drag" on your returns. Change the box labeled "Annual fees" on this page to see what a difference it makes over 20+ years:

* https://larrybates.ca/t-rex-score/
Something like this genuinely does hurt very small businesses or inventors who invent something actually valuable but don't have time to quickly scale up.

What I like for IP laws is as follows:

When you create a protected work, you pay a very small fee. Say, $1 for copyright, maybe $500 for a patent.

Each year thereafter, if you wish to maintain your IP protection, you must pay double what was paid the previous year. Otherwise the property reverts to the public domain.

This ensures a period of protection if it's genuinely needed, but ensures that everything will eventually enter the public domain, especially in the case where no one is making any economic use of the material.
Yeah, I can't relate to that at all. My Matter devices are more reliable than what they replaced (mostly switches and dimmers so far), and HomeKit support has "just worked". Matter's a 16-month-old baby, though, so YMMV.
Yeah, a million dollars a year is not anywhere close to where having more money doesn't impact you.

If that's $600K after taxes, and a year of college for a single child costs $80K at an excellent school, and you've got two or three kids, and housing in a major metropolitan area...

I mean you're definitely living very comfortably, but there are still lots of ways to spend money that have a big impact on your life, between your home and child care and your vacations and your comfort in traveling.

If the number is $25 million, then sure there isn't much more difference. Probably even $5 million. But $1 million still has plenty of room for very meaningful life improvement, that isn't anywhere near private jets. Not that you need, but that it's entirely normal to want.
I've often wondered if it was worth a language having interchangeable brackets that you could use similar to 4-colour problems eg. ([1 2] 3) is the same as {[1 2] 3} or ((1 2) 3) semantically, just visually easier to read.

Any takers?
They just announced Trending Topics rolling out. should help with breaking news
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/12/in-battle-with-x-threads-g...
I phrased that poorly. My point was that it isn’t clear if there’s a point at which the balance of the relationship shifts such that what was once reasonable (paying fees to Apple for access to their customers, among other things) is no longer reasonable.

In the Netflix scenario, it’s clear that Apple wasn’t the primary source of customer acquisition. The scenario where an unknown app grows and gets big based on Apple’s network effect highlights the complexity of the situation.

> Apple doesn't own those customers now and for all time just because they originally found the service through Apple's app store!

I’m not saying that Apple owns those customers. The pertinent question is what is or is not reasonable for them to charge and/or what restrictions are reasonable. The benefits of publishing in the App Store extend beyond just customer reach, and also involve Apple making good on the promises they've made to their customers (With few exceptions, I personally won't spend money on apps that use their own subscription mechanism, because I have no interest in cancellation hell). In addition to this, the vig covers access to platform capabilities and services that are arguably just as important as access to customers.
For a detailed discussion of “what is the environment, and what does preserving it look like?”, see the Red Mars trilogy. Very interesting questions about nature as aesthetic vs nature-in-its-own-right
Useful to give the title, author, and date of those three texts.
Vocal fry: what's the big deal? And should we care?
Number 1 is a terrible point as well. Fighting inflation is an entirely contextual problem.
That is exactly my main criteria for flagging articles.
The idea here is that they did the work up front and then saved to accumulate wealth which they could spend later. Is that immoral to you?
Unmodified Nvidia CUDA apps can now run on AMD GPUs thanks to ZLUDA
The post is from 2009, and hence shortly after the mortgage derivatives market meltdown.
Conventions are defaults. Every browser I have assumes port 80 (or 443) for http (or https) by default for a reason.
I'd agree that they shouldn't be liable in that case, since the bridge works the same for everybody (no matter why they're driving over it) and is working as designed/intended. It's really only the idea that developers shouldn't be liable
for their code as long as they aren't explicitly promoting illegal activity and don't have any involvement with it outside of creating the software that I take issue with.
The problem is the things these guys are told to do to attract a girl simply don't work. So they are trying to find the things that do work.
I have a couple of guy friends that are nice, cheerful, try to do all the things girls say a guy should do. They can't get any dates.
I don't do any of that and have been very successful with women.
Society fed my friends a line of bullshit that doesn't work, and they are angry about it. They also want to understand what does work.
> Until the Carterfone decision it was, in fact, illegal to attach a non-Bell phone to the network.

...and the Carterfone decision was long overdue. The entire antitrust legislation against Ma Bell was protracted a half century because, much like Apple, they had armies of lobbyists stationed around the nation. Suffice to say we made the right call on Carterfone, and Bell made the wrong decision by resenting it.

> so it is very hard to see how someone could, in good faith, argue that Apple is a monopoly.

A natural monopoly, maybe. But the Wabash Case demonstrates that a privately-owned common carrier platform can be subject to antitrust law without owning the majority of the rail. The European DMA explicitly goes the extra mile to implicate Apple not as a monopoly, but as a "gatekeeper" with specific fair-play obligations. To them, it wouldn't even matter anyways.

> Apple is doing nothing to prevent you from buying an Android phone.

Ah, the "innovation" clause. This isn't about Android, because Android phones don't run Apple software. Apple has deliberately designed their ecosystem to funnel back into one exploitative internal market that they are solely responsible for. Android phones are an alternative, but irrelevant in a conversation about App Store alternatives.
Curious, why don't we reciprocate the tax on Korean cars? The US government isn't known for being very understanding on these things even for allies? Or are Kia/Hyundai mostly making cars for the USA outside of Korea?
Sounds like Nextdoor is more a symptom than the problem.
I mean it could also be that there was no business case for it as long as it remained closed source work.

If the now very clearly well functioning implementation continues to perform as well as it is, the community may be able to keep it funded and functioning.

And the other side of this is that with renewed AMD interest/support for the rocm/HIP project, it might be just good enough as a stopgap step to push projects towards rocm/HIP adoption. (included below is another blurb from the readme).

> I am a developer writing CUDA code, does this project help me port my code to ROCm/HIP?

> Currently no, this project is strictly for end users. However this project could be used for a much more gradual porting from CUDA to HIP than anything else. You could start with an unmodified application running on ZLUDA, then have ZLUDA expose the underlying HIP objects (streams, modules, etc.), allowing to rewrite GPU kernels one at a time. Or you could have a mixed CUDA-HIP application where only the most performance sensitive GPU kernels are written in the native AMD language.
1. He keeps saying marketing but salary is actually a pretty good indicator for how good a job is.

2. You pay to retain not to hire. You can hire people at practically any price point. Whether they'll stick around for longer than 6 months is a different matter. I've seen multiple startup founders burnt by this.
Kinda reminescent of Makani, Google/X flying kite-turbine-generator-thingies. https://x.company/projects/makani/
This wasn’t an issue when buttons were 3D. They had an icon (or text) indicating what they activate, and were rendered depressed when active and raised when inactive. Some color could optionally be added to the icon to reinforce the active state.
Whenever interviews come up here I always ask: What makes your interview technique good? What if instead of whatever you do, you just grabbed a resume at random and hire that person - are you really use that you did better? How about enough better as to be worth however much time you spent.

Note that my random resume is easily resistant to all claims of discrimination - you didn't know anything about any candidate until you opened the random envelope, so you clearly didn't discriminate against anyone. When you say your system is better, is it enough better as to be worth the potential discrimination lawsuit if you don't interview or hire a minority? (some interview systems have scores that if you can prove are objective, but many of you are proposing something that doesn't seem to be)
+1 for Obree - more people should know the history.

For those into cycling who don't already know them, the Obree book [0] and film [1] are worth the time.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/231993.Flying_Scotsman_

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472268/
A device for heating water on-demand, usually a gas burner with a spiraling water pipe surrounding/above it. As opposed to a boiler, which pre-heats water and stores it for later use (and also needs to keep reheating the water as it cools if not used).

Spanish wikipedia is the only with a picture of the internals: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calentador_de_agua_circulante?...
Ask HN: Interviews, Too Many Loops?
It feels like there are surprisingly many loops to jump through to get a CS job, even with experience. In my previous career (finance), at most you got a test in addition to the interview. In CS nowadays you have to know all technologies, be a great leetcode solver, and have time/energy to drop everything and do a fullstack project in 2 days. Then most of the time you end up working on other stuff than what was tested on in a much small scope. I spend much more energy job interview prepping than I do at my actual job.
Will it get worse?
Uhhhhh, how do you enforce this without a great firewall?
It's an IQ test but does it help evaluate NFL players?

Ryan Fitzpatrick went to Harvard and was said to have gotten a perfect socre of 50. It turns out he might have only got 48 which is still really high. He bounced around 9 teams and threw tons of interceptions. He would go from amazing to horrible "Fitz-Magic" to "Fitz-Tragic"

In contrast Lamar Jackson is said to have scored a 6 which is laughably bad. He just won his second Most Valuable Player award last week.
for me, it is software that controls moving hardware in a way that is "smart", but not predictable (for lack of a better word).

Examples of some things that aren't robots:

- Remote controlled thing that looks like a robot

- An automata that is pre-programmed to do the same thing over and over

- a "robot" arm in a car factory that paints the same thing over and over

- etc...

In other words, it needs to be somewhat smart
Balls of steel the FCC has. Is this the first consumer friendly thing they’ve actually done in a couple decades?
Yes, the research is coming out of this lab: https://www.yovelbatlab.com/publications
Neither of those people are a good source on the common definition of free markets. "Free market" is just two words, they can mean whatever an author wants. But it's useful to have a common vocabulary, and respectful to stick with the definition used by whomever introduces a term.
The number of patents owned by startups is greatly dwarfed by the number owned by large companies. Furthermore, the competition opportunity for small businesses to offer similar products at lower prices greatly outweighs the value of patent invention.

Some people would say large businesses can make things cheap in a way that small businesses can't compete with. However, that turned out to not happen in practice as big companies chase huge profit margins, supported only by the government.

China doesn't have this problem the US does because they have weaker patent laws. Patents need to be eradicated ASAP or we will not be globally competitive. We are also harming humanity as a whole as the inventive utility of patents simply doesn't scale in proportion to the harms, with the large populations we have now, they are clearly harmful on balance.

The fundamental problem with patents is that the benefit has lower asymptotic complexity with respect to population size than than the harm does. When you exceed some population size, patents become harmful.

The utility of copying is N^2 since you have O(N) copiers and O(N) inventions to copy from.

The harm of patents is therefore O(N^2) since this is the copying that patents prevent.

What we find is that the benefits of patents seem to scale at most around some O(N /log N) ish metric. Doubling the population size increases the number of inventors, but the chance an invention was already invented by someone else increases as population size increases. Hence the benefits of patents scale worse than O(N). Applying that to the harm and we still get O(N(N/logN)) for harm and O(N/logN) for benefits. Clearly patents do not scale.

* Here I am using Log N as a substituite for the difficulty increase of finding an invention not already invented. This exact measure is difficult to estimate.
The gold actually exists. I have some in my computer and my phone, it can be used for jewelry, decoration, and has thousands of years of provenance to ensure its value is roughly stable.

Bitcoin is none of those things, it's a cryptographic exercise in waste, producing nothing of value.

That's why.
I offer one more alternative. Double the tax every year, and once the ip holder decides not to pay the tax, IP is released to public domain. No compnay has money to keep IP indefinitely in such a scheme.
There is this idea of thinking fast and slow aka the hare brain and tortoise mind. I use the active time for the hare (fast thinking), and the break time for the tortoise to pass up ideas from the subconscious (slow thinking).

I've been using pomodoro for many years. Not continuously though because I find that my productivity level is extremely high while doing it and I start to get burned out because the intermittent breaks are not enough.

You might be interested in something called the domino technique to help with getting started / getting into flow. Basically you do something that is difficult but short that you can do to get a meaningful psychological "win" in a short period of time (5 minutes) to kick start your motivation / flow. I would post a link but I don't have a good reference on hand.
Thanks for mentioning FocusMate! I used it many years ago, but had since forgotten it's name. No amount of googling found it.
Mostly this article is about people being exposed to M-expressions in elementary math.

As someone whos first programming post BASIC was on a Symbolics machine, coding _conventions_ worked just fine with s-expressions

The Polish notation is probably what most people are reacting to unless you used the reverse version with an HP calculator.

Whitespace isn't significant in C like the author suggests, it is coding convention.

COBOL is a counterexample for whitespace significance not helping with readability.

But for lisp the parentheses was a non-issue with just a few emacs macros.

But that is the same with most modern languages outside of novelties like bf
ARM CPUs
> Also: I know it's trendy to make everything about skin colours these days, but that's a distinct USA-ian bias. The rest of the world doesn't work that way.

Europe's industrialized genocidal tribalism of 20th century, the modern islamic experience as an immigrant in Europe, 21st century genocide in Africa and the Middle East, Japan's war crimes in east asia during WW2. Where is this rest of the world you speak of?
I am not arguing that this is how you live and if you find meaning in it, more power to you. I find value in maximizing my salary, I view work as trading life hours for dollars. The more dollars I can extract from each working life hour, the less I need to work and the more things I can do in my non working hours. It also allows me to establish a higher base level future for my kids.

I have no loyalty to a company I work for as they generally have no loyalty to me besides the ROI they get from my work. If they can get a better deal by outsourcing my job to India, they will. We did not create this environment, corporations did so I find myself playing by the rules they created.
I think they do, my kids play Roblox and Minecraft and buying in app is more expensive (probably to the tune of the Apple fees) than buying it outwith the App Store.

I don’t think app developers were allowed to show that it was x price in the app via Apple and x-fees via the developers own site.
Unless you've actually conducted a survey, you don't know how many people feel like you do. I get that you hate it, but I personally haven't noticed the notch in day to day use ever -- I've been using an M1 in light mode since it came out.
Yes a play can no longer be performed, but a recording of a play is a different thing.

A songwriter can stop anyone from making new covers of their song, but they can't order the destruction of your CDs.
> If I could just "start" things on command, I wouldn't need any of these special techniques in the first place

For me, it's the opposite. This is one of my favorite things about doing pomodoros.

I hate to be the tactibro who sources inspirational quotes from special forces influencers, but I worked with a guy who introduced me to the phrase "go before you're ready," and I really took it to heart as a check against my natural tendency to leave problems alone and wait for them to get easier. I got this tendency from studying math in school, where I fell in love with the magic of getting stuck on a hard problem, putting it aside, and having the solution come to me hours later while I was thinking about something else.

That approach works when my subconscious has everything it needs to work on the problem, like when writing proofs for a math class, but at my job I'm usually working in a different way, where the solution depends on concrete details that I'm in the process of learning, such as a new part of a codebase, a new library, a new API, etc. I can't delegate that kind of work to my subconscious, because my subconscious isn't going to read documentation and write exploratory code. But my brain keeps whispering, "You're stuck. Take a break."

Because of this, I love the "go before you're ready" aspect of doing Pomodoros.
We need investments in rail infrastructure to take trucks off the road and to improve safety and to keep goods moving.

For some reason, our railroad are privately owned rather than owned by the states or the fed.
This post raises a question I'm curious about: is executive pay higher or lower in private firms compared to ones that are public? Adjusting for confounding factors like size and sector.