skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some people have had serious lung damage due to vaping.

If that's a reference to a spate of "popcorn lung" cases of THC vapers, where it's suspected that the juice was laced with vitamin E, you might as well say that Tylenol is deadly because someone once spiked it with cyanide†. Don't put junk in the juice, regulate the ingredients. I'm saying this as a non-vaper and non-smoker, if it makes any difference.

†I know, I know, acetaminophen _is_ deadly is you overdose on it. That's not what I'm talking about here.
> But I think many people will be very uncomfortable with such motion very quickly.

Given the momentum in this space, I think you will have get very uncomfortable super quick about any of the shortcomings of any particular model.
Weirdly, being remote with a VERY geographically distributed team makes this easier. Meetings mostly need to fall into a fairly narrow range of time slots to be reasonable for everyone. That means almost all meetings land in a 2 hr time slot each day and the number than can be scheduled are limited so if it doesn't have to be a meeting, it isn't.
For renting apartments, it's just like this in NYC. But nothing like this in most of the country. I rented in Pittsburgh for a few years in college, and a suburb north of LA for a couple years after that, and the application documentation was much much less, pretty much just security deposit.

The issue in places like NYC (and some German cities like Berlin I gather) is that the extreme tenant protection laws mean that landlords have to go to extreme lengths to protect themselves from tenants. In NYC you could have a tenant not paying, damaging the property, and pushing out neighboring tenants, for well over a year before you can force them out, if they're ornery enough. It could kill your business, and it probably did kill the business of most landlords who didn't switch to extreme draconian documentation requirements in applications: multiple tax returns, multiple statements from all bank accounts, proof of employment, records of previous residences, contact info for previous landlords ...
How is this different from me getting one of my friends to work at Air Canada and promise me a billion dollars to cancel my flight?

Will Air Canada be legal for my friend going against company policy?
If the lack of humanities education is what allows us to create the most abundance of art in human history, was that education really worth it?
True, but while the 'best' chess is played by computers, few people care to watch Stockfish playing with itself. Meanwhile the human-powered chess world is enjoying a surge in popularity.
This will be huge. One of the biggest issues I had running an erlang system that moved lots of arbitrary sized, untrusted data through it in a parallel way was understanding what was going on in the process heaps and reference counted shared binary heap. Especially the shared heap since there's no way to set an upper bound on it, and when you exceed it the VM crashes.
Sora's Surreal Physics
As someone born and raised in Poland I can tell you that the Russians are universally hated by other Slavs.
We get along with Lithuanians, Belarusians, Ukrainians, Chechs, Slovaks, basically everyone except the Russians. The sentiment is widespread across central Europe. You can call it racism or xenophobia, I don't care. Putin is not one person, there's a whole nation behind him. Most people online seem to forget this.
your second point strikes at the crux: On the whole, the US sucks. At the top margin, it's the best in the world.
Hear me out: tunnels for cyclists. If tunnels are cheap, and I'm guessing small tunnels are cheaper than big tunnels, then we should have tunnels for cyclists - maybe even right under the sidewalks.
Concrete alone is 4-8% of global annual emissions, so I would imagine once you factor the carbon impact of destroying, hauling away the rubble, and then making, transporting new building materials, the net impact is not good. There is a reason why most cities are targeting retrofits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_concre...
I've seen that different teams have different priorities, and while emails do help avoid many meetings, there's nothing like an in-person meeting to coordinate efforts.

Also, the more your meeting goes beyong half an hour, the less fruitful it becomes. Half-hour meetings are the most productive, one-hour meetings are understandable, multi-hour meetings are dreadful.
The world is not ready for the kind of migration that a warming planet will drive. Think of the scale of social upheaval and conflict. Outside of the human cost, the economic repercussions will be immense. This is why most institutional investors are taking this very seriously. Follow the money indeed.
There is no capital gains tax - Germany has less progressive taxation than the United States! VAT in general is a regressive tax, that many EU countries inordinately rely on. A US-citizen has to pay taxes no matter where they reside, but the wealthier citizens of EU countries can easily evade taxes by domiciling themselves in various tax havens around the EU. Germany does a very poor job collecting taxes from the highest earners.
> That’s not open-source, it’s open core.

I'd argue its not even open core. Normally open core means a useful product that you can run/host end to end in an open manner, but where some features (normally enterprise features) are closed-source.

Not being able to run the back end at all?! I don't even know what I'd call that...
On demand CD, DVD, USB manufacturing
No, this is on par with what my friends in Germany pay for their family. The difference is Germans have nearly no deductible and there is little worry about in-network vs out-of-network treatments.
> then it's a management failure where the importance of this particular thing wasn't communicated or emphasized before and how the individuals' inputs matter.

Yes. And you can't fix those as an IC, so you just have to work around them. This is like complaining about the direction of the company and advising to fix the root cause of whatever corporate drama - not wrong, just not helpful or practical advice.

> why should it be any different in person aside from the fact they're performing for management.

There's many reasons why in-person is more effective:

- Fewer distractions

- More emotional investment in the discussion (the same dynamic where people are more polite in person, but less so on internet forums)

- More "skin in the game" by making more of an effort to show up
> It's fairly clear that Vim and Emacs _both_ lost the editor wars, and VSCode has come out on top.

Many (most?) Emacs enthusiasts don't use it primarily for SW development. VSCode simply isn't an alternative for their needs.

Make two lists:

- List of things you can do in VSCode that you can't in Emacs

- List of things you can do in Emacs that you can't in VSCode

The latter list will be 10-100x longer.
I currently use Tidal, though their player is not as polished as Spotify's is unfortunately. Still very usable, just a few bugs here and there.
Yes, maybe. I do think that the world has seen better days, but I‘m not the guy holding up the „The end is near“ sign at the next street corner. Not yet, anyway.
> vibrant AI hacker community that is alive and well, working very hard to build tools for the masses

it's not the tools that are the obstacles; it's the training data and training resources (why do you think OpenAI had to sell itself to Microsoft?)
> all your objections can be answered

I've been promised such many many times, and every single time the arguments have fallen hilariously short of the promise. For instance, the "Five Proofs" are basically a variation of the statement: I insist X has to exist, and X=God. The simple refutation is: Nope :). X can be reasoned about in other ways. Maybe I'll take a look at the other resources at some point, but my credence is low those will have any solid arguments either.

I often wonder why such arguments are taken so seriously. I've honestly tried to see if they have enough substance to make me change my mind. But each time I become more convinced religious arguments are simply wish fulfillment. Moreover, the word is God is so flexible that it's hard to pin down the exact thing people have in mind when discussing religion. And so it'll continue. As long as we live and let live without imposing viewpoints by force, that's okay!
The computer only does what they told it to.

What they told it to do was to behave very unpredictably. They shouldn’t have done that.
This all seems like an awfully pretentious way to say "I disagree with the founding fathers of the US. They lived a long time ago so they are obviously wrong, ammirite?" No, you're not right. Human nature hasn't changed in thousands of years, much less hundreds. While we might have better technology than they did, we're still just a bunch of monkeys trying to get along.
My daughter graduated with a degree in physics and astronomy, and then went to work for Epic (the medical record systems company). She has experience in Python from school, ancient stuff from Epic (related to MUMPS), and has been teaching herself C# and other technologies. She is thinking about more computer science education, on her own, with the aim of becoming a software engineer.

I'm not at all sure that's a wise decision, right now, especially with the glut of software engineers, with far more experience, being laid off by FAANG.

She's leaving EPIC, and taking a several months long road trip with her boyfriend, and will find a job when she comes off the road. She's a smart kid, she'll figure it out. I just don't think she will end up in software.
In America, when the two party system is criticized and people push for changes to the way we vote, we don't get put in prison or poisoned with nerve gas or radioactive tea.
Exactly. This is the real test and so far we simply do not know the answer. It's a nice first step but the headline is simply not justified. But whether solar power, wind power or cancer it's 99.99% of the time (possibly more nines) far less impressive by the time all of the data is in. And that's fine, but headline writers seem to be stuck in a hype cycle.
Part of the linked documentary inverviews the box/poster/etc artist, who had never worked on a computer game before.
It is highly doubtful that anyone in bubble-era Japan “lost” a piece of property. The rail companies in particular are keen, savvy property developers.

During the bubble, the Imperial Palace grounds had a higher real estate valuation than all of California.
Cigars are a lot of commitment and make me feel sick, though. Hitting a little under one dart a month after my designated club night is a real sweet spot
I've been testing out ActualBudget and was looking at setting up Firefly III but i understand that its a different type of solution to finance. I love the idea of personal finance and opensource vs having our information passed through 3rd parties.
I also often believe non-perfect things I do not like should be banned, regardless of whether the justification for that ban is epistemically sound.

But then I think about the law of unintended consequences (or from a more optimistic/fun angle, the perspective of "Optimal Gameplay"), like how the people I am inconveniencing while blindly maximizing my group's fine-grained personal enjoyment may seek revenge (consciously or otherwise) when the time arises where they happen to be the ones who hold power of any sort, such as the decision to comply with public health recommendations, as just one example among many, many thousands.

Sometimes my (or others, including those of The Experts) mind counters with attractive, rhetorical stories/memes to counter this approach, but I endeavour to apply critical consideration to those lest I mistake them for shared/primary reality.

I have no idea how well I perform at this, but my intuition is that it is better than if I did not try at all, which seems to be the default approach in our culture afaict.
I personally take an adversarial view on management because the large majority of the 'managers' I have had in the past were useless to the point of providing negative value, to both the technical and to the business side, so my views are colored by that fact. Not all of them of course, and they were the good ones. But most were just managers in name only.

A coasting employee may be a problem of the employee's making, but it is still a failure of management. If an employee isn't doing anything then you fire them. But it's still a failure of management because that wasn't fixed right away. And again, if someone doesn't know what they are doing (if that's truly the case why did you hire them, but that's another conversation), even async, a keen manager should be able to pick up on that and provide coaching, connections, or other resources--you know, actually 'manage' this person. Failing all that, then cut them loose. But it's still the manager's problem.
Interesting that the WWW gets only 2 pages, and is described as "a system that bears playing with".
For the uninitiated, or those who don't want to read the article, Findaway Voices is the pipeline for getting new audiobooks into Spotify. It connects authors with narrators and arranges for profit sharing or up-front payments.

Much like ACX with Audible.
Op took a break from the Navalny thread to post this article from 2017.
"xkdc 1:20,000" is totally wrong. It is not xkdc, it is xkcd, it is not 20,000, it is 10,000, and it is not a ratio, it is an absolute number. And it is not even about exclaiming commonly known facts but rather the opposite, that is people asking about facts that should be commonly known.

And yet, so many people understood the reference, me included, even ChatGPT got it. I always find it fascinating when a messages manages to pass well even though all of its individual parts are wrong.

Is there something deep about it, maybe? Probably not. Maybe we can turn that into some commonly known fact to tell the lucky ten thousand.
Somehow I just don't see the execs or managers being able to make this work well for them without help. Plus, documents still need to be generated. Are they going to be spending all day prompting LLMs?
> cancelling

I didn't cancel, I declined meetings. There is a very important difference.

> i'll add that there you can avoid making people mad at you by communicating why

I usually gave a reason, but when there was a large invite list, or no notice, I did not.

The one time I "got into trouble" was when I gave a reason: "I am declining this meeting because there is no agenda." My manager told me to just have him intervene instead of declining the meeting.
I don't generally watch youtube shorts but went down a rabbithole last week when I had insomnia.

fucked the algorithms for me, now youtube shows 95% of things I have no interest in.
This is pretty common in Denver. There are lots of pedestrian/bicycle-only tunnels under many main roads just in my area. They recently spent a few million dollars improving an intersection nearby, and in the process added another cyclist tunnel underneath. It makes me really happy to see the city prioritize cyclists.
There is some experimental work being done with SimpleFIN integration[1] for US banks but I can't comment on how well that works.

Personally, I add each transaction manually. It allows me to stay on top of my budget.

[1] https://github.com/actualbudget/actual/issues/2272
on what grounds ?
Lol there's a massive difference between a framework that generates javascript, a language which has existed for 30 years at this point, and a magic LLM that no one on earth understands the internals of.
A 10x improvement in efficiency and a 1000x increase in utilization would still mean 100x electricity usage. Is this a long term problem? Maybe!
Or you know, the impact of context switching on you and on most other engineers is not the same. But no, that's not possible, everyone is exactly just like you, they're all just whiners.
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I'm sorry, this is such nonsense. 1. We don't manipulate the globe, we abuse it. The simplest thing to do is stop emitting fossil fuel emissions. 2. Not one geo-engineering idea solves the core problem. It merely covers it up. 3. These ideas are not temporary nor are they reversible. The fact is we have no idea how to do what the crackpots are suggesting, it's just 'let's dim the sun'. Insane. 4. This is way beyond a single volcano. This implies we emit enough sulphur particles to significantly cool the planet down. Can you see a problem with that amount of material? We're going to combat emissions with more emissions. Absolutely brilliant idea. Nobel Prize winning.
You are strongly underestimating the stupidity of these people.

There is a reason for the saying “a conservative would let their leaders shit in their mouth as long as they thought a liberal might have to smell it”.

These people are highly conditioned to believe that them losing is actually a win so long as someone else is also losing and they STILL vote for it.

Thinking that losing even harder is going to sway these people is off base. They enjoy losing. They don’t care if they lost even harder.

Even when they recognize that they lost, which is a hugely rare occurrence (they’re not hurting the right people, for example), they just blame the left anyway.

Right wing politicians are on record stating “well why didn’t you stop us!? This is your fault!” When they shit blows up in everyone’s face.

We really need to stop projecting our morality on to these people. They do not care, and when they do care, it’s your fault, not theirs.
Then why is the crown facing the hand? It makes no sense.
Chatbots aren't people and people are actually separate legal entities responsible for their own actions.
We got a 1-2 hour weekly team meeting, and then just project-specific ones, usually with clients or other internal teams. So depending on how many projects are going on at once, that'll be 1-3 meetings per week typically, and they'll often be 15-30min, 1 hr tops.

Some weeks there might be more, some weeks I just have the team meeting. When there are more I try to get them to fall on the same days, so I still have some empty days left.

We tried using a daily standup but didn't find it productive, so we stopped.
The Acorn Archimedes (origin of the ARM CPU) version said "Goodnight all! Hope you've not been up all night!" when you quit.
As has been pointed ad nauseam by now, no one's suggesting that AI unlocks the ability to doctor images; they're suggesting that it makes it trivially easy for anyone, no matter how unskilled, to do so.

I really find this constant back and forth exhausting. It's always the same conversation: '(gen)AI makes it easy to create lots of fake news and disinformation etc.' --> 'but we've always been able to do that. have you not guys not heard of photoshop?' --> 'yes, but not on this scale this quickly. can you not see the difference?'

Anyway, my original point was simply to say that a lot of people have (rightly or wrongly) indeed taken photographic evidence seriously, even in the age of photographic manipulation (which as you point out, pretty much coincides with the age of photography itself).
> there would never be war in Europe again

Lol
Its amazing disruption is even relevant to the discussion at all. Cities should not be so brittle that having two lanes on a single road go down for a cut would make a dent. In reality they aren't, but people are emotional beasts, they don't want to have to detour their longstanding commute for reasons they don't see themselves benefiting from. So they dig in, and decide this couple block stretch of road surface is the hill I die on, and local politicians better be damn sure to listen because no one else votes in local elections but these emotionally driven pissed off people. The whole time the press is pandering to them with false equivalency two sides reporting, when really the story is often about suburban car driving wealthy people being mildly inconvenienced for maybe 20 months so that the working class can see a generational improvement in mobility, and this is somehow an unacceptable tradeoff to make because of the status of these people.
My take away from this is that Air Canada would rather fight a customer in court than suffer a few hundred dollar refund as the cost of figuring out they have a flaw in the consistency of their system. (And in the face of an extreme unlikelihood of winning against prevailing common sense, too.)
You're missing something. From the post:

> I don’t draw a salary, so the total amount I earned from TinyPilot in 2023 was $236k.

and

> Result: I worked 35-40 hours per week, a reduction from previous years, and traveled more than any previous year.

This is a person who is effectively full-time CEO of this business and whose market salary is likely at least $236k. If they sold the business, the new owners would have to pay someone else to put in those 35 hours.

Maybe the new owner could employ a less-skilled manager and pay them less, or maybe there's still lots of potential growth or room to cut costs, but that's all quite speculative: right now the business has a profit, and therefore a valuation, closer to zero.
Meta: I find it so hard to believe this comment thread is comprised of actual citizens/humans making these comments and not shills/bots intentionally manipulating the conversation.

I truly wish I had the ability to look into accounts and see their post history, connection history, see what accounts they have, see which accounts are upvoting and downvoting, see if this is actually organic conversation or to what degree it's all manipulated.

How insane is it to be at the point where we have no visibility into whether we're conversing with other people or are being completely manipulated? I don't know how society can move forwards like this. We need some sort of transparency.
No matter what the value of N is, someone always comes out of the woodwork to complain about it. It's a pretty common criticism of any study that relies on statistics, and one anyone can make in a few sentences.
>not everyone has good E-mail hygiene

This is so true at my workplace, thinking back. The folks with unreplied emails cluttering their inboxes are exactly who get pulled into meetings. It's basically an emergency handholding step to get them to actually do some work. The folks who clearly reach inbox zero once or twice a day, I honestly barely remember their faces because folks don't dare waste their time with meetings.
Ah — that makes sense.
GPU synchronization in Godot 4.3 is getting a major upgrade
We prioritize relationships a ton here and so I meet 1:1 with each of my peers in both teams (3) and each manager of both teams, so that’s 8 people per week.

The entire company has extensive amounts of 1:1s. Were in the mid 40’s of employee count.
>His name seems a bit European/Dutch to me.

We allow those sorts of names in the US.
Likely because the claim was considered to be within the reasonable expectations of real policy.
So unless you have a solid grasp of quantum mechanics and solid state physics, using any electronic device is frightening?
What you are describing is 1) fraud, 2) conspiracy, and 3) not a policy that a reasonable person would take at face value.

It is very different than if an employee were to, in writing, make a statement that a reasonable person would find reasonable.
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