skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or space seemed boring and empty because we didn't know much about it, where we knew even then that the ocean was teaming with life and mysteries and myths like Atlantis.
I don't understand. Is Taiwan or isn't Taiwan an independent country? If it isn't, then did we just declare war on China?
The average price difference between a 2 bedroom and a 1 is about $3000 annually. I'm guessing that one bedroom is probably enough for 2 desks.

An average couple will use about $5-$12k annually in terms of needing 2 cars, gas, maintenance etc not to mention spending collectively nearly 500 hours commuting over the course of the year.

Details matter for instance your commute may be very favorable or the cost of changing apartments very expensive if you already have a good deal but on average WFH is a financial gain and a pretty big one at that.
Aha, yes that would definitely tip it for Organic Maps if one isn’t driving.
According to quipu researchers, it's not easy when your rosetta stone is a gordian knot...
Since log(xy) = log(x) + log(y), you can simply calculate sum(log2(i) for i in range(1, 53)) :) might be a nicer formulation for when you don’t have arbitrary precision support.
Robotic tailors might not be close, but we can try on outfits digitally for form and fit, so part of it kind of exists.
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I grew up in an isolated location with a big drinking culture. As a youngster I wasn’t aware that there were places to move to without this problem. You could choose to avoid the drinking culture, but that was basically social suicide in both University and in Industry.
> Related[0][1] news:
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> Judge’s Ruling Sets Back Law Meant to Fight Money Laundering
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> "An Alabama judge barred the government from collecting certain company ownership data to help the Treasury Department identify money launderers, and called the effort a case of congressional overreach."
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> [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/03/us/politics/judge-ruling-...
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> [1] https://archive.is/6gOMl

I don't know why there has not been more uproar over this. By the end of the year over 33 million business owners in the US will be required to give FinCen identifying info including a photo ID for owners of 25% of their business. In addition those just filling out the application must do the same.
I have been creating print labels with plot/cut lines using css and I used browsers to covert it to PDF. The experience was terrible. While all was perfect on my 1-page proof print, both large browsers messed up the final document (with a few hundred labels on several pages).

Firefox forgot to render images after a few pages. So on some labels the barcodes were not printed.

Chrome looked good at the fist glance. But it turned out that the plot/cut lines (which I created via CSS borders) had been shifted by 1-2mm on _some_ pages. Result was garbage.

I finally switched to https://github.com/flyingsaucerproject/flyingsaucer which is a high quality HTML/CSS to PDF library. Only drawback is that it only supports CSS 2.1, so some fancy features are not supported like rotating text.
As a developer, I agree with this. Huang may play a marketing game here, but he’s right. “Coding” isn’t something humanity needs to do, because coding in textbooks and coding in reality are two different things. Our IRL coding is a bunch of self-inflicted and cheered complexity and an artificial barrier that secures the jobs. AI has a very good potential to distill coding back to the essence and then some more. Not the current AI, but 2024 isn’t the last year of humanity either. So coding isn’t dying, but coding as we know it should die anyway. Should have, long ago, but it’s so compelling to just stay in a comfort zone of being a software developer. He claims everyone will be a coder, and that I find realistic. Of course people incapable of even easiest levels of “STEM” will exist, but the bar will lower dramatically.
> that if the US produced enough domestically that imports could stop

Relevant to US shipyards, domestic oil can only supply domestic refineries if there's transport, and there's not enough oil carriers that satisfy the Jones act, because they need to be US built, US flagged, US owned, and US crewed. If the best way to transport the crude is by ocean, it's not going to be extracted and refined in the US; it only makes sense to do both in the US if crude is delivered by pipeline or rail. There's also issues with the grades of oil and how refineries are setup, but that's more tractable if there's supply.
The US position is deliberately ambiguous.
Alright, I just spent the entire day on greyscale yesterday to check.

I think that I suffered more eyestrain than usual, mostly because I could not tell icons and other UI elements apart. Yet I don't have this issue on the E-Ink device, interestingly, even though I use many of the same apps e.g. Telegram.

I would say that the difference is due to the reflective vs radiative screen, not the greyscale palette.
Permanently stationing our best and brightest looks anything but ambiguous though.
The torus demo is really neat. I think it's interesting how high frame rate changes the perception of blur. I'm using a 240 Hz display and on figure 5 I can't see the discrete circles until around 12 rad/s. And even at 40 rad/s I can't see any difference between the traditional and sine shutter options (in motion).

I highly recommend 240 Hz if only for the smoothness and low latency of mouse movements. A 60 Hz mouse pointer is really, really hard to go back to.
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I've seen a Florida snake swallow a 5ft alligator, it was a Python though and not an Anaconda: https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/5-foot-gator-found-in-st... ... I don't think it's the only one that has been found in Florida either (one busted out of the snake).
I think 5% seems low considering the pro-life stance. I have never heard a Christian say that ("all children must be adopted"), but I have heard that all abortions and IVF are against God.

The 5% might not be equally distributed by geography or race. Adoption "supply" might not match Adoption "demand".
or how Hollywood stole twenty years of "inspiration" from one man's mind. Hollywood is a sham, American creativity doesn't exist. the whole thing was a psyop
My department got called into the office last week. I assume it was for mandatory serendipitous communication. I did my best and struck up a conversation in our open plan office. I was shushed because half of the department was on the same zoom call and there wasn’t a meeting room big enough for them.

I still remember the office I was assigned as a graduate student. It was far nicer than any I had in private industry. It had a window with a view of the campus and I could actually lock the door.

The worst office experience I ever had was when I was rubbing elbows with my teammates and wearing noise canceling headphones the entire time. To get away from that gerbil in a cage claustrophobia, I took to walks in the parking garage which was the most humane space in the entire building.
In Crimea, people have not been able to access most western Cloud services since 2015. A bunch of places are geofenced.
A few of my favorite print styles, from my personal site:

h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,h7,h8 {break-after: avoid-page;}
img, svg, table, canvas {break-inside: avoid;}
a::after {content: " (" attr(href) ")";}

Explanation:

- Avoid printing section headers at the bottom of one page with the section content left headerless at the top of the next page.

- Prefer printing graphics and figures on whole pages instead of split across pages.

- Print out the URL of every hyperlink instead of having links only as useless underlined text.
There are credit unions with higher Zelle limits, nevermind actual ACH limits.

Switch to a credit union that values your business, they are much more motivated to hook you up with high ACH limits, and I've repeatedly seen them issue loans at rates well below market.
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Could you expand on this argument more? My first reaction was negative ("Why would the world be worse if more people felt safe sharing their feelings??") so I would like to hear more and challenge my assumptions.

For my part, I'll point to research that suppressing emotions increases risk of suicide[1] and that many more men die from suicide than women[2]. I'm willing to hear out an argument that the world would be worse if these tragic deaths hadn't happened but it requires extraordinary evidence and argumentation IMO.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5036455/

[2] https://afsp.org/suicide-statistics/
Huh. I just did that a few months ago without issues in Chrome and Firefox after a little tweaking. Perhaps it was related to how you centred it? The only issue I had was that in order to print it properly I needed the margins set as small as possible, and doing that operation in the chrome print preview was horribly slow (firefox was fine). And yeah, I put in cut lines too, and was printing ~50 pages.

No issues with image rendering in firefox.
That's a great clarification. I think you bring up a great point.
How I Live Now, by Meg Rossof, is a stellar novel. There are some really, really good books marketed as YA (Young Adult) (that's the term I know for what he's calling "middle-grade" - maybe that's new branding?), only because their protagonists are teenagers.
Taiwan is not, but China is.
Which China is ambiguous.
The area chrome has consistently failed horribly for me in is in tables spanning multiple pages. Firefox and the old IE engine were far more reliable at this. Chrome has improved a little in this regard lately, but will still routinely spill thead on top of tbody content when there is a page split.
No, not open source.
One my favorite gags from the early days of the pandemic was telling my coworkers that I left a cheesecake in the fridge, and they were all welcome to have some.
I was uploading images from Minotaure, the French surrealist magazine from the 1930s, into ChatGPT earlier so it could translate the French into English for me. As I do not read French and wanted to know what the articles said. It translated for me and opined on uploaded images of the artwork.

What a wonderful time to be alive.
You can't properly make a moving image sharp at a finite refresh rate (though you can approach it for sufficiently high ones), because the object can only move in a temporally juddered path, which doesn't match the eye's movement.
> A recent anime had a line "drinking is healing" meant that's where you let go of your worries and you heal relationships.

Which anime?
It’s funded by some anti-tech people/groups. They really don’t like Elon or Silicon Valley in general.

If anyone wants to dig more into that, there’s probably a decent exposé for someone’s Substack.
Obviously you worked in someone elses desktop wallpaper that they call you an "office". Real working places exist, they are different than what you describe.
No. These executive types fantasize about people in different teams or even different disciplines having these amazing chance encounters. You know: "major businesses are launched because Joe Executive had the foresight to put everyone in one room." I call it C-Suite Porn.
I primarily work with implementing high-level CUDA, which enjoys a lot of attention. My impression is that while breaking changes exist, they are worth the effort to port forward. I cannot tell you how they treat game designers, but my perspective is that it is unfortunately still way ahead of ROCm. I could see Nintendo making it work for the titles they deem strategically worthy.
«The Orinoco basin of the Amazon» ?!

This is a geographic mistake, the Orinoco river is not a tributary of the Amazon, it's an independent river and one of the biggest. According to wikipedia it is the third or fourth largest river in the world by discharge volume of water.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orinoco_Basin

«Its discharge is the third largest of any river worldwide, after the Amazon and the Congo»

Edit: change my wording about the journalist
> who do you yell at

That's what kids are for.

> cooking fish in the microwave down the hall

That's what in-laws are for.
We own both sides so the siting was by choice - the place is well insulated but having a more moderate ambient temperature outside, and having the windows shaded from the cold of space make a big difference.

As to the sunlight - while we don’t get any directly into the house for 2.5 months in the winter, the far side of the valley, which is practically barren, ends up brightly lit, bringing a lot of indirect light in.

Finally, for us, the summer is a killer - it can be over 40 for weeks on end, and the nights on the shadier side are much cooler, as we don’t have superheated rocks re-emitting IR, instead the canopy reflects and absorbs most of the solar irradiance. The daytime air will still be sweltering, but it doesn’t transfer heat anything like direct insolation. So the effect is more about the environment around the structure than the structure itself - although regarding the house the roof is exposed to the sky, as it’s heavily insulated and doesn’t matter, but the walls, which have a decent thermal mass being solid lumber, are always shaded, as are the windows, mostly through self-shading due to the orientation. Again, punishingly bright in there in the summer even without direct sunlight - most folks near us just eschew windows, or cover them with heavy shutters and so have no light and no view in the summer.
I love this project, but I find some of the UI decisions baffling.

For instance, as I add cities to my comparison, the colors of the cities I already have in the chart keep changing. Did anyone bother testing it, because that led to some serious confusion?
I left the city for the country and ended up clawing my way back in. Cities, especially dense, walkable ones, are wonderful. Better still if they remove cars.
Transcript:

https://lifearchitect.ai/sergey/
If you ask people in Taiwan, they will say they’re independent. If you ask China, they’ll say Taiwan belongs to China.

The short history version is basically like this: after the overthrowing of the last emperor and WW2, the Chinese civil war continued between the KMT political party and the Communist party. KMT basically lost and moved to which is Taiwan today and even the KMT now is no longer the controlling majority now (they have elections whereas mainland China does not).
This makes them perfect critics thoughs. They can code but ignore all our fuckery that seems nonsensical from both outside and inside. My vague estimate is that there’s at least 2-3 guys like this per “true” developer.
Where I live, the average difference between 1 bedroom and 2 bedrooms is about $12,000/year, which generally requires $20,000 pre-tax income.
Honestly the biggest dumb move was firing all the line workers before the automation was solved. Lesson: don't be a douchebag, figure out a way to make the people you're automating away whole (unless they actually sucked)
Awesome, thank you.

I don't think that h7 and h8 exist?! Are you sure this is necessary? And why no h1?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/He...
PG&E claims no connection between rate increases and $2.2B jump in earnings
People dedicated to working at home haven't worked in a good office.

That was: an office with a door, and a big open space where people from a kind but competitive group had free-wheeling discussions.

The main thing was that we together were shaping the product; if you convinced others, you could have an impact. And to convince others, you needed to do your homework (in your office).

So it's not really the office or the desk but the rhythm of coming up with an idea and seeing it take root in your peers (or not) -- the opportunity to contribute.

Nowadays, it's open desks or cubes and product managers, and any collective discussion is shot through with politics. When initiative is squelched and mutual respect is replaced by influence, the only thing to maximize is slack -- which makes working from home the absolute best.
That’s a fair point reusable containers are a great candidate for replacement with glass. You are right overall though we definitely seem to be polluting our environment with plastics that will never go away.
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This does not seem to be an issue with Observable (more an issue with d3 that it has not chosen to have copy-pastable examples elsewhere), but in any case this comment does not seem relevant to this post, as this post is precisely about how the new Observable Framework removes some of the earlier problems with Observable notebooks (“It’s all just standard JavaScript now—no custom syntax” etc).
Friend of mine grew up in Malaysia and they'd get snakes of this length. Once a giant snake crossed the road and took up the entire width of the road. Others have reported similar.

https://www.google.com/search?q=snake+as+wide+as+a+road

AFAICT, muscles scale with the size so there's no reason to assume that length would reduce its speed during an assault.
TIL about the Rømer and Réaumur temperature scales which are why Rankine is not just °R but °Ra. I guess everyone was doing it back then!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B8mer_scale
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Northern, in southern Europe.

It really depends - typically a slope facing away from the sun in the temperate zone will be more heavily forested - the sunward side can be too extreme in its variation for much beyond scrub to take hold. We chose our siting based on what was best for our environment, and on noticing how the forest didn’t frost in the winter, and kept green and lush on the floor in the summer, when all else was parched. Considerations around daylight etc., followed after choosing a site. The walls facing downhill and up/down the valley are practically all window - the bedrooms, which face the uphill slope, have small windows, which are still large by the standard for housing around us.
> A big problem for US shipbuilding is the Jones Act, which is so protectionist it's easier for the industry to flee the country entirely than deal with it. It's really harmful to our overseas areas like Hawaii and PR too.

In theory, protectionism should help the industry. The government has opened a niche for a US shipper and a US shipbuilder (or maybe a vertically integrated shipper and builder) to get mainland goods to Hawaii, PR and Alaska.

Doesn't seem like a wide enough niche to get much traction though. It's easier to simply not serve that shipping market.

And shipyards are hard to start. They've almost certainly got to be in environmentally sensitive areas, that are often pretty expensive real estate, and then you've got all the machinery and what not. Hard to get that done these days.
Thankfully, not an issue as of today. EF Core has client-side evaluation disabled by default. It was an enormous footgun in EF so to bring that behavior back you have to explicitly opt into it.
It’s been a few years but if I recall correctly the fact that there’s variation in the sampling itself makes the aliasing worse not better. At the very least should be no different.
I mean on multiple levels it's basically like "what if one of those started to talk to us"
Speaking as someone who is autistic and has significant hearing loss, open offices are a form of torture. It might sound like hyperbole, but I promise it's not!

I enjoy working in a team, but in more enclosed spaces. In my current job I share a room with two other people and it's just right (apart from when all of us are in remote meetings at the same time, but you win some and you lose some).
The US is more discreet in censoring models...
This was a reddit comment up until the

>gordian knot

substantive nerd-snipe.

"Reputedly, whoever could untie it would be destined to rule all of Asia. In 333 BC Alexander was challenged to untie the knot. Instead of untangling it laboriously as expected, he dramatically cut through it with his sword, thus exercising another form of mental genius. It is thus used as a metaphor for a seemingly intractable problem which is solved by exercising brute force...

Alexander the Great later went on to conquer Asia as far as the Indus and the Oxus, thus fulfilling the prophecy."[0]

[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordian_Knot
Yes, the US' ambiguity has been slipping a little bit of late, but it still compatible with their long-term held position. The US has consistently (over decades) both not recognized PRC sovereignty over Taiwan, while also not recognizing Taiwanese independence.

However, US actions have also been clear. In 1996, the US sailed a carrier battle group right down the straits when things get testy. The US has been selling weapons to Taiwan for decades. The US has enacted export limitations against one country, but not another.

Functionally, this action did not declare war on China. Yes, China leadership could find a way to stretch this into "war", but they also could have stretched any of the other things the US has recently done (including Biden straight up saying that the US would intervene if China invaded).
Your assertion was "price fixing doesnt work in real life".

I offer that if you get to fix prices for a good chunk of 40 years, and then still end up with 64% market share... it does work.

In the sense that your company will have made obscene amounts of money, by price fixing, while the above played out.

If your rebuttal is that in the end they lost market share, true. But they made enough money before that happened that it's still a win.