skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> secret: You don't need to care. you really don't.

Instagram and Reddit were my time sinks and I felt it getting progressively worse, leaving "cold Turkey" after a week this was the exact sentiment I felt, "I really don't care". The FOMO is manufactured by the apps by design but it really is such a ridiculous thing in hindsight.
But not too senior, or you'll be almost completely ignored.
"please, educate yourself" crowd, eh?
ER won't be the first people to be replaced. Very likely the first ones to go would be people who do the lowest of menial jobs and then they will build from there.
I'd rather collect $14 an hour on unemployment than earn $18 exacerbating the ageism I'll face when the market picks up.
New socket and new DDR standard teething, mostly, probably. Granted Intel seems to be doing a much better job with DDR5, so there's no excuse really for AMD.

For best results on AM5 prefer two-DIMM (1DPC) configurations, DDR5-6000 kits with EXPO, and avoid the Samsung B-die stuff (e.g. G.SKILL FlareX 36-36-36). If that's too complicated or whatever I would suggest waiting for Ryzen 9000 and the next wave of AM5 boards where this should all be ironed out, or go with Intel LGA1700 this generation.

Personally I am waiting for 64GB DDR5 UDIMMs and stable four-DIMM (2DPC) configurations before I can even contemplate upgrading from AM4. And since I'm already waiting I also want to see a faster chipset link (B650/X670 are still just PCIe Gen4 x4) and TB5 on my next board.
This is insulting my 30 years life in developing countries. My country was poor, everybody was biking.

I dreamt of leaving that country and could drive my own car.
There was a brief window where AltaVista improved and I went back to it after being Google since 98. Probably only for a few months. I often preferred the query hints you could give it to get very specific output. No matter, they went out of business.

The turning point that brought me fulltime to Google from then on (until recently switching to Kagi) was when they started having almost live results. It's hard to remember or imagine but search indices were often days, weeks out of sync for critical things like news, etc and Google was really the first to fix that.
World’s largest EV battery maker set to cut costs in half by mid 2024
I don’t know if I’d call it “inexorable forces of nature” as much as economic financialization and industry consolidation run amok.
The Place to Buy Kurt Cobain's Sweater and Truman Capote's Ashes
Socialism?

The current transportation system is largely through taxes and no not gas taxes. The way it works is that gas taxes and Federal funds are used to pay for interstates, arterials, and collector roads in almost every state and MSA in the US (pretty much any municipality big enough to apply for transportation grants.) The Federal government then helps fund road construction while states and consequently cities take the maintenance burden on. Maintenance itself is paid for through a combination of gas and state taxes along with Federal grants which are also based on other taxes.

The current system is already largely funded through taxation. It's just a matter of whether you think those taxes should be spent on creating and maintaining roads or whether you think they should be spent on transit. The closest to use taxes we have is the gas tax and the Federal one hasn't been raised since 1993 (state taxes differ per state and have been raised more recently.)

If you really want to move away from "socialism" or whatever, then make infrastructure toll based in the US. You'll find though that toll roads are highly unpopular.
I use a tool called Scholars

https://www.scholars.io

Let you import and read PDF directly, annotate, comment and share with people.
So you actual critique over the chart provided and the claims made therein, rather than your ad hominem?

I don't care who it was. Are the claims verifiable, and are the derived claims defensible?
They could really only do that as long as zero interest rates and relative wages permitted. Frankly I think they made luxury EVs to justify the battery costs early in the production.

The automotive industry is known for bad margins. Interest rates go up, willingness to pay for large ticket items goes down. We won’t see anything like 0 percent rates for possibly 100 years.

One interesting outcome: near shoring of production drives local labor wages up for the long, permanent term. Maybe more in India/Mexico than the US, but still significant. And better for all than the past.
Check at 2024 Feb 08 09:54:00 (am) CST. I definitely didn't confabulate the memory because the initial conversation about it (with others) is in my IRC logs. Sorry I don't have any screenshots of my own. Perhaps it was A/B testing or something.
Only in a hand-wavy roughly analogous kind of way. The devil is in the details. We are just not evolved for an environment like space:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_of_spaceflight_on_the....

Even with air and food and shielded from the vast majority of radiation, space is just not great for human comfort or mid to long term survival.
Sigh. So yet another rewrite, which will result in yet another round of regressions. Hopefully, at the end of it we will have something better than yet another unofficial driver with partial functionality that lags behind in support for newer hardware.

It's a real shame that many things in Linux land are so badly designed/maintained that they have to be re-written from scratch every few years. The major exception being the base kernel itself I suppose.
Thanks for the correction! That's interesting.
Dijkstra was interested in defining program semantics using predicate transformers. It’s rather difficult to define useful semantics that way when unrestricted goto is available, so he preferred to avoid the difficulties it creates. It’s important to understand though that his objection was not stylistic, but mathematical. He was a trained mathematician who through circumstance found himself programming computers and he always had that perspective.

Incidentally, predicate transformer semantics are used to reason about imperative programs in an expressly functional mathematical way. They really are quite interesting. They’re also getting a bit more exposure thanks to modern theorem provers like Z3 and languages like Dafny.
Ask HN: What future is there for data science?
I’ve slowly become disillusioned with data science after working in the field since grad school, and it seems like this is a common sentiment that’s not shared by other roles in tech companies, like SWE. In short, it seems like data science roles I’ve had are basically more about providing some psychological comfort in the form of numbers as opposed to doing anything scientific (STEM PhD, so I basically was trained to be as scientific as possible throughout my academic career). Anything complicated or rigorous or isn’t immediately obvious will have a hard time getting “buy-in” so ultimately I’ve realized the best way to do anything is to throw out everything I’ve ever liked or appreciated about statistics and keep things as simple as possible (which makes me wonder why I was ever hired in the first place). While the pay is nice, I’m seriously considering leaving altogether. Is anyone else in this position? If so, where are you looking to leave toward?
> "NOISY FROM WHAT?"

More of this, it's fun - when you don't live there: trams running on insanely poorly designed, or maintained tracks, trams running on extremely squeally wheels (see design, maintenance), sirens (running on overtime and at full strength, see screaming people), preachers (see screaming people :-), protests (The birds aren't real!), drummers, motorcycles ("Harleys"), dirt bikes (kids). In San Francisco, cars are the well behaved and quiet group in there.
Since a thermal printer only needs as much pressure on the platen roller as required to keep the paper registered, the roller itself could be hollow and thus carry negligible inertia. The print head could be net neutral by operating boustrophedonically, which many printers already do - both of my inkjets, for example! - and that might actually count for more, considering the possible need for some thermal mass to dissipate waste heat from the printing elements. (I don't think modern thermal printers need that, but I suppose in the 80s they might have.) Worst case, the firmware might need to ensure the number of head passes is even, I think most simply by counting print passes and if needed performing a final "return" pass with a cold head - again a common behavior, and one also displayed by both my inkjets since that avoids the need for a parking station on either side of the paper path.

The line printer with its heavy drum would probably be more of a concern for the Shuttle, although I doubt a significant one. Reaction wheels function by change in angular momentum, and a line printer drum spins at a fixed rate in operation; as long as spinup and spindown take about the same time, which is easy enough to achieve, the net effect on attitude should be negligible, especially considering the entire printer constitutes only about 1/3000 of the orbiter's dry mass.

You might not want to run the thing during an OMS burn, but even if you did I doubt it'd matter; assuming constant thrust from spinup through spindown, your course would be displaced proportionally to the length of the print job, but given the minimal relative inertia and that line printers typically output in the tens of hundreds of lines per second I think it'd need quite a long job to make a noticeable difference, and you'd almost certainly run out of paper long before.

(Don't take any of this too seriously; I'm the wrong kind of engineer to give authoritative answers here, but the question is fun to think about anyway.)
If you're talking 'destroying homes', consider how many neighborhoods have been torn down in their entirety to build city highway interchanges.
Yeah game/simulator control by neural interface is old news (and has been demonstrated with non-invasive interfaces.)

[2015] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/paralyzed-woman-op...

[2013] With a non-invasive interface: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-2560/10/4/04...

[2011] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

[2010] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20876032/
This is exactly what it is. With the added issue that, in all likelihood, $8B is not even enough to start making a change. The US gov would have a better time giving these $8B to startup companies in the chip space. Intel will just squander this money and give some of it to shareholders.
People should know, Mermaid and Mermaid Chart are not the same thing. Mermaid is just the JS library. Mermaid Chart is a diagramming tool built on top of it.

https://mermaid.js.org/
https://www.mermaidchart.com/
> Virtually no one is seeing 19% annual price appreciation on their home.

What?

Issaquah Washington, 88.2% this year, from $625K in 2019 to $1.36M this year.

Kirkland Washington, 56% this year, from $700K in 2019 to $1.4M this year.

Inglewood Washington, 43% this year, from $676K in 2019 to $1.3M this year.

just from a few moments of quick digging and looking in one census tract.
US vehicle margins are in steep decline, and competition is fierce. Sorry but your comment is in opposition to reality. Any company who could do what you say, produce good cars cheaply, would be an instant hit.
Does this affect everyone there? Google maps on people's phones etc?
Nice smooth exponential curve, debt held by public as percentage of GDP through 2053.[1] During the GFC, the projections always flattened over the long term. There's no longer even a pretense of plans to normalize. We've lived for a long time in the "no serious consequences" regime; this set of projections seems different.

[1] https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59711
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expe...

US seems not to be the best place for becoming old.
Is this similar to saying that people who did not do well in school are unlikely to do well in life? (Things like time management, focus, dedication will make you a good student).
Yikes. I think my local Dunkin’ Donuts is paying $16+.
Heck, kids over 40 are unhappy too. I think there was a study done that said unhappiness starts to grow once you're 19, up until you're 50, then you start becoming happy again.
Canada’s problems are almost entirely from their refusal to curb real estate speculation and build housing people can afford. This is also a fairly new problem, so that it’s painted as intractable seems bizarre. I would also add that most of Canada’s problems with real estate speculation have made their way south of the border, where things are only about 30% less bad.
Glad the author ended with they can be better together. Generally a good piece worth reading.

I'd add that Agents are becoming another piller. They can take actions both inside and outside the system. For outside, you can think of a code assistant using an interpreter, or flights querying a database. For inside, most systems are becoming more sophisticated. You might need to decide what data set to RAG with or ask if the system should try again or refine. There's also the Mixture of Experts (ensembles generally), CoT, ToT, and more to come.

The symphony is getting really complex! Truly an exciting time to be working in this field.
Increasingly unless I'm on the go or I need it on to receive a delivery or something, I just turn the damn thing off. Most OTPs I have sent to a Google Voice number so I don't need my phone for those.

I lived without a smartphone back before they were invented, it was fine. Life was better in many ways. 4.5 hours of daily phone time is down to less than 90 minutes a day now and life is better in every way because of it.
To save you a click: “ However, the particles in Braid don't affect gameplay in any way;
they're just cosmetic. ” so he used deterministic functions.

So pretty much exactly what you would expect someone to do.

But he got to get his clicks somehow!
> And Civ 6 is way more complex to operate compared to chess. I assume that’s not mouse driven.

Civ 6 is drivable completely with the mouse, and other than editing gold amounts in trade offers a little more quickly there’s not much reason to use anything but a mouse for it.
I’m really not wild about buying a Xiaomi laptop (even though my understanding is Xiaomis stuff is all well engineered etc). People will point to the NSA doing shit but I have fairly little faith in Xiaomi devices (especially ones heading towards foreign addresses) not having nasty secret backdoors.

There is a bit of a qualitative distinction between the Lenovo backdoor stuff and that. But that’s just my personal threat model
> There’s a reason they go at businesses instead of rest areas.

With a few grandfathered exceptions, rest areas are prohibited from hosting private enterprise.
Weekly Scroll: A Pile of Nonsense
How much was the gaming laptop itself though? I’m sure you can make this work of course, just curious about the base machine price
Speaker Grills of the World
I preferred his own explanation, to be perfectly honest.
Yes, they have just forced China to make their own chips, and they will make them cheaper and in higher volume than anyone can do...
Go live in a city like Milwaukee then? 85% of the land area of Wisconsin has less than 100 people per square mile - it isn't clear to me at all how even the richest society could blanket that area with useful public transit.
Ridiculous how easy Asturiano makes it to say "3d? Ah go on then, why not."
Reportaron en la madrugada disparos cerca de la FGE Zona Centro
Republicans want to cut funding to programs, then point at how bad the underfunded program is doing, thus demanding more cuts. Either the result is the department is killed, or is on a shoestring budget and everyone hates them. Many were welcomed departments doing good works. People eventually tire of chronically underfunded gov depts, and vote the other side.

Democrats want more taxes, which inevitable come from middle class, not being able to get it from the poor or rich. Then they set laws in those programs as "means testing", where the poor get the benefits, and the middle class doesn't. The rich never needed it. The middle class tire of paying for everything and getting nothing, and vote the other side.

And, that pendulum swings back and forth.

And that's how we get this horrible ass-backward system we have. And going back to first principles and doing is right is "against the other side!".
Python dev to work on what? ;)
I am not sure.
Yeltsin was “our guy”. He was feted by us, he even addressed the congress, etc. Until he was not when he refused to deliver Russia on a plate.

Guys that are not “our guys” never win a legitimate election. Remember how integrity of elections were questioned when a guy that is not our guy won an election in 2016?
Great to see FreeCAD growing!

A few months ago after a tweet about open source CAD got way more traction than I would have expected, I started a discussion board using github's discussion feature to document some analysis of the open source CAD landscape and how best to achieve a professional-ready open source CAD system.

I did a fair amount of digging in to all the possible options, and ultimately came to the conclusion that FreeCAD and the fork by Ondsel are our best hope of good open source CAD for professional users.

If you are curious, take a look at the discussions and reasoning, captured here on that discussion board:

https://github.com/tlalexander/open-cad-foundation/discussio...
If anything his weakness is being too optimistic. Oh no, he started a self-driving company and didn't achieve level 5. Oh no, he set out to fix AMD GPUs and ran into roadblocks that aren't his fault. So mid!
Related:

Quasiparticles:

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

Spin Textures:

https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S03701573203035...

Google image search: "Quasiparticle Spin Textures":

https://www.google.com/search?q=quasiparticle+spin+textures&...

Beyond skyrmions: Review and perspectives of alternative magnetic quasiparticles:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037015732...
As someone who’s lived in Japan, immensely enjoys its train system, and wants to see an equivalent established in the US…

Unfortunately, I don’t see a way for it to happen in a timely manner. Even if everybody dropped everything and started working on public rail tomorrow, with all the red tape, obstruction from a variety of parties, and general glacial nature of construction here it’d be an uphill struggle to get even a quarter of the country’s populated regions thoroughly covered with rail in the next 50 years.

If given the chance I’ll vote for implementation of public rail and am happy to fund it with my taxes, but I think electric cars are unavoidable in the interim. It’s better than continuing to burn fossil fuels that whole time.
There was a semi-arbitrary building height adopted during the Haussmannian reorganization in Paris. My feeling is people noticed it led to perfectly liveable blocks. (Most places go a bit higher than this by now but Paris is strongly attached to the "roofs of Paris" and actively protects them. So Paris is a mix of Haussmannian building heights and higher.)

In the 50es through 70es, there was a strong need for extra housing which led to the projects outside Paris ("citées"), to many factories torn down to make space, but also to much higher residential buildings here and there. Still worked fine (well, not many of the citées worked fine).

And people really, but REALLY love being able to walk to their preferred local baker and pastry shop (out of a choice of several of course), and to the local grocery store. The density has to be high enough to support these.

Turns out, high density also allows a great subway system. Nobody complains that it exists.
I know precisely zero people who know how to change the OS's language settings, assuming they weren't already knowledgable with computers.
The cover artwork of the D&D manual Deities & Demigods is a core memory of my early teens. I poured over the writings and studied the black and white line art found within countless times.

I came to Pool of Radiance later and was completely enchanted.

RIP James M. Ward. Your work had an impact on me and hundreds of thousands if not millions of others.
Applying mathematics to natural phenomena isn't physics, it's science.
M. Emmet Walsh, Actor from 'Blood Simple' and 'Blade Runner,' Dies at 88
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I don't think keeping sockets open waiting for incoming data have big impact on battery usage because there is no data transmission at that moment so radio shouldn't consume much energy in stand-by mode.

I use K9-Mail app for email working 24h a day, it has multiple accounts on different IMAP4 servers. You know, IMAP requires one keep-alive socket per subscribed folder and I have no problem with battery usage.
Marginal improvement? The gas tax is my state is relatively high at $.50/gal. If I have to pay that back directly to the state we’re still looking at like $12 vs $70 to charge a battery vs fill a gas tank. On top of that take away most of the engine maintenance costs and you’re coming out way ahead.
Current best answer seem to be Mastodon and Bluesky.

If we are going by the number of users, Facebook has more users than Twitter and Threads has about the same order of magnitude, but we still see a lot more Twitter submissions to HN compared to Facebook and Threads[1].

If users prefer the microblog format, Mastodon and Bluesky appear to be the most compelling alternatives, both have been steadily gaining users[2].

[1] Submissions from various sites:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=twitter.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=threads.net

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=facebook.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=bsky.app

Not sure how we can find the number of Mastodon links since it has so many domains.

[2] Mastodon and Bluesky user counts:

https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount/11213120632905851...

https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3klzrudt4uk2z

https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3kkv3clm3su2h
Improving car technology is good, but it cannot solve the fundamental problem of geometry. Cars just need a lot of space to store and drive.

There are mode of transportation that are lower impact on the environment such as the humble bicycle.
I mean sure, but when people think "weather forecast" they usually think "forecast based on current/recent conditions" not "forecast based on conditions at least one year prior".
another morbidly timed passing away. This year was also the 40th anniversary of the Dragonball franchise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._Emmet_Walsh

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001826/
Why do you say “5/6”? its an open-source clone of 5, and the Readme notes that given the time it took them to get done with 5 (i.e., not yet, as the base mechanics are only “mostly done” and there’s a bunch of stuff from the expansions still to do), implementing Civ 6 mechanics is an express “won’t-do”.
Altium is sufficiently good [1] though that for a personal license, you don't really need the yearly updates (which are mainly focused on their core business of large companies anyway). Source: bought permanent license, haven't update it.

[1] for example it has a built-in field solver for diff-pair impedance, not the approximations that vary from online tool to online tool
Does their political philosophy category make their argument more or less legitimate in some way?