skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Last-mile delivery vans are a pretty good use-case for EVs; they're relatively cheap from a capital perspective (they don't need huge batteries; they are not typically travelling hundreds of km/day) and they're way, way cheaper to fuel.
I started hockey last year. When I started I looked like Bambi learning to walk. Now I am at the point where I can hold my own in a game, I even scored a goal out last game!

Learning to skate is amazing. Once the motions start to “click” and you can start flying around the ice it is so much fun. Wearing full hockey pads makes the learning process a little easier on the body. Falls on the ice hurt!
> People failing with golden parachutes, and others failing upwards into even more lucrative roles. I think that's the thing that is eating away at the core of our society

And it's not just "people" in general. It's certain people: It's people beyond a certain tipping point in their careers.

If I, as a low level worker bee fail in my job, to the point where I need to leave, I just leave and jump back into Resume Thunderdome to fight for the privilege of doing another 11 round interview nightmare full of code challenges and take home tests.

If my first level manager fails and leaves, he might have a bit of a tough time too, maybe a little easier since he has that all-important "manager experience" that unlocks many doors in silicon valley that are shut to me.

On the opposite side, if anyone in my company who is SVP and up fails spectacularly, they are 100% leaving with an exit bonus of $millions and are probably getting a title bump in their next job: a job that is literally sitting there waiting for them to take, no job application needed.

I visualize it as a hill. At my level, when you leave the company and let go of the rock, it rolls down and to the left, back into Thunderdome. Past a certain crest in the hill, which we'll call "Director," the rock rolls down and to the right when you fail, and you get better and better positions.

People easily see this exclusive club and yea it's demotivating as hell, and eats away at the idea that the world is just, fair, egalitarian. It's certainly corrosive to society.
"the number 5 is the number 5" isn't so much invariant as axiomatic.
I think Apple was out of touch releasing such an expensive product with such niche use cases in the current times. If they wanted us to become early adopters and proof-of-concept testers, they should've subsidized the cost, to grow the market while working on improving the device.
Thanks for responding. That'll teach me to skim-read while I'm on a meeting so can't give it my full attention.
It's admittedly less common, but also in Chinese lots of characters have multiple pronunciations. Sometimes they are associated with different meanings. Even if the other pronunciation is just considered formal or poetic, it can carry a different shade of meaning.
1. Are there any practical/real life applications for Game of Life?

2. Has any discovery made in life been used in real life or any practical application?
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for programming there is a lot of action on Lemmy. not much else doin on there, though.
He has since stated fixed geometry models are not sufficient and has moved on to graphs.
A first gen, $4K (minimum) piece of equipment didn’t live up to its hype.

Who could have predicted this?!

It’s a good looking piece of tech, but unfortunately like the rest of the Apple ecosystem. It’s locked down. It’s out of reach (price wise) for most people. The mandatory App Store from a user perspective is dead to me.

Repair process looks painful.

Facebook and Apple need to change their shit up. Open up the ecosystem. Let users load up their own OS/Apps. Stop tying it down to your locked down ecosystems and warranty programs. Give us root, build schematics, and let us build.

Stop abusing your users and developers.
Total Wines and More, BevMo etc. usually have it, but it really depends on which neighborhood store stocks it. Search online and get it shipped!
I think you meant WWIII, but it does bring up another interesting possibility—WWII could be seen as the release of pressure which had been building, in some sense inevitable. If we were only slightly less belligerent as a species, we might have been able to put it off until nukes were invented, and what a mess that would have been. If we were only slightly more belligerent, we could have blown ourselves up in the Cold War. Of course, belligerence isn’t a tunable parameter that you can tweak without changing all of history, but it is funny to think that we just happened to land right in the sweet spot.
Not sure if the irony is lost on you, but this is a zero sum game. For every bit of research one posts against it, there are at least equally as many FOR it. Nobody can win.

> But these wipes contain plastic

Thames should know better that not all of them do, for example Cottonelle.

Most wipes accumulating in wastewater and sewers are baby wipes, hard-surface cleaning wipes or other wipes NOT designed to be nor marketed as flushable. The people running these operations do not have the knowledge or equipment to test which exact manufacturer's product line caused a problem beyond a reasonable doubt.

https://www.charlestonwater.com/DocumentCenter/View/2120/Wip...

https://charlestonwater.com/civicalerts.aspx?aid=222

> Charleston Water System (CWS) settled its class action lawsuit against all remaining defendant wipe manufacturers and retailers. This ensures that nearly all flushable wipes available to consumers across the country will truly be flushable and that packaging for all non-flushable wipes will clearly indicate they should not be flushed.
I've never had a case where I didn't know the reason or mechanism by which an element would be hidden. In my code, I use the `hidden` property. In that case it simplifies from

$(el).is(':hidden')

to

el.hidden

It's not quite as succint as your jquery, but you also could have written this.

document.querySelectorAll(".alert").forEach(el => el.hidden = false);

Is it less imperative? I mean I guess it doesn't have an explicit loop, but I don't really see why that's good or bad.
I think one additional point to consider when adding it as a new display mode vs re-using grid, is that currently these demo's fallback quite nicely now when it's re-using grid. Instead of showing it as masonry (since my browser doesn't support it), it at least behaves as a grid. If it's a new display: X property, it will fallback to div behavior with the content all over the place in unsupported browsers.
I'm a hater of rust because of cargo and cargo - while it makes getting started easier, it is one of several opinions rust forces on me that are not compatible with my current code and so it make it more difficult to figure out how to incrementally start using rust in my code base. For small greenfields projects it is nice, but I'm not in that world and rust is fighting me.
I think you dedicate your time to being an effective politician within the organisation rather than whatever it is you're actually meant to do.
I happen to live rather close to a large(?) Amazon fulfillment center they just built a few years ago. Our electricity isn’t very expensive either, though it’s not what hydro areas pay.

I don’t know if we’re a test site or it was just easy to get the power installed or what. Perhaps being a new facility meant they just needed new vehicles anyway so it made sense to not buy gas.

But once they started appearing they kept getting more common.
There is an article called "The man that killed X" for every X.
AWS was built from the start to be a sold product, whereas it sounds like this massive charging network is purely internal. Seems like a very big difference between wiring up your warehouse lots for charging, versus building power infrastructure across the country.
Isn't DNA in itself a machine of dubious abilities? It's only functional because what functions is what survives, imagine the amount of 'unsurvived' because of how shit the code is.
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I would also like to print out:

> And if it helps, he made it Over fifty years later and nobody thinks about nuking the moon very often anymore. Good job, Sagan.

Mission failed, I am now thinking about nuking. A lot. Makes me wish I was a senior DoE officer in the 50s when you could nuke stuff to see what happened when stuff got nuked.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40134716
Yeah in 2019 Typescript was already the clear winner, no contest
I’m not sure about the UK but several minutes of frustrated googling only shows offerings for amazons gig delivery program called flex, vaguely ironically.
Threadreader:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1782656618015904103.html?...

Archives:

https://archive.ph/rpFft

https://web.archive.org/web/20240423175847/https://threadrea...
Ok, but no IBM PCs shipped with an 8086 processor. Maybe you mean an upgraded clone, or the 286?, which was a significant leap.

Wikipedia says the first line of PCs maxed out at 256k of RAM. Except on expansion card. Not until the XT did it support 640k on board.

Also, importantly I meant 8088 above! Not easy to stay accurate after all these years, right? We were reading Petzold's Code recently and it goes on and on about the 8080, and so believe that made its way into my writing.
It worked FF/Android for me, but it froze for a second every so often.
I'm not sure what you mean. There are obviously CPS schools with exceptional outcomes. I don't think anyone seriously believes that you can't do better than diocesan schools anywhere in CPS. This reads more like a dunk than analysis.
Nice article, but if I were writing it[1] I'd list having subjects, topics, and objects as first class nouns in sentences rather than just subjects and objects of sentences as a big fascinating difference from what I was used to[2]. And also the role of timing[3] in pronunciation with cases like Yuki being a common girl's name meaning "snow" and Yuuki being a less common boy's name meaning "courage" distinguished only by how long you hold the first vowel.

[1] My Japanese is terrible and I couldn't come close to writing it, but lets leave that aside.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic_and_comment

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mora_(linguistics)#Japanese
Oof! You were going so well .
It’s a dev kit.
> subsidized the cost

This isn’t Amazon. There is no 10 or 20 year vision. These Fortune 500 companies only have visions that last a couple of years, and in some cases a few quarters.
Me too, and it's today's digital age, where information is readily available online
They haven't (eaten the world etc). They just happen to be the models that trend hard right now. I bet if you could compare like for like you'd be able to see some improvement in performance from Transformers, but that 'd be extremely hard to separate from the expected improvement from the constantly increasing amounts of data and compute. For example, you could, today, train a much bigger and deeper Multi-Layered Perceptron than you could thirty years ago, but nodoy is trying because that's so 1990's, and in any case they have the data and compute to train much bigger, much more inefficient (contrary to what you say if I got that right) architectures.

Wait a few years and the Next Big Thing in AI will come along, hot on the heels of the next generation of GPUs, or tensor units or whatever the hardware industry can cook up to sell shovels for the gold rush. By then, Transfomers will have hit the plateau of diminishing returns, there'll be gold in them there other hills and nobody would talk of LLMs anymore because that's so 2020s. We've been there so many times before.
What's there to investigate? "Actively disrupted" is impossible to define. Google may consider it a disruption if you are organizing a protest, even if not participating in it, or if the protest hasn't happened yet. An employee may feel like their peaceful sit-in didn't disrupt anything. Ultimately Google is the one making the decision.
I think I may have noticed the problem:

> Otherwise, it's compatible with literally anything

> and hence can explain nothing.

If I'm not mistaken, what you're referring to is the fundamental unknowability of certain things, and this state often causes the mind to hallucinate "facts" like the two above. "It is unknown, therefore it is a fact that anything is possible" is plain bad thinking, but paradoxically it is very popular thinking (thus: proper thinking), even among relatively smart people.

There must be something going on here that can "explain" (in a non-incorrect fashion) all of this, it seems unlikely that we've stumbled upon never before encountered phenomena.

> I mean, all technically plausible answers (maybe?), but not very useful if you're trying to understand anything. :-P

I too enjoy building simple strawmen and knocking them down:

"Science exists, and "is correct", and I believe in it, therefore my personal opinion of fact is factual in fact".

I wonder which of these two strawmen most closely matches actual conversations that can be found on the internet. I constantly hear stories about religious people saying incredibly silly things (over and above standard silly Normative Cognition), but I rarely ever encounter it in real life. What I describe in my strawman though (essentially: scientism, the ~religion of science, etc), it is extremely common on all social media platforms, ion TV, in the newspaper, etc.
$3500 before taxes or accessories to keep it safe
Who is going to pay you more for the puff piece journamalism than a multi-billionaire conman?

https://prospect.org/article/press-release-journamalism/
I never understood why CSS would not just adopt Apple's Autolayout and be done with it: I want to specify that this space should be equal to that space, these borders to grow, and those borders to shrink and this point always aligned to that point.

It is simple, intuitive, it works for all cases. Instead we are inventing, what, the fifth generation of CSS-layouting now? Does nobody think this is odd?
This is about as close as you'll ever get to a CEO actually admitting that doing layoffs for the sake of the short-term (lol as if that even needs to be stated) stock price actually had a negative business impact.

I once worked for a public company that panicked if it looked like the company wasn't going to meet its quarterly earnings projection. All the actions that the company took--layoffs, getting rid of contractors (also layofs), making employees take banked PTO--for this short-term benefit negatively affected the company's ability to meet its longer-term goals. It was infuriating.
Give me Daemon operative glasses and we can talk, but the Apple Helmet is not it.
> People failing with golden parachutes, and others failing upwards into even more lucrative roles.

I read stuff like this all the time, but this take is actually extremely reductive. (Otherwise, every moron out there would be making 7 figures, but they don't.) It's not as if these folks are utterly incompetent in their roles, but in fact they optimize for things you think don't matter (but actually do.) For example, if you can get a promotion just by knowing people, why would you optimize for building a better product, when you could optimize for getting a box and inviting C-execs at a football game?

To wit, sitting on a board is often "free money" and those positions are purely obtained by networking. Life is much more of a popularity contest than people (especially engineers) want to believe and EQ pays off much more than IQ does. We are, at the end of the day, social creatures.
I actually really enjoy mine, and having fun learning how to do iOS/VR development. That being said, until it can run MacOS apps I can't really replace my laptop (instead have to connect it to the AVP). Assuming that's a software limitation and not something that requires upgraded hardware I hope they plan to release that functionality soon
"I don't have anything to hide."

"Domestic abuse victims do. Or do you want their psycho ex's to find them and kill them?"
Low value + high cost is a tough sales even for a company with a pretty impressive brand quality. That said I am interested to see the third iteration and where that lands.
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Is there a market for a "simple" Google Glasses type product, to show alerts and overlays in a regular set of glasses?

For productivity, I could see replacing my Apple watch with a pair of Apple Glasses. Useful for alerts and basic data such as exercise stats and GPS overlays, etc.

Add a few buttons to the side of the glasses for core functions.

Is there no market for such a product, or is the tech for this still to primitive?
That doesn't address the frontlist/backlist question. A very successful book could easily sell less than 1,000 copies in the 52 weeks that occur 25 years after its initial publication.
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libraries remain valuable. They provide access to a wide range of resources to people who are not able to get it
and it very much IS an essential part of my confidence in this proof that conversations between me and Sky Wilshaw reveal that she understands my argument [and was able to point out errors and omissions in paper versions!]

human interaction helps create confidence. But the software is extremely reliable: a philosophical challenge based on bugs in theorem proving software just is not going to hold water.
> The harder point to prove, though I think it's true, that much of the pro-Palestinian rhetoric is as much anti-Israel, i.e anti-Semetic.

What? My view is totally different.

Most of the pro-Palestinian people intersect with the same anti-fascists under fire from newly pro-Israel people that previously criticized anti-fascists for punching Nazis.

When alt-right people defaced Jewish synagogues before this conflict I find the people arguing for it to be publicly acknowledged as a hate crime are the exact same people that are pro-Palestine now.
(The subtext here is that advances for midlist authors are not all that high, and for first time authors [or at least "non-celebrity" authors who don't have built-in audiences] substantially lower still).

I agree with you that not recouping tends to work to the benefit of both parties in the relationship.
Yeah, and I suspect at least a modest amount of my earnings came about because I got organizations I knew to organize book signings that they purchased books for.
For me, the key aspect is obligation. It's great to plan out some options, but if they become obligations it doesn't feel like a vacation.
Sorry to bring down the mood, but doesn't this mean that best case, in a decade, we can say there may be life? I feel like I've been hearing that my entire life. Shouldn't we drill into the ocean?
Imagine an AI learning from photos/videos of a person and their DNA sequence? And also a list of diseases, health records, etc. Then asking it for predictions while giving it feedback afterwards so it can tune itself.

You could even guarantee privacy. That would be some really useful data.
> The language of continuous functions is alien to most humans and it's very difficult to encode one's intuitive, common sense knowledge into a system using that language

In other words; machine learned models are octopus brains (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-mind-of-an-oc...) and that creeps you out. Fair enough, it creeps me out too, and we should honour our emotions — I'm no rationalist – but we should also be aware of the risks of confusing our emotional responses with reality.
You're absolutely right. Library budgets are typically a small fraction of government spending I think
You might not get the appeal of dbt because it is not meant for you. Dbt was made for data analyst who wanted the same engineering practices that software engineering teams have. The people who use it may have Python experience but they are not software engineers so dbt introduces concepts like testing and CI/CD to a group of people who don't historically use them.
Large discussion yesterday [0] (716 points, 200+ comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40117599
> If they could spend 3 times less by simply training developers to use Smalltalk instead, they'd be doing it.

No they wouldn't. While not bad long-term thinking, by the time developers are up to speed with Smalltalk and realizing three times the output, the competition using the ecosystem its developers already knew will have launched something and won over the customers. It doesn't matter how much software you can crank out after you've already lost.
> They could produce their 21-year-old younger sister, who has government ID (yeah, I know, that is a resort to government ID).

1. How would you verify that's actually their relative and not a friend or stranger?
2. How do you verify that they are in fact the older sibling and not just saying they are?
Jesse, what the hell are you talking about?

>cultural norms of "logic", etc

Your brain on logical relativism, I guess.
Is there a free version of SPARK? Proven correct code appeals to me, but I don't enjoy trying to get anything past purchasing.
Multi-monitor support might have made this worthwhile for professional / prosumer users.

But you can only have a single display in VR. My single oldschool physical display works way better. So this limitation makes it an expensive curiosity than a useful tool.
I'm pretty sure the drivers already gave consent to have their data disseminated and sold freely to third parties in the T&Cs they clicked through when setting up the navigation system. Of course this doesn't make it acceptable for GM to do this.
Wow, weird that $300B+ in revenue is just showing up in Google's bank account every year even without an active search engine.
If you were right and THAT was what users cared about AND acted accordingly, android would own the majority of the high-end phone market. It doesn’t.
> you cannot logically support both LGBT rights and Palestine.

You can support LGBTQ rights AND support Palestinian children not being killed by Israel.