skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on where your stores are and how frugal the rest of your shopping is. My Trader Joes/Costco (five minutes away) is in an eight block shopping center with Best Buy, Home Depot, and a dozen other big box stores which I think is fairly common in America.

Between that and shopping for fresh meat and produce at ethnic markets that are all over the city, the vast majority of my shopping is amortized over staple groceries that I can’t or won’t buy online.
Really? Genuine question, which part? If there are too many to name, how about just one? It seems pretty good to me.
It's always fun to see "parent's point immediately proven in the replies" happen in the wild.
Did you go to college? If so you probably also learned from people with almost no training in teaching. Somehow every college professor in America teaches just fine without this supposedly crucial "training on how to teach."

I also hope you aren't learning online from people like Grant Sanderson (3Blue1Brown), Salman Khan (Khan Academy) who also have no formal training. Side note: I can't name a single popular online teacher that keeps from a typical teaching background.
They should be investing in reusable launch systems.
> there are no delivery fees either

Careful with that.

The delivery fees may not be explicit, but they definitely charge more for items at some stores, with Costco being one of the more egregious ones.
You are not the first person to think this thought. It is standard greenhouse gas inventory methodology. Quoting from Amazon's GHG report:

"""Transportation activities generate carbon emissions through the combustion of fossil fuels when vehicles are driven, the manufacturing of vehicles, and the supply chain for fuels. The emissions model for transportation covers emissions associated with “well-to-wheels” impacts (e.g.,extracting, refining, distributing, and consuming transportation fuels) and “vehicle” impacts (e.g., manufacturing, maintaining, and disposing of vehicles). These impacts are reported as emissions factors based on grams of CO₂e per kilometer basis."""
I have 5+ Apple TVs in 2 houses and have converted many family members over to Apple TVs. Not excited about buy a new Apple TV but the past features (4k) were reasons I’ve upgraded.
People have advanced that argument a lot, and it's often worked for a short while; then the statistical models get better.

Chess was a game for humans.

It was very briefly a game for humans and machines (Kasparov had a go at getting "Advanced Chess" off the ground as a competitive sport), but soon enough having a human in the team made the program worse.

But at least the evaluation functions were designed by humans, right? That lasted a remarkably long time; first Stockfish became the strongest engine in the world by using distributed hyperparameter search to tweak its piece-square tables, then AlphaZero came along and used a policy network + MCTS instead of alpha-beta search, then (with an assist from the Shogi community) Stockfish struck back with a completely learned evaluation function via NNUE.

So the last frontier of human expertise in chess is search heuristics, and that's going to fall too: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04494.

The common theme with all of this is that the stuff which we used before are, fundamentally, hacks to get around _not having enough compute_, but which make the system worse once you don't have to make those tradeoffs around inductive biases. Empirical evidence suggests that raw scaling has a long way to run yet.
> and you'll very quickly find that they will perform just as poorly as the public system

Has there even been enough time and experimentation to generate evidence for this? Do you have any sources you’re willing to share?

> As a bonus, you'll also find that the political support for vouchers will evaporate overnight

I find this to be really cynical, as if a better or more efficient alternative source of education cannot exist. Do you really think that a single public school system with no competition, the negatives of teachers unions, and a dismal track record has zero room to improve? To me these blanket attacks against private options are basically saying that no one can do better, which is not a view we would hold about most other things in our society. Choice and competition are inherently good.
Invoice Ninja license is even worse: https://github.com/invoiceninja/invoiceninja/blob/v5-stable/...
Google certainly delivered on 8 (now even 10) years of updates for Chromebooks.

And advertising n years of updates is legally binding in a way. Apple can stop updating tomorrow if they feel like it. Google can't.
Building Bluesky (Real-World Engineering Challenges)
The ones I listed.

I think the traditional standalone accounting software will be a thing of the past here after the implementation of the new accounting law.

Also cloud based accounting systems are probably easier to make money on.
What GPU do you use ?
Aren’t you losing money with that ?
Model 3 Performance Refreshed
> But why should a license be needed to open a repair shop, dealership, a factory, a nursery etc?

Govt wants to wet its beak. Some of these business categories have an entire government agency dedicated to the regulation of that industry.
It seems like a big coincidence that 1660 is usually considered when England ceased to be a feudal state and became a capitalist state (Tenures Abolition Act 1660), and 1662 is when copyright was first invented.
This is what we like to call a "skill issue".
It pays off fast. For my situation in Washington, I'd be paying ~$4.50/gal for an ICE car that gets ~28mi/gal, or ~$0.11/KWh (at the tier-2 rate) for an EV that gets 3.5mi/KWh.

For the ICE car, that's ~6.2 mi/dollar, for the EV it's ~31.8 mi/dollar. ~5x cheaper per mile to drive the ICE. I drive ~15k miles per year, so ~$2.4k in gas, or $470 in electricity - saving ~$2k/year.

This doesn't take into account the lower total cost of ownership of EVs in general. They're simple. They don't need oil changes. The transmission can't go out.

And that's just for me driving once or twice a day; I'm sure the Amazon drivers are putting factors more miles on their cars, so a faster break-even point.
India has seen an explosion of gin distilleries.

Gin is something that I always believed India would do well - given their expertise with herbs and spices.

Hopefully, one of the big Indian brands takes an interest and revive these liqueurs.
Oh no, worst news I have heard in a while. My wife and I LOVE Libby.
I almost always use surrogate keys as primary keys (or a tuple of them, for join-tables). Natural keys are rarely as immutable and unique as we'd like.

Even ISO country codes can be problematic, for example we currently use XK for Kosovo, but it might get an official code at some point.
Perhaps, but equally populations are growing, so each person's signal gets less and less valuable over time. Democracies birthed in places with a high sense of buy-in and relatively few people voting would've felt very different to how things feel today, and I don't know how many ways there are to rectify that.
While there indeed may be bugs, it's my understanding that any trust needs to be placed only on the kernel.

> various stacks of libraries that other humans have written

If you're referring to mathlib here, I'm not sure this is correct. As again all mathlib code compiles down to code that is processed by the kernel.

Indeed this is reinforced by the draft paper on the website [0]:

> Lean is a large project, but one need only trust its kernel to ensure that accepted proofs are correct.
If a tactic were to output an incorrect proof term, then the kernel would have the opportunity to find
this mistake before the proof were to be accepted.

[0]: https://zeramorphic.github.io/con-nf-paper/main.l.pdf
One super-useful key combo which is often overlooked is C-x-e, which edits the current command in $EDITOR. Very useful when dealing with history and long commands that need parameter editing.
When google did this long ago: https://news.google.com/

I knew the new industry was going to collapse. What more do you need from a new aggregator? Journalism was doomed since though.

I had tried https://ground.news/ but never stuck with it. I like the idea but it fails at dimension. There is no left vs center vs right in Canada. Politics in Canada and Europe is 3 dimensional at least with wormholes in our politics.

Worse yet, you can have a paper like globe and mail, seen as right of center. But does that mean the journalists are all right of center? No, not at all.

I tried a machine-ai news startup which attempted to judge authors/journalists on their perceived bias using keywords and such. With presumably the goal to see how biased the papers are in reality. Ideal newspapers would have a strong spectrum of diverse thought. However, it failed to properly assess bias. Overall, machine ai wasnt able to assess through sarcasm, lies, or counter speech?

I checked out the 'machine AI rewrites articles with maximum neutrality' but the bias remains or possibly just got worse.

I have thought on what the next big attempt to improve aggregators. I've seen several attempts from others, but I think what is important to do is some algorithmic approach that isn't on bias. It has more to do with post-analysis. Follow how stories really unfold in truth.

So for example, I would take the analysis where the government found that journalists outright lied about the freedom protest in Canada. Misleading the government into unconstitutionally crushing a legitimate protest. CBC's david cochrane or global's david akin and rachel gilmore should be dramatically punished for this.
Limbo and Inferno are partially alive in Go and plan9/9front.
On J2ME, it worked well in legay devices; but for modern usage, Android's Java-like API
was a godsend for the developers, as they could seamlessly transition from one Java-like
lang to another one. Heck, J2ME interpreters for Android do exist, and I think lots of them just
use shims...
I saw Bugs Bunny take a train to Rancho Cucamonga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWHYRjYYLqY
So to clarify:

With infinite lives, it would have guaranteed you made it to the end, at which point you would stop playing anyway.

So in both cases you stop playing, but at least in one of the cases the game remains hard for people who like a challenge. Win win!
It wasn't accidentally popular. It was just very good.
Sales, marketing, customer service? Neckbeards apparently only think of themselves lol.
Having to right click the app (only the first time btw) to open it if it’s unsigned seems right to me even as a power user. If the app is “Mozilla Firefox” and it’s suddenly unsigned I’m going to want to figure out why.

Same with UAC, I used to foolishly disable it completely but one day I opened a sketchy app in a moment of stupidity and it escalated to install a bunch of malware. I never would’ve given it admin, since it didn’t need it, but I’d turned off the dialog. The dialog definitely would’ve been a wake up call.

It’s not always babysitting to have your computer go “hey does this seem right?” Especially when it’s designed like gatekeeper to get out of your way the second time.

This is true for a lot of the new protections. SIP is a really good thing. I can modify the system if I really need to, but I want to know for sure when that’s happening.
Regarding exiting from fullscreen, you can suggest to them to "hover" over the traffic lights, for some extra tips
I want to see a cost-benefit analysis to the shareholders from this move.

Does Amazon hope that this investment in EV's and EV infrastructure will put them in a good position to sell EV's at some future point?

Maybe it'll give them a few years of de-facto monopoly in some cities/states that pass laws requiring all deliveries be carbon free?

Maybe being top of 'low carbon' company lists alone is worth it if that means they attract environmental conscious shareholders?

Maybe this is cheap positive PR which is cheaper than just spending an equivalent amount on adverts?

For a company so laser focussed on financial efficiency, the move to EV's doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.
I assume, with "well-known", they mean popular. Which means they (also) measure the worth of this feature by the number of users which might benefit from it. This is a very legit metric for this kind of situation.
>Wait you think flying a plane is a more relaxed experience than going on a trip?

Technically I'm not a pilot so I don't really know tbh. Xplane is relaxing at least? Hence the dream factor.

But I imagine, I'm in control and it lets me get around faster then anything on the ground.
Really interesting point on the trough at 57. I have no idea! That's really quite visible, and would've been around 1967. But there were, to my knowledge, no particularly major events around then, in the USSR, that could easily explain it.

On the gender imbalance, men just tend to die younger than women. As a funny (?) factoid, evolution/nature also somehow optimizes for this. There's about 107 boys born for every 100 girls. [1] But after we get done getting ourselves killed in all sorts of creative ways, you end up with a sex ratio that's almost exactly 50:50 across all ages; at older ages you end with a sex ratio skewed towards women.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_ratio
How does a CEO not understand the employment needs of his company? Oh, right, he's playing stock price games with the investors and doesn't give a shit about his employees.
But none of our technology can really let us spread at this stage. We’re barely detectable from nearby solar systems.

It’s very possible that the technology required to travel between solar systems is where the filter occurs and we’re in a narrow window of having enough technology to look around at nearby planets before we wipe ourselves out.
> Why is Yudkowsky taken seriously?

People like religion, particularly if it doesn't affect how they live their life _today_ too much. You get all of the emotional benefits of feeling like you're doing something virtuous without the effort of actually performing good works.
Sorry, the world wants an affordable electric car, try again.
> Guan Yinglu fled her previous work-around-the-clock Shanghai shipping company job for her hometown, the central Chinese city of Luzhou, where she opened a bakery last spring.

Luzhou Population: 4.2 million
Why can't you use sdl on ada? You can use raylib fine enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUISz2qA640
Please don’t tell me the author believes “Amazon had to learn how to . . . call the power company.” Sure the folks at fleet services are different from AWS, warehouses, etc. in the big picture all of Amazon is devoted to transforming electricity into valuable services. Maybe the question is whether or not Amazon sees value in taking over the power companies jobs.

To get there, Amazon had to learn how to pick up the phone and call the power company. Electric utilities, which to that point primarily dealt with electric vehicles through powering the odd home car charging setup, encountered a new type of customer in Amazon.
Maybe: "Navies are at risk of becoming completely obsolete."

It seems to me that imperial weapons system are not doing well in this war. Weapons that a Great Power uses to project power against a distant country whose population does not want to do as the the Power wants.
I'm not seeing any evidence for that, though.

Row-less layouts with columns are indeed quite common in the non-web world - see for example newspapers or other dense text. But that can already be done with current CSS features, and the row-first placement makes this proposal completely unsuitable for that. Masonry actively makes that worse, because it screws with the regular reading order.

They argue that nobody is doing it because it can't be done in CSS. I would argue that nobody is doing it because it's a bad idea. We've seen people work around it not being in CSS by using Javascript to make galleries for years now, if there were other use cases they'd surely have done the same?

With the exception of Pinterest-style galleries (and lets be honest, that's not exactly the pinnacle of UX either) I really don't see a widespread use for this feature. Their three other demos sure aren't convincing me.
VW put out a report on the topic a few years back.

Tldr; for consumer vehicles, break even point for emissions was roughly 40k miles in the EU, and 50k in the US. After that it was a ~net positive vs equivalent gasoline model. For commercial use cases where 50k miles can be done many times over in a single year (and expected vehicular lifecycle is much much longer), it should be pure gravy.
> Leftpad is an entirely pure, non-diverging function. And I should be able to ask my language to enforce that, ideally with trivial code. Maybe even by default.

I think you can do this in Idris with "total" functions.
Had to scroll far too long for this.

In one relative's case with an old laptop, I installed some light distro, Firefox with an ad-block and it's been stable for a few years. She only browses a few favorite sites.

Other's infatuation with Apple's overpriced *nix boxes is a true testament to Apple's marketing department. Pay more for less. We can't spend so many thousands every few years.
This was a phenomenal read. Thanks for linking
It’s even better for delivery vans, too: EVs thrive in repeated stop-start conditions, which is what Amazon cans frequently do.

It seems like only a matter of time before other similar vehicles that are more industrial make this shift (eg, garbage/recycling trucks). Imagine no more super loud garbage trucks in the mornings…
If they saved a bit of money on EV delivery vans and instead spent a little more on toilets[1], it would probably be far better use of money to buy good PR...

[1]: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56628745
I was curious what jobs were impacted. Looks like plenty of SWE were fired:

From layoffs.fyi: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KPL87R3veJ6HaQeHdkG1...
Ooops, it was ppp pp p pp Porky PP p pp PP P PIg
Not sure if the last one has easily discoverable clubs.
> Accidentally, seems harder. It kinda smells for people to intentionally make it not popular by actively working against fame, or something like that..

It's not harder; it's the only thing that works for tools. Tools cannot be good for long because of marketing. Marketing is the thin layer of paint over the Ferrari. Very nice paint, but if the car doesn't work or go very fast very quickly then that's that.
Apple Plans to Release a Calculator App for iPad Later This Year
Metals wouldn’t be a problem. The metals we already mined will be all over the place in the form of abandoned junk from before the collapse
Generative A.I. arrives in the gene editing world of CRISPR
Ceased to be a feudal state eh? Who's the largest landowner in England?

All that happened is the landlords figured out how to get peasants to pay for their own security.
That's nothing compared to JWST which increased in cost from $500M to $10B. They've fixed some of the issues that led to that, but not all...
And they likely have the batteries on the shelf since it’s a fulfillment center and they sell them. Just buy them from their own warehouse. Brilliant.
Yesterday's submission may interest you: https://blog.brownplt.org/2024/04/21/forge.html (Forge: A Tool to Teach Formal Methods)
Is the college not failing students for the benefit of the student or for the benefit of themselves (continuing to collect the student's tuition money). I'd argue it's the latter. Current colleges are not these selfless organizations centered around doing good for their students. Sure maybe a lot of professors and TA's care about the education but administrators who dominate the system now only care about sucking in as much money as possible and dont really care how they do it.
I don't buy this at all. Maybe "can't express as concisely".
And most books that are bought, aren't read.
Best decision I ever made was pulling my kids from k-8 and homeschooling them due to psychological bullying by peers.

By the time they made it into high school, they were well adjusted, studied, had great physical prowess, and somehow managed to become very popular.

I attribute this to avoiding the "socialization" aka bullying that goes on in elementary and middle school.

Subject wise my kids went faster too but that's just a consequence of the Prussian style schooling.
How BeanHub works, contains the danger of processing Beancount data with sandbox
Watches (both traditional and GPS for runners, hikers, bikers) and fitness trackers (Nike, Fitbit) were very popular prior to the Apple Watch. AR and VR are still unproven markets besides some games. Skepticism over Vision Pro is more reasonable than Watch. Iterating Watch was about improving implementation and delivering the features that we knew people wanted. Iterating Vision Pro is about creating a market that doesn’t exist yet.

edit: typo
I think when you hire them they make themselves useful which is the problem. If you stay small you solve problems using solutions in ways that small teams can manage.
Very interesting perspective. Thank you
Yes, and that needs to stop. An off-grid setup should still be subject to all the applicable building and electrical codes, inspections, etc., and perhaps extra checkups on battery health. But once it is installed, running, and inspected, it should be like any other household.

I'm personally flabbergasted that a basic solar installation (e.g., 2 kw+) hasn't been required on every house for national defense, just as the impetus for the interstate highway system national defense (and obviously now maintained for the commerce it enables). In a grid collapse scenario, the difference it would make to have every house with even small stand-alone capability (just enough for a refrigerator, communication, some lighting, etc.) vs millions just in the dark, would be enormous. But here we are, just shoveling $$billions to the grid operators.
What entity is the Largest Nonprivate EV Charging Operator in the US?
Rule #2: If the customer is...
Indeed. And very few actually are.

I've come to view the existence of these checks at all as a weak signal that the website in question is probably not worth my time.
While you are not wrong, if you have a decent language you will discover all the useful algorithms are already in your standard library and so it isn't a worry. Your code should mostly look like apply this existing algorithm to some new data structure.
When making the comparison, don't forget to tally the effects and emmisions of drilling, pumping, refining, and delivering oil and gasoline to the point-of-sale.
https://carbon.us.org/

Interesting choice of a TLD. At first I thought it was free (like eu.org) but it seems that it's around $15, so pretty much like other domains. Is there a particular reason you went with .us.org?
I started using ledger-cli this year. I can't imagine anything better.

Someone should just write a ledger-cli graphical view with the text file as still the primary way to input new data.
spoiler: we never learn the reason

(it's not important to the story)
Yes, it is. Because the server can detect curl | sh, serve different content and you will never know about it. Discussed numerous times on this site.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230304061743/https://www.idont...
Along those lines, Chairface from Tick and Tim Robbin’s classic “would you miss it?” defense from Austin powers.
Washington is sort of a best case though- you have pretty darn cheap electricity over there.
Scaling Spotify seems like it'd be much easier than a video based streaming platform. Maybe scaling their recommendation algorithm? Not sure.
It’s fine if you disagree with the premise of the question. But it’s also fine to ask the question, since presumably the asker wants to know the feature would get enough usage to justify its addition to the specification, and an easy way to show it gets usage is by showing some well-known sites would use it.

But what is not fine is trying to exclude people from the conversation and silence them just because you have a disagreement.