skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Such a typical pedantic comment from HN.

Dogs are also carnivores and would hunt and kill smaller animals if left to roam. In western society, there’s more tolerance for outdoor cats. I’m not sure I’ve ever heard of an outdoor dog.

I like dogs more than cats, personally.
Reads like a Finder Cover Flow prototype.
The workshop is too integral to who I am, and I still use it. My wife was supportive of this, though she had her reservations. I still use the saw, but now am much more carfull.

Table saws can be dangerous if used poorly. There are plenty of vids out there showing the most common mistakes, all of which I was aware of. What I was unaware of was how completely packed the dust well had become. I also had a pair of safety goggles, which I still do not wear. I find them far to intrusive. Instead when I am cutting I make sure that my glasses are on properly, and i am not looking over them.

All that being said, a table saw, a drop saw and a pillar drill are the heart and soul of a workshop.

The real danger is how easily wounds can get infected, especially in Asia. I am now more likely to seek immediate medical help when I am cut. Also, I now have multiple bottles of iodine in the house, just in case.
Let me start by saying I didn't realize you were speaking about your own experience! I thought we were having a theoretical discussion here. That changes the stakes on your end of course..

Just a question, when you say "request a 1 on 1" do you mean request to specifically speak about this? Or do you not have regular 1-on-1s with your manager already?

I think it's a concern that your manager doesn't already have or want weekly 1-on-1 meetings. Do you know if this is with all their reports, or just you?

If it's with all their reports, that's.. honestly? not a great manager.

It's just with you, then I think that's further evidence that this person does not, and will not, have your best interests in mind.

I'm sorry you're in this situation, I hope you find a good outcome!
The author did enroll his kid into school for freshman after a break. Is this normally considered beneficial? Having a period of unschooling followed by traditional school?
I agreed with fostering too because we could have infinite kittens! What could go wrong? We’ve taken care of at least as many bottle fed kittens. It’s worthwhile but not always fun.
Why does it go to the East of Austria? To avoid the high mountains?
> No one actually knows or understands what a ‘point mass’ is!

True. But we do suspect the existence of massless points, and surely have many pointless masses.
Any tools to replicate @oca.computer's work?

Once we have the 1000-dim vector embeddings I can make the rest work. Not sure how to go from 20-word span to a 1000-dim vector embedding.
Please help me write a humble-ish yet virtue-signalling comment for the HackerNews crowd, spiced with American spellings but seasoned well with British grammar and sarcasm. Please make me look like I know a lot about nerdy stuff, such as Monty Python, open-source, Linux, GenAI, LLM but make it sound like I use and do all those on an Apple Macbook. Finally, do not forget to _masala_ some easily passable mistakes to make me stand out as an Indian man of culture.
Buddy. Are you really trying to say that there can exist infinite goods and services in a finite universe? Growing is not the same as infinite.
A combination of work play and rest depending on need. The effect of altitude on palete is remarkable: I don't drink bloody mary much, but enough to know it really does taste different at height. And food does, I am sure.

I know I am much more emotionally vulnerable on flights, I cry at the movies, often at the most ridiculous moments: Always been a snuffler for Charlie Chaplin poverty bathos but now, one glance from an actor can get the tears running. Crying at Stewart Little. Or Luke.. I am your father. Or Stewie and Peter having a hug. Insane!

I take frequent toilet breaks. I drink a lot of water all the time. It annoys the living bejesus out of everyone but there isn't much I can do about that and having had Kidney stones on an extended overseas trip I never want to go there again.

Kindles are gold. Better than movies mostly, If you can sleep with headphones on or in, then a kindle and gentle music can work wonders. I've slept through 5 CDs of Vladamir Ashkenazy playing chopin before now (actually, copied to minidisc)

But in the end, there's always Temazepam. 10mg. Some people say Melatonin works for them but my partner had horrid florid nightmares and restless legs. You don't need that on a plane.

Avoid over drinking the booze. And, don't be stupid. The crew have a job to do, and it doesn't include being chatted up, or dealing with your feet intruding through a seat on somebody elses space.

(used to do 10 a year, long haul/international, worldwide for 20 years)
Nice! I find myself often doing this conversion. I like how simple and effective the UI is. Something that might be useful is going the other way around in the conversion. Email, for example, usually doesn't allow for Tailwind but I want to carry over my app styles via CSS.
You can think of Rust as a containment zone to isolate the kind of people who would be a Rust programmer from people working on actual real things, obviously in C and C++.
I wish this was the top comment. Eradicated is exactly the the right word capturing the full gravity of the situation.
Thank you for the explanation. I definitely didn't appreciate what's going on in your life, but that makes sense. Loneliness is of course a significant danger and I'm sorry your life circumstances are making it difficult to be with other people right now. May I ask what the danger is for your particular circumstance? Is it for your health or for a loved one? And it's something to do with compromised immune system? Such that you want to limit contact to avoid infecting either yourself or the loved one? Wishing you all the best tho eh, I'm only asking to try and help brainstorm solutions.
If a company creates a better, or cheaper, or otherwise superior product and garners more sales than it's competitors is it "grabbing from others"? If so, then consumers benefit when companies do their best improve or invent new goods and services in their quest to "grab from others".

Also, I'm not sure why the hypothetical situation of what would happen if Zuckerberg hadn't founded Facebook would be particularly relevant to people in poverty. If MySpace became the most popular social networking company rather than Facebook, how would the poor be in a different situation?
It’s not email for me but instead google hangouts or google chat or whatever the chat inside gmail is called now. For a while now they have these automated “canned” response buttons at the bottom of every new message received, with the context of the conversation at that point giving the three most likely next sentences.

It’s gotten to the point that I’m only about 50% sure the messages I get are typed in, but my real concern is for the ones I guess are generated were actually what the person wrote – with this GPT “style”. Man imitating machine (imitating man)
People use different aspects of their education and it’s vastly faster to pick something up the second time. So you may have never used a given lesson, but other people in your class may have found it really helpful.

Sometimes going a few steps deeper helps you retain some useful bit of info. I ended up making useful of various bits of chemistry decades after taking the class, but understanding the basics was still helpful.

Finally basing things on utility is just a prediction. Some things that seemed useful turn out less so as technology filled in a gap.
" I would rather live in a world with a 10x Musk and no homeless people than a more equal world like the current one but with no billionaires."

Right now we live in a world with a growing number of super billionaires and we have tons of homelessness. Especially San Francisco and LA have tons of super rich people but also many homeless. So it seems to me that breeding more billionaires is not going to solve anything.
The focus of positive attention they provide for children is valuable and beautiful. This is also true of dogs, however.

They're cute, they have their own distinct personalities, they're curious. The primary reason I, personally, prefer cats over dogs is that you (usually) have to earn the affection, or least lack-of-indifference, of a cat.

The supression of their "kill everything" desire is basically to keep them enclosed such that they can still run and play but not destroy the local fauna. Not an easy or cheap task, depending on one's living conditions.
While in Army basic training, my duffel got swapped with another guy's (no idea whose). Back at the barracks, I discovered that they'd snagged some spent shells from the range. Massive no-no. Young, naive me assumed that presenting these to the drill sergeants and explaining the situation would be the correct move. I was severely disciplined as a result. Others were like, "Dude... why didn't you just quietly toss that shit in the trash?!?" It was a big wake-up call for how poorly I could gauge people (e.g. the sgts), adapting to the situation, etc.
People often make comments like this, forgetting that want they are marvelling at was actually in the book they read or class they took the first, and then actual different is that they forgot, or they've had more time to stew on the material so it feels more familiar the second time through. Hence the adage that the best book on the subject is whatever book you read second. It seems so much more intuitive the second time through.
From my perspective, that's a good chunk of where this comes from. I wish people would just say that if that's the case.
And it’s restricted to locals
when will people learn, cat as a service just does not scale
Have you ever seen a book that doesn't?
It's in every book I've seen.
Clicked the link thinking this was about felines.

Waited for it to load and decided it was probably about concatenating files.

Pleased to find out it was about felines.
Out of curiosity, what do you perceive the system to say it is doing? I see statistics on number of meals served, students per classroom, faculty per student, $/student, % who graduate, % who get admitted to college, average salary per graduate, number of students enrolled, number of employees, various budget shortfall numbers and other indicators of money spent, athletic win/loss records, operating hours when students should be supervised by a professional, and lots and lots of other stuff the system says it does.

Are you saying that none of these statements are true?

Or are you suggesting that the system claims to be instilling some level of competency in various subjects? Or perhaps you meant that the system is not doing what it _aspires_ to do. Or perhaps what you aspire for it to do.
Looks cool. Love terminal apps. Currently still fascinated and happy with Spotify Terminal

Great work. Would love to have the options of following someone and getting a feed of their comments/or stories
Sure, it's finite in that it's can't grow with literally no limit: there's a fixed amount of mass an energy in the universe.

But the above commenter states that goods and services are zero-sum, which is not true. Goods and services do grow in absolute terms. His whole thesis is that accumulation of wealth necessarily entails the depravation of others. This is not at all true: wealthy can and does grow in absolute terms.
Different points of view. To me react seems like the least straight forward way of making a web app I can think of.
> You absolutely need a space to talk candidly with your manager.

It's not so easy when you feel like you can't trust the people to whom you report. I'm in this situation after attempting to be candid about what I felt were missteps on the part of my manager and a director of engineering. After a scolding from one of them, and a veiled threat about my employment ending, I now feel like I just shouldn't rock the boat. I mostly dread my 1:1s with them, and I don't feel like those meetings are time well spent.

I could maybe understand if I had offered unsolicited feedback, but they asked for my opinion and I gave it honestly.
Something like half of people don’t understand how marginal income tax rates work, but many of them have all kinds of strong opinions about federal tax policy. This is probably the single most important concept to understand about income taxes, isn’t complicated, and is something they deal with every year. Still, you’ll frequently hear them worry aloud about “moving into another tax bracket” as if it will apply to all their income.

We may expect other kinds of “basic” knowledge not to be much more widely-known than this. It’s easy to turn up similar results on fundamental civics and history. Stuff like “are Puerto Ricans US citizens?” you get a similar 30-35ish% who give the wrong answer and 15ish% “I don’t know”, pretty close to rates on questions about marginal tax rates.
> Buyers get a tax credit for electric cars. SolarCity received hundreds of millions of dollars in direct grants from different state governments, I believe this all went to Tesla.

Those cars wouldn't have been made or bought without those grants, the grants offset the extra cost of electric cars so they didn't put money into anyone's pockets, its just the government investing in getting electrification happen earlier.

Without them that money the profits would just have went to combustion car manufacturers instead like before.
Moving from a maximally coercive metaphorical “cattle prod” to a minimal “sin tax” is classic. Go on

https://medium.com/bigger-picture/what-is-a-motte-bailey-aad...
It seems pretty natural to appreciate fans while it's something that can also get pretty tiring after a while--especially fans who are obsessive in various ways.
> Nah, people with higher disposable incomes don't buy trucks either.

Sorry I've missed a step. In your first comment I thought you meant buying a truck was people status signalling that they were affluent. If you don't think that, what do you think is being signalled?
Cows are actually omnivores.

It’s not just insect collateral damage: cows will chase and eat small birds, eat eggs of ground-laying birds, and will eat mice and rats in their feed if they happen on one that is immobile. It’s not particularly unusual.

(Deer also do this)
Is it possible to have pets that don't impinge on other life forms? Even placid dogs still need to eat (I'm not sure how popular vegan dog food is, although it does exist). Some (not all) plants are not a net-negative on other life forms, and some chemosynthetic organisms use chemical reactions as their energy source. In the extreme, perhaps those pets wouldn't have any negative impacts on any other life forms. </silly thought experiment>
Segfaults are a result of violating memory safety. They are the BEST case since you can actually detect the program yolo'd

Far worse is your program starts corrupting your data and suddenly you are executing a routine you had no intention of ever executing
> the second(!) assistant superintendent’s second(!) secretary (true story, not a big district either)

I bet if you go ask what those secretaries actually do during their day, you will find they are very busy doing lots of stuff that has nothing to do with the traditional "secretary" role. It was probably the only way to get it stuffed into the budget, so the actual work they do can get done.

Certainly some Administrators have actual secretaries that do traditional secretary duties, but they are few and far between in my experience. Most of the ones I've met do lots and lots of other things totally un-related.

As for multiple Asst Superintendents, that's totally normal, usually one is in charge of "back office" payroll, HR, the business end of things and another is in charge of education type things. At larger districts you might have 1/2 a dozen of them, all specializing in a particular area.
Click scripts ran on the server. Often written in perl. Standard output was redirected to the user agent and showed up as HTML.
My cats don't insist on licking my face or jumping all over my toddler and knocking them down and nipping at them. I don't have to walk them every day.

Then again, I love dogs too.

The whole cat-dog person thing is an overblown, unnecessary misconception of reality.
This is a false dichotomy. On one end, you have "overarchitects everything so much that the code is soon unmaintainable" and on the other end you have "architects the code so little that the code is soon unmaintainable".

Always write the simplest thing you can, but no simpler. Finding that line is where all the art is.
We have come up with solutions though. The solution is see what happens and deal with it as it comes, while using what time we have left to try and climb further up the tech tree so that we have more technological ability to deal with it as it comes. It's a far better solution than the tyranny of the mediocrity of government bureaucracy people are pushing as the alternate.
I guess it's the expectation that friends will be genuine with you. But in the post-social media culture... it is an unrealistic one.
> Also, I'm not sure why the hypothetical situation of what would happen if Zuckerberg hadn't founded Facebook would be particularly relevant to people in poverty. If MySpace became the most popular social networking company rather than Facebook, how would the poor be in a different situation?

If it was state sponsored and without ads, people would get much happier since they are no longer constantly mentally assaulted by ads intended to create cravings or feeling of missing out.
One of my takeaways from reading that long ago was that there should be a commandment: treat the user's data as sacred, and do not delete it without permission. (Just ordered a copy of it so I can read it again.)
This is a really good article. A minor nit - it'll read easier without the exclamation points after every sentence.
>You absolutely need a space to talk candidly with your manager.

Yeah sure, and HR is your friend. /s
States have been dropping teaching certificate requirements for a long time. Some states go so far as to give pretty much anyone that can pass the background check a provisional certificate, giving them years to meet the actual requirements.

Staffing of teachers is a hard job, some districts have full time staff just trying to fill the classrooms.
Nice, I will consider using a more unique name!
There are people in this very thread that claim Windows doesn't have ads, either. I think people's understanding of advertisement is relative when they only perceive a binary choice in operating systems.
Rethink your misanthropy. We live in a free and rich country, and you hate people so much that you assume they’re being duped by “automobile manufacturers” instead of making their own choices about how they prefer to live. The fact is that Americans live like we do because we can afford to be comfortable. My mom, an immigrant to the US who grew up in Bangladesh, went to Australia recently and came back complaining about how cramped everything was over there and how small everyone’s houses are. She didn’t come to America until nearly age 40–she didn’t grow up being brainwashed into car culture. She just has eyes and can see what’s a more comfortable life.

There’s no country that can afford to be car dependent where most people don’t drive. Even in Sweden and Japan, which have amazing public transit systems, 80% of households own a car.
According to [1], .ong/.ngo domains are eventually audited for NGO status, rather than requiring proof during the purchase. So one can technically buy it but the registrar should eventually take it away from them.

[1]: https://thenew.org/org-people/about-pir/policies/ngo-and-ong...
And it created homeless people in San Francisco.
> You realise ...

Yes. I grew up on a cattle station, practiced exploration geophysics globally for a few decades, now live in a rural area with land, grain, and livestock.

You realise the question was, is comparing the accidental occasional deaths of animals in feed by cows or sheep comparable to the deliberate hunting and killing of cats?
Unfortunately, that rewrite step often doesn't happen. I can't count the number of times a prototype that was meant to be thrown away was actually put into production because "it's cheaper and faster than rewriting."
A few years ago, I tried teaching for a couple years. Something that struck me was that to teach at the elementary or high school level you need specific degrees, but to teach at a university you don't. There is this thinking that because you have a PhD you can teach, which is very far from the truth. Being a good communicator is a skill in itself.
Pure unschooling is a rarity among rarities.

Much more common to unschool for a bit then head back.
Pollen cone stuck in paint reveals where Van Gogh's Irises grew
>Also, I'm not sure why the hypothetical situation of what would happen if Zuckerberg hadn't founded Facebook would be particularly relevant to people in poverty. If MySpace became the most popular social networking company rather than Facebook, how would the poor be in a different situation?

If we recognize that broadly the same pile of money would exist absent Zuck, and instead belong to Tom or Joe or Jane, this provides us a nice justification for not letting Zuck have quite so much money anyway. He's the guy who hit the lotto. It's not such a bad thing to say the government is going to take a lot of it and spend it on poor people.
Check my comment sibling to yours, there's an audit process after the purchase.
Until an official dark mode:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40351227 with 8 comments links to last year's discussion with 90 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36342085
If goods and services aren't finite then they must be infinite. If they're infinite then how can they be increasing?
Jax is the closest thing at the moment.

https://developer.apple.com/metal/jax/

And MLX

https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx
why does this matter ?
I have a chumby one, it can be an alarm clock standalone, and you can ssh into it if you put it in developer mode.

Someone has bought the chumby domain and runs a service for it, if you subscribe you can get a bunch of apps that run on it.
California proves that even extreme level of tax income from taxing rich people doesn't help solve these social problems. The solution is to have a competent government, no amount of taxing or punishing the rich will help otherwise.

So voting on people just because they say they will punish the rich is a good way to not solve the problem. Vote on competent people, not people looking to assign blame.
Noob here. Please ELI 5 what this algo used in quake 3 ?.

> Solve lighting equations

Is it the light or laser effect when the gun is fired ?
I dunno about Intel and AMD, but ARM and RISC-V use lookup tables for rsqrt. Unlike AMD and Intel, those tables are precisely defined in their respective specs.
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An odd kind of "approval", isn't it, when it's of the form:

"I'm going to take this substance because I've researched it may fix my crippling illness and the risk reward is comfortable to me - but I hear you bunch throw people into cages if you see them do things like that, so can I get your promise you won't throw me into a cage if I try to cure myself in this specific way?".

Classic "are we the baddies?" scenario.