skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The case of the original error message does not really match what Feynman was concerned about. The original error message was not too simple, but its first part was some hocus-pocus that made (almost) no sense -- the less, the more the reader is a layperson. Only an expert had a chance of guessing the explanation. In the quoted passage, Feynman instead was concerned about popular accounts of science that are not useful for the reader -- not because they are unintelligible or wrong, but because they are too simplistic and provide too less information.
The guy who died of MRSA in a hospital didn't die of suicide.

That is a failure of our healthcare system.
I claimed dark matter is something we observed and dark matter “theories” are proposed but yet to be proven theories that describe it.

She did that too.

She didn’t claim Mond is true, neither did I, and as far as I can understand you, neither did you.

If you assume me or her did that, then you’ve grossly misunderstood mine or her remarks.
Nit: McMurdo uses diesel since its climate is more forgiving but the South Pole station the author was at uses kerosene-based JP8 jet fuel since it comes with additives for subzero temperatures. They even have their own arctic recipe called AN8.

There is a lot of redundancy and they're equipped to fix things on site: https://www.jeffreydonenfeld.com/blog/2012/12/the-south-pole...
i think that books, movies, music are just becoming noise at this point. they are completely ephemeral. they are basically free, or ar least they would be if the markets were allowed to do what theyre supposed to do without copyright. and now with AI, the effect is only growing stronger. paying for media feels closer and closer to paying for air. it just doesn't make sense. its ephemeral and so abundant that its basically free. i think this might be our new reality. being an artist as a profession might not be a thing for much longer
Nice writeup!

Did this game ever launch? Is there a playable version? The official website is broken [0] and the Steam page still says "Coming soon" [1]

0: https://deceivergame.com/

1: https://store.steampowered.com/app/728100/DECEIVER/
Of course, let me know how it goes and if I can help with anything else
It's hard for me to morally justify firing an employee for incompetence without severance... for an issue that was created by HR's incompetence. (And potentially the interviewing team, depending on how "mediocre" the rating was)
I never said anything about quality ;)

However, too often people disregard what’s happening on mobile because the games are so bad, and they shouldn’t because mobile gaming is the growth sector in video games. For example, all the idiotic layoffs are not so idiotic when you consider mobile gaming. Executives at gaming companies want mobile gaming margins on their AAA video games, when the margins are actually much smaller. I don’t agree, but I know the logic.
The South Pole Power Plant (2012)
What do you mean by close to CNN?

What is your architecture?
Is it just a fully connected layer of chebyshev?
hey, I tried it on chrome on my iphone but was not able to reproduce. May I know which lag are you pointing to-
1. Website loading lag
2. First keypress sound
3. The subsequent sound after keypress
Sorry, for the bad experience.
FE: Angular + Material (Maybe blazor if no experience with JS/TS)

BE: .NET or Spring Boot

Database: SQLite (eventually PostgreSQL in Docker container)

Hosting: Hetzner
What is the monetization scheme that would result in it being built? The beautiful part of governments spending money on this is that there is not nearly as much pressure for an RoI to “justify” it…
There is a reason con man is short for confidence man.

People are extremely susceptible to someone who sounds confident.
Mediocre rating and imposter syndrome but excelled in selling themselves? I don’t feel like this is the full story. What is the purpose of this ask? To receive validation and an excuse to go against some self perceived principles? If you look to let them go do it without requests for psychological support or pursuit of excuses. You are a human too and you deserve support, but in this situation, the other party will need more of it and possibly bears less responsibility for the outcome.
A hundred years was being generous (in the 1920s modern medicine was fairly recognisably taking shape). If you want to make it five hundred years or a millennium ago then be my guest.
Dude you’ve been lied to. Letting them go is salvaging the situation.
> The lines are admittedly fuzzy, but I'd say Cap'n Proto still mostly belongs to me, not Cloudflare.

I meant it more in terms of resources: you seem to be saying that you maintain Cap'n Proto as part of your job at Cloudflare. You mention PRs that you have failed to review, I guess Cloudflare did not need them. And as you said, if Cloudflare had needed them, you would probably have been faster doing it yourself. Which also means that opening those PRs was a loss of time for everybody from the beginning on.

At least that is more and more how I see open source:

- I have to "blindly trust" some projects (e.g. a standard lib, TCP, protobuf) because I couldn't maintain them myself. I try to minimize that and chose those carefully.

- I accept to depend on projects that I could easily fork or replace. I can contribute to those, and if the maintainers ignore me I just fork away.

- If it's small enough, I'll rewrite it myself (using the open source code for inspiration).

Conversely, I behave more and more like this as a maintainer:

- I don't hesitate to tell people that I won't take time to review non-trivial PRs

- I encourage people to fork if they want something I cannot give them

- If people cannot fork and need something I cannot give them, then they are screwed. That's sad, but that's life. I can't burn myself out for them.

I use to say "PRs are welcome!" when people asked for new features. I stopped doing that unless I am really sure I will actually review them.
I can’t think of a single prescription medication which, when taken according to recommendations, causes permanent, irreversible, traumatic psychological damage after one dose.
U.S. cannot afford another 'lost decade' responding to China
This sounds almost exactly like my day-to-day as a solo senior data engineer — minus building and training ML models, and I don't work in healthcare. My peers are all very non-technical business directors who are very knowledgeable about their domains, and I'm like a wizard who can conjure up time savings/custom reporting/actionable insights for them.

Collaborating with them is great, and has been a great exercise in learning how to explain complex ideas to non-technical business people. Which has the side effect of helping me get better at what I do (because you need a good understanding of a topic to be able to explain it both succinctly and accurately to others). It has also taught me to appreciate the business context and reasoning that can drive decisions about how a business uses or develops data/software.
Document document document and PIP
Given that any number of chemicals could be in urban soil, I would only ever container garden.
For 4, this is where I think using the target language(s) LSP / intellesense would be useful. The AI tools should know that I'm referring to a specific tables/types/libraries through references/locality/imports and supply that automatically to the context for me.
While this saves money overall, this kind of settlement, where no fault is admitted, prevents this case being used as case law.
At some point beige in computers gave way to gray and then black crept in to a significant degree as well.
> those skills quickly start to sharpen after working at a new job for a couple months.

Given the comments here, you don't have the couple months to unrust your skills. You will be deemed unfit after the first one and fired, the prevailing sentiment seems to be.
This is outrage-bait, and more importantly, generated by an LLM so everyone can confidently assume it's false. This is not intellectually gratifying or evidence of a new phenomenon, it is Elon-flavored sensationalism.
"Toy"? Is a computer that can run a full fledged web browser these days really a "toy" computer? I'd guess the author hasn't been around long enough to remember real toy computers, like the V-Techs and other BASIC running computers for kids of the '80s. These days we have Arduinos, incredibly basic RISC-V, et cetera.

It's not really impressive to run Rust on a modern computer just because it's not x86 and because it's a bit slower than a typical desktop or laptop. Self-hosting all software on an m68030? It's interesting that it's even possible. But Rust on a Raspberry Pi 4 happens all the time.

Still, it's good to see a project move from Python 2 instead of just dying :)
there was a woman that moved from the East Coast to California after the untimely death of her adult son. Filled with severe grief she sought out shamanic treatment and bonded with the culture and practices. After a self-described "more than three dozen" full ayahuasca sessions she had a functional life and new interests, came across as a regular adjusted person and overall seemed to be much healed. ymmv
We are also approaching the solar maximum. And what is the time period? And would you rather be cold or hot.
That's different issue. Getting rid of Kill Section 230 not sharpen distinction between between "publisher" and "common carrier", it removes it.

Lets stay with "Kill Section 230" and it's consequences.
How does this compare to pg_analytics?

https://github.com/paradedb/pg_analytics
Drink pomegranate juice and eat some ginger 20 minutes before. That stops any nausea with Ayahuasca for 6-8 hours, it evens "fix" the horrible taste to many.
The web-based “history” tool’s content and usability has been significantly reduced, as well. You used to be able to view and download a lot of detailed hourly data - now it’s reduced to things like daily summaries when selecting long time ranges.
I do this all the time with LXC. Makes for a nice way to share GPU resources among several “machines” without devoting a PCI slot to a VM.
Initiatives like this haven’t seemed to work in Sweden, among other countries. I don’t know if any countries have successfully reversed a plummeting birth rate, but it doesn’t seem to be for lack of trying.

Maybe the reality is that, given the choice, most women don’t want to have more than one or two kids under any circumstances?
LLMs can allege anything. They don't have a reputation to uphold, lack access to the internet or credible facts, and are only required to generate legible text. I could get xAI to "allege" that China is designing miniature nukes with Red Mercury if I wanted, and it would give me plenty of "citations" too.
> And that message is likely to far outlive any message in any dead tree or electronic book.

Berkeley News: Bottlenecks that reduced genetic diversity were common throughout human history (https://news.berkeley.edu/2022/06/23/bottlenecks-that-reduce...)

Perhaps the assertion is true in the sense that an average, mediocre person will have a better chance of having his genetic line survive than writing something that immoratalises him in history, like Newton or Pascal. But But if one has the ability, the latter might be a safer option...
Grandfather Clocks
OP merely asks for being productive. It is a pretty wide range.

In fact, I'd argue that for anyone that knows some programming and in good GPA standing, 3 months is good enough for being productive. He can work on minor stuffs starting from 3 months.
It seems like many people have a misunderstanding of section 230, or that it has anything at all to do with "neutrality" or "common carriers". The text of the most relevant section, (c)Protection for “Good Samaritan” blocking and screening of offensive material, is below, and the full text is available here: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230

(1)Treatment of publisher or speaker:
No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.

(2)Civil liability :
No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of—

(A)any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected; or

(B)any action taken to enable or make available to information content providers or others the technical means to restrict access to material described in paragraph (1).[1]

If you squint at paragraph B, this is actually a reasonable loophole for adblocking, if you consider behavioral advertising to be objectionable.
> The result is net-negative productivity.

There's a classic paper out there...

The Net Negative Producing Programmer by G. Gordon Schulmey

> We've known since the early sixties, but have never come to grips with the implications that there are net negative producing programmers (NNPPs) on almost all projects, who insert enough spoilage to exceed the value of their production. So, it is important to make the bold statement: Taking a poor performer off the team can often be more productive than adding a good one. [6, p. 208] Although important, it is difficult to deal with the NNPP. Most development managers do not handle negative aspects of their programming staff well. This paper discusses how to recognize NNPPs, and remedial actions necessary for project success.

(The early 60s may be a reference to (from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=421858 )

> Gordon Bell, architect of the DEC VAX wrote "High Tech Ventures" and included this section on NNP's

Negative Productivity is a principle that I claim is worthy of a Nobel Prize.
Normal principles of productivity assume that workers create positive output.
Brooks refined the concept of software productivity to express it in terms of
the "mythical man month," and in software engineering, it is understood that
different programmers vary in their productivity by several orders of magnitude.
According to the principal of negative productivity, it is possible for an individual
to produce bad results that others must then redo; hence, someone who is
very negatively productive can keep a whole team busy with damage control,
preventing the team from producing any output whatsoever.

Various locations of the paper - https://web.archive.org/web/20160305234708/http://pyxisinc.c... https://www.scribd.com/document/557220119/NNPP-Article

And here it is discussed at C2 - https://wiki.c2.com/?NetNegativeProducingProgrammer
The doc comment at the top of the .py file is sufficiently descriptive

"""Simple, minimal implementation of Mamba in one file of Numpy adapted from (1) and inspired from (2).

Suggest reading the following before/while reading the code:
[1] Mamba: Linear-Time Sequence Modeling with Selective State Spaces (Albert Gu and Tri Dao)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00752
[2] The Annotated S4 (Sasha Rush and Sidd Karamcheti)
https://srush.github.io/annotated-s4
The worst thing about resizing the browser is when it uses that to decide if you are a mobile user rather than user agent. Just give me the desktop version please.
Suppose you don't know the shape of the content ahead of time. This would be the case for most apps that allow users to upload their own sources.

It sounds like (at the expense of more computation and time) the reverse adaptive tree approach you described would be ideal for those scenarios.
Do also consider that if this was your mistake (which you say), and they quit their previous job or declined other offers because of your erroneous offer, then you might have done them harm by your error, at least ethically if not legally. Be sure to talk to your lawyer, and consider what obligations you have to them in parting ways, both legally and ethically.
Costs extra for non-standard colors too
The concern about the availability of public housing in Vienna for those who are just outside the eligibility criteria or who face over-demand is valid. However, it’s important to note that Austria’s housing policy, particularly in Vienna, is not only about providing cheap housing but also about maintaining a diverse socio-economic mix. This approach mitigates the risk of creating ghettos or economically segregated areas, which can be more detrimental to societal cohesion. Moreover, Vienna's housing model includes a variety of supports such as housing benefits and subsidized rents, which broaden the accessibility beyond just the lowest income brackets.

The argument about income inequality and the inability to become rich underestimates the benefits of having a more equal society. While Switzerland does indeed have lower taxes and high-quality social services, its model relies heavily on a specific economic structure that benefits from unique factors like banking secrecy and a strong financial sector, which are not replicable everywhere. Austria’s approach, focusing on broad wealth distribution through progressive taxation, ensures that the benefits of economic growth are more evenly shared among its population, contributing to overall social stability and individual well-being.

While historical industrialization does play a role in a country's development, attributing Austria’s high HDI solely to its industrial past overlooks the significant impacts of its current social policies. Comparatively, countries like Slovenia and the Czech Republic have indeed made impressive strides in HDI, despite their histories of communist governance. However, these countries have also increasingly adopted social policies that resemble Western European models, acknowledging the benefits of such systems.

The observation that Austrians, particularly high-skilled professionals such as software engineers, are moving to countries like the Czech Republic or Slovenia can reflect a broader European trend of seeking opportunities across borders due to the EU’s labor mobility policies. This movement isn't necessarily indicative of systemic failures in Austria’s social or economic systems but rather of a dynamic European labor market. Furthermore, Austria continues to attract a significant number of Eastern European workers, underscoring its continued economic pull.

Comparing tax rates and HDI between Austria and its neighbors without considering the full context of social services and quality of life can be misleading. Lower taxes can sometimes lead to underfunded public services, which might necessitate higher out-of-pocket expenses for citizens, negating the perceived benefit of lower taxes. Austria’s model prioritizes comprehensive welfare provisions, which can lead to higher taxes but also reduces personal financial risk and increases life quality.
Given the extent of human impact on the planet, these aliens can probably deduce this whodunnit.
Yeah this seems indeed missing details. It's not the candidate's responsibility to guess what the hiring manager is really looking for and kind of normal to get the best position possible. That said, the hiring process seems utterly broken if it wasn't possible to distinguish a junior from a senior.

edit: personally I think though that the company should take responsibility and make sure the employee either gets ramped up or a very smooth exit financially since the application probably meant he missed other options
The other links do work.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40612347
In the 80s it was common for parents to invoke the starving Ethiopians to make their kids eat up. A generation before that it was the starving Biafrans.
I spent hours researching the right Markdown to HTML renderer. Writing HTML by hand would've been faster. There's dozens of these frameworks and none are perfect.
Seems to be a common myth https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/benadryl-xylitol-dogs/
> growing evidence that car tires are a considerable source of pollution

Not surprised. In Honolulu I mop up what I thought was black soot from our Lanai. Then I was told it was actually mostly tire particles. So switching to electric is not enough.
Costs extra to get anything besides shades of black and white in most cases too
Honestly I haven't. Thankfully my company still allows MacOS and for my personal PC I have Arch Linux at home. However luckily I follow enough HN, so I don't need to test it myself.
Is that why John Irving keeps writing about bears and high school wrestling?
Ultrasonic anemometers are generally better than cup anemometers, especially if regular maintenance is not guaranteed.

I’m not sure about ran sensors.

But moving parts are generally bad for reliability.
Copilot does that in a really clever way already: any time it performs a completion it looks at other nearby files in the project and tries to find pieces of code that look semantically similar to the area you are editing, then includes those snippets in its prompt.

This works well as a general rule, but sometimes it doesn't fine the right snippets - which is why I occasionally help it out through copy and paste.
Yeah, he's talking about team morale, so I guess he has to make sure that the team also thinks he's underperforming.
Show HN: Desktop Game Made in JavaScript and Tauri
There’s probably better writing on this by Matt Stoller that’s just the first thing I found.

A core premise of this argument is that 230 is bizzare exception to pretty clear core rules that we typically have on things like libel and product liability.

There’s just absolutely no argument at this point that these platforms are fundamentally consequential commercial enterprises. The create products, and profit from them, and those products and and do hurt people and cause horrible effects, but this law designed to preserve free speech utterly insulates them from any consequences of their profit making enterprise.

It’s just bizarre. Like the Washington Post can be sued for publishing content that’s harming people and wrong, but Google can’t?

If my kids are exposed to pedophiles every time they go to Chuck E Cheese, and they know about it and don’t do anything I can sure as hell can sue them. But not if it happens on Instagram? Why?
Psychedelics aren't to be taken lightly and should never be first line treatment in my opinion. They can pull down your defense mechanisms, some of which can be very strong, and if you're not ready for it then it can definitely leave you worse off. That doesn't mean they don't have value in a carefully controlled set/setting and dose. Accepted treatments like ECT can absolutely also leave you worse off but in the right people the risk is worth the potential payoff for both.
Hi, author here. Sadly, I had to cancel it. The source code is here: https://github.com/etodd/lasercrabs (I briefly tried to rebrand and release it as-is). The story is here: https://etodd.io/2023/06/27/making-games/