skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The job of a leader is to schedule meetings, and the good ones actually manage to get people to show up. Leadership is about herding cats, not about technical expertise.
Quite so.

If indeed all the author's ideas are incomplete until written, his mistake is ascribing this to the power of his writing rather than the limits of his ideation.
The number of coal fired power plants is a lot less interesting than the amount of carbon per kWh, which has come down continuously in Germany, thanks to more and more renewable capacity: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/carbon-intensity-electric...
Since it looks like you're talking about North American freight rail, here's an example rail shipment waybill (taken from the CN implementation guide which I found online [1])

ISA*00* *00* *02*CN *ZZ*GENERIC *230710*1339* U*00803*006298413*0*P*>
GS*WB*CN*GENERIC*20230710*1336*98826*X*008030
ST*417*988260001
BX*00*R*PP*1257*CN*L*B*N****N
BNX*R**S
N9*BM*1257**20230710*1336
DTM*168*20230710*1336*ET
N7*CN*123456*213360*N*66700******RR****6711*M*****186*128***C214
M7*12345
N8*111111*20230710
F9*070112*WATSON*SK*****071511*S0K4V0
D9*093390*VANCOUVER*BC*****0093900*V5T1E1
N1*SH*GENERIC CARLOAD INC*C5*1111111111111
N3*123 FIRST ROAD
N4*WATSON*SK*S0K 4V0*CA
PER*IC*CONTACT NAME*TE*123-123-1234
N1*CN*GENERIC CONSIGNEE CO*C5*2222222222222
N3*12 SMITH STREET
N4*VANCOUVER*BC*V5K 1P7*CA
N1*PF*GENERIC CARLOAD INC*C5*1111111111111
N3*123 FIRST ROAD
N4*WATSON*SK*S0K 4V0*CA
R2*CN*S****R
LX*1
L5*1*WALLBOARD*3275440*T
L0*1***213360*N***1*CLD
MEA*AI*VOL*250.6041*CR***15
MEA**VWT*0.7167*KC***15
SE*31*988260001
GE*1*98826
IEA*1*006298413

The F9 and D9 lines are the origin and destination stations, respectively. WATSON, SK and VANCOUVER, BC are regulated names and can be used to find actual station coordinates in an industry reference file. These are the start and end points of the shipment from a rail network perspective.

There's also a pre-baked route. In this example the route is just "R2*CN*S**R" which basically means the rail cars are never leaving CN (since it's a giant class 1 railroad and this is their example). But in your example of a cross country shipment, the route might look something like:

R2*BNSF*S*CHGO
R2*UP*1*PITTS
R2*NS*2*PHILA
R2*CSXT*D

In this example, the first name is the carrier for that leg, the second value is the role that carrier plays (S = shipper's carrier, 1 = first intermediate carrier, 2 = second intermediate carrier, D = delivery switch carrier), and the last name, if present, is the junction station where the two adjacent carriers will meet. Like the station city+state names before, these junction abbreviations are regulated and can be looked up in industry reference files to find more information. But assume that BNSF and UP are well aware of how they interchange at CHGO.

Of course the shipment probably came from some factory and is going to some other factory. Those addresses can be found in the N1*SH (shipper) and N1*CN (consignee) blocks. Obviously the railroad isn't going to drop a group of rail cars at the consignee's street address, but the "delivery switch carrier" railroad in charge of handling that last mile service will have an existing relationship with the consignee and know where to take the cars. They'll often have pre-arranged schedules for when a locomotive will arrive to bring new loads and pull away empties.

[1] https://www.cn.ca/-/media/files/customer-centre/customer-cen...
This is one of those "It depends" things. My experience, these days, is that people want one-size-fits-all "solutions," and have no patience for "It depends."

This is perfect for churches, and spiritual fellowships. Might not work as well, for military, or sales.

That said, I was a manager for 25 years, and considered the well-being of my team, my #2 priority (#1 was always keeping the company's interests in mind). My own well-being was #3.

But mentioning that, tends to draw real scorn, from today's tech folks. Not exactly sure what it is, they want from managers.
At a very very high level, whenever you hear solid state battery technologies that sound kind of g whiz, a fundamental skepticism you should have is that it seems to be easy to make a really investor-targeted small cell Solid state battery.

Most of the lithium-based solid state battery companies that we heard about in the hype cycle: All had really good looking high cycle, high density solid-state batteries that were basically you know the size of a watch battery.

But they never could scale. And that I mean they just couldn't make the large size battery that modern EVS use. And they also couldn't seem to scale production in any sort of married form factors of batteries in use in the world.

Nevertheless this seems very very promising.
Also the flip side that a lot of people miss:

You can be right about the big picture/abstraction and wrong about a specific. Just because you argued or proved part of an argument wrong doesn't make the whole thing wrong.
AI Is Life
150 is Dunbar's number, made by extrapolating a monkey species tribe size / brain size correlation to human brain size. Something interesting to think about, but not exactly hard science.
Just run the peaker plants on hydrogen once you have enough overcapacity on sunny/windy days to actually fill some storage.
I am not ignorant of the cost you surface wrt taxes, but taking into account my total US tax burden when you add in insurance and medical expenses for a family of four, cross jurisdiction tax credits for taxes I would pay in Spain, as well as the improved quality of life around work life balance, life pace, safety of living a car free life (walking or riding bicycles primary for transportation), and so on, it is a net positive for our situation. I admit others must perform their own assessment to understand if a potentially favorable outcome awaits them.

If you want to grind and become wealthy, it’s not the place to be; it’s a place to live. As always, be mindful what you’re optimizing for.
> It's really difficult to be isolated in a high stress environment.

Mars seems more like a high boredom environment. It's a dead planet where nothing more than the occasional feeble dust storm happen.
One Year of Solopreneurship
this will come in handy once I start my vc fund.
… I mean, coriander leaves (cilantro) was barely a thing at all in Ireland 50 years ago, and is now all over the place, primarily as a component of Indian and Mexican food, which are quite popular. I’m going to bet on fashions/familiarity, there, rather than a spate of sneaky gene therapy.
lol, yes. good eye. ;) https://github.com/paulirish/lite-youtube-embed/issues/65
The price will be very high, but the vector unit isn't the reason at all.

These target a very specialized market and they won't be selling billions of them like they do with other PIC designs. If a specialized chip costs $250M to get past all the red tape and out the door and you expect to sell 200k in the first couple years, your costs are going to be high (and you aren't going to wait any longer than that to pay off your R&D costs).

Once the chip is fabbed, your post-fab requirements are also going to be very high and all that extra verification adds even more money to the process. If there are plans to sell these in something like a nuke plant, they'll also need a completely verified supply chain which drives up costs astronomically (when my father worked at one, a simple bolt that would cost you $0.10 at a hardware store would cost $100 due to all the chain of custody bureaucracy costs).

While the chip is cutting edge year 1, by the time it's moving into year 5, it will be a commodity that must compete on price rather than being the latest and greatest. By year 10-30 (or whenever their support and supply guarantee contracts are ending), the big costs become maintenance. You have minimum amount of people you pay to sit around on support which costs millions per year. You have to keep around all the verification processes and people for the occasional chip order too (small wafer runs are expensive if they have to be done and if you're forced to do one after 20-30 years the old fabs and their process might not even exist requiring you to deal with all the bureaucracy of getting the design updated to the new process, getting new verification created and approved, etc).

I'd be very surprised if these chips were under $5000 each and wouldn't be at all surprised if they were $10k or more.
Chuck Moore (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_H._Moore) presentation about GreenArrays in 2013:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PclgBd6_Zs
> An ability to operate reasonably effectively under the constraints of bounded rationality is an ingredient of competence.

Sure, and that’s a reasonable argument for the claim that the less senior manager with the budget is competent if she refuses to reduce it, because she understands that it will not be increased again after the crisis is over.

But it’s not a good reason to call the senior manager who doesn’t understand the situation “competent”. The root cause of problem is that her rationality is too bounded, which I would prefer to call “incompetence”.
Despite the name it isn’t so much a hacker culture here but rather a general intelligentsia one
> Supply. The answer is and has always been to build more housing.

IMHO not really

The supply of affordable housing in the place where it's needed often can not be increased due to physical limitations and building luxury flats being more profitable. And the "demand" is often not driven by people living there, but investment stuff.

I.e. if we purely look at "supply of housing" (ignoring price) and "demand of housing" (to live in) there isn't a problem at all in most cases.

Through I agree with NIMBY making it worse, especially given that it's often not even their backyard. But the neighborhood of properties/land bought as investments and them blocking things for investment reasons.

Through the main reason is IMHO still housing being used roughly "like stocks".
This is very interesting for me to read -- my experience was the opposite: dihiydroergotamine was always preposterously expensive (hundreds of dollars for one dose); the history of it was like one of those fascinating novels with a disastrous chain of unintended consequences. It's basically a fungus, used forever, it should be trivial. It predated the FDA, and therein lay the bizarre economic and regulatory paradox: it was grandfathered in, in a way, but the delivery mechanism (a nasal spray) was a later invention that went through the full clinical research gamut. There's no money in the drug to do clinical trials, so it fell into this weird gray area. I wish I could find the article from when I looked into it, presumably some plaintive search at the time, "why is Migranal so expensive?"
There are other photos of that same sign with correct conversions, so it likely was showing 138ºF (with two broken segments) with a correct conversion to 59ºC. But it's probably not set up properly to be considered for official record purposes, it's just something for people to stand next to and have their photos taken.
Not doing nonessential maintenance for twenty years because you know that your plant will be shut down is really not good if you want to eventually restart it.
How did you find out about DEC2? Is there a test?
Except cost, construction time, and public acceptance.
This is bad for the economy, however, because it limits overall production.
Ex-directors allege fraud at Tether-backed crypto group Northern Data
> One thing I find rather frustrating about YouTube’s redesign (on desktop) is that it devotes so much screen real estate to promoting videos other than the one you’re actually there to watch. I’d prefer fewer distractions.

The F key is your friend. It puts the video full screen. You don't even have to find the full screen icon at the bottom right of the video, just hit F.
That's the official justification given for the tariffs, but the motivation for the tariffs is 100% that Chinese EVs are cheap, and European auto manufacturers are unable to compete on a level playing field.

The decision to impose tariffs came first, and the "investigation" into Chinese subsidies came next, in order to justify a decision that had already been made. Once the "investigation" came back with the pre-determined answer, the tariffs were imposed.

The subsidies that are being alleged here are the exact same types of subsidies that European countries and the US give to support EV sales. Chinese subsidies are not especially large here, and they're not the reason why Chinese EVs are cheap. Chinese EVs are cheap because the Chinese EV market is extremely competitive, China is good at manufacturing, and Chinese mass consumers can't afford cars at European or American prices.

In contrast, major European auto manufacturers have wasted time by continuing to focus on internal-combustion-engine vehicles. Suddenly, they find themselves at a disadvantage in the EV market, so they go running to their governments and ask for tariffs on superior Chinese EVs. Protectionism 101.
Synopsis: ChatGPT is great at stealing from LeetCode, but is horrible at doing anything creative.

We knew that already, but it is good to have an academic publication to link to.
The only place I regularly see cheques used would be at home appliance stores.

To speculate, I'recon the top two reasons would be: dedicated bank account for home expenses; purchaser doesn't have the money today, but expects to have it deposited before the cheque clears "in a few days".
> The Solution is to publicly shame Google Inc for wasting the resources.

They don't care/internal company policies are misaligned.

Here's Chrome's engineering leader saying that 2.4 seconds to load a page on Reddit is fast actually: https://x.com/addyosmani/status/1678117107597471745

Here's him also writing a huge article on using third-party scripts to improve Youtube embeds because that's apparently better than fixing actual Youtube embeds: https://web.dev/articles/embed-best-practices

BTW, do you know that Youtube's desktop site loads an 2.5 MB CSS file (and 11 MB of Javascript)?
I've thought about the cultural change aspect too and I agree with you. Younger generations are more used to wearing smart watches and carrying phones, so the appetite for wearable fall and activity detection devices will be much higher in future.
> I started feeling a bit embarrassed that a graduate student had more guts than I had to get back onto the meetup organizer wagon.

Inter-generational perpetual embarrassment engine for innovation.
that was back before the phone system was defiled by robo-dialers and scammers.
What do you mean by "Flutter developer trying to pivot to real native development" ?
Talent Search versus Talent Development (2019) [pdf]
These days, I'm using Claude 3.5 to create WordPress plug-ins with some success and some failures. What is sure though, is that Clause is miles better than chat gpt at creating WordPress plug-ins. The last 10 times I tried to create one with chatgpt, I had a total WordPress failure.
If there is capacity, they are obliged to provide it on a non-discriminatory basis. If there isn't capacity, then it gets into questions of allocation (which still needs to be done in a fair and documented basis).
Amazingly effective game, apparently even turned into a movie not once but twice (Cry_Wolf and one Austrian adaption, according to de.wikipedia). That connection to an 18th century media hype adds an interesting new angle to the success of that game, in particular given how France is not exactly known as a big exporter of modern games except for that one.

(whereas in pre-modern games, there seems to be be a huge amount of frenchess everywhere. I guess that's still a consequence of the idleness enforced at Versailles and Europe's near-universal scramble to replicate?)
Shows a password dialog?
> Startups ship more per person than big companies

Are they?

Apple revenue per engineer is $2.4M. It seems hard to beat.
> That the first "app store" approved is built on predatory free to play gaming money is also a problem.

Those are also the only guys who have enough money to compete with Apple's lawyers.
Ambiguously rude numeronyms can make you look like a big s2t.
You build electrolyzers and batteries?
Can you specify which version of ChatGPT you used ? It's not helpful to say "ChatGPT" because there's a huge gap between the versions.
Well written and entertaining article, but unnecessarily mean.
> I'm surprised that universities don't open their doors to such events for everyone

You have to be very careful about letting people use your facilities to host events.

Unfortunately, grifters will use any opportunity to do something on a university campus as a way to imply they are associated with the university.

Even self-help author Tim Ferriss recommended this trick in his “Four Hour Work Week” book: He advised using university campuses to speak so you could leverage their credibility for your brand (I can’t remember the exact details)

It became such a problem that universities really can’t risk letting random groups come use their facilities. It doesn’t take long before someone abuses it to say they “Lectured at <university>” or “Gave a speech at <university>”
Spiral. Not circle. Having something run in itself is as old as the need to safely run something in order to see if it's going to blow up or not, though. If people aren't trying to write things so your general use programming environment can virtualize itself, it's basically not used seriously enough yet.
>Every additional millisecond of load time will reduce engagement

This is something people believed in the 90s. None of the megacorps give a damn about that as is evident by their behavior. If it doesn't matter for them it doesn't make sense for you to optimize that on their behalf.

It is a non-issue for this usecase.

But please do care about it for the rest of your stack.
Is there any similar life simulation system which shows replication evolving naturally? I remember looking into this project once and replication is one of the already built-in properties.
I'm loving the perl one liners. I fear its a dying art!

Tangent:

I worked at a large financial news site for a number of years.

One of our best engineers spun up an "a11y" sub team. As it was quite involved and they went team to team doing things, I assume it was some sort of dev tool initiative.

It was only after I left and I was describing it as the "ally" team that I was told what it meant.

Its like "banal" its only when you say it out load amongst (hopefully) friends do you realise that you've not got it quite right....
I'm not sure that ranking them makes sense.

Like, there are absolutely places I as a manager recognized a win/win/win (company/team/myself) by doing something other than what the company said to do, or to message differently than the company wanted me to.

Putting "the company's interests as #1" is a bit ambiguous. It could mean you are willing to do the things needed to save the company from itself, or it could mean that you'd uncritically do what you were told. Without context, it sounds like the latter.

Similarly, putting your own well being behind both of those sounds like a recipe for burnout. What I expect you probably mean is that you look to take on the unpleasant tasks for the team, the things that need doing but won't grow the individuals on the team, or are morale killers, or are just bitchwork to make leadership happy. But, again, ambiguous.
> alleged

really?

Like the US was allegedly colonized by English colonists?
Wow.

I'm adding this to my ascii "vocab"
Certain bee fungi are detected by the colony's workers — a more-senior worker might then take a one-way trip out of the hive, with infected co-worker as cargo.

She doesn't come back (to not infect the hive, herself).
Recipe: Ice Cream in a Bag (2008)
yt-dl, chron, and onedrive or icloud together achieve this
There are some articles marked as "Artifact destroyed", does it mean that the original document is lost forever? I see there are missing on another website [0]

[0] https://avalon.law.yale.edu/ancient/hamframe.asp
I grew up in an American suburb and dialup was the norm for me through high school (early/mid-2000s). We did have a solid 56K connection though (which usually ran at about 53.3 kbps) thanks to MSN (back when it was a full-fledged ISP and not a news aggregator).

It wasn't until the latter part of that decade that home broadband became relatively common, and it wasn't particularly fast (ca. 10 Mbps IIRC) nor symmetrical (upload speed was a small fraction of download speed). I had a friend out in the sticks who had to contend with satellite+dialup past 2010.

Decent speeds (50 Mbps+) didn't roll out en masse until the middle part of the 2010s, especially as Netflix exploded.
It is also possible that another insect ate the carcass (perhaps while living, albeit disabled). Cockroaches are notorious.
I switched jobs several times over COVID, and it was always culture-related. One where I joined a FE dev and was immediately told they had a churn problem. I quickly learned why.

Sometimes job hopping is about keeping the goals you have for yourself and your career intact at the cost of some short-term 'reputation'.

HR says so often that we're 'people first' and then raises an eyebrow when you give a real accounting of the quick moves. It's so frustrating and backwards.
Libraries aren't foreign policy.

And Johnson didn't "just" expose what was going on behind the scenes, the point I was demonstrating is that he was so bad he was forced out of office even by the very party that itself was removed from office for being bad.

If you want to argue that the UK electoral system is bad, I'd agree — yet your claim is neither evidence of that nor is it related to this story.
Reciprocity in Theory and Practice (1999)
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Can you comment more on what you mean by pre-modern games and their Frenchness?
The job of a leader is to define the problem to solve. Meetings are a tool, not an outcome.
The leaves taste like dishwashing shampoo. But the seeds are great. We mix them with green and black pepper.
The mentioned TUMuchdata is held at an university. I think a lot depends on the individuals behind such activities.

I don't know anyone behind TUMuchdata and had no contact to the department for years but the chair is still the same as when I studied there and I think he might be exactly the person that would permit or even foster such activities.
People said the same thing about plate tectonics. The boundary of what is testable has always been moving and it’s honestly a little astounding that this isn’t obvious to everyone making this argument.
More reasonable would be to consider how much each was paying her.
Most internet traffic will be predicted/generated by AI by then, so they'll only need to send a few tiny deltas.