skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
at this point we should be pulling on every thread. Individual change is one of them, it should be promoted as well.

The amount of frivolous waste I observe at the individual level, multiplied by the millions, is not insignificant.
Another giveaway of GPT content for me are overusing importance adjectives like "crucial" or "essential", and of course an extreme overuse of enumerations.
I really enjoyed it too, though the first half of the book is better than the second.

I'd bought it while stuck in an airport trudging through Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy (which I hated), saw a book by qntm in my recommended list and bought it instantly, having read their online stuff. Unlike the KSR, it was great fun and I blazed through it.
Absurd. What next, they want a 30% cut from me when I set up automatic payments for my credit card through the banks iOS app?
California's early-warning system issues 5M earthquake alerts
They're selling a fake relationship and taking advantage of lonely people. Sellling porno flicks is much more honest.
Are your signs backwards?
Nothing is forbidden, until you try to explain it. I come from the perspective that genre is a contract with the audience. Here _Interstellar_ is making a genre error.

Take _Star Wars_ for example. You don't need to know how the Force works. There's no suspension of disbelief because you've bought into the genre and its tropes. The Force is everywhere, Luke is atuned to it. We don't need to know anything else mechanixally. Then they rolled up with midichlorians and reduced the whole thing to jibberish.

_Interstellar_ sets a hard sci-fi expectation with a visually accurate black hole before losing the train of thought. Imagine if _Lord of the Rings_ spent 20 minutes discussing how the plate tectonics of Middle Earth gave rise to Mount Doom before veering off into the history of the eagles. It gives your audience whiplash.
Why is spending time caring for your child a "burden", but having to go work for a profit driven corporation is not?

Shouldn't we be giving parents (mothers AND fathers) more flexibility and freedom to choose to spend time with their children?

Progressives almost always emphasize support for care outside the home and pushing to keep more parents in the corporate work force, and very little about supporting parents caring for their children inside the home.

(And don't get me started on the Republicans. I am well aware they did not support extending the Child Tax Credit, while continuing to claim it was the Democrats who aren't supporting families with children.)
Definitely VS Code is my favourite. I’ve created so far 3 extensions. I really like the SDK and the way you can control every aspect of the IDE.
Manufacturing cars with “cut everything possible and add stuff back in if it doesn’t work” mentality seems risky

Brought to you by the folks who took out a critical piece of the break and shipped it by accident
This makes you appreciate curation in a museum. Why are these objects shown together? Historical period, size, design feature, material, production method? It looks completely arbitrary.
That's not a subscription you're cancelling though? Isn't this law about cancelling a subscription, not about ads/"promotional email"?
I remember reading that per-creation billing is a very important feature for Patreon creators, because it removes the moral obligation to produce content just to justify a subscription.

If Patreon really doesn't want to kill the feature itself, but is just responding to Apple's enforcement, then it seems like a really clear illustration of monopoly power - pushing unrelated markets to change their own structure and products just to fit Apple's preferred billing flow.
Read Intel's biggest statement yet on how it's addressing Raptor Lake CPU woes
Still over $200 for something that doesn't need an upgrade except for this unpatched security issue. I can think of a lot of other things I'd rather do with $200.

At minimum, save it toward a GPU upgrade that would actually be useful, rather than replacing my CPU that isn't a performance bottleneck.
Heads up, the supabase link on the front page 404s
> Um, this is exactly what the article is about

The article is about being unfamiliar with a car after 5 minutes. If the button was a physical button you’d still have to look for it since you are still unfamiliar with the car.

Before downvoting, ask yourself:

* “Would this article exist if the person found the button within 5 minutes?”

* “Would this article exist if the person was familiar with the car?”
"Lisp machine" means a CPU or a computer specialized for running Lisp (which stopped being made in the 1980s or 1990s). You mean "a Lisp implementation" or "a Lisp language processor".
Congratulations on maintaining your streak!
Photonic Chip Cuts Cost of Hunting Exoplanets
Why would water be able to get through your roof but air not be able to get to it at the same time?

Why would water be able to get through your roof with spray foam making anything worse? Water damage means you have to replace things anyway.
I really appreciated this way of looking at HTMX! Thank you!
Cancer rates are rising in young people
This is true.

The sophisticated system I'm speaking of however is not the astronomical science (though indeed they were responsible for this development, and it was of course sophisticated) but rather a methodical, extensive, rules-based study of fate, as related to platonic (archetypal) forms.
I plain hate how digital modern cars are.

So many useless features and all the core stuff is harder to use.

I was so frustrated with my w213 E class Mercedes, I went back to a used fiat Punto.

Everything is much easier and better, it's less comfortable and my SO has hard time sleeping in it on long trips, but aside that it's much better.

Gets a scratch? Who cares. Someone bumps my car while parking? Who cares. Fuel economy? Much better. Maintenance cost? Much lower. Insurance? Much lower.

Everything is analog and easy to use.

I am more and more convinced that I will only be using vintage cars in the future, and all this digital stuff can die on the spot, and Tesla crap more than anything else.
Elite schools could just mean "otherwise wealthy enough to take risks".
> If the entire world had the Korean birthrate (and it does seem to be moving that way), extinction would happen in 25 generations.

Well, let's kind of obvious why Korea's birthrdate is low. It's because it's extremely expensive to have a child in a small country with limited resources and competition for them. Women are also getting more educated and emancipated and want more out of life than being somebody's wife, mother, and tons of unpaid labor: cleaning, cooking, etc. That was possible in the past, but capitalism has advanced so much that women are also expected to work in addition to their other chores, in order for the family to make ends meet. Hence, when Korean women have a choice nowadays, increasingly, their choice is to focus on themselves and not start a family.

The less people there are, the more free resources and less competition, hence more incentive and possibility to have a child. Korea is a hyper competitive capitalist society with huge incomes disparity, expensive childcare, soaring rents, and little living space. If you want high birth rates, make the country the opposite, make it more social: long parental leave, high job security, worker protection programs, social housing, low inequality, accessible healthcare, early retirement age, etc.

> No, the pronatalist movement is premised on the belief that humans should not go extinct

Yeah, but what are their real motives? How I see it, if you are a:

- pronatalist and a capitalist, you want more drones for your factories and offices

- pronatalist and religious, you want more souls for your deity of choice

- pronatalist and a nationalist, you want more people to fight your wars

- pronatalist and old, you want other people to take care of you and pay your pension

My point is, it's infuriating that we live in a system where paying rent working two jobs is near impossible, but at the same time people complaining that there are no children. Fix capitalism, and people'd start having children.
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You can set this up very easily with Hammerspoon, and have it work with whichever terminal or app you want.
It sounds like they're outright killing per-creation patronage, so...yes? This seems to affect all their users?
I had nothing but problems with DHT22/AM2302. most of the python scripts and instructions were deprecated

I now use the SHTC3 Temperature Humidity Sensor Module with any raspberry pi.

I followed this guide for the raspberry pi

https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/downloads/pdf/adafruit-sensir...

enable i2c on the pi.

ssh into the pi
create an alias to start it.
Here in Germany lack of individual sacrifice is absolutely a big part of the problem. NIMBYs protest the construction of new transmission towers at every step because "it ruins the landscape". And when the power company caves in and decides to burry high-voltage transmission lines instead the NIMBYs still fight them because the waste heat might turn some grass brown and reduce some crop yields. The end result is that when there's lots of wind in the North of the country the South still has to run coal or gas plants because we can't transport enough electricity across the country. And don't even get me started about the silly opposition to wind energy, and regional politicians that make ridiculous minimum distance laws to appeal to those voters.

I'm not demanding that everyone only bikes to work and lives off their garden and locally grown produce, but it would be nice if we could all agree on a level of personal sacrifice that involves not sabotaging the decarbonization of the grid for selfish reasons.
I guess somebody has to defend Tesla's UX so I'll do it. Apart from the lack of physical controls, and the aggressive pace of changes I find it quite intuitive. Better designed than most software.

edit: I'm not saying it's flawless, but the alternatives are even worse. On balance, I like it.
It depends upon what you mean by opinionated. There is software that expects users to behave in certain ways and there is software where the developer is quite firm about what they will and will not implement. I would say that calibre and kitty fit into the latter category. These applications offer a lot of features and are very configurable, yet they also don't try to be everything to everyone.

While I don't know why Goyal takes the approach he does, I would imagine that a lot of demands are placed on him simply because his software is so powerful (and, in the case of calibre, pretty much the only program in its domain that goes beyond serving basic needs).
The question to ask is "what are you trying to achieve", and my opinionated answer is "rehabilitation" and definitely not revenge. In this case, jail will cost society a lot and achieve little.

Perhaps a very public and embarrassing apology combined with damages would serve the same purpose at a lower cost. This woman missed a few days of work, and I'm sure she'd enjoy a nice vacation for her troubles.
That is the first thing I configure in iTerm. To have it slide down like Quake terminal, and hide it from the dock
where is the community of people who read books like this other than HN?

I was reading this a few months ago but put it down because the language and characters clunky but I will definitely revisit it after this thread as the ideas are apparently worth it.
This is about unsubscribing from services. And in California, it's super easy to cancel Apple Arcade.
I will never own a vehicle that doesn't have common/critical functions on physical buttons - exactly because of crap like this. We aren't incentivized to leave well enough alone - things have to constantly be "improved" and then you end up with dangerous experiences like this.
He also said to remove things until it breaks. That doesn’t work for ux imho since “well it technically still works” isn’t going to lead to a great experience.
Please read the article more careful.
The author compares v11 and v10 of the Tesla software.
v10 directly displays the defroster button.
v11 does hide it behind the temperature control (which is criticised).
How are start-up times?

I mostly like kitty but I’ve noticed that it takes a couple seconds to start up when I put my cpu down to 400Mhz. (Which might seem like an odd thing to do, but xterm handles it fine and, hey, why do we need billions of clock cycles to start up a terminal? That’s ridiculous).
It's crazy how that works right? SCPs are an old internet thing and show up all over the place. Most people pay it no mind, but once you learn about it you realize how crazy wide spread it is.
I'm not sure how public posts count as "private data".
Bug report? On https://pglite.dev/repl/ running `SELECT 'a fat cat sat on a mat and ate a fat rat'::tsvector @@ 'cat & rat'::tsquery;` works, which is cool.

However, running `SELECT to_tsvector('fat cats ate fat rats') @@ to_tsquery('fat & rat');` fails with `y is not a function`. Then trying to run the first query yields `null`, which is weird. I can open an issue if you want :)
That’s a great feeling! For me, it’s hard to track time the way people do, but I can tell you about some compelling read - The Lord of the Rings
"Forget xxxx - xxxx is the new king of AI image generation", repeat every 4 months minus one week. Calculation based on a ChatGPT response.
Internet Draft: gRPC Network Management Interface (GNMI)
How Elon Musk Is Using His Empire to Kickstart XAI
https://www.wsj.com/tech/elon-musk-tesla-shore-up-ai-busines...
It’s highly disincentivized by basic game theory. Any individual sacrifice has highly negative effects on the individual player, and undetectable positive effects on the problem we’re supposed to be solving.
I don't know if you need the duration that residents undergo to get that stress training benefit. But I also don't think we have enough training throughput of doctors to prevent the situation where a tired doctor has to handle an emergency.

It's also quite frustrating the money is not there for the work put in and the personal sacrifice.
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Our technology is based on latent diffusion models (LDM), similar to Stable Diffusion. Today, we are launching by deploying two state-of-the-art open-source models released under the Apache 2 license: Chest X-ray and Brain MRI.

We have some partnerships lined up and we will be releasing other amazing models soon. There are many applications of synthetic medical images, what is your favourite? What do you wanna use it for? Which features would you like to see? I am looking forward to hearing your feedback.

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I think niche words like "delve" get replaced by phrases like "deep dive" to accommodate ESLs, especially in big business and software development. "Delve" is the word to use, of course, but if you're going to lose (or annoy/insult) your ESL audience by using fancy words, maybe just being accommodating has value.
first rule of fight club - never discuss fight club
This is why my next car won’t be a Tesla (after driving one for the past 8 years). It’s sad, they get so many things right but they are dangerously irresponsible.
Technically wouldn't any newly bred cultivar pretty much be an invasive species, should it be capable of surviving, competing with, and cross-breeding with its natural kin?
You can put arbitrary metadata on functions, classes and other things that are basically objects in in Python. If you write

def somefunction(x):
... body ...

you can later write

somefunction.specialmetadata = "a value"

so what you can do is fairly unlimited. You can't write, however

x = 4
x.metavalue = 3

as the int isn't a general object. Even if you did the metadata would apply to the value (the '4') and not the variable (the 'x')
Civilisation looks back puzzled as the sound of the roller coaster lift dies
I must admit I’m a bit baffled here. I find the listening experience on Spotify to largely conform to what I want to do. If I want to discover new music, I’ll pick a song I like, create a station out of it and dig into songs/artists that populate it. If I want to go into an artist’s catalog, I’ll look up the artist (or visit them in my library after having added them to it) and find and album that I want to listen to.

I think the only thing that really bothers me is that you might add a song or an album to your library but for some reason that doesn’t automatically add the artist to your library. I feel like they should all be interlinked.

I don’t use the desktop app at all though. Maybe the mobile app just has a better design?
I do programming interviews and I found candidates struggling a lot in doing http request and parsing response json in Go while in Python its a breeze, what makes it particularly hard, is it lack of generics or dict data type?
In developed societies it doesn't make sense to let individuals solve collective problems.

For instance you might sacrifice flying to save the climate but airlines actually have CO2 quotas. So if you aren't flying somebody else is likely going to take your place because it will be cheap. CO2 quotas will be reduced year by year so flying will get more expensive and you will move from individual sacrifice to market dynamics.
Everything this channel does is pretty well thought out, and they’re certainly not engaging in LLM hype, they’re just starting a series exploring the many potential implications of an AGI — as breathlessly hyped by a lot of other people — actually coming about, by whatever means, on the timeline that some of those other people are proposing. They do a lot of “what if” futurism that looks at where human society could go longer term if it makes certain, sometimes entirely hypothetical, choices / advances / mistakes.

In a nutshell, don’t dismiss Kurzgesagt out of hand.
Germany's bigger problem is caving to the anti-Nuclear sentiment, which, sure, NIMBYs (or environmentalists as they call themselves today) had a hand in defeating.
Although "eager" isn't called out, a recent study of academic publications shows that the use of LLMs can be measured through word frequency analysis [1], finding certain words are disproportionally represented:

> We study vocabulary changes in 14 million PubMed abstracts from 2010–2024, and show how the appearance of LLMs led to an abrupt increase in the frequency of certain style words.

1: https://arxiv.org/html/2406.07016v1
Vegas local here, after Oct 2017 no Vegas hotel room on the strip is going 24 hours without hotel staff seeing the inside of a room - every hotel has this policy. I don’t know why people expect privacy in Vegas, there are more cameras and technology watching you here than anywhere else in the US.
And this is a perfectly reasonable approach. Frankly, the cost/benefit ratio of delving into another language is most often not appealing.

As a suggestion, you could have delved more into the "hammer" metaphor, mentioning that a hammer is a flexible tool: nail planks, remove nails, smash things and even as a defensive weapon! You shouldn't misuse it for drilling walls, but that is outside the required scope of your work etc.

But in the end it's a very personal post, and we typically crave here for universality and judge posts up high from a meta-perspective, haha. Often neglecting that we were not actually the intended audience.
Even though Wezterm has lots of options but it's slow compared to Kitty and maybe even Windows terminal
I don't understand what you mean. A TFR of 0.5-1 means that every generation is about 2-4 times smaller than the one which came before it. In what sense can that be or get us to a steady state?
Tap climate, tap demist. It's really not that hard.

If you frequently need to demist, simple drag the demist option onto the app bar, then it's a single click.

The notion that every function needs to be accessible with a single click is what leads to ridiculously busy cabins that look like aircraft flight decks.

Complaints about Tesla changing its UI ("real pain of being at the mercy of the manufacturer who can completely change how your car works overnight") are also ridiculous. Owning a Tesla is a rewarding experience precisely because its OTA updates work consistently well, and its UI is well-thought-out and responsive. If Tesla wasn't allowed to change its UI, we'd never have great features like the customisable app bar. And in any case, in the years I've owned my Model S, there has only been one major redesign of the UI, and it greatly simplified and improved the whole experience.
The Oscars are a weak substitute. Much less wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Font seems to not include the '<', '>', or '=' characters. I sympathize with font designers, there are so many glyphs you have to stare at - hundred if not thousands - for days and weeks on end; eventually you get tired of seeing them...
No! They want 30% of your net worth each time you connect to your bank over the internet using an Apple device.
> Civilization isn't a Ponzi scheme

But it is, by the technical definition. New entrants are continually needed (able bodied ~20-60 year olds) to take care of the earlier entrants (~70+). That's the concrete reality of any society where people over ~70 don't just walk out into the wild to starve.

> where we borrow from the future to pay for today might be

This statement is still immersed in the abstractions of the financial paradigm. There is no "borrowing from the future". Every loan has a counterparty in the now. This is what we need to focus on, as one thing really putting the squeeze on people having kids is the growing debt bubble that vacuums real wealth away from the edges and funnels ever-more of it towards the zero-sum [0] banking sector. If housing was unaffordable merely because Scrooge McDuck's vaults kept getting bigger, this might at least be understandable. But rich individuals don't really squander resources at scale (misallocating, sure. But not wholly wasting them). Rather the real waste is all of the fake jobs that have been created in the FIRE sector, essentially paying people to create ever-growing heaps of paperwork.

[0] "inelastic-sum", more accurately. Banking/investment certainly does support production by allocating capital more optimally. But there is a limit to how well this can be performed, meaning diminishing returns on the resources spent. And we're well past that point.
Here's an example of extending an IDE (IntelliJ/PyCharm/RubyMine/WebStorm) by driving it externally:

I used just a little bit of code to make it so when I command-click a filepath anywhere, it opens in IntelliJ. This works in the browser, on chrome links, (github, gitlab, jenkins, error pages, etc) and also in iTerm on stack traces, spec/test paths. I made a chrome plugin, a shell script, and used the remote control plugin (not mine). The result was super-satisfying. I'll probably open source the bits soon. Now, I didn't script the IDE myself--the Remote Control Plugin did that work, but for an open source solution, I wouldn't mind building a remote control plugin myself.

Making this work got me wondering about doing the same with an open-source editor. I also would like to drive things internally, but I want it to be easy so I get a good return on the effort.
Quickselect mode is amazing though!

It's useful out of the box but the superpower is that you can customise the regexes it matches. I've added one that finds all the filenames output by 'eza --icons' (\p{Co} matches the icon) so I can instantly type (by using shift+the quickselect letters) any filename after doing an ls (aliased to eza).