skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If federal rules provide some version of equal treatment, then "boosted representation" for small states is about nothing but a desire for local power.

There's no reason for smaller states to get less money per capita for schools, or less money per mile for US highways, or less money per million dollars of damage from a natural disaster. And indeed, they do not, because we have historically believed in fairness.

However, the idea that the 300k residents of Wyoming should be able to exert outsize power of regulatory decisions just because "they are a state" is anti-democratic. We put the things we don't want majoritarian decisions on into the constitution; the rest is up for a vote, and a handful of people shouldn't be able to veto the decision of the many just because they happen to be clustered in one place.
Why do you think they are kept in the dark on purpose?
What makes you think the issue is funding?
> It's enjoyable to use and offers good UI for attaching files

Oh, wow! I didn't know it handled files this well. It'll even play video. What's keeping you from using Notes all the time? The lack of export options? What sort of export options are you looking for?
I'm completely mind-blown that not only can they do this, but we get 1080p video for almost the whole time.

What cameras do they have that can look at something 30 KM up in the air that well?
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I thought about "Internet Computer"[1] (yet another cryptocurrency that was supposed to fix everything), and it made me curious since I didn't think it would bring any customer.

Ideal customer profile makes much more sense.

[1] https://internetcomputer.org/
You can't just compare the entire multi purpose road network of the US to a single rail company. That's just not a serious comparison.

Besides, you didn't include the cost of the vehicles or the cost of fuel for the cars. I presume the number for Amtrak include all operating costs.

The truth is that different modes of transport have different strengths and weaknesses. In densely urbanized areas trains and trams are typically more efficient than cars.
I don’t think you know what the word “applies” means.
Giddy and crying.

I turned 50 yesterday and it feels a bit like the future I dreamed of as a child.
With the caveat that this number is for situations where you cannot backtrack (choose a previously seen option that isn’t the current one).

There is a great book Algorithms to Live by that goes over this explore/exploit problem and more. I recommend it.
thats just cope. I stopped using stackoverflow because I get everything from chatpgt/claude. Just a case of having better tech.

Sure the mods were arseholes etc.. but before gpt never minded using it .
Do you think that inference on a thirteen million parameter neural network is more lightweight than running a conventional physics engine?
I only burn 80 calories when running a 7 minute mile but the average person uses a lot more if they are untrained.

The office-worker uses the same calories as a workout because they have no fitness and their heartrate is sky high even at idle.
Yes, that is the argument for subsidies. What’s your point?
Massive. The designers of Starship studiously avoided all the problems that made Space Shuttle expensive to refurbish:

a. Cheaper, more durable material (stainless steel).

b. Cheaper, easier to manufacture engines.

c. Easier to use fuel (methane is much "tamer" than hydrogen).

d. Standardized heat shield with much smaller requirements for manual work.
You know those people you meet who say 'I used to code...' They traded IC software work for being able to have a say about the business. They never look happy.
We need to refine our tech stack to create a new one which is understandable by humans, before LLMs pollute our current stack to the point it's impossible to understand or modify. That's what I'm doing at https://lua.civboot.org
If tickets are filed by customers and closing them means I solved the issue for the customer thereby making them happy, being a better ticket closer totally adds significant value. It’s the difference between “my ticket was solved satisfactorily in 10 minutes, excellent support” and “it’s been weeks without a reply because there are 500 tickets in the queue and nobody gives a crap”.
It’s cool that you’re a native speaker, but the typical HN commenter is at a much higher level of proficiency than that.

Irony notice. This comment contains irony.
It seems like you're being sarcastic, but I think that's really what happened. I think it's much more about getting press for doing something funny than it is about having a meaningful impact on cluttering search results.

It's the same reason why Google paid its marketing team to make a promo for Gmail Blue (back in 2013 when Google was still doing legitimately funny fake promos):

https://www.gmail.com/mail/help/intl/en/promos/blue/
I brought a Nokia 3210 to class in 2000s. It was fine. Technically it was prohibited by school rules but nobody cared. As long as you didn’t do anything stupid.

Banning smartphones is such a boomer thing
Ask HN: Is English-only software development more effective?
I’m a mid-career dev working in the EU, where sometimes work happens in the local language and sometimes in english.

I can’t shake the feeling that we pay a toll for living in between language worlds, where you write task descriptions in English, and discuss the solution in the local language, switching languages mid-thought when a colleague who only speaks english joins a call.

The job of developing software has always made the most sense to me as a process rooted in language and analytical thought. That which you can talk about clearly, you can think about clearly and write good code concerning, especially when it comes to business software, where there is no mathematical notation to act as a lingua franca.

I feel like our day to day is spent not having a good conceptual grasp of what we do, and that the cost for this is confusion and poorer quality solutions.

On the stakeholder side, business terms are frequently unclear, with details being lost in translation or muddled because the local language has its own legal framework that almost but not quite matches the closest english term, causing trouble when trying to research prior work in the field.

When discussing technical details, we don’t have a set of clear labels for the code itself (block/scope, statement/expression) or the larger units (service, module, component, API etc.).

My feeling is that this puts a ceiling on the possible quality of the solution. Conceptual innovation can’t possibly stem from conceptual confusion.

Devs who have made the jump from mixed-language to English-only environments, do you find that the quality of thought is higher when everyone only works in english? Is there some other facet of this that I’m missing? Should I prioritise working for english-only companies if I value the ability to think and communicate clearly at work?
Well for a look at how the pros do it, check out the FUDdy-duddys at https://www.express.co.uk/latest/yellowstone-volcano to see the UK-Express Yellowstone Article Roll of Doom. It goes on forever, and is now hilariously sprinkled with soap opera gossip from the Yellowstone TV series which is a shame, it used to be all volcano all the time.
> He spent a month or so in Alexandria learning all over again the right ways to eat, drink, sit, sleep, and of course, pray. The tiniest misstep might be a betrayal—literally: the proper way to enter a mosque was with the right foot first. According to Burton’s account, most Muslims who ran into him thought he was certainly Muslim, but “not a good one like themselves, but, still better than nothing.”

I understand the idea of practicing prayer to look like a Muslim. But what is the need to practice going to sleep, eat or sit as a Muslim. Yes there will be a problem with some food (that he would not find anyway in his journey) but muslims do sit, eat and sleep like any other one. They are not aliens from another planet.

Even if they mean cultural ways of life, they are very diverse as muslim world represents the whole world. The pilgrimage is where people understand they are meeting with people from the whole world.
Does this translate to gains on local with comfy
That’s so interesting and also kind of crazy. Do these forms of speech come with their own verb conjugations and so on, making them difficult for people who learn the language as a non-native speaker? What about young children, do they understand it?
Japan has a culture of shaming which mostly works. Something like this wouldn’t work in USA because of our lack of respect for authority. Thus USA has developed a culture around fear instead.

Fear of jail time. Fear of fines. Fear of (unfortunately) death (ie, pretextual traffic stops).

Have read about some countries (Netherlands?) where they don’t even have turnstiles to check your ticket. You just board the train. It’s expected that you bought the ticket, why waste time checking it? Additionally, I suppose the idea here is that the cost of ticket checkers far outweighs the benefits.
Amazon collects sales tax and most certainly pays property taxes that fund the law enforcement you are talking about.
Apple Headset Stalls, Struggles to Attract Killer Apps in First Year
> germany has too much not needed but costly infrastructure maintained only for a few people

What infrastructure do you mean? Can you give an example?
> (which is theft, to be clear)

> Another issue is how much IP consumption constitutes theft? If an LLM watches every movie ever made, that's probably theft.

It's hard to reconcile those two views, and I don't think theft is defined by "how much" is being stolen.
Isn't pittance the key word here?
I was just thinking yesterday how me and my three brothers wouldn’t exist if my Mom’s father hadn’t had a box fall on him in the back of a delivery truck, crushing his hip and making him have to move his family several states away to convalesce. Later my Mom would grow up there and meet my Dad. Nevermind the astronomical chances that the single sperm that made you achieved success and you aren’t some other version of your siblings. Life is weird and the chances any of us exist is so remote. Enjoy your beyond lotto win and that you were able to pop into existence in the universe at all! What a gift.
> Soft Wrapping vs Hard Wrapping

This is actually one of HTML's most underrated features - there is no distinction between hard and soft wrapping. Any whitespace, of any form and quantity, between any two words is just converted to a single space in the rendered output.

Thus the developer, in a code editor, is free to hard wrap and indent the text in whatever way makes the most visual sense. Meanwhile in the rendered output the actual wrapping that occurs (if any) is controlled by the stylesheet.

I wish more programming languages had multiline string syntax that could do this (automatically remove all newlines and indentation). It turns out to be quite useful in a variety of domains.
There is a linear relationship between fat loss and caloric restriction until about 7 or 8% body fat.

The idea that caloric restriction is causing all this muscle loss is one of the dumbest ideas we currently have.

It is simply not true.
> Edit: SpaceX should create a simple 'catch' the rocket game. Play in browser style. Just for kicks and marketing.

there is, it was discussed in the FAA thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41821220
Worked better for who?
agree wholeheartedly. boredom is a catalyst for creativity and introspection yet we treat it as anathema - something to be artificially avoided at all cost.
It’s uncommon but not unrealistic. The old adage “surround yourself with people smarter than you” applies and is a mark of a good manager. Maybe it’s good if the manager is not a clueless MBA and has enough technical expertise to understand what the team is taking about. It should be a manager of manager’s job to identify and replace managers who don’t understand this.
I have been using Codeium's IntelliJ extension for the past nine months and have found it to be very useful.
Not just venture capital. Established businesses too

Investors like recurring revenue because it's simple to understand. You can just slap a multiple on it to figure out the valuation of a business
Doesn't reflect my experience of working in many organisations. Not to say I haven't seen what you describe, but only in the more dysfunctional ones. Maybe the issue is more the "low performing management"
You cannot get HRV from an optical sensor accurately.

Not even at idle, but definitely useless in motion.

And definitely not at the wrist.

Optical at the wrist is all manipulated data via the watch software that is guessing what it is seeing or not.

The only real way is via a heartrate strap that is electrical.

And the next generation of sensors is going to be even more amazing with EKG

https://www.movesense.com/movesense-flash/
But why the Spanish link?
But please, think of the shareholders!
The saying that “A level management hires A’s , while B’s hire C’s” is true and directly ties into this.

The arrogant-yet-incompetent management I have encountered actually makes it difficult for high performers since the mental “box” they want people to fit into and be cogs in the machine, gets exposed as false; the usual way to fix this is to get rid of the problem, by firing the high performers.
I agree with all of it, but the reality is that I need more memory and I understand that not many people (well, the author of the article you sent for one) are looking for this convergence. But I am. Especially with AI , it is becoming less and less a requirement for me to carry a laptop: it will be a combination of talking and typing to do whatever I need to do. With native linux I can already do that, without, it quite a pain for on phones. Or at least too much work for something that only I am going to use. But we will get there; guess the next one will be better.
States have open borders, so I'm afraid that can't be solved by local measure alone
Have you tried a hot shower instead just before the bed. The trick is that it cools down the core when you leave bathroom (by bringing blood to the surface).

Extremities should be warm, the core(CBT)—cold, to fall asleep easier.
Assuming youre not a quiet quitter , youre not double dipping and you have some interest in your job. I'm pretty sure WFH is more productive and efficient. I'm pretty sure corporate knows this as well. They might even have the numbers to prove it but don't wanna show it. BUT i think the reason they want us to return is that if we stay home.. we will use the efficiency and productivity gains to optimize our personal lives and not the bottom line. It would change white collar culture fundamentally and that would not be good for the status quo.
While you could look at DoF as a sensor limitation, most photographers use it as an artistic choice. Sure, I could take a pic at f/16 and have everything within the frame in focus, but maybe the background is distracting and takes away from the subject. I can choose how much background separation I want; maybe just a touch at f/8, maybe full on blue at f/1.2
Right on target, next to their buoy! Insane achievement!
the starship hit the target!
Alien worlds might not have a night and day. How would that change evolution?
Reminded me of the “rules and schemes” concept I was thinking of about 10 years ago that would separate “pure logical” rules from the stuff it takes to turn them into a program that runs by either forward chaining (production rules) or backwards chaining (like prolog). I got so far as writing a macro compiler that would let you write a base set of rules and rewrite them for different purposes such as transforming document A into document B or going in the opposite direction.

I like how they let you write functions to control the search order because boy that is essential.
Tsuchinshan-Atlas: How to See the Comet
There was a Veritasium video about these two modes. Survival mode is triggered not just by food scarcity, but also by extreme heat, extreme cold, and one other thing (I forgot).
Also, “water” (quotes due to the fact it’s hard to actually call it water under these conditions) and sea floor minerals like carbonates change the actual viscosity and chemical composition of the magma in interesting ways that encourage all this too. It’s not just bulk water flashing to steam.
Yeah but salt water makes it about as difficult as building from scratch.
India's copycat drugmakers gear up to offer cheaper weight-loss drugs
Do they recover whats left of the ship from the Indian Ocean?
I don't think someone who cranks through 10x more features while leaving loads of debt behind them is a 10x engineer.

In general you could think of all software development as a heap of hacks. It gets taller and taller and taller until it falls over. What you are describing is someone who makes the heap a lot closer to falling over. The ideal of a 10x engineer is someone who makes the heap more stable, someone whose architectural contributions make it possible to have a higher heap and allow others to do more/better work. Over the long term a 10x engineer's product is the capacity for more growth.

Mentorship is certainly one way to get a longer lever to stand on -- a way of making investments in the future, but even feature dev can fit the bill: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/the-cool-cam
As with diffusion models in general, the point isn't the specific example but that it's generalisable.

5 million frames of video data with corresponding accelerometer data, and you get this for genuine photorealism.
> In the software world, it's mostly rent-seeking.

I can't agree at all with this. Most people using computers would have no chance of making the software they are using, and why should they? Do you really expect a magazine designer to first program her own publishing software? There's no point in that, she is a designer and should spend her time with what she is best at. You can then call any and every profession "rent-seeking", since they all involve becoming an expert in something that other people could also become experts in if they sunk the same time into it. I can learn how to make my own leather shoes provided enough time, but I prefer to buy them and focus my time and effort on things I'm better at.

> If I create something that works fine for me or for the community, why should I go out of my way to add features for another person or another group?

That's why I'm saying that FOSS people should stay in the Linux swamp (or garden if that's your thing) and maybe FreeBSD could explore other relationships between developer and user. Why should you go out of your way to make your software easy to use? Because then it will be useful to people who are not programmers, which is 99.999% of computer users. I have to remind readers that the question was how to make FreeBSD attractive to newcomers. Being able to use your computer the way you need without being a programmer is essential for a newcomer. Programmers are not newcomers, even if they switch OS.

And why not make it a business when you are providing a professional service? You can earn quite a lot each year as a side-income before you need to make any special tax arrangements or even register a business.

> Except server stuff, or gaming, or anything that requires to have full control over the hardware.

Server stuff is what I consider the back-end. This is not for normal users, it's not for newcomers. But to be honest, I'm quite curious as how Mac OS X Server was as a software before it was discontinued. Could it be used by non-sysadmins for their needs? Not considering cost-efficiency which is not important on small scales, just considering setting up working servers.

Computing has regressed on some important fronts. For example making websites was something that anybody could do in the past, with graphical tools such as Microsoft Frontpage, Netscape Composer and Artisteer. Now I don't know any such modern tools, unless you want to host on Wix. Why is that? Your ISP used to give you a space to host your own website.

> Why not asking hardware vendors to be more open about their drivers?

Because the question was how to make FreeBSD more attractive for newcomers. Why would hardware vendors care about that at all? Unless FreeBSD becomes so attractive that customers start voting with their wallet for hardware that is good with FreeBSD.
> An organization can offer the following benefits to employees: Comp(salary, bonus, etc), health Benefits(health, insurance, counselling), autonomy, interesting/challenging work, push you out of your comfort zone, a non-toxic environment, etc.

A non-toxic work environment isn’t a “benefit”, it’s a basic requirement. Same for autonomy. Healthcare is just compensation.

In the end, compensation is what matters.
I mean, I don't disagree with you, but it's important to note that high performance is incredibly context dependent, like the same person can be a rockstar at company A and complete garbage at company B.

Ultimately, I think if the management has self awareness and clear goals, a lot of this crap can be avoided (but sometimes that means selecting out people who are rocking, because they don't match the system).
Got a -1 on this comment. Must mean that I’m wrong and that it’s become part of the scope now!

Maybe someone wants to post a link?
Kind of puts a brake on the whole notion of time travel. I know "just world" is a fallacy, but thinking about ethics of such hypothetical temporal interventions, I have this strong sense that time travel is not possible in our universe because otherwise it would be too abhorrent a place.
I'm a bit baffled why Germany's numbers are so bad here. In the UK the government takes far more in revenue from drivers than it spends on the roads.
Every software that can be implemented in a JavaScript, ehm, LLM, will eventually be implemented in an LLM.
As a user, why would I care whether an answer is "incorrect" or "hallucinated"? Neither one is going to solve the problem I have at hand. It sounds like a distinction without a difference.
In general it has become acceptable to create fake pages to get traffic to your website. E.g. this like: https://instatus.com/blog/best-open-source-status-page-servi... the 0th entry is taken by the service itself, and they're not open source...
This article[0] about tech debt was posted the other day on HN. It seems to be a good guide for how to determine what type of tech debt to take on.

Exactly what you're saying - does this tech debt Work™ or is it affecting future development or causing incidents?

[0] https://technology.riotgames.com/news/taxonomy-tech-debt
Yeah, because the happy ones don't mention that they used to code ;)
Let me rephrase that less sarcastically.

More food did not lead to longer lifespan in modern humans. Antibiotics are responsible for increasing human lifespan and estimated 20 years.

https://www.antibioticresearch.org.uk/happen-antibiotics-sto...
Dgraph is designed to run on Kubernetes.
Are Ukrainians raiding Russian towns in plainclothes and slaughtering thousands of civilians while taking hostages back to Kyiv?
> There must be some law of software engineering that all engineering teams eventually become run like assembly lines where management disallows ground-up thinking.

Its a law of incentives.

At some point protecting the existing processes is more important than growing, which implies disruption.

At that point all the things mentioned above start
Of course people reduce their free contributions to Stackoverflow. Stackoverflow is selling then out with the OpenAI API agreement and countless "AI" hype blog posts.
From the replay, it seems that the fire comes from methane from the RCS thrusters burning, so it seems normal