skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been thinking a lot lately about this little old lady who lived in my neighborhood in Chicago. It was on this street lined with interesting old brownstones with cool little apartments. She lived in a garden level apartment (for those who don't know, this essentially means street level apartment) From what I understand she was a florist so she didn't make a ton of money and sometimes struggled to make ends meet but had been scraping by, renting the place for like 20 years. I'm not really much of a "flower" guy, but the flowers and plants she had on her little like 6 foot by 6 foot patio/stoop were fuckin awesome. Seems like she planted them so there was almost always something in bloom. Most of the buildings in the neighborhood had a flower pot or two out front, but hers were pretty impressive. I was fresh out of college and had been renting in the neighborhood for about 3 years before she passed away. After she was gone it was impossible not to notice that the new people who moved in had no plants. Over the next few years all of the buildings stopped putting flowers out on their stoops, the burnt out porch lights were no longer being changed, etc... I don't want to imply the neighborhood fell apart, it was a nice neighborhood, it was just that the neighborhood was noticeably less pretty, the details were missing. I'm totally aware that I'm making a leap here, but after talking to some neighbors, I truly believe her love for flowers and her beautiful little garden had a ripple effect, 2nd and 3rd order effects that none of us really understood until she was gone. That her little garden inspired other renters to add their own little piece to the neighborhood. I don't know how we measure and reward someone like her, how we measure someone who's little daily actions cause positive ripple effects, but fuck I really wish we knew how.

I think we'll always measure with numbers, be governed by numbers, but more and more I find myself hoping we get better at it--that we figure out better metrics by which to measure success and quality of life--to notice the ways things ripple out. Lately every time I hear someone degrading someone else because that person isn't rich enough or educated enough, her little garden pops into my head.

Just to be clear, I recognize that markets often do a good job of measuring certain things, but lately it feels like our current iteration of measurements, if we really wanted to, we could maybe make them better.
It seems as if there’s a common assumption that taking out the driver opens up fundamentally different use cases. Even if we assume self-driving cuts costs in half (not obvious), that’s a big drop but is it a fundamentally change how people can use cars drop?
They should fix the leaking broken pipes under cities before adding new ones. I realize they're different things but there are plenty of reasons not to trust energy companies to maintain infrastructure adequately.
https://github.com/stochastic-thread/balanced_parentheses/bl...

What do you think of this implementation I just wrote? It is generalized to work with parentheses, brackets and braces, and to handle the different types of braces I just used different scores that offset each other depending on the direction of the symbol. Couldn't really think of a better way to handle this other than using numbers that don't add up to one another (in a momentary fugue state, I used 1,-1,2,-2,3,-3 as the score values but that obviously doesn't work as [}) would be false flagged as matched. Doesn't seem elegant to use random floats to accomplish this.

It's a pretty trivial problem, but I think coming up with a clever solution to the generalization is a little more interesting.

P.S. your site is down
USB 2->3 doesn't really help your point, since 2 comes directly before 3 in integer math, so it (3) is literally a logical successor to 2.
Why doesn’t your employees move out of Bay Area with you? Assuming if you keep offering same comp, this would cut down mortgage expenses to half and even gain much better housing in better school areas. It should be no brainer to move out if comp remains same. So you can come in to shop for talent, have them work remotely until they are ready. No need to open expensive offices in Bay Area.
'We Did Not Sign Up to Develop Weapons': Microsoft Workers
And as such it is only required to expose ISO C functions.
> map ... two arrays

If we're allowed to use more memory than a simple stack, this is my favorite super-cheaty solution. It abuses ruby's builtin string manipulation to recursively delete inner matched pairs (all that is really needed is a "slide remaining string left 2 chars" function). Since this only needs to match two-char long inner pairs, it trivially extends to multiple matched bracket types.

BRACKET_RE = /\(\)/
#BRACKET_RE = /\(\)|\[\]|\{\}/

def balanced?(str)
case str
when '' then return true
when BRACKET_RE then balanced? str.split(BRACKET_RE).join('')
else return false
end
end
No one does semantic versioning for hardware products (at least consistently), but maybe they should.
There's another obvious theory that will explain that difference. It was easy to dodge the draft. You could say that those who didn't ended up earning less because failing to get out of going was a signal of incompetence.

Or, if you were aware that the problems they had in supplying raw manpower to Vietnam led the army to emphasize drafting people who should legally have been unable to serve based on their very low IQs, you could observe that it would be pretty shocking if veterans as a class showed equal earning power to society in general.

> They were, to put it bluntly, mentally deficient. Illiterate. Mostly black and redneck whites, hailing from the mean big city ghettos and the remote Appalachian valleys.

> By drafting them the Pentagon would not have to draft an equal number of middle class and elite college boys whose mothers could and would raise Hell with their representatives in Washington.

> The young men of Project 100,000 couldn't read, so training manual comic books were created for them. They had to be taught to tie their boots. They often failed in boot camp, and were recycled over and over until they finally reached some low standard and were declared trained and ready.

https://www.mcclatchydc.com/opinion/article24544984.html

https://www.amazon.com/McNamaras-Folly-Hamilton-Gregory/dp/1...
I’d say it’s the people — combination of mindset and talent. Self-selecting group traveling to a place where only the strong can survive and the exceptional can thrive.

Most of the people I work with day to day are not just brilliant, but extremely driven as well. That was never true in the other places I’ve lived. The were lots of brilliant lazy people, and lots of super driven, less naturally gifted people.

In the Bay Area you kinda have to be both and have your eye on some bigger future, or there’s no point in being here.
Completely agree. The majority of people are not suited to be even basically competent developers; they just lack the mindset / diligence / intelligence / etc. You can in no way compare this to apprenticing as a plumber or carpenter, which are positions that do not require anywhere as much mental capability.
All that aside, I guess these guys have done their calculations carefully, and might make some big 'wins' based on finding diamonds in the rough, and otherwise find enough average Joes to shovel into the meat-grinder of low-level development work.
Red Flags in Software Developer Job Descriptions
Mushrooms as Medicine? Psychedelics May Be Next Breakthrough Treatment
Lately, I have a feeling that hckrnews surfaces the wrong type of posts - stuff that quickly reaches 3 points. But it's often flamebait, clickbait or some useless drama. I often go back to the home page to find posts that don't appear on hckrnews but are quite interesting in a niche or need to be fully digested to appreciate.

That said I also love hckrnews for checking what's new after a longer time
I'm curious about this, does this expire after so many years or is this a new student loan situation that lingers forever if someone is unable to find meaningful (over 40k) employment ever.
Are the actual terms of the student agreement available? I can't find them on your website.
Our current contract has a 5-year maximum deferment period, meaning if they don't earn above $40,000 for 5 years, the contract ends and they no longer owe anything.
You have to be party to such a license in the first place do you expect anyone to be stupid enough to sign up for that bullshit?
I have a different perspective after moving from America to a developing country. Where I live now corruption is commonplace and everyone knows it. But it is relatively petty in most cases and costs everyone a little. But America is rife with what I call legalized corruption. Laws passed to enrich government cronies. Excessive licensing requirements to eliminate competition and enrich encumbants. The list goes on. And it costs everyone much, much more.
As I can't read the full article. Do they indicate any kind of leads into an hypothesis that the trauma is transferred through the genes themselves? Or is this more an effect of culture and education?
Sen Feinstein Reaction to Children Asking to Support the GreenNewDeal Resolution
Slack has great screen sharing.
I did bot have a good experience with Goodfellow’s Deep Learning Book. It’s much more written for the scholar than the practitioner. Furthermore, a couple relatively important methods (Transformer Layers, Causal convolutions, etc.) aren’t given proper treatment because the field was still moving fast at the time of publishing.

A much better investment would be the One Hundred Page Machine Learning Book. It’s written with practitioners in mind. Link here: https://www.amazon.com/Hundred-Page-Machine-Learning-Book/dp...:
> poorer people have higher mutational load

Actually the strongest predictor of mutational load is the distance at which you are born from Africa. I know you didn't intend it to sound that way, but you basically used science words to call poor people inbred.

https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/113/4/E440.full.pdf
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That nostalgia!
Easy access to capital, easy access to large numbers of potential employees (many of whom have prior experience working for tech startups), and access to early-adopter customers / users.

Whether you'd consider that "quality of startup" or not is up to you. When it comes to hyper growth success, there are multiple structural factors that really make it easier to scale in the Bay Area, despite the 2-3x multiplier in cost per employee.
I work in the public sector, so we never do evil things like that. I do often wonder if we’re digitizing too much.

Like I pay for public transportation (I’m Danish, we have great public transportation) with an App, which is nice and all, but the user experience is actually worse than when it was just a piece of paper.

We’ve saved the public billions by making some processes easier, but we’ve also digitised a lot of stuff because there was (is) this general idea that digitisation is always better, and it’s just not. Especially not from a user perspective, if you’re a social worker you now have to know how to use 5-10 complicated and error prone IT systems, on top of your regular job, and we just keep on adding more. I mean,those 5-10 systems are linked to their work on top of that there are another 5-10 adiministrative systems and maybe 50 different digital forms.

None of these systems are necessary mind you, 30 years ago, almost none of them existed and our social workers performed better for less money back then.

Overall digitisation has been a benefit though. We’ve managed to eliminate a lot of repetition, we’ve made the total public sector cheaper and we’ve increased the overall quality of our services, but from a user perspective things have mostly deteriorated.

I have no idea how to fix it either.
And hasn't been updated since.
This censorship slow motion train wreck started back when these third parties inserted themselves into what used to be person-to-person interaction. First, it was that they were simply providing convenience and hosting. Then editorializing, because simply following the DMCA wasn't draconian enough. Then algorithmically determining what content we should even see, because self-selection requires thought. Then going all-in on filter bubbles as search capability failed. Then gaming the recommendations for their perverse metric of human time wasted.

Unfortunately, from a business perspective there isn't really much other choice. If Youtube solely put itself out there as a commodity video hosting site (with no discovery), then people could switch at the drop of a hat. Whatever they were using for discovery would simply grow a video hosting feature, and we'd get Newtube. As in all media, what matters is the captive audience.

The only real path forward for freedom is to repudiate this corporate-mediated garbage and start seriously adopting software based on peer interaction. As long as third parties remain in the loop, the incentive to blame them for not doing our preferred magical thing is just too strong. Hopefully this can happen before these censorship calls grow loud enough to start targeting alternative protocols themselves.
Not everyone is willing to move. If you're looking for very specialized engineers you might end up with only a single potential hire who is unwilling to uproot his/her family.
How does his writing romanticize his behavior?

Cynical me says you answered your own question right here:

I admire his writing style and his brutal honesty about how he perceived the world.

There's something romantic and intoxicating about frank, brutal honesty w/rt the inner id, the fortitude to look deep into the heart of one's own darkness without blinking that gets frequently conflated with 'romanticizing' or 'normalizing' that darkness.
Mt. Gox Was Riddled with Price Manipulation, Data Mining Reveals
"In my case, my child's doctor recommended taking him to a pool as therapy for his motor skills because of developmental problems. He was still over a year away from being potty trained"

Seems like a special case that applies to 1 in 100,000. In most cases kids in diapers indeed ought to be restricted from public pools.
San Francisco != Silicon Valley.
> But maybe it just looks that way because it's difficult or impossible to really perceive the full extent of how living in a non-DLT world is affecting our behavior.

We don't live in a 'non-DLT world though, DLT exists in this world right?

Sorry I agreed with your previous comment and then the mention of DLT lost me so I'm trying to understand the context I'm missing.

(Edit: spelling)
https://leif.org/api/products/5c70f3b7e59b74688df0996f/pdf
The Bizarre Upside-Down Bankruptcy of Mt. Gox (2018)
How the Creator of SimCity Helped Save Psychonauts (2018)
Accepting the truth is far less painful than rediscovering it.
What if YC or 500startups were allowed to go public and people can buy their stock? Returns on YC model far exceeds S&P. I think pg has created an incredible framework which can be further evolved in open markets. I can absolutely see S&P index dominated by company-aggregators as opposed to individual companies. That seems to be the natural evolution.
I would guess they're talking about niche gaming forums. I know a bunch myself - /r/Factorio, /r/KerbalSpaceProgram, /r/Subnautica, /r/StardewValley... oh wait, the latter two aren't that niche.

In my experience, it's a matter of focus and moderation. Unfocused groups turn quickly into toxic cesspools, whether the groups are made of nerds (e.g. 4chan) or genpop (Facebook threads, or comment sections in those publications who didn't yet turn them off).
Hyperbole? Just recent history in Russia.
I think the main thing is still to deter Russia from literally invading member countries. It's hard to call that far-fetched in light of Russia literally invading Ukraine and, before that, Georgia.
Here's the non-blogspam original source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-22/two-month...
I have looked at the stats. It's very clear that most violence, and the worst violence, is from the right. Have a look at the FBI list of domestic terrorists. These are almost all right wing extremists.

I'm not talking about journalists getting scuffled at rallies. I'm talking about church congregations getting killed. It's disingenuous to suggest there's any equivalence.

https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/testimony/the-terrori...

> During the past decade we have witnessed dramatic changes in the nature of the terrorist threat. In the 1990s, right-wing extremism overtook left-wing terrorism as the most dangerous domestic terrorist threat to the country. During the past several years, special interest extremism—as characterized by the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and the Earth Liberation Front (ELF)—has emerged as a serious terrorist threat. The FBI estimates that ALF/ELF have committed approximately 600 criminal acts in the United States since 1996, resulting in damages in excess of 42 million dollars.

[...]

> Right-wing groups continue to represent a serious terrorist threat. Two of the seven planned acts of terrorism prevented in 1999 were potentially large-scale, high-casualty attacks being planned by organized right-wing extremist groups.
Yes, but he said things that "shouldn't matter". Recruiting clearly matters.
As someone from Austin living in SF I disagree. Austin has better housing affordability and less severe homelessness. To me, just about everything else is nicer in SF. But more to the point, everyone is different and you really can’t generalize about what place is better or worse, because people’s tastes, interests, and logistics vary so widely.
I may be the minority, but I don’t mind the advertising aspect as much. Actually I kind of like that it brings me relevant advertising for kickstarters of board games.

What I dislike is all the other evil stuff they do. All the anti-democracy bullshit, the social experiments, the enablement of genocides, anti-vaxxers, the government bot armies and the total disregard for truth.

It may be because I’m European, but I actually think platforms should be held responsible for all the evil they enable.

I didn’t always, but after a decade of Facebook I don’t think anyone should be able to escape responsibility for having supplied a platform it’s users used for genocide.
America's Disappearing Private Colleges
Some people are unable to get vaccinated, due to medical complications. Those people rely on others being vaccinated so that they don't contract some disease.

How would you endanger others if you weren't? Well you could potentially contact the disease and then spread it to those others, right?

If you're asking how you would endanger someone in a society where 100% of all other people were vaccinated, well I guess you don't but that's not the world we live in.
I was at HP during the Platt, Fiorina and part of Hurd years. Prior to that experience I was as skeptical as anyone about CEO compensation, impact and contribution. How much difference can one person make?

Well, clearly a huge difference. Under Platt HP had good consistent growth, and we enjoyed record profit sharing and bonuses. Fiorina joined and managed to cut the company's value by 50% in three years. Hurd joined and the company's value went right back up. The difference in execution and competence was startling.

IDK, but the real story must surely be the board of directors (which hires, fires and sets the salary for the CEO). How can a board be so incompetent that it negotiates a severance package whereby Fiorina receives $42 Million to leave after loosing half of the company's value.

When you look at the following graph, keep in mind the Great Recession in 2008.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HPQ_Stock_Price_Sinc...
I would think that the impact of this content is overrated. You aren't not prepared for the hardships of life just because you are in an algorithmic filter bubble. People don't kill themselves just because they see graphic content. This reminds me of the discussion in the early 2000s about first person shooter games. You don't turn into a school shooter because you played those.

There's a life outside the internet.
Your story reminds me of the McNamara Fallacy. Meaning it's a good example why the McNamara Fallacy is one.

One of my points is there is a lot of necessary and beneficial things people do that don't fit into being exploited via paid work.
http://rorygibson.me

I've been playing with the typography on the site recently. Not massively happy with it but there you go; I'm sure I'll get round to changing it in a few weeks^H^H^H^H^Hyears

I'm mostly an interim CTO these days (though I run Trolley [1] as a side project) but have been a consultant, agile person, Clojure dev, Java dev, Ruby dev...

About 18 years in to my career and trying to maintain that balance of "can talk like a business person" and "can still code")

1. https://trolley.link - a JAMstack shopping cart system
Cleanliness Cues Activate Conservative Attitudes
> and the best rising to the top.

Did you ever actually read newsgroups like soc.culture.yugoslavia in the early 90s?

I just went to take a quick peek to refresh my memory, and yes, it was quite awful - https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!searchin/soc.culture.yug...
I think part of the reason is the same reason companies stay in the Bay Area -- companies are in the Bay Area because they can find lots of good engineers in the area. Engineers like the area because they can find lots of good companies that want to hire them. No startup is guaranteed to survive, and if you move to Idaho with your company and it fails, it can be difficult to move back to the Bay Area.
In chess, there have now been four 12 year old grandmasters. ('Grandmaster' isn't an easy title to achieve, needing besides incredibly strong play, a high rating and doing very well in 3 tournaments with strong international opposition.) It's because of computers and the internet making every facet of chess learning/study incomparably faster than a few decades ago. And you can get a game in seconds anytime online..

There's no-one from before the chess + computer age on the list of the 36 players who've become Grandmasters before their 15th birthday : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_prodigy#List_of_youngest...
Yes, but only once you run the `configure` so that it chooses the right inline assembly blocks for your system.
It’s probably rendering what would be “front page” given the same data but with today’s engine.

It would be interesting to see how everything is being cached for a particular day, though.
Standard Notes, combined with their "advanced Markdown editor" extension, has a middle ground I think works really well, they render the Markdown formatting characters, as well as applying the formatting itself.

Here's a screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/KKbFXbD.png
Remote isn’t a panacea. I worked remotes for about 8 years and then went back to a traditional office environment when I had kids. I liked remote, but I enjoy the office more, and it has been much nicer for my family. It’s often difficult for little kids to understand when a parent is working from home, or for a spouse to emotionally accept that “just help me for a second” is enough to disrupt work.

In my life, having that separation so I’m physically gone when I’m not available and then fully present and available when I’m home has made everyone a lot happier.

Before you go telling me I needed an office space or a cowork, I did have an office space, and for a while I tried coworking. Once you’re going to a cowork —- well, to me it’s more fun to just go to a nice office with your actual coworkers than it is to rent a desk with a bunch of strangers.
Pipe_operator: Elixir/Unix Style Pipe Operations in Ruby
It exists as an idea, but we're still in the irruption phase and are decades from maturity. So it hasn't yet had much of a transformative effect on existing institutions, behaviors, relationships, etc.