skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hard "yes".

As a manager at Microsoft I look at the github profile of every applicant who passes recruiter screening. Open source familiarity is a must, and regular contribution is a strong positive flag in my mind.

I think some companies/teams hire from contributors to their projects... But I haven't seen that happen personally so I can't speak to it.
Supply chain malware targets SGX: Take care of what you sign
1. Most neural network architectures have fewer "neurons" than 10^5. Maybe the word you are looking for is "parameters"

2. A neuron in the brain and a neuron in a neural network are totally different things.
At this point, using any service from Google makes no sense, really. On top of many other reasons, zero trust in the service surviving ( or just reaching ! ) a two year period at least.

Obligatory : https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/04/googles-constant-pro...
> Those who claim to have a societal model where everyone can happily accumulate wealth while benefiting others and hurting nobody, know exactly what they are doing.

I'm not claiming that. I'm claiming that activity in the real world economy is generally more beneficial to others than activity in a video game.

The world economic system, flawed as it is, is taking at least some KPIs in a direction I think is unarguably good:
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.IMRT.IN
OpenPower is such a nice ominous name that the writer conveniently avoided explaining that it refers to the instruction set architecture descended from PowerPC (although that means they missed a chance to also "link" them to Apple).

I doubt that the particular instruction set architecture used by those chips has a large influence on their use for surveillance applications. In a few years, we'll probably get to read similar articles about RISC-V, complete with "risky" puns.
I am quite amused by the idea that you think someone in a spacecraft of any kind would gain situational awareness by looking out a window using the Mk 1 eyeball.
The logical argument could be made for preservation of all species in the food web because they contain unique genetic material documenting robust metabolic pathways. These pathways also involve the manufacture of unique proteins and enzymes that could be very valuable - theoretically utilizing them could reduce suffering in some way.
Because Paul Graham, who founded Y Combinator and by extension Hacker News, loves Lisp. He used it as the primary language at Viaweb (basically late 90s Shopify) and viewed the language as a key enabled of their success.

Paul’s blog posts on the subject are useful background: http://paulgraham.com/lisp.html

You should probably start with this one: http://paulgraham.com/avg.html
In life there will always be someone better, smarter, richer, whatever. That’s just life. I don’t know how to deal with it other than accepting that.
Well, do you think that people who go acquiring wealth don't "buy new" or "don't lease"?

Nobody ever acquired wealth by thrift (or very few cases, and with a low cap on that wealth, like those cases occasionally finding out that some guy sleeping on a slum and working as a clerk had saved all his life and had 10 million dollars in the bank when they died and were found half-eaten by their cats).
Absolutely this. Early 20s it was always motivation, and now it's mostly indifference. Whether that's getting older, wiser, being burned out too many times, or learning to appreciate things outside of professional success in life... either way, it doesn't bother me nearly as much as it used to.
I don't think it can be argued that they aren't more ergonomic than a regular keyboard. If you manage to create an uncomfortable position with a split keyboard you have the luxury to adapt... And I haven't seen people claiming that it is the holy grail, just that it is better.

Many otholinear keyboard are in a grid, yes. I guess mostly because it is easy, aesthetics and it fits everyone as good/bad. Many keyboards have their rows at different height to adapt to the different length of each finger. But how much? Depends on hand size and preference it is hard to imagine one being mass produced.
This is not unusual behavior for firms that are defense contractors.
I’ve been an iOS engineer for 7 years and I’m not exactly a fan of Objective-C. I’m good at it though, I know where all the sore spots are and part of my value is I can stop people from hurting themselves with the language. One day, inshallah, our team can eventually move on to swift (thank you ABI compatibility).

Until then I work in it because my goal (and my job) is to deliver amazing products and experiences to my customers and if I had to do that in COBOL, I’d do that too. My job is not about the language for me, it’s about what I’m doing with it.
The Howard Stern interview is great too.
Lisp was a lot less web friendly then than it is now, especially compared to those languages.
They didn’t sell well. It doesn’t matter how interesting or important a topic is. Eventually a publishing business has to decide on what their limits are for risk/reward. O’Reilly had decided that Lisp books cost too much and brought in too little for them.
Gotta be honest, I've never handled any Nikkor lenses, but I'm sure they're also excellent. Nikon and Canon didn't come to dominate the market by building crap gear. It just so happens I was born into a Pentax family and never had any reason to drop the coin on a new body and new lenses at the same time.

That said, I almost bought an FM3a after college just to support the complete lunacy of building them new. At that point, I didn't really have enough Pentax lenses to be wedded to the system. I still kind of wish I had.

You got me thinking though: since you can adapt basically anything to E-mount, the cost of trying out another line of lenses is now down to <$100 US (cost of adapter), at least for manual focus and aperture lenses. A well-designed mirrorless mount and adapter basically renders the concept of a photographic system obsolete.

For those unfamiliar, the key dimensions on a mount are the flange distance (distance from the plane of the mount to the plane of the film), and diameter. There are two things to know about flange distance:

1) It used to be "large" (45mm give or take a few) to allow for room for the mirror in a DSLR to swing upwards.

2) You can't adapt a lens with a smaller flange distance on a body that has a larger flange distance. Well, you can, but you use infinity focus.

Because mirrorless cameras don't have a mirror (go figure), they're freed from constraint 1, and can make the flange distance as short as they care to, basically letting them eliminate the issue of 2.

Adapters used to be awkward, at best, (nonexistent at worst) because they would have to adapt two mounts of fundamentally similar diameters without having a lot (any?) room to move the lens along its axis.

Adapters for a mirrorless body can offset the lens tens of millimeters along its axis from the body flange, leaving plenty of room to resolve any mechanical incompatibilities in the mounts.
Also see code-switching. Which is something I have been very amused to find myself doing after moving back home to New Orleans - there's several distinct flavors of English in that city, and watching them pop out of my mouth after twenty five years speaking Newscaster English is fun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code-switching
Voting is PoW-based on notabug, so users can upvote themselves multiple times (spending their CPU time). It also means top posts are not really most popular posts, just that the OP was stubborn enough to upvote himself into positive score when downvoted a couple of times.
I know Mike. He was editor of my first book and I still deal with him. He’s about the most standup guy I’ve ever worked with. If you’re thinking about writing a book, pitch Mike. I can’t recommend him more. I needed help with having the confidence to get my thoughts down on the first book and he coached me through it.

Disclaimer: 4x O’Reilly author and contributor to their blog. Don’t think there’s a financial incentive, I make less than minimum wage on books.
That vulnerability has been largely mitigated, hasn't it? I'm really curious how GPG is more secure than S/MIME right now.
I was intending to agree with the first comment here, and to disagree with the comment I replied to, rather than taking issue with the original article.
Also "Must be real evil"
Learn to realize exactly where happiness comes from, which is ultimately the people around you that you help or impact in a positive way. One of the hardest things in life is to truly understand what you want - beyond the noise from society, family, and friends.

Material possessions and success are fun, but ultimately only generate fleeting happiness.

I have run my company for almost 20 years now and have seen many of my friends/acquaintances make 10 million+ in a much shorter time. Not that I dont wish I could have more money for less effort (in the same way that I wish I could play the guitar or speak multiple foreign languages). Yet Im very happy with my life as I understand clearly what makes me happy and dont let my happiness be defined by what someone else has done or has.
Thing is, they do it so that renewables become cheaper. Someone has to deploy them at scale so the learning curve gets the price down. It won't happen by itself.
It's nice to see folks becoming aware of negative utilitarianism.
New languages are coming out all the time. For every one like Python that proves to have serious staying power, there are dozens of others that slowly stagnate. It doesn't typically make sense to bet your business on a new unproven language; you want to use something that's already been around for awhile, clearly has staying power, and has a decent community built up around it. Lisp has fit that bill for decades now. At the time of Viaweb's founding, Python was not there yet. The closest thing that was would've been Perl.
Off-topic, sort of, but with 212 comments I don’t think I’ll derail anything...

I’m not a big gamer, but one of my favorites was Cataclysm Homeworld [1].

Part of the gameplay was navigation. But there was a strange artificial limit to rotating the map—it had a hard stop. Which I guess eliminates the need for instrumentation.

But I’m thinking with these programmatically generated worlds, it would be a mad skill to navigate in unlimited 3D orientation—infinite planes.

Anything like that in the wild?

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeworld:_Cataclysm
Sorry about that. People should use these kinds of questions as an opportunity to educate, not brag/exclude/shame.

Relevant XKCD: https://www.xkcd.com/1053/
Why doesn't someone's experience attempting to write a technical book (even if they failed for personal reasons) belong on Hacker News?

EDIT: above post originally said "This doesn't belong on Hacker News", but is has been edited out.
>by following the same behaviours that they would if they felt pain

This is taking the claim I made too far. My point was that reacting to noxious stimuli does not a priori require the conscious experience of pain (which includes a suffering component). When it comes to analyzing sets of possible behaviors, that provides more evidence with which to decide between nociception and pain. I do think that most "animals" (excluding insects) probably experience pain due to, as you said, the varieties of possible behaviors being too large to be merely reflex based. But it's not obvious to me that this holds for insects.
Agree, I would say its more like a logic-tree or more like an optical circuit. Even academics are choosing hot names for papers, basically in CS today, if your paper does not have AI in it, good look getting attention.

source, me: Stanford CS grad.
Don't know why the downvotes, do people think optimized implementations utilizing certain CPU features or combinations of them are somehow super common?
It’s the emails I object to.
This is the reason I'm sceptical of signing up for Google Stadia. People are heavily betting it would fail, and Google being Google will be quick to shutdown when it sees that.
This is a fair point; its not easy to objectively define value.

But I'd say to a first approximation, economic effort defined towards the pursuit of maximising arbitrary stats in a video game, is less likely to be valuable work.

That's really all I'm saying. Just because its hard to define objectively, shouldn't mean its a free-for-all, and that we accept that all activity is equally useful (or un-useful.)

We can and should use our judgement here.
With suffering I mean the subjective experience of "bad" feelings, which I fo think is inherently bad. I'd imagine you try to optimize your life in a way such that you avoid "bad" feelings.
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I actually really like the redesign. However I can't really use it because it keeps not loading posts and having other glitches. The Sync app for Android doesn't have these problems and is what I use to browse Reddit almost all of the time.
General anesthesia on infants has been indicated to cause "reduced gray matter density in certain brain regions" that results in a 5-6 point lower IQ on average in adults who had undergone surgery involving general anesthesia before the age of 4.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/294966.php
Which begs the question, why have cockpit glass at all instead of immersing the "pilot" in a virtual environment with the most useful data available? Maybe something resembling, say, a chase cam?
I’ve used one on other people’s macbooks.
I think my objection is mostly aesthetic. It just seems so gaudy and excessive or something along those lines.
The AST is still really complex though (in terms of corner cases to cover).
Pretty sure HN itself is written with Lisp.
What are you replying to? Did GP edit their comment?
Have you considered getting your start by investing in micro cap tech stocks?

The transaction is much easier. You get all the risk of total wipe out you may crave. But most importantly you get a lot more information and that might help you get practice.

The most valuable practice is when you think a company has a great strategy and is a no brainer and it shuts down. Or when you do a lot of work and invest in a rocket ship only to notice that Facebook would have been a better investment.
Why? They don't paint anyone in a bad light IMHO?
Where do you draw the line though on what’s “core”.

Let’s imagine you’re a software shop that sells a SaaS app. Something like Slack as an example.

Should you roll your own dedicated compute for your SaaS app or use AWS?

Should you roll your own web framework, or use Rails/etc?

Should you use AWS for file storage of Slack media files that are uploaded, or roll
your own dedicated storage solution?

Edit:

I have the upmost respect for Joel. His company created their own Programming Language because they felt it was so core to their business to do so [1].

As did Facebook did with Hack.

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/09/01/wasabi/
I find that reducing politics to a one-dimensional left-right is unproductive, and leads to people arguing past each-other.

E.g. you will pick one property by which Republicans/Fox News aren't right wing, while your counterpart will pick one by which they are. Without saying which property you picked to represent right-wing-ness, you/your counterpart will be baffled as to how you/they could possibly believe Republicans/Fox News are/aren't right wing.
This just in - Science gives evidence for a Jainist world-view!
I said it didn’t belong on hacker news and then thought better and edited it before I saw his post.
> Is that sort of info widely known among the HN user base

Paul Graham's essays are widely known among the HN user base, especially the "Beating the Averages" [1] one. Some of those who've read it know a bit more about the deeper history. And others obsessed with the "10x programmer" myth and they randomly stumble upon Lisp as one of the many "magic oils" that are rumored to make one into such a mythical creature.

It's a big circle jerk imho, but there's a lot to be learned for any programmer from modern Lisp-family languages like Clojure or Scheme/Racket. CL is also worth playing with if you want to know how a truly-hyper-flexible language feels like, but it's probably not a good tool to use unless your problem requires you to invent a new programming language but at the same time you have no time/budget/people to actually do it "the academic way" so you need a weird ducktaped-nuclear-power-tool to hack your way at the problem. Guess that's why some folk in quantum computing and computational chemistry and other on-the-edge-fields tend to pick it from time to time, but it gets replaced with other tech after the really hard research problem gets solved and the software gets rewritten to something else for v2.0. I alway re-try playing with it but it never sticks in my head, the [Python + (C++ or Rust or Go)] combo always wins over it.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
I don't get this problem much any more, despite the fact that I have achieved little worldly success to date.

I'd say the key thing is that you've noticed the envy, which means that it can't control you -- not all the time.

Keep paying attention.
Bitcoin Abuse Database
And that's fine. It is a great way to bootstrap a small circle of trust that can be used apart from any large centralized infrastructure.

It seems like everyone is trying to find a way to make a global trust network (keybase, LinkedIn, etc.), when all you need most of the time are small circles of trust (dev groups, activism organizations, etc.).

I think the decentralized nature of WoT is actually a better way of structuring things, since it makes mass surveillance much more difficult.
What are your goals for your investing? What does it help you do in your life in 5 years, 10 years, etc.

Usually these answers won't fit in ski well with startups as an asset class.

Also you're right. Startup investing is all about deal flow.
I have carpal tunnel syndrome, so I like to use a plugin called SurfingKeys to reduce my use of pointing devices. It was completely unusable however when given the new Reddit so I switched back.
> That makes the silly assumption that all organisms are equal

Where does it do that?
IMO, no. I run Silverblue on a machine I can afford to have not work at any given time. It's been rough on occasion, especially around stuff like graphics drivers. If you don't have a disposable machine I think this stack is definitely too early in development.
SQL on it's own scales to a point, that point being however large you can make a single machine. Which can be quiet small depending on the data sizes in question. Beyond that you need to use something like Vitess (which the article mentions) but that comes with it's own overheads and caveats. You no longer have SQL really, you have Vitess. A couple years ago a company I was at tried to use Vitess but found too many edge cases and too much operational overhead.
Heh, Star Citizen's perpetual development is a popular and regular topic on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19807082
On the general topic of healthy eating, anti-cancer foods and general disease prevention through diet, I found the (sensationally titled) book How Not to Die[0] pretty interesting and quite motivating. Would love any other recommendations or critical reviews!

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25663961
hmm personally I haven't really felt this way since high school (I'm 26 right now working as a SWE in NYC).
I think you're at a great point because you have the ability to turn that envy into something productive. Perhaps it's learning a new skill that you can apply on the job, that will get you paid more. Trying to invalidate someone is counter productive, because chances are it will not make you anymore successful/happy. Furthermore, it is taking away time from activities that will certainly make you successful and happy. So with that said, as the Nike commercials state, "Just Do It". Start something that you know will make you happy and successful in your path. When you get bored, tried, lazy, unmotivated of "just doing it" think about that envy, use it to continue forward. Make others want to be envious of you!
> At first, the CEO said that these thrusters, which basically amount to small rocket engines, will “dramatically improve acceleration, top speed, braking and cornering”, but he also said that it would “maybe even allow a Tesla to fly.”

> He talked about the Tesla Roadster even being able to hover over the ground.

Why are investors still taking Musk seriously at all? Do people really like this shtick?
Well, even if lobster is proven beyond reasonable of doubt that it feel horrible pain, I'm still going to boil it alive.
I have a variety of ways to analyse this:

0) Remember that social media and the press shows the best parts of people's lives and rarely the crappy parts that everyone has.

1) You can't have it all. Often people sacrifice other parts of their lives to achieve in one area. My old boss that got promoted to a very high position never found a partner or children. Other tech friends who have earned a lot have worked thier whole lives and never went backpacking around the world like I did.

2) Some people have advantages. Eg Bill Gates was a millionaire before he even started college, many famous people had privileged upbringings.

3) Some people are just lucky. Maybe they were in the right place in the right time. I had a very wealthy friend who I never figured out why they spent so much or how they could afford such a big house and expensive vacations. Later I found out their father literally won the lottery, $50Mil - at the same time her sister has severe deformities from birth. Which brings to

4) Money and "Success" doesn't equal happiness. My wealthy friend would easily give it up to have a healthy happy sister. Taleb talks a lot about how suburbs filled with huge multi-million dollar houses are filled with bored lonely people.

5) You're probably much wealthier and have a better life than most people already. Remember >2Billion people don't have clean tap water they can drink. People are risking their lives so they can come to the US or Europe to work in construction or cook your meals in a restaurant.
Why would they expect me to download an app on my laptop?
This time, though, Reddit doesn't have a suitable competitor and they know it. Power users will whine, but they don't have anywhere else to run.
Thanks for the old.reddit.com mention. That made my life just plain better.
You’re already halfway there by recognizing that mentally bringing someone down is a waste of time, and that the only point is to feel better about yourself.

Both being jealous and mentally knocking people down are pretty normal human things to do. If you listen, you’ll notice lots of people say things out loud that have the undertone of here’s why you’re not that great or here’s why I’m better than you. Sometimes it’s subtle, sometimes it’s not.

The main thing I tend to think about is how I’m not in competition with anyone but myself. I can improve, or not improve, and I can affect my own situation. But either way, it doesn’t affect anyone else, and their lot doesn’t affect me. It won’t help me make more money or get more attention if I bring someone else down, nor will it prevent them from getting attention or money.

Another way to approach this is acknowledging that some people are actually very talented, some people are very focused and work incredibly hard. You have the option to drop the jealousy and join others in respecting someone’s achievements. You can also study them, find out what they’re doing and how they work in order to emulate the behaviors that got them where they are.

Another way to deal with this is meditation. If you study a little meditation, one of the first things you learn is how to identify your talkative and often negative inner voice, and then after you learn how to recognize it, you learn to acknowledge it and let it go, in favor of a more peaceful and positive inner monologue.