skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The messy, secretive reality behind OpenAI’s bid to save the world
That's simply tax fraud.
Indeed. Great headlights (without paying for the upgrade that much of the competition requires), great safety, great acceleration, great stereo, great nav, great handling, etc.
Here is your 10x programmer:

https://norvig.com/sudoku.html

"In this essay I tackle the problem of solving every Sudoku puzzle. It turns out to be quite easy (about one page of code for the main idea and two pages for embellishments) using two ideas: constraint propagation and search."

If you gave this task to an "average" developer, how long would it take for them to implement? How many lines of code would it be? Would the implementation be correct? How long would their code take to execute?

% python sudo.py
All tests pass.
Solved 50 of 50 easy puzzles (avg 0.01 secs (86 Hz), max 0.03 secs).
Solved 95 of 95 hard puzzles (avg 0.04 secs (24 Hz), max 0.18 secs).
Solved 11 of 11 hardest puzzles (avg 0.01 secs (71 Hz), max 0.02 secs).
Solved 99 of 99 random puzzles (avg 0.01 secs (85 Hz), max 0.02 secs).

Does the average developer know what "constraint propagation" and "search" mean in the above sense, or remember enough about them from their CS class to recognize them as the right tools and how to implement them?

Also, can the average developer implement a spell checker from scratch on a single transcontinental flight?

https://norvig.com/spell-correct.html

So Norvig is always the paradigmatic example of the 10x developer, for me. Having a broad range of CS techniques at your disposal and knowing how and when to deploy them, is almost a super power.
If only there were some sort of device you could use to determine if the website was a small business. Such as a telephone.

Put another way, actual relationships with customers solve this problem trivially.
DVI Predates DP by ~7 years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Visual_Interface
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayPort
Well luckily for the low low price of $4000, you can get a 32" 8k monitor, which hits that sweet spot.

https://www.newegg.com/dell-up3218k-32/p/N82E16824260551
DVI existed 8 years earlier.
Good linters correctly highlight all missing semicolons as a symptom of sloppy, negligent, careless programming (or pointless syntactic showboating). It's also technically syntactically valid to omit braces around single statements after if, else, for, and while statements, but idiotic and dangerous to do that, too.

https://wiki.c2.com/?FixBrokenWindows

https://www.rtuin.nl/2012/08/software-development-and-the-br...

https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-broken-window-theory/

https://medium.com/@matryer/broken-windows-theory-why-code-q...
And when digital became a thing, it turned out HDMI is mostly compatible with DVI. Only now is DVI on its way out.
Deploying static sites is the original and best candidate for engineers overengineering
Yeah, it's kinda sad how close we are to the specs and that they aren't getting much ahead. Higher resolutions just chew through that bandwidth quickly.

Apple had to really hack around to get the Pro Display XDR to do 6k at 10-bit at 60Hz. They are using USB-C w/Thunderbolt for that and actually pushing two DisplayPort 1.4 signals down that cable. Clearly cludgy at best. Even then at 6k/10-bit/60Hz the other USB-C ports on the monitor can only work at USB 2.0 speeds because the link is so saturated.

6k/10-bit is a bit niche right now for sure, but I'd sure love to be able to daisy-chain my three 4k monitors which I can't do, and 120Hz is becoming very mainstream (although actually rendering 4k/120Hz is problematic on the graphics card side too).
That’s your job as a citizen to vote for representation that implements such policies. Don’t like the policies, run for office and vote.

I agree with you these people need to be taken care of (subsidizing energy efficiency programs, such as insulating their homes and installing heat pumps to get them off of coal or oil for thermal needs), but that’s the responsibility of their government (at the moment; I would of course like to see non government efforts if the resources can be mustered).
I wrote [1] a couple of months ago, a sort of 'clean baseball' version, under the overall auspices of a fund. I've also recently pitched an idea to win Senate seats, but haven't heard anything back on that one (major funding needed). Anyway, if there is interest, or just to brainstorm (as I enjoy this sorta thing), please drop me a line. grant AT eonias DOT (typical non-profit top level domain)

[1] http://d28jgulqbmbful.cloudfront.net/EarthSWF.pdf
I've seen this (exactly this, actually) line of reasoning regarding taxes and art before. While I think that it is somewhat relevant it's still not legal to do that, at least not where I live.
I do generally agree with you that the accredited investor definition should just be scrapped entirely, but the problem with fraud is that you usually don't find out about it until your investment is gone, and prosecutions often aren't able to recover anywhere near enough to make the investors whole again. And even when they do, it can take months or years.

Someone with a $20M net worth can deal with losing $1M. It sucks, but it's not going to put them on the streets. Someone who puts all of their savings into a fraudulent investment then becomes one car break-down away from not paying their bills. Consider also if that person is retired and is living on a fixed income.

The kind of people in the latter group are probably more likely to fall for a scam or fraud. I would love to lift investment restrictions -- I absolutely agree that this is a "richer get richer, poor get poorer" issue -- but not without a way to better protect more vulnerable investors.

The first thing that comes to mind is some sort of government-provided investment fraud insurance. But then I worry about perverse incentives: every time someone's investment tanks, they're incentivized to try to prove that the investment was a fraud.
> Emitting light != reflecting light.

No. It's photons, and the photons count is the same for a given flux. If your screen emits more photons, it's because you've set the background light too high. That's that user configurable setting I've mentioned in the first post. If you have problems with reflection of some other light source and you solved it by turning it off and sitting in the dark room, you of course have to reduce the background light of your monitor to match the ambient light conditions.
forbes.com is so bad...
If you're still looking, I quite like XKeysnail (https://github.com/mooz/xkeysnail) for that, although it does occasionally get confused. It does seem like it's something a WM should be capable of though.
I think we can quibble on what central really means, but the fact that they're democratically elected is the important part here. We make the government, and can direct its actions to what should benefit us the most. None gets a saying on what the Koch family or Bezos do with their money other than themselves.

> I don't expect billionaires to be perfect, but so far none of them has invaded countries for mistaken reasons, killing hundreds of thousands of people, or locked up millions in a War on Drugs.

I know a lot of people that would pin the gratuitous invasion of other countries on the industrial-military complex and control of oil and all the money that depends on it.

The War on Drugs is a shame, and harder to blame on rich people, probably with the exception of private prisons, which is a relative recent development. Are there any billionaires trying to solve this problem? Spending money to change policies so drugs get treated as a public health problem? Fighting against police brutality and racism? Curbing sales of opioids?

And inversely, are any billionaires fighting for the police state? Militarizing the police? Putting more and more opioids on the streets? Privatizing prisons? Selling junk food? Cigarettes? Animal factory farming? Massive student debt? Destroying elections? Fighting against unionization? Any of them against climate change?

Is all that we have left the hope that Bezos has more money than someone who owns a coal mining company so we get the climate change efforts we want? Are we betting the future of the planet on a hope that the richest people alive will be on our side?
I appreciate the share. I will be in touch!
Only that it had nothing to do with "the coin" but with NPM and its chaotic dependency system.

What's bad about the tangle? Its like hundreds of interwoven blockchains. Pretty good idea. GIT too uses a directed acyclic graph.
Photon – A Python API for Rapid Machine Learning Model Development
> Host a static website the HN way

Gatekeeping alert!

Fortunately, there is more than one way to do things. I've been in HN for a while now and I don't do any of this. I was doing it when I wanted to learn, but now I need to get a project launched without any burden so I deploy it to ZEIT Now which is not the same as OP, but you get the idea.
Well. The market is closed today. Since this is the first official guidance revision related to the virus (at least from a major corporation) you can expect to see some red tomorrow.
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What about FreedomBox: https://www.freedombox.org/ — "FreedomBox is a private server for non-experts: it lets you install and configure server applications with only a few clicks. It runs on cheap hardware of your choice, uses your internet connection and power, and is under your control. "
I've thought about how little risk people have doing business, but how much risk customers and the environment take by LLC licenses.

Or how inflation forces people to grow at whatever expense/ethics necessary. Our 401ks have unethical companies getting pumped because tax advantages and monetary policy.

I wonder if the free market would be safer and more conservative.
So does that mean that software will always have mic on?
The Quest for the Holy Grail of ‘Git for Data’
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otpauth://totp/Discord:bullettime29@aim.com?secret=3NUC6SF2DFHTOHWA&issuer=Discord
paper: https://www.semion.io/doc/photon-a-python-api-for-rapid-mach...
Revers-engineering of B3-34 internals (in Russian): http://vak.ru/doku.php/proj/calculator/b3-34 . Some more: https://ramlamyammambam.livejournal.com/267234.html .
You are correct - that would work to send reminders (notifications). However, we wouldn't be able to prevent people from using their apps. This is definitely something we are considering.
Guiding principles for a thriving remote team
Ah, so the secret to having a bunch of 5x engineers is to not burn them out.
> I thought this story was going to end with you consuming the beer on the spot.

Haha, no way. Grad students are poor as is. Drinking a month's beer budget in front of the guy would be bad, leaving him with that code was cruel enough.
My Experience with a Timeshare (Wyndham) Sales Team in Vegas
It seems like you're almost debating yourself here, making arguments for opposite sides. If anyone could do it and environmental effects make all the difference, why emphasize individual initiative?

But maybe the best thing to do would be to find a better environment, if you can?
For the first point, I'd say it's best to save the setup time by using a service like Netlify and keep that for if/when they shut down.

For the PDF, there's probably some service that could be used to wire that quick. But I agree that can be the cut-off point where it might be simpler for some to use docker.
I definitely agree with you that for a lot of users, we need to make everything as easy as possible.
Yes, and as the WP page says, convection is also what causes thunderstorms on Earth, and, well, pretty much all weather. Convection of solid (but malleable) rock in the mantle is responsible for plate tectonics.
There's a phenomenon where people who know the least about a topic seem to make the most confident pronouncements. It betokens a sad lack of curiosity.

Do even 10 minutes of reading and you'll find out that there are many cases of scientists & ethnographers in Australia corroborating traditional story details over thousands of years. Another 5 minutes and you'll find, again, cases where indigenous elders have traversed country they've never been in before, and gone straight to the only water sources existing in hundreds of surrounding square kilometers. All based on traditional stories. Probe a little further and you'll find out that much (though not all) is known about the cultural technologies that have been used to keep the stories alive and accurate over multiple generations.

Indigenous Australians aren't a 'different species'. But they do represent a distinct civilisation, which has thrived all the way across a continent for 40-60,000 years. Part of how they have done this is by maintaining stories about the land. This has little in common with industrial era unsubstantiated superstitions about indigenous peoples' 'oral stories'.
Totally. Regardless of whether its China or some other place on earth, almost complete centralization of manufacturing supply chain from teddy bears to cold rolled steel and everything in the middle; we're gonna have a bad time. Now if that said country offers nothing in return in terms of fairness, flat-out bans foreign business from competing, subsidizing national corporations in return for citizen information, ruled by an authoritarian regime with fascist underpinnings, and has a public health emergency; boy we're headed towards a recession until the rest of the world equips with multiple points of failure in their supply chain. I am sure this small dip will lead to unoptimization of local optima and leads us into a stronger future where there is fair competition, stronger supply chain, and efficient international trade.

I am sorry to bring up political aspects, but I hope it only portrays the objective state of the situation without any prejudicial color.
I'm guessing that AAPL March call option I bought is going to take a beating tomorrow morning. AAPL saying, "we ain't gonna make our numbers" might be enough to start to drag on NASDAQ a bit. Worse, perhaps it will start some closer examinations of other supply chains.
Honestly, at 30Hz you can feel the input lag. It always feels like the mouse is a little behind, and the key you pressed isn't quite there yet. It's only 33ms, but you can definitely see it.

60Hz is quite usable but if you are used to 120 or 144Hz you will notice it immediately.
> It comes from terrible "corporate drone" software developers in the 80s and 90s - the ones that would takes weeks to developer simple routines

They still very much exist. My previous job was at a bank and these people filled it.
Definitely! Thanks for the idea. This is on our roadmap and we plan on implementing it next month.
The bigger part of your problems will go away if you do yourself a favor and refrain from tge end-consumer hostile decisions the comoany in cupertino will take for you.
I have one of these at home and U2718q at work. At work, I use the Macbook USB-C multiport adapter (new one - you have to double check if you have an old one) and at home I got a uni USB-C-> HDMI 2.0 adapter ($18 on amazon)

Both systems work good. Both monitors also worked with mini displayport on my 2015 Macbook at 60hz, which was kind of embarrassing when going to the newer macbook, because it was expensive for the apple adapter and I had to look around before I tried the uni adapter.
Agree, I do not understand the need for more than one monitor as your eyes can only focus on one monitor at the same time anyway. It looks cool to have a bunch of monitors in front of you and of course eyes notice stuff going on in your peripheral vision as well but for that one could use some notifier daemon to get the same effect.
Just last night I listened to something on NPR about CAPTCHA v3, which doesn't involve checkboxes nor pointing at parking meters anymore. It samples page activity and interactions by the user and supplies a human-likelihood score to the site (h/t Twitter bot scorers).

So we live in a future where our activity is bounded by a variety of quality scores. You're mostly a human, your site's increased traffic is less legitimate...every Taylorist-Goodhartian aspect of existence is priced into the marketplaces of society.

Perhaps a decent analogy could be Black Mirror's "Nosedive" episode, but with endless dimensions instead of just one (which admittedly could be a derived score from the dimensional ratings), and ratings that aren't derived from the moods of peers and other interactors, but passively gathered from everyday behavior.

I think this is the NPR show episode: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/24/716854013/epis...
For context there's a pseudo debate going on in Australia about whether the indigenous people had large-scale agri- and aquaculture. A book, highly recommended, called Dark Emu quotes primary sources from early settlers and white explorers clearly describing an agrarian economy that was rapidly wiped out by invading settlers and their livestock. If true, and it's a convincing theory, the indigenous first Australians had a completely different culture to that we've all been taught. Settled agriculture actively managing the land as opposed to hunter gatherers. And the history goes back 50-60k years.

This idea has touched a nerve with the Murdocracy who opened a new front in their culture wars attacking the idea without really attempting to refute it from historical sources.

So I think reading this piece in that context is helpful.
I'm using a 55" 4K TV for my coding at home. It's wonderful that I always have enough space to put all my windows (using Win 10).

The other benefit is that I can sit farther away from the screen (I make the font larger to compensate). Feels like it's better for the eyes not to have to focus up-close.
Show HN: I made an app with the data from the 1-on-1 Meeting Questions thread
Awesome! Just installed it, looking forward to seeing how it works.
The trump trade policies (specifically, the China tariffs) have reduced the exposure of many US firms to Chinese goods. A lot of factories shifted to Vietnam and other SE Asian countries. Europe is already showing early red flags in their stock indexes, due to their closer ties to China.

If COVID-19 spreads further throughout SE Asia unchecked, expect the SP500 to catch up with reality in a hurry.
I really enjoyed Crenshaw's series on a Sweet 16-like interpreter in Embedded Programming (Programmer's Toolbox section) around 1999. He has a charming way of tying technology with history from his point of view.

Found one article: https://m.eet.com/media/1171254/toolbox.pdf
Visa Acquires Payment Startups: What Could It Mean for Crypto?
When did that happen? Back in my day, OSX was the one with sub pixel rendering and Windows users would constantly complain that it looked fuzzy.
"vegan leather"

So, plastic.
Some month ago they started to getting rid of it. Was just luck that they still have it now, when this NodeJS/NPM hack happened.
Presumably, by spending enough money to get an account manager, then asking them to sell you a support contract.
Sure, but OP was asking about a stripped down EV without any of that stuff.

Also, besides traffic navigation and streaming stuff, what do you actually miss by not connecting it to the internet?
I had the same mental association and my first thought looking at this feature was: "What sort of misguided, insecure feature did they come up with this time?"

I'm not saying this feature is misguided because I know very little about it, but I am echoing that this too was my first impression however founded or unfounded it may be.

I realize that a company like this is stuck between a rock and a hard place when it comes to balancing growth and convenience and security, but it's very important to understand that when you lose trust by features that seem to be impetuously designed, people are going to start look at new features with suspicion.

It might be in Zoom's best interest to put out a write-up that targets IT people and explains the technology a little more in depth for forums like this one. Automagic demos are nice, but we also want to know how the security and other use cases were considered. Gain our trust, and we'll be bigger cheer leaders than your average users.
Cool math, but this doesn't solve the false positive paradox part of the base rate fallacy... since fraud is so rare, most transactions marked as fraud are going to be wrong.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy#False_posi...
AsciiDoctor has GraphViz (and PlantUML plus a few more) available inline (it handles the conversion for you). The syntax has a few differences to Markdown but it's not too hard to adapt plus it has a few other awesome features that I always miss when in Markdown.
Am I the only one in the IT adjacent world who thinks the inverse of this is the larger problem (churn, NIH, reinventing the wheel) in software today?
And this is about the point where I finally gave up on C++, I just wish I could get the time I spent learning all the rules and all their exceptions back.

It has now morphed into a language where today's optimal code looks horribly inefficient by yesterday's standards. Which adds another layer of uncertainty to what was already a pretty serious mess of a language.

Calling this simple is about as silly as it gets. Thanks, but no thanks, I have problems to solve.
A neural network would have some nice properties for sure, although it'd also have plenty of bad ones. For one thing, I'd guess that the NN wouldn't be great for rendering in real-time, since it's liable to be orders of magnitude slower than the JS function it's approximating. Granted you could use a GPU--but then again, you could probably compile the JS function into a kernel and get a speedup there too.

If you sample the boolean function enough to train a neural network on it, you've likely sampled more than enough to build a very accurate mesh using marching cubes or other algorithms. Meshes are especially easy to render, plus they can tell you quite a lot.
Have you tried Cloudflare Workers and Workers Sites? I believe they fix both issues.
I think there's an argument to be made that the current rules create obstacles for Ponzi schemes and other conmen, but I'm genuinely in agreement that restricting action based on personal wealth is a great way to keep the poor from moving up. I think day trading is the worst example, especially when you compare its risks to options which have no such restrictions
I myself have noticed that some people just have natural cognitive abilities that far surpass any regular person's abilities, and I guess that's generally a prerequisite for making any new ground-breaking discoveries or libraries. But still, one person can only know/do as much as one person can, and while having very great skills in some narrow domain, other people (or here programmers) might be better versed in other skills than this "10x" person. Thus the 10x depends very much on the task.

What I have come to appreciate more over the years is the ability to communicate and make understandable code that other people can build upon. I think it's our greatest strength to lean on the collective ability of the group instead of depending on some person's individual skill.

And in the end the "10x" is merely a subjective measure, that very much depends upon the people you are comparing to. With a team of 10x programmers wouldn't everyone be then only 1x?
So all the electronics in the car are more centralized? Doesn't that mean there's only one point of failure now?
What about other ad networks?
> Overall Tesla's customer satisfaction is really, really high

That's because most of the owners have new cars.

Wait until they need to have their car serviced by Tesla or until their batteries degrade and are subject to a forced OTA "upgrade" that removes capacity i.e. Model S.

https://electrek.co/2019/10/04/tesla-software-updat-battery-...
If you can be sued into oblivion for even starting a business, who would try? The corporate veil is intended to help the little guy.