skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would like to respond to you directly. Another comment that was downvoted said something very similar.

I do not blame race on everything. Numerous jobs I have been hired solely because of my skills. I have been fired because I slacked off too hard. I have missed promotions because I could only see my positives and not my negatives. I have the experience I do from working at many different IT shops.

Part of what happened recently has to do with the fact that the company makes diversity a key deciding factor. My previous roles show a clear footpath in the direction they desired. To have someone of lesser skill promoted in front of me and then not spend any time to groom me to move up as well is a huge slap to my face. I gave up my revenue generating business to take this opportunity, so please forgive me if I’m a bit jaded at this point.

I know what I can do, and I never look a gift horse in the mouth. I am blessed to be employed right now.. but bet your ass as soon as this virus passes I’m out and will be back to schmoozing investors. Probably with better results than my last 3 years combined (EDIT: and very likely because of company XYZ being on my resume. But change needs to start from the top and I’m not gonna hang around forever to wait. I’m rambling now so it’s probably time to get off the internet)
Well. Even the pi 1 is vastly faster than even the fastest Acorn workstation.

The two major flies in the ointment are that RISC OS has never had a wifi stack (use ethernet or an external wireless access point) and that some of the old software hasn't survived the shift from the ARM2/3's 26-bit addressing mode to the more modern 32-bit standard. But if you don't have old games you want to be nostalgic about, that's less of a problem!
Interesting point; that could be both good and bad; good in the sense of reducing the number of parties collecting telemetry. Bad in that it makes it conveniently centralized for any malicious actor.
Floating point, binary or otherwise, is the wrong tool for many things. (Although (not-necessarily-scientific) simulation work is a very broad class of things.) If you're doing anything related to accounting, there is no excuse not to be using integers.
> Isn't that horribly patronizing?

Not a racist but am torn between ignoring race - wr’re all people stance - and the behaviour described as patronizing. My conclusion is that nobody has a clue how to deal with this mess. We need to have some sort of clear guidelines on what is best tto do in these cases without offending nor patronizing. Im an Eastern European immigrant to the US and in my US education it has been drilled into me that there is no such thing as race, we’re all related and so on while emphasizing on different cultures. I took African American studies and did learn a great deal of injustice at the expense of blacks in America. But it seems I didn’t learn how to behave properly. What am I doing wrong? Should we set clear guidelines or leave them ambiguous?
I don't use emacs.

I use text files to organise myself but I use notepad++ to edit them.

I have tried to learn emacs a couple of times but I am really unmotivated - don't see any case where it would help me. I am afraid I'm missing something.
I use Notes mostly, because it's synced to my phone and I can paste images (usually screenshots) in it easily.
> Storyboards are the instruments of the cowards

It is Mr. Herzog's slightly pedantic tongue in cheek, semi-flamboyant, original way of saying that his type of cinema doesn't require storyboards. That is fine, as long as no one misunderstands it for saying that he doesn't need a script to plan his shots and can rely solely on artistic brilliance and improvisation, which couldn't be further from the truth.

Of course, most documentaries and art films don't need a visual screenplay like a storyboard, because it wouldn't make sense to script the action besides the fact that there is little action in those films. It is kind of logical and has nothing to do with being particularly brave. Now, action movies require storyboards because otherwise, the director wouldn't know what to do and would blow the studio's budget and get fired. Not using a storyboard wouldn't make the director a coward, but it would be unprofessional.

In cinema and documentaries and even to do YouTube videos, you need a plan, an outline, or a script. Without a planning tool, you will blow up your budget and end up with a second rate product. A storyboard is a planning tool you need when your scene is complex and will require tight control of your budget. It is just a tool and doesn't impede your improvisation abilities or choices or make you afraid of anything. That's silly.
He's talking about you people. So many others have reached the same conclusion.
In a way, large changes that make the embryo completely unviable would be less bad: the embryo would be wasted, but at least you wouldn't have caused someone a lifetime of genetic disease.

The worst case scenario would be a viable but badly diseased embryo.

I wonder if they can tell which of these outcomes they got from the experiment.
Do they reserve the right to change this at any time and indemnify themselves if something goes "wrong?"
> The World Doesn’t Need a New Gigantic Particle Collider

I can't comment on whether it's needed or not.

But now is a great time to build it. War is the natural state, not peace, so a major international project like this should be done while possible.

To balance the risk that little new is found, a rider could be attached to fund 10 small(er) projects. That would also allow continuous research while the new collider is being constructed or undergoing maintenance.
The USSR gained so much needed strategic depth, the Germany gained Lebensraum.

Which country wasn't trading with Nazi Germany?
If you're buying an established business, then yeah most likely it's not gonna go well for the employees, since your whole thesis is that you can extract more profit post acquisition then pre acquisition.

That's not what's happening here, though - Zoox's assets are worthless without their employees, so its in Amazon's interest to not screw them over completely.
Electronic payment is taking a vital importance. In many countries, cash is no more an alternative as there are now limits on the amounts you are allowed to pay cash (usually to fight fiscal evasion, undeclared jobs, crime, money laundering, etc).

I wonder if in the future, electronic payment will be considered like electricity (basic utility?). Only a juge would be allowed to ban someone using it.

In the US, are electricity or water companies allowed to ban a customer if he is having criminal activities? How does it work?
I was in your exact shoes. Like multiple others have said, Git is everywhere and you could be hurting your career by avoiding it.

I bought a physical book (Pro Git, which is also open source: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2) and read it cover-to-cover. I found chapter 3 (branching) to be the best ROI from the reading.

If you start working professionally with Git everyday, it does eventually "click" and make sense in my experience.
are we talking god or like ancient aliens prometheus engineers here

I don't believe in god because I don't believe in anything magical or spiritual, for reasons too trivial to list here and I don't see the slightest hint of any design in any biological systems
Emacs runs in Windows consoles. Presumably you start it the usual way, by saying: emacs -nw

When you have Emacs, why use anything else? :)
Yann LeCun is leaving Twitter
As a daily runner for 25 years and a woman this is very validating.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23668700
Accounting for reverse splits, etc, their stock was worth about $12,000.00 in 2008 when oil was really expensive. Trading at $11 as of last Friday. Was at $175 in January of this year.

Tomorrow hits you hard. Fat tails are a thing.
“White fragility” (the concept, not the book, which I have no opinion about and don't expect a piece leading with the false social generalizations that are straight out of right-wing propaganda that this does to provide any illumination that would help with that) isn't about special fragility in Whites, it's about the special consequences of normal human fragility has in a particular privileged elite when confronted with a challenge to that privilege, and moreover to the mythology that provides a veneer that allows them to see the world in which that privilege exists as just. In contexts other than the modern USA, there are other dominant elites which no doubt would exhibit the same effects when challenged; there's nothing innately White about White fragility, it's only circumstantially White.
Biological noob here, but isn't Cas9 not well suited for humans? I recall that I read or heard somewhere that Cas12 was preferred for this usecase.
I think this article hits on an important problem, but it's the second article I've read so far from this blog that seems a little short on solutions. You probably /know/ that you have to "scale yourself up" if you're in this situation -- that's not the hard part! The hard part is...how?

You have to hire someone more senior than you. Someone who has already done the thing you've been trying to do. That's it. That's the only way. And if that someone who's more senior than you, if they don't respect you?

Well, that's is the challenge of leadership. Servant leadership and leading with the humility to deserve the respect of those who are technically "more senior" than you are is I think when leadership is put to the test. For some, this is not a huge change of pace. But for others, this is a huge challenge.
That's the really cringy part of this, the only people who are talking about this being deep are the people who have been pumping that garbage into my timeline for the last decade
Sonofusion [0] was a neat idea, and some of the relevant experiments (at least the cavitation part) can be done on a bench top with a hobbyist level budget. Last I checked, the research had been somewhat tarnished by academic fraud. The physics of jet formation during bubble collapse near a solid boundary remains fascinating [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_fusion

[1] https://authors.library.caltech.edu/48933/1/On%20the%20Mecha...
One of the reasons Amazon was successful as a cloud hosting company, and offers all the services it does is because of the famous Bezos email/memo to the entire company saying every API has to be designed as if it were external facing (usable by 3rd parties).

I think what you are conflating is "good documentation" and "well designed APIs" as an attribute of REST, when it's really just an attribute of good engineering.

Engineers have used functional interfaces for decades and there's just nothing at all in REST that's any kind of improvement over functional. There's a reason "functional programming" is a thing and "nounical programming" isn't even a word.
Some classic examples are AtomPub [1] and OData [2].

[1] https://bitworking.org/projects/atom/rfc5023/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Data_Protocol
https://john-millikin.com/unix-syscalls#darwin is a small, "hello world" example.
I’m mostly using fMRI visual system data and am repeatedly surprised how fine-grained the patterns we can find inside it are, if it‘s recorded well (e.g. lots of data in single subjects, no group averaging, very little motion). My field is well aware of this method‘s shortcomings, many including me would agree with Schmidhuber who said it’s like looking at heat distributions in a processor doing ML in their darkest research moments. Shortly after they discover something interesting in these patterns and another cool preprint is out.. Functional MRI is without doubt the best window into patterns of higher brain functions we currently have.

I wonder what it must have been like for neuroscience and the scientifically interested public when the fMRI method came up in the 90s. For human research they had EEG before (and PET which seemed to be quite cumbersome). Would love to read an anecdote.
I think US tax payers will bail out coal, gas and oil companies anyway.
I love this. Exceptionally well done.
Wonder who's going to grab their assets. Maybe Exxon? Still a lot of oil in the fracking areas.
> And let's be frank, very few businesses are actually really doing representational state transfert.

Every website on the Internet is doing representational state transfer. REST describes the interaction of humans using browsers to visit websites. It's not (mostly) meant to describe APIs for use by machines.

When you understand that it describes websites, then it's also not a hard concept to understand. Example REST services are: reddit.com, google.com, facebook.com, amazon.com, ebay.com, etc. Compare how you interact with these REST services with the criteria Fielding clarified in his blog post "REST APIs must be hypertext-driven":

https://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypert...

When you build a website you typically meet these criteria without effort. It's a natural part of the experience. Machines can also interact with REST services, though usually not in the same way as people. (I agree that REST has minimal relevance to design of APIs that are intended for use by other software)
I'm not sure which ones they are, but I'm sure some of the most impactful things ever published had this moment of hesitation involved.
> if you dropped them.

Or if someone shuffled them (as we used to do in the computer room to people who annoyed us.)
Emacs is great, but use whatever you want. Of course you’ll be missing on something but that’s true for a lot of things.
It honestly feels pretty amicable. The lenders are working with the company ("The company has entered into a restructuring support agreement, which has the full backing of lenders to its main revolving credit facility"), and the company is reorganizing, clearing some debt, but staying operational.

Which is pretty great for the US all-told. The US doesn't have to pump a barrel of shale oil to keep Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Russia, and other petty despot oil states on the defensive, to stay independent of their whims. As long as the US has the ABILITY to spin up pumping once oil hits $50, who cares whether we are actually doing it?

So overall, seems like fine news to me. Some banks are taking a haircut (better them than more taxpayer/bailout money). The infrastructure and organization sticks around. America stays independent of petty oil tyranny. Good news for America all around.

This is what bankruptcy, done right, is for!
Fair enough, but read the rest of the thread - you're not likely to find many unbiased opinions on it around here. You'd probably be better off reading book reviews.
I think the appeal is hack-ability. You can easily write a little Lisp program that hooks into emacs which you can trigger any number of ways.
Same ! So easy and works incredibly well across multiple devices.
I love how this contributes to our understanding of how we like to consume information. Great work.
That would be fair if all those "pages that will not be used in 2 weeks" actually ended up not being used after just 2 weeks. Instead, they will probably continue to be used for 2 months or 2 years.
I, too, am shocked by how much data I seem to think is in a blurb and an image. My usual HN headline triage time is reduced by a factor of 5 with this view.
In fact, her own definition is (from Wikipedia):

>White Fragility is a state in which even a minimal challenge to the white position becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves including: argumentation, invalidation, silence, withdrawal and claims of being attacked and misunderstood.

You could replace the world white by any other word.
And you can replace the list of defensive moves by the equivalent statement : "refusal to unconditionally comply", since it's the only option left.

I would venture a guess that this covers about 75% of human interactions, and 99% of interactions when the discussion is about challenging someone's interests or position.
You're absolutely correct, but that doesn't mean that playing on a gamepad is difficult.

Just that it perhaps doesn't provide you with the accuracy of a mouse, that is why they add in mitigating features such as aim assist.

In some areas its been a problem with PC players playing on a gamepad, to take advantage of high refresh rates and FPS in conjunction with aim assist.

My point being that I have friends that have tried playing FPS games on a PC and have seriously struggled. Not because it's difficult but because it was new to them.
Nope. I bought all my own computers with my paper route & Dunkin Donuts job money. I don't remember how much it cost, but I don't recall it being a big deal financially.
> Every website on the Internet is doing representational state transfer. REST describes the interaction of browsers with websites. It's not meant to describe APIs for use by machines.

We're talking API here, obviously, AKA 2 web apps communicating with each other, through basic HTTP clients. A browser is anything but a basic HTTP client. There is no user clicking on links in a contextual fashion here. So the point you are trying to argue doesn't even matter.

Your comment is ironically the very reason why REST as an idea is irrelevant to API developers and why trying to force a REST paradigm onto API is a bad idea. Very little HTTP clients used by API are sophisticated and intelligent enough to behave like an internet user browsing hyperlinks.
Is this what they teach in American schools?

The idea that the US bought millions of Soviet lives is as ridiculous as it is insulting.

The Soviet people fought in an existential war, the defeat meant death in concentration camps for some, and life as slaves for others.

All the stuff the USSR got in the lend-lease, while much appreciated, is a small fraction of the resources the USSR commited to the war.

"delivered for free"

You understand that it was called "lend-lease" for a reason?
>> If this were the case, why do many spend grueling over hundreds of LeetCode problems? If the credential was truly enough, we wouldn't have to be grilled in interview processes.

Credentials aren't enough to get you a job as a coder in many tech companies and they aren't enough to get you a job as a ball player in the NFL. But elite credentials do open all kinds of doors not open to those without them.
I think this is what we used to call "growth hacking..."
> I get why Epic probably funds this

Is it just to fuck over Unity?
Yes it was called the Filer. Pretty much like the Finder on the Mac.
I'm glad for you. I'm aware of a dozen of systems in my country built using VB6 or Clipper/Harbour (text mode) which are still in use.

And what I like most on such cases of success is that users mostly feel pleased by using them -- those systems basically do the job, fastly. For me, that tells a whole lot about how wrong are some philosophies getting mainstream, focusing on great aesthetics, mobile-first and, in my opinion, a very mistaken sense of user-friendliness
It'll dead cat bounce a few times, the smart money buys it on an up day and sells before noon.
I think if you monitor the code running in prod for a while, it can give you confidence that the code is not used. I am proposing a tool that would help you narrow down logic that is not used, and to automatically create PRs that are manually reviewed/approved i.e. not taking the dev out of the loop.
I believe EDIT.COM is still there in all 32-bit versions of Windows, but since it's a 16-bit application, none of the 64-bit versions have it.

More unusually, Win9x doesn't have EDLIN, but it seems the 32-bit versions of NT-based Windows do.
I really love ImGui but what you described (accurately, I don't know why you got silently downvoted) is my biggest problem with it for general UI use.

It's actually quite difficult to hack to make it not need 60+ fps updating; I've tried and was not really successful, wrote about some of the issues on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/hcpoc0/how_to_add_a_gu...
Show HN: Chrome Extension that lets you start WhatsApp Web chat in a click
"And Russians certainly did not win this war."

We most certainly did, we still exist as a nation.
I was a fan of Tokyo (and Kyoto and Osaka’s) “Old man bars” after stumbling into a few on my first few visits there. Having discovered Tokyo Jazz Joints on Instagram before my last visit, I used some of their writeups for inspiration on where to check out this time around.

While I have been both shouted and clapped out of a Japanese bar and told a bar was closed when it was clearly open (both immediately upon walking in, presumably because of my gaijin appearance), I’ve never had a negative experience in a jazz bar in Japan. If it’s your intent to quietly enjoy a drink and maybe some salty bar snacks, you will be treated with a low-key hospitality I’d describe as ‘genteel’ - it’s now a quality I look for in bars here in America because it is totally my speed.
I tried a ton of them for a while and the microsoft terminal or wsltty both use the least amount of resources, open the quickest and have the lowest input latency.
Call your congress critters and ask them to look at drafting legislation requiring the Executive branch of government to self-host its own standards-compliant social media site, using government infrastructure.

We live in a day and age where ActivityPub exists and the White House could be running its own Mastodon server (well, I would not recommend that exactly, but it could be running something that speaks the same language).
> Electricity, the light bulb, the automobile, the washing machine, the air conditioner, the personal computer, etc etc.

All of these inventions involved a real, tangible, desirable product, and they were successful because real people were willing to pay their inventors real money for them.

Increasingly, it appears that Wirecard was none of these things. A payment services company is not some sort of masterpiece of innovation, and one which was built on a foundation of financial fraud clearly does not have any net value to humanity.

> Clearly there was nothing stopping humanity from discovering these things 1000 years ago.

Of course there was. Technology does not exist in a vacuum.
I was going to ask if you had considered battery power, since a battery is basically the cleanest power source you can possibly get. But, your link makes it seem like basically a "set it up and check on it in X months" type project.
While we're actively developing our program, we got several core modules that have barely been touched since they were written in 1997. It's not pretty code, but hey it works, so until we need to there's no need to touch it.

A coworker has written a tool that edits the registry such that you can do a fresh install of our compiler/IDE (Delphi), run the tool, and then load up our project and it'll compile. The tool gets updated when needed, usually when we change dependencies. All dependencies are kept alongside the source in the same repo, which makes it easy to ensure you got the right stuff available for compilation, as well as being able to make patches if we really need to fix an issue ourselves.

Need to compile an old version? Check out the right branch, run the tool and start the IDE version used for that branch. Easy.