skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I, myself, went down a similar rabbit hole years ago. I could probably write a similarly long blog post, detailing all the twists and turns, highs and lows of that period. Reading this was kinda triggering some repressed PTSD from it lol.

The highs and lows, thinking that you've found the perfect layout, only to encounter an edge case which there's no solution for and giving up. The continual wishful thinking that "one more modification" and THEN I would have the perfect layout, without ever knowing if that's true. And then when do you stop? I couldn't find a point where I would ever stop, it was maddening. I used a Japanese keyboard for a while [1] to leverage the extra keys on either side of space bar, but then I realized that I probably wouldn't be able to use a laptop normally ever again, which was enough to snap me back to QWERTY.

In the end, I did end up going back to QWERTY, but with some modifications, which I really think improve the problems I have with the layout (sore pinkies) [2], most commonly from jupyter notebooks (hitting shift-enter). It also solves emacs pinky.

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/SolidTek-Keyboard-Languages-JAPANESE-...

[2] - https://github.com/ebanner/dotfiles#keyboard-layout
> I don't know how iPhones handle the transfer process but anyone I know with an Android phone also dreads setting up a new phone because there's always something manually tedious that needs to be done

FWIW I've used Android phones for the last decade+ and my setup consists entirely of signing into my Google account once (and setting a wallpaper, if I feel like it).
The U.S. military is the largest terrorist organization in the world. Everyone has an interest in people not enlisting, Americans included.
yeah. what people don’t understand is that the return has to be processed when it comes back. in an ideal world anything like a GPS tracker would surely be discovered.

there are also several issue with how the return may go. amazon may tell you to just keep the item (if the cost of shipping + processing the return is higher that the actual product price / margin on the item). they may decide that the item is in not good condition when it comes back. the packaging may be missing parts or damaged. i would guess that a lot of items don’t make it through the process.

also i would guess that because Amazon keeps existing and making a profit they have this baked into their business model. Also I would be shocked if the return rate is 30-40%. Again guessing, I would say it’s probably 1-2%. A lot of people buy shit they don’t need and keep it.

As far as “hacking the system” I think that they should have a system in place to track how many things you return (and if they were in good condition/could be resold) and how much money they made on your purchases. If overall you’re a net negative I would not be surprised if your account got suspended/banned. Why would they do business with you if you’re a bad actor?
I think that raising the minimum wage results in more jobs not less.
As far as I can tell, though, unmasking isn't really coded as violent in the sense that the writer suggests.
I have to add its almost like this for other stuff. Its harder to showroom stuff and buy online now you need to order and return to try out. It isn't just clothes: laptops, furniture, nearly everything is likely to end up like this.
If the environmental cost is dominated by shipping I could see destruction as more environmentally friendly. This is likely the for many small cheap items.
It's not doxing if they are state sponsored criminals. That is a horrible misuse of the term. You do not remove evidence of criminals indentity. That's a crime in itself. You are complicit in the crime by coving it up
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I believe it's usually implemented as user pays standard rate legal fees - court, lawyer fees and maybe some extra. If you choose to hire a super expensive legal team, that's on you.
They do on Twitter. The problem is that the advertisers don't like it, and judging by the analytics I see on my own comments on ads, users don't seem to pay much attention to such comments either.
The fact that the people who built Reddit ads didn't care if it worked and now blocks ads might explain why Reddit isn't profitable.
Now compare these lies of recycling goods and plastic with the other lie of harvesting trees for paper pulp. ;-)

It's a perfect animal farm!
Except all the 'libertarian' and 2A open carry 'militia' are firmly on the side of jack-booted authoritatian police and 'border patrol' 200 miles from the border (or port of entry!). Just cosplay death squads and lynch mobs.
And you are accountable to your employees. Take the board I have for example. It is a relief to know that if I’m not longer the right person they will replace me. If you are bootstrapped with 1000+ employees a board might be something you want even if you don’t need to do it from an ownership perspective.
We Are Legion (https://www.amazon.com/Are-Legion-Bob-Bobiverse-Book-ebook/d...) is a fun sci fi series that takes this to a place I had never seen before.
That keyboard with actually good switches would have been perfect. The squishy rubber comes on the ergo 4000 are really hard to come backs to after using a good keyboard. But the layout is excellent.
Focke-Wulf Ta 183
"Oh no, you can do dangerous things if you know what you're doing!"
Are there any well-engineered, non-synthetic, t-shirts?
Over the years I've accumulated a messy collection of various old cotton t-shirts. Each with its own quirks. Some small, some uncomfortable, some not breathable, some with a weird smell after lying not-used for too long in the closet.

I just want to buy 10-15 identical t-shirts, and not have to think which one to wear for what occasion.

Are there any t-shirts which fulfill all, or most, of the following requirements?

- comfortable

- long-lasting (does not stretch/shrink too much over time)

- not staining other clothes during washing (so, probably some neutral color)

- breathable

- easy to wash and dry (30-40*C machine-washable, ok for tumble-drying)

- non-synthetic (e.g. cotton, linen, wool)

Purpose:

- wearing at home through the day as base layer

- running/gym

- sleeping (as pyjamas)

Color/brand doesn't matter, but eco-friendly manufacturing process as whole would be a good bonus.
Why not use thumb keys for modifiers? I thought that's what most people did.
I mean, at a certain point you're asking for ultimate power over everything and instead of attempting to become autonomous you find yourself attempting to become a supervillain
Can we please not have articles from Quillette or any other sites that give a voice towards people who promote things like race science?

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/quillette-fascist-...
Considering using multiple keyboards is what triggered this rabbit hole, note that the Logitech Craft can be used with 3 computers at the same time (there are keys to switch which one you're targeting), it's very convenient and the keyboard is silent.

https://www.logitech.com/en-us/products/keyboards/craft.920-...
I feel the worst about mattresses getting returned. I'm tempted to buy a new bed (it's just that time), but not being able to try them out, I'd feel bad returning one if I didn't like it. Those things are huge and hard to recycle, and you can't exactly resell them.
Robinhood Users Say Accounts Were Looted, No One to Call
Sounds wasteful but if we assume normalization of online ordering for clothing (where good fit is important) then this is probably the most efficient way to handle this situation. I suppose ordering a single item, trying, returning then ordering 2 more times until you get the right fit: that sounds a lot more wasteful than order 3 items in one go and doing a single return.

Now, IMO, ordering clothes (and shoes, or anything you're supposed to wear and where fit is important - at least important for a substantial demographic) through online shopping just doesn't seem to make as much sense as other things.

I personally rarely buy online unless I'm talking about staples like shirt and tees that I've tried from certain brands and know how it fits (so don't need returning).

As with other things... this huge shift to online ordering may make from efficiency perspective only when you ignore externalities and subsidies.
Management guru Tom Peters has claimed all you need to do is outsource; and the minimal corporation is a CEO with a computer & phone. This was in the 90s, tho.
The only time I feel dumb in life is while watching his videos. Math doesn't come as easy for me as programming does and he always sounds as if it's trivial to follow along. But it isn't for me. I went so far as to unsubscribe because it became an unpleasant experience.
All these vendors had earlier incarnations in the open stack era (Iaas). Openstack is a big failure. Now, these vendors have moved to the next one: CNCF
I honestly don't understand how that's a rebuttal of the Chinese room. Obviously a person with such a fantastic device would not "understand Chinese" if they had it.
Because any freely provided or "reasonably" priced law firms that poor people could use tend to be shit.. the american economy and legal system is a racket rigged for those already rich and powerful, dynastic american royalty. "It's a big club, and you ain't in it."
New scripting language: CLI and C++ library
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Lucasfilm went after FASA back in the Eighties for their board game 'Battledroid', forcing them to change it to 'Battletech'. It's a trademark with a long history of being contentious. Think he could name his company 'OrpheusiPhone' without pushback from Apple?
Would nonviolent protest against Hitler have been twice as effective as the war?
No do some boulders, best training for your hole body and you don't even feel it (mainly because you don't want to fall down), BUT start slow and easy for the first 3 month, your ligaments need much MUCH longer to grow strong than your muscles.
I wasn't putting the whole blame on it. I was citing it as one example.

And, Boston, NY, etc. rents are NOT as high as San Fran.
That and it's not good strategy to poke the king in the eye when he comes asking for a favour. Let's call it 'win win'.
Thank you for your mention of Perl 6. Please note that Perl 6 has been renamed to Raku (https://raku.org using the #rakulang tag on social media).
I like most of PGs writing but being a smart and successful founder/investor doesn't automatically make you a proficient anthropologist. Arguing that you shouldn't work for large FAANG style companies because our early hominid ancestors hunted only in small groups is just comical.

If you're really interested in reading about human evolution I recommend reading Robin Dunbars' work, who's an actual anthropologist.
Financially it kinda makes sense. But isn’t this contrary to the main reason for OpenAI’s existence - to be... open?
Good luck convincing average Joe Doe adopting that part
I wrote a comment about a week ago in this very forum that a non-optimizing compiler should be able to compile about 1MLOC/s [0]. That seems to stay reasonably true a week later.

What is more interesting is what tradeoffs you make to produce fast code. Chez scheme produces code that is plenty fast compared to most other scheme compilers, and does so at almost 100KLOC/s on my computer (on generated code that is relatively simple and already macro-expanded). They have strict limits on the time complexity on optimization passes, and even though some people have whined about it it seems to have served chez scheme well.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24660468
If you have children, surely they aren’t you and any pleasure or pain they experience has no effect on you. So what exactly is the point?
Our bodies weren't designed to eat the foods that people in rich countries eat, or to get so little exercise. There may be a similar problem with the way we work: a normal job may be as bad for us intellectually as white flour or sugar is for us physically.

This is the part I agree with most. In your 30s, you start to see a bifurcation whereby the people who take the corporate grind seriously go into cognitive atrophy, while those who have a fuck-it attitude keep getting smarter but become less employable (due to age and their shitty job histories). You do turn into a moron if you buy into whatever role the corporates are willing to give you. The more you believe in it, the faster you lose intelligence. It's probably optimal to be able to pretend you buy into corporate, while not actually investing yourself in it at all, but most nerds aren't very good at this code-switching.

It was remarkable how different they seemed. Particularly lions. Lions in the wild seem about ten times more alive. They're like different animals. I suspect that working for oneself feels better to humans in much the same way that living in the wild must feel better to a wide-ranging predator like a lion. Life in a zoo is easier, but it isn't the life they were designed for.

I thought it was lobsters the libertarians were all on about.

Anyone who's worked for a large organization has felt this. You can feel the difference between working for a company with 100 employees and one with 10,000, even if your group has only 10 people.

Corporate is corporate. It's all trash. It shouldn't exist. Capitalism is a dinosaur. That said, it's usually better to work for a large company than a small one. In a big company, you can move around. There's more diversity of work, and there's more organizational experience with outlier talent. (That doesn't mean you'll be recognized as outlier talent. If you work at Google and have a 160 IQ but mediocre paperwork, you'll probably just get a regular assignment.) At a 20-person venture-funded company, there isn't much choice of work to do, and there isn't much room to move or grow except by becoming a manager. Which means it's not really any different from the old corporate grind-- it just has worse benefits and more ways to fall between the cracks (and that's by design).
I can't attest to the usefulness of pytorch's multiprocessing module, but using python's multiprocessing module feels like low-level programming (serializing, packing and unpacking data-structures, etc. where you'd hope the environment would handle it for you).
> I'll grant that it's not going to win any awards...

For what it's worth it was one of six nominations for Best Short Story in the 1991 Nebula awards [0] and the Stephen O'Regan film adaptation [1] someone else already posted here won the 2006 Grand Prize at the SIFF Science Fiction Short Film Festival [2].

[0]: https://nebulas.sfwa.org/nominated-work/theyre-made-meat/

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tScAyNaRdQ

[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20060521202739/http://www.sfhome...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but literally every source of energy is heavily subsidised. All future options that are realizable right now are mediocre but so are all existing options.

> They don't store energy, people living near wind parks hate them

You can literally apply this to every other form of energy. Who wants to live near an oil refinery, a coal mining area, a gas pipeline or a nuclear power plant?

The current energy supply chains exist since decades and therefore appear so polished.
In that case, you could not catch CTRL-C in the cleanup.
Yes, Haskell as a pure functional language does this too. A naive copy-by-value handling of lists will usually end up in the same order of magnitude for performance as mutate-in-place linked lists in C. The compiler can track those immutable values and just mutate them in place, when it can guarantee that's a safe operation. The vast majority of the time, you can get away with just copying a pointer or renaming, not the whole variable.

The caveat is that, in my experience, it's a fair bit harder to reason about performance, as the execution model is even more abstracted away from the hardware than even something like the C model is (which is no longer a good fit either, in this era of speculative execution and multi-level caches.)
The Gap: Where Machine Learning Education Falls Short
True. But services you need all the time are or at least should be much cheaper in house. I mean your inhouse lawyer probably costs 100/h, outsourced 400/h.
To me "avoiding mutations" does not mean "no mutations", but rather "no mutations in-between states in a state machine". The system should model state as an immutable snapshot, while mutations when forming that state are completely acceptable.
On my case using firefox, with enhanced tracking protection turned on, the fb embed that contains the image won't load.
Was bored so tried the math.
Assume small town is 5000 people. 5000 * 20tons co2 (average US emissions per capita) = 100,000 tons of co2/year.

Cessna Citation produces 6 tons for every 3 hour flight. Lets say, there are 3 people each flight.
So 2 tons per person per flight.
If someone takes the private jet _every day of the year_, thats 700 tons. Still a far cry from 100,000 tons from a small town.
OP is talking about HN's job postings for YC companies, which can't have comments.
> There's a limit on the number of "active" groups you can be in at a time, typically 16. Groups were used for permissions for directories on network storage and our version control system at the time.

This is a limitation of NFS, or more specifically AUTH_SYS per RFC 5531 (§A):

* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5531#page-25

A lot (most?) NFS appliances tend to have a setting where you can tell them to ignore the group list that comes in on the RPC call and just do a look-up on the UID themselves: this way they get the full list via LDAP/NIS/AD/whatever and then do permission checks from that.
If not Google, then Disney.

Disney has also gone after companies for using droid in their name.
Depending on the company, they are often donated to homeless shelters and other places. But yes they generate a lot of waste too.
If unpaid ads for jobs at YC's portfolio are the only way YC can financially justify this site, I don't understand how anyone could complain. It's not evil, it's not tracking us, and it's pretty unobtrusive. It's even helpful to many of the people browsing.
Cozy.co direct deposit for my tenants has been great for years absolutely no hiccups.
Döda Fallet: The Dramatic Story of Sweden’s Dead Falls (2018)
Yes, if only they put their efforts towards generating low effort, self-righteous posts on message boards.

Marketing isn't evil, and it isn't the end of the world.
Super easy to go around. Just make the posting tailored to your specific candidate: “a mechanical engineer, 15 years of experience with solidworks and fluent in English, Russian and Hebrew. Must be willing to relocate to Knoxville, TN”. I guarantee you’ll find zero people in eastern TN who fit that description.
How Do I Balance Work with My Side Projects
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibilism
“The only pills that target the root cause of stubborn fat”
May I ask why we care? By and large, those reading this message board live lives of relative privilege. This is just some pandering feel good club-house stats. I care about depression and mental health issues in poor populations, those without the ability to get help or can readily get their Adderall prescription refilled with whatever sobfest they push to their doctor. Reports like this on already let's just say well-to-do and privileged populations are just insulting because they are the only ones who ever get reported on in large number. This is some easy statistics post for clout rather than any concerted effort to look at the problem where it really is a problem.
This specific censorship probably has the weight if Russia behind it. Not just Belarus.
You've identified the only claims that hold up. Compare to the crazy rhetoric and insinuation we saw for years, and it's clear people were way ahead of themselves.
Just the facts:

- Rules like these are designed to prevent wage deflation in-situ work in the US.

- SV engineers push for remote-first or remote-friendly workplaces.

- There is an enormous pool of talent overseas willing to relocate to the US for ~50% of an american worker, and obviously much less than that if they work remote.

Connect the dots and it's obvious that a few things will happen.

1. The H1-B jobs won't be replaced with American workers. They will be replaced with remote workers that earn even less.

2. This wage deflation will eventually percolate to us "low skilled" engineers. (Low-skilled ~meaning a RoR pipe fitter).

3. The remote work cat is out of the bag, so we'll finally see some traction in efforts to unionize software developers at Big Co. The unions will obviously restrict hiring foreign workers.

4. The effects of unionizing at BigCo on the startup ecosystem are REALLY hard to predict. It's a fun thought experiment.

Overall, this will be a net loss for humanity as a whole, but could maybe be short-term good for SV/american tech workers.
Unitized bodies may be more economical when comparing one vehicle to another, but this design allows for multiple cars on a single platform. So a family may have 4 vehicle types and two “skateboards.” So, for an apples to apples comparison, I think you’d have to compare this setup to _four_ unibody vehicles.
GPT-3 says: "Well, it's not intended for that. It's more for meaningful conversations like you have with people in real life. Look, use cases are not my area of expertise, you'll have to talk to the project lead about that."

GPT-3's use case is fun.
Vegan footwear is revolutionising industry
Specifically, in recent years, veganism has swept the US. Veganisms were used by many Americans to maintain their health and lose weight,
It may be how governments are organized. But there is absolutely no need to organize companies this way. Check out anarcho-syndicalism.
Big discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24732972
You can access disinformation through any group chat app. Should all be removed?
Yeah, I meant both the ByteRecord/read_byte_record API, as well as using Serde with a struct containing &str or &[u8] references.
Or the current US government really has some major problems.
I'm a little surprised that the IO performance in the article is so poor. I think it is because they effectively have at most 1 operation outstanding per thread. Thus there is no benefit to having the MD setup. I think they would get the same performance with a single SSD.
Typescript allows this

const c = getCustomer(); // type is Customer | null
const z : Customer = c; // ERROR; incompatible types
if (x === null) {
// handle null
} else {
const y : Customer = c; // OK; knows c isn't null here
}
The most autonomy I've experienced at a big company, and the best work I've done, is when a small cross-functional team is told "go build this" and then left alone. The small team is allowed to come up with their own processes and management is only used for consultation on how to remove external obstacles. Many companies know this is highly effective because they'll set up such teams when a very important initiative comes up.