skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand why you're trying to make this argument.

You said:

> being good at writing good production algorithms certainly have some overlap... but it's not very large

I agreed with you, and noted that this specific case is an exception:

> Except in this particular example, where someone managed to write a quadratic algorithm for arranging icons.

It seems to me like you're trying to take the most extreme position that's available in this discussion: you're trying to claim that being good at optimizing algorithmic time complexity ("good at leetcode") does not help someone at optimizing algorithmic time complexity in production, because there's some kind of mythical distinction between "throwaway code" and "production code". That distinction is not relevant here. Someone who is good at optimizing algorithmic time complexity in throwaway code is certainly good at optimizing algorithmic time complexity in production code. Just like someone who is good at riding horses is also good at riding horses on a sunny day. Or someone who is good at painting with acrylic is also good at painting with watercolors, if you compare to another person who doesn't have any experience painting.
Agreed, a lot of mixed messaging from them over the last few years. I also used to happily pay the $12/year for mobile access but they strangely got rid of that requirement and added no value to the paid version. I'm just gonna pay the $36/year at this point because I don't feel like disrupting my working password system. But it feels like dating a person who doesn't know what they want.
This is an attempt to bully competition (both in ideology...

This is what I was referring to. The NYT used doxxing to bully him because of how they perceived his views. Much of HN uses downvotes to bully and silence anything that criticizes the left.
'Most healthcare apps not up to NHS standards'
Thanks. I could take them or leave them. I've used generics a lot in C++, but as long as I can continue writing Go1 programs as I have been for the last 10 years, I'll be happy.
> The different classes of extremes have own names though, for example "Acidophiles" for life in acidic environments.

This bothered me, since "acidophile" is transparently a hybrid compound with one Latin and one Greek root. So I looked up what the Greek root for acid would be.

Turns out it's oxy-, and oxygen was erroneously named for its essential (and completely fictional) role in the formation of acids. Acidophiles should properly be termed oxyphiles... except that everyone would get the wrong idea.

This fails to explain how acidophilus bacteria got their name, though.
I don’t know about r > g but stock owners have made more money in the pandemic while actual people are starving. That’s evidence enough. The system is rigged to make house owners, stock owners etc richer as they have power.

Wages don’t keep up with productivity.
Literal bugs!
Crynware packet drivers and NCSA telnet. <- What popped in my mind when I saw the title.
It's quite good at network code.

Arguably, that's more because of the way you can pretty much completely rely on io.Reader and io.Writer being used pervasively throughout the ecosystem (3rd party libraries and all) rather than any specific "Go" special sauce, but, it is what it is.
It could take inspiration from some speedruns formats where the "seed" is pre-selected. That way you could have multiple people compete to write the most efficient factory in terms of resources and space to generate as many rockets as possible, and everyone with the same resource limitations and map layout!
You don't need to have 1:1 equivalence between API resources and database models, though. For example, you can create an API resource called TweetActivity, and then the backend code for GET /tweet-activity could put together a database query that grabs all the tweet likes, comments and basic commenter info (name, profile image), from different database tables, into a single new object. You can give that object the same ID as the tweet itself, and you can put a cache layer around that endpoint to, for example, save that response for the next 1 minute.

That being said, one thing you give up is providing a standard way for the client to specify which fields it needs returned. For example, a client might want to dig deeper into the commenter profile info. GraphQL's resolvers architecture opens up that possibility immediately.
Congrats on the launch :)
SHAREit Flaw Could Lead to Remote Code Execution
I can definitely see the point the author is trying to make, and I agree that it naturally lends itself to a functional model of how the game works.

On the other hand, and this is speaking as someone who has played the game for an embarrassing number of hours all the way into endgame "megabase" territory: my mental abstraction of the game isn't really functional. It's directed graphs. Sure, the two views can be equivalent representations, but I find thinking about the game as a directed graph (and reasoning about throughputs in a graph representing a network) to be the perspective that gives actionable insights most readily.
This is a chicken or the egg problem. Is the type of a person who has the intellectual capacity to invent the SaaS model and angel investing at scale just purely lucky to have the right timing for his inventions, or would that same person have invented something else in case that their life was time-shifted by a few years or decades or even centuries? People often say that once you're lucky, twice you're good.
I don’t know much about this issue, but from your comments it sounds like you don’t either. I’m not trying to be mean, but considering it wasn’t an automatic approval from the FDA that would suggest there’s legitimate concern to at least investigate. Be wary of Dunning-Kruger effect, especially when we’re talking about the healthcare of every person on Earth (the ideal scope of these vaccines).
> as well as projects that didn't get the traction he wanted (Bel)

Was traction his goal? I'm not sure about that. I think the ROI on Bel is extremely high. It only looks small if you compare it to something like YCombinator.
What do you mean by non linear there?
The original point was: "The idea that you can engineer yourself an addictive game is a silly concept."

The rebuttal was: "this is literally what casinos do"

The rebuttal to that was: "well, some casinos fail"

Which isn't really a point. Some casinos fail, that doesn't show that they don't optimize for addiction. It just indicates that optimizing for addiction is necessary but not sufficient for a casino to maintain solvency.
The right is absolutely not anti-government. They're just against the use of government to disrupt existing hierarchies or interfere with tradition.

For concrete proof look at Federal deficits and spending under right and left wing administrations, or the corresponding growth in the size and scope of government. There is at best no difference, and in a few cases government actually shrank in nominal terms under more left-leaning administrations.

The left believes we need government for pragmatic reasons, but most of them could be sold on the idea of giving up state power if alternative mechanisms to achieve their goals could be found and demonstrated to work in real life. The right on the other hand worships hierarchy and authority as a good in and of itself and almost deifies the state and its hierarchy as a manifestation of a divine order. The right would never let go of the state even if it were no longer needed, for doing so would mean there would be no mechanism for enforcement of divinely ordained hierarchy.

(This is why libertarians are neither left nor right.)
Is anyone using filecoin around here not for messing around or hobby stuff that could share their opinion of the product?

I really like the approach protocol labs has taken with libp2p, multiformats, ipfs and the like and it seems quite a few companies are leveraging these technologies day to day. I wonder if it’s the same case with filecoin or if it is still too early for people to have given it a shot.
I agree with this deeply. The Marvel Cinematic Universe, and its ilk, are propaganda projects designed to push manipulative falsehoods into the public's understanding of reality. I am not talking about Dr. Strange's magic, or Superman's laser vision; those fantastical elements are such pure fiction that they stand in contrast to the allegedly "realistic" elements on which the world rests. This contrast has always been a mechanism of science fiction[0], but in these super hero movies, what's left to be assumed as "reality" against which fantasy contrasts? Fascist tropes, such as:

- the patronizing Übermensch (literally "Superman") on whom "the weak" must rely
- moral nihilism of the "good" guys winning by force
- patriarchal masculinity left and right
- the untarnished benevolence of the Pentagon

Their entire purpose is to help American audiences perform the mental gymnastics (pun intended) of differentiating "good" Populist Nationalism from "bad" Populist Nationalism.

0. (e.g. the replicator is entirely fantastical, but allows Starfleet to make allegedly realistic points about the politics of abundance and deprivation)
> they require your login and therefore have your consent anyway (e.g. Facebook)

Requiring you to login doesn't automatically mean consent. In fact, the laws state that you cannot make consent a requirement for using the service. You can do login without needing any consent, as cookies needed for functioning of the site are exempt, but even if it wasn't the case, opting into some doesn't automatically opt you in to all.

> they can afford to skip Cookies because they have elaborate fingerprinting solutions

The law isn't actually about cookies at all and rather about tracking/storing. Things like localstorage are counted the same as cookies. I'd have to check the exact language, but I wouldn't be surprised if fingerprinting isn't against the cookie law too.
> which has been delisted from any exchange with a fiat gateway.

False, see kraken.com
Such a language could be an extension of VHDL or verilog (or more likely, just a library in such a language). The map could plausibly be the equivalent of an FPGA architecture, and build upon existing tooling. Caveat: I'm a bit of an FPGA noob and have zero clue how one specifies a detailed FPGA fabric to such tooling.
I think it’s so much more difficult these days to get significant success (jobs going away to AI, more competition, many of the low hanging discoveries and technologies being completed - I would love to make billions writing a chat app or simple CRUD database like Facebook!) that most of us are predisposed to focus on the luck part of things and not the hard work element.

I agree with you - people are missing the fact that the author was able to live on a very meagre salary for years.
99.9% of the people throwing around the word fascist today have little to no understanding of what that political ideology means.

The exact same situation happens with the word communist, excerpt with the roles reversed. Both are symptoms of falling educational levels, lack of historical knowledge, and an increasing drive to dehumanize and polarize the opposition.
Eh I think that interface stinks. It's just physically very uncomfortable to tap on the headphones in your ear because of the loud noise and the headphone pressing deeper into your ear. I have a knockoff bluetooth "Pods" and I absolutely hate the triple tap.
Not too far off from circuit design languages (VHDL, Verilog) to me.
See also Ars Technica article about this:

“ShareIt” Android app with over a billion downloads is a security nightmare

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/shareit-android-app-...
Is that related to checkwinsize sometimes becoming unset? I’ve never managed to find a pattern to when it happens.
I would agree that Factorio is addictive, but "rewarding" is not a word I would use to describe it personally. I finished it but did not enjoy the process.
Cortex-M4s have an optional AES core and hardware RNG. Pretty sad for a higher grade chip to be missing that. It doesn't consume much die space.
There's a third camp: "This is just software engineering, I might as well code something useful and equally fun".
My only complaint about SQLite is that on https://www.sqlite.org/datatype3.html it reads:

>REAL. The value is a floating point value, stored as an 8-byte IEEE floating point number.

When I read this I parsed 8-byte as 8-bit, and made several embarrassingly incorrect design decisions when creating a table as a result.
I wrote a similar article explaining Kafka with Factorio analogies a while back: https://medium.com/@ruurtjan/understanding-kafka-with-factor...

Visually explaining abstract concepts works a lot better in building an intuition than explaining them in abstract terms in my experience.
Perhaps, if you view it through my ostensible lack of interest in new computing technologies. From my perspective, computers have always been a tool to augment what I can do — gather information that my senses alone can't; crunch data that I can't do by hand; automate repetitive tasks; etc.

Most of that 1) relates to web development in some way (i.e. you get the data from a website), and 2) has gotten harder over time as software gets in the way.
I’ve used both, but am a long-time Python user and prefer it for most things. It’s my “first and true love of languages”.

In Python, “format-strings” were a welcome improvement and “f-strings” took me a bit to warm up to but are worth it. The walrus operator, though? Sure, it’s useful in a narrow case, but it’s extremely narrow. Likewise the pattern marching stuff - it just doesn’t feel like “Python” to me, and doesn’t seem to solve any real-world problem that’s remotely close to justifying the cognitive overhead.
> $2M per month at Yahoo

I had to reread this like 3 times. "per month", "per month"! PG, pay me $100K and I will install some secret video game room somewhere on Yahoo's campus for you to hang out a little longer.
Lessons learned from a 27 years old Unix book
> I don't think it should be legal to film anyone without their consent because that practice will always be abused by bad actors.

If a technology is developed allowing me to extract video from my hippocampus, will you require me to walk around my life with my eyes closed?
What's interesting is how much of pg's early life was spent in preparation. Of course, it wasn't obviously preparation at the time, but art school + computer science PhD is a rare and effective combo. It's almost the complete opposite of the standard college dropout founder archetype. I recently read a hilariously titled book, "What Tech Calls Thinking" that's a pretty scathing analysis of the tech world. But one accurate point the author makes is that the college dropout founder usually doesn't have that much domain specific experience. Unless you come into college extremely well prepared, you're probably going to spend your first few years doing core and introductory classes. It's pretty unlikely you're going to get to the top 1% of a field within the first two years of college.

With pg, it's at the complete opposite extreme. I mean, ffs who does an PhD and then decides to go to art school? I'm curious on whether pg believes he would have done well had he done a startup immediately after undergrad. Considering how much Lisp played a factor, I doubt it. What about post-PhD and pre-art school? I'm not sure either; the art school did have a strong influence as well.

Another aspect that I liked was the duality of art and CS. I can relate to it, as I have a pretty big obsession with film and CS. Sometimes it feels like an endless tug of war between the two; one always distracting me from the other. It's fascinating seeing someone else handle that struggle.
"But, NASA says, this is an important first step and one that offers an alternative to the spectacular scale of major tokamak and stellarator projects around the world. Even the smallest magnetic confinement fusion reactors require sun-hot fusion temperatures that have continued to create logistical problems. There will always be use cases where that isn’t feasible to install or maintain, even after scientists finally make it work on a practical scale."
There's a movie you should see. It's called Network[1] and it was made in 1976. It deals with prime time TV news and how it is used to exploit people.

[1]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074958/

> Howard Beale: I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.' Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad. You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, God damn it! My life has VALUE!' So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, 'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"
Yeah how dare they use modern technology to tackle public safety. Oh wait I think I just had a moment of wrongthink.
Something can be technically legal but also have a devastating effect on civil liberties.

There's a lot more information available here than would be on, for example YouTube. The most salient is that YouTube lacks timestamping. So a video pulled from YT might not be credible evidence because there's no way to prove when the video was recorded. It can also be difficult or impossible to determine where a video was recorded.

My contrast, Ring contains all of the metadata necessary for video evidence to be admissible in court. There's all the who/what/when/where information along with chain of custody guarantees.
Of these Companies, Symmetry Investments and Weka are probably the most prominent in the community.

Symmetry seem to be perpetually hiring (The management fee alone on 6Bn must be quite a lot), so worth asking around.
Maybe I spent too much time lurking on economics/policy related online places, but nowadays fewer and fewer articles can lull me into the usual Gell-Mann amnesia. (Arrogance lvl 99.)

> Outrage sells

Yes, exactly. It's just the usual "things are bad" porn. Winter? Things are bad. Summer? Things are bad. Sure, it's their "job", but at this rate why even check it? The problems are clear, even the solutions are pretty well characterized. (From small scale local zoning, policy and voting reforms through more of the same stricter EPA/cap-n-trade/carbon-tax stuff to big structural energy/healthcare/education/copyright/tax reforms to a few constitutional amendments and new free trade agreements [that incentivize free movement of people, goods, services and information]. Arrogance lvl 100.) For everything else you'll hear about it eventually.

> I don't think there is a single person left there who is thinking about the integrity of the paper.

Wow, that's ... damning. But doesn't seem particularly false either :|
If you grew up in the first half of the last century, chances are you'd recognise the smell of chlorinated solvents --- and they're even described as "sweet" by a lot of people. Due to their widespread use, many associated it with the smell of "clean". Unfortunately, they're also most if not all carcinogenic.
Sorry, but what is a senior principle engineer? My understanding is that as far as engineers go principle is the top level - a true technical authority for an organization.
> But there's nothing like writing a book about something to help you learn it.

This is the motto of silicon valley if I've ever heard it—all the good parts and bad parts smushed into a singular brand. The bad parts are pure narcissism; the good parts are more or less asking "am I doing harm by investing in this predatory business"? Unfortunately, the answer is mostly "yes".
The economic geography of global warming
GME is failing to deliver every day
What do you hope to gain by denigrating my position as lacking "actual facts"? I don't see you having brought much to the table. This is the end of the discussion, for you? You simply call me delusional and walk away? We have to live on this planet, you know.

I suppose the only difference between the two of us is that you're buying a gun with the explicit purpose of killing Black people.
It is a vicious cycle.
Clueless companies use clueless recruiters.
Ironically, Scott himself used an anonymous source as the lynchpin of his response to the article in question.

"I was also warned by people “in the know” that as soon as they got an excuse they would publish something as negative as possible about me, in order to punish me for embarrassing them." https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/statement-on-new-york-...
I used Delphi from v2 up to v7, and recently looked again due to the Community Edition as back in the day it was excellent.

I don't mind paying for software (JetBrains, NCrunch, Wallaby, etc). However given that the "free" edition costs over $1,000 once you generate $5,000 from it (and that's for only a single year of updates and no enterprise database access unless you double that price) it isn't quite as generous a free edition as one might assume from your comment.

I love Pascal (for comparison I also do C#, Node, Go, Python, Ruby, and PHP) but I'll stick with Lazarus/Free Pascal - my Delphi days are long gone at those insane prices.
Pretty much all languages that implement pattern matching treat case statements as l-values, not r-values. `match x: case y: ...` basically means "execute `y = x`, enter the body if it succeeds, try the next case if it fails". Python does allow more things as a case than it does in an assignment, but with the exception of `case enum.NOT_FOUND` (which IMO is a mistake and should not have been allowed), it could use the exact same syntax for `y = x` and `case y` if it wanted to, and it would be perfectly logical.

In the programming language I made a while back, my match statement was similar to Python's, and every case statement was also a valid l-value, so you could write `Point(x, y) | (x, y) = something` or `123 = x`, which would fail unless `x == 123`.
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Alright, I will abrogate uninformed to misinformed. The latter is worse because it blinds PG.

Yes, exactly, Aristotle's project was supremely successful and one of its fruits is the calculus that underlies modern science and technology. How is that for immortality? I'd like to see PG discard that part of ancient philosophy.