skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is it sickening? And why have good students in quotes?

Students that for example try to rank high in status by using violence in class or bullying will also always exist. They are extremely costly and teachers are not allowed to incentivize good behavior.

What I mean is that private schools quickly understand just how much damage a student can do and the teacher board / politicians really don’t, they think everything is sunshine and unicorns and put systems in place that are extremely naive.

The system in place only highlights the problem, but it’s not the root cause.
JavaScript[0] isn't what I would call a fast storage repository, but I guess it works out for prototyping.

On the context of porting to C and C++, or make it execute faster, I can see two options with minor rewrites.

Use AssemblyScript and generate native code via WebAssembly AOT compilers.

Try to adapt TypeScript to C++ compiler from Microsoft's MakeCode project.

Implement your own C++ code generator.

It would be much easier than keep using multiple code bases in parallel, plus any memory corruption issues would be most likely bugs on the code generator.

[0] - Yes I know the source code is Typescript.
Convey Services, the company handling the conference’s online logistics, was responsible for the pre-packaged naughty-word filter.

“All software plug-ins are going to have filters in to make sure you don’t get out of control,”Carolyn Bradfield, chief executive of Convey Services, tells the Times. “In that particular case, the filter was too tight...I don’t know why in the world the word ‘bone’ was in there,” Bradfield tells the Times.

Maybe Carolyn isn't aware of the many bone jokes out there. Here's an example:

Hey, are you a paleontologist?

Because I’ve got a massive bone in my pants for you to study.

Probably why that word was banned. Still it's funny how that crucial word was banned in that particular setting.
$212 per sqft is pretty average (considering the price of the land). I am not sure how much this actually saved. The biggest benefit is that you need less workers on site.

If they had built a duplex or triplex it would have been a net gain though.
I think you are misunderstand the point of Facebook's actions.

The purpose is not to harm or pressure the Burmese military authorities -

Its to virtue signal to left-leaning activists in the USA and other Western Countries.

Technology companies have dug themselves into a hole of censorship and deplatforming, and they have no choice but to keep digging.
> I disagree that employees need to be kept happy

Are you my old manager?
I just checked my most recent offer letter, and there is no reference to amount of hours worked. I'd probably be surprised if that was referred to in any of my past offer letters as well.

At least in tech, hours seems to be determined moreso by the societal norms (culture) of the company, which is then an extension of the "type" of company and what is normally expected of such. You might choose to perform above or below what those norms are, and might or might not see rewards/consequences for doing so. So these are things you might gauge by, say, the size of the company, asking various people before or during the interview process about the work culture, and so on. There are of course also variations across teams and departments within the company, so you'd probably get the best information from your future boss on what they expect.

For example, one tech company I worked at was very 9 to 5. People start shuffling out around 4 and the place would be a ghost town at 6. People are also not particularly prompt about showing up in the morning, maybe rolling in at 10 or 11. So there were certainly many people there working closer to 30 hour work weeks. Some definitely had an attitude of trying to have little responsibility as possible and do as little work as possible.

I personally like working hard on interesting problems, which I guess is what the article is referring to. So having problems that I can choose to spend as many hours I like working on sounds great to me. And when I've had enough enjoyment for the day, I pack it up, some days earlier, some days later. And if there's a pressing issue or deadline, then I'll gladly put in extra hours to match, because such accomplishment under pressure is enjoyable to me as well. So, this is the type of company culture I enjoy, where no one is asking you to put in hard work and hours, but everyone who works there is intrinsically gladly doing so anyways.

Tied in with that, then, is the type of company that would most get value out of such individuals, so they would presumably be ones where the individual impact is much more amplified. Which also means that you have a much more powerful enjoyment feedback loop, in that you more directly see the impact of your effort on the company itself.
Considering caring for the happiness of your employees (or really people in general) to be infantilizing is a pretty toxic mindset IMO. I WANT MY JOB SOUL CRUSHING BECAUSE I'M A REAL MAN.

Happiness and entertainment are not the same thing. Most of us spend a huge portion of our life working, we might as well try to make it at least a little bit fulfilling instead of just a way to fund the two days of the week when you can do something else.

And more cynically happy people will almost certainly work better. Have you never taken much more time than necessary to complete a task just because it was so incredibly dull, tedious and uninteresting? Bugtrackers are filled with issues that would require two lines of code to fix but nobody can be bothered to write them.
I enjoy to read/watch about productivity apps and new tech, but it seems to me that all this "optimization" doesn't have any strong effect on output. It's not negative, you can do it if that brings you joy, but don't expect it to increase your output.

One of my last year's most productive days, I was stuck in a small hotel room on a business trip for a entire day, with a 13-inch laptop on shit wifi. In just a few hours I wrote one of the most useful document for my job in the last couple of years. I guess I had nothing else to do, and had no distractions.

Both at my office and home, I have all kinds of ergonomic setup, great connection, comfortable drinks, whatever. And I work ok there most of the time, but I got more focused and productive stuck in a hotel on a small laptop and a wooden chair…

Recently this video [1] got my the same impression. A dozen content producers in the "productivity" niche show their workplace. Obviously there are some high-tech desks full of expensive latest tech, but also some simple laptops and a wooden chair. In the end it doesn't matter, they're all producing good output regardless of their productivity setup.

So it looks more like a hobby than an actual link to being productive. It's really not about the apps or setup.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs7TCNDQy1E
And I'm sure with advance study and research we could collect oil out of the polluted seas, digest litter. We didn't need solar shades 50 years ago. Why are we needing them now?

And just because we need them now doesn't make fair reason to space ventures.

Excluding the childish editorial remarks I made, the questions in which I pointed out are serious and are all pressing issues we currently face.

If they can be involved on clicking on a down arrow, they should be able to invest in to why they are clicking the down arrow. There was no attempt to fuel drama.
> Don’t follow rules of thumb blindly. If excitement drives you, you are not alone.

In my experience, few things are as exciting as shipping. Watching people use the code I wrote, or turning a mature, battle-tested infrastructure over to a new team, and watching them take it to the stratosphere.

And not having to create a JIRA database for bug reports, because the quality is so high that an occasional email is all you get.

No...scratch that. Failing is also quite exciting. Not what you meant? Sorry about that.

I'm not a big fan of dogma. That includes "Use the latest <BUZZWORD DU JOUR>, or you're a loser," as well as "Stay the hell away from the latest <BUZZWORD DU JOUR>, or you might get hurt."

I write in Swift. Even though it is coming up on seven years old, it's still a baby, compared to languages like Rust and Python. I committed to using it, the day it was announced.

This was because the company that supported it (you may have heard of them) was demonstrably behind the language, and the guy that designed it, wrote LLVM, so I knew it had a future.

I feel like I have really only been good enough at it to be confident, for the last couple of years, despite shipping a number of apps, written in it, since 2014.

I write in PHP, because I don't like to spend too much time on the server end of the API, and want solid, reliable and supported tech on the backend. If I want something more "cutting edge," I'll hire someone that is more familiar with that tech, as opposed to trying to learn it, myself.
Probably not the main reason and may not even be a reason. But this seems like it would work as a clever way not to have the market flooded with older (but still very capable) graphics cards once the value of them in a mining rig stops making sense.
> I've considered putting in a 19" rack next to my computer

Desktop rack mounts are pretty common for A/V and music producers nowadays; they use the same 19" mounting standards as servers and what-not

Here's an integrated example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVsEbOc4Jt4&t=2m05s

And some options that don't require a modified desk:

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/WSA7500--on-stage-st...

https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-8U-Desktop-Rack-2-Post/dp/B0...
The civilian government is also under investigation. https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/anaylsis/2019/11/21/Myanm...
>The price of electric and natural gas skyrocketed during the shortage.

AFAIK the price was capped.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26160546
> Although you may disagree with the current value of most cryptocurrencies

I would like to clarify something. I didn't say I disagreed with the value of cryptocurrencies (that is, its value in dollars). I said I find their societal cost way too high. In other terms, (Inherent Value of crypto < Societal Costs of crypto).

> would you at least agree that their inhenrant value isn't 0?

I agree with that. Although my previous answer stated "I don't see tangible value in crypto" I suppressed the paragraph that said that crypto may have some inherent value when it comes down to international transactions (or transactions in general). If international transactions in crypto are cheaper than with banks, clearly those who want to make these transactions do see some inherent value in the currency. That is, its value would emerge from its transaction properties.

I did suppress the paragraph because I just don't know enough about the fees of such transactions. I think it is reasonable to expect Banks and Financial entities to offer transaction fees lower than Crypto for all use cases. If that happened, then I just don't see any value in crypto whatsoever.

I have said it a few times on HN: I see more potential into a "Crypto Dollar" than in crypto in general.
It appeared on the CentOS 7 install I made earlier this year.

Fortunately, only about 8 or 9 show. 96 would fill up the screen.

(I had trouble on some new hardware with the usual automated install, so I watched what was happening.)
Tesla Truck versus Ford 2020
Be assured I condemn violence of all sorts. My question still stands how such decisions are made?
Focusing on the bullying aspects of the article for a moment, homeschooling goes a long way towards making that a non-issue.

Both our homeschooled boys played hockey for a local school and both our homeschooled girls are in Air Cadets, so they get plenty of socialising, and we've never had to deal with bullying.

I understand that homeschooling's not for everyone, but if you can then you should give it serious thought. Homeschooling's been around for decades, and with the advent of the Internet, there are now plenty of resources available - pretty much regardless of what country you're in.
> androidarts.com’s server IP address could not be found.

> ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED
The point they are making is that the software generally don't run in isolation. It might be true in some rare cases, but often computer are connected to network and need to read files that weren't created on the same computer.

You can probably use a computer with software from 20 years ago, but don't expect the web to work well, and to be able to open files made with recent software for example.
As a different poster mentioned, "Boring" in this case is being used to mean "stable and tested" or more simply "reliable"

A formula 1 car is certainly reliable, and certainly exciting to drive.
Yes, extremely annoying and not adding any security.
the paper "a city is not a tree" is a perfect example of the fallacy and makes a point of the complexity of systems and the fallacies in systems thinking. The parallel is very useful to illustrate the stupidity that is "smart cities" engineering (& marketing). System thinkers envision highly complex "systems of systems" as tree-like structures (in the CompSci/Mathematical sense). It applies to all systems and models of systems though.

A city is not a tree
http://www.bp.ntu.edu.tw/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/06-Alexa...
For me, at this point, using exciting technology is like writing a book on exciting paper.

I'm not interested in any framework with a philosophy, any language with a fan club, or any library with an opinion of how I should be doing my job.

I want to use "technology" that works and stays out of the way so I can build useful things. That's where the excitement is -- in the stuff I'm building.
> > These are GPUs that could have gone into a graphics card.

That's an interesting take. After the discussion of the announcement earlier this week, I presumed that this was a way for NVIDIA to improve yields by rescuing bad chips from the scrap heap. If a failed 3090/3080/3070 is going to a CMP instead of a 3060, that's not the win-win that they're pitching. If the alternative is a 2060, on the other hand, I'd still give them the benefit of the doubt.
I do the same thing. I write at least a hello world project in most new tech that comes my way. Sometimes I find some of them interesting and use them in production maybe a year or two later. But definitely not as soon as I learn them!
The standard response is K9.

https://k9mail.app

I am looking for an email client that works with both iOS and Android with support for encryption on an as needed basis.
This has helped me cut down on the time I read HN: https://hckrnews.com/
I appreciate this move to make GPUs more available for non-crypto users. As someone who wants to buy an AMD GPU to run my Ryzen machine, I have been waiting 2 weeks because there is no supply of GPUs at the RRP price. I can only buy the 2 year old models for double the price they sold for.
To "measure" value we need to know the purchase power. People have no feeling for the purchase power of a highly volatile asset. hence most people convert the value to their local currency. We do this with gold/stocks/crypto. there is hardly any "deeper" meaning in that. its just how our brain can grasp what could be bought with X amount of asset Y.
If the stable currency would loos this property we would use another.
Like if the USD would become highly volatile or if there would be hyperinflation people would no longer convert to USD.
there are plenty places where the local currency isn't stable and people convert asset value to something else usually a foreign currency like the USD or EUR.
Even if we threw as much dollar into fusion as we do on military, it won't work. Because we're not lacking money but understanding.
How computer programming became the worst choice of career
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Thank you. Work life is very irrational. Good one to describe work hours as proxies.
I mean, Elon Musk could sell a large amount of TSLA if he wanted, just like Satoshi could theoretically sell lots of BTC. Neither can sell someone else's holdings.
Well yeah, since if the chip maker didn't come up with this product strategy the extra e-waste would be further limited.

I think we can probably all agree that corporations should have some responsibility in the ramifications of their products.
I do, because I’ve seen behind the curtain how these decisions get made, at least here. (Given that a sizable part of business went to zero when tradeshows went away, we’ve been tested as a company in the last 12 months.)

Now, if I became no longer useful to them for whatever reason, I’m sure I’d get The Talk, but I don’t know why that shouldn’t be expected, normal, and OK.
Gamers will generally try to avoid buying preowned graphics cards that have been used for mining. Running them 24/7 at full pelt tends to “age” they quicker than one that’s just been used for gaming.
>Hm. I thought Touch ID was based on T2. [0]

It is, on Intel. Not on AS.
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>Students that for example try to rank high in status by using violence in class or bullying will also always exist.

i don't understand this position. violence will always exist but we should blame the politicians?

>the teacher board / politicians really don’t ... are extremely naive

where you're mistaken is that

>the root cause

is exactly these kinds of practices that divide people/create inequality.
New often doesn't mean more exciting. It's usually just catering to some niche requirement of the author(s).

I'm still excited about working with the same stack I used 5 years ago.
Yes, they are antonyms. But the real world is multi-dimensional.
During the covid crisis I’ve stopped telling my American friends about the situation here in Australia. There’s been some political mud throwing about which state managed it best - but we brought the numbers to zero, and have done it as a nation several times now. Since covid, talking to my friends in the USA about Australia feels like punching down.

You might have more earning potential in the US, but I’d much rather make a bit less money and live in a country with a functioning healthcare system, a welfare system, a (mostly) functioning legislative branch, much less police violence and racial tension and less political polarisation. I just don’t feel anxious living here. No matter what happens I’ll be ok. In Australia you don’t need to be super rich in order to feel safe.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." -- Upton Sinclair
"...I think makes this untenable, at least in the US"

Some information that may be new to you:

Widespread cheating is common in the US. Atlanta, El Paso, Columbus. Google "big city name + cheating" and you'll likely get a result.

"A state investigation of Columbus, Ohio, public schools found a "top-down culture of data manipulation and employee intimidation" in connection with changes to test scores and student grades" [0]

"An investigation by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) released in July 2011 indicated that 44 out of 56 schools cheated on the 2009 CRCT.[2] One hundred and seventy-eight educators were implicated in correcting answers entered by students" [1]

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303277704579349...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_Public_Schools_cheatin...
A second passport for a country that doesn't have an extradition treaty with the first, or better yet, an "enemy state", is a literal get-out-of-jail-free card.
Interesting. I remember reading about it in high school science book in my country in asia, so maybe we can rule out Russia's tendency to not publicize failed missions.
I am convinced Nvidia is deeply involved in the crypto space more so than they care to admit. I can’t wait until Apple matches or surpasses Nvidia so we don’t have to listen to Jensen’s lies quarter after quarter about how insignificant crypto mining is to their business.
> This means that there is a strong social safety net, and we take care of the vulnerable. I do not have to worry about the cost of my medical care or other social needs. I pay my taxes, do my part as a citizen, and I know I will be taken care of.

Are you sure you're in the same Croatia as the rest of us?
Great idea but I guess it's going to take a while until you can do the upscaling in real-time.
Why Are Farmers Protesting in India?
I'd much rather change my extremely wasteful (can't overstate how much, from someone that makes an effort to minimize it) lifestyle, and much rather use the force of law so that everyone has to, before advocating or forcing such an asinine policy.

Even if strange when it comes to animals, humanity progresses following rules similar to classic evolution, aka by randomly mixing stuff until something works. We've gotten (only) pretty good at selecting and amplifying what works extremely well, but we still need a steady stream of randomly arranged characteristics to enter the pool. Imagine if the next Newton isn't born (or is born 200 years later) because a couple decided to not have children to "save the planet". Perhaps this figure would've been a key piece in a breakthrough discovery about energy, climate, terraforming, public policy....

I seriously fail to understand anti-natalists.
Tech that's excitingly boring is great!

>>> npm’s first Rust program hasn't caused any alerts in its year and a half in production. "My biggest compliment to Rust is that it's boring," offered Dickinson, "and this is an amazing compliment." The process of deploying the new Rust service was straightforward, and soon they were able to forget about the Rust service because it caused so few operational issues. At npm, the usual experience of deploying a JavaScript service to production was that the service would need extensive monitoring for errors and excessive resource usage necessitating debugging and restarts
I agree with most of what you're saying, but the work will still be there the next day. I just dont see the reason to give more than agreed on, with the exception of emergencies of course.
Don't let the Chinese name of the professor fool you. This happens all the time with Americans, Europeans, Chinese, Indian, etc professors and "peer" reviews.

It's just that usually there's no conscience to take it bad from the student, on the contrary, it's the thrill of being published that prevails.
Why 2 DBs?
Every school does this !
To add to the topic, aircraft structure and systems are made to withstand the projection of those debris hitting with "infitite" energy. That means for every trajectory possible, it's considered that a part flies through everything in its path. The aircraft still has to land.
It sounds like he didn't understand what he was asking for and was thankful for you informing him. Seems like a reasonable case, although maybe there's something about the initial demand that made it more of an intimidation tactic?
The thing that brought me back is marketplace. Its super difficult to sell on craigslist you get so much spam and super long feedback loops. As a side hobby I buy, trade and sell Danish and Mid Century Modern furniture and finding a market is hard. So begrudgingly I use facebook and chat. It actually is a terrible product but there is nowhere else to tap into such a big market without paying a premium in purchase percentage.