skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Appearance, however, forms the first impression that you must struggle to overcome if you’re average or below average. In meat-markets like bars, tinder, and dating sites, few women want, or need, to look much further than your looks.

It’s also legitimately dangerous to flirt at work - a place where we might spend enough time with a woman to get past appearances and into personalities - because a single misunderstanding due to poor flirting skills can lose you your job.

Obligatory disclaimer that I’m not trying to downplay how much women can be harassed at work, on the street, in the bar, on messaging apps, etc.
I'm sure they are, I just need to make the leap. :)
Does the Fed look at inflation numbers within individual industries and metro regions?

Here's what I'm worried about: if you look at historical examples like say the 1970s inflation, or the post-Cold-War Warsaw Pact hyperinflations, or the post WW-2 hyperinflations in many European countries, prices didn't rise uniformly. Some industry or some region would experience very large inflation, and then eventually it would get transmitted to that industry's customers, or their suppliers. It's basically a network contagion, spread across the links in the economy.

We're seeing the early stages of this happen right now - that's what the article is about.

Powell's public comments are that "inflation doesn't turn on a dime" and "we're likely to see some localized price increases within certain industries, but no generalized inflation." The thing is - I know from history that the former can be false (particularly in wartime, and shifts from a controlled to a market economy, and the recovery from COVID has aspects of both), and the latter tells me that he's looking at the same data that I am but drawing the opposite conclusion. If 5% of firms are experiencing 30% inflation and the rest are experiencing no inflation, the PPI will read 1.5%. If that 30% inflation is in a core industry though (say food, or energy, or labor) and they pass it along to all their customers, then within 1-2 years you could have 30% inflation across the whole economy without passing through the 2% stage.

It's giving me COVID tingles from last year, where in March your overall risk of getting COVID in the U.S. was about 1:100,000, but your risk in NYC was 30%. Then suddenly your risk in Phoenix was 40%, and your risk in South Dakota was 50%, and then your risk in LA was 30%, and suddenly about 20% of the country has had it.

Poke holes in my reasoning, please.
The real measure you want is the cyclomatic complexity divided by the complexity required by the problem. The problem with line counting (or cyclo counting) is that it assumes a constant ratio.
But Apple did keep it a secret and the research involved discovering those secrets for the rest of us. That's still research and it's still valuable. The fact that it shouldn't have to be this way only makes this kind of research more valuable, not less.
With places like Amazon? Most definitely.
US studios agree with you. Since the late 90's US series have been migrating from ~24/ea toward 6 or so.
Switching to Google Calendar
It’s worth noting that we are talking about a state of 16000 people, who live in a federation, and this federation allowed until 1991 this small state to keep their own laws regarding voting in their local elections. The other cantons were certainly let living their neighbour, and in response the people of AI (again, a state of 16k people) didn’t tell the neighbours what they should do. Again, this until UN influence forced them to be like their neighbours in 1991.
Which let me tell you, as someone who plays a sport (rugby) that’s obscure for Americans, is an impressive feat of writing and characterization.
Lifting a pen to write a cheque for 10,000 is identical in effort to doing the same thing to write a cheque for 10. Physical effort is not the only criteria we use to assign value. I don't believe that it's ethical to enforce my moral/ethical beliefs on other consenting adults.
"Still, I was astonished to discover that Amazon built the perfect machinery to let them track any Amazon Assistant user or all of them: what they view and for how long, what they search on the web, what accounts they are logged into and more.

Amazon could also mess with the web experience at will and for example hijack competitors’ web shops.
Amazon Assistant log with a borg eye
Image credits: Amazon, nicubunu, OpenClipart

Mind you, I’m not saying that Amazon is currently doing any of this."

This goes for any browser extension you install if you don't limit which websites it's allowed to read data from.

In both the title and beginning paragraph, the author essentially describes the privacy risks that would apply to any browser extension, but words it in a way that implies Amazon is actively abusing those privacy holes, before finding any evidence for it.

I really wish people would stop giving views to blatantly manipulative and slimy clickbait like this.
They'll have to pay their engineers pretty well to live down there. Nearby South Padre Island is a decent vacation spot, but not many people want to live on the land that close to the border with Mexico.

I know a lot of folks who haven't been to Brownsville will reflexively think that's a racist comment or something, but it isn't. The area is extremely poor with police/border checkpoints everywhere, the land is ugly, the humidity is horrible, and the mosquitoes are worse.
This isn't a news article: it's a column, written by someone who's explicit remit is columns about the media industry.

It absolutely conforms to different rules than a news article on page A1.

I mean, I think it's bad writing too! But it'd be bad writing if it were in something like the New Yorker, too.
It is funny, because I read journalists complaining about exactly opposite. Journalism used to be a place where local non-elite people went. It did not required special education, but became more elite over time.
>What is "greed" versus motivation for innovation?

I don't have exact data, but my gut feeling tells me that 99.99% of the people buying cryptocurrencies today are driven by greed instead of innovation.

> and you drew the line at BTC?

Not really, if you look at the perspective that we already have enough instruments for financial manipulation and greed, why introduce another one that consumes so much energy?

>Fitting for a city known today for its vast outdoor tent cities of homelessness.

I mean...you know that's a completely man-made problem right?
The dumbing-down trend at the NYTimes continues. This is the kind of silly tabloid journalism that prompted me to cancel my subscription.
N=1 but I knew a guy who had a Twitter hate campaign run against him because he asked this girl out on a date nearly a decade ago. She (recently) sent emails to his boss and his PhD advisor claiming that he sexually harassed her, and publicly called for others to do the same in hashtag-laden tweets. Instead people who knew him at the time came forward and defended him, saying her story made no sense. This girl was struggling with mental illness and was very vocal about it on social media so that may have been a factor.
Thankfully there were no consequences for him, just a lot of awkward conversations.

I think this is an extraordinary case and it's not likely you'll be "cancelled" for flirting. But when anyone in the world can publicly slander you, it's your word against theirs, and the only thing you can really do is report their tweets...
I heard they taste pretty good though.
All these types of apps do that, sometimes with a recommended max guideline. It's not a terrible heuristic like "Never use passive voice" is. Over some threshold, there's probably too much of it.
There are some collaborative notebook tools (Google Colab, CoCalc) but if you're dealing with hundreds of people working on their own notebooks, you'd likely still want a separate notebook for each individual... housed in a single folder.

In this case, you'd still have no good way to "see" what others had built without clicking into each notebook... and I think that's the problem that you're alluding to.
I think they were using the numbers as stand-ins for what would be in reality names be descriptive names (foo, bar, etc.).
it also has real world consequences as CPI is used as a metric for all manners of things, including COLA increases for Social security, as even some private companies.
"It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove." - Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Also, look at that image https://storage.googleapis.com/afs-prod/media/1aad669348cc4c...
Frame your hypothesis in the most simplest way possible and go from there.
There are still companies trying to impose metrics on software development. It isn't just lines of code, it may also include commits per day. And this isn't even taking into account various "Agile"-related metrics, like story points per sprint and the like.

I wonder if we should name the companies who do this, or if it is fighting a losing battle? In the end, some management just wants to look at charts.
> The service is currently limited to a specific region and address, the dish antenna cannot be moved far from the specific user location to receive connection. “Your Starlink is assigned to a single cell,” the company says, “If you move your Starlink outside of its assigned cell, a satellite will not be scheduled to serve your Starlink and you will not receive internet.”

Does anyone know the size of these cells?
I'm an artist and I do fine with a 13" laptop and a Wacom tablet that fits next to it in my laptop bag, to be honest. I consider myself to be pretty discerning about my tools.

If I was doing a lot of 3d stuff I might want more horsepower but I'm pretty happy to be able to go sit out in the park and draw with all the Internet off to conserve power.

YMMV, obviously.
The association between the two has to be written somewhere. Can you provide an alternative approach that isn't vulnerable to typos?
This is still popular before marathons. In my last few I got a Tyvek set of pants and hoodie that was lightweight and disposable. About 30 seconds before starting the race I stripped them off, bundled them up, and tossed them into the first trash can I saw. They were great for keeping the wind off you and surprisingly good at keeping you warm.
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em?
No, it's you who failed to engage with the other commenter's arguments, or failed to understand them. They made the correct point that the famous "banned books week" also typically celebrated, and continues to celebrate, books that were not literally banned according to your definition. Thus this rhetorical extension of "banning books" to cases where books are not literally made illegal to read has a long history, and both detractors and defenders; reading the wikipedia page on Banned Books week is a good way to educate yourself on that history.

In the case of Dr. Seuss books, the near-simultaneous decision of the copyright owner to stop publishing them and of the largest online reselling market, eBay, to forbid selling and buying them, makes them, if not literally banned, vastly more inaccessible than many many other books that have been covered under the Banned Books Weeks event, written about in the media, celebrated by liberal readers (in those prior ages where liberal readers thought that right to read was more important than right to forbid) and so on. Your narrow-minded insistence on literalism is just a way of displaying your ignorance and unwillingness to engage with these difficult questions.
My wife is an editor, and she’s finding more and more jobs titled things like “editor”, “editorial consultant”, “copy writer/editor”. Where the roles of editor and copywriter are conflated. So I think there’s a case as well where you have people who should be copy writers doing editing, as well as a dearth of copywriters.
Medical researcher discovers integration, gets 75 citations (2007) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17863514 - Aug 2018 (33 comments)

Medical researcher discovers integration, gets 75 citations - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11818833 - June 2016 (3 comments)

Medical researcher discovers integration, gets 75 citations - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1964613 - Dec 2010 (120 comments)
Really curious what school is this?

> Edit: Given that this answer has generated some discussion I feel the need to expand on it. The legal team was not expected to sell their services "by the hour". In fact, any discussion about how their services were sold was shut down by the professor. From his point of view, the lawyers were machines and he was asking the question "how much can this machine produce?"

Pricing the value of in-house counsel is an interesting problem in itself (because they typically don't bill by the hour). One could use an insurance policy pricing model (the worst that could happen is a very costly loss in a lawsuit) to determine what's the counsel protecting the company from.
Speaking of measuring "ideas", the holy grail of complexity metric is Kolmogorov complexity - theoretically, the inherent complexity of a piece of data (including code) can be defined as the shortest possible program that generates it. For example, 20 million digits of pi or a routine that uses 20 branches to return the same object has low Kolmogorov complexity, because it's easy to write a generator for that, meanwhile a parser is more complex.

But it's only a mathematical construction and is uncomputable, just like the halting problem. In real life, for some applications a good compression algorithm like LZMA is sufficient to approximate it. But I'm not sure if it's suitable for measuring computer programs - it would still have a strong correlation to the number of lines of code.
Most cloud GPUs are just thin-sliced datacenter GPUs which only have one redeaming quality: high RAM per PCIe slot.

The $100,000 GPU can be beaten by a $5,000 consumer space CPU for raw compute but is basically 3 to 4 times the amount of RAM.
rents are falling though. so not the same.
We should talk about the general problem that carbon emissions are a huge cost that end up with the Commons and price that in instead of nit picking individual use cases and if we condone them or not.
I agree. But, like everything, even this concept gets abused.

Example: "Zero code solutions". Hell, we even had that back in the old days with Java frameworks doing a ton of configuration via XML files. Sure, it's not "code", but it's basically the same thing and still a liability. Especially if there's a very steep learning curve to all of the features/configurations that you'll never use.

A more subtle problem with abusing this idea is the over-dependency on third party code. Sure, it might look like you haven't written any code when you do `npm install foo`, but really, you've just placed a bunch of trust in some other person. Do you vet your dependencies' authors the same way you vet potential employees at your company?

There's a fine line and it's an art form figuring out when to bring in outside code or to NIH it. IMO, of course.
What I don’t understand is how we’re able to livestream out video in 4K but can’t share our desktop at the same speed and resolution.

Am I missing something?
A 23-Year Perfectionist Journey to Localize the Obscure 'Bahamut Lagoon'
Powerpoint is worse.
Agree.
But then the problem becomes how to count solved problems.
One equally terrible practice is to count number of tickets solved.
I found this is somewhat true in my career: bug fixes == job security. I cannot morally accept this but I have seen this again and again.
"insight porn books" is going in my "objects you've been searching for titles for" Notion list.
The interesting part is how the FUDers like Nouriel Roubini fire away all the negatives in the same sentence, making it sound like they have an agenda against BTC and not so much a well researched deep concern regarding one of the FUD points.
HP Remote Graphics is very popular and widely deployed in post production and artist graphics suites.

Azure has been taking high end graphics workstation seats in the GFX and compositing and film production industry at a clip for close to a decade now.

the hourly cost of running £30,000 worth of hardware is below £5ph, which pays for the hardware running 24/7/365 over 3 years, but is clearly a saving serving 5*8/7 active employees. [ed] and that's before factoring in floating licence economies.
This is one of the benefits of Cognitive Complexity:

https://www.sonarsource.com/docs/CognitiveComplexity.pdf

>Switches

>A `switch` and all its cases combined incurs a single structural increment.

>Under Cyclomatic Complexity, a switch is treated as an analog to an `if-else if` chain. That is, each `case` in the `switch` causes an increment because it causes a branch in the mathematical model of the control flow.

>But from a maintainer’s point of view, a switch - which compares a single variable to an explicitly named set of literal values - is much easier to understand than an `if-else if` chain because the latter may make any number of comparisons, using any number of variables and values.

>In short, an `if-else if` chain must be read carefully, while a `switch` can often be taken in at a glance.
It's much easier to imagine a scenario where physical money is controlled by an outside force than crypto. Holding physical zimbabwean dollars, for example, did not ensure you held anything of value.

I think arguing that control over crypto transactions is more likely than the devaluing of physical currencies is a little far-fetched since we've seen plenty of the former without much of an example of any centralized power being able to control users actions on the internet.

Just think of all the wealth changing hands on the internet today against the will of governments.
I'd like to take this opportunity to encourage people to learn about sampling profilers. What they do is periodically record the program counter and call stack of a process, then aggregate these to get a picture of where the program was spending its time. With a low enough sampling frequency they can have negligible impact on the speed of the software being profiled, they require no changes to production code, and they operate with fine enough granularity that they can easily tell you if (for example) a particular polymorphic function call is adding significantly to the runtime of a hot loop.

Often all you need to do to find out what the real bottlenecks are is to point one of these profilers at a running program and look through the results. Super low effort, potentially big payoff.
For VS Code have used this on the past: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=kisstkon...

and this one https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Stepsize...

These two haven't tried before but doing it now:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=selcuk-u...

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=TomiTurt...
> There were conditionals that were impossible to hit

The number of times I've seen:

if (my_var == 'some value' || true == false) { ... }

Why do people do this instead of commenting out the code?!
Jeezus people have short memories. Bitcoin solved a flotilla of problems that were blockers for an all-digital currency in 2008. The most severe and proven problem was the threat of government shutdown by a police raid of your servers, this is what killed E-gold and other predecessors. The blockchain solved the problem of having your central ledger being shutdown by the cops/IRS/etc. by decentralizing it and of course Bitcoin also solved a ton of other problems as well to make it an actual viable electronic cash transaction system. This is why it took off, not just because "it was the first to market". It wasn't, but it solved all of the real-world blockers that had killed all other attempts before it. Don't forget that we don't know for certain who "Satoshi" was and for good reason, he knew he'd have a target painted on his back by the government. He was incredibly smart to conceal his identity.

As a side-bar, a major role of money is to allow the government to easily collect taxes from their citizens and so governments have to be careful here as they must ensure that there are no challengers to their primary form of taxation payment. Bitcoin was very carefully crafted to survive government attack and finally the government accepted it by considering it a taxable commodity. While the early crypto-is-cash people are annoyed by this, it was the only possible outcome in a match between the government and crypto currency that doesn't end in outright warfare on crypto.

Now that digital currencies have moved from theoretical to a proven model people can move on to solving newer problems rather than just getting it off the ground. Now we have privacy coins which attempt to solve the problems of getting anonymous transactions among other desirable features. But wait there's more, now that we don't have to prove that electronic cash is a workable system we have decentralized finance coins now. If people thought the government hated bitcoin, just wait until the banking system realizes defi is coming.
You could also read the article before commenting. It’s one thing when an extension could do something but its code can be inspected to verify that it doesn’t. It’s an entirely different thing if it delegates its privileges to a web service that could do anything and that nobody can inspect.

Note: I’m the author of this article.
Fly them from somewhere else?
I am unfamiliar with the term mathematical engineering. What does it even mean?
You could argue that conventional warfare was the traditional mechanism by which governments competed against one another to "consume" failed states and re-allocate resources to governments that were better capable of putting them to use.

In modern times, the global financial markets seem to be somewhat playing that same role since nuclear wars isn't a palatable option, with only a few "outcast" nations not participating in that system (Iran,Russia,NK,Myanmar,etc...).

Taxation systems, being the mechanism by which governments are able to build power bases, themselves compete against one another as individuals and companies avoid taxation by moving resources to low/no tax states within that same system.

This human system is a constantly evolving chaotic system that's changing more rapidly than most of us perceive, and crypto is just one aspect of that.
> For most people commenting here on HN, I don’t think they know when that time is or maybe the nuances of flirting that are safe.

And, like all activities, you learn the nuances and signals by trying, and failing.

Except, failing can have disastrous consequences in this age that does not forget (Google, Facebook, et.al.), and does not forgive (zero tolerance policies, harsh CoC penalties, etc).
How does a radio telescope work?
Surprised that Dropbox is still going strong and is offering competitive compensation. I had def written it off couple of years ago.
Iterator is just one aspect of the problem don't get focused on that. The overall issue is that these are all just programming tricks and techniques and the movement to call these things "design patterns" is inflating the academic worth of these tricks. Additionally these tricks aren't really taught in academia because that's just what they all are, informal tricks.

It's like calling the pseudo scientific doctors that work on your spine "chiropractors." The word "chiropractor" inflates the legitimacy of what they actually do when in reality it's part of non-scientific and non-formal medicine.
Over 140k virus species in the human gut, half of which are new to science