skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m actually kind of amazed that you’ve traced that lineage, as some of the earliest influences on my musical taste were the tracker-based soundtracks of Amiga games, coming out of the same milieu as the scene.

I never could get into trackers, but there must be elements of classic modfile music that still come through in my music all these years later.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_shock
Okay, but are people being verbally bullied in university classrooms?
I agree that reliable operation is paramount.

While it might not work for everyone, having a standard hardware platform with the ability to get firmware updates applied, or even hardware fixes, helps.

So, something like the PINE64 PineTab could develop into a reliable platform for Linux usage, given a sufficiently sized and interested community.
is this gonna be on leetcode so we can prep?
(jokes)
This is precisely why fully self driving on existing infrastructure won't happen. I don't understand how anybody can believe that it will.
> Markets for air already exist where scarcity prevails:

Scarcity is not the issue here. Energy is the issue. This is where you lack intense knowledge.

In every scenario you describe energy was used to compress the air and place it into the canister. That it productive work.

For air and land in your typical scenario, there is zero productive work. This is what I'm referring too. Your scarcity argument is off topic. Nobody is talking about that scarcity in your sense. What we are talking about is artificially induced scarcity. By owning air, and owning more land that I need, I artificially induce scarcity and force people to pay me rent to live off of land I don't need and contributed nothing to the economy in exchange for economic gain.

The important factor here is that each instance of artificially induced scarcity sets up a scenario where the person who owns capital does not have to contribute to the GDP in order to benefit from the profits coming out of the asset. I'm not going to be paying a dime for the house I currently will own or sell. I am simply using a complex financial tool, to redirect wealth towards me.

>I already described some criteria for unfair transactions: compulsion or deception. You could also make arguments that if one side captures nearly all the economic surplus, the transaction is unfair (generally maintained via government-enforced monopolies limiting competition).

What do you think is going on when "one side" owns property that can house 400 people and just rents it all out? Also who do you think actually allows one person to own more property than they need or to even own air if such a concept existed? The Government.

>Rather than trying to assert Adam Smith's obsolescence, you should probably try googling "Adam Smith landlord". I expect you'll like the quotes. (I'd recommend learning more about the context more than just the quotes, but hey, it's the internet).

What do you mean trying to assert? You're the one talking about an invisible hand in a world that is clearly not auto-magically heading towards equilibrium. Nobody and I mean basically nobody deciding economic policy and nobody in academia thinks this stuff is relevant in the discussion of a modern economy. If you knew what you were talking about you'd realize that I'm not asserting anything. I'm just restating the assertions of the rest of the world. https://hbr.org/2012/04/there-is-no-invisible-hand

Heck, why do you think the Fed exists if Adam Smith had any relevancy today? Why do you think bubbles and market crashes exist? Adam Smith is basically famous for being like Sigmund Freud. The Father of a modern academic field of study but still mostly wrong in the face of scientific evidence. By referencing him in a conversation about the modern economy makes you look like you don't know what you're talking about.

As for the quotes, it's not that I don't understand the context of "quotes" it's just that you're not quick enough to grasp the context of why I used the "quotes." See? I did again, let's see if you can kick that brain into gear and "grasp" why I chose to put the quotes around this "word."
> In a team with high psychological safety, teammates feel safe to take risks around their team members. They feel confident that no one on the team will embarrass or punish anyone else for admitting a mistake, asking a question, or offering a new idea.

Well. What happened when Kunin took a risk and published an essay asking some questions and offering what he thought was a new idea? He faced verbal bullying and was punished. Is the point to give psychological safety to minority students but not bother about other people? (In fact, I suspect many of the minority students who happen to agree with Kunin would not feel psychologically safe saying so.)

At this point the classic rejoinder would be to say "look at these suffering minorities; your argument is invalid" or to talk about Kunin's privilege, but you seem to make better arguments than that.
Read this on the weekend, and found a interesting branch of mathematics from your links. Thanks so much!
If you want to convert a hacked-together VBA app into something more robust, you have a migration path via VB.net which will interop properly with C# or F# or more-or-less-Python (IronPython). Or you can use something like thrift/protocol buffers to have your hacky part talk to your nicer part. It's harder to do that with Excel - make an application that's half Excel sheet and half "real program" - that's the part that's missing (though I don't think it's actually as bad as grandparent is saying - there are options for integrating external datasources into Excel that do work).
yeah but do you give access to information that comes from users engaging with your service?

is your revenue generated from anything other than products and dtc services?

ive just become skeptical of any company suggesting they can be profitable/have a future without a data pipeline that allows others to buy their data, run analysis on data, build models on data.

and i believe in the near future we run a real risk of insurance prices being based on dna and models of health built on user data.

anyways, blah blah blah, seems like a great idea!
My own stuff isn't something I'd inflict on people, but my son has been performing with band called LAIIKA. They've put out 2 singles so far, pop that draws on that stripped-down 80s feel; I'm pretty excited about the material they haven't released yet too.

https://open.spotify.com/track/5xrB0ZgclN12KPYT6KN9Ye?si=Pjf...

https://open.spotify.com/track/7CBjpCJRc5aXSJDnTLyhUf?si=qVb...
Who would have thought, a giant, creepy corporation who recently deleted their long standing motto "Don't Be Evil" has turned... evil.
I made various things. Two examples to show the range - Enterprise grade business process middleware for Telcos. Software and microcontroller firmware for law enforcement. And then everything in between.

I have never really thoroughly analyzed why I am successful with the estimate and delivery. I think I'd be way more interested in it if I was late. Since I am not I do not really care. I just am and this is enough for me.

I am eternally grateful to my University (nothing to do with comp science btw) and teachers though who taught me not to blindly remember the rules but how create those. I guess this helped me to become who I am.
I'm now in my third year of my PhD and enjoying it more than ever, so there's that at least!

In all seriousness, I totally acknowledge that the variance in satisfaction with a PhD is very large. I'm lucky to have a great advisor and incredible labmates; my happiness with the program is largely due to them.
I'm not sure what "At the end of the day" adds, except maybe it allows you to disregard counterexamples. I guess that

> it's everyone's highest priority to do what's legal, rather than what's "right".

is something that can be tested and its truth discovered. Not clear if "everyone" means people in your city, state, country etc. Although "highest priority" seems a bit vague too. Does "highest priority at the end of the day" mean, what people actually do/end up doing? That sounds nowhere near true for me, or the people I know. But maybe I'm misunderstanding you.

People whose behaviour is guided by laws, rather than ethics, stand out as sociopathic jerks, e.g. internet trolls or bullies. "There's no law against it" doesn't say much at all about whether you should be doing something.
They are designed that way to make people uncomfortable so that they will leave quickly. Plus Americans don’t know how to act so the doors get broken a lot by people kicking them or swinging on them.

At one bank I worked at had this really disgusting overweight guy - he couldn’t fit into a normal stall, and he was too lazy to walk across the floor to the handicap bathroom he could fit in, so he would just wedge in as much as he could and cut loose. No aim, just random salvo fire. Every single day.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26390833

dupe
And yet here and elsewhere, for the same comment I have more upvotes than downvotes.

Some of what you are saying is accurate, but it's dwarfed by the noise that the different kinds of brains that you interview are producing. One of the most fundamental properties of a brain is it's sensitivity to stimulation. This is how 'activated' it gets by sensory stimulation. A loud annoying sound for one person is barely noticed by another.

People who have reactive nervous systems are introverted, and more easily stressed. It's not a symptom of their upbringing (necessarily, although it can be due to early life trauma, early loss of the mother etc), it's not necessarily about how they think about the ease or difficulty of the interview process - it can merely be from the large amount of information they are perceiving about the emotional and cognitive state of the interviewer.

This sensitivity of the nervous system may not be what you are looking for and that is the nature of the world. But do not be surprised when those you exclude because of a fundamental aspect of their nature react to the exclusion negatively.

Sensitive people have a lot to give. Sensitivity correlates well with openness and openness brings in fresh ideas and new approaches. Openness also correlates with IQ.

The reasoning is that - aside from the studies that you can look up and read - that the sensitive nervous system is more alert to its environment and therefore more creative - as creativity seems to be, in part, the ability to combine environmental perceptions fluidly. In order to be creative you have to perceive a lot and let it sit. This kind of personality also tends to process events more deeply, thoughts spread further and wider. This is bad for straightforward logic, because it creates background noise, but it's great for getting the big picture.

High sensitivity is quite prevalent within the gifted population. You also find a significantly greater proportion of gifted people afflicted with anxiety, which is not surprisingly connected with reactivity - sensitivity. There is a theory of giftedness which describes the phenomena entirely in terms of excitabilities. By excluding the easily excitable from your organisation you are literally excluding the gifted. I am - if the raven matrices you can find inline are to be believed at the bottom end of gifted. And yet I can appear to be an idiot if run through the standard white board process. I deal with it using pregabalin which deadens the nervous system enough to remain functional during an interview. But I do contract work these days and dont have to jump through hoops anymore.

So by only including individuals like yourself you are excluding sources of creativity, you are limiting yourself to a particular kind of person and by extension limiting the kinds of thoughts and approaches your organisation can have.

It's similar and indeed perhaps intertwined with the exclusion that minorities of all kinds find within the workplace dominated by the kind of culture that sees whiteboard interviews as a good thing.
Technically it is, practically less than ideal. Example: https://www.willusher.io/general/2020/11/15/hw-accel-encodin...

That's for a $50 computer with 45 millions copies sold, with Linux being the only OS supported by manufacturer. On other computers can be much worse.

By comparison, install Windows on a computer, install a GPU driver, and Media Foundation API will use the hardware to decode and encode all supported formats, no recompilation needed.
That’s a fair criticism. I’ve tried to make the game reasonably intuitive and discoverable, but a lot of the game logic admittedly isn’t obvious. I intend to fill out the game’s wiki (https://github.com/jeremyckahn/farmhand/wiki) with comprehensive guides, but I find building the game directly so much more motivating!

I owe it to players, for sure. I just need to get more disciplined about it.

Thanks for feedback! I’m glad you’re enjoying Farmhand!

EDIT: I was looking at this on my phone and didn't realize you were responding to the other poster. In any case, the game still needs wiki content. But hopefully it's reasonably playable as it stands today! :)
Incredible post and very useful!
Nah you're right. No burden on you. I'm just saying logically, if he makes that claim and you know he's not an idiot and a lot of people vote him up, then there must be a compelling reason for why he made the claim.

The reasoning has the potential to change the way you think about his claim or it has the potential to be completely wrong. But the context of the situation makes it so that you cannot ignore the potential.
For many years, this annoyed me. Now, though, I enjoy it. At least he is someone of note.
A microcontroller is probably the closest you can get these days and honestly a modern MCU is going to be powerful enough of for most use cases.

There’s a huge world of difference in complexity and understandability between an MCU and the SOCs in a phone even if the instruction set is the same.
Seconding those demoscene vibes. I'm into it. Not really sure what you call it either. Not ironic enough to be vaporwave, not 80s enough to be synthwave... well, whatever it is, it probably ends in wave. Is demowave a thing?

Regardless, this is going into my Spotify rotation!
Any specific examples come to mind? I usually find Folly [1], Abseil [2] or the EASTL [3] beat the standard library on almost every metric you can imagine, including the under appreciated compile time metric.

And then of course there's boost [4], but people have very mixed opinions about it.

The reason a lot of developers use the standard library in C++ is because dependency management in C++ such a nightmare that many people writing a library are forced to use the standard if they want any hope of adoption even when far superior options exist. It's literally something people writing C++ libraries will advertise "Dependency free header only library!" because they know without that a lot of developers won't bother using it.

Anyways, I would be interested to know what part of the standard library you find is better than third party options.

[1] https://abseil.io/

[2] https://github.com/facebook/folly

[3] https://github.com/electronicarts/EASTL

[4] https://www.boost.org/
I believed you that you might be saying accurate things until you wrote ‘even China does pretty decently.’

I spent two weeks traveling around China and, when it comes to toilets, what you said couldn’t be more insanely inaccurate. I decline to go into details, but it’s is in every way the opposite of what you wrote.
Thanks for linking about Turkish occupation of Cyprus. I was completely unaware. There's a nice map in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Buffer_Zone_in_... if anyone is curious about what the separation looks like today.
Once you have a handle on the deep learning tools, it seems like it’s more like configuration and less like programming.
I've thought that the "attempts to destroy" and "attempts to overthrow" are limited in the sense of "imminent lawless action" and not "mere teaching or advocacy". E.g. if someone says "we should have a dictatorship of the proletariat/guardianship of the Islamic Jurist/integralist monarchy/national socialism/etc. instead of the social order that we have now", that statement doesn't cause or create those systems. Tolerating it presumably does increase the chance that one of those systems will eventually come to power (because advocating it could be an important step in creating it), but there's no guarantee of that, any more than there's a guarantee that tolerating any other idea or belief will lead to that idea or belief's ascendancy or general acceptance!

(And on the other hand, not tolerating these ideas also opens the door to making other beliefs shared with any of these belief systems taboo.)
If you ever port this to jira, I’d give it a shot
Check out Beeper (beeperhq.com). They have an all-in-one service that'll get you Whatsapp without hilariously dubious security promises from Facebook.

Basically what they do is build and maintain a bunch of Matrix bridges for you. Whatsapp, Imessage, Telegram, Facebook, Slack, Twitter, Skype...
A collection of ice40 FPGAs built into a computer? surface mount transistor implementation of a pdp8 with regular semiconductor memory and an FPGA MMU that handles gigabyte memory sticks? I was thinking a forth computer, but the applications are sparse: gForth spreadsheet and word processor, both text based.
The title is a bit misleading: the post is a much broader look at the author’s experiences in tech writing. Quite a nice read, and I definitely appreciate the information.
Don't know your exact latitude, but fwiw I've installed Starlink for a client in the US close to the Canadian border and have it set to auto speed test regularly. After a few weeks highest latency recorded has been 51ms (lowest 26ms), and no noticeable dropouts (no events on failover to the 5/1 DSL old line). Downloads 85-140, uploads 20-35. Installed it on a mast 20' up or so, fully clear view. Performance has been fully adequate for general real time video usage.

This is definitely still beta, and with only a tiny fraction of the tens of thousands of sats planned in the end, only beta intersat optical links for polar orbits, performance is more variable then would be hoped by general release. Latitude matters a lot in terms of density for LEO sats too. Polar orbits only just barely got going, if your colleague is far enough north to need that the lower density and version 0.9 sat links could explain some of that oddly high latency. Nevertheless the promise is there as a matter of physics, and they also very clearly advertised that this is still early stage stuff. They even had a groan inducing but highly memorable pun for it, "beta than nothing" (badum tish). It still beats the wired internet available at my client's location however. I'll probably transition the DSL from failover to static VLAN usage soon.

Single biggest beta issue right now is their IPv6 support still sucks, which means heavy CGNAT all the time. Not a huge deal to solve via reverse tunnels but still feels retrograde for something otherwise so cutting edge.
This sounds like good science being done. When you are trying to predict something like carbon emissions, standard practice is to run a few different scenarios. If you run 5 models, one with predicted CO2, and the others with higher and lower values, of course some of your scenarios will be unlikely. You're doing that on purpose so that you have a ability to see how wide the range of possible results is even with uncertainty in CO2.
It's kind of funny how Microsoft akways gets away with it.
Get ready for ~5-40 minute ping times.
‘ This is clearly a problem that can be solved with a little planning and adequate funding. ‘

That’s not true when costs can escalate to any amount. Which they can, and do. Regularly. With governmental projects.
Also consider Purism's Librem 5
It’s a big subset though. Lots of linear systems come from PDE discretization and are structurally sparse with a fixed number of non zeros per row.
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I know how much HN loves Urbit /s, but it's the only attempt to create a computer that you can own that I'm aware of and (1) shows the scale of the endeavor and (2) proves it's possible https://tlon.io/
Services aren’t supposed to be jobs programs.

Maybe they should be. What's more demeaning, being told you're not good enough for any jobs so we'll pay you to stay out of the way, or being told you're not good enough for any other jobs but here's a job that still needs to be done and you can do it?
Great question! We haven't looked into this ourselves yet, but a 2014 study found "that average partners have a more similar oral microbiota composition compared to unrelated individuals, with by far most pronounced similarity for communities associated with the tongue surface" and is "most pronounced in couples with relatively high intimate kiss frequencies".

https://microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186...
I dont think we can ever rely on people holding corporations or the government accountable
OP please take this advice under consideration. I see posts in HN over and over that express the idea that there is no ageism in tech because they see x number of techs that are over 50. Well, what they don't take into account is survivor bias. What they see are the exceptions not the large number of techs that had to move to other careers because they could not find a job in tech.

This post makes some very good points.
Fuzzing Grub
Exactly. Overly focusing on race is pretty one dimensional when it comes to diversity.

The example I like is which would be more diverse in a silicon valley tech company - 1) an African American guy who grew up upper-middle class and went to an Ivy League school and always voted for "progressive" candidates or 2) a white guy who grew up poor in West Virginia, was the first to go to college and has an affinity for right wing politics?
The lowest rung there are the recyclers. They pick up recyclable trash (kind of like the trash bin ladies do in SF but unlike SF don't leave a strewn mess). They rummage through dumpsters looking for recyclable items, take them to places which can recycle them for pennies, but it's enough to survive.

It's kind of like if you had people redeeming bottles and cans and lived in section-8 housing.

But these people are going around in third hand bikes pulling hand fashioned carts, sometimes the carts are human driven if they don't have a bike.

The big difference is there is no shame in being a recycling collector, but there is shame in being a burden to society.
I feel that it should be point out, milk tea is a term which has several meanings. To the tea connoisseur it means oolongs in the family with Nai Xiang being a prime example of the type. It's not taken with milk. Then there's milk tea which is unusual enough in Asia that it generically refers to any black tea with milk. Then there's boba tea or bubble tea with the tapioca pearls, which the article refers to.
Not weird

The silent majority just wants to do their number 2 with minimum hassle