skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note the "it went too long" evaluations were retrospective. I wonder what was thought during the conversations?

For illustration, there's a lot of interest around MIT in improving science and engineering education. A cell biology education VR project, obtaining domain expertise by pulling in researchers for interviews, reported a recurring challenge... of getting them to stop and leave. That fits TFA.

But I've had many similar conversations, as I use them for motivation, idea generation and exploration. And in order to reduce harm, I've had to adopt a practice, of asking early on, when do you want to make sure this conversation is over by. Because one interesting richly-interconnected topic easily leads to another. Even as I physically drift myself out the door, and otherwise nudge people towards wrapping up and getting back to their life. Else people risk missing flights, get calls from impatient spouses, and fail to finish work they'd intended to get done. The conversations are wonderful.* But maintaining conversation cost awareness can seemingly be a challenge.

* Before covid... a year ago now. If anyone can think of another setting for such conversations, I'd really love to find one.
/u/nindalf this honestly made me laugh out loud and spill my drink. The next time I am trying to explain the concept of a false dichotomy, I am absolutely using this example. XD
I was quite young and inexperienced at the time, and it turned out I was actually underpaid for the role. I ended up leaving after about six months.

That being said, there’s very little income tax in Saudi, so yes - you can be paid well.

I don’t regret my time in Saudi - it was an eye opening experience and I learned a lot, and met many fascinating people (both local and expat) - but I don’t know if I’d recommend someone pursue a career t ere.
>From a finance perspective, theres no difference between food and a share in a corporation

Clearly not. After you eat a bread, it's gone. After you live in a house it's still there. A better analogy would be something like a farm, which continuously provides sustenance as a service.

>The primary purpose of a house is to, well, house people. Shelter is a necessity. People who are most vulnerable to inflation are the poor, who mostly rent, and thus pay current market prices. They also pay the most for healthcare on a per care instance basis, and often pay for college with expensive debt (5%) if they go to college.

Should farm (or food producing corporation shares) prices be factored into the CPI as well? Like housing, food is also a necessity, and buying a farm would ensure you're protected against inflation in food.

Also, your point about buying housing as some sort of protection against inflation doesn't tell the whole story. Yes, it's a hedge against future rent increases, but here's no free lunch because the inflation is already priced into the price of the house. If rents are expected to 10x in the next 10 years, you can be sure that housing prices will grow accordingly. That's why price-to-rent ratios are insane in coastal cities.
... which is exactly why the post points out the need for the applicant to be informed about affirmative action being applied. If you know how much AA was applied, you can actually make a better argument when you're mistreated.

[for the people downvoting: I'm just pointing out what the article says.]
Your whole business was on IG. Why would you use a tool to "analyze" your followers? To me, it seems like both you and IG are to blame. IG for acting like a monopoly; you for expecting other people's sympathy. You were already earning much more than most people and yet you got greedy. My data is my data not yours to collect. That is not how you respect your followers.
Ask HN: Multiple people working in Python notebooks?
I was part of a very cool data for good project this past weekend where hundreds of volunteers worked on visualizations and analyzing open data around specific questions.

This also meant everyone using their own Python notebooks, pushing their ETL and visualization code to Github, and then dropping a picture of the visualization output into a Goole doc or the shared Slack channel for everyone to see..

Is there a better way to handle this?
I live in a fairly small town (7,000 people). A long time ago now, we had a sort of labor of love local paper that ended up shutting down. (The publisher fell ill.) The only remaining paper option was a "local" from one of the conglomerates. Pretty lousy overall and it mostly covered what was going on in a local small city and some bigger towns. Wouldn't have been worth subscribing to. Facebook and NextDoor is about the best I can do although even those aren't very active.
Here's another anecdote about how female engineers are sometimes used to "balance" their team: https://twitter.com/SeaRyanC/status/1367191778386829312
Also, intelligence agency requests are exempt from HIPAA. They can ask your provider for whatever they want, and your provider can give it to them with no penalty.

The few I asked seemed to feel they were _required_ to provide information if simply asked without a court order backing up the request. And they made it seem like I was the crazy one for asking that they agree to only provide my data if legally compelled. I ended up doing direct billing out of principle.
If you're reading this 10 years from now look how clueless everyone in this thread is. Everyone here still thinks BTC is not even the best crypto let alone the best asset in the world. If 50k isn't enough to convince them, nothing will. Hope you're enjoying $1M+ BTC prices in 2031.
> Section 6: analyses the canonical procedural, functional and object oriented programming paradigms, demonstrating that they are strongly linked in both language and methodology;

What about the differences? How are students supposed to learn if not for making contrasts between patterns and explore each one separately to get an idea of what makes them tick?
You can be hired for the perspectives you've obtained due to your experience, but god forbid you're hired for the perspective you can provide with your experience as a certain gender.
Going rate for fake Amazon reviews: $10,900 for 1k reviews
Firing someone for a "lack of chemistry" and refusing to give details is a Grade A dick move.
Just want to chime in for Ted Lasso here.

You need to know almost nothing about soccer to enjoy the show. I mean, I sure don’t. There is almost no action on the pitch—it is very much a workplace comedy, and not an in-the-weeds sports show.
More like: imagine if your code wasn't run on computers but written by hand, then it was rated by hn comments and finally the highest scoring comment was put into production which happened to be a fully automated pace maker used by millions.
Not just Excel, the integrated scripting environment around it too. A lot of the heavy lifting in complex setups is done by custom VBA scripts.
mission critical software that are widely used are much better off being open-source for long term security, look upon it if you've time. I kindly suggest do that if you care about security.

it's well known fact now, it was all the FUD by microsoft that this was not widely accepted previously. Do you think they have any incentive to be transparent about that? why does everyone have to pay forcefully for windows that comes with every laptop by default?
What would be the reason for imprisoning someone who holds Bitcoin? Don't we live in a free society?

And even if they imprison you they won't be able to access your money:

https://amp.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3120852/germa...
Signal to buy.
Nah, bitcoin will never be PoS coin. Bitcoin is defined as a PoW cryptocurrency. A PoS fork is not Bitcoin. Thank goodness!
When the choice is so black and white, it's easy to make. I hope that no one would willingly condemn someone to death simply for the sake of their job.

What if it's simply a probability though? 1%? .1%? .01%? Look at auto companies. They make decisions all the time that will kill 1 out of 1,000,000 people. Hell, the EPA and other regulators do this math every day. A coal power plant will kill x number of people over it's lifetime. Every time they make a regulation, they do this math and determine that saving a life is worth the economic cost.
I just played a bit with CNC engraving and laser projection, so don't have that extensive knowledge, but AFAIK:

Even with your example of 10W, 10mm beam it has a bit more than 0.12 W/mm^2. Hundred times the power output from the sun. Even if we use a 1W laser, which should be enough for a mosquito, it's still like looking into the sun with a 10x magnifier.

And as you said - you focus the spot in 0.1mm with a small focal length - that's great for cutting or engraving but won't deliver enough energy to a mosquito 5 meters away unless you start with the same beam size, then focus it 5 meters away at the target. Only then it will need another 5 meters for the beam to return to the initial diameter and many more times that to finally be safe.

What I propose is a big reflector and aiming optics directed at it(a bit like a satellite antenna). I didn't do the math, but tens of centimetres or even more than a meter of dimeter. Let's say 50cm==500mm.

Then if you want to focus it to 5mm at 5 meters it will have less than 10mm at +-5cm. You could do the same with a laser but you just don't need to. Instead of 1W laser you can use a 10W powerled, have the same energy at the target but it will be much safer at almost every stage before it.

And what most people think about when they talk about shooting mosquitoes with a laser is, I think, sending a coherent 5mm beam directly - e.g. from a laser pointer. So you don't have to estimate the distance, but it is even more dangerous.
Betting big with Zimbabwe's growing legion of foreign currency traders
> the cause of many of humanity's biggest problems is humans

As opposed to elephants or sea urchins? How can humans not be the cause humanity's biggest problems?

The Buddha taught there are three kinds of dukkha [usually translated as “suffering”]. The first kind is physical and mental pain from the inevitable stresses of life like old age, sickness, and death. The second is the distress we feel as a result of impermanence and change, such as the pain of failing to get what we want and of losing what we hold dear. The third kind of dukkha is a kind of existential suffering, the angst of being human, of living a conditioned existence and being subject to rebirth.

https://tricycle.org/beginners/buddhism/what-did-the-buddha-...
You don't have to ask yourself that, you can just accept that the people who you work with will usually be out of your control and respect their skills separately from what they look like. If they suck, then they suck, but don't prejudge because you think diversity hiring is rampant everywhere, which it is not.
This is ignoring the traditional economics though.

Newspapers would charge for a subscription and sell advertising. The subscription fee would essentially just pay for printing and distribution of the physical newspaper, and then advertising provided the margin.

Now advertising is in the dumps but the internet has removed the capital and operating costs of a printing press and physically delivering dead tree pages to doorsteps.

Traditional newspaper subscriptions were something like $10/month. If you have 50,000 local subscribers and negligible printing costs, that's $6,000,000/year. You can fit a full staff of journalists into that budget.

Or you can go it alone, charge the same $10/month and be making $120,000/year with 1000 subscribers.
Yes, with POS aren't we just back to a (now programatically enforced!) cabal of bankers that control the money system?
The reward systems and algos underlying Content are constantly changing and evolving, as their flaws/costs at scale get tallied up. So what politicians get propped up by these systems will change too.
> The C++ "app" layer was a different story. The worst part it was a 3000 line switch/case block with about 100 different cases, chock full of copy-and-pasted code. It went on... and on... and on... I still have nightmares about it.

Ouch. That sounds brutal.
If I had to do something similar, or maintain that, in Ada I'd leverage nested subprograms, local type/subtype definitions, and mandatory case-coverage — and I've done similar with VMs, particular opcodes — so you get something like:

Type Opcode is ( NOP, Add_A, SUB_A, ..., Rem_D );

Procedure Execute_Instruction( State : in out Machine_State; Instructions : in Instruction_Stream ) is
Subtype A_Series is Opcode range Add_A..Sub_A;
Subtype B_Series is Opcode range Add_B..Sub_B;
Subtype C_Series is Opcode range Add_C..Sub_C;
Subtype D_Series is Opcode range Add_D..Sub_D;

Procedure Do_Add_A;
-- other subprograms.

Current : Opcode renames Decode( Next_Token( Instructions ) );
--...
Begin
Case Current is
when A_Series =>
case A_Series'(Current) is
when Add_A => Do_Add_A;
end case;
-- other series.
end case;
End Execute_Instruction;

Of course you could structure it so that all the Do_OPCODE subprograms are local to the top-level switch, or local to the nested switches, as best suits the design; or decompose along 'families' of operation (Add_A, Add_B, Add_C, Add_D), but the important thing there is keeping things local/nested for maintainability.
100% agreed. This was a very poor article.

They've basically gone with an overly expensive Microsoft stack which meant that from the beginning they were fighting the wrong fight. Instead of thinking about scale for best performance, they had to think about best cost for minimum scale.

Furthermore they decided to bastardise their C# code to some fake low level untestable C dragon code which makes matters even worse. They have created a huge mess which is probably extremely hard to maintain and too precious to touch for a performance gain which probably still only scratches on the surface of what a true low level language could have achieved.

The best practice would have been to build the parts which matter most in a language which allows them to be blazingly fast and write nice testable and easy to understand code. Something like Rust or Go. But no, they stuck with C# for god knows what reason (maybe financial Microsoft incentives who knows?) and had to throw away every sensible coding practise in order to make it work.

This is literally a blog post describing how not to run a large scale website.
You are asking the companies to divulge that hiring you was a crass violation of labor laws?

That doesn't seem a likely course of action.
TNT: A Visual Transformer That Captures Structural Information from Images
I can't see alternatives like that catching on unless there was a platform to combine them with the existing, dominant platforms. And I can't imagine the existing platforms allowing their systems to be used by a 3rd party in that way.
Well, I suppose you could read some critical analysis of it if you're interested in why it's considered great; I'm no expert. For what it's worth I agree with its status in the canon: it's a powerful and carefully articulated story in a very compact form with a unique, exciting, and thought-provoking premise. The perfect short story.
> This is not modern history.

Just to make sure we're talking about the same thing: we're talking about the mass ejections of Jews from various Middle Eastern and North African countries in the 50s, 60s, and 70s of the 20th century, right?

And if that's not modern history, then how is the establishment of Israel at the same time modern history?

> Yes they are colonizers.

They were refugees, more precisely. But just to be specific, what is your concrete proposal for where they should have gone?

> By your logic, anyone could just invade Africa and start a country there since all humanity's ancestors descended from the region.

No, I don't see how that's an analogous situation at all. My question about Israel is a pretty specific one: I challenge its presentation as a "European" or "Western" colonial project. Though maybe that was not your intent?

> Colonization and genocide are actually pretty black and white

We'd have to clearly define "colonization", since I suspect we disagree on whether specific actions constitute it.

Genocide is pretty black and white, I agree. I am opposed to genocide. We may disagree on whether there is genocide, or attempted genocide going on in various situations, unfortunately.

Concretely: Do you feel that Israel is attempting a genocide campaign against the Palestinians? Do you feel that the Israeli electorate supports such a campaign? Do you feel that the Palestinians are attempting a genocide campaign against Jews? Do you feel that their electorate (using that term loosely, due to lack of elections) supports such a campaign?

Fundamentally, I disagree with both the "from the river to the sea" narrative and the "all of Judea and Samaria" narrative... (And I do note that neither of those is necessarily genocidal, though both can be nice jumps onto slippery slopes towards there.)

> Israel is violating international law and committing human rights violations.

Yes, I agree. But just to make sure we're on the same page, so are the Palestinians, every single country Israel has a border with (on the human rights violation parts of the ledger for sure), and quite a number of other entities. Including, I am 99% sure, the country you live in. There are questions of scope and degree, of course. Please don't mention the words "false equivalence", because I am not claiming that anything here is "equivalent" to anything else, and if I were we'd likely disagree on what equivalences are "true" vs "false".

More practically, what specific actions do you think would be required for Israel to stop committing what you perceive as human rights violations and international law violations? And if your answer is "dissolve itself as an entity and have all the Jews go somewhere else", then I can see how that's a consistent moral position, but that does not match either international law nor morality as I perceive it.

If that's not your position, then were back to trying to figure out various shades of grey, as far as I can tell, which we're probably not going to manage to work out in this sort of discussion.
I don't really see those as directly comparable. The problem most people have with the countries you listed is the specific regime in power. Depose the leaders, have a free election, and many of those complaints go away. The problem that many people in neighboring countries have traditionally had with Israel is its existence. You can't change the Israeli government in a way to satisfy those demands. It is more than just "complicated politics" for them.
LightOn Appliance
I specifically separated the "new class of microarchitecture timing attacks", which was common across many systems (including AMD, POWER and ARM), from "Intel fail" where too aggressive optimization tricks did turn out to be bad idea.
PowerPivot is one of the best ways to start exploring an unfamiliar dataset of 1 to 10 million records. Built into Excel.
Its useful for ML in that it requires so much optimization, that being about to drop down in the same language is incredibly handy. For ML software isn't lagging hardware its the other way around.
I think no.

What stops an individual from having a scrapbook of observations they made of people?

What stops a corporation or intelligence agency from doing the same so long as they don't advertise they are doing it?

Is there any right to transfer huge sums of money internationally anonymously when that is a channel for kleptocrats to steal?
Not surprising Facebook would take a hard stance on 3rd party scraping tools after the CA fallout.
I hadn't used Excel in years and now that I do, there's some things about it that drive me nuts:

- It forgets what you've copied to clipboard. Copy something. Insert another row so that there's space for it. Paste. Nothing happens. Huh? It lost my copy. It does this for a large number of operations and it drives me crazy. I've never seen any other program do this.

- You can't open two spreadsheets of the same name. This is because spreadsheet formulas can refer to cells in other tables. But I don't use that feature - can't I just open the second spreadsheet with a warning that this feature won't apply to it?

- (This one applies to too many pieces of Microsoft technology.) You can't use common keyboard shortcuts properly. Ctrl-backspace deletes a word in any useful text box. Not in formula editing in excel. And ctrl+delete deletes the rest of the line instead of just the next word. Why?
They will probably look at it like we look at:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=599852
They have some on display at The Henry Ford Museum right outside of Detroit.
Ethereum currently has a working proof-of-stake network. As far as I know it's the most scalable version currently live, capable of millions of nodes without any sort of delegation. Right now it has over 100,000 nodes and has run perfectly since it launched on Dec. 1.

However, so far it doesn't have users other than the stakers themselves. It's not all that hard to transition everything over, it's just that it's a live $200 billion economy and they're being really careful about it. Should happen next year though.
"But now this has changed, so laws come."

A few dozen women in a country of 8.5 million do not need a law, especially one that doesn't really do anything for the victims, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26380029
It's not that they are universally terrible now, just that they've fallen into the same political-hype blackhole as everyone else.

I remember looking at their home page a few years ago and seeing the top 10 articles all being about Trump. That obsession with politics didn't really happen in previous eras and even when it did, it was counterbalanced by some legitimate literary criticism. Looking at their home page now, it's uh, not quite the same.
I'm sorry you had to go through all of this. As myself being part of a minority, I can only tell you that I do my best to fight for minorities and women first in this IT env that can be rough.

Keep faith cause I've worked in different companies where everyone was really accepted and celebrated. Thank you for writing this article: hopefully, straight IT men will hear us and fight too.
>I'm pretty sure Bill Gates has a way way bigger net positive impact on the environment than you

Does his impact offset the pollution caused by the GPUs running full throttle in every one of the millions of Xboxes?

Or is GPU use only a bad thing when it makes people easy money and it suddenly becomes fine when the same processor is used to render RDR2 so someone can pretend to be a cowboy.
I think all the worries of competing with undergrads and “the youth” generally can be avoided by not applying at a startup or any other scrappy little company that wants to pay very little to overwork inexperienced labor. An older employee probably doesn’t want to work there anyway, I agree a lifetime of soft skills actually has a fair bit of value especially at less exciting medium to large businesses (bake, healthcare, etc)
A single Bitcoin represents 100,000,000 satoshi. Bitcoin is not scarce. We could stop mining today, and do a X:1 split every few years to keep inflation in check.

Mining is all about greed.
I don't want to hash them out, plenty of arguments from the leftists or linux people for example. Free software, exploitation of workers. Whatever. The argument itself is arbitrary, I'm just saying that he's a controversial figure
It means that all citizens (which includes many Arabs and Muslims) can vote and those votes are binding and not manipulated by fraud or threats of violence.
Startups that began as a Craigslist category:

https://cbi-blog.s3.amazonaws.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/20...

Now someone make that for web apps that began as an excel spreadsheet.

Or even better, ML projects that should have stayed a simple spreadsheet.
For many online commenters the quality of a crypto currency is directly correlated to their portfolio
How Line is fighting disinformation without sacrificing privacy
AFAIK GDPR requires interoperability.
Or where the enemy can see you.