skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's... not great. Like what it generated was neat but it's like it completely ignored the prompt.

Original prompt (generated text after the line):

When I was a child, my mother grew strawberries in the garden. Every spring, we would harvest them and make a neighborhood-wide occasion out of it.

That is, until they started to turn blue.

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In addition to the fact that it takes two hours to eat an ordinary hamburger (to be fair), let's not kid ourselves that we were all kids at that age; no one gets over forty without getting a little eccentricity on their side, and here are three hundred gallons of milk spoiled by spoilery.

And so our "I didn't come home pregnant" problem was just another way of saying, "the universe works exactly the way it does," like when you go swimming in the ocean, and the sky is blue, and the sun reflects off everything everywhere, but the wind is always moving toward the north, and you can see your breath.

Which means the first thing you do is ask "why?" when you finally get what else life can do?

A certain amount of people have a difficult time with living in the present. At some point during your life—let's call it seventy-five percent or 85 percent of it—you realize this world is a total f*ker of a place. For someone else looking around at the world, it seems great, because there's something that's great about you; it makes up for everything else. But for you know, how much better than that...

The sun, especially in January, is a great source of hope. If you look at the horizon the way a toddler looks at the moon for the promise of the sunrise, and try to figure out if you've made enough luncheons in her presence, you're already beginning to get ahead of yourself.

We are what we are. What we make of our situations dictates what we are.

This goes hand in hand with the fact that things will get harder day by day, every day, as you don't learn more about the things that matter, the ones
They shouldn't be allowed to have it
> the technician kept just replacing the fuse a few times

What the fuck?!
This is the same company that cannot be bothered to fix adding iCalendar files to a calendar for Outlook for Mac.

I’m really tired of Microsoft’s influence in the software industry. Hopefully their lack of care for customers will finally bite them. I’m skeptical though, it seems Silicon Valley giants can just keep buying up smaller companies to acquire customers.
I don't get it. What's the benefit of buying a community? It's not like you can really control what the community does or thinks, you may can control which ads they see but how else do you make money with this community?

> so Microsoft migrating Discord over to Azure would be seen as a big win for its cloud ambitions.

What should this prove? That Azure can run a big service like Discord? I don't think Microsoft has to prove that. Hosting Discord on Azure will be a massive cost factor, how should this pay off?
I directed most of my comments towards CL because I know more about it than Dylan. My understanding is that Dylan lacks parametric types, so that comment can be straightforwardly applied to Dylan. IMO Parametric types are a really important part of this.

Regarding performance, I don't know much about this in Dylan. Was Dylan able to completely remove the runtime overhead of multiple dispatch for type stable code?
Several countries and lots of agencies use something called the Incident Command System (ICS). They use it to coordinate multi-agency response to things like explosions, toxic spills, massive wildfires, large-scale searches for missing persons, and more, all the way down to small and localized incidents.

ICS courses are free to anyone who wants them. You can get started with ICS-700 here: https://training.fema.gov/is/courseoverview.aspx?code=IS-700...

There are a few basic principles of ICS that should be useful to company incident response:

1. ICS defines specific roles and their responsibilities. In ICS, there is Planning, Logistics, Operations, Management and/or Coordinator, and Finance, among others. Each of these roles are defined ahead of time, and disaster response teams practice these roles regularly. Each role has defined ways of handing the role off to another person during a shift change and often includes specific forms that need to be filled out. This data collection is integral to being able to review the incident while it's happening, as well as after the fact for improving training.

2. ICS is scalable. For a very small incident, one person may be responsible for all roles. For a very large incident, response may be further subdivided into branches and divisions. This flexibility is an extremely important part of ICS, and it only works because everyone understands the different roles involved.

3. Under ICS, everyone has exactly one boss, supervisor, etc. that they report to. Any of you who have had to try to go spelunking through logs while multiple suits keep contacting you for updates already understands how important this is. This structure also helps to minimize miscommunication during an incident.

4. In the planning section specifically, there's a process called the "Planning P" that describes a lifecycle of information gathering, decision-making, and communication. It's pretty straightforward and it resolves a lot of common issues in incident response. This is covered in ICS-201: https://training.fema.gov/is/courseoverview.aspx?code=is-201

Companies developing their own incident response strategies will want to customize forms, data collection, roles, &etc., but the basic principles of ICS are an effective framework that should be adaptable to a wide variety of situations. Most companies on their worst day aren't dealing with an actual or potential loss of life; experienced ICS people can sleep-walk through a company's worst incident.
> Google was/is also the largest sponsor of Mozilla. This doesn't stop Google from sabotaging Mozilla.

Google isn't a sponsor of Mozilla, they're a customer. Do people think Google is "sponsoring" Apple with $1.5 billion a year too?
Power companies tend to buy hedges and other financial instruments to offset the risk. The ones that went bankrupt like Griddy were strict wholesale passthrough.

That's not say someone isn't eating the cost of the high spot prices, it's just a lot of that cost is borne by sophisticated professionals who's job it is to price risk and black swan events. The problem with wholesale passthrough rates is consumers are rarely sophisticated enough to understand the details of energy markets and the financial instruments to offset the risk.
Not every market is lucrative in the extreme and it can take a long time to recover from being "disrupted". I think it is also a common practice for larger shopping chains to dump prices when they open a new location in order to clear out the local competition, so the damage it causes is well understood to be long lasting.
If I've learned anything from watching the Senate, it's that 51/49 doesn't drive forward progress. Those 49 will do everything in their power to undermine the 51.

If you find your team deadlocked on decisions and you think the way forward is to find a tie-breaking vote, I have bad news for you.
It depends on what you want its footprint in memory to look like. Since you don't need to mutate the structure, a densely packed structure seems optimal. For small structures, linearly searching through an array would be fast. For larger structures, a sorted array could be binary searched efficiently.

It also depends on how you can represent the string and their typical size. If the strings are small, then allocating fixed size chunks to store them inline might make sense. If the strings are long, it might make sense to go crazy and use a "trie" data structure to minimize comparisons.

I believe python uses hash maps for classes by default, but you can alternatively use "slots", which are less mutable and presumably more densely packed.
Outstanding, the app store requires a multitude of screenshots so I see this is a very useful tool. Thank you
> In short, I don't think the crawler is the problem.

Except that, allow other companies to crawl/compete, and you can take eyeballs away from Google (which may well then return eyeballs to Wikipedia so long as the Google competitors don't also present scraped data).
There is another alternative: going around the southern tip of Africa. While this adds a couple weeks to trip time it also saves the massive Suez Canal transit tolls.

And remember the Suez Canal was closed for 8 years after the 1967 Israel/Egypt war.
https://thegamming.org/2014/08/31/how-the-closure-of-the-sue...
Did they not work out? I see people boosting servers and people with paid accounts very often. It seems they had a market willing to pay.
I think you made a jump there. This could equally be one of the other in the Five Eyes group e.g. Canada, Uk, Australia, NZ.
It's unlikely. I suspect many people start businesses with the intention of doing what they love and making a decent living out of it.

Then the bigger the company gets, the further removed you are from your original dream and when someone waves a big pile of money in your face, it's a very tempting offer
> satisfactory is like a really nice minecraft mod.

Which is ironic considering a big part of the original inspiration for Factorio was factory building mods for minecraft.
> With that said, I actually DO NOT want my C-suite to have coding prowess. I prefer them to be gifted in their areas...This frees him up to do more CEO things (like get our next round of funding)

I think you're missing one thing here that makes it a little more analogous to your boss: not only should the CEO and your boss be good at their own jobs (e.g. securing funding), they should be good at their reports' jobs as well (just like yours is). Expertise that is 3+ layers down the org chart is completely irrelevant, of course, as you point out.

There are executive situations where there's a lot of specialized knowledge one level below where this doesn't quite work, but that should garner lots of extra attention.
Anti-trust in the US tend to not hit the big tech players as much they do other sectors. Also there is actually a debate in the judicial system about the extent of Anti trust laws themselves.
Even if something isn't measurable, you can provide anecdotal evidence that a correlation exists.

If you're going to say "Methods X and Y pale in comparison to Method Z for evaluating W" and expect anyone to draw conclusions from it, one would hope for even just a little bit of evidence.
I appreciate the intention, but this thread is so full of good spirit that I don't think we need to worry too much about rules at that level.

The comment was making fun of me anyhow and I laughed.

Edit: incidentally, that account is banned so the comment was killed, but HN has a bug where flagging dead comments sometimes unkills them...how's that for irony.
NULL is guaranteed to equal integer 0 by standard, and converting 0 to a pointer is guaranteed to be a NULL pointer.

> An integer constant expression with the value 0, or such an expression cast to type void *, is called a null pointer constant. If a null pointer constant is converted to a pointer type, the resulting pointer, called a null pointer, is guaranteed to compare unequal to a pointer to any object or function.
I have sworn off fiction. I've accepted that I just lack the self control to reliably stop reading at bed time and actually go to bed.

I've had better luck with some non-fiction books, but mostly I read various material on the web.
I don't scrape a website often, but when I do, I'm using a user agent of a major browser.
RDBMs came out of proper mathematics. They are not really going to change
I don’t think no-negotiation is a selling point here for candidates. If anything, it’s a filter. People willing to accept less vs not.
These are so hilarious. How are people that clever? I'm dying.
Monte Cristo is one of those novels you think will be slow because of its age and lengthy, but, like Les Miserables, it is highly readable and an intense page turner!
The post doesn't say. However, the one open job listing (https://apply.workable.com/whimsical/j/52B49C61AC/) says starting salary = $134,277 for a job described as "Senior Clojure Backend Developer - Remote". Senior = S5, from the post. We can derive from the post that S5 = S1 * 1.25^4.

134277/(1.25)^4 = 54999.8592 (exactly) so I assume S1 = $55,000.

It's kind of strange to phrase things in terms of this S1 value when they say nobody makes below S2. I guess the idea is that if they introduce lower levels they didn't want to force themselves into negative numbers.

The other baseline number they mention is E3 (the baseline equity) which is approximately equal to S3 = S1 * (1.25)^2 ~ $86k.
Licensing terms?
It's the world at this point. China has all the politicians and global companies in on it.

Amazon can't make a penny selling shit from arizona to Vermont.

It's also actually libel then.

Remember it is NOT illegal in China to defraud somebody or some company outside the country. That's not a crime in China.

That's why amazon loves to import for China companies. They can break all the patents, copyright and designs without any worries.

"The China Hustle". Watch that before you buy your Alibaba shares or invest in China economic miracle.
heh in the consulting world it's pretty common to be in a situation of "i signed a contract to deliver a twitter clone in a week, here's the kickoff date. get started."
Around 500k to 2 million people died during the Cultural revolution.

As far as the Great Leap Forwards, despite causing a great amount of death and suffering, life expectancy still increased during that period and the death rate in China during any 5 year period of Mao's reign was lower than countries that were comparable when he took power (India, Bangladesh, etc...).

All in all, the amount of death and suffering inside of China's borders during Mao wasn't any higher than it would have been if China had been ruled by a liberal democratic state. The reason for this is that by far the worst killer in those economic conditions is lack of access to healthcare bar none, and despite causing a famine, the improvements to access to basic healthcare as well as infrastructure during the Mao area more than compensated.

But that's if your only metric is death rate - in which case, yes, China did better than its peers. If you have a different metric that also considers freedom and rights and so on as I suspect you did, then one can't come to a conclusion so easily, so I err on the side of pessimism.

That said, if you only consider unnatural deaths and chalk up deaths due to poverty as natural, you will always find a bias against countries with higher state involvement because you'd be able to state that their poverty deaths due to state involvement are unnatural while those in market economies are purely natural, that's why it's important to consider only raw death rates between two cases with similar start points and conditions.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4331212/

[1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/share/clip?f=d41d8cd98f00b204e9...
This is beautiful only if you're not affected by unpleasant consequences. These may be (1) reduced number of available rent-able spaces (i.e. less offer on the market) due to the capped/reduced profit which cause a decrease in the number of listed properties (it's not worth renting), which rises the demand for the remaining available listings, then (2) little to no opportunity whatsoever for new renters to access desirable locations, as those are already occupied.

A system involving rent controls may be easy to sell because it's a solution designed to satisfy existing tenants on the expense of prospective tenants. That doesn't make it a more fair system than one that operates on free market. Then if that's not enough, we have to be aware that when the market laws aren't the one that rule, other things are. For example, in the communist setting housing were provided "fairly" to anyone, so that the desirable locations had in them apparently all kinds of people. Only that many times the selection were far from random and you could bet value (in various forms) had to be exchanged under table. So Vienna? I wouldn't be surprised if on a closer look I'd find something gaming the system at some level. Let's say, (hypothetically) that some club rents out properties to its members, and whereas rents are regulated, club membership fees aren't.
I read quite a bit. Reading fiction before sleep helps me to relax. I like a variety of fiction, mostly science fiction, but also some general, historical, legal and spy thrillers, etc. The Overdrive and Libby apps are good for books from the local library as are borrowing from Amazon (Prime or unlimited). I don't really buy fiction books, only borrow, read, and return them. I read some non-fiction. I have purchased some tech/dev books, but have an O'Reilly Learning subscription. It's cool to be able to read in-depth on about any tech topic I have an interest in (or watch some of their video courses). I am now trying out Blinkist to read/listen to blinks (brief synopsis segments) of popular non-fiction. I have a few more days before my trial expires, but will probably keep it. With limited time for this kind of reading, I like being able to get the gist of some interesting books without having to give them a full read.
It isn't a direct bashing of OOP. It's a bashing of the claim (see wiki quote) that you can make state manipulation safe by hiding it away inside a class.

Encapsulation
Encapsulation is an object-oriented programming concept that binds together the data and functions that manipulate the data, and that keeps both safe from outside interference and misuse. Data encapsulation led to the important OOP concept of data hiding.

It's arguably the core concept of OO, and I don't believe it keeps data 'safe from outside interference and misuse'.
Show HN: TJ, the Trader Joe's Superfan
Countless trader joes conversations in slack fell into a vat of sludge in a mad scientists lab at slapps.me... and TJ was born. During the covid-19 work-from-home era, we missed some of the water cooler chats that happen spontaneously at work. Across different Slack groups as well as offline, we noticed a trend of conversations coming up around Trader Joe's products. As these kept appearing, the idea to create a fun bot that could initiate these conversations was born. We hope you grow to love TJ as much as we do
This Week in Rust 383
Show HN: Mst-task – a simple strongly typed promise wrapper for MobX-state-tree
Now that's an idea I can get behind, but unfortunately, the guy with classification authority over that material didn't write down where it was eventually stored...

In fact we can't find him anywhere...
That would be a nightmare. It currently takes anywhere between 2 and 5 redirects to log into one of my MSFT accounts.
Please no, no. We are talking about fixing the interview process. We already have Leetcode game and people complained already. Please don't make me play another game.
Coincidentally, this item [1] has just turned up in HN - Common Crawl

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26594172
In this case the a toddler swallowed a lithium ion button cell, so I wonder how how this counts as a products being defective as those batteries are designed to be removable?

If the woman I bought some of the same batteries off of Amazon and her child swallowed one of the batteries, surely Amazon wouldn't be liable. So why are there in this case?
Wasn't aware of that.

Resubmitting interesting content that hasn't got traction earlier on is however explicitly allowed in the guidelines IIRC.
It does sound too Much like web hosting and in that sense it’s a fail. Steal it all you want, I win if companies start feeling shame anyway.
Probably not that big of problems. The officer needs to tell people that he was afraid for his life of the person running away with their hands in the air, and everyone will say it's ok. Maybe some paid vacation, or move to another police department, but no real or lasting consequences
What if we learn that the sheer size+scope of major platforms makes beneficial, consistent moderation impossible? What should we demand then?

Asking because I'm coming to believe that benevolent behavior becomes increasing difficult & unlikely with massive entities, while harmful behavior does not.
SMBC on NFTs
> The fact that Western countries aren't spending billions to comprehensively subvert the Great Firewall is a significant strategic failure.

I have strong opinions in this matter.

The GFW is only possible because of metadata leaks that Western countries are exploiting too, for security and surveillance, or whatever.

Suppose Western countries start investing billions in subverting the Golden Shield, our own infrastructure and economy would suffer too.

A very naive but simple example:

I tried to train https://github.com/Kkevsterrr/geneva against a CheckPoint and a Fortinet ... It's not been fun for those "next gen firewalls", and CheckPoint is a NASDAQ-100, Fortinet an S&P 500.
We used this about 10 years ago and it worked... ok. The problem as some have pointed out already is it’s using a very out-of-date HTML/ JS engine. If you want to turn some HTML reports into PDFs, it’ll do the job.

But there are ways to do this same thing with Puppeteer which uses a modern version of headless Chrome. It’s pretty straight forward and there are easy to chase down documents on how to do it.
> Sometimes I wonder if the world would be better or worse if there was a max size for companies.

when there's a will there's a way.
the companies that want to grow that badly will find a way to evade such restictions like they do to taxes, they'll probably call it something like organisational structure optimization.
Dreaming and Overfitting
I think compared to Microsoft's offer, no.
Read what Boyd had to say about it. It was of value to MD and GE, but a good fighter it wasn't. Nor was it a good bomb truck. It kinda did both, but not well.

The DoD of course, followed it on with the F-111 (thanks McNamara!) that tried to do everything, but the only effective thing it really did was to cause the Soviets to build the MIG-23 and waste a bunch of cash on that.
It’s true that installing a native app requires a lot of trust, but on the other side of the coin, it’s not currently possible to do end-to-end encryption securely in a web app, and content in web apps is vulnerable to browser extensions with blanket permissions (there are many ubiquitous ones). Web apps also don’t have access to the OS keychain or any ability to set file permissions, meaning they can’t store local data securely without help from a server.

So if you want real data privacy, you need a native app, despite the drawbacks you point out.
IMHO this is one area where the C committee could improve the situation by mandating a sane and useful hashtable implementation for the stdlib.

Or at the very least just deprecate the old one. I can't remember ever seeing it used in code.
Makes sense, even though not easy to ear for everyone, especially the last part: is it "an expression of weakness" that took my son from me? Terrorism is an expression of mercilessness, aggressiveness, bloodlustness, anything but "weakness", please, there is no place for weakness in terrorism.
As the years go on my relationship with my iPhone feels more and more negative.

Actually starting to hate it and the buzz of it gives me anxiety it might be some more problems from work.
I think you're right that it's medical. The author calls out PII was the target. Sure, there's PII in Defense/Fintech/Government, but it's probably not the target in those sectors and PII doesn't have the same spotlight on it as in the Medical world (e.g. HIPPA & GDPR).
Nothing to laugh at.
It was really interesting that you could hear small pieces in there from other songs.. or so it seemed - but wow that insturment is SO beautiful! Unbelievably built.