skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is obviously more efficient, as you always have books available when you're doing actual work

To be clear, I look stuff up all the time too. But the downside of the “I can look it up” approach is that if you don’t have an intuitive grasp on various algorithms, you can’t use those algorithms as building blocks to make something else. Recently I took a btree and instead of using it an associative array I used it as a list of spans. The result let me do arbitrary inserts and deletes at arbitrary locations without linear scanning (like in a linked list) or shuffling other elements around (like in an array).

Most people can’t do that. But that’s ok - you can be an excellent product engineer without this weird knack I have. It doesn’t help me write clean CSS.

In some ways it makes me actively worse at my job. I did some client work a few years ago. I helped write an indexing system for the search box on their website. I wrote a real-time indexer which streamed changes. After I left I got feedback that nobody at the company was able to maintain the code I wrote, because they couldn’t understand how it worked. I should have just written a simple bulk indexer for them in a cron job instead of getting clever with it. My “good programmer” instincts made me a worse contributor on their team.
Glancing at the code, it looks like he's rendering everything via DOM elements. I think player sprites are positioned using the top/left properties; could potentially optimize by keeping those props constant and just updating `transform: translate(x,y)` instead...
> There's multiple videos out there, very different from each other and each could have a different explanation.

In isolation yes, the videos are not remarkable. But it's not in isolation, as you seem to be discounting the context they're taken and ignoring the relevance of the eye witness accounts and their flight behaviour on radar (descending from space, disappearing and reappearing a hundred miles away, etc).

Unless you think they're all in on something or lying, which is fair enough, but from how the situation is unfolding with demands from congress, experiences of all the service members, and civilian pilots, I'm partial there is something of a phenomena here.

> It really does come down to Occam's Razor

Heuristics apply in the general case but definitionally may not when there is enough evidence the event is an outlier.
You can browse Twitter from a mobile browser with ad blocking (ex: Firefox). The UI is basically the same, it's a bit slower but on the other hand you get multiple tabs and more privacy.
Those opinions might've changed:

> I’m interested to see how it measures up under more typical workloads. People keep asking me what I think about Zig in general, and I think it has potential, but I also have a lot of complaints. It’s not likely to replace C for me, but it might have a place somewhere in my stack.

https://drewdevault.com/2020/01/08/Re-Slow.html
That's probably the worst case of nitpicking I've ever encountered in my life. Yes, you're technically correct. It's not as if you're telling anyone something new, contract law exists for a while already.

I wrote the comment because many people don't know the difference between the FSF version and Adacore's Community Version, hence will involuntarily violate the GPL.
There's something uncanny about this. I think it's the lack of clicks caused by a mechanical hard drive that I'm so accustomed to when things are loading in an old OS.
In America it's always about white and black, especially people seem to be obsessed with the amount of melanin pigmentation.
It's just a different protocol. You don't respond with details right away, you say, "Actually not great" with some emotion. If the person cares, they will ask, what's wrong? Then you unload.

You might as well get mad at HTTP when you send a malformed request.
I've noticed most Russians I work with also speak slowly. I'm curious whether it is difficulty with English pronunciation or whether speaking slowly is part of Russian culture. I'm guessing more the latter, as the the things they say are also frequently quite concise and to the point, no filler words, few adverbs, so no need to speak quickly. Do Russians speak more quickly when speaking Russian?
Definitely damaging to the YC brand.

I'd like to see a postmortem on how these _blatant_ con artists got through.
>continual attempts to economically isolate it by the empire next door.

LOL. China is Taiwan biggest trade partner and source of trade surplus.

And they can get US military hardware and latest semiconductor equipment tools as well.
I never understood the point of tracking your sleep or even steps. It’s not like knowing that I had N hours of deep sleep will somehow change my sleep the following night. Same with steps, it’s pretty easy to understand without a tracker when you were active and when you weren’t.
Apple needs a little competition. I expected the Watch to advance much quicker.

6 years ago I wrote this blog saying everyone would be wearing a smart watch within a decade. My reasons were “health and safety“

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2015/07/28/in-the-future-everyo...

“ There has been much discussion on the need for smart watches like the Apple Watch. People have a hard time believing that a large market exists. I can’t say with certainty that you’ll be wearing an Apple Watch a decade from now but you’ll definitely be wearing a smart watch from Apple, Google, or some new kid on the block.”
Everyone says this without trying it. I wear my Apple Watch to sleep. In the morning I shower and charge it. It is fully charged and lasts till next morning.
See, now, I happen to have grown up in Edmonton, and people there have the same grinning smiling North American culture as anywhere else on the continent. So, meh, no.

And almost half the population there is Ukrainian or Polish descent, too, lots of people only a couple generations or less away from the old country. But people there are pretty mainline North American culture.

Now, my father is German... and I grew up with that rather curt and blunt and critical influence, so.
Janet is what introduced me to Fennel. Conjure [1] sold me on Fennel over Janet. The Neovim community is rallying around Lua.

(And in fact, what sold me on Rust was its truly excellent Lua FFI support [2].)

[1]: https://github.com/Olical/conjure

[2]: https://github.com/amethyst/rlua
> If you are going to help people in need, the best way to do it is with money.

Why is money the best way to help people? We all need to eat, so why not provide basic nutritional food to your population?
USSR and socialism, be brave comrade!
The success of deep learning might be something of a curse

Possibly. In AI, someone has a good idea, there's great enthusiasm, people in the field predict Strong AI Real Soon Now, the good idea hits a ceiling, and then people are stuck for a while. AI has been through four cycles of that. The ceiling of the current cycle may be in sight.

The next big problem is, as they say, "safety", or "common sense". Nobody really has a handle on how to do that yet. Checking proposed explorations against a simulation of some kind works if you can simulate the world well enough. Outside that niche, it's hard.

Collecting vast amounts of data to predict what can go wrong without an underlying model runs into combinatorial limits. More things can go wrong than you are likely to be able to observe.

Good that there are people thinking about this.
I think it would be funny to pick random accounts and a random topic for each one, then use a botnet to interact with any tweets from those accounts about their randomly assigned topic.

Could you gradually turn people into broccoli enthusiasts if they got 5x the engagement whenever they tweeted about broccoli? I bet so.
At least in the US Federal elections include the election of House Reps which are absolutely gerrymandered to all heck. In Canada the gerrymandering is much less insane because, honestly, we've still got shame working for us at a societal level keeping people more in line.
One past thread:

The Unix Game - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21249792 - Oct 2019 (65 comments)
So it's a "scam" because they are promising something they can't deliver straight away? Isn't that basically a description of every startup company ever?
I made no such suggestions. I was suggesting that it’s certainly plausible that QBE influenced aspects of GraphQL. The “prior art” being QBE, not GraphQL.
n=1, but my (American) family's always called their food storage room a "pantry".
i think we may be moving the goalposts a little here.
we were talking about joy, humor, whimsical and we shifted to a straight-up utopia where everyone is kind to everyone and no bad comment is ever made.

Philosophically, I would say HM is like a wealthy suburb. You don't see trash in the street. People mostly follow the law and are good neighbors. Everyone wants their neighborhood to be okay and are okay sharing/learning about gardening and home improvement from each other. Now: are some people disconnected from the what other people experience as the harsh reality somewhere else? Absolutely. This is the case everywhere. What you do when you see or hear someone with a completely different perspective is listen and try to understand what they are talking about. We all need to get better at this no matter where we are (work, store, hn, twitter, etc)
I'd still encrypt my B2 upload though, just to be safe. Just because it's a trustworthy service doesn't make it immune to hacks
Alas, I mostly use iOS. I did just discover Tweetbot, which is pretty good, but apparently is limited by Twitter's API to (among other things) not be able to show notifications
The focus on people has upsides too though. On reddit, you tend to see mostly content from people who post a lot, even if they are kind of dumb. With Twitter, you can choose to follow only people you actually respect.
Picking up on that, was the other bitcoin mining operation that they encountered also powered by stolen electricity?

That’s how you can make crypto mining economical (for yourself), steal the electricity.
Stadia isn't magic though, it just runs on whatever random GPU they have lying around. It was never going to be better than what you can build yourself.
Please make your substantive points without swipes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Google's gesture sensing went nowhere because it was laughably bad. It routinely failed to recognize gestures, was poorly integrated into the OS, and couldn't even be sold in several countries because of its use of radar.
People might also be interested in the Inman 300 (sort of an urban version of the PCT or Appalachian Trail that hits 300-ish public stairs in LA). It's been discussed on HN a few times
It was such a gimmick on the Pixel 4, probably because it required you position your hand over your phone. However, if you can just make the gesture of turning a knob regardless of your hand position (which a wearable probably could do), that seems like it'd have a use case.
Germany, Netherlands, Australia... People who for ideological reasons are cheering for this establishment of a precedent where imagined future victims are enough for current societies to be found guilty, will be dumbfounded once this precedent is used to establish policies they don’t like.

Case in point: If the reduction of future GDP leads to constitutional courts demanding policy actions than there is every legal basis to nix any current environmental policy that has direct/near term negative impact on GDP because just going from 3% GDP growth to 2% growth over the course of 100 years means a delta in wealth the size of Mexico-vs-USA.
I am very accent suggestible, but I also can't do accents to save my life. If I start talking to someone from the South, or the UK, there's alike a 75% chance I'm going to start (poorly) mimicking their speech, and I'm always worried they're going to think I'm making fun of them.
I had several pebbles (2 b/w and the colored one) and now have an apple watch. You don’t know what you’re talking about, the tech in the apple watch is years ahead. There’s much to criticize about the apple watch but it does the important things just so much better than the competition. I also never understood the focus on battery life. I put my watch on the charger whenever I go to sleep. If I forget it either still has more than 50% charge or I can charge it quickly. I don’t care for edge cases (camping etc.)
A niche is narrowly focused by definition.
Not indirectly elected? Many, many U.S. conservatives voted for Republican senatorial and presidential candidates specifically having in mind that they would shape a Supreme Court willing to strike down Roe. Trump promised to only appoint justices who would do so.
https://jacobinmag.com/2021/05/rich-people-climate-change-co...
This is actually hilarious, alongside shocking and scary. But the hilarious part is the cool info you can get by launching benign apps. Hey our flashcard app got popular check out these nuclear weapons secrets people posted on it!

When I was dabbling in apps and mobile apps, I encountered several unintended benefits of the data I collected which had nothing to do with my original purpose or vision. This reminds me of that.
When I saw Twitter was launching a paid subscription then I figured it would probably be ad-free (like with YouTube Premium, Twitch Turbo, etc.). Odd that it isn't. It's a dealbreaker for me.
What an inspiring post and response...

One of the few times lately I've woken up, looked at the internet and felt good about being a human being.
I've been following YC companies closely for about 6-8 years of data. Before the last big transition, I noticed virtually every founder came from an Ivy League school or something comparable. Their work experience was equally impressive before YC. Other people noticed this too and brought up the lack of diversity and complained. They felt that this strayed from pg's initial goal for YC, which was helping the little guy against the VCs instead of being yet another launch pad for Ivy League alum. Is this the result of YC wanting more diversity (not just gender and race, but for background too like education and experience)?

EDIT: The technical founder came from Apple and Cruise, and he graduated from the Univ of Michigan. He has the same cred as most YC founders. They probably didn't vet them as much since he came from a successful YC company, and I'm sure they talked to his former bosses. YC's system just had a public failure after using what seems like the same process for 15 years.

EDIT: If YC was too careful, Stripe and AirBnB wouldn't have happened. Those guys didn't have any experience in their respective industries either.
I think people use them to: 1) figure out what's affecting their sleep quality, not necessarily just duration, and 2) trigger alarms within a window, rather than at a specific time, when the device registers that they're between REM sleep cycles so waking up to the alarm is less shocking and unpleasant, and 3) have an alarm or pager-duty-type alert that doesn't bother anyone in the bed with them.
Looks better rendered in PDF: https://www.unur.com/10cfcp.pdf

groff -ms -Tps 10cfcp.in > 10cfcp.ps
ps2pdf 10cfcp.ps
all that data goes straight to the police, this is beyond a dangerous warning, not celebratory
Some were mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27308384
but there's lots more if you do a quick search online.
I'm pretty skeptical that Apple has a decade-long lead on any of the other big players in the market. Any innovations that one company can make can be more quickly adopted than new innovations occur and there's nothing as far as software goes that Apple is uniquely positioned to create. The other factors mentioned such as silicon tech being years ahead of the competition is one that is hardly a factor for the smart watch category.

On the other hand this is always the case and Apple's been the best at creating a general consumer wearable that appeals to the masses. Its integration into the apple ecosystem is a big selling point and that's probably the biggest factor that is basically impossible for competitors to replicate.

On a tangential note, I'd like to take a moment to recognize the amount of work that Apple has put into its accessibility features. Assistive Touch on the apple watch will probably serve a remarkably small portion of the user base and perhaps costs more to develop than the return they'll ever see on it. Still, year after year Apple keeps advancing accessibility features in all of its products. This is definitely an area where big tech companies like Apple and Microsoft excel at.
JS has write-only access to the clipboard, for precisely this reason. It would be a security disaster if JS could snoop your clipboard.

Lastpass and other password managers like 1password wipe the clipboard after a few seconds to minimize native app access to the secret.
Bug in turing_awards Q1: input.txt doesn't include the first 4 lines of the file (which are shown in the flavor text). So you have to trick it into giving the right number instead of doing the obvious grep | wc -l :p

This also makes Q2 unanswerable unless you can figure out how to construct Alfred V. Aho from scratch...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tobyshapshak/2019/12/18/cobalt-...
Or stop notifications about someone liking a reply to a reply to a reply of my tweet.

If you don't mute conversations as soon as they become boring, your notifications get filled with junk.
But that is not what is going on in this article.
That's not necessarily rational as an individual. Perhaps finding enough allies is much harder to achieve, or comes with more risk, than playing the competitive game well enough to meet your own needs.
Is this a surprising ruling? It seems very predictable and standard to me...
But 4K is 4x the 1080 / FullHD. It's twice as wide, and twice as tall, it's four 1080 screens glued together.

But definitely there is nothing 4000 about it, it's 3840 by 2160, about 8.3 megapixels.
She wore ridiculous scarves and draped them over the car body where they could get tangled in the wheel spokes. John dos passos made fun of her for it
In general, there are better nits to pick. If they are helping out food pantries to avoid giving Microsoft chunks of their limited budgets for license keys, who the fuck cares? Let's not lose perspective of priorities.

At this point, the culture war set pieces are extremely tired, regardless of which team you root for.
Apple has a decade-long lead in wearables for the Apple ecosystem.
So a "random thesis worker" was allowed to change the process config at a biofuel company without approval? Right. If this is true, I'm astonished.
I guess I would fit in better in Russia
There are also spikes after birthdays.
Several years ago I did some research (published paper here: http://kentlyons.net/pubs/dumbwatch-iswc15.pdf) and one of the findings I thought was interesting was there were 3 groups of people that implied different battery needs. One seemed similar to what you describe: people that took their watch off at night (so could charge it then). Another group wore their watch 24/7. And the final group which I wasn't expecting, but made sense in retrospect, was people that only wore their watch when out of the house. When they got home they'd take it off like setting down their keys.
Mirrortocracy describes both that and all attempted illusions of meritocracies. In this industry, at least.
That's a good point. Although for me, I find it frustrating that content on Twitter from an account can be anything. They may be known for certain types of tweets, but nothing stops them from tweeting completely random things. In general I find the signal/noise on Twitter is often quite bad.

To be fair, I'm not a fan of Twitter, so I'm pretty biased in this discussion.
nope. I disagree. I make a living from writing software and I will not defend the harm software does to society. I will go even a step further and say that I will not work in any place where it's clear that net result of the software produces does more harm than good.

people on this site care more than just decorum. sweeping generalizations like this rarely hold water.
> My point was if you’re exposing your build system to untrusted individuals inputting untrusted data then you’ve already lost the game.

This is how the vast majority of build systems are configured. If I have owned a dev and can push code to a branch I can likely execute code in their build environment. If they then parse that build output with something like awk, that's attack surface.

Is it the first thing I'd try to attack? Nope. But I do wonder what the cumulative impact of every binary on your system being memory safe would be. I'd definitely feel better.
You should look at Garmin. They have models with battery life measured in weeks, not hours like the Apple watch. My 3+ year old 645 still gets 6 days of battery life.
This seems like a silly way to look at production though - you could say every kWh in the system is a "marginal kWh" if you think about it like this. Turning on your oven, charging your car, etc would be similar in effect. If you really wanted to get involved you'd have to look at power imports and exports as well.

While it's true that fossil fuels do provide an important role in variable management of the grid still, this is also accomplished with hydroelectric quite heavily in my area and over time the rates of each production method will adjust accordingly so I think it's still a reasonable assessment to look at overall production.
I agree, we should be using the word ripoff way more often, as scam is heavily diluted to things that aren't.
I want a watch that stands alone.
I think most people underestimate how vulnerable Twitter is to competition.

They have no technical moat, and their business decisions may have been a net negative to users. 95% of their value lies in network effects, and people are fickle. I expect twitter will go the way of Yahoo over the next decade.
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They're called both in the U.S. I think "food bank" is at least as common. E.g. SF-Marin food bank (https://www.sfmfoodbank.org/) and the nearby Berkeley Food Pantry (https://www.berkeleyfoodpantry.org/).

The word "pantry" alone has the same meaning in both countries.

It probably makes sense to change terms if one is more universal.
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Like, yeah, high key obvious ngl
Feel like I'm on the opposite side of the spectrum. I hate wearing it and don't like wearing anything any kind of jewellery either. Only really wearing it for sleep tracking and I don't even do anything with the data. I don't really use it for time and I honestly can't think of any reason to use it for anything. The health stuff doesn't tell me anything is wrong with me and the notifications drive me insane vibrating on my wrist so I just turned it off and they've been off since.
what about an rust developer with an MBA? /s

when you see a strawman point it out. people may not like it, you may get downvoted but... something about being the change you want to see.

for example: I routinely get down-voted every time I say something positive about cryptocurrencies. Should I stop telling people my opinion when the overall sentiment on HN is pretty negative when it comes to the likes of bitcoin and ETH?
I've worked with several Russians and I noticed that they type the smile emoticon without the colon... So instead of :) it's just ). For laughing it's )))))))

What's up with that? )
And it depends on the time of day and day of week.
They are, finding item size cap bugs and alerting the devs seems all in the spirit. To me there's just an elephant in the room - the idea is dead in the water. The latency dictated by the internet does not support their ideas. It will end up under-delivering. I wouldn't call it an outright scam, though, as games are a very subjective product
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Who owns kimchi?
> nitpick scam versus fiasco

I don't think that's a nit. Intent matters, and it's entirely possible to have a well intentioned fiasco.