skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading the other comments, hedgehogs look at everything through a single lens. Foxes look at it in multiple ways.

I've definitely met people who look at everything from their own position, and can't imagine how someone else would see the same situation from a different position. Programmer vs user vs manager, for instance.

"This is so much easier to code like this!" vs "This is so much easier for the user to use like that!" vs "This way meets our goals for the quarter!"

They are simply unable to see the other points of view.
the difference between current AMD and Nvidia GPUs isn't even that large if viewed from price/performance ratio...
Comparing cards at similar price has AMD having slightly less performance while having significantly more GDDR memory.

i still use an RTX3080 though, thankfully got one before the current craze started
> "meeting girls at lunch" is a lot less of a benefit under modern expectations of workplace behavior.

I doubt human nature will change because or recent social mores. It will just adapt.

But over time, people tend to date people they meet regularly and get to bond with. I forget the percentages, but I remember reading a study saying that most marriages involve people who were classmates in high school, in college or were coworkers.

> But anyway why not join a social club for dating? That's where people go intentionally to socialize, so your "hit rate" will be much higher.

I'm not OP, but that's an additional effort and not always easy to do (for example your work hours could be longer, the social club might not be close by, etc, a myriad reasons).

See my previous part of the comment: a lot of people find their life partners in their vicinity, without going out of their way to look for them.
On the contrary,

- proper string and vector types (most compilers allow to enable bounds checking anyway)

- stronger rules for type conversions

- reference types for parameters

- better tooling for immutable data structures

- memory allocation primitives instead of getting sizeof wrong to malloc()

- collection library instead of reinventing the wheel in each project

- RAII

- smart pointers

- templates instead of error prone macros

- namespacing (usefull in large scale projects with prefix tricks)
I didn't know that, thanks next time I buy extiguishers for electronics I'll pay more attention.
> Many Indians today believe in the Aryan invasion theory

That's because it's almost certainly true! it's why Indians speak Indo-European languages, and why the same Y-chromosome haplogroup (R1a) is common among (for example) Indian Brahmins and Norwegians.

> This theory is often connected with a view that fairer-skinned people represent "true" Indian culture

The Hindu religion in its most ancient form (see e.g. the Rig Veda) derives from the Proto-Indo-European religion, parts of which have been reconstructed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_mythology

(Obviously modern India culture comes from a lot of other sources too!)

> including the Aryans who are said to have invaded India.

You phrase it that was as if to imply that it didn't happen. But I think the evidence that it did: linguistic, genetic, archeological, is very strong.
> Is this when they're buying, or when they're selling?

FTX isn't a trading venue for shares. They create tokens representing the shares [1].

When they sell a token representing Coinbase stock at 3x what the stock is trading on private stock venues, and a bit more compared with where it IPO'd, that gain isn't necessarily going to other FTX customers. It's going to their captive broker-dealer, a German-regulated (i.e. virtually unregulated) entity.

Given Coinbase shareholders weren't allowed to transfer shares on unapproved platforms, there were zero authorized Coinbase sellers on FTX. The winnings went to the house.

[1] https://help.ftx.com/hc/en-us/articles/360051229472-Tokenize...
Yeah, nothing in Factorio can quite match watching all of your solar sails and ships orbiting and snapping into place around the sun in the sky. Which you can also fly right up to and watch all the little details in person.
Get a house that's 30 mins from your job via walk-train-walk [1] then change to a job on the other side of london, via walk-train-underground-train-bus [2]

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/UcNQmsbTE5Q3ni5c8
[2] https://goo.gl/maps/aFJ2Ut1ZLgmNGN266
The storage requirements for the Moderna and Pfizer shots are heavily on the safe side. They went with it for the EUA because there was simply no time to prove that it could be safely stored at normal temps. The overwhelming consensus, however, is that it can be. I suspect the full FDA approval will change the guidelines to allow normal refrigeration up to 30 days.
Yeah so within the US it wouldn't really matter. On a global scale it would be nice to have a form of money that is not dependent on the whims of politicians.
This sounds like hell. People rushing around and yelling?
And next year they sell it again with the code indented with spaces instead of tabs.
As I understand it the issue is

* Currently the US welfare agencies will provide ~any FDA-approved drug for someone with the illness for which the drug was approved

* In this case, they probably won't - in the worst case scenario it would double their spending on prescription drugs and seems unlikely to help anyone

* So this is going to sever the link between FDA approval and medicaid spending.

* Now you have an awkward situation where agencies that not really equipped to make judgements on dug effectiveness, and which are not insulated from politics, have to make those decisions.

This could all work out for the best in the long term but may also be very awkward in the short term.
It's not Linus job to give anti-vax people a platform on a kernel mailing list. It's his job to nip it in the bud and let them know why he will cut them from the list if they keep up the garbage antivax rhetoric.
I found something that works for me. One of the things that prevents adults from sleeping is worrying about life problems. Getting your brain to shut up about problems that you cannot fix at night is the problem.

My trick is to listen (not watch) to old television shows ...all night. I selected a few hundred hours of old television that'd I'd seen many times before, got a pair of very comfortable ear buds to sleep with, and I just listen to the old TV shows for 8 hours straight. It works amazingly.

Now I sleep through the night, every night, despite having even worse life problems than when I started. One interesting side effect is that I don't dream the same at all. If I dream at all - it's actually about the show that I'm listening to. It doesn't seem to have any negative impact though.
Here's how I interpret "commoditize and focus": standardize on a well-established and popular solution that's known to be widely applicable, so you can focus on adding business value in your product. Don't go for the new shiny thing being promoted by thought leaders, but an old workhorse. Do it even though you know the old workhorse is suboptimal on one or more technical axes, because in the bigger picture, the third-party ecosystem, talent pool, and other correlates of popularity and maturity are more important.

I've repeatedly failed to follow this approach myself and have come to regret it. As I mentioned the other day, I chose Pulumi over Terraform for infrastructure as code, because Pulumi is undeniably technically superior in some ways. I now believe that was a mistake.

I'm trying to figure out how to implement the "commoditize and focus" approach when it comes to standardizing on a web application framework for my company. I believe the classic server-rendered, multi-page approach is the right one most of the time, so I'm talking about that kind of server-side web framework. I implemented our current product in Elixir using Phoenix, and I now believe that was a mistake as well. If we suppose that the top three server-side workhorse languages are Java, Python, and JavaScript via Node.js (as implied by the availability of a certain Amazon SDK for those three), then I should choose a popular framework in one of those languages. If I still try to hang onto technical merit within these constraints, then I suppose I should go with Java and Spring, since Java is statically typed and the JVM is high-performance. But Spring has such an enterprisey smell about it. If I go with what I already know, that would be Python and Django. But CPython has such awful performance, dynamic typing has known drawbacks at scale, and choosing something just because it's what I already know feels far too much like becoming old and set in my ways (I'm 40). And a strike against Spring and Django, as well as Rails and others, is that they require knowledge of a different language on the back-end than the one we already have to use on the front-end. So I guess I should go with Node.js. Maybe Express with a view engine like Pug? But to really take advantage of using the same language on both the front-end and the back-end (I don't shy away from complex front-end JS where it's needed), I should use an isomorphic framework, something like Next.js. But Next.js throws away web fundamentals like being able to submit a form the old way without JavaScript. And what about bundle size and performance on low-end devices? Yes, I'm supposed to hold my nose and tolerate mediocrity for the greater good, but should I even do that at the end-user's expense? And the better isomorphic JS frameworks (Remix, Marko, SvelteKit...) are too bleeding-edge. I don't know...

So, you're right, there's no one right way to "commoditize and focus". Sorry for the wall of text; this thread hit too close to home.
Dude, these are not FAANG dream jobs. Qualified workers will earn gross 3.5k EUR/month, unqualified 2.7k EUR/month [1]. These salaries barely pay the rent in Berlin. Tesla is already trying to search in western Poland apparently unaware it's a similar wasteland.

[1] https://gazetalubuska.pl/tesla-gigafactory-kusi-zarobkami-i-...
Yeah, but your boss being able to do it to you makes him feel important and powerful!
The real problem of Apple Tax–it ruins value-chain
TL;DR multiplayer roguelike (or general tile-based) framework in Typescript

https://github.com/and0p/chaos-core
The military brass is never going to argue that the world is a safer place and they have no need of their obscene budget, come on. They happily manufacture whatever villains are necessary to get the goods.
CDC plans “emergency meeting” on myocarditis following vaccines
Or even people of color living in the US right now. The UN human rights commission has acknowledged this.
> On thr other hand, I am amused some people seem to think armored tanks should be getting 35mpg...

Distance, a need for speed, and difficulty of logistical support for mid-air refueling has resulted in massive advancement in airframe design and energy efficiency in the military compared to earlier designs. Had the energy efficiency requirements been mandated it would simply have acted as a forcing function.

The same is true for armored vehicles. Yes, carrying around a lot of dense steel plating is a problem, but we don't really do that as much anymore because we've found better ways to armor vehicles as steel plating has been defeated by ultra-dense metallic penetrators (DU/TC) and complex projectiles like HEIAP rounds. Ablative armoring combined with ceramic plating (which achieves better results than hardened steel at lower weights) HAS actually created an environment where fuel efficiency for vehicles like tanks has increased (or more accurately in most cases, their top speed has increased given a set engine performance when not gearing limited).

Do I think that Congress was wrong to carve out this exemption? Maybe, maybe not.

The one thing I think they definitely should NOT have been exempted from is the safe handling and disposal requirements for toxic waste. Personally, I'm not super concerned if a fighter jet or tank is fuel efficient, I am concerned about us utterly decimating the ground water and ecology of our own country by haphazardly dumping toxic substances.
I think it's sound financial advice, I'm just saying "don't trade your company's stocks" isn't really a sufficient solution to avoiding insider trading.
Pantone patented our skin colors?
It came to fruition because it’s creating vast new wealth in a fashion that is directly competitive to old wealth. It’s also easy because climate change is a real, pressing existential crisis. Take this with the caveat that most people won’t think past the headline, so lots of people don’t get to the obvious conclusion of “the way we generate power is the root problem”

Lowering to zero doesn’t solve the problem, but it would help give us a longer runway.
We are at the "then they fight you" stage. The banks have every incentive to kill crypto because if it's successful, they are going to become irrelevant similar to newspapers that lost majority of their market shares to tech disruptors.

The biggest battles for Bitcoin are ahead in my opinion, but if it survives, which I'm convinced it will, it'll come out stronger than ever before.
The small yellow book might have already fallen out of fashion. I graduated from a math high school in Bulgaria about 10 years ago, and I vaguely remember the yellow book being referred to as if it was popular during the stone age.
minimum security and he'll get out early for good behavior. Curious though, do you think a slap on the wrist would be better in this case? Would you also recommend a non-sentence if he broke into homes to steal $1.5M?
That's all very different from "you can't buy this, right this second".
I'd love to help with this. I've been experimenting with rustgpu + wgpu, so I'd personally go there first probably.
> Ehhh I’m skeptical about juniors needing face to face. Those juniors might just not be cut out for the field.

You might be from a different era :-)

IT is a mass employer these days, there is no "not cut out of the field". Companies need software. They'll be bad engineers, but they'll be engineers regardless.
Cultural Evolution of Genetic Heritability [pdf]
reading the article I feel there is some disconnect between the text of the article and the headline and the writer may not actually want to die instead of letting Facebook monitor their heart rate.

I guess I wouldn't rather die either. I would just rather buy an Apple Smartwatch, but I guess that's pragmatism for you.
"a completely explainable, and frankly oredictable, trajectory and goal that ked to... changes such as the removing of the headphone jack, etc." Bad taste? Narcissistic corporate executives... with impractically bad taste?

:-) Yeah, no need to go to a conspiracy theory with no rational basis or factual evidence when stupidity,greed, incompetence or a combination thereof will explain the result. It seems to me that these kinds of theories only build up the power and influence of those petty industrial tyrants to the detriment of all.

Still, cold comfort to those of us who have lost the replaceable battery option and dread the day headphone jacks disappear forever.
> This configuration change had been written by an authorized engineer in one team, consulting but misinterpreting vendor documentation. The change was then reviewed by three other authorized engineers in three separate teams, according to normal processes. None of them spotted the mistake in the configuration update.

Is anyone else shocked by this? Are code reviews worthless? An engineer made a change reviewed by 3 other people. It seems like _someone_ would notice.
Why not both?
I can drink a chai latte in my PJs and "occasionally" work through-out the day and still be more productive than if I waste 3 hours a day on commuting and have to fight through constant noises and distractions in an office.
"created a lot of messes"

"not very efficient"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word

"Source: brother"

This is not a source.

"look at US military budget and compare it to the opportunity costs"

The opportunity costs of China or Russia telling everyone what to do? Have you not looked at any news recently?

If you've ever worked in a large organization, you know that there's a difference between underfunding an effort and pushing back to force them to prioritize better and become more efficient with resources.

Also, normally in well functioning organizations, there are metrics to measure how efficiently resources are being utilized. The US Military lacks oversight in this dimension.

We have military dominance by far across the entire planet. That sure seems like a great metric to me. And we'll maintain it and use the money better with time, and raise more if we need it.
Lack of syntax highlighting for one, not being even half as powerfull as Emacs as second.
Same here, my body would take 12h every night it it wasn‘t for the alarm clock and I‘m still tired as hell.

All the usual advice I‘ve tried, I can kill my three alarm clocks, drink two coffees, take a brutal cold shower in my daylight bright LED lit bathroom and then go back to sleep within seconds like nothing happened.
This book is absolutely fantastic. Egan is a magnificent writer.
The guillotines are never coming out. Just look at the Soviet era. Whenever there was a little uprising, the state just killed people. Then they killed some others to make an example. Secret police, surveillance, neighbors that snitch on you, we have it all now.

The psychological condition has been much too strong. People identify with the state. It's a part of them, it's a part of who they are.
Battle-lines drawn in the culture war
I want to burn drug dealers at the stake. By all means, I should be able to try that without becoming a criminal.
Reasoning by analogy rather than by principles means someone has no argument. The analogy just restates the original premise without actually contending for the premise.
Are you referring to this:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/40/89.908
or is there another law which regulates DOD/EPA? The reason I ask is that the EPA does regulate DOD's cleanup activities (https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/environmental-challenge-mili...)
A lot of physics seems unnecessarily expensive to compute. Quantum mechanics suggest we either have nonlocality or exponential blowup, both of which cause simulation challenges. With just classical physics you don’t need to deal with that.

On the other hand, there are a lot of things that make physics tractable to compute, such as the +++- metric tensor and other factors forbidding causality violations. A universe with closed timelike curves becomes very expensive to compute because you usually have to use implicit solvers that are slow and might not even converge, corresponding to various time travel paradoxes.
I hope you can find peace. I’ve been in your situation and I understand the desperate hope for anything at all that has even a chance of working.

Be well.
I've had great success with iFixit guids too. 2 iPhones and a iPad. But I've been a bit weary of doing that since last time I got a screen where the connection wires that came with it weren't quite right and caused the iPad to get hot enough to burn skin and cause heat warnings from the OS. In that case, it was possible to reuse the original connector to fix the issue, but my trust in third-party parts diminished quite a bit.
Maybe the problem is, at best, alpha level software is being field tested by million’s of people with life and death consequences. Cars computer systems should always fail safely. If that can’t be designed right now then test it with professional drivers.
This is different from banks actually _having_ an API. Many have stalled or successfully asked for exemptions, and even those who have gone ahead and, to some extent, complied, have still tried to make their APIs as difficult to use, feature-poor, and unreliable as possible. Source: worked at a bank which actually tried to do this well, and which also offered functionality which required us to integrate with other banks' APIs.
Because control elements that change size and move around are bad. In Safari's case that would be the address bar.
I know what vested means, there can be a financial element to it but that is not a requirement:

definition:
'a personal reason for involvement in an undertaking or situation'

The personal reason here may well be bitterness, but that was your word not mine.

If, in 2011, we were discussing what bitcoin succeeding looks like, I would have said that if it was worth 5 figures (and I would have meant low 5 figures, so $10,000) it had succeeded. If, alongside the value, my parents knew what it was (not through me) then it would have succeeded.

In truth I would also have expected it to take closer to 20 years to reach that point. So in my mind it has succeeded. It is still around over a decade later, it surpassed the dollar value I would have assigned success even without this latest runup. There are few people in the world, who have internet acccess, who have not heard of it.

So I disagree with you, because on metrics I would have measured it with in 2011 it has met and exceeded them. Therefore it has succeeded already. I have skin in the game, so perhaps I have a vested interest, but only in as much as it would make me more money than it already has. And I dont need more money. If it went to zero tomorrow my life would not change.
Heh. Sure. Non toxic, but perhaps the most popular method of assisted suicide. Nothing to worry about.
Stablecoins have opened up some interesting ideas about what it means to be backed/unbacked; even ones that are stablised/pegged algorithmically:

https://www.theancientbabylonians.com/what-is-terra-luna/ has a good summary
well, if you want to win wars, you make tanks that drive fast. This is a well understood concept.
This is a fascinating point that I had not considered. Thank you! I think you're right.
Yeah, that looks like probably the most promising stack for the future, but there are certainly rough edges today. See [8] for a possible starting point (a pull into that repo or a link to your own would both be fine here).

[8] https://github.com/googlefonts/compute-shader-101/pull/8
Kind of curious, do you guys think its necessary to administer these vaccines to people under 18?
Maybe, but it’s not clear to me that the FDA is (or should be) experts in weighing economic incentives for good behavior. There’s plenty of bad economic incentives created by the current FDA process; just ask the Lovaza guys, charging a 10x markup for fish oil. In an ideal world, I don’t think the FDA should have any role in drug approvals other than preventing direct medical harm.
apparently ripple (xrp) is behind the fud campaign against POW, which is why we've seen such an uptick in negative news against it recently
Agree. I've had repeated contacts from Amazon recruiters, including multiple "hi there!" emails from the same person even though I've told them no. I'm in a remote midwestern city that might have an Amazon office but certainly not the R&D center they're recruiting for.
We failed to bring up a generation of girls willing to be providers to a stay-at-home husband.
it might also be a difference in the domain you're working on.

finance/banking tends to be a very different kind of programming then most developers are used to, even though the domain expertise is still CRUD at the heart.

i've been in that industry as well for 4 yrs now. I can kinda see his point, as its hard to not drift off in any other setting.
You usually just get BusinessCases to implement, which are rigidly defined and just need to be implemented.

(and tested to a degree some people wouldn't believe on this forum where even TDD is often questioned)
For the "memorable phrase" thing, you may have already figured this out, but I find it's better to generate random passphrases for those. A string of words is a _lot_ easier to say and verify.