skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can think pretty quickly about things I know and understand. Also I can also speculate pretty fast based on a hunch when it’s not that important. When I don’t full understand something and/or it’s to important a topic to speculate, I fall into deep thinking, ask a lot of questions mode.

I’ve noticed that some people are really quick to say things that don’t stand up to scrutiny. I am naturally skeptical when anyone offers up a seemingly smart answer to anything important without thinking about it. I’ll research anything on my own if the well-being of someone I care about hinges of a fast talking, smarty pants being correct. Sometimes I can’t arrive at a meaningful conclusion, and I have to decide to just trust a person & go along for the ride, and in these cases I learn the hell out of whatever is happening as I go along.

Essentially, I think talking fast is overrated if the fast talker can’t or won’t explain their position to someone who should be able to understand the problem. There’s always a small chance I am the Luddite who just doesn’t get it, but that’s usually only true when I’m trying to learn something that truly requires experience to understand. For example, I won’t be able to understand arguments for or against Hubble’s constant being a dynamic value that changes with time because I lack the education and experience in astrophysics to understand either side of the debate. But I might be able to trust someone who could explain to me why he couldn’t understand it.
Thanks for your answer! At first I though you were using machine learning as an end-to-end approach for solving an optimization task. Now, I understand that you use ML for creating a surrogate model and GD for optimizing it. Interesting!
I'd imagine some of it is functionality that you dont see behind the scenes, like syncing, or features you don't use. I would also imagine that they contain ads, tracking, etc if they came from the carrier's build (like Verizon). I have some some small apps, and they are easily under a couple MBs.
It may be hard, but that is their job. They are supposed to find me the very best candidates. There are plenty of professional groups, alumni associations, meetup groups, etc. devoted to diversity in tech. If they can’t even find a few women, then how can I trust they are really looking everywhere to find the very best?
All of humanity does not agree with your personal subjective assessment of "the truth", whatever that is supposed to even mean.
Federal agents falsely accused Univ. of Tennessee professor of spying for China
Have you tried to load UWP apps on a machine with less memory? I believe that part of what's going on there is framework-level shared, memory-pressure reclaimable caching.

On a machine that doesn't have as much memory, the frameworks don't "use" as much memory. (I would note that Windows IoT Core has a minimum spec of 256MB of RAM, and runs [headless] UWP apps just fine! Which in turn goes up to only 512MB RAM for GUI UWP apps.)

Really, it's better to not think of reclaimable memory as being "in use" at all. It's just like memory that the OS kernel is using for disk-page caching; it's different in kind to "reserved" memory, in that it can all be discarded at a moment's notice if another app actually tries to malloc(2) that memory for its stack/heap.
With regards to the pagan origins of Christmas I learned quite a bit by reading some of the linked articles here (such as the one about Yule or about the Christmas tree):
https://historyforatheists.com/2020/12/pagan-christmas/

Some quotes from the one about Christmas trees:

>People in the twenty-first century have this bizarre, instinctive notion that any custom we have today that we cannot rationally explain must be a survival of pre-Christian paganism. The idea of “pagan survivals” is so widespread that it has basically become the de facto explanation to any puzzling or peculiar tradition. People essentially just answer the question “Why do we decorate trees at Christmas?” with “I don’t know, so it must be paganism.”

>Most of the customs, traditions, and ideas we associate with the modern, secular Christmas are products of the past two hundred years. If you want to blame something for “ruining” Christmas and “taking Christ out Christmas,” you would be closer to the mark blaming twentieth and twenty-first century American capitalism than seventh-century BC Canaanite paganism (or whatever other variety of paganism you happen to fancy).
What ARM chip has a coprocessor with closed source firmware/OS running on it?
I can't wait for some Irish cop to start a massive diplomatic incident because some embassy worker happened to be in the wrong neighbourhood.
> Why - in your opinion - is it worse for consumers when these-type businesses (which ask for identity), use their own-rolled id verification than using Stripe's?

The point isn't so much using third party , we use a third party on prem.

My point is very simple : Why on earth would you let discord view my passport ? JUST WHY ?!

Those documents are very sensitive and no one should have access to them unless they have a VERY good reason to do so. PCI DSS treat "card information" like hot lava, the same model should have applied here.

Stripe should have acted as a "Trusted Party" and securely store those documents without giving access to it but just let you extract the information from it.

Thus you would been able to have uniquely identified user , backed up by government id , but you can't get access to the documents and sensitive data should have been redacted .... just like Card Number...

Again unless you are a Fintech / Financial Instituion , with a VALID in effect license , you should not have access to those documents.
I don't have the numbers, but I suspect the brain-drain is near total, and irreversible for a few generations. The last time I did a round of interviews, about two years ago with half a dozen companies in Chile, at least half of the senior engineers, and many of the hiring managers, were Venezuelan. None of my Venezuelan friends plan on going back, although they do visit, and I think would like to go back if conditions were different- Venezuelan culture is quite a bit more "latin" than Chile, so there's a fair bit of culture shock for them. As it is, they are putting down roots, starting families, opening up businesses, etc, and I don't think they'll be leaving soon, if ever.
I could not agree more with this. I find sci fi authors can fall into the trap of being so in love with their concept they forget about the characters, and IMO The Three Body problem has that issue in spades; I just didn't care about the characters. They struck me as two dimensional cardboard cutouts.

Now, I grant you, some of the challenge might be in a) lacking Chinese historical and cultural background, and b) the nature of the translation itself. But I simply could not get into this series.
Historically, democrats make debt smaller and republicans larger.
In the US it's illegal to print your own currency and use it for commercial purposes. This doesn't preclude the ability to legally exchange goods in a foreign currency because, while there may be a whole lot of potential currencies, it's not that difficult to create an allowlist of approved currencies.

I personally think this is a pretty stupid decision, but iit should be pretty easy to fairly apply so long as the Thai SEC lays out clear guidelines on which currencies are approved.

And, I am avoiding making any sort of comment on whether currencies are worthy of being on that approved list. It's Thailand and the sovereign government has the right to make currency regulation decisions as arbitrarily as it wants.
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These recruiters are not agents of the workers. My company, not the candidates, pay the recruiters.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/26/the-atomic-bomb-consid...

(note of course I dont agree with everything said here)
Maybe. Problems on a global scale would be divided up among fewer people, which would mean that each person would bear a greater burden.
I haven't done this program, but I've always liked the way this guide is put together: https://www.julian.com/guide/muscle/
Is that the going rate for a margin loan? I have only found IBKR to have rates that low.
Doing everything we can, including birth limitations and laws, to not get there.

I recently heard about China stopping the one-child law stuff and I only wanted to facepalm. That's so typical. "We need more population for all our old people here!" disregarding what will happen with the planet (an objectively much more important thing than China, but hey, it's not China, so not their problem, right?!), if population surges again in China. I just hope, that the experts are correct and that it will not lead to another population increase.
Throughout the pandemic I have re-read Anathem several times. The thought of a cloistered community in pursuit of knowledge (mathic society) ends up being my happy place.
Actually there is a "demographic transition" in which, midway through, people suddenly realize that they don't need so many farmers and they don't have room in the city for them.

In Europe they fired the ovens for these people.

In the Middle East and Africa they are still fighting that war.
Of course having diverse characters does not automatically make a movie more interesting.

But interesting movies can be made about diverse characters as they can about homogeneous characters.

Only depicting homogeneous societies furthers ignorance and demonization of people who are different.

Showing more diversity, in interesting, authentic, and deep ways is one an important way we have of striving towards a society where we better understand and value one another, and get along.
Ok, if it’s not a fang who do you recommend? At least some examples would be nice if you think it’s a good alternative
That isn't about the leetcode interviewing.

That's about the microsoft-era actual riddles, like "if you were reduced to the size of an ant and put in a blender, how would you get out?"
ripgrep also has a configuration file for options without the need for an alias. https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/GUIDE.md#c...
Because owning a house builds equity and renting doesn't?

Owning a house and having renters pay for your house to build equity is extremely valuable. Even if they only pay 80% of the mortgage, it's still equity you are only paying 20% for.

Besides which, most renting is only for part of a building, so it's much cheaper than buying a whole building and property.
This is a great way to provide free trials to your users while minimising the risk of frauds. Great job!
Great post. Can relate.

Struggling to see the connection to opensource specifically though... can happen anywhere, even in corporate world.

Perhaps could be the mistaken thought that opensource is a refuge from an intollerant industry. When that fails, you lose your house of cards self.

Perhaps the nature of the industry is use our brains and our thoughts are golden. So when a "self thought" happens we do not know how to isolate it and see we are the observer not the subject (negative or positive).
I live in the UK, and renting is definitely always more expensive

Also when buying if I extend my mortgage to 35 years I can pay 550 a month, or I can reduce to 25 and pay 900 or more because it is a worth investment place to put your money

So I am only paying more if I want, and that is because it is also my savings, more rentable than a savings account anywhere
Thanks for the doom and gloom, but to be fair -- the GP did mention this could happen with a few technological improvements -- specifically in food and ecology.
I tend to look at charity (especially in small coins which suck up a bunch of electricity for basically no gain for anyone) as an excuse to validate their existence. Just because TOMS give a pair of shoes to a poor person every time you buy a pair doesn't automatically make TOMS a good company, it just means it has dope ass marketing.
Yet another crypto SCAM: IOI
A cursory googling suggests that both are grammatically correct. I had the same intuition.
We already have a system that captures a part of both usual and unusual profits and redistributes them. It even scales with the size of the profits. That’s how taxes work.
As the other poster mentioned, you won't suffer chargebacks, but you _will_ find yourself on the receiving end of calls from the AML of your bank (if you're lucky), or your local authorities if you're less lucky. I am names on a clubs accounts for a local club and the terms we've signed up to are funds frozen for 6 months if we are _suspected_ of being involved even indirectly of laundering any money.
> As a relative politico-economic position, conservative is “defense of the position of status quo elites”.

That's a very narrow understanding of conservativism.

> “conservative” in the relative sense is always economically liberal

Conservatives have often taken steps to restrict market forces, that forced radical changes. So no - you cannot generalize conservativism to "economically liberal".

But rather than listening to me, feel free to read up a scholarly article.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/conservatism/
Those emergency blankets don’t work like normal blankets - by trapping air and preventing it from moving - but by reflecting heat and keeping it in.
They want to protect stupid people. Aka the kind of people who wont do something like that.
or even better ... a kernel backdoor to expose hidden encrypted filesystems and false physical disk size reporting, with a specific userspace trigger (eg: open the password manager, when this password is selected destroy the hidden filesystem(s); when this other app is opened and the phrase "X y Z" is typed, expose the hidden filesystem as a disk to userspace).

You can go on forever with this stuff, especially if you have root on the device. Which gives you some clues about the true purpose of laws like this and who thinks they are useful.
A thing doesn't derive it's value or purpose from the intent of their creator, but how it's used going forward.

Bitcoin for example was created to be electronic cash, but today most people treat is as a "digital gold" and a store of value, but not as something to be used in regular day-to-day transactions.

And Dogecoin was indeed created as a joke, but it doesn't stop it from being used to buy things (3% of all BitPay purchases[1]), and in contrast to Bitcoin the community wants to keep it affordable. So in a way, you can argue that Dogecoin follows Satoshi's vision more than even Bitcoin does.

[1]: https://bitpay.com/stats/
>> "Until you can passionately make arguments for both sides," she says, "you don't understand the issue."

> I think this is the key quote. It should really be taboo to have an opinion without an understanding of how the other side argues.

There's a difference between "understand" and "make a passionate argument for" a given position. It's become standard for just about any ideological position to claim that anyone who disagrees "doesn't really understand" and to primarily use extreme emotions paired with unverifiable claims. At what point does one "understand" in these conditions?

The idea that most issues today have two reasonable sides arguing is itself an ideology. Often there's not even one reasonable position.
It might be a good idea to include her common alias (Typhoid Mary) somewhere in the title, considering that moniker is far more prominent than her legal name.
This would be great, except I rarely—bordering on never—want to search .git, and when I do that's the only thing I want to search.
Indeed. The existence of Rust as a safe language without a GC shows that a system that can only run safe code can be as efficient as systems that expose raw hardware.

In 90s and 00s they did this with languages similar to Java because low level safe languages weren’t yet invented. If this idea ever resurfaces it will be done with languages similar to rust and will be competitive with and likely more efficient than unsafe systems. This will potentially be a nice convergence with power-efficient RISCV chips that don’t include an MMU or a supervisor mode.
> The current population is not even sustainable.

If you make a certain set of highly unrealistic assumptions about what "sustainable" requires, yes.

If you look at how human history has actually gone, you find that doomsayers in every time could find trends that, if projected out forever into the future, looked "unsustainable". And of course, if those trends had continued as they were, it would not have been sustainable. But the trends never continued as they were.

We humans can adapt to change by changing how we do things. Claims that our current population, or indeed any current human activity, is "unsustainable" ignore that crucial fact.
They also built a database of Amazon purchases, which lead to Amazon now sending me worthless e-mails. Thanks Gmail!
I almost think it was these local news sites trying themselves to post on these subreddits. Looking at the histories of the people who actually post articles on a local subreddit, all they do pretty much is post articles. Who even does that? Either someone with some sort of complex to share every article they read on reddit, or an intern who is paid to post the article on social media and reddit is on that list. Even the LA Fire Department is active on reddit now. It's mainstream, and commercialized.
> IIRC the pagan origins of Christian holidays and symbols have their roots in making conversion more palatable for conquered Roman subjects.

The same is true, mutatis mutandis, of the retained (though radically transformed) Christian elements of consumerist celebrations like the modern American Christmas.
Consider GNU/Linux phones for that.
From a purely layman's perspective, why couldn't you get a head to toe photo of a subject, then have the subject enter in their height, then use that measurement to get the relative measurements of other body parts? You'd need a way to quickly identify the points of the body, but i can't imagine that is the difficult part here? The head to toe photo of the subject would need to be wearing skin tight apparel, such as underwear to ensure clothing doesn't throw the relative measurements off.

Interested to know where my assumptions here don't line up with reality.
I guess I'm part of this wave. Just these days I struggle with the decision if I should rather (a) quit my job without having found a new position yet or (b) keep working while applying for new jobs. (I'm located in Germany)

Pros of early quitting:
(1) I'm not learning anything anymore in my current job. The earlier the better...
(2) My current job is subject to 3 months' notice, so I'm definitely free from October onwards
(3) I hope this gives me some extra motivation to work on data science projects in my spare time

Cons of early quitting:
(1) Obviously no income anymore from October onwards unless I have found a new job.
(2) From October onwards, it might be hard to find a new flat as the landlords request to get evidence of a regular income
As a flipside argument, it may be useful in an article like this to help people test their own intuition on what a piece of code will do.
Death is the ultimate Truth of our universe. Everything in the universe will cease to exists at some point of time, only difference is the scale.

As the serenity prayer says:
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference"

Sooner or later you have to accept death, with acceptance you will be able to enjoy the gift Called "present"
Yeah, let's make a for-profit corporation an identity management entity. What could go wrong.

- Did you say something politically incorrect? Banned.
- Stripe employees don't like you? Banned.
- They just feel like it. Banned.

Yeah. No.
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I see no content on the linked page. Am I missing something?
It's sadly real.
Of course we must also build an environment where everyone can flourish. Not mutually exclusive.
> I would argue that outsourcing failed primarily due to companies trying to farm out the coding to uninterested entities whose incentives did not align well. Not necessarily because the foreign workers doing the coding were bad.

It failed because the intent was to cut costs and they got what they paid for. The successful ones were genuinely trying to expand their engineering talent pool and quickly figured out that the cost savings were a marginal benefit that made up for some of the extra overhead of international accounting and management. Quality engineers are one visa lottery away from Western salaries so the local median salary is often completely disconnected from what a FAANG might pay for a decent engineer, which is a rude awakening for anyone trying to cut costs without destroying the quality of their output. On top of that, the people most likely to make it a smooth transition are also the people most in demand (arms race!) and competition for them helps evaporate any savings for the business.

The guy in Argentina is in a great position to get hired to work remotely for an American company, but I don't seem him as competition regardless of how good he is. It's an arms race so my employer's competitor can't replace their team with Argentinians because that down time will give my employer time to crush them (which we learned in the 2000s). They can hire an extra team of Argentinians on top of their existing head count but if they do that my employer will be pressured to hire a team of Brazilians. Before you know it, both companies are hiring even more local teams to help manage the flow of work between their existing local teams and the outsourced ones.

There's more work and money to pay for it than there are people to do it. Until that changes, we're not the ones competing, the employers are.
Productivity of geniuses seems to exceed the ability of idiots to screw things up so far.
I love ripgrep. It’s insanely fast. And very useful to my workflow.
Bitcoin Miners Finally Approve Taproot Proposal
Certainly a market for this sort of thing, but agree, dangerous privacy management.
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Yep, makes sense :-)
Show HN: I made a weightlifting app for 5/3/1
Hey y'all!

Around the same period last year, I quit my job at a FAANG company after being completely burnt out. For about 8 months, just thinking about software development was filling me with dread. I allowed myself to take some time off, got a dog and around February decided to try writing an app to bring to the gym to replace the spreadsheets I was using.

My main focus was to have fun while writing it. Pixels on screen rather than code quality. It was my first time in a while writing software for myself and it reminded me of why I got in this field in the first place.

I don't have grandiose goals for this app. I'm building an app for myself first and foremost. My personal goal is to make a $1000 so I'm not shooting particularly high, but the whole thing has been super fun and got me over my burn out. Reading the feedback from the testers I recruited at my gym has been extremely gratifying.

In any cases, if anybody is into weightlifting I encourage you to try my app and please send me feedback if you have any!
Fun trivia: vscode uses ripgrep for its search feature
That’s a poor argument. What about adults that take advantage of other adults?

Subprime? Insider trading? Organised crime?

They are all adults making decisions… why even have police? How much crime is committed by kids anyway?
I think they mean the word "Moderated" not in the colloquial sense of removing content, but in the sense that they're opinions are not as strongly right-wing as they once were.