skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now lets talk about real problems.

I believe in God and I love to read the Bible. I was reading paper Bible. Then switched to digital Bible. Using a Bible app from YouVersion I found a few places with textual errors, where even entire pieces of text were lost , I was aware about the app, afraid to use it anymore. I submitted textual errors to their support, but no fixes. And even was working at their support for a year or so, and saw how they are unable to fix those errors just because of being bound to publishers. The publishers don't respond for years so that the text errors are remaining till now and nobody took responsibility to fix them to provide clean God's Word to people. But they aren't even fixing translations from public domain!!!

Here is another nuance. On their home page, they claim so many times that their app is free. And guess how many tracking scripts they are using across their app? At least four scripts from different companies! What are they doing with all your data? Probably they share it with their "partners" to improve the app UI. Sure!

Similar situation exist with many other Bible apps. Tracking, shameless pervert ads during your reading. And they spare to spend their time to make their apps better! Closed source. Tracking. Ads. No synchronization. No cross-platform availability. Bad UI. Here I have many reasons to write my own app.

And I am making https://bolls.life. Cross-platform, no tracking, truly free, open sourced, no ads, I even provide some APIs for you guys! I try all my best to provide Bible translations in perfect quality. This is a second year sines I am making it. Hundreds of peoples around the world are already using it daily and appreciate it. I can freely say that I am proud of this software! So many efforts was spent just to be able to daily read the Bible in a clean UI. I hope you guys will enjoy it. Have a nice time )
Nope, but I've used PlantUML for sequence diagrams before. I'd like to focus more on software architecture diagrams where layouts are less structured, more variable. I'd also like to focus on sleek presentation-ready UI (although I realize I have a long way to go there).
The article states that an individual purposefully chose the topic of conflict to engineer the broadest applicable negative reaction from the public.
I think article conflate a lot of complex variables to come to conclusion that it wishes to draw.

It is not just dumb hard work that was regarded as American virtue. In fact Americans are quick to embrace technology to reduce workload, Americans rarely suffer from the luddite attitudes which are pretty common elsewhere in the world. As an immigrant, I think American virtues is about working hard for what you want rather than expecting someone else to do it for you. That notion of hard work is what American society values a lot even today. It is not just dumb work.

I come from India where people think Farmers are hard workers because they work in hot sun where as Tech workers are lazy because they spend all their time in AC offices. I do not see such attitudes in USA at all.

> a recent study found that Americans work 25 percent more hours than Europeans

That also leads to significantly more per capita income for Americans and far better quality of life and not that this is voluntary. Unlike Europe where jobs are mostly "protected" by tighter labour laws, exiting a job is much harder and getting a new job is even harder. USA does not suffer from such problems. I know plenty of people who simply quit their jobs and spend their time doing nothing for few months before getting a new job. No study would put this as "vacation" but in reality has same effect as vacation.

> that U.S. workers tend to take fewer vacation days and retire later in life

This is voluntary too.

> simply working hard doesn’t actually lead to a better life.

This is purely arbitrary conclusion that does not follow automatically from studies that are at best anecdotally.

> I’d argue quite strongly that working more hours, taking less vacation, and retiring later is the definition of a worse life.

May be but this is very very subjective decision and we can not make such conclusions on behalf of other people.
Preamble: I like Python - it seems to fit my mental models well, and I'm productive writing in it. However, only just recently I tried to develop a more-than-trivial program to deploy as an executable for my Windows-using friends. This may sound naive, but I'd never thought about how hard it is, especially when mostly everything else in Python is well-tooled, well-documented, and works. If you check my post history you'll see I've been following this subject lately... in the hopes I won't have to re-write my stuff in C# or something. I got it done, but am thoroughly underwhelmed by the experience and the resulting size of the executable (due to cascading dependencies that I'd really rather not pick apart).

So here's the question - what's your take on how to package a Python program as an executable (wherein package does not mean Python package, but generate a click-and-run Windows executable)? Anything on that in the book? I can't tell from the 'Contents' list, but it seems not, right?

Congrats on the book. I'll take some time to go over the Extracts (and thanks for those, too!)
> Unless I miss something, this looks like a solution to nonexistent problem?

The generalizable answer to this is that almost always if some group of people has spent a good chunk of effort but you don't "get it", you have missed something.

The less you know about the domain, the larger and more diverse the group and the bigger the effort, the more likely this is to be true.

Of course there are exceptions, but they are rare.
> Terminals aren’t using more resources, they are just going slow

"Going slow* is using resources. Clock cycles are a resource.

> No doubt theres bloat around, but I think you don’t understand web browser allocation strategies.

Using a web rendering engine to render a text editor is still bloated and inefficient. It doesn't matter if web browsers are intrinsically expensive - building a text editor using webtech is the incorrect design decision.

> You also lack justification for calling memory use idiocy if you aren’t running out of memory.

It should be obvious that the people here aren't complaining about applications that take a trivial amount of memory. In 2021, nobody cares about a text editor that consumes 8 MB of memory. People are complaining about applications that do take up a significant amount of memory and cause you to run out.

Mozilla's Firefox hardware report[1] says that just under 25% of Firefox users have only 4 GB of installed RAM. If running on Windows, probably half of that is consumed by the operating system. Suddenly, a 400 MB Electron app is consuming a full fifth of your available memory. That's a real problem, especially for folks that either (1) don't have much money and can't afford a newer machine or (2) want to try to conserve the environment by not spuriously buying new hardware when the old stuff should work.

> As long as there is free memory in the system, it’s fair game, and does not represent inefficiency.

Maybe by your definition of "inefficiency". Most of the people in this thread are (apparently) using it to mean "using significantly more resources to provide functionality than are intrinsically necessary". This is a much more reasonable definition given that you don't actually know how many resources the user has.

[1] https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/hardware
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Trying to live up the Django docs is a big challenge given that Django was started by folks at a big newspaper. I think clear documentation is a core value to that project.

I agree that the automatic Hex docs are often a little sparse - they often just document the library API and don't give examples.

If you are trying to port websocket code to Elixir/Phoenix I'd recommend the "Real-Time Phoenix" book (
https://pragprog.com/titles/sbsockets/real-time-phoenix/). It has some hard won knowledge in it (I don't know the author, I just enjoyed the book).
Hey! I actually launched a platform for paid accountability groups at https://www.dip.chat/

There might be an opportunity to collaborate and run one cohort on our platform as well. Happy to chat further if there's any interest!
It's analogous to the government declaring it is ok to steal from a supermarket. The free market relies on the government protecting property rights. When there is a significant risk that the government is not going to protect property rights, and even legalize outright theft, the end result is commonplace in such countries:

Businesses refuse to invest in those countries, and they have poor economies that people try to escape from and move to the US.
You want to err on the side of letting proprietary closed-source code bases (think "electronic health record" systems) adopt the reference implementation, even if they don't give back.

Otherwise the proprietary folks will come up with a competing implementation that meets their non-technical (licensing) requirements.
> One of the risks you take on is that the rental market changes and you can't get as much money for your property as you planned on

Yes, but you don't expect to be forced to house people for free for over a year.
What then if Iran does the same to CNN for example and the us is up in arms for "democracy" and "press freedom"?
Agreed. Whistle-blowers are a needed if we want to be able to correct the course of our society.
This may hurt the UK economy, but it also illustrates a reason for the UK to leave. How much British TV and film is watched should not be decided by governments.
The real threat to the world, still better than bombing or invading without motive

Only US jurisdiction domains, it was still accessible in others like

https://www.presstv.ir/

Which begs the question what was US reason or objective besides looking like a bully
How funny, there's a second video with an argument that I like to make as a joke/thought experiment: https://twitter.com/spinte8/status/1407263430030020610

What I usually says is something like this: if we're all equal no matter our physical differences, shouldn't we aim to have the smallest population possible? We would consume less food for the same output.
ARM is making headwinds into server as well now.
Let's assume I'm willing to spend the dollar more on storage for both options.

I can either store one copy of a RAW, or I can store an unholy ball of parity that's exactly the same size.

The unholy ball of parity can lose up to 90% of the data and still be completely recovered, giving you a very high quality image, but if you lose more than 90% you get nothing.

A RAW image degrades more and more as you lose data, and if you lose 90% it's going to be useless anyway.

I'll definitely pick the compression+parity option.
It beat Mercurial (which has the same properties) because of social network effect. All tooling has a social network effect.
Is that project posted anywhere? Or is there a way to follow its development?
It depends what you are measuring. It looks like the rough distribution is robust across seniority strata, hinting at the sample size probably being adequate.
"Everything is great" makes a pretty boring story, though.
Please, try playing your harmonic ideas with real sounds.

Here's some things to try:

- How bad or good do two synthesized violins sound together at 800 and 900 hertz? Think about them as overtones: Does adding a tone at 100 hertz resolve the sound? Think of them as undertones: Does adding a new tone at 7200 hertz resolve that sound?

- Does the instrument change the harmony? What happens to harmony when the instrument is a clarinet? What happens to harmony when the instrument is a sine wave? What happens to harmony when the instrument is a tuned tympani?

- Try to play together the overtone series, for example, 1000 hz, 2000 hz, 3000 hz, ... How does that sound?

- Try to play together the undertone series, for example, 2520 hz, 1260 hz, 840 hz, 630 hz, 504 hz, ... How does that sound?
Most people work a bit, then slack a bit, or just pace themselves at a constant sustainable rate. You're doing fine.

What you don't want to find yourself in was my system administration job. At first there was plenty to do, my manager had me keep a log, so if a problem re-arose I could solve it more quickly. I did that, and things were good. After a few years, I'd done such a good job that I had a lot of slack time. There were some changes I wanted to make to the database, so I built a prototype of a new system that would have made things a lot better for everyone, and the production manager wouldn't even TRY it. I did this three different times before I finally gave up.

For the last few years, I showed up, jumped on any problem that arose, and waiting for quitting time, all the while knowing that I wasn't really delivering much value (other than absorbing uncertainty as far as the computers were concerned). Eventually economics caught up, and they outsourced the job.

You've got a steady flow of work... you'll be fine.
> it's hard to imagine a writer who writes more for himself than DFW

I don't think this is entirely true. He understands his job, as he'll admit in the middle of some essays.

Consider one of his more famous essays, "Consider the Lobster":

At one point:

> I should add that it appears to me unlikely that many readers of Gourmet wish to think about it, either, or to be
queried about the morality of their eating habits in the pages of a culinary monthly. Since, however, the assigned subject of this article is what it was like to attend the 2003 MLF, and thus to spend several days in the midst of a great mass of Americans all eating lobster, and thus to be more or less impelled to think hard about lobster and the experience of buying and eating lobster, it turns out that there is no honest way to avoid certain moral questions.

And later on:

> For those Gourmet readers who enjoy well-prepared and -presented meals involving beef, veal, lamb, pork,chicken, lobster, etc.: Do you think much about the (possible)moral status and (probable) suffering of the animals involved?

He's very specifically targeting the reader.

I think the common charge against Wallace is that he is very smart, which is fine, but he is so _obviously_ intelligent; so neurotically intelligent that he couldn't leave any stones unturned or examined. And that's inexcusable, since obviously anyone who writes as such must be fully up their own ass. His struggles with mental health and self-worth push back on that analysis.

Most importantly, I think, is that his job is to be those things. Anyone hiring Wallace _is_ paying for that work. He is entirely himself and delivers on that product. His disappointment in this autobiography is that it fails to deliver.
Disagreed. We don’t need whistle blowers, we need radical transparency in our institutions of government.
I'm really just asking for those who search up "criminal" content, as I remember Google being asked to give up the IP addresses of those who searched under a term in a specific region at a specific time -- but that still meant thousands of addresses.

But I think your case is also worth adding to the conversation, although I don't believe removing results collides with privacy.
All of that is true. I have preexisting conditions; relying on my employer for insurance was a bit of a mess. Some jobs would have insurance that the best plan would cost maybe 8k more out of pocket in a year (compared to the previous employer). Maybe the FSA was really bad/they would not reimburse things they should/force you to appeal 3 times for every transaction (Imagine spending 5 hours a month fighting with the FSA program about giving you your own money).

Getting a contract is stressful, but I've found job security is basically non existent anyway, so if I couldn't find b2b work I could always take traditional w2 or 1099 work.

When I switched I was expecting more stress, and less stability. A few years in though, I feel better than I did in fte roles. It might not be for everyone, but it's worked for me so far.
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> And there’s lots of evidence to suggest that workers buy into the belief

it would be cool if people writing these pieces had a background in dialectical materialism. maybe people don't buy into the belief but are coerced into working more hours to *checks notes* not die?
But I do find proof based thinking helps with writing algorithms from scratch and programming.

How to get from a to b, solving sub problems, logical leaps involved all helps with the reasoning used for creating algorithms from scratch. That is often what you end up interviewed for these days.

The thought behind proof by induction and solving problems with recursion are pretty close.
> America on the other hand keeps purporting this outdated myth of scary Russia despite Russia barely even being a threat anymore so that it can keep members of NATO as effectively vassal states.

In light of your comment, how do you describe Russia's attack on Georgia and Ukraine, as well as it's threats directed at not only Baltic countries but also Poland?
Ideally, Spark Bible would help overcome the embattlement that divides Christians by providing education that's more academic and explores differing viewpoints. But, I know that is probably over-idealistic thinking.

One idea I have is to build an ML model that could be used to personalize what content is presented to a given user. It should be pretty trivial to build & train.
to be fair many of the tasks of machine learning are things children do like telling if something is a dog, coloring in a a picture, solving a maze, etc.
Religion is only really growing in poor countries where religion is often the only option for a lot of services.

It seems like when you give people education, wealth, and other opportunities, they don't go back to religion.

It's declining reasonably quickly in rich countries like Europe and the United States. Also, note that your article is outdated, the decline of religion in the US has accelerated quite a bit since 2015.

From your article:

> Europe is the only region where the total population is projected to decline. Europe’s Christian population is expected to shrink by about 100 million people in the coming decades, dropping from 553 million to 454 million. While Christians will remain the largest religious group in Europe, they are projected to drop from three-quarters of the population to less than two-thirds. By 2050, nearly a quarter of Europeans (23%) are expected to have no religious affiliation, and Muslims will make up about 10% of the region’s population, up from 5.9% in 2010. Over the same period, the number of Hindus in Europe is expected to roughly double, from a little under 1.4 million (0.2% of Europe’s population) to nearly 2.7 million (o.4%), mainly as a result of immigration. Buddhists appear headed for similarly rapid growth in Europe – a projected rise from 1.4 million to 2.5 million.

> Christians are projected to decline from 78% of the U.S. population in 2010 to 66% in 2050, while the unaffiliated are expected to rise from 16% to 26%.
All progress was 'wasteful' at some point, but all 'progress' is wasteful. And yes, bitcoin is 'progress'.

I suppose Bitcoin is better than gold. Unfortunately, for BTC, we already have much more advanced financial technology.
You aren't accounting for purchasing power. In most countries, medicine costs half as much (or less), education is much cheaper, and the cost of food and housing is much lower.
If you had read the article you would have been informed that this publication is one in a long line of similar ones going back as far as 1920 who all came to similar numbers.

You are right, if there was only this one paper it would be entirely unremarkable and informing the general public would be wrong. But that is not the case because the article fortunately does not limit itself to pointing to just that publication.
I actually hope more teachers go for the simple overhead option. I do, using an overhead webcam.

A physical overhead with the instructor's hand visible has been shown to work far better than presenting ready-made diagrams. It also works better than digital drawing, probably due to the natural inclusion of pointing gestures guiding students' attention [1].

There is also evidence (and good theoretical reasons to believe) that a transparent lightboard leads to unnecessary distraction/split attention. [2]

[1]: https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000065

[2]: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2018.07.019
Non-Apple link

https://www.modern.finance/brave-browser/
The first is correct (though in practice the system is chaotic enough that we can only get close to that point). However is that really what we want? Maximum growth is good for some things, but some of us will trade less growth for something else - either "more for me" (less taxes), or a "more services from everyone" (more taxes). I put both of the above in quotes because there is no way to capture all the subtitles of the complex trade offs involved here, and I hope you don't try to fight the strawmen I setup in my attempts.

There is no agreement on what is good. Which is why politics is so complex.
Five year olds don't have panic attacks. They have tantrums.
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Isn’t it a reference to the “Attention is All You Need” machine learning paper?

https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762
My dad explained it to me like this when I was a kid. I ignored it for a long time, but it definitely stuck in the back of my head. I asked him if we wanted to get a promotion or be a manager but he said he thought his role as a documents library was fine.

"Do you know the Peter Principle? It's the idea that you get promoted when you do good work, but at some point, you'll be promoted to a level you're not competent to do, and get stuck there, or fired." He then expanded: "In this case, I perceive that the additional responsibilities and stress associated with a higher level position or management would make me unhappy, and I don't truly need the extra money."

For nearly my entire career I have pursued advancement with the utmost drive. Originally that was going to be grad school->postdoc->professor at major research university->make amazing discovery but at some point I realized that I was only ever going to be a professor as a minor reesarch university (and spend hundred+ hours a week treading water) and switched to the postdoc->software engineer->tech lead path. It wasn't until I did the Tech Lead role, got promoted to L6 and started to think about being a manager or getting to L7 (or getting Exceeds at L6) that I started to realize the truth of what my dad was saying. I've reached a level I'm perfecetly comfortable at, and could stay here until retirement. I was mainly chasing the advancement for ego and money reasons.
> The general answer to this is that almost always if some group of people has spent a good chunk of effort but you don't "get it", you have missed something.

Sure, but that doesn't mean that the group of people has cogently explained their work for their target audience. In this case, the target audience would be developers, whom it seems from the comments are confused.
The ceo of strike said they are continually promoting that banks and businesses in the El Salvador operate their own lightning network nodes & not to solely rely on them. Only the government’s official (but optional) app will be a wrapper around strike.
* zero-cost abstractions

* move semantics

* guaranteed memory safety

* threads without data races

* trait-based generics

* pattern matching

* type inference

* minimal runtime

* efficient C bindings
I'm trying not to come off as argumentative so please don't see this as disagreement only curiosity.

My naive hypothesis would be that people tend more agnostic as they get older, not more atheistic. Is that a trend you've noticed?