skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DuckDB is awesome.. I played with it as a pandas replacement a while back, because I prefer SQL to pandas' arcane api. A few things were slower than they should be, but it's clearly getting better all the time, and now the basics are in place I'm looking forward to all sorts of crazy optimisation work.
Well done and thanks Duckdb team!
Well we are not finished with that sect of the NY subway because now we have workers rights. And a lot of industrial jobs are used to fund blue collar workers. If you want things built faster then use more AI and less humans and see how that turns out. Most blue collar workers I believe are conservative as well. It’s a bipartisan effort
I spent several years developing lockfree algorithms and very often CAS loops are the empirically fastest solution. But as often, you can perform as good or better with atomic increments. The devil is in the details of what sort of tasks you’re managing and on which specific hardware.
"The shoppers are already in the store, presumably to buy from their list. "

This isn't really how it works.

If it worked that way then lighting, music, display organization, cleanliness, shelf space, brand, packaging etc. 'would not matter'.

All of those things matter, immensely, at any real scale.

The kinds of comments I'm seeing here are a little bit uncomfortable in this regard, indicate a kind of lack of self-awareness as to consumer (i.e. our own) behaviours.

This is just one of any number of studies [1]

THE EFFECT OF SHELF DISPLAY ON PURCHASING DECISION

"The final results show that, even though the students know that they should act like rational buyers who choose products according to their intrinsic value, when describing how they act in real situations, they admit to behaving differently, in the sense that they are influenced in one way or another by marketing policies ..."

This is not revelatory or controversial, we've known this for a long time.

These 'fancy displays' have a very obvious advantage purely in terms of their clarity and impact, and of course the reduce pain of having to constantly tweak tags and pricing.

Distracting advertising and any kind of privacy invasion would be a drawback obviously. As would possibly the cost.

But this looks like a really obvious opportunity to test for retail.

My worry would be not so much any of the stated issues here, but that there would be a new kind of war for retail space and that brands would bid on the size of their placements on the screen, as opposed to their slot on the shelf. Just ugly and unnecessary operational overhead.

[1] https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
Taxes take a decent chunk out of it.
Reminds me what I felt like finishing college. Leaving behind all those people, never to be seen again. Last bluebook in the bin, reached the end of the pipeline, just a drip hanging from the lip about 30 feet above the open plain of life. NOW what? Started hanging out with non-college people. HEY, there IS life afterwards.

Life is much more than brain. It's also heart, and creating your story. (You don't want someone else doing that.) Finding friends means getting away from the keyboard, the books. IME, the fact that an algorithm found zero matches is kind of funny. Code doesn't know life exists. Often in life our bestest mates are -unlike us-. Usually smarter in other ways too.

Inspiration? Meh. If it comes, it comes. Whaddya got to prove? Life only has one deadline. Lots of people take a stretch before pressing on. Read about E.B. White yesterday. Bucky Fuller the day before that.

Travel. The world is HUGE. Wish I'd done more of that. You may find a culture you can relate to more. There are always people to know, everywhere - give them a chance. Seek and ye shall find.
Inshallah.
> Getting Things Done by David Allen

Agree. Despite being ubiquitous and universally recommended, I think this book is still somehow underrated.
Nothing about the lab leak theory requires that what leaked was engineered. Just mis-handling a field sample so that somebody in the lab catches and passes it on can be (and, possibly, was) wholly as bad as an engineered sample leaking.

Here, there are hints that the leak was of, explicitly, samples cultured from the 2013 clinical cases.
I enjoyed reading your story.

All the while I couldn't help but want to share how good pan-fried/toasted bread is. It's the butter of course, just generously butter up a pan, spread the bread so it soaks up the butter. Takes a little longer, but you also get to feel like a cook.

and no ads
As a long-time writer of networking based user-land code, I find reading the implementation of the socket API to be extremely helpful. There used to be a few "annotated source code" books that were giant but interesting, tho the last I read was from 2.4 I think or maybe early 2.6. But the general understanding of how it works is useful for using the APIs.
The author lists GLFW, stb_image, and ImGui as dependencies for their renderer written in C. Those are the same exact dependencies you would use to write a renderer in C++. Maybe you would add glm because you don't want write matrix math operations, but the author will have to do that in C anyway. I don't see how dependencies are an advantage for C.
No, clearing 2 random fields every time.

You probably won't notice that way ;)

Had a real website for a real store do that to me a few days ago.
Facebook doesn't really get a strong advantage in keeping keys to read your messages on its own servers. Intelligence services would benefit from this, so would fraudulent or corrupted employees. For Facebook, storing keys to your message is more a burden, if anything.

Facebook derives valuable data about you through WhatsApp in three channels:

- analyzing the content of your discussions before they get encrypted and sent,

- the app acts like a Trojan horse into you smartphone. It collects data such as your device model, geolocation, contacts, text messages with all activation/verification texts from third parties, the list of apps you installed, when you wake up or go to bed, when you sleep or do other things in bed (thank you gyroscopic sensors), etc.

- Through the correlation of real-time data collected from other smartphones, Facebook also acquires who you met, spend time with, where and when.

As you can see, you don't get end to end encryption for philanthropic reasons but because that's simply not where the money is and that's what gullible customers ask for.

end to end encryption is like when you get offered tap water at the restaurant: for many customers, it provides then with a feeling of self satisfaction.

But it doesn't improve the quality of the food at all...

Hope I brought some light in the topic :)
And if one does not believe in god, one can indeed still marvel at the spectacular creation that is this universe and beautiful planet that we live on, and count ourselves lucky and blessed that we have a chance to live on it—- and are likely (if we are here posting on HN) in a more beneficial position/circumstance than many others on it...
I think this exact thinking has perverted the idea of business and has steadily been eroding consumer trust in small business and their offerings.
> a complete failure in life

Best of luck and hang on! So many times I've felt like "a complete failure in life", (and who knows, maybe I am!), but I keep trying!

I've lost a few friends to suicide and can tell you they all had so much potential, and they all put too much emphasis on their failures and didn't have a realistic idea of how much they made the world a better place—even when they were "failing"—because they were trying something new and making mistakes and exploring some of the design space of our universe. If you are feeling so down, I bet you have taken chances in life that didn't pan out, and I thank you, because we need people like you to push the world in new directions. Don't feel bad about any shortcomings you've had. Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. Sometimes you just need to hang on, let your body and mind catch it's breadth, and you will come back better than ever.

> words of wisdom

After 37 years, I don't think anyone knows anything about anything.

Figuring out what you want is a process and takes time (https://breckyunits.com/what-i-want.html).

I'm a big believer in wearables. Things like FitBits and Levels CGM. So much of our mental moods are tied to what is going on in our bodies. The best psychiatrists in the world will be replaced by $200 of wearables within 20 years.

My life didn't start until I was 34.

The only regrets I have in life were the times I wasn't kind. (Note: by kind I don't mean nice—I've found being part asshole/competitive on the field to be important to do good work).

> "normal"

I've never found trying to be normal to be a stable place for me. You might find that what is important to you is not important to 99.9% of people. So you may need to meet a lot of people before you build up a big enough tribe. Finding constructive subreddits for my interests was helpful for me.

The world needs you! You sound like the type whose big wins will be in the long term!
There are "issues" with irrational behaviour within the LGBT community [1] online and offline,[2] just as there are such issues with any other community or group of individuals, including e.g. HackerNews. That said, I'm feeling that your comment is implying something rather specific and I'm not sure what it is, so I think it would enhance the quality of the discussion if you made some claims that were slightly less vague and therefore more amenable for debate.

That said, you'll find more LGBT people "online" on dating/hookup apps (or even just on Instagram) than on Twitter, Tumblr and co.

[1] The term is always a bit difficult, as obviously, LGBT people are not a monolithic bloc (and I think that, in particular, gay, lesbian, bi, inter and trans, each differ significantly from each other in terms not only of their challenges but also of their daily lives, interaction patterns, etc.). The term "LGBT community" also often fails to specify whether we're talking about political activists which are a very small subset of the "wider" community. It is true that LGBT people face similar challenges and have shared experiences that may lead them to share certain viewpoints, and it is true that there are certain venues and safe spots that many (though not all) LGBT people will frequent occasionally (some very often, others more rarely); also, just very naturally, LGBT members often interact e.g. through dating and friendship patterns. So I don't want to say that the term "LGBT community" is wrong or doesn't mean anything, as there is certainly something binding all these experiences together however loosely, but the term is certainly fraught with complications when used so broadly.

[2] Though which ones these are often differ between the different "sub-communities". E.g. the average attitude towards high-risk sex behaviour is definitely not the same for gay men as for lesbian women.
Online, you might have better luck meeting people on Discord servers relevant to your interests, or on tagmap. Also HelloTalk if you are learning a language or teaching one. Twitter can sometimes be fruitful too (but slow going at first) if you find the right follows and don't treat it as a combat zone. Good search queries can be helpful to bootstrap. Unfollow, mute, and block liberally.
This reminds me of Cory Doctorow's story "Radicalized." https://craphound.com/category/radicalized-full/
It makes me want to redouble my efforts to purchase a house since I don't see the frenzy relaxing any time soon.
I turned my loser life around at 27. I actually had spent years trying to optimize it, seeking success and happiness, but I was stuck.

What was the big move? Little did I know it back then, but the solution has many parallels with non-convex optimization: I got the heck out of the local minimum I was stuck in life - moved continents, changed careers, changed the people in my life, changed the culture around me.

Concretely, I went to grad school abroad and settled there. It took adjusting and lots of work, but I now make multiples of my previous salary, dated beautiful women I never would have in my local culture and had a choice of awesome people to become my close friends.

You might be stuck in a local minimum too - starting anew can be good for you if you manage to do it. Maybe you won't even need to go to a new continent, but the lesson is, make big changes!
Interesting. I like this idea. Seems like it would be a very peaceful activity/thing.
> "normal", "well-rounded" people in my age are doing on Tinder

Everyone is different and I think you should focus on what makes you happy rather than comparing yourself with random stranger on tinder.

Personally, if I were you, I'd join a meetup and try to meet other people sharing my interests. It's also a great way to meet a partner (through friends of friends).
This is one of the best feature sets, and I waited for over two years; ever since WhatsApp had got it. I find that stance of the community strange here - no "e2ee". Privacy is important, but your chat history hardly reflects that. There are other ways to get your history or track your digital trails.

200,000 users for group chat. Unlimited users for voice chat (like clubhouse).
30 users for group video calling. That limit will be increased later.
Flawless sync across platforms.
Secret chats - the e2ee chats self-destruct between users and stay on the device where it has been initiated.
Robust third party clients-that add more functionality to the official app. (I use Utyagram; Plus is another popular mod, but is closed source).
Unlimited users for channels - that work as broadcast lists.
The lists goes on and on.
I would bring a phone in that case. I would bring a phone in any case.
Doesn't the field of psychology have pretty serious issues with the replicability of their experimental results?
A lot. One important thing is, that it is possible to focus and work for 10-12 hours per day. Before I bought the "only 4 hours of productive work per day are possible for avg human". Not true. Hard to achieve though. You really have to have good self discipline to do it on your own.
Fair point although worst case is you wait longer
If I can be perfectly honest, you seem to have no concept of what suffering actually is. It’s likely that near you there are people living in tents covered in their own filth suffering from physical and psychological torture because of how fundamentally incompetent we all are at resolving basic structural problems in our society. Things can always get worse, count your blessings.
Interesting - I can't enter "<<" in the title.
You fell into the trap most nerds do -- you focused only on intellectual interests, and neglected other aspects of life.

The good news is that you're very young, and have so much time ahead of you still. You just have to have to from now on go all in into making yourself a better, more interesting person to other people, so you can make some friends, get laid and all the rest.

Go to the gym, get a nice body. Practice some sports. Read non-technical books. Get a dog, take it to the park. Go to a club, hit on some chicks, hear a lot of no's. Make some friends, develop some social skills. Learn to dress well, shower daily, get a nice haircut, invest in beauty products. Travel, even if alone. Make some money.

Forget what you can't change about yourself and focus on what you can. Just my two cents.
You forgot the part where it refuses to toast your unlicensed bread.
I feel the same. Not a bad idea, but really just a blog post stretched out.

My takeaway was that I wasn’t crazy for only answering email every few hours and helped quell the anxiety that people “needed” my response.
>>Should have been forked into a version with only *.edu allowed.

That's what the Internet/NSFNET and Gopher were until the mid-90s
> Tesla has these "strange" and extremely unique exemptions from both.

I'm curious why. I've heard that they're exempt from reporting reliability because of some legislative tie-in to emissions reporting. Is it similar to that?
The report did nothing to change my views on aliens. There are some events that we have very little information on, and so we can not explain, and so the answers could be anything and therefor imply nothing.

The reports are also consistent with angels - angels fly around, have capabilities beyond our technological understanding, and so on.

Your argument is fallacious because it's based on cherry picked, weak accounts that are inherently low-information, and said "it fits the theory".

I believe that 'aliens' exist. It just seems statistically likely, given the size of the universe. But I don't believe that there's other space-fairing life in our solar system, and the nearest celestial bodies are insanely far away. Trying to guess at what that sort of life would be like, how it would behave, or what evidence to expect, is again pointless - we have no information, it's totally baseless guessing.

The entire thing is nonsense. A theory that is based on a complete lack of information and evidence that itself lacks information.

Not compelling.

Personally, I think it's a combination of various perfectly terrestrial events:

1. People lying for attention (the vast majority)

2. Unmanned foreign vehicles that are actually spying on us

3. Equipment or natural aberration (weather events, smudges on lenses, equipment malfunction, lens glares, etc)

Note that unlike the alien theories...

The evidence for (1) and (3) is factual - repeatedly we have found this to be the case. (2) is the most fanciful, but requires far less of a leap of faith and fits within a context that we know does exist ie: technology we know publicly is under pursuit.

(1) Has been repeatedly the case

(2) Doesn't involve any insane advances in technology to explain some of these events, and we can understand the motivations as our own

(3) We know happens as well, as we have with (1)
It is excellent, and you can use it well without reading anything (assuming you know git, and I know emacs so maybe that too, although it has the pleasant property of listing a lot of keyboard commands in the UI).
How I recovered a Bitcoin passphrase
I have seen many examples of KPI’s not working as intended. Do you have any real world examples of KPI’s that actually worked in practice (and not just in the make-believe heads of managers)?
That's only true if all externalities are priced in.
I can relate. I was learning 3d modeling and animation software at the time, on a lowly P120, and it'd take all night to render even the shortest low resolution clips. Meanwhile I'd read trade magazine stories about what the Alphas could do with the same software, dreaming of maybe one day getting to work on a machine like that.
It’s fiction like this that makes me less afraid of a reduced life span.
https://www.cracked.com/blog/6-harsh-truths-that-will-make-y...
There are so many books that have given me an unfair advantage. I could easily list a dozen but the question asks for one.

I'd say we live in an age of overinformation. There are books that give you an edge, like Never Split the Difference, and then everyone reads it, and then everyone reads the summary of it, then everyone criticizes the summary (which the original book itself has addressed), then everyone reads the criticism and concludes that the book is bad.

You can ask people what a startup is, or what a MVP is, or TDD, and I assure you most would not have the original definitions or purposes from the books. A lot of people think TDD is 100% test coverage or that a startup is a business, but these are all wrong by definition.
There are funds of micro-cap stocks; I'm not sure if any have been really successful, but that's not quite the same thing as penny stocks, even though there is overlap.
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is walking a difficult path.”
> Seeing in the profile pictures what "normal", "well-rounded" people in my age are doing on Tinder, such as traveling, spending time with friends, etc., made my pain even worse, let alone the fact that I received zero matches. Feeling like a social outcast, and having an even stronger urge now in taking my own life - a decision I contemplated many times - ... I just feel very lost in life. I know that I'm a complete failure in life.

Who cares about what the average person on Tinder is up to? Nobody has actually outcasted you, but you may feel different from others because you are - learn to be proud of thinking different and being an outlier. You are not lost, probably bored. There's no such thing as failing life because there is no test. Keep programming and doing what you love. Keep playing the numbers game of Tinder, maybe you will get matched soon with someone who will enjoy listening to you talk about your passion. No matter what you do, don't give up. If you were ready to take your life, why not instead do something bold, spontaneous, exciting? Enjoy the life given to you.
The merced / itanic hype contributed greatly to killing off most of the vibrant bazaar of 90s RISC architectures . Eg, Alpha, PA-RISC, SGI mips64. Sun's Sparc and IBM's power were the few high-end RISC chips to survive the itanic hype.

As a huge alpha fan (user since 1992, helped/maintained the FreeBSD/alpha port, etc), I was so happy when AMD's amd64 beat itanic in the market, and when Intel finally killed the itanic I was ecstatic.
Tried reading through the page. No idea why it exists or what it even does. Why would anyone use this?
> I tend to work in Python not Scala

Fair enough. I’m more comfortable in Scala than Python. Have you tried using a local Jupyter notebook? That would seem to tick all the boxes.
https://jupyter.org/install
What you're experiencing is normal. The good thing about getting older is that you often relax into this stuff a lot more, when it's not so new anymore. Life is long, not always fun, and very rarely clear. Seek out and be around people older than you, even if it's in silence. Oh yeah, and try to study up on meditation- figure out what it really means to you, then do that.
I took a good look at the term as used in many companies, and it seems that your definition is more accurate than mine.
I suppose we could also argue that the modern human lives in a highly artificial environment where most daily struggles are social constructs. I haven’t read the book either though, but it seems really interesting.
The people who knew about it and didn't engage with renovations

They knew about it and let it happen so insurance can help them with financial support

The result of the investigation will be: "natural cause"

> Having an ideological axe to grind like this one is a major risk to your intellectual integrity. It can blind you to reality, or worse, it can make it so you don't actually care what is real anymore.

Yup yup, i am so blind that i don't even have to work anymore, i abused this civilization and made insane profits, i no longer have to worry about needing money anymore

Yup yup, i am blind, i don't care waht is real anymore

Yup yup, enjoying my life as a king in thailand
> We spend 16% of our GDP on health care, double as a percentage vs any other country

Saying something is double when it is not really undermines your comment[1]. Note this is GDP, so much of that spending is not controlled by your government. Use real facts.

> and have worse outcomes.

I am guessing the US has worse outcomes for the poor, but I am guessing that for the top ~40% of wealth the American health system gets good results (but just very fuckling expensively?)

Certainly the US health system is broken on average, but I can say the NZ health system has its failures, although it is more equitable for the less wealthy. For example, we eliminated COVID which depended on our people and government working well, but although we are a wealthy country we have ~1% vaccinated...

[1] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.CHEX.GD.ZS?most_...
I didn't get to travel internationally until I was like 26.don't worry about what other people are doing and when