skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's definitely different levels of poverty. Rural American poverty is different from urban American poverty, there's different problems. We didn't have pest problems, but one of the houses we lived in had severe mold that caused health problems (so we had to move). We didn't have gun violence or drugs, but we chopped and burned wood from the area to heat our house through the cold winters because we couldn't afford fuel. We didn't go hungry, but only because we got heavily subsidized or free lunches from the school. We had our electricity shut off on several occasions. I was lucky in the sense that we lived within the territory of a decent school district, so I was able to dig a computer out of the school dumpster that only had a failed hard drive, which I fixed and used to teach myself programming (by this point, we could at least afford internet service). It wasn't consistently like that, and not as bad as what you described, but it was absolutely still poverty.
One of the nice things about being at a restaurant is that you get to be away from your digital bullshit and be around other humans who are also not focused on digital bullshit.
CTRL+F for Privacy & Security. No mention?
Could you link this video? My experience has been that electric vehicles are significantly quieter than ice vehicles.

Edit: Are you referring to this video? He mentions electric cars being too quiet at low speeds and reasonably noisy at high speeds. I would imagine that speeds inside a city should be low, no?
According to him if your partner divorces you it is always a bad decision of yours. If people betrays you it is a bad decision if you get sick it is a bad decision, if you live in Haiti earning 300 USD/month it is fine because COL is lower. Living in hindsight-land, but it is OK since he grew up in "poverty". Totally absent of any sense of perspective of what a normal human life consists of, typical of an upper-middle class able, white, male in IT.
The things I remember thinking that had the biggest wow factor were the messaging app and maps.

I thought that finally normal people would be able to text and do it at some length with relative ease.

And the cohesiveness of searching for a restaurant, tapping the place icon, and calling the place to check hours or to make a reservation was just mind blowing.
I am really surprised all these bay insitutitions are still signining their employees up for classes like this, and that the classes are explicitly disfavoring jewish identify relative to other identities in the US. However, it seems like as more people become aware of this, the more pushback there is against these classes, so I'm hopeful the organizers will see the light and stop setting up conflict.
And still Windows is a mess.
If it's reducing keystrokes. Eventually it might reduce the problem down to no input needed at all.

In that case? Are those who don't control the AI needed? What about when those optimizations can be made by the AI itself also?
It’s just not written for you. There’s a small percentage of people with whom this attitude resonates. This essay is advice on how to harness these personal tendencies in an effective manner, so it’s natural that it seems foreign to you if you don’t have this deep seated need to not be idle.
It is very disappointing that a discussion regarding YT censorship of good science can be taken down this easily on HN.
Yes, but isn't the real 'cure' in modifying our diets so it doesn't happen in the first place? At this point, tax and put warnings on sugar and carb-rich foods. Use the revenue to subsidize healthier foods to offset the regressive effect of a sugar/carb tax. I know about food deserts and fresh food availability, but the real way to fix this issue is upstream from already having diabetes.
Out of curiosity, does anybody know why they didn't build upon an existing open-source search engine like YaCy? Is the YaCy codebase bad? Did/Does it not do what they wanted? Did they not know about it?

Startpage, Duckduckgo, Qwant, and a few others decided to write their own stuff around Bing instead of further or fork an existing OSS project. Why?

https://yacy.net/
Dutch court convicts woman for spreading IS propaganda
There's a "restaurant" near me that has app-only ordering (ios/android). There is no on-site kiosk either. It's one of those "dark kitchen" things (I guess) with no wait-staff. I don't get it, but I guess I'm too old to understand.
Yeah I bought puts in Sears 10 years ago after reading about Lampert (the CEO). I was roughly 8 years early.

A company/idea/market can remain irrational a lot longer than you can remain solvent.

With shorting stock, and even worse with long options, not only do you have to have the right premise, but also the right timing.
I am blown away but not scared for my job... yet. I suspect the AI is only as good as the training examples from Github. If so, then this AI will never generate novel algorithms. The AI is simply performing some really amazing pattern matching to suggest code based on other pieces of code.

But over the coming decades AI could dominate coding. I now believe in my lifetime it will be possible for an AI to win almost all coding competitions!
I'd love to, but...

All my friends are like this too.

Time off from work is no fun when all your friends have glued themselves to a monitor. It's impossible to even convince my most sun-loving friends with secure jobs to take a beach day.

I don't find meaning in traveling alone so... drown myself in work it is.
It usually suggests blocks within a function / method in my experience. Here's an example I created just now:

https://gist.github.com/berndverst/1db9bae37f3c809e5c3f56262...
It's not about YOLO, it's about looking at your life though a lens besides "work,work,work,save,save,save"

When I was 25 I had the time and the money to take a couple of weeks off and travel. I wouldn't have stayed in the nicest hotels or eaten in fancy restaurants, but I could have done it. It would have had no negative impact on my career and my current financial status.

What kept me from doing it wasn't a careful look at my life goals and the cost/benefits ratio, but a mental model that stopped at "Work hard now and you'll be rewarded I promise"

I didn't see any accounting for that in PG's essay. "Great Men Work Hard And Succeed" is the only message I got.
Why?

I mean, we have all sorts of ways to generate heat and light already. So what special quality do you perceive sonoluminescence potentially having at a large scale?
I don't know about Scala, but List vs NonEmptyList is a huge problem in Haskell since head [] -> throws an error. There was an article on HN a week or so ago about how to deal with this in a type system where it ultimately felt like they were reinventing nil punning.
As for the individual products and stores, This was a bit complicated, each dropshipping platform had some different criteria, so we created different algorithms to configure where each product came from.
I'm also a fan of Cliff and other Rice alumni; here are a few of his videos that I like.

[0] The Sea of Nodes and the HotSpot JIT

[1] A JVM Does That?

[2] A Crash Course in Modern Hardware

[3] Bits of Advice for the VM Writer

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9epgZ-e6DUU

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vizTDSz8NU

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFgxAFdxYAQ

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqw57GJSrac
> The irony is that Svelte compiles code that will then run on a JIT under a JavaScript engine. That’s strictly overhead.

Modern software commonly goes through multiple transformation (compilation stages) and it's increasingly common for some of them to be AOT, and some to be JIT, and neither AOT or JIT is overhead, even in combination. They have different pros/cons and in fact together you get the best of both worlds.

This doesn't negate your main point, but I wish you didn't end with an example of "irony" that actually is incorrect.
Exactly. There are millions of people that work hard to provide their family a roof over their heads, food on the table, and a chance to go to school. Perhaps PG's article wasn't meant for those people, but it's so incredibly tone deaf.
They finally did it. They finally found a way to make me write comments.
JQuery and backboneJS were all I needed up until very recently. Now it's modules all the way down, alien syntax and overengineering.
resembles topology
If I change the sort order to Price Low->High, I get this really odd captcha telling me to "Press and Hold" a pill shaped button. And I can't solve it, it's in a "Try Again" loop. Weird.
It's fairly trivial to make one by dereferencing a pointer that just happens to be null based on user input, which the compiler can't check. There are several acceptable ways for the compiler to deal with it:

1. Require the programmer to prove to the compiler that the pointer is not null.

2. Insert null checks and abort the program if the pointer is null.

Both of those are deficient for me, because it's possible for some other bug to cause the memory holding the reference to be overwritten with 0, so I really favour:

3. Treat references as immutable pointers that can be null, but disallow creating them from pointers that are obviously constantly null.

Obviously currently all ways to obtain a null reference are UB, but at the same time the compiler happily produces a program that creates a null reference, but deletes the check for it. Which is the absolute worst possible way to do it. It's a needless optimisation that requires you to solve the halting problem to be safe.
I've done a lot of public speaking. Not really keynote stuff, and probably not to audiences more than a couple hundred, and I've never been paid for it.

I've not gotten particularly good at it. As I often say: "I'm quite comfortable, speaking in public, but I'm not very good at it. That's a really bad combination."
One should keep in mind that it is just "copy-paste" on steroids (ok, maybe a gallon of steroids), but users should be cautious about the false sense of irresponsibility.

Because just like when they copy-paste the top answer on SO, at the end of the day they are responsible for the code they ship.
Aren’t 401k taxed? Can you write down the math how a police officer can do this easily (get to 1m purchasing power of today’s value in 10 years) please? I cannot figure it out how to even get a quarter of that
If concrete is reinforced, even with proper care, physics will get you eventually. It'll happen faster if you're near a coast. It'll take longer if you're inland. But eventually, the inevitable will happen. Our reinforced concrete structures will never last as long as, say, the Pyramids.

Wood will last longer [than reinforced concrete], again, with proper care. But in the end, entropy wins against wood as well. [And again, wood will never outlast the Pyramids].

In civil engineering, there really is no such thing as a free lunch. All materials come with drawbacks.

EDIT: To clarify wording.
- Working on a computer all day, from the comfort of my house

- Being able to tend to work issues from my phone

- Getting intellectual stimulation from my work

- Getting to work with really really smart people

- Getting to see the joy customers get from using a product you helped build

These may not seem like much. They might even seem like a burden to some. But I've worked horrendous jobs in the past. Not just brutal manual labor, but mindless factory jobs that practically turn your brain into mush.

Working on things I actually enjoy, in an enjoyable environment, for 12-16 hours per day is a life I'd take any day of the week over life's I've lived in the past.

I'd say overall, working hard pays off if you have a strong impact on the business and own a good chunk of it. If you're working at BigTechCoFaang I'd slack absolutely as much as possible. Just riding the border between hired and fired.
Traveling the world is a life goal for shallow people. It is a shallow experience.
Completely agree. I've seen a lot of people not make it to retirement or get utterly ruined before they get there and then live on scraps.

I had a near miss on this front which turned me. I'm a lucky one.

Also never listen to an ideolog. I haven't met one that isn't wrong yet.
There are whole neighborhoods of 120+ year old wooden houses in the US. If they're cared for they look great. If they're not, they look like shit but are still standing and basically fine as long as water's been kept out (no long-term roof leaks). They're largely made of WTF-good timber by modern standards, but worse construction in other ways (balloon framing is common, for instance, and fire protection is otherwise poor as well).

Further, they're designed to exist without modern heating and cooling, and many still don't have those (or they don't work very well). Yet they stand, and often still have perfectly-aligned original wooden trim work, despite being subject to swings in internal temperature and humidity that'd ruin a modern house in a hurry (modern ones are too air-tight to survive that, aren't built with any care to wood grain direction, and use much lower-quality timber throughout, including for trim, though they may benefit from extensive use of dimensionally-stable plywood).
You are misunderstanding me. Yes the issue is exactly about where to draw the line. The parent's dismissed statements that facebook is a monopoly by saying "you can make every company a monopoly if you make the category narrow enough". My argument is exactly what you are saying, you can not dismiss the statement "facebook is a monopoly" by saying "every company is a monopoly if we make a narrow enough category", you need to actually make arguments (and convince the judge) why the category should be this narrow/broad.
Translation: we need worldwide censorship of covid stories. I prefer freedom of speech, especially since what has been termed disinformation in the past sometimes turns out to be true.
Those are nicely displayed, but it's not clear to me that they meet the standard of evidence required. Many others have looked at these studies and come to more ambiguous conclusions:

"My current opinion is pretty much exactly that of the WHO guidance: I do not think that the current evidence is strong enough to say that ivermectin is a useful therapy for coronavirus patients. I know that there are quite a few studies out there in the literature, but they suffer from various combinations of small sample size, poor trial design, not enough data reported, and (in many cases) inconclusive statistics."

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/06/07/iv...

"The Kory et al. preprint ignores the basics – there are no criteria for inclusion, studies have different mixes of treatment and control and different standards for describing treatments compared with ivermectin and mixes of treatments including ivermectin. These factors alone make the value of their meta-analysis doubtful. However, their evidence base
is my major concern as it has been widely reported on social media without the wider (and more technical) context of how meta-analysis ought to be performed"

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Philip-Machanick/public...
I use the live feed from the Reaper drone overhead.
thank you hadn't heard of this. the quarantine process really works huh
Wouldn't surprise me. Apparently in some IVR systems, insulting the automated prompts also skips them.
>This process was one of my most hated "innovations" in food ordering in China. It turns every restaurant into a production line fast food operation, exactly like American chain restaurants. At that point, why even bother going to a restaurant at all? Might as well just order a Sysco-equivalent microwave meal at the supermarket or 7/11, because the flavor and the service will be exactly the same.

I usually can't stand comments that are just "correlation does not imply causation," but are you sure you aren't mixing up the two here? It's not hard to imagine why a McDonalds wouldn't be one of the first to pick this kind of technology up, but I have a hard time that a previously good restaurant that adopts this will suddenly have their quality fall down the shitter. Nothing really changes for the wait staff except now the order shows up on a screen instead of a handwritten form.

>For me the best restaurants in China were the mom and pop joints where the person who takes your order is also the person who cooks your meal, or at least where you can see into the kitchen from the dining room

There's a similar sort of thing in Japan, but with older technology. You place your order with an automated kiosk out in front of the restaurant and pay the machine. It spits out a ticket that you hand to whoever and eventually your food comes to you. It exists at large chains as well as some mom and pop places, including some where you're sat eating your food a few feet from the cook/chef. The places I went to that had these didn't seem to suffer from lower quality than their counterparts without such a system that didn't have it, nor did they feel more "mass-produced."
> Don't listen to PG, kids. Live the life you want to have now, not the life you think you'll want to have several decades out.

It really depends on what you're working for. If your goal is retire in 50s that's pretty achievable without working terribly hard (for most engineers).

If your goal is to be as good at soccer as Lionel Messi probably not so much.

Define what your goals are really well, then you can figure out what level of work is required to get there, then decide if that's a sacrifice worth making to you or if you want to adjust your goals.

Of course, there's some unknown in there, but if you don't want to be incredibly rich and change the world it doesn't take the same inputs.
I knew a guy who happened to have "testes" and was XXY, found out with fertility tests in the early 2000s. I think he Od'ed (on alcohol i guess?).

I also happen to just have met a girl (like two years ago? Friends' daughter) with "testes", XXY too except it was detected soon enough that she can have testosterone suppressant during her puberty that seems to help a lot for her impulse control (it was her demand). I think genetics are hard, biology is hard, and self-determination as a human being is even harder.

Don't think of this as emasculating and just a way some people want to talk. Honestly, no one gonna call you out if you say "guy" except maybe on twitter (look at the other posts on this thread), so please you don't have to act offended.
It is output of humans creative processes, just not yours.
Like an automated stackoverflow snippet engine.
No it's Moon mining. We need the fuel, need the iron, need the base.
This argument of scientific consensus is what is bollocks. If there aren’t controversies among the majority of climate scientists I think this is a worrisome sign of science stuck on a loop. Scientific inquiry and disagreements are part of the scientific process which should be expected - seeing the difficulty of grasping most topics of that scale. To me it speaks more of who and what research is funded and a distorted way of doing science.

That said, we’re mostly dealing with models here. I can expect this community to love graphs and models, but also to know how unstable and unreliable they can be. In other words, they often fail to communicate (with) reality. In the climate change field, we can see that by the consistent failure to predict the climate future such as rising of the oceans and other extreme heat predictions going back the 80s or 90s.

There is a lot of money to be made with this perspective (heard the saying- what hurt can it be to pollute less?). Taxes and more taxes and government partnering with private players to offer solutions to this potentially fabricated problem (even if only by promoting models that agree with the story). And that is just one of the benefits that can be gained from this narrative. Power grabs and regulation is also of interest here, in my view.

Then, to defend these interests, you repress and silence scientists who disagree and accuse all opposition of conspiracy. Check who created this term, by the way. Was it a private, independent smart individual or the government?
I guess it's worth pointing out that the human brain is just an amazing pattern matcher.

They feed you all these algorithms in college and your brain suggests new algorithms based on those patterns.
To ignore that element just telegraphs a complete lack of understanding of the basic premise that underpins human existence.

It's true family is extremely important and clearly I personally do not have much in the way of familial ties (though not by choice). If I'm speaking from one extreme, it seems like you are speaking from the other extreme. The premise of one person's existence isn't the same as the basic premise of all human existence in general. We all have different experiences.
>Prediction: AI will cause the price of work that can happen in front of a computer to decrease much faster than the price of work that happens in the physical world.

I'm skeptical.

The envelope of "programming" will continue to shift as things get more and more complex. Your mother-in-law is not going to install Copilot and start knocking out web apps. Tools like this allow programmers to become more productive, which increases demand for the skills.
It sounds like this is similar to Kite, but actually competent as a service and not associated with a brand that has destroyed all trust. But it has to come with the same privacy caveats, right? Uploading your private code to a third-party server could result in business or regulatory violations.

And even if you're okay with sending your code, what about hardcoded secrets? What's to prevent Copilot clients from sending things that should never leave the user's computer? Heuristics? Will we be able to tell what part of the code is about to be sent? And is the data stored?
Interesting how the paper uses notation similar to Mathematica today

i.e. `foo -> bar` to denote replacement, and curly braces to group together a set of these.
Which for many who were teenagers with internet like myself, lead to hardcore pornography addiction, lasting mental turmoil, and problems processing intimacy correctly.

Media isn't just shows and news, kids have access to an ever-expanding pool of pornographic garbage, more damaging than even the most hardcore magazines / dvds of the 80s and 90s.
I have 2 backups of most data but these stories make me worry. It is so time consuming. Easy to forget to maintain, & test.
Crypto-Colonialists Use the Most Vulnerable People in the World as Guinea Pigs
I don't think you actually live in San Francisco so I don't think you really know what's going on. Homeless people congregate on one area where all these services are and then spill over to the tourist area. so it seems like it's crazy all the time.

No one is going to write an article saying "normal day in Glen Park" witriing articles about needles gets clicks. So I think your confidently uninformed. Maybe listen to people who live there instead on forming opinions based off stuff you don't have experience with. You don't know about drugs and you don't know about sfs homeless situation and you don't know about the city.

Your first article just focuses on the tenderloin. Homeless doesn't equal drug problems. There's way to much to unpack and set straight here.
What a relief. I thought he was going to announce a new architecture/methodology and we'd have to start bracing ourselves to convince our developers they don't need to shift to it right away.

Jokes aside, kudos to Mr Fowler for the decision. I'm sure we are all going to benefit even more from his focus to writing and things that don't make him miserable.
Fair use doesn't exist in every country, so it's US only?
I have gone through several courses with passive listening and learned so much. Would highly recommend.