skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice. Looks like the same forum software, which I think works really well
There’s no transcript attached to the video for some reason (and the poster frame looks like an ad). What’s the issue?

People are quoting Rossman’s YT comment but it is predicated on you knowing what his actual complaint is.
It's also from 2015, which usually merits a mention in the title round here.
Wonderful job. Simply wonderful. Well done to the team for delivering at such high velocity!
> it can get you put on some kind of list.

Could you please elaborate?
Thoughts on “ASA on Statistical Significance and Replicability”
I'm guessing a "pet politician" is a very American Thing -though I have nothing to base it on but my own opinion- since US politics are very much based on specific persons while I'm used to people looking at politics as a big group of people they vote for out of many parties.

There are currently 15 parties to vote for here in Denmark, with a government on average being based on 2-3 of them. A single person rarely get more votes than 1% in our elections because most vote for the party, not the person.
> To be clear, you think that shipping molten salt to the other side of the world so that it can make steam to make electricity is viable because oil is shipped in tankers?

Yes, if needed ("to the other side of the world" could very well mean from AU to SG, and not USA to SG [although that happens now in some cases to meet demand]). LNG and CL are shipped across the world so that it can make steam to make electricity now (as well as for heating).

I can imagine it might be hard for some to fathom that doing it this way may work out better at scale than trying to build CSP plants in regions with low irradiance/ limited land availability/etc.
Thanks for sharing. Never heard of this book. I will check it out.
> makes weekly videos about how much NYC sucks.

This coule be part of his appeal to his followers. If he left NY, then he'd just be an outsider complaining on the internet about something he's no longer affects him. Plus, you can dislike the bizenv, but love other aspects of the area.
A lot of hobbies have this kind of complex details that are simply not practical or possible to automate away.

For example, I have recently got into long distance rimfire rifle shooting. Every serious shooter there keeps a DOPE (data on previous engagements and/or data on personal equipment) card with the specific holdovers at given ranges. This data can be shared, but is of little utility because every single rifle and batch of ammunition is just a little bit different.

Would it be nice if I could just buy a card that says what I should hold over at what range? Heck yes. But it's just not possible to produce that. So beginners have to go out and learn it themselves, which is hard and discouraging to newcomers.
None of this explains the cross species effects, though. Zoo and lab animals are also seeing a rise in obesity under controlled diets. There's clearly an additional environmental and/or chemical effect involved here.
> This artist effectively hijacked their private camera system

Private camera system? You mean the webcams that are open to the public in Apple stores?
I tell anyone who will listen: stay as far away from NYC and NYS as you can when you're operating a business. The bureaucracy is insanely complex and both governments harbor a very strong anti-business sentiment.

NYS charged my previous, 2-person, zero employee agency a $14K fee for not having a Workers Comp policy, even though having one isn't necessary for member-managed businesses. We sent in paperwork demonstrating our case and they didn't care. They kept asking for more proof that we didn't have employees—even though they had no evidence that we did have them. A bit hard to prove a negative!

After several years of back and forth, we finally just said forget it, closed that entity, and started ignoring the monthly shakedown notices. Now I'm wary of even having clients in NYS.

[Edit: I've heard CA is similar, but don't have personal experience there.]
I'd add 400kb SRAM to the spec list.

Full data sheet: https://www.espressif.com/sites/default/files/documentation/...
Of these, I personally have only watched “First on the Moon”
and “Salyut-7” of these, and judging by the reviews of the
other ones, the latter is a bit emblematic wrt the problems
that some of these have. They will sometimes either
exaggerate stuff or just make stuff up to make the story
sound more exciting. Which is a bit silly, considering
that space exploration, and especially its early steps,
are in and of themselves deadly and terrifying enough
to make for a great thrill factor.
> Maybe for his own health it's time to move to another state?

He's doing just fine. His youtube rankings are pretty "up there" for that genre of channel. There is no way to know how that compares to the repair shop, but I suspect it's at least a comparable income stream.

He makes 1st person videos of himself riding around Manhattan on his bike, free-associating and showing abandoned store-fronts BECAUSE it gets clicks-- otherwise it would be a waste of time. There's libertarian edge to it all. It looks like the commenters are heavily populated with red-state doom-scrollers rubber-necking at the "downfall" of NYC.

If Rossman would move out of NYC to somewhere else, he wouldn't have as much grist for the youtube channel, would he? He would have to go back to making strictly repair videos, loose his whole staff, and probably have less volume in his repair business as well.
Spot on! That's exactly what I was thinking. Very well put.
Ask HN: Developer to Product Role, Possible?
Hi HN, I have about 8 years of Java-based software development experience in a variety of different companies. Unfortunately as of late I'm forced to confront the fact I really dislike the day-to-day of software development.

So much of the job just feels like doing the exact same thing over and over. You plumb some data from persistence to the UI (or back). That's basically it. Each time there are some trade-offs to assess and technical decisions to make but in most companies it's a fairly disempowered role. Even in non-CRUD code you're basically choosing between data-structures, types of sort, what/where to cache, etc. and it gets very repetitive. Not to mention it's a very isolated/isolating role where you can go days without human contact.

Ultimately what really interests me is the level above the boring plumbing part. Deciding what to build. Getting insights from users. For this reason it seems like Product Manager/BA type work is more closely aligned with my interests. I think I'd be in a fairly unique/advantageous situation for a Product Manager role due to knowing the SDLC inside-out having done it for years. But when I look at product jobs they all seem to require you to have previous Product Manager experience for 4+ years and there's no real way "in" coming from software dev (or indeed from anywhere).

I saw Auth0 had a role for technical product manager (US only :/) but nothing else suitable.

Does anyone have some insights on the feasibility of moving to product and how to get there?
>Shouldn't the public enjoy the same expectations?

The public absolutely should have some ROI, and in fact does in the form of taxes.
Gravity of Earth
Surprised and also not surprised that this exists. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Here is a browse version made by a contributor → https://anime-girls-holding-programming-books.netlify.app/
The solution: leave New York. The idea of having to get permission to operate a business (unless it causes pollution, etc.) is anti-American. Don't accept such rules, and move to where that kind of nonsense doesn't happen. Vote with your feet/wallet.
Worse still - New York is dead last among 50 states for economic recovery from covid. With NYC supposedly being the global center of business and finance. Vacant storefronts are everywhere and I don't see it getting better anytime soon. Reminds me too much of the 1980s.

I'm done. Packing it up and getting out in 2 months.
Thanks, some interesting paths to follow there.
The problem is you still have to go back and read through the "dumb code" to make sure it was written correctly. At a certain point, is that actually faster than just writing it yourself? Maybe a little bit, for some people and for some usecases, but it becomes a much narrower value-proposition.
…warns of threat of no longer having control over the internet
> These files are created even without this argument

That used to be the case in the dark ages of autoconf.

clang does everything in a single address space which is a lot faster now that you aren't doing a million filesystem calls.

btw I remember seeing a talk a few years ago about integrating clang with the build system so that the same compiler process can be reused to compile multiple files. Startup time is significant when you have a lot of source files

Past: >1 process and many fs calls per cpp.
Present: 1 process and a few fs calls per cpp.
Future: <1 process and a few fs calls per cpp (on average)
> It can not predict what exactly is going to happen, only how likely each outcome would be.

Yeah but the key difference is that QM is a mathematically solid theory starting from a couple basic laws to yield predictions with p-values of 0 (for all intents and purposes anyway). Also note that there are non-probabilistic measurements in QM, be they measurements of aggregate behavior or just pure states [1]. In that respect, QM and most physical sciences really are miles ahead of psychology (though I don't think that's reason to discredit the latter, as it has obvious empirical merit).

If I may be a bit bolder still, I'd argue that it's not merely a quantitative difference. As pointed out by many other comments, psychology completely lacks any sort of unifying framework, except perhaps for small clusters of thematically similar phenomena. A collection of empirical facts does not a scientific theory make, or--taken to the cheeky extreme--"All science is either physics or stamp collecting" [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_state#Pure_states

[2] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ernest_Rutherford#Quotes
Their executives in the US? Going to trial in the UK, where the company would no longer do business? How does that work, exactly? Has the US ever extradited a white collar criminal?
This makes me wonder if it'd be more effective to get people interested in privacy issues if they saw photos of themselves alongside their location, browsing history, etc.
I did not downvote the comment, but I do find it a little silly, so here I go:

1. Assuming your business is going to employ anyone at all, $800 is only 1-2 weeks of pay even at minimum wage.

2. I am not aware of any type of business California has forced to shut down completely (i.e. literally no way of making money) for the entire year.

3. If this business is just a side project you're trying out on top of your main job and it fails, you can disband it within 1 year of creation and are exempt from the fee (Source: https://www.ftb.ca.gov/file/business/types/limited-liability... - See section "Short form cancellation").

We could argue about whether it discourages starting small business in California, or if the CA government should have waived the fee this year to help with COVID-19; but acting like this is some insane requirement that is killing small businesses is ridiculous. Business that cannot afford this fee are already failing and almost certainly can't even afford to pay their employees. (For the record, I find it to be a pretty regressive tax, and should just be reduced to whatever overhead exists for managing LLC filings.)
anyone have secure battle tested tutorials how to done api auth without jwt?
California goveement workers I've had to interact with are smart and helpful and go the extra mile to let you know what you need to do. The problem is the rules they don't make.
I thought this was true until I tried to teach. Then I realized you have to really know what you're talking about if you want to explain it to someone else.
did they fix google docs and drive yet? asking for a friend
Sounds like a good way to pile up your test suite with a bunch useless tests.
We Work in 6-Week Cycles
From a hardware perspective, likely. The regular esp8266/esp32 chips are arduino-compatible. If I remember correctly a common chip for DIY keyboards are the Arduino Micros.
Convince AWS, Azure, Google to abandon JWT for their APIs and we’ll talk.

Until then, this is pretty much noise.
How do you do UNIX without C or C++?

Rails was made by a corporation.

Radar blips in adoption is not being popular.
Cells undergoing cell death protect their neighbors to maintain tissue integrity
I'd be wary of any tutorial that claims to be battle tested.
"It’s extremely tempting, especially to technical people, to believe that some piece of technology will create net freedom and equality." I think this certainly used to be the case; when geeks ran the valley roost so to speak, there was capitalistic ambitions coupled/borne from a sincere interest in tech. Now the former drives the latter, with characteristic milquetoast results (this isn't to say that the tech interest now isn't sincere, just that it's "source" and how it's shaped is different).

It's a subtle but critical shift in the drivers of the industry at an individual level, and it bubbles up through the firms those individuals build and try to sustain.
In the post he says that the apple computers all reset at midnight, automatically.
That sounds like a reproducible bug report, with an easy test case (“run this script and measure laptop battery life, in Firefox and Safari”). If you haven’t already provided that in a bug report to the software developers, you should do so. Shopping your concern to an unrelated thread about security headers isn’t likely to get far on HN, certainly nowhere near as much as a testable bug would.
Utopian thinking almost never comes to fruition because by definition it discounts a lot of negatives. It rarely comes from a place of first-principles reasoning about human behavior. And above all, human beings cannot see into the future so any vision is always incomplete and flawed.

Nevertheless, as much as there are heaps of shit on the internet - digital surveillance, bottomless wells of inane addiction, hateful discourse, etc. - I’d say there is a net benefit overall, and where the 90s techno-optimists were merely wrong was in degree and concrete detail.
> Kitavans didn’t even seem to gain weight in middle age. In fact, BMI was found to decrease with age. Many lived into their 80s or 90s, and Lindeberg even observed one man who he estimated to be 100 years old. None of the elderly Kitavans showed signs of dementia or memory loss. The Kitavans also had no incidence of diabetes, heart attacks, stroke, or cardiovascular disease, and were unfamiliar with the symptoms of these diseases. “The only cases of sudden death they could recall,” he reports, “were accidents such as drowning or falling from a coconut tree.”

Maybe it's survivorship bias? Without modern medicine only healthiest people survive to adulthood so later they live long healthy lives. In modern society these people would be healthy too, but they would be a small percentage of the whole society.

This would also explain why domesticated animals show similar problems. Because we keep them alive :/

And then since it's at least partially inheritable - the effect would compound with each generation. With unsettling implications.
https://www1.nyc.gov/site/dca/businesses/live-chat.page
>"Latitude

The surface of the Earth is rotating, so it is not an inertial frame of reference. At latitudes nearer the Equator, the outward centrifugal force produced by Earth's rotation is larger than at polar latitudes. This counteracts the Earth's gravity to a small degree – up to a maximum of 0.3% at the Equator – and reduces the apparent downward acceleration of falling objects.

The second major reason for the difference in gravity at different latitudes is that the Earth's equatorial bulge (itself also caused by centrifugal force from rotation) causes objects at the Equator to be farther from the planet's centre than objects at the poles. Because the force due to gravitational attraction between two bodies (the Earth and the object being weighed) varies inversely with the square of the distance between them, an object at the Equator experiences a weaker gravitational pull than an object at the poles.

In combination, the equatorial bulge and the effects of the surface centrifugal force due to rotation mean that sea-level

gravity increases from about 9.780 m/s2 at the Equator to about 9.832 m/s2 at the poles

, so an object will weigh approximately 0.5% more at the poles than at the Equator.[2][9]"

PDS: My curiosity here, is does the Earth's gravity at the previously discussed locations (Poles vs. Equator) equally affect all materials?

?

In other words,

You have 100 tons of Cotton.

You also have 100 tons of Iron...

You make these weight measurements at the Equator.

Now, when you move those 100 tons of Cotton and those 100 tons of Iron -- to the North or South Pole -- you'd expect that due to Wikipedia's logic, above, that both of those weights would not only weigh slightly more there -- but that the increase in weight (even though slight) -- would be equal and consistent between the Cotton and the Iron...

But now, my question is, would they weigh exactly the same amount more -- or would that amount be slightly different, due to the materials being different?

?

On the one hand, Iron might be affected by the Earth's magnetic field, especially at or near one of Earth's Poles -- whereas Cotton might not.

But, if Iron is a bad choice (if we're concerned with Gravity and solely with Gravity) -- then what about other heavy non-Magnetic materials?

Like, other heavy, yet non-magnetic, Metals?

Would 100 tons of that, measured at the Equator, weigh exactly the same amount more as the 100 tons of Cotton would -- when both are measured again at one of Earth's Poles?

Why or why not?
> how can the compiler realize you are deleting sensitive data?

It can't, so don't remove my memset. Why is this hard. Compilers are dumb, yes, so don't delete the thing I wrote on purpose.

You are right about the definition of memset. It's unreliable. My point is why is that ok with anyone sane. If I clear 128 bytes on a stack frame that's returning, sure, it's not optimal, but the compiler doesn't know why I did it and I surely did it for a reason. The definition of memset is bad.
https://thedise.me/instander/
Flip side you can actually shop around for the best car price. Can’t even do that at us hospitals
> Go ahead. Tell me about how Iran is more left wing than the United States.

I just did. Iran has universal health care - the United States does not.
If anyone wants to write software to detect the original source of Copilot code, I can explain how to detect variable length unaligned matches using fast hash code lookups (unlimited size corpus)
Scrum Master Interview Questions (5): Scrum Success Principles and Indicators
A short Twitter thread from Pat Contri on this is something I found provides helpful balance: https://twitter.com/PatTheNESpunk/status/1414300310659473408

"Wow, those Charizard cards from your childhood are now worth lots of $" has been a common, popular headline across media in the last year, and now it looks like old video games are next. And as Pat says, I think there's reason to suspect that, in this instance, this is artificial pricing.
At its very best and most rigorous, psychology is pseudoscience.

Perhaps that is true with the old literature (Freud, Jung, etc), even if parts of it also offer some insight on human behaviour.

But from what I have read, the turning point was when Albert Ellis and Aaron T Beck developed the idea of Cognitive Therapy, which started the whole evidence based therapy movement (they diverged a bit with Ellis calling his talk therapy "Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy").

Aaron T Beck perhaps laid the foundation by testing out his research theories with actual clinical studies (like pharma companies do, for e.g. conducting studies like treating one group with anti-depressants, another group with a placebo, and treating a different group of patients with his talk therapy and proving that Cognitive Therapy was just as effective as anti-depressants in alleviating anxiety and depression, and in many cases better than anti-depressants for the long-term). Since then, there have been a lot of similar studies done on the efficacy of such therapies for treating Schizophrenia and various personality disorders.

(Interestingly, Aaron T Beck actually believed in Freudian psychology and practiced it as a psychoanalyst and one of his earlier studies was to prove that it was effective. But his study proved him wrong and thus he went on to develop CT, along with Ellis' and Buddhist ideas.)

So it is no longer fair to call psychology as a pseudo-science anymore, in my opinion. (For those who like to use capitalism as some kind of yardstick / indicator of the efficacy of some new technology / science, it is interesting to note that most insurance companies now cover and push for such evidence based therapies.)

But yes, a lot of self-help books are indeed based on pseudo-science or pop-psychology.
This is a story that you can often hear on HN but I don't think it's correct.
There were three correlated reasons for the bad reputation of IE some years ago:

1. it was largely dominant, so people thought they could develop just taking that browser in consideration

2. for the previous point, MS started to develop proprietary features (like ActiveX)

3. at a certain point its development was stopped for a long time

Safari certainly cannot match the first two reasons. But it cannot match the third either, because the development of standard web features is going on at good pace (see <https://webkit.org/status/>).
Google Glass is another example of this. Everyone freaked out about it being a camera always at the ready. It was a more obvious camera, and that freaked people out - never mind that, if someone wanted to take a picture surreptitiously, the phone in their pocket was a much better choice.

(There were, of course, other factors that a reasonable person could be concerned about with Glass - "glassholes", for one, and providing more data to Google for another)
And how, precisely, do you propose doing this convincing without popularizing the idea that it's a bad API?
For real. Chrome is one of the biggest threats to an open internet that exists today. Every week we see some Chrome-led attempt to make the Internet more proprietary and under Google’s control. They interviewed one of the worst perpetrators of the threat against internet freedom.
So it should still make attacks harder even if possible so it's a win isn't it?
was almost expecting it to bust out, "I am that I am" by the end there XD
NY and CA make it clear enough to the rest of us by the fees for starting a business, let alone the operating risk.
Most companies have a culture of weird acronyms and phrases that are totally meaningless outside the context of that culture. It's expected that you won't understand normal discourse for the first couple weeks. I think emoji-usage is a subset of this linguistic phenomenon.

At my company, we have thousands of emoji-reacts (including surprised-pikachu), that probably have widely-divergent meanings to their users. Some people have seen them outside of the company before, and use them / seek them out knowingly. Those that don't pick it up pretty quickly.

You're right that the meaning is better when you're "in on it", but I think you might be overrating how big of a deal it is to become "in on it", and underrating it's utility as a form of expression, especially emotional expression, in a medium that normally lacks visual expression / body language / intonation.
I think you're severely underestimating how much slower everything would be if compilers weren't allowed to optimize anymore.