skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Where do you find contracts paying 1k$/day?

I’d like to get some and leave my full time job for good )
> Loads of dictatorships and single-party oligarchies have undemocratic constitutions.

In many cases the issue is opposite. Many populist autocrats abuse democracies with constitution that can be changed too easily, so after one big win in election they can dismantle all checks and balances and independent institutions in the country.
Publish and host your Jekyll website on IPFS
(Richie's co-founder here)

You're spot on with the link between mental health and obesity and the need for a holistic approach.

For many of the guys stress and anxiety will play a key part in their food habits. This is something that our coaches actively ask about and help manage if relevant. For other guys it might be sleep [1] or it might be macro-nutrients. The coaching will depend on the person and we make these changes supported by their medical team.

> Anecdotally I think many folks would agree. Any citations or references you could provide on this point would be greatly appreciated - I'm struggling to find any solid literature with the phrase "metabolic resistance" in the context of dietary changes.

"Long-term persistence of hormonal adaptations to weight loss" [2] and [3] are both interesting papers on this. With the summary being that weight loss results in prolonged changes in your hormones associated with increased appetite and thus weight regain. This results in a strong negative feedback cycle.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28164452/
[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22029981/
[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5764193/
Kind of. The only point of phash is to make comparing images fast and cheap... meaning from a practical standpoint there isn't a ton of useful information in the hash. All you really care about is the final hamming distance between two hashes.

I think classifiers tend to encode actual interesting information.
A powerful centralized state can certainly solve COVID. Look at how China handled it: a powerful central government commanding provincial governments on what to do, and force them to do it. In the United States it's plainly unconstitutional for the federal government to compel states to do things. (Well maybe the feds can withhold some funds, but it can't be too coercive when asking states to do things.)

The United States is not a good example of a centralized state. Look at China instead.
Good read - thanks for posting!
Tool proliferation is definitely a problem, but at larger organizations I'm not sure how feasible it is to keep everyone using the same small set of tools.

At my last large employer I ended up putting together a custom search engine that searched across a bunch of different places where important stuff ended up - Google Docs and GitHub Wikis and Markdown-in-GitHub and Confluence and Salesforce Support and a mailing list archive and a few others.

Having a single place to search really helped: I had thought that we had bad documentation, but it turned out we actually had pretty good documentation just distributed across too many different places.
> Chechnya without corrupted Russia would not be part of Russia ... And if Chechnya is let to go, then borders of Russia will shrink very quickly

You seem to be saying "Sure, maybe things are bad under Putin, but if Russia had a less corrupt leader then it would fall apart into chaos overnight." You may genuinely believe that, but it sounds a lot like the sort of propaganda that a corrupt leader would try to indoctrinate his populace with, preying on the sort of psychological biases that give rise to Stockholm Syndrome and emotionally manipulative relationships.

For comparison, I believe that the Chinese government convinces much of its population that multi-party democracy leads to chaos and civil unrest, so having a one-party state is the only way to deliver unity and prosperity. Other authoritarian countries settle for pointing at a common enemy to convince people that the leader shouldn't be challenged and free speech should be suppressed.

> Venezuelans, Russians and Afganis are RESPONSIBLE for their own problems

That's a really unhelpful thing to say. You are correct to the extent that the people in a country have the collective duty to fix their problems, but it's unfair to suggest that they are morally culpable for all the disasters that occur in those countries. Firstly there are natural disasters which occur in countries, and historic problems which pre-date the birth of most citizens, but also we can't assume that a government reflects the will of the people if there is electoral manipulation (or no elections at all).

To give just one example, you say "if [] most [] Russians want [a] mafia state", but in the 2011 legislative elections, Putin's party won less than 50% of the vote, despite widespread cheating in their favour. To suggest that most Russians wanted that outcome is blaming the victim, and ignoring the huge power imbalance that makes it very hard to effect change in that country, or even to be accurately informed about that government's failings.
Be interesting how it fits in with various business compliance regulations, rules and associated risk liabilities for such compliance.

But the whole "Quantum", in the branding really does kinda irk me and you just know it is to help target the buzzword of the week management types in some way. Or the click-bait of the business world, yet that is who they are targeting - not your IT geeks.

I see a few credible customers, but nothing in the finance sticking out. When that changes, that will be a seal of approval many will look towards.
(cofounder here)

We're not too familiar with toastmasters (other than hearing that it's a great way to learn public speaking). Would you find this useful in the context of in-person or remote meetings or both?

And what would it be used for? Moving slides? Displaying / hiding the agenda? Sending lots of clap emojis?

Thanks!
I am not surprised that many comments show surprised about the column types are flexible by default. I guess most people don’t read the original documentation before starting using it.

This happens because most tutorials do not mention this either. I will not be surprised if most authors of the tutorials don’t know this either.

I did read some webpages on the official website, but I don’t remember seeing this either. It’s possible that I read pass this information but did not pay attention to it.
Fwiw generics in Java should have less holes once they start releasing things from Valhalla.
If you're interested in a 2D engine you might be interested in https://github.com/ensisoft/gamestudio
I inherited a PHP/SQLite project years ago. I found timestamps with three different formats in a column because different PHP pages had different ideas of what a timestamp is. OK, the problem was the original developer that wrote all of that code but the database made it too easy to write that horror.

I wish they add a real strict type for dates and times too.
According to the Lindy Effect, Bitcoin will quickly lose to the Federal Reserve's accounting system
I think this is huge news if the practice is still en vogue? And also defeats the point of Epic’s separate app store right? The major carriers could simply demand the same cut from Epic if it ever gets any traction.
When the people who had been laughing at Microsoft for years as being a washed up has-been came to the realization that it currently has a valuation of over $2 trillion and is still growing.
New report suggests a different Chinese government cover-up on Covid-19 Origins
Isn't low testosterone correlated with other, more "general" health conditions anyway? It's certainly an interesting correlation, but I definitely would not try to infer any causality here.
I don't see why that's a sign of the wrong tool: if it's OK to use a GitHub repo for code and not for issues, why not use one for issues and not for code?

I drop a single README.md in the root of the repo that links to the issues and leave it at that.
I have an L2 car and absolutely freaking love it.

I still need to "drive" but I don't need to actively provide input every single moment that I'm driving. Basically, indeed to mimic the cars movements rather than force the car where I want it.

It significantly reduces fatigue and generally increases my enjoyment t of driving.
> A place unknown to financially successful entrepreneurs.

That's because YC founders fled to Bookface many years ago, YC's internal Hacker News.

A YC founder once saw me browsing HN and said "Huh, are you on Bookface?"

I realized later that he'd never been to HN.
Besides QR code menus, a wonderful breakthrough has been the prevalence of QR-code bills at the end of the meal which allow the patron to pay without going through the credit card and credit card slip dance. It’s delightful not to need to needlessly wait for ten minutes at the end of each meal!
Such a missed opportunity. There are so many funnier tropes about HN to mock. Personally, I think of HN as a place for software developers to pontificate and nerd-snipe about constitutional law, public health, economics, and more.
I thought it's G-MAFIA.
>I think what people mean by "genius" is some innate ability which is much way superior (~10x) to general population.

and that ability allows them to produce work in some field dependent on that ability that is innovative and clearly superior to other works in that field. At least that's part of my definition.

>Example: Terence Tao attending university level math courses at age 9

that's a prodigy, when they achieve breakthroughs when adult is when I start to talk about genius.
https://www.chatwoot.com/

https://github.com/chatwoot/chatwoot

A blog post comparing several solutions:

https://satchel.com/live-chat/
To me, a big turn off was the Eclipse based interface. I would have been happy with minimal support (syntax highlighting, automatic formatting) for common editors and some command line tools. Maybe these things exist now, but last time I tried using the tool, this wasn't available out of the box.

And yes, the syntax is weird. I understand it tries to mimic set theory notations (which I'm fine with), but transposing this in ascii didn't feel right.
You can't stop it. Once a topic becomes popular on HN, any plausibly related submission will instantly garner enough upvotes to put it on the front page. Eventually it will fade somewhat. Same thing happens with Boeing-related topics, for example.
Give Microsoft some credit - they're the second largest company in the world with over $2 trillion market cap. Sure we're not in the 90s anymore and their image, position in the markets and in the zeitgest is a bit different but "not at its peak" is a bit harsh.

As far as acronyms, I like FAAAM (replace Google with Alphabet).
It's not degree-Kelvin, it's just Kelvin. The article's been updated to clarify, but if it only said 1,800 degrees, it'd likely be referring to degree Celsius.
We call them GAFAM in France.
Wolfram’s Rule 30 and the Conus Textile
Thanks! It took half of year to build it, it was a hard task especially for a newbie Rust programmer I was back in the day. I was able to find right desing from fourth attempt.
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Agreed. I've also found myself discussing how landlords - or at least professional ones - seem to be in a different social class than tenants, and the ones that aren't have been the most pleasant in my experience.

I don't entirely mean in terms of wealth. It does something to a person to be a landlord in ways I cannot fully explain. In almost every other situation, to be "rent-seeking" is considered a bad thing. It may or may not apply to real-estate, but the landlords I've met just seem to think differently about people and homes in a way I cannot understand.
There's something to be said for a tool that a novice can use (my first hand written recursive descent parser was, no joke, because I wasn't up to the task of including a json library in my Java project) but still useful for professionals.
I think I clarified a bit up-comment: I'm concerned with terms becoming looser; perhaps a bit obsessed.

I'm not fussed what the DSM says, especially about anything touching on psychology. I have heard that it's decisions carry a lot of weight in insurance and pharma circles.

Also:

- Suppose that there are drugs that cause pleasure by activating dopamine receptors; and

- Suppose that certain behaviours (meditation, responding to stochastic triggers) would do the same;

well, that would say nothing about the meaning of the word "addicted".

I really don't mean to conflate anything, nor diminish the problems of people with non-chemical addictions. I just regret that a word that had one meaning now seems to have acquired many.
Conversely, for model building, I have much better results using #80 drill bits in a hand held twist drill than trying to chuck them into a power drill and hope that it will not break the bit or rip the delicate work asunder.

Similarly, an IDE can be overkill when you're writing a self-contained one-off task, or dealing with an opinionated IDE that doesn't fit with the project you're importing.
I'm not trying to suppress news.

There have been a ton of letters, calls to action, complaints and outrage about apple's actions.

Many of the conversations are HIGHLY repetitive.

I would strongly urge folks to review past discussions before re-hashing things (again) or focus on new elements.

And these headlines "Global Coalition"? I hope folks realize there is also a "global coalition" of governments that are working to do much more to get access to your information. Australia, China, the EU (yes, go on about GDPR but actual privacy - forget about it), UK etc.

There may also be a "global coalition" of users who like apple's products.

A better headline is EFF writes open letter with 90 other civil liberties groups to Tim Cook?

Edited to list prior topics on HN about this:

Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens a backdoor to your life

EFF: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/apples-plan-think-diff...
2260 points|bbatsell|16 days ago|824 comments

Apple Has Opened the Backdoor to Increased Surveillance and Censorship

EFF: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/if-you-build-it-they-w...

618 points|taxyovio|10 days ago|303 comments

Tell Apple: Don’t Scan Our Phones

EFF: https://act.eff.org/action/tell-apple-don-t-scan-our-phones

161 points|sunrise54|4 days ago|30 comments

Is EFF opposition really new news?

I've also noticed this weird forumulation more often. "Please stop xxxx" rather than an actual discussion of a topic. Ironic to try and suppress a conversation by claiming someone elses comments are suppression?
Is your concern that GitHub employees might access your confidential sales data if it's in issues in a private repository?

Because if you're worried about that, there's probably a whole bunch of even worse things that they could be doing with access to your source code, secrets and CI infrastructure.
https://archive.is/W4bOF
The larger issue is: Why do highly skilled employees need to ask permission to make a decision as to where they can physically work when physical location is not a requirement of performance of the work? Thanks, I will run my own business instead of working for some dinosaur who thinks nothing has changed since 1998.
I actually really liked this approach compared to having to switch to jira/notion everytime.

I think some big names are using this approach to right. Like aspnetcore and some other microsoft products
If you're a zsh user it offers a version of something like xargs in zargs¹. As the documentation shows it can be really quite powerful in part because of zsh's excellent globbing facilities, and I think without that support it wouldn't be all that useful as a built-in.

I'd also perhaps argue that the reason we don't want xargs to be a built-in is precisely because of zargs and the point in your second paragraph. If it was built-in it would no doubt be obscenely different in each shell, and five decades later a standard that no one follows would eventually specify its behaviour ;)

¹ https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/User-Contributions.ht... - search for "zargs", it has no anchor. Sorry.
Wow - 11 stories with tons of upvotes (lots more with fewer).

A fair number are other "open letters" as well.

Helpful.
I mean, yes of course. But more important than powerlessly worrying about future bad governments - stand up for civil liberties now.
There is also https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitHNSays/. It's not that active but it has quite a few gems.
Is there an example that is not related to gambling or moving around money? As it doesn’t seem to be very productive in countries where online gambling is restricted or regulated…
listen im trying to be objective about this but i cant help but point out that fsd is navigating crowded intersections, crowded downtown areas and roads without lane markers. ive seen videos of it
The “pay less for remote workers” thing will only work if all employees follow suit. If Apple decides to cut pay for remote workers, but google doesn’t, you’re going to see a lot more former Apple employees join ranks at Google.
"Not using an IDE" can mean very different things depending on how you define "editor".

I would say that an editor that INTEGRATES knowledge of your source in some way, like auto-complete, or red-squiggles, is very much a big step towards an IDE and should could as "using an IDE". Whether it does that using plug-ins/extensions or natively doesn't matter. If it has that functionality there's not that much more separating it from an IDE.

VSCode, for example, is more like an IDE than an editor especially as you add more and more extensions.
I think the HAMTs are pretty darn solid.

I think, however, that scala raised the bar with RRB trees over the trie-based immutable vectors. And using java strings is pretty sad...
> The general climate here has turned pretty hostile to startups since then. The prevailing advice here is now to land a FAAMG job and slack off with a high standard of living

Some times I stumble upon really old HN threads in Google searches and end up missing the quality of old HN discourse. It was never perfect, of course. Nor is the modern version without upsides, as there are often good pieces of wisdom if you sift through enough noise in the comments.

However, modern HN just feels so deeply cynical, angry, and negative with much less of the entrepreneurial tech optimism of the older posts. It’s also starting to feel weirdly disconnected from reality in the way that the extremes of Twitter, Reddit, and Facebook have become echo chambers after consuming non-stop bad news. It’s like people read so many outrage tech stories here that they forget there is an upside to the tech industry.

Big Tech hangs in a weird balance where we’re simultaneously supposed to hate and distrust FAANG companies but also at the same time we’re told to seek out FAANG jobs where we can maximize compensation.

The key to enjoying HN is to ignore any thread remotely related to politics, FAANG, social media, economics (where the comments are actually just about politics), drugs, or open-source drama.

Sadly, the most interesting content links (great blog posts, writings, knowledge, new projects, and so on) generally get fewer upvotes than outrage topics. I try to make a point of actively upvoting the content I want to see here every time I visit.
Ask HN: Anyone knows how to write this code in Pascal?
I have a piede of python code and I would like to know how this would be written in Pascal (it’s for historical research reasons).
I tried to look it up but I couldn’t figure it out for the life of me.

Here’s the python code:

for i in range(116000):
x = i
y = (x*4)/2.71
print(x, y)

Thanks (and sorry for the weird Ask HN :) )
Can neobanks’ popularity outlast the pandemic?
Tell them to go on walks while they read/listen to podcasts. Lots of people have lost 50 lbs during the pandemic just realizing if they walk for 1-2 hours a day their bodies get smaller.
Periodically getting together F2F is IMO pretty important for building relationships. Not absolutely essential in all cases of course. But I feel that one thing that has allowed me to be productive over the past 18 months is that I've coasted to some degree on existing relationships.

This is true of both people I work with at my company and industry peers. And I've heard the same argument from many people with respect to attending industry events and the like where many value the hallway track which has been pretty much dismal with online events.

(To be clear, I obviously don't mean the whole company at a large company. But I do think it important for teams and people who otherwise work together.)
There’s also a critical HN parody site
http://n-gate.com/hackernews/
Copy paste url as it apparently intercepts the HN referer
+100 if I could.

What you say is especially true of someone in your role (or any higher up role), which in a small startup extends far down I would suppose.

When I see the C-levels or even just a level up or sideways mention that they had to work late on this or that or had to have a meeting at 10pm or someone was pulled into a meeting with some C-level at 10pm I loose respect for those people really fast. Work regular hours. Get done what you can get done in those regular hours. Regular hours can mean 11 hours one day and then you take most of Friday off.

There's two ways these people loose respect with me:

If you have to work 12 hour days to get the same work done as other people, you are maybe not really good at your job or you do too much 'socializing' at work but it makes the actual hard working folks that just finish their work in a regular day look bad.

Or you're the workaholic type that just can't stop. At least you're good at your job, perfect. But don't make actual hard working folks look bad.
And it was only when they figured this out that they started asking for raises is it? And before that they were content to work for whatever wages were on offer? What a crock of nonsense.

Workers always asked for more. What changed was leverage. Trust me, at some point in the future the leverage will be lost for whatever reason. People will still ask for raises but may or may not get them.
I didn’t ignore them but they just aren’t that interesting.

The games aren’t nontrivial.

> They just have a chip on their shoulder.

Those are not my pronouns.
Most languages have a simple, unambiguous syntax, so LL or LR is fine. LL or LR is almost certainly faster then Earley, since in general more restricted = faster.

As the above commenter mentioned, most language designers make hand-rolled parsers. Making a hand-rolled LL or LR parser is easier too.

In general most people think advanced = bad, they want the easiest solution which gets the job done well.