skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Thanks to a very friendly plugin community, you can get all of these in vim, emacs etc. I like vim, and it has nothing to do with hubris.

> 0% adjustment when working over SSH: tabs, splits, etc. both in my editor and terminal are identical in an SSH session. No discomfort. Mostly useful at home.

Aren't these two benefits mutually exclusive? If you're got a very personalised vim setup, then vim on your workstation is going to be potentially dramatically different to vim when sshed into a remote machine
Oh yeah, a lot of wikipedia intros are what I like to call "code golfing" in human language, someone attempting to fit a comprehensive description in 1 or 2 sentences. Which they technically achieve, but it's only intelligible by people who already understand it, so it's also pointless.

But they aren't all like that, wikipedia varies in quality greatly.
A majority of users choose apple. but they didnt have to
From list of his micro rules under Self Discipline:

do not browse the web. Find materials on demand with Google. Prioritize demands with incremental reading

do not read articles on the web. Preview articles that are worth importing to SuperMemo and import them for prioritized increading

do not watch YouTube. Use incremental video before sleep (preferably while walking)
The thing I never understood:

The argument seems to be that "our payment partners don't like explicit content". I think the same excuse was thrown around for Tumblr's porn ban too.

* If this was a single (or small number of) player(s) objecting, why aren't they being competed around? Any payment platform that refuses to service the porn industry is, by its very nature, leaving money on the table.

* Again, if we're dealing with a centralized point of objection, I could see "name and shame" pushback being very effective. Imagine the backlash from both porn enthusiasts and libertarians closing their accounts if they said "It's XYZ Bank, they don't want you buying pornography."

* The worst-case scenario I could imagine is that it's at the card-brand level, driven by non-US/EU regulations. They can switch from (for example) Stripe to Braintree to Auth.net, but they can't escape Visa and Mastercard so easily. They might feel the need to regulate because it's required as a condition of market entry in, say, China or the Middle East.

But that still opens the door for domestic-focused alternatives (ACH? The old ATM-centric debit card networks?) In fact, in today's politically charged environment, I could see momentum to explicitly develop a payment product designed for "Western Sensibilites and Values" with an explicit "Hell no, it doesn't work in Beijing/Moscow/Baghdad" message. Suddenly, supporting pornography is a patriotic endeavour that you can use to demand special treatment and subsidy.

* Why now, when they're trying to go public? It's not like people suddenly woke up and said "OnlyFans had PORN?" If they maintained their relationships with their payment processors until now, it's not like there's a sudden, earth shattering revelation here.

I'm wondering if maybe the truth is less dramatic and grand. The angle I could see is that a hypothetical "OnlyFans - Porn" is a lower merchant risk profile than "OF as it stands". The high merchant fees for that industry are a well-established cost centre. If they could say "we slashed our merchant fees nn%" it looks good while preening the balance sheet for the IPO. However, I'm skeptical if that's the case-- any sort of "digital video delivery" and "subscription service" are still pretty high risk merchant types. I'd also think it's still less of a revenue risk to just split the business: a high-fee porn-only site and a cheaper-to-operate non-porn site, using shared technology.
I think what people mean by "genius" is some innate ability which is much way superior (~10x) to general population.

Example: Terence Tao attending university level math courses at age 9 [1]

This cannot be explained by any checklist or regimen.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Tao#Childhood
Safety, but not comfort, is what nurtures genius. It allows the individual to see the value of fruitful effort. Total destitute feels totally hopeless. A safe existence with a visible path upward acts as a guiding light.
Resumption, error reporting and much better progress monitoring.
I think "We ran 1 million simulations to determine how often this level of similarity could emerge just by chance. Under the most generous assumptions imaginable, it didn’t happen once." is pretty damning.
No your concept of growth is wrong, or you are talking about different types of growth. If a tree grows, it gets better and there is "more tree" afterwards.
Sure but doesn't that just mean sublime is a pretty good IDE?
The languages are all owned by Scott Hunter. Including e.g their Java support etc. The windows sdk not. Where exactly the language projections are, no idea. IDL and COM however sounds indeed more like Windows team and not language and runtimes team.
San Francisco spent $309M on a 2.2 mile bus lane
There's another answer here though which is to skip getting naturally infected with the worst variant of this strain of SARS-CoV-2 and instead catching whatever is going around the world in a year or two after it has been forced to make costly mutations to achieve immune escape.

SARS-CoV-2 will very likely become endemic and everyone in the world will eventually get naturally exposed to it, but delta is probably the optimally worst and most virulent form of the virus to get naturally exposed to.

And yeah kids should get vaccinated, the vaccines are safer than the virus for everyone, that shouldn't even be a question.
Wow, dupe indeed. Guess it’s a very popular ruling…
Not sure what exactly you are referring to. What contract that promises 3% growth per year are you talking about?
I m basing it on the amount of people wanting to stay tied to the office / the bay area, and the dependence of the ecosystem to SV VC capital.

> the incredibly expensive permits you need on each foreign worker

yeah that is one disadvantage of being based in the US. Another is that even if they outsource, these workers aren't like the low-skill work that they outsourced in china in the past.

In any case, it 's just speculation since we re speculating
It sounds to me like the simplicity of the language in this case didn't prevent a bad programmer from writing bad code, and that it was a problem that should have been addressed with code review and training, not by expecting the language to keep things in check.
This kind of glosses over the fact that they were found guilty of anticompetitive behavior in the EU.

They got a massive fine and were and forced to do things like open up the client server protocol used between Windows Domain Controllers and Windows Clients.

They came pretty close to being forced to open up the Office document formats, but the EU backed down from that one.
Buzzfeed investigative journalism is top-tier [1]. There is a clear difference between this type of article and the rest of the cesspool.

[1]: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/investigations
Yeah but it’s happening in a computer! Definitely feels like a The Matrix reference. Plus the whole thing is doing tons of matrix-based math.
What every X should know about Y, an opinionated take on Z considered harmful
…as a result of their enragement-optimizing algo. Now they are getting a report showing the effects of their own manipulations. What a surprise!
You could go the O1 route. The Peter Roberts HN posts (the immigration attorney who does work for YC startups) has lots of great info on this area: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27560781
NVIDIA is going to do that either way. Huang is not asleep at the wheel.
No, of course not. My point is that trying to eliminate the dark places is bad. Dark places happen naturally, we can't really eliminate them. My point is not, as you seem to think, that creating more dark places intentionally is good.
>the car is doing the boring stuff, yet you need to be present to make some decisions.

That sounds like a useful thing, but it doesn't sound like what the article was about, and it doesn't sound like a thing that exists.

I think a way to rephrase the problem is that humans are some things and machines are good at others, and one of the things that machines are good at is instant safety cutoffs.

The self-driving attempts I've heard about rely on humans to be the safety cutoff.

Cars are often milliseconds from disaster, because of the close lateral proximity of objects while driving. Like concrete Jersey barriers.

You can create space in front of you, as they tell you in defensive driving class, but you can't create 360 degree space.

This is the first I've heard about openpilot, but the first thing I read about it is that comma.ai released a device called "comma one" in 2016, a month later the NHTSA asked for information on it, and they said "lol, never mind, it's cancelled".

I guess that it's open source now to avoid liability.
My hypothesis is that this is mostly about so many people going remote.

With location no longer constraining either recruiters or job seekers, everybody's got more options now, and the increased competition is working to the employee's favor.
That sounds more like a problem with git than a problem with the IDE. Why does git allow you to screw up your repository?
I dunno. It's fiction. It may or may not have any relevance in the real world.
This is an informative comment, but did you reply to the wrong parent comment?
I frequently find myself reaching for this pattern instead of xargs:

do_something | ( while read -r v; do
. . .
done )

I’ve found that it has fewer edge cases (except it creates a subshell, which can be avoided in some shells by using braces instead of parens)
What else would you like me to say?

It is factually true that the Taliban and ISIS wanted to achieve cultural domination. Al Queda I'm not so sure about, but hell, they're religious extremists who sometimes masquerade as a violent and totalitarian political party.

It is also true that back in the 80's the US funded, specifically, Al Queda and the Taliban for various things. It doesn't mean they were our allies, just an underhanded way of doing policy. You saw this on repeat in Syria where we were giving weapons and funding to people that we'd, in any larger context, consider terrorists.

That just agrees with what's already been said. If you want me to disagree with anything it's your use of "naive". Ironically, if you can't perceive both as true (since they're both factually true), who is the naive one? My guess is on the person telling themselves a half baked truth.
This is interesting. There are similar "stories" about Elon Musk. Perhaps not quite the same as Jobs, but in the same vein. I've often wondered about this personality type of the emotionally unregulated, genius leader, who gets amazing things done, but can leave a bit of a wake behind them of slightly damaged people (both professionally and personally).

Is this really the only way to get great things done? Or is it just that these individuals get talked about a lot, and meanwhile the well balanced emotionally intelligent leaders are quietly working away, respecting their team and also doing groundbreaking stuff...

Anyway, never seen anyone talk about working for Steve here, so thanks for sharing your insights!
> SARS-CoV-2 will very likely become endemic and everyone in the world will eventually get naturally exposed to it, but delta is probably the optimally worst and most virulent form of the virus to get naturally exposed to.

Is it? I thought early signs were that Lambda is worse.
Ideally, the office is a 15 minute walk from home. Then you get a nice daily walk. I always enjoyed my walk to/from school.
Now add a linter for your comments.

https://languagetool.org/

(it is 'than', not 'then')
Exactly.

I'm the author of the article. My wife and I don't want to live in a city. We grew and always lived in small villages. The land is more affordable, there's much less pollution, we have more than enough space, a vegetable garden, hens, etc. We don't want to change any of that.

Of course every situation is different. Many colleagues live close to the office and are glad to be able to go there regularly. They enjoy it, and there's nothing wrong with that.

We initially found work in the capital because it's where the best opportunities are. All the big financial & European institutions have their headquarters in Brussels. Salaries are also much more interesting.

One of the points I wanted to convey in the article is that we've now proved that we can achieve the same work remotely, so there's no point in forcing us to go back to the office. It's about freedom of choice more than anything.
Nothing is true, everything is Excel...
I didn't mean it's necessary a bad choice for the individual, just that it's a systemic issue. When people only think in terms of monthly payment, then total prices become unmoored from fundamentals. But I agree I haven't (and probably can't) spell out this intuition rigorously.
Mostly central bank reserve "dollars", the kind that mortal consumers can't use to buy groceries.
There are other ways in which a study can be worthless than simply making up the data.
It's more like $10 million in today's money, based on the $12/gram cost shown for highly enriched uranium in "UCOST - A Computer Code for Calculating the Cost of Enriched Uranium" (Atomic Energy Commission report, 1966) and then adjusted by CPI.
China, Semiconductors, and the Push for Independence
"Furthermore, the last time Iranians chose their own government, the CIA and MI6 immediately overthrew that government and installed their own puppet."

Now I'm confused. Who is responsible for the Iranian Revolution and the installation of Ayatollah Khomeini as the Supreme Leader?
I had the same problem. Do any or all of the following:

- Seek professional help. This is the number one advice and will be extremely helpful.

- Remove all work-related accounts from you personal laptop and mobile. Try not to search for your work during your spare time. Search for something else, sports, books, tv series, anything.

- Find a hobby with a strict schedule to follow after work, and ideally a (short) goal-oriented one. Rock climbing is perfect because you have short term task to succeed (similar to your day-to-day tasks and tickets), but any of them can work. Just set a goal with your coach, e.g. play your first tennis match with an opponent in 6 months and so on.

- Move on. This is probably the hardest, but you really have to consider that this job or life style is not helping you and you need to change to something different. A different job, a non-startup job, a new house, a different neighbourhood, city, anything that can shock your system, help you relax and find some peace, and eventually strengthen your relationship with your partner.

- Instead of setting goals only for your work life, set some goals for your personal one, e.g. make a new friend within 2021, travel to Asia within 6 months and so on. Revisit them every now and then, and check how you are doing.

Best of luck to you.
The Social Dynamics of Weibo
How much money each generation has saved for retirement
I once had a short (10 minutes) commute. I worked a lot at home because my home setup is better than what any work provide (better screen, better chair, often better computer)... and no one bothered me with "hey, how is it going" every 30 minutes, judged me for leaving my desk for 1 hour, on what I ate or not.

Heck, I could THINK.

Those things are way too scarce in an open office.
So no, even for a short commute, I don't want to go to the office.
Where is Washington state in your rollout plan? 2021? 2022?
afghanistan is unexpectedly bad optics, but imho the truth is nobody cares about afghanistan beyond appearances, sadly.

But the COVID failure was much more important, visible and pretty stark. The US had ample time and warning from european countries to show some real leadership. They should have gone with what Australia did, and the rest of the developed world would follow their example. Instead it was a string of bad advice that makes one wonder what will happen in the next pandemic.
> 1800C° turbine inlet temperature sounds completely unrealistic

the current max is 1600C with cooled monocrystal blades. The 1800C seems to be a worthy goal post in this situation. More advanced cooling and/or say some tungsten composite for example. Even if they end up with "just" 1700C it would still be great.

Wrt. 6th gen in general - it looks what everybody is doing is just targeting the goal posts just a bit behind the 5th (some are even basically skipping the 5th). That actually would give us the 5+th gen. The true 6th will have totally new capabilities plus of course all this advanced 5+th tech as a base. Currently it seems to me that autonomous/AI will be that new capability (on top of much improved engines, radar/sensors, stealth body). This will also as usually differentiate top players possessing the next gen capabilities from the rest wannabes.
What a low effort piece on the part of a supposed skeptic. He confidently expounds that we have all of history figured out at the end of the article.

We don't even know all of the details about the Antikythera mechanism, and that was built far less than 10,000 years ago.

Boldly asserting that the established narrative is complete, and can't possibly be wrong just reeks of religious dogma, and is the opposite of science.

Update: This letter in Nature Communications asserts that sea levels rose 20 meters in 500 years, about 14,500 years ago. It's likely that most of the settled areas are now well underwater, on continental shelfs.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21990-y
This person appears to see a vast conspiracy by /the christians/. It's all just so bizarre.
awk '{ print your_command }' | bash

Never can remember all the -I stuff around xargs
Especially when it's only a single study with a surprising result.

Those go viral easily, but are usually wrong.
Why You Shouldn’t Start a Startup
I don't have that many people that call me, so I don't really suffer that problem.
At such large die scales and high temperatures heat engines become practical as a means of both cooling and also extracting work. I wonder if there is serious research in this area?
It disheartens me that you were downvoted for this reasonable question!
Are there good alternatives for solving the same / similar kinds of problems?

I am a big fan of property based testing that can fuzz through very similar types of problems but it's not quite the same.

Or is tla+ just the thing to use and it's worth ploughing through?
In other news: water is wet
Tangent, but:

> or the macOS “Sticky Notes” app that somehow still exists in 2021

Why isn’t Sticky Notes just a view into a particular folder in Notes.app, anyway?
The worst developers I've worked with have been sado-masochists who refuse to use IDEs.

People take pride in being less productive and making things harder than they need to be.
Parser generators vs. handwritten parsers: surveying major languages in 2021
I see lots of comments arguing with the post, but seeing it in its original context is important. The full article addresses many of the criticisms:

The roots of creativity and genius http://super-memory.com/articles/genius.htm
Great advice! Thank you.
"Racism is not dead, but it is on life support — kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists.'"

-- Thomas Sowell
> The Antipattern of the directory layout of your typical Java Enterprise Project is a Testament to this. (src/main/java/org/company/product/...)

My eye twitched when I read this. My company recently switched to a new build system and for whatever reason this required (I guess??) a change to the src/main/java... structure. The commit history going back over a decade, gone. It's not great.
Remote execution.
You must know how to work without an ide. Then you can learn on top an ide.
At high level imagine it like this:

The browser will only give access to the Yubikey token for a specific domain name - so if the attacker phishes for examle.org, rather then example.org, then there is just no tokens (signing keys) available the Yubikey could use and give to the browser.

In the early days WebUSB in Chrome had bugs that allowed to bypass that same origin check but that has been fixed 3 years ago.
> one week per iteration isn’t good.

Try training Imagenet. For some reason this is called a "medium" sized data set.

I do want to point something out though that's a big problem with a lot of your comments. We're seeing the results of what happens when you "just implement a DL pipeline." Lots of people are using these powerful tools without understanding. It's like handing a monkey a machine gun. We're seeing that models don't generalize like people think they do. We're seeing people use models pre-trained on ImageNet or CelebA and think that there is no bias in them. When people are saying you need to learn theory, this is really what they are concerned with.
That's how we operate: Issues only. Even legal and marketing use issues.

...In their ideal form, GitHub issues are homogenous. An issue is a task that you need to complete. If it isn’t a task, it isn’t an issue. If it’s done, it’s closed. If it’s not done, it’s open.
full self driving and 100% accident prone are not mutually exclusive, I guess
You FAANG apologists are funny. There is a dude responding to someother person with "Nobody made people buy phones with Android or iOS, so why should those companies be punished for that by not allowing them to do whatever they want with their platforms".

Well guess what, none of the alternatives to Android and iOS phones have the "broad software options" or offer anything that could compete with these two systems. So what now?
I think a lot of the pandemic changes were brought about because of uncertainty, and if every actor took the careful route at the same time, it prevented losses e.g. if everybody stopped producing lumber, the margin on lumber would rise; when the risk was over the margin would gradually drop as more producers came back online. The rise in non-wage labor costs certainly helped - shifting the same lumber production from covid to after covid was going to be cheaper.

The quit rate is up because it's as if workers had all agreed not to quit when the covid situation was more unknown (like what we're walking into.) If you had a nice, safe work-from-home gig that you hated, during a time of disease, risking the job was not smart until you started to see how covid was going to work itself out. Once you've gotten a good idea of that, 1) you've been working for a job you would have long quit if covid hadn't happened, and/or 2) you're working at a job that you kept because it kept you safely at home, but is now demanding that you come back into the office. The benefit of working from home (against the risk of working outside the home) has a compensation value.

We're reentering covid uncertainty, and I imagine that we'll react in the same way, only less so (because we're a little smarter.)
Can you expand on that? I've never had trouble leveraging xargs and find it aligns well with shell piping.
I'm fine with that =)
What is a better consensus protocol to use?
The Attention Span. “Be the Butterfly.”
Somewhere there should be stats on taxi and bus driver accidents.

I think that is what self-driving should be compared to, not the average person.

It's "applying for a job" as a professional driver, not as a simulated drunk, texting, shaving, eating, feet-on-dashboard average American driver.

Not too high a bar.