skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i'm the only one who thinks medium is each time more crap?(medium not the post)
Seems like a good portion of ex-marines etc are saying exactly this (that the execution was a failure) publicly.
Trust me. The way activism is going, they would do it even with no money offered.
Isn't a raspberry pi 400 like $80?
I hate these roles at my company. I guess it's mostly because the data systems are a mess and require DB2 and COBOL knowledge.
I know a firearm owner who’s immediate family has experienced two incidents of violent armed robbery. Yes, that did shape their worldview. While I get the vibe your poking at, some are very justified in their caution and desire to be prepared for the worst even if the worst is admittedly very unlikely to happen.
Well that is what happens when you are liberal trash.
> Or maybe those people know what they are talking about and the truth is that many people who are big fans of automated testing tend to overrate its value when it comes to many areas of software development.

I would normally agree with you, but a TCP Stack is one of those things where I vehemently disagree.

Communication stacks, in general, are giant piles of implicit state unless you go out of your way to manage the state explicitly. As such, they have obscure bugs which are difficult to find when some of the cases are hit rarely.

A communication stack really needs to be written such that the inputs (including TIME), the outputs, the current state, and the next state are all quite explicit. This enables you to test the stack because it is now deterministic with respect to inputs and outputs.

Yes, it's not easy. And it requires that you really mean it and architect it that way. You may not be able to evolve your current stack and may have to throw it away--that's never going to be popular.

However, every single time I have done this for a communication stack (USB, CANopen, BLE, etc.), the result was that the new stack quickly overtook the old stack on basically every metric worth monitoring (throughput, latency, reliability, bug rate, etc.).

Now, to be fair, I was obviously replacing a communication stack that was some level of "pile of crap" or I wouldn't have done it. However, I'm just one person, and those stacks generally came from a company who had a vested interest in it not sucking. I'm not some amazing programmer, and I certainly didn't spend more time on it than the original stack, so it really comes down to the fact that the "underlying architecture" was simply a better idea.
I don't know why the poor's keep complaining, everything is great.

Median income statistic as proof

I am very smart.
hitting park cars... thanks to autopilot
Shrink your W10 partition then install W11 to the new space from the ISO.

Any unavailable W11 drivers install manually by pointing to "D:\WINDOWS\INF and D:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS" or wherever your w10 files are.

Works on an old Dell W7 business desktop with a Core2 Duo E8400.
Thanks for letting me know.

Not sure what data would show that, maybe if there was a strong increase associated in time with legal drug policy change(s)? Other than that, I suppose a link between prosecutions and deaths...

I worry that lockdowns haven't helped situations like this, but saying that is... inflammatory...
I believe it's arrhythmias that you've heard of. The incidence of carditis are, so far, incidental rather than attributed to COVID. It's theorized that carditis develops from overactive immune response, but that's not confirmed.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7199677/

Arrhythmias are not uncommon under metabolically stressed individuals.
At least learn to speak properly in the language you’re going to troll in.
It's funny how different the connotations of this are in the US compared to, I think, many countries in the rest of the world. I just spent a few months in Brazil and my impression was that it's common/normal for people to live with their parents longer. I believe it's similar in Italy? For men, at least. Am I wrong about those two? For the non-US HN crowd, what about your country?
Btw, thought of something else. With OpenAPI you can actually embed examples in the spec. I believe there are tools to generate postman requests from these also.
> unmarried students who reside in on-campus college dorms are counted as living in their family home

Eh? So if more people went to college it would show up as more living at home?
Australians are building concentration camps as we speak.

You sure you want to be on the wrong side of history?
I am in a DevOps role and do not like it. It's mostly config, troubleshooting, and PRD support. It would be nice to do some actually coding.
Were those incidents of street robbery, or armed home invasion?
Its not like Saigon.

While we also lost in Vietnam, there actually was meaningful local capacity; the ARVN fought on (losing, sure, but it didn't collapse) for years after the general US withdrawal from Vietnam, and even right up to and during the PAVN push into Saigon.

This is a much bigger catastrophe than the fall of Saigon because the Afghan war has been a much more complete failure than Vietnam.
>You can debate about its limits but somebody with a hardline position smacks of somebody who has never dealed with the real world issues but is cocksure about how things should be done.

The canard about what happens when you assume applies in this case. Very much so.

I've moderated forums and I've never had a problem with simply deleting spam out-right when it came up. Same with problematic users and posts.
More than that, they’re still on the terrorist list. This is quite literally treason by definition. We literally handed over our allies, I don’t know how you recover from this. This isn’t just US citizens, it’s British, Afghan, French, etc etc...

I am honestly just hoping we don’t see Ukraine and Taiwan fall within the next 60-120 days.
So many people are calling this a scam or laundering, but I think there are some ppl who have so much $, like early adopters, brands, exchanges,execs, that they are willing to make seemingly stupid purchases for PR purposes or as some weird form of signaling. Like for the same reason luxury goods cost so much even if they are not much better.
You also should be able to host your own server instance and be able to communicate with others on the network (XMPP, Matrix, ...).
At least learn to suck a dick properly.
I built a much cruder version of this for the YCombinator Hardware Hackathon 8 years ago.

http://jack.minardi.org/raspberry_pi/ycombinator-hardware-ha...

It was a great experience and we walked away with first prize. I can't believe that was 8 years ago now!
I wish I had the energy to dive in to a delightful segue. But: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26804484

… okay, I fail at presenting why this is interesting. Let me try again.

Ha, I tricked you. The thing I want to talk about is CHOOSE and FAIL.

There’s a certain kind of program that can solve this problem in remarkably little code: non-deterministic.

Imagine you had a JavaScript statement called fail;

if (foo) { fail; }

The program continuously restarts, trying all possible combinations such that fail never executes.

It’s like pretending the code (or incidentally, the start of my comment) has supernatural powers. It can “look into the future” and set up all the variables such that it just so happens never to fail;.

Therefore, you could solve the problem like this:

for each possibility {
if possibility doesn’t spend all the tokens {
fail
}
print(possibility)
}

The program will execute and perfectly print out every solution. And that’s all the code you need.

So with that intro, I encourage you to scroll back up and read the comment chain I linked, if you’re thirsty for details.

Now I sleep. Goodnight :) fail. Just kidding, I’m awake still.

EDIT: Bah, I really did a terrible job with this. Sorry. You’re probably wondering “why not just use continue instead of fail?” and “what about CHOOSE?”

Those are reasonable questions. The magic here is that the logic can be arbitrarily complicated. You can say “if x + y != 10, then fail; print(x,y)” and it will only print pairs like 1 and 9, 2 and 8, etc. But you’re probably still wondering “why not just loop x from 1 to 10, y from 1 to 10, and skip any x+y != 10? That’s like a Python one-liner.”

… I think this is a case where I should have thought a bit more carefully before commenting, so I’ll leave this as an actual fail. But, all I can say is, non-determinism really is delightfully fascinating, and I hope I sparked one person’s curiosity about it…

… sorry? runs away like an introvert
What level of incompetence is it when you mess up the withdrawal from a war so badly that:

1) You hand over a list of everybody who ever worked with you to the people who will likely execute them (https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/26/us-officials-provid...)

2) You shut down your major airbase (with a hospital) in the middle of the night without telling anybody (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57682290)

3) Military veterans are now having to fucking self fund their own personal missions back into the country to save people. This is happening completely outside of any chain of command.

4) Nobody has been fired over this except for a marine who spoke out against the fact that nobody had been fired. (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/marine-officer-relieved-d...)

Meanwhile the Commander in Chief of our fighting forces is an 80+ year old, rapidly deteriorating old man who appears to be barely aware of where he is half of the time.

What in the HELL are we doing? How are we to be considered a serious people anymore?
Kids, stay at home, save money, use your parents insurance until 26, save money. Car insurance is high until 25, except if you’re on your parents policy. I bought my first flat at 29 after a string of bad decisions in my youth. The best thing you can do is set up an investment account early and let the savings compound.
As a gay person, I'm not really a fan of the clickbait title, and also the implication that banning sexually-oriented material bans the totality of "the queer past".

That said, what fucking century am I living in? At some point I hope there is a backlash to the pearl clutching over sexually oriented material, and that banning it all is somehow the way forward to protecting kids.
Problem E of that set is hilariously wrong:

The probability of being born a male is 0.466. The probability of being born in North America is 0.153846. The probability of being born in an urban location is 0.3571428. Find the exact probability that a baby will be born a male, in North America, in an urban location.

They obviously expect you to multiply those numbers (seven digit numbers with the quadratic algorithm -- poor kids), but the joint probability equals the product if and only if the random variables are independent, which in this case they are not.

Problem B (mentioned in the article) is probably not as bad as it looks: you can eyeball that the target sum is approximately half of the total, and you can probably match the final digit.
Maybe I'm just dense, but i feel like crypto is in a dad phase and will not really grow from here.
If everyone is paid more but the housing supply remains limited housing prices will simply increase further.

My friend in California makes twice as much as I do on the east coast. I can afford a home and he can’t.

Supply and demand. Housing prices will only go down when there is significant excess supply.

If you want to help homelessness build more housing. Not specifically low income housing, just lots of housing. No it is not going to help the people living on the street right now, but it is the only real solution.
It's not that it's different than the rest of the world, it's that in the past the US was wealthy enough that this wasn't a typical thing to do. The news here is more that the US is in decline, and it's no longer standard for young people to be able to afford to live on their own.
You shouldn’t save money over looking after your mental health. Your own space as an adult is important.
FYI Google Pay actually creates a new "credit card", i.e. a single-use token for every payment, something along those lines would probably be great if more widely adopted.

https://support.google.com/pay/merchants/answer/6345242?hl=e...

I agree with the other post that keeping meatspace terminology isn't bad. Offering a "Single use credit card" would be an easily understandable feature.
It was a tiny, tiny elite who were online compared to today.

As late as 2003, 90% of the world was not on the internet.

Internet culture represents the average person now whereas it didn't at all up through the first Internet bubble and bust.
Afghanistan was a demonstrably "sovereign nation" before the US invaded?
> Is there a name for the common practice where a vendor produces a low-priced and a high-priced version of a product that actually contain the exact same chip, only the lower-priced version has some features disabled.

There's binning, and market segmentation, I think.

Binning is the part where you produce all your units "identically", but then test them and put them in different output "bins" depending on their performance (or size or functional features or whatever).

Market segmentation is where you break up your product into different artificially-differentiated quality/feature-tiers, in order to extract maximum value from the market (cheap tier for those budget items, high tiers for those who have more money to spend).

The thing with Binning for silicon is that eventually your manufacturing process is tuned well enough that most of your parts are full-featured, so then you have to explicitly disable features to preserve your market segmentation. I don't know the term for that exact action.
Not surprising. If you were a bit imaginative in the old days, and put your power hungry psychopath hat on (which is a fair description of those in power), you could imagine the ways technology could be used to silently produce net effects and results without anyone really knowing to avoid any protest.

Here’s another one: Google can use your aggregate data along with other sources to determine whether you seem like someone favorable to the regime or not. If not, the probability distribution shifts in a way that directs you toward certain jobs and so forth that keep you from what the refine doesn’t want you near. It’s like a BigTech version of providence, except unlike divine providence, they don’t care about you.

Or if they don’t like you, reveal unflattering information about you to people you know in ways that look like search results.

Lots of possibilities. People are also too complaisant to protest things like these even when it’s made public.
There is no mass revolt going on against Facebook. Get real.
Indeed, both the "woke" and the "alt right" are united in their love of repressing what other people have to say. You are correct!
> I don't think your short list of actors says much about the whole range of experiences.

And you think your even more anecdotal and even more vague "I haven't heard many positive stories from former child actors who talk about their experiences" does?
That's normal for most latin cultures. The max normally accepted age varies of course but it's quite higher than in other cultures.
We call that a dark pattern.
It didn't have a stable leadership before that, either.
And yet, the only remaining nuclear power plant under construction in the US is going to cost nearly 30 billion dollars, which unfortunately may ensure that this will be the last commercial nuclear power plant we ever build here

Regardless of the theoretical advantages of nuclear power, in practice we haven't found a way to make it cost effective going forward.
The US armed forces are extremely well versed with destructive decommissioning of equipment (blowing up stuff you don’t want to manage). The fact that everything was present to ensure that no advanced or classified weapon technology would be left behind, but nothing was done, smacks of corruption.
Somehow I doubt "Leo" actually understands anything about NP-completeness or the Lisp program written in the article. When I was in third grade I was learning times tables.

Anyway, the "trick" for me was to just group the toys together into small sets that make easily workable values. For example, I tried to find a small grouping of toys that ends in 94 cents. Boat + Racecar + Checkers = $19.94

After that I tried to find small groups of toys that added to whole numbers. For example, Bear ($4.89) + Xylophone ($7.11) = $12. Once you have a few of those, it's easy to find solutions:

So then 2x (Bear + Xylophone) + Boat + Racecar + Checkers = $12 + 12 + $19.94 = $43.94

Of course, knowing whether you've found all solutions is, as the article notes, an entirely different beast.
They stopped blocking it shortly after the new year. I've been checking that link every couple months or so.
why not create your own NFT niche (maybe NFT Furbies, NFT leafs, or whatever) and then use some of the profits to better the human race like by donating to charity, after buying a home. If this is such a huge and legal opportunity to profit from a bubble, why not jump in.
Shadow banning isn’t really something used in private messages, no?
It is hard, but only if you try to find the general solution. If instead you think in the way the problem designer (who had a target audience of 3rd graders in mind) intended the solution to be found, then it becomes easy to find a solution: one of each toy from the yo-yo to the car (inclusive). That gets you $5.18 from the goal of $43.94, so get another car (the problem doesn't state you can't have repeats).
I've moderated a forum before. Some people on the Internet are just crazy. If you ban them, they will come after you—maybe even in person. Shadowbanning on forums (setting aside the FB case) is sometimes abused, but it serves a vital purpose: preserving the time and safety of volunteer moderators.
Ah. Submitted title was 'The 20“x24” polaroid instant camera', which I assumed somehow meant it wasn't really x24.

Fixed now - thanks!
I think, the problem is deeper. People turn towards drugs when something else in their life is terribly broken and they see no way of fixing it. And I suspect that the ongoing erosion of the middle class has something to do with it. I think the current popular viewpoint that we should just be ok with a growing fraction of the population effectively committing a gradual mental suicide, welcome it and make it easier, is totally wrong.
My Ubuntu VM on my Mac Mini gets outstanding performance which validates the point that macOS isn't essential for the performance. I'm sure however that macOS is very helpful in ensuring the power efficiency on laptops.
There's also benefits to establishing independence early and reaping the compounded rewards of a lifetime of confidence built through bearing burden(s) of responsibility.
This doesn't seem like a big deal. The group that would typically be out of college (25-29) only increased from 26% to 28%.
Amazing guide. Explains a ton of seemingly abstract concepts in clear, concrete terms.

I'm going to share this around and encourage others to do the same.
The US is in decline for some of us.

The wealthy folks are raking it in like never before.
It will happen in the US. BigTech is a reaction to the internet. The ruling oligarchy lost control of the narrative. They need to control information flow again.
You’re mixing up two legal concepts: expectation of privacy and common carriers.

Despite phone companies being common carriers (and thus being required to carry communications without censoring them), the Supreme Court has made it clear that people should have no reasonable expectation of privacy when they relay communications through a pay phone. The reasoning was that you give up your right to privacy when you involve a third party to your conversation. See Katz v. United States, 389 U.S. 347 (1967).

So the two can coexist.

Only common carriers are forced to carry speech unimpeded, regardless of its content. Expectation of privacy is irrelevant to common carrier status. The former is about whether it can be intercepted. The latter is about whether it can be impeded.
Mice one step closer to being immortal.
Portugal decriminalized all drugs in 2001 and saw a massive drop in all the secondary issues associated with drug use - overdose deaths, disease, etc. In fact they went from among the worst in the EU to among the best over a decade or so, and saw no material increase in drug use. In fact drug use in Portugal remains below the EU average. [1,2]

It’s long past time for us to follow suit.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/05/portugals-radic...

[2] https://time.com/longform/portugal-drug-use-decriminalizatio...
Exactly. I live in an East Asian country and my impression is that generally speaking young people who live at home would prefer to live alone but don't because of finances and filial piety.
They do it because it is effective. Otherwise people would be more likely to try to circumvent it.
Ayup. "Always Late(tm) Inventory" in action.

Everybody drained down their inventory heading into Covid assuming demand was going to crash. Simply replenishing that was going to take time even under the best of circumstances.

And, to be fair, there likely has been a bit of uptick in semiconductor demand--lots of people needed webcams, new monitors, new mice, new graphics cards, etc.

Also, fabs are normally running pretty close to capacity in general. An idle fab is a waste of money. This leads to the famous "feast or famine" in the semiconductor industry--either your fab is running full out and people are scrambling to build more, or you have oversupply and your fabs are completely idle. There is basically no middle ground.

I suspect there is also some overbuying going on that is going to unwind on December 31 when a whole bunch of CFOs realize that there is a big tax bill for a bunch of overbought inventory.

It's lots of things all coming together, but, at the end of the day, it's simply the fact that nobody holds inventory, and nobody will get fired for not holding it.
That being said, there are several initiatives that can hopefully challenge the visa/mc hegemony:

https://payid.com.au/ is gaining wide adoption in Australia. It seems like Australia has abandoned their homegrown payment rails (EFTPOS) in recent years and all bank cards are actually visa/mc. But maybe with PayId on phones this will change again.

https://www.europeanpaymentscouncil.eu/what-we-do/sepa-insta... is coming to Europe and hopefully will see similar adoption to PayID.

As mentioned often, America is behind the rest of the world by at least a decade but maybe they can leapfrog similar to developing markets.
he is missing a comma?
I mean, that's my exact point. If there is anything 2001 or 2008 taught the world, it's that the Fed will run the printing press full bore if there is a big downturn, so putting cash in your mattress is the absolute worst place for it to be.
>> The mental energy it takes to write the 30 lines of Go is probably lower than the mental energy is takes to write those 5 lines of lisp.

I would use more mental energy to write 30 lines of Go, than 5 in lisp. Also if you take into account that you have a true REPL and you can do REPL driven development, which spares you some extra mental energy.

But to be fair, Paul is talking about macros, which Go doesn't even have.Macros are more complicated, but are often oversold and over hyped. Yes, they are great, you can extend the language and all, but macros are not that often used, you can probably pick a random lisp codebase and search for macros, I bet you won't find any or less than 2% of the entire codebase. If macros in lisp didn't exist I would still use it, because I love building expressions vs building statemets.
The easiest solution: Sort from largest to smallest. Then just do a DFS. Or, if you're so inclined, pay attention to the 1s digit. You know the digit has to add to exactly 4, because there is an exact fit. The search space is not 20^20, it's not even close.