skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "They're sort of capricious," Andrade says. "They dig whenever they want to. We would put these ants in a container, and some would start digging right away, and they would make this amazing progress. But others, it would be hours and they wouldn't dig at all. And some would dig for a while and then would stop and take a break."

Related to this particular paragraph, up to 40% of ants in a colony are pretty lazy. A study has shown that they are reserve workers, and if a bunch of productive ants are “removed,” they become more active and take over the work.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170908205356.h...

Ants can also live up to 5 years, which kinda blew my mind when I first learned it. We are so used to small insects having correspondingly small lifespans.
> A shame that refinements don't really get much love

Their performance is quite awful on MRI. Any method that was refined is tagged as such, which incur a 40% performance hit (for empty methods)[0]. That alone tend to disqualify them for many use cases.

Then, it might get fixed, but whenever you call `using` all the heap is scanned and all methods caches flushed [1], which is a massive perf hit if it happens often.

TruffleRuby however runs them fast, but since most code out there target MRI, they're not really a good idea except for fringe use cases.

[0] https://gist.github.com/casperisfine/1c46f05cccfa945cd156f44...
[1] https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/4323
I didn't benchmark the maximal throughput although I may in future .
The "catalog" has two entries.
Marble Machine
It seems anyone that implements objects first, implements closures with them. Anyone that implements closures first, implements objects with them.

Let over Lambda being the super fun book of implementing anything with closures.
Nobody sane uses Kerberos to do IAM for public APIs. But people use them for inter-service authentication, as the post mentions. It links to an article I wrote a couple years ago that considers Kerberos in the context of a variety of other inter-service security tools.
This reads like a cult member dismissing abuse while attempting to recruit to their cult.
The desktop view!

Some people on mobile phones like the desktop view with timeless skin (add ?useskin=timeless to end of url).

E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_between_Quebec_and_Newf... (assuming you arent autoredirected to mobile)
> That may all be true, but (at least some) older people have more to extract.

Not when multiplied by number of hours foolishly spent on employer interests while caught up in the competitive frenzy with effectively zero other obligations.
No it really does happen its just not so common among older people, I know people who got in trouble with their gf because they were caught subscribing to the OF of some other girl they both knew. Only half the appeal is random people selling nudes, the other half is the hot chick from your high school class selling them.
The guys who rip it to YouTube cut out the commercials, and NewPipe delivers the audio feed ad free. I'm not a big Rogan guy but even if I paid for Spotify I'd probably watch it that way.
68k macs were pretty solid though.
Well I'm obviously in the wrong market then! Down here in Oklahoma, I'm a Senior Software Engineer, and I'm only at $110k, plus around $10k in bonuses a year. There's very few opportunities for salary increases unless I start looking for remote work outside of the state or I opt to move into a management role.

Most senior salaries around here seem to be in the $95-120k range, so when I see similar numbers for "entry level" roles, it always perks me up a bit.
can you explain this a bit more? Why wouldn't "invest in an index fund" be the obvious alternative to micromanaging thousands of investments?
Not just dating apps, but really _any_ app with location based chat. Telegram hit the top page of HN a few months ago with a similar vulnerability[0]. There's other apps that sell this as a feature! Snapchat does this and you can see people down to the exact corner of the street they're standing on. Ads (used to) allow you to do it too[1]

[0] https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/01/05/telegrams-people-ne...

[1] http://adint.cs.washington.edu/ADINT.pdf
> But since work is per job, when they want to work a few hours a week or take time off, that's also possible without repercussions.

I realize it's rather irrational but I personally don't think I could stomach the non-salaried lifestyle. A day of vacation is a day's wages lost. I'm sure it's something you learn to live with but I appreciate that the cost of taking time off is quite abstract for me.
I had completely stopped downloading movies in 2018, and even for that year, I downloaded very few. I had been tapering off since 2015. These are real numbers from my NAS. I got a seedbox 2 months ago. This was my last straw: trying to rent some movie on Amazon and was told I had to subscribe to some service to watch it--there was no price to watch it once.

The other things I did recently:
1) paused Google YTTV because NBA season was over
2) canceled Netflix because I never watch it

I've been watching content (some of it very old, like The Larry Sanders Show) on HBO Max, but the app on Roku is *SO HORRIBLE* I'd rather pirate content and watch it on PLeX.

The Amazon app/UI is *HORRIBLE*, too. Like multiple seasons are separate items? WTF. I'll download series I have access to on Amazon just to avoid that app.
I saw a story on here yesterday about iphones resetting to default settings after restarting. So people were turning off backups to the cloud, and then finding that their device turned the feature on after sometime.
As for the final feedback on leaving the group instruction and taking a more B2C Duolingo approach (coupled with live actors), I think that's an interesting thought (and I LOVE Duolingo). I just do not philosophically want to start in the B2C go-to-market space. Majority of the kids we serve come from Title 1 schools (low income families). Presuming access to internet or even access to quiet reading space is something that doesn't always reflect the students we serve. 65% of NYC public schools are Title 1 schools. The equity aspect of being part of structured classroom time is really important to me at this time. Doesn't mean we cannot add B2C down the road though! By the way, The 'Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer' looks dope! Just purchased on amazon to check it out!
Advertisers don’t want to advertise next to controversial guests, so if there’s another platform they don’t have 100 megabucks to buy content with (I mean, podcasting is the most open platform of all before “exclusive podcasts” became a thing)
> Hyper-intelligent algorithms are not going to take over the world for these five reasons.

I agree.

Just like a nuclear power plant will never meltdown, because they are extremely well designed with large safety buffers.

And just like a pandemic will never be started by lab experiments, because they use extreme safety measures when they work with viruses.

We can always just unplug the AI or disconnect it from the Internet, or just not give it a survival instinct, right?
I just wish there was some interoperability with the tab syncing and password management features in Safari. I know that isn’t on Mozilla, but having to migrate the massive iCloud database of all my passwords and give up tab syncing to my phone makes switching to Firefox a hard sell.
Yes I would not be surprised if it is US only.
I had a 2016 that got the keyboard replaced 7 times before they upgraded me to a 2017 on which I replaced the keyboard 5 more times before I gave up and sold it.

Each time they replaced the top-case which includes the entire battery assembly, touchbar, speakers. Valued at $800 just for the parts each time. That's $9600 for everyone keeping score.

I called Apple's bluff on saying their keyboards are reliable.
What would be really cool is neural networks with routing. Like circuit switching or packet switching. No idea how you would train such a beast though.

Like imagine the vision part making a phonecall to the natural language part to ask it for help with something.
Show HN: 59a34eabe31910abfb06f308 – NeuralHash Collision Demo
Regarding the Mac Pro. I think the addon cards are a taste of things to come. They remind me of the old Acorn Archimedes slices on the RISC PC https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risc_PC - you could add CPUs (ARM - this is where ARM started!, x86 and DSPs).

They definitely took inspiration from that, and I think they’re going to reveal a game changer with the next Mac Pro. I suspect it’ll be similar. Imagine being able to add loads of M-spec CPU daughterboards & a few AMD ryzen ones for your virtualisation antics?
This just sounds like wishful thinking from cryptocurrency enthusiasts. There is no precedent of this happening, so I doubt they were so terrified about a completely hypothetical scenario.
This looks similar to Posthog of YC W20
Over here we have a 2 years mandatory warranty, and most if not all of the price difference can be explained by the displayed prices including VAT and dollar -> euro conversion.

Now, it only covers defects, but that’s what most warranties do.
A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps
Huh. Me too. It's like it switches between two modes: typing, or emacs-keys-movement. And sometimes gets so bad it takes almost a second between them.

Resetting my bluetooth module and factory resetting all connected bluetooth peripherals helps usually. But it's a pain.
Part of the reason they've gotten so much heat is because of cases of underage girls selling photos on that site for some time before they're caught. I don't know if they've found a solution to that problem or just come to some agreement with their payment processors
I think this is partly from attention seeking, and partly from society assigning de facto virtue to the disadvantaged.
Yeah it’s not like Joe’s goal in life was to influence people. Dude wants to make a living talking to people, which he’s achieved 100fold
I use terminator, one window, tabs, and vimwiki is always my first tab.
Interesting! Can one have effect handlers in an untyped language such as scheme ?
Facebook reports over one million(!!!) images of child sexual abuse on their platform per year, and that's only the stuff that they identify and find. Clearly it's a platform where a huge amount of illegal materials are being exchanged, yet Visa and MasterCard happily keep Facebook as a client.

>>but there is no denying that vetting that every OnlyFan sexworker is a task they can’t likely perform easily.

Just make every performer submit a valid ID to have an account, if my mobile provider can ask for that, why not OF?
Put Linux on it.
6 years in the UK.
> they were infrequently used, and when they were in use, it was always the same three guys.

Incidentally most startups I've been part of, there were just a few guys doing the vast majority of the heavy lifting while the rest treated it as just another 9-5.
That sounds insane and like a failing of a justice system.
>I don’t understand why they don’t just use Bitcoin or some other crypto, seems like this is the exact use case it was designed for

The most popular options, BTC & ETH, are incredibly expensive for $20 subscription payments.
> if they just mailed them to the customer they would have invented proto-netflix in 1972, but nooooo, cartrivision had to do absolutely everything wrong.

No, they would have invented a still foobared prototype of Blockbuster Video.
> They harm US consumers first and foremost

Problem is, it's hard to find these consumers who are 'harmed' and clamoring for redress of their grievances. I'm one of them and I'm actually very happy with the value delivered per dollar in the existing mobile space.

Other businesses harmed? Maybe, but if you think that Epic is going to drop their prices 30% in lockstep with a hypothetical elimination of app store fees, I have a bridge to sell you. This dream of a breakup of Google and Apple is not going to be the boon to consumers that some idealists are imagining.
Could also be a commensurate drop in interest in Twitter
Phone books were included by default, but with an opt out choice (might have cost extra for an unlisted number). They usually had address in there too, so you could search by name and get address.

"Why should it be that way?"

I'm not sure. You could probably set up authorized use databases for people that use this, like process servers, PIs, repo, etc. Of course there are companies that would likely qualify and open the records via those public record searches. One could also set up an anonymous WY LLC and register everything that way. You could even defeat license plate readers that way.

One use case for the general public would be serving/filing private criminal complaints.
> Here's one you might ask: Why? I'm pushing 60 and I've attempted to interview for developer jobs over the last year. Got nowhere despite 40 years of experience. Getting really, really tired of this industry's attitude toward people like me.

Ironically, in the early 2000's it was the opposite. Something did change though because I've seen the problem you're talking about.

One thing could be companies, recruiters, or manager looking for CS or CE degree specifically. Someone who is 60 outdates CS and CE. I'd caveat by saying most fresh grads don't actually know how to negotiate algorithms correctly. They leetcode like everyone else before the interviewing process. As I've gotten older I've developed more holistic understandings of some data structures and algorithms, but definitely not all of them. The skill I think I became more adept at was working through the logic of them more efficiently. That's the gift repetition gives though, I suspect. All that to say, if entities are overvaluing those degrees, it's an irrelevant requirement.

Another thing could be that most jobs are phrased, "CS, CE, or equivalent experience". As someone without a degree "equivalent experience" at times boiled down to, "Have you worked at a FAANG or on FAANG level problems?" It's a circular dependency unless you spend some time in growth companies or start ups that don't have these hard requirements. Again, it's another useless requirement because you either have the math chops to solve the problems in front of you or you don't. I don't need provenance to tell me that.

All that to say, I don't even imagine how old someone is when I'm looking at a resume. Most of my judgement relies on the interviewing process and whether you can negotiate a simple algorithm and some systems design. That's as data driven as I can get it right now, although highly inefficient, but inefficiency is worth the time for quality, imo.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28301830
4 Things Engineering Managers of Effective teams do
Oh, I guess I meant that I don't think he has a chance of winning. Thank you for pointing that out, I didn't realize standing was an actual legal term.
Ah you’re one of those. I hope you get the help you need before you hurt yourself or someone else.
Can't this kind of focus get really dangerous towards those who actually suffer from these challenges? I've already been accused of faking various illnesses/psych symptoms that I've been diagnosed with so this is a bit scary to me, that it's already a problem that providers dismiss symptoms, and when they read something like this they're going to be more likely to. There is supposedly a way to differentiate but I guarantee no GP is going to be doing that, and with doctors visits now 15 mins in the us (with as little as 5-8 being just for the patient) it's very difficult to get anything done.
I quit today, it was a long time coming. I love my work, but feel impacted by my boss and manager and don't want to do it for them anymore. I wish I was able to communicate my issues and work it out with them, but they ignored an email to talk and didn't show up to my annual review.

I realized that I was allowing myself to be trapped in an unhappy situation. I complain about work a lot, and I'm tired of this being my daily experience. I want to go back to designing and building quality software for people who care.

I think it's hard to go through quitting because I feel like I failed to push through the barriers and couldn't achieve what I needed to thrive. I want to learn from my mistakes and improve my ability to establish better relationships and communicate expectations. I kept thinking I needed to do that where I was, but now I know I need to be in a more supportive environment to grow.

I have been wanting to do my own thing for a long time. I have ideas for offering tech training and finding my own clients. I believe that people are most creative and productive when they are happy and have healthy relationships with the people around them. I want to try building a business that treats people this way, while guiding them in developing valuable skills and progressing in their career.
This seems like a potential use-case for differential privacy. Normally DP is used for protecting individuals within aggregates, but the careful analysis of how much (and what kind) of noise to add could be brought to bear here.
My personal MBP is a 2015 that I bought that summer. I had to have the screen replaced that fall and last summer I had the battery replaced for $200. I have a keyboard cover and a plastic case around the laptop to keep it safe. No problems. It basically just sits around my house.

I got a 2016 MBP for work back in 2018 and that one also had a keyboard cover and a plastic shell around it. This one I schlepped all over the Chicago area to and from work. I used to use the keyboard on it all day, then switched to an external keyboard. That one was basically plugged into thunderbolt dock all day long. That one worked fine, up until last winter when the battery would not take a charge. I was given a 2018 MBP and that one works just fine. Sits on my desk with attached to a thunderbolt dock.
The damage is already done. I was doing a photoshoot at my house with 2 models that have OnlyFans accounts. When the news hit they literally signed up for other platforms within an hour.

The other platforms are capitalizing on the news and finding ways to make migration to their platform as easy as possible.
Appreciate the comment. I'm definitely not chasing startups full of youngsters. I'm way, way beyond having any desire to work for FAANG type companies. I just want to write code and get out of marketing (which has been good to me, but never my passion).

I recognize I'm taking a risk making this switch, but I also can't see myself sticking with marketing much longer.
I’d think of them as ISOs. But I can see why they’d be considered ROMs too.
I use Notepad++ like the author to keep a big a** text file but split it into separate files per quarter; they typically contain ideas which then make it to Notion if I'm really excited about them. But it's really hard to commit to online tools over simplicity of a git repo full of text files.

I also have a text file with 'comments from HN' which I revisit randomly and prompts either research or just nice trivia.. so thank y'all ;)
Or, you know, it's absolutely ridiculous that they sell broken stuff and then want to charge you more for you to receive a working product that you paid for in the first place. Maybe they should try to engineer things so that they don't break within a reasonable time frame under normal wear&tear. Would save money for both themselves and the customer in the end.
Yes! a nice aspect of effect handlers is that they have an untyped dynamic semantics.

Having said that, tracking effect types can be very beneficial, especially if you do interesting control flow like async/await for example.
Of course they did!. It was that or give up the company basically.
Who is the author Kevin Kelly and why does he think he has a greater hold on this issue than luminaries like Ray Kurzweil?
People getting ROMs to play on another device doesn't stop them from doing that any more than the original systems and game carts stop them.
Thanks!

That's a super promising line of thinking.

We really like how Vercel works with pull requests -- generating a preview, blocking the pr if there is a failure in the build process etc. and that's definitely where we'd like to go with the cloud service. We hadn't thought of providing executed SQL back into the review context but of course that would be do-able and very useful.

There is a whole host of tooling that you can build around the artifacts when you move them into code. One example an early user suggested was scanning your entire project to find repeated blocks of SQL, and surfacing them to be re-factored into your data warehouse (into your dbt project for example). You could imagine a github action that periodically opens a PR with those suggested re-factors.
+1. I've been using it for the best part of a decade. I've tried other things but always come back to workflowy.

It was kinda stagnant for years, but in the past year or so there's been a lot of new features.

In think it's a YC company too, so the developers are probably here...
I feel like part of the problem is that your position is changing based on outcome, right, like it became a problem after the fact when it became a commercial hit.
This is less a problem for Joe than it is for his advertisers. I wonder about the effectiveness of pre-roll ads vs extremely annoying mid-sentence ad breaks scattered through the episode. Use to be joe was one of the more enjoyable blocks of 3 hour content to listen to because there were no commercial breaks.
> "Have you worked at a FAANG or on FAANG level problems?"

"I have not, do you have those problems with 10k users too?"
Yea, it's their Achilles heel.

You can throw money at directors, and actors, but there are just so many great movies, and most were made by hollywood years ago.

The owners of those great films, started their own streaming service.
You're right: there's lots of little mistakes I have in that post. And I think the variable binding vs variable-values thing is a major mistake I left in there... and I appreciate the corrections.

Hopefully my relatively low-effort translation is useful to someone out there. But yes, I do admit that I "err on the side of incorrect", trying to favor simplicity in the explanation instead.
Apple is the master of planned obsolescence.
Hmmm. I see you are out to embarrass yourself even more.

Do go one share your thoughts.
It is hard to identify even one statement in the above that is correct.
A friend of a friend is currently pretending to have Tourettes on TikTok and amassed quite a following. This person seems to have shown attention seeking behavior in the past. I'm not sure one would call this an illness, but it depends on your definition.
I don't have a numerical proof based on numbers myself either, but myself and everyone in my circles has increased.
I stopped listening to him around the time that he signed to spotify. But I think that was coincidental. I just got sick of how he's such a nutter and a dummy -- even though I like many things about who he is and what he does.