skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This thing with the founders is interesting (remind me to make my own license with "I take it all down with me if you destroy me" clause), but I want to know much more.

But who/what is the attack vector? Is it a coordinated attack and if so, what is the method and who are the backers? Are there other founders included in this trend? Granted, those three are pretty big but ...
Not a civil war at all. Gazans aren't citizens of Israel, they have their own elections and government. But if you insist, you can switch "Gaza" to "Lebanon" which fires missiles at Israel every now and then as a nuisance (just did a few weeks ago).
The present value of an income stream starting in the future at the established rate may be higher in some cases than the present value of an income stream at a lower rate that starts immediately.
I wonder if this is related to the 418 "I'm a teapot" HTTP response code?
Noone is working on the next general purpose OS for the end user. Maybe apart of Google.

For some reason people wish to stick with dated unsafe crap from prehistoric era.
Agreed.

Not to mention he takes ages to say not much.

There are some good points buried in here, but it takes him over 5 minutes before he's even on topic.
I am working with Go with more than 3 years quite full time and I could say that it's a real pleasure to work with a performant language.

After having some internal libraries to make repetitive jobs (while waiting for generics in Go 1.18), that's a good match for all the team!

That's also a well-documented language and easy to get started in!
Crypto scams have always existed...usually by YouTube influencers, being promised free crypto for promoting and "vetting" the nonsense.
> An attack on North Korea, even if a justifiable retaliation, would feel like an attack on the Chinese people for a great many everyday people in China.

I lived in Beijing for a while and I can’t say I agree with this. For sure, China is an enormous country with much cultural surface area, so I could be wrong.

But this does not strike me as an obvious conclusion.
That would be such great! I'm pretty new with Golang, where could I keep myself updated with the latest news?
Agree. Updated that part. Thanks for pointing it out.
Not to dispute your point, but note the lambda-calculus-as-a-reasonable-machine papers from the last couple of years: it turns out (despite the seeming general understanding to the contrary in the past) that polynomial interpreters for some meanings of “lambda calculus” (including IIRC a weird very general one, call-by-need on open terms) are perfectly possible, meaning that many fundamental questions of computational complexity can be straightforwardly expressed in terms of the lambda-calculus machine as well. Linear-time interpretation (thus e.g. classes L and NL) seemed out of reach last I checked, though.

To echo my other comment here, it’s not that Church himself knew that. Even five years ago people did not know that. It’s not a question of priority. But I find it fascinating and reassuring nevertheless, as actually programming e.g. a self-interpreter for a Turing machine—or for general recursive functions, or for combinatory calculus—is an absolute slog.
I think the number of judges who have never used a computer is going to be vanishingly small by now.
Beautiful website by the way
It’s not used for anything. I can’t imagine where anyone got the idea that it is.
I am not nostalgic for CRTs. Not even remotely. I sat behind one for 20 years.
I don't want to put words in Lunduke's mouth, but since it seems to be a politically charged issue, I think that in this video the perspective of why "Founders banished" matters has nothing to do with whether or not you agree with why any given one of them (or all of them) have been banished, the fact that it's all happening at once - whether or not it's a coincidence - suggests a bad future for the ecosystem.
No I’m not, I’m saying that some tax systems make no sense. The only way to create a company in Spain is to flunk regulations. Some are meaningless and people ignore them all the time, some aren’t.

Another example. When escape rooms we’re trending, me and some friends considered building one. One of the partners didn’t want to get into trouble on it, so he wanted everything by the book.

Spanish regulation requires a business to specify their “economic activity” with a codified value. The list is in the thousands, with a lot of non defined ambiguous terms.

Evidently “escape room” was new, so it wasn’t on the list (and it still isn’t). The closest was “gambling business”, which of course a escape room isn’t. It also has a lot more paperwork and additional taxes.

Faced with this conundrum, we went around to the 3 or 4 escape rooms that were near enough to visit and asked them. Some of them just wrote a random number and called it a day. One of them was registered as a butchers…

The legal exposure it represented was simply too big and we abandoned the idea. there was no good reason for that legal exposure.

The statistics then are hardly surprising. Unemployment here is >14%, just to name one.
Also see this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27536974

It's almost like Schmidhuber hates Turing and wants the world to worship Godel.

It's personal for him.

He also wrote a tweet and maybe another post where he ranked up all countries of Europe and says that Europeans collectively got the most medals in Olympics and hence they are superior.

He suffers from this weird and serious case of European Supremacy.

I know about his actual works (not what he claims to have done).

And based on that I respect him.

He also has got a cult of people following him and who will gang up on any dissenters, i.e. people not thinking of him as a walking god.

Schmidhuber has actual contributions, I know.

Now he moved to a country with extremely bad record of human rights, and has policies and implementation that put the Taliban to shame.

Now he is promoting the institution left and right any opportunity he gets.

He is very hard to take seriously.
It started a little earlier than that, but yes.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28542822
This makes OpenSea corrupt.
> Since so much is driven by identity, is there a service where you can rent out front people to "lead" the team that check the right boxes?

Like much of modern crypto-centric products, this is a solution in search of a problem. People are accustomed to going in headfirst without knowing who is behind these projects. It's 'decentralized' and features 'smart contracts' for 'trustless commerce'. What more do you need?
now yes.
fixing what isnt broken isnt high on the list of things to do.
> In Python, everything must be indented with 4 spaces. It was a great idea…. or not? I think probably it was one of the worst idea to apply in the development industry. Not even TABS! It’s literally impossible to have a consistent indentation, especially when you have more than 2 nested loops/functions/switch.

Pretty sure that's not accurate. You can use whatever number of spaces, provided it's consistent for a specific block of code.
Research for "gain of function" will be the end of us all.
> I want to learn things, but code reviewing bad code doesn't teach me anything - I want to work with people who can teach me things when they review my code just as often as the reverse.

I mean maybe you're working on extremely repetitive code, but the idea that you don't learn anything from reviewing bad code, and hopefully writing comments designed to help not humiliate, seems pretty bad to me also...

You want to learn from others who review your code, but become angry when you have to teach those whose code you review? That seems bad...
Because the threat model is different than the one you have in mind. VPN providers for 5$ a month will give you multiple proxies throughout the world. Spinning up 70 droplets in different regions is not a viable cost effective solution.
Socially it’s limited to iMessage and FaceTime, but I’d say the lock-in if you own a watch, MacBook, AirPods, and /or iPad is very strong. There’s no other company that offers that level of integration across your devices.
From 2019. Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19190472 - 155 comments
Rivian vehicles ready for sale in all 50 states, following key certifications
I just started a month ago. Man, I literally became again a full time developer. No stress, only ideas, beautiful code that is a little bit verbose but really understandable. I think I could explain my code ELI7.
About a decade late...how many ghost cities exist in China?
99% is renewable from hydro power. I would say they reached their goal.
I used to work for a company from Colorado. Internally they were sharing Salary range and Target Bonus for your position for as long as I remember (~10 years?). You will get this information in Workday or on paper once a year.

From what I can tell from their current job postings they make this range public and include in the job description. It is not super helpful though. The range for a mid-level SWE is something like $100K-$150K. Almost as useful as Glassdoor.
He has written a new book about HFT which covers some of the same ground.
We do not like the over-fancy CSS. By the way, we love UX, not UI.
I'm curious to know if you or anyone else reading this has run into the opposite problem. Or maybe I'm just "that guy" although I am reasonably certain that I am not.

As a rule, so far throughout my 5 year career as a full stack web developer, my coworkers have neither understood or cared about what clean code entails.

I don't berate, I don't criticize, I've taken to mentioning it once and then doing my utmost to never mention it again in an attempt to avoid labeling myself as the odd one out.

Granted, I've turned down a handful of much higher paying (and presumably higher quality teams) for various reasons. At first, it was because I was a bootcamper and high paying jobs are difficult to pick up out of the gate without the appropriate piece of paper. Since then, I've worked for various organizations on a consulting basis, and most recently landed at an early stage YC startup. Pay isn't great, but I have aspirations to start my own startup, so I'm cool with the pay cut for now in return for the opportunity to learn the ropes, business wise. Founder knows what he's doing at least.

But the devs, man. They just don't care. 500-1500 line React function components are the norm. No standardized way for retrieving data from the back-end. I dread assignments that require me to modify or otherwise integrate with previously written code, because the best way I can come up with to figure out what the fuck is going on is to rewrite it sanely. I'm being a little hyperbolic, I do my best to avoid rewriting wherever possible, but I'm not mis-characterizing things by much.

It's honestly depressing, especially considering I've had multiple other teams offer triple what I'm making right now, but neither of them were pre-seed startup SAAS companies which this one is, so here I stay for the time being.

Invariably, I garner a reputation as "that guy" on any team I work on, although granted this is only the second multi-dev team I've ever worked on. Still though, it feels terrible to get a bad reputation for writing good code. Founder likes my work ethic and output though, so I guess I've got that going for me.

Apologies if this turned into a bit of a rant, it just started pouring out, ha!
> If a guy brings me his code, and it has mistakes, it brings insane pleasure from how smart I feel. [...] And if you tell me that you haven't had this feeling ever, then you're lying. Tell me about higher goals, training rookies and all that - I know you're simply too full of themselves. And if you try to tell me that you learned to defeat that feeling (however it manifests in you), then I must be a pink unicorn.

This has to either be a cultural thing or satire.
go has been so far a very enjoyable and consistent language. you can come back to code you wrote several years ago and not be surprised by it. the other consistent programming language i know of is java. java code from ten years ago won't be surprising to any java programmer reading it today.

programming language designers often forget how important consistency is. many languages have changed their syntax so much that we should just call them something else.
I agree at 2000%!
I haven't done too much long distance driving since COVID hit but I remember seeing shed retreads last time I was on the interstate. I always thought it was amazing that semis could get away with shedding them and driving away leaving at the least trash on the side of the road and at worst causing a dangerous accident.
There is nothing wrong with a well documented interface. The `is-a` pattern and `has-a` pattern are all I have ever needed when composing "objects" in golang.
In the case of B12, yes. B12 deficiencies are a result of modern farming practices, _not_ plant-based diets. This is why our livestock are supplemented with B12.

B12 was originally sourced naturally by consuming things straight from the ground, like foraging and drinking from streams, or eating animals. Modern farming doesn't allow for a lot of this consuming straight from the wilderness though, so B12 needs to be supplemented. Either into animals so we get it via their meat, or directly, via a supplement.

Your B12 is coming from a supplement either way, though. Vegans just ask that you take out the middleman so that they don't need to die for you to get something that is found in a measly pill.
GNU Hurd should be ready any day now...
I was surprised to learn that as well.

I learned about it in Walter Isaacson's Innovators.
Could you please not post in the flamewar style to HN? You've done it repeatedly lately (e.g. this comment, and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28514075). It has the effect of destroying curious conversation, which is what we're trying for here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>> I'm not going to comment on the actual content that is mostly [1] scientifically correct, but Schmidhuber (the author) has a record of wanting to be the center of attention [2] (even though LeCun is not better on that matter).

You_again wants his work and that of others properly recognised. For example, his article, titled Critique of Paper by "Deep Learning Conspiracy" (Nature 521 p 436) [1] that is referenced by your link to wikipedia, cites a couple dozen pioneers of deep learning, quite apart from Schmidhuber hismelf. Quoting from it:

>> 2. LBH discuss the importance and problems of gradient descent-based learning through backpropagation (BP), and cite their own papers on BP, plus a few others, but fail to mention BP's inventors. BP's continuous form was derived in the early 1960s (Bryson, 1961; Kelley, 1960; Bryson and Ho, 1969). Dreyfus (1962) published the elegant derivation of BP based on the chain rule only. BP's modern efficient version for discrete sparse networks (including FORTRAN code) was published by Linnainmaa (1970). Dreyfus (1973) used BP to change weights of controllers in proportion to such gradients. By 1980, automatic differentiation could derive BP for any differentiable graph (Speelpenning, 1980). Werbos (1982) published the first application of BP to NNs, extending thoughts in his 1974 thesis (cited by LBH), which did not have Linnainmaa's (1970) modern, efficient form of BP. BP for NNs on computers 10,000 times faster per Dollar than those of the 1960s can yield useful internal representations, as shown by Rumelhart et al. (1986), who also did not cite BP's inventors.

That is not "wanting to be the center of attention". It is very much asking for proper attribution of research results. Failing to do so is a scientific scandal, especially when the work cited has contributed towards a Turing award.

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[1] https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/deep-learning-conspiracy.ht...
For reference: June 16th, 1999 - https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/criminal-fraud/l...
"There are no more staffed beds left.
As we watch the case rates rise in our community, we anticipate an escalation in COVID-19 hospitalizations in
the coming two to four weeks. What is already a stressful situation could rapidly progress to a catastrophe"
'Were variolation trials not so legally problematic'
It's not like they weren't going to study this, but studying it in a way that doesn't violate the core tenants of medical ethics took longer than vaccine development.
Indeed, I see that it has continued to be studied into the present year, but results are not unilaterally good, especially regarding secondary cases.

"they would likely have saved many, many lives"

This statement is loaded with unfounded assumptions. Governments and epidemiologists, if even if they'd agreed with Hanson, might have had a tough time convincing the population to go to their doctors to be infected with Covid-lite.

There are dozens of interventions at every point along the way that might have saved many many lives.

What I find most inexcusable is Hanson, a self-styled numbers guy, justifying his urgency with a completely unfounded extrapolation.

'At that rate, in four months deaths go up by a factor of a million, which is basically the whole planet'.

This is a completely, laughably unserious analysis.

As to the 'futarchy', I think other comments here point out the flaws in any such system better than I could.
The DEMONcRAT deep state conspiracy is obviously international. Duh. /s
They were ahead of the pack when Apple bought them. Then Apple spent a year or so making them remove and reduce their functionality and then release a gimped version that was nonetheless integrated into the OS.
i was grateful for the 1.75x speed option on the video!
You can be a good Developer AND a nice human being. The choice is not either or. That is the goal one should strive for, not to decide between shooting down a PR or checking-in bad code into the repo.
I wouldn't call Go 'slightly verbose'.
> I remind you of the incompleteness theorem, that there are truths that are true yet are unreachable by axiomatic induction.

Science can strictly speaking not prove any truth, so the incompleteness theorem is irrelevant. Science tries to establish useful models. A model's usefulness is determined by its ability to predict the future (roughly speaking), whereas models whose predictions turn out untrue are eventually discarded.

It is perfectly fine to throw in hypotheses for how things work - that's how science advances. But there is a fine line between suggesting a causation and assuming that it is true just because it makes sense but hasn't been scientifically tested yet. That's more or less the opposite of science, which is (I guess) why there has been a relatively strong response to your statements. That way lies healing crystals.
Even when you have a market with immense amounts of liquidity, the market won't be efficient if all the participants are wrong.

I remember back in 2012 InTrade had a market for the US Presidential election, the odds were wrong, stayed wrong for months, and actually got more wrong close to the event. You could get hourly liquidity in the tens of thousands almost throughout (I put on $20k in this market, I wasn't touching the sides, it was incredible).

Most of the people who talk a lot about prediction markets haven't worked in markets. Markets aren't magic. They work better with binary outcomes but they cannot be smarter than the people making bets in that market...and they aren't (I have most experience with financial markets, which just don't work well at all, but have quite a bit of experience with binary markets too...they have only become more accurate as our knowledge about the underlying events increased...if you look at binary markets where knowledge is limited in some way, markets are not efficient).
Ups! As you might have noticed, I'm a beginner on Python but that thing was REALLY annoying. Nice to know that you can use whatever number of spaces, but... consistency is hard to keep with spaces (I'm not able :/)
I occasionally looked at the webcam, from my home in Germany, via modem.

It's hard to bring across how incredible it felt to be able to see a coffee pot in far, far away USA in real time.
Can anyone link to a project that they would consider elegant? I have never cruised through a golang project and felt that emotion.
You're way overselling this. This commentary is true maybe for the northern part of China close to the Korean peninsula. Southern China doesn't give a rats ass what happens to Korea.
I feel like Erlang churn is more acceptable because they're usually honest in naming. You get pg2 which does what pg did, but differntly. And now pg (which could have been pg3, but the old pg had been gone long enough to reclaim the name). Similar with phash2, although phash may live for much longer.
I've been paying the rent/mortgage with Python since 2013:

> In Python, everything must be indented with 4 spaces

no

> It’s literally impossible to have a consistent indentation

it's trivial

> as most programmers will agree, they often make the code harder to understand when reading someone else’s work

No, swapping things is easy to pattern match against once you know the language.

This is even dumber than complaining about Lisp parentheses.
Yeah, Python even support tabs. On Python 2 you could even mix tabs and spaces, but this turned out to be a very bad idea.

So Python 3 enforces that the whole file uses either X number of spaces or tabs, you can use either of them.
Now let's see the same level of scrutiny and transparency on religious leaders.
I am always against taking choice away from developers. The setting of sane, up-to-the-minute defaults, which are always helpful, is not at all what happened here.

And, banal recommendations such as "just fork it then" are either not really serious or not in good faith. Should third-party developers really be encouraged to fork a key security component of the standard library, just because it no longer operates the way it used to?

Personally, I welcome choosing better suites for me, but only as a default, and silently overriding my carefully chosen settings will never be ok.
> Of course the Soviet Union was remarkably successful at growing from a very poor nation to a global superpower in 50 years.

In XIX century, Russia was already THE superpower in Europe (which was everything that counted back then). Everyone else was afraid of her. She was poor, but it's possible to be poor and a superpower at the same time - you just need huge population to milk, and spend the bulk on your budget on military. Having a massive territory that's basically impossible to conquest and occupy no doubt helped as well. It meant that even if they lost a serious war, like they did against the Japanese, it was ultimately without major consequences.

Communists just continued with that modus operandi. They built oversized military, nuclear arsenal, top-notch global spying and propaganda aparatus, while the population supporting it was forced to work for peanuts - not to mention tens of millions who worked in concentration camps for free, and who either died there or had their lifes broken because of it. Even with all this ruthless inhuman exploitation, the Soviet model was just inferior and ultimately couldn't keep up with Western market-based democracies.
Tires are different than wheels....
Seoul is like 35mi from NK borders, or like 1.5 tiles in Civilization hexmap. It’s actually too far for IRL howitzers to set up and bombard the city but not comfortably. So it’s not a good idea to set them off when retaliation is expected.