skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You say, "What would be the point of clarifying to you if you jumped in with those assumptions?"

The assumptions under discussion were Hoy's (possible) assumptions, not assumptions I was jumping in with. On the contrary, as you can easily see from the thread, I approached the dialogue with an open and receptive mind, rather than imposing any structure of my own. But that inquiry evidently would have led somewhere that Hoy very much didn't want to go, leading to desperate efforts to smear me as "weird" in this thread eight years later.

At least she's repudiated the position she evidently held at the time.
An option to hide all podcasts would significantly...

An option have a personal search expression with a variety of tags include and excluded and other stuff neutral is what I want for everything.

It's twenty years since Alt-Vista allowed search with logic expressions and "recommendation" has gotten more and more railroad-y since then.

The "don't give options, make it moron proof" paradigm literally forces us all to be morons.
Most of the time I’ve seen one, it’s been full of code that is irrelevant, poor or both. Or someone has touted that they’re a committer to a significant OSS project and a git blame shows they’ve done virtually nothing except a readme.

So I strongly agree with your filter claim.
I did that at my first job out of college and it ended up being a bad idea. There were many emails that I did need to take action on which ended up in there. Optimally that wouldn't be the case, but I can't control how others address their emails.
Totally agree with the assessment on the open address/linear probe ones - easy to implement, compact, lower cache pressure.

As for the 2nd consideration - it's not fancy, too easy to implement, no novelty, etc.

The way I have dealt with the downsides of linear probe, open address: not well spread out lower bits - smearing/rehashing the hashes of the keys (via murmur3). As a side benefit it effectively randomizes the iteration order.
Just certain varieties are toxic if not properly cooked. I think red kidney beans are one of them.
The reason I still use Pandora.
I’m a big fan of upptime. https://upptime.js.org/
Though that pasta would be pretty bland without any tomato sauce!

Also weird to think that, as much as many people associate tomatoes with Italy, they were also brought from the Americas.
They can't possibly have sufficient context.

I recently got super into the band Squid. But I hated them the first time I heard them. It was because I was depressed and looking for more music like Black Midi-- Black Country New Road came up and was perfect. Squid came up and made me want to punch my speakers.

If they have enough data to predict my mood to that extent then I would like to hire them as my therapist.
connecting but not transferring, you mean?
You’re right. Even if they don’t use it these folks probably don’t even remember they have recurring subscription.

I don’t think what you’re saying you want in the second paragraph is quite like Raya. A small and exclusive platform would filter out a lot of noise, but it would also exclude a lot of people like-minded to you. What you described sounds like a LinkedIn with much more intelligent recommendation/matching algorithms.
Well, yes, governments generally tend to categorize civilians who violently disagree with them as terrorists. John Brown was a terrorist, too.
Potato pancakes? Those seem pretty common around the world.

I looked up some recipes and I am not sure I understand what it considered special about them.
Poe's Law strikes again. This comment is like a Necker Cube. I can read it straight, or as a joke, and it sounds right either way.
It’s mentioned in passing but my understanding is that parsnips were much much more popular.
No mention of UK laws that prescribe 10-15 year jail sentences for "repeated viewing of terrorist content" [1], or the German NetzDG [2] that gives companies 24 hours to delete "obviously illegal" content upon receiving a complaint ("illegal" includes hate speech), or risk a €5 million fine (which in practice means every complaint results in deletion, or a handful of mistakes bankrupt a company), or Facebook and Twitter censoring links to stories even in private messages between users [3].

I can appreciate that censorship is worse in the countries listed, but that is no reason to ignore what is happening in Western countries - I would expect at least a mention.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-41479620

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Enforcement_Act

[3] https://theintercept.com/2020/10/15/facebook-and-twitter-cro...
It requires not only a hashing function but a comparing one. Also it's not beneficial at lower size as 'compare' might fully derefences the keys (esp. if they are composite) and it's log2N is not that lower than just N.

So dynamically switching between a linked list and a rb tree (or a trie) is quite practical and done in the real world, e.g. Java's HashMap
As someone who has mostly the same approach, I too use TypeScript. It makes JS saner and brings it closer to its more advanced cousin from the past, ActionScript. It also adds proper Java-like classes with inheritance, which I, as primarily a Java developer, appreciate a lot.
every FAANG is almost 20 or over 20 years old. Certainly engineers that have spent those last 20 years (if they haven't already) will retire probably over the figure in the spreadsheet. Will the particular FAANG companies last another 20 (or 30) years? Who's to say but I don't see whatever replaces them not being glad to hire former FAANG engineers. So yeah it's kind of a gravy train that you needn't disembark if you don't want to.
The younger-than-Boomers (ytBs…is that an actual acronym?) have something they can do about investors buying properties. If you control the estate of Boomers who owned residential property, sell the house(s) to people who will reside there, not use it as rentals or as an “investment”. Might get less money upfront, but you will sleep better at night.

Another thing ytBs (looks ugly, might not use) could do is develop aging-in-place tech to make it unnecessary to rent that second house. Aging-in-place is already much cheaper than nursing homes

https://journals.healio.com/doi/10.3928/19404921-20110802-01

What new tech would allow the elderly to age-in-place more efficiently? The elderly are too old to develop it themselves…
Striking is increasing the labor cost, possibly tipping the balance.
A big part of older folks wealth is based on gains from housing. Do you think that will continue at the same pace and leave us with an inflation-adjusted doubling or tripling of home prices?

Do you think migration trends into cities will continue unabated?

Do you think US population growth which drives much of the housing market will continue?
Wow, that chart is quite an eye-opener. I happen to be a boomer...
Sadly since tech ate the economy software engineers are one of the only groups with any worker power and we're paid way too much to ever use it.

EDIT:

I was listening to some of the IATSE workers and it sounds like their working conditions deteriorated when Netflix and Amazon bought up Hollywood and shifted the industry from films to churning out long series for streaming. It made me really think about the impact that tech has had on the country in the last 15 years. Growing up in the early 2000s I was very bullish on tech being a force for good (thanks Google and "making the world a better place") but looking at the world that we created is sad to see.

I went biking early in the morning a few times this week and came across a bunch of Uber drivers sleeping in their cars with jackets over their heads. All of their strikes and organizing hasn't worked out, they're not "employees" and because they're a global workforce it's hard for them to organize. A few Dev ops engineers at Uber walking off their job for a few days could lead to more change for the workers than all of the NYC drivers striking for weeks.

Same goes for Amazon warehouse and delivery drivers. From all of the reporting that I've seen their working conditions are awful but because they're distributed it's hard for them to organize.

I grew up on the poorer side of Queens and have high school friends who I can't talk out of falling for NFT and crypto scams.

As much as I enjoy using Airbnb it has played a role in reducing the supply of housing and increased housing costs.

My younger female cousins are addicted to Instagram and are clearly having body image problems, with some of them opting to get plastic surgery to achieve the typical filtered Instagram look.

TLDR: Tech is quickly taking over most industries and consolidating power to a few large players, which makes it harder for what used to be middle class workers to organize and negotiate better working conditions. As the people building and running these tools we have way more leverage than most workers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methemoglobinemia

Maybe that particular family had it much worse but I don't think I'd ever see someone with it and think "they're blue." Though if it's like poor circulation, it'd looks a bit more blue in person.
Only recently did MySQL start defaulting to proper Unicode support, and it's still not the default everywhere in the stack nor on all OSes.

I did a mysqldump/restore last year with default options and it ate all emoji in the database. This is because MySQL's "utf-8" isn't real UTF-8, it's "utf8mb3" which does not support non-BMP characters. You have to explicitly ask for utf8mb4 to get sane behavior. In my case the database was configured correctly, but mysqldump still defaulted to utf8mb3. I found out that day all my database backups had been subtly corrupted forever.

This is one reason I use PostgreSQL everywhere I can get away with it. It has infinitely saner tooling. But WordPress insists on being married to MySQL...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4036656/
> A new-grad making $200k per year sounds insane on paper, until you realize that a studio apartment near the office is going to run you $4k/month

The Bay Area is expensive, but studio apartments do not cost $4,000/month.

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/apa/d/mountain-view-downtow...

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/apa/d/mountain-view-studio-...

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/apa/d/mountain-view-top-flo...

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/apa/d/menlo-park-almost-700...

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/apa/d/menlo-park-charming-s...

$4,000/month can easily get you 1-3 bedrooms depending on how "upscale" you want to be or not.

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/apa/d/mountain-view-beautif...

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/apa/d/mountain-view-weeks-f...

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/apa/d/menlo-park-furnished-...

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/apa/d/mountain-view-apt-for...
Sometimes yes, but a lot of times they actually do know what they want if you ask them the right way.
I have a 14 year old Dell 1525 (or something) with a newer SSD. All these people with 24GB+ of RAM... mine is 32 bit (3.8ishGB).
What was the point of striking a century ago in factories in the northeast US when workers in the Midwest and South would work for less? What kept factory owners from shipping factories to the Midwest and South?

Factories could move, but not at the snap of a finger. Union workers made good salaries, and jobs did not disappear from the northeast.

More interesting is Midwest and Southern factories. Midwest factories unionized, North Carolina textile mills did not. Midwest union workers like Larry Page's grandfather, who walked around his factory during a sit-down strike with a hammer to bash scabs and cops - they sent their sons to college with the wages they had, and their grandchildren prospered. North Carolina factory workers did not unionize, made low wages generationally, and the factories moved any way.
> This Status Page generator allows you to use MySQL, Postgres, or SQLite on multiple operating systems.

While I note there is a Prometheus exporter, wouldn't the data be better suited to have begun in a time series database first? I suspect the database size could grow somewhat large if you had many monitors over a period of time.

Although I suppose one could argue that more people would be familiar with these technologies and could clean up any potential mess that occurred.
>Their primary effects reverse naturally after treatment stops

Absolute fabrication, and a dangerous one at that. Bone density loss is permanent, and there are numerous documented cases of fracturing, broken bones and otherwise -- including from pro-transgender clinics. [1]

This is what I mean when I criticize the community for papering over serious dangers. Your words are reckless and dangerous.

>That distress breaks some people

Given the suicidality evidence, there's precisely zero proof that transgender surgeries benefit people at all, considering the rate of suicide post-operation is substantially higher than a normal person, and virtually unchanged from pre-operation.

This means that those surgeries offer no benefits for suicidal behavior whatsoever. The other "benefits" appear to be subjective? How are they "not broken" if they're dead from suicide? Serious question, because nobody ever seems to be able to tell me why these surgeries are a benefit given the grim statistics.

>You don't speak for them in calling present surgeries a disaster.

I never put words in their mouths, I simply read the mountains of evidence in their own communities, and from their own advocacy groups. [2]

Have you seen the results first hand enough to say that I'm wrong? Some of these surgeries are legitimately disasters. I mean permanent damage and zero functional use, with lifelong ramifications (daily upkeep, multiple corrective surgeries, serious problems with basic functions etc).

>What does any of this have to do with Dave Chappelle making jokes at trans people's expense?

If you watched his show, you would've noted that he was making jokes about them because they cannot take a joke like most people can. They cannot even take reasonable debate.

J.K. Rowling posts an opinion they don't like and thousands of them bombard her with death threats, hateful vitriol and otherwise.

Why can't they take a joke? Gay people can take a joke. Black people can take a joke. White people can take a joke. That's his point.

[1] https://segm.org/the_effect_of_puberty_blockers_on_the_accru...

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/Transgender_Surgeries
Is there ice cream in normal gravy???
How do you find good music blogs? I've basically given up on the recommendation engines and I don't have a ton of musically tuned in friends.
Wow, expected to see those other Northern European countries up at the top of the lactose tolerance list, but was surprised to see Niger. Googling brought up some interesting data on how lactase persistence was selected for in Africa.
it's really just emblematic of our society's current tendency to make mountains out of molehills. everything is either the best or the worst thing ever.

personally, my life got a lot better after I stopped stressing about doing the superlatives and comparison game. sometimes it's fine for things to be just okay.
It seems extremely unlikely that nobody at Spotify has considered this. It's probably safe to conclude that Spotify are optimizing their UX and algorithms for different metrics than the ones used in this academic study.
Does Bill Gates have power? Does Bill Gates control people?

My answers to those two questions are Yes and No, respectively. That is the difference.
> Though that pasta would be pretty bland without any tomato sauce!

You'd use onions and garlic. Those are both still massively popular today.

Cheese, garlic, and oil are all staples for flavoring pasta, and none of them rely on a new world crop.
Other than the one person marrying their aunt, the closest connection I can see is a second cousin marrying, something I believe is legal, healthy, and very common in that period. I'd bet portions of your family tree from two hundred years ago would look similar.
50yr ago was 1971. People's takes on flying cars and unions were much more modern (less optimistic) at that time than they were say 70yr ago.
Possibly, but I would be willing to bet the difference in labor prices abroad and in the US were greater in previous decades, and that labor prices abroad have been increasing quicker than US labor prices.
Yours sounds like a reasonable practice, I do the same thing myself. I agree that it's up to the developer to make things easier on him/herself or to bring in unneeded dependencies or complicate the build process.
> The idea that professional software developers will have their negotiating power depleted is preposterous.

Lol, I heard the same arguments in the 1990s about webmasters, which at that time were also commanding large premiums over the market median. I also remember when any engineer who touched a linux kernel could make 3x "normal developer" wages. Most FAANG engineers aren't working on anything too special; the biggest competition will be off the shelf frameworks/libraries/application which can do what previously required custom work.

We are also in a period of easy investment money - the biggest threat to FAANG companies is the market demanding a return on their investment - P/E ratios are at historically unsustainable levels. Either "this time is different", or this will all end very badly for a lot of people, just like the first dot-com boom.
I'm genuinely confused by people who complain about Spotify's recommendation algorithm. I have eclectic, often obscure tastes, and I've found it to be an incredible way to discover new music.

I too have "eclectic, obscure" tastes and I couldn't get anything from the recommendation algorithm and canceled after a month. I don't remember the thing recommending anything that seemed more obscure than what I searched for. And I made playlists.

But seriously, some people's tastes are served by Spotify and some find it frustrating. It would be nice if those who don't get immediate satisfaction had a more sophisticated approach available. My hunch is the company would prefer less customers and more control.
I think as long as retiring folks keep their burn rates low and make it to the age where social security and Medicare kicks in, they’ll make it from there to death without a substantial reduction in quality of life (assuming non-crazy retirement burn rate). Reverse mortgages will be issued at today’s valuations, not forward looking.

Those of us under 50 though? Much harder time ahead than this discussed cohort, all the juice has been squeezed and growth will be at a reduced rate as the population pyramid compresses.
Stiff asks, great programmers answer (2006)
This is a ridiculous reaction.
I can see why this would happen.

On stimulants you might be too eager to start working on a problem before considering all options.

But from my experience, if you're aware of how the medication can distort your thinking, you can counter it with some success.
Would have been nice in 2001, when I saw upmost decision makers aging and getting more risk-averse. Would have been nice in 2008-9 when I saw folks 70+ delaying their retirement because of anxiety about their balances.

When I started professionally networking, I kept hearing that I needed to weigh the experiences of those close to retirement. I learned the most from people who I could tell would retire before 50.
There's plenty of fat in gravy. There's water. It's served warm, so the water is not ice, but what more do you want?
I'll throw out there that strikes are never for sure averted until the time for the strike has passed. Wildcat strikes where the deal negotiated isn't accepted by the masses of the striking workers and they strike anyway are always an option. The West Virginia teachers' strike a few years back went wildcat pretty soon, with the teachers continuing to strike after not accepting the deal the union negotiated. The union was then able to get a better deal for the teachers.
I just finished watching the "The Billion Dollar Code" as well. I'm not sure how dramatized the events in the series were, but if even half of it's true then it's pretty damning. From what I can tell, TerraVision was totally legit, and it's pretty shocking to imagine how different our world can be if their founders found the kind of support someone from Silicon Valley could have found.
It's always a pleasure seeing your comments when it comes to language design. I noticed the spec currently says that _Atomic is ignored. Is that a current limitation of the implementation, or is it not planned to ever be implemented? I can see that breaking real C code in surprising ways.

Other than that, I can't wait to use ImportC in my own D projects, I have a couple cases where it would simplify builds dramatically.
Great, just as we have a historical shortage of workers
My point is that VR combined with body tracking provides an immersive experience that is not possible otherwise. Classrooms are the obvious use cases but there are industrial and medical ones as well. The point is that there are plenty of use cases for remote presence technologies like VR but realizing those benefits is not easy so most applications are focused on entertainment.
And cigarette filters are 30% effective at removing solids from inhaled smoke. But you are still smoking!

It's 2021. Burning wood makes no sense from a global warming and certainly not from a public health perspective.
You gotta shift the attention from those investment firms snatching up homes before they are built and rent seeking.
I would not want to rely on a social media company to vouch for my identity for something as crucial as my finances
I still like https://hypem.com as a meta music site aggregator. Also https://www.indieshuffle.com/
the college wage premimum holds even after accounting for student loan debt
I don't doubt for a minute that being a small bakery business is super hard, and competing against supermarkets etc is frustrating, but i don't think it's because the quality is the same. Supermarket cakes, etc, are absolute trash. I don't know any of them that use butter, which makes their cakes taste awful.

The problem is, people just don't have the time or energy to go to separate bakeries, or don't have the mindset to do so. also if you bake a good cake there's likely no way you can compete with supermarket prices.

So there's no doubt in my mind you can easily out compete supermarkets on quality, unfortunately, it doesn't seem to matter.
All good thoughts. I think Italy has the soil and weather for goood tomatoes though, so it took off. That said, I think most sauces in Italy are not tomato based. Simple things like Oil and salt is pretty common on pasta (and VERY tasty if u ask me). But to the point, yeah, bread, pasta, and olive oil…
Even software engineers are labor man. If it isn't livable for regular people, what the fuck is the point?
I think it's because of ADL, which also wouldn't apply in C.
That is a terrible chart. Of course share of wealth goes up as you get older - you’ve had more time to acquire it. They’ve attempted to adjust for age, but it’s not helpful when the oldest millennial has barely entered the workforce.

The chart also ignore the population share of each generation - Baby boomers made up a massive part of the US population - 70M out of a population of about 210M (1980) or 33% when they hit working age.

Millennials are slightly larger in numbers - 72M, but smaller part of the total of 330M (2020) or 21%.

Crude analysis and you’d have to assume everything else remains the same (it doesnt), but if all wealth was equally distributed by age you’d expect Millenials (of the same age) to have about 33% less share of the total wealth based on population alone.

Which isn’t far off from that chart if you assume Millennials track similar to Gen-X.
Cool so can we edit our genes to express our inner smurf?
They will, and then they'll see what inflation does to their lifestyle, and they'll be begging to come back.
We should unionize and put Amazon & others in a PIP for a change
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