skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems to be a favorite of media these days. I assume in an effort to get more clicks.

In the past, if the media said "The President may have have committed perjury", they'd actually lay out the evidence - President testified X, but documents suggest X is untrue.

Today it seems like "may have" is just a cop out for generating smoke where there is no fire. And when someone comes back and says "you actually have no evidence that's true" they say "well, that why we said 'may have'".
Can someone please explain for the uninitiated what kind of crazy magic is going on here?

I don’t know Windows very well and this seems impressive; I’d like to understand what it is a bit better.
We played every table we could get our hands on. Also rented tables weekly to be brought into the office once we moved to Austin. I tried to dig as deeply into the history of pinball too, to understand why tables had evolved the way they had.

Mike (Sandige) built a scripting system that allowed me to tweak the physics, materials, etc. of each component. But our constant exposure to real tables helped us form a "feels right" baseline to target. I also applied whatever I'd learned at that point about game design fundamentals (it was early in my career).

After we finished 3D Pinball and started on Full Tilt, I got put in touch with a seasoned designer of real pinball tables who had worked on some hits from the 70s. He took me to task for a bunch of mistakes I made in 3D Pinball, and some of those corrections found their way into the Full Tilt version of Space Cadet (and more so in the other tables in Full Tilt).

Kevin Gliner (designer and producer for 3D Pinball, etc)
> it rains a lot because of the dense biomass of trees that repeatedly pump the rainwater out of the ground

Even on very small scales like local botanical gardens with rainforest sections they are typically cooler and more humid than other sections of the gardens. The rainforest section of Fairchild Tropical Gardens in Miami often develops its own fog/mist not present in the other sections which is pretty nice on a hot Miami day.
Previous commentary:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25420544
This is so much bigger than just a rogue guy. So basically this is saying that the FAA just makes judgement and decisions based on documents and information coming from a chief pilot, without verifying or inspecting the codebase. This whole FAA process is flawed to the core.
> Historian Michael Willrich was planning to write a book about civil liberties in the aftermath of Sept. 11 when he stumbled across an article from The New York Times archives. It was about a 1901 smallpox vaccination raid in New York — when 250 men arrived at a Little Italy tenement house in the middle of the night and set about vaccinating everyone they could find.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2011/04/05/135121451/how-the-pox-epidemi...
> The GDP of Germany and France are both below where they were in 1995 inflation adjusted

In US dollars. You can't use USD inflation numbers for other countries, Euro inflated much less than US dollars in these years. The effect you see where Europe has stagnated given USD levels of inflation is just the effect of USD currently being a bubble. If you use their internal inflation numbers then the economies of Europe are growing just fine.
This ^. I’m surprised most people don’t realize this.

After a certain level, leetcode is 30% of your interviews. Your level is decided by system design and behavioral, which IMO you’ll do naturally better at with experience
http://lunaticoutpost.com/thread-269054.html
does it have direct application for training nets faster? i.e. can the ode be integrated faster than backprop?
> Is there any actual reason something like serde couldn't exist in other languages?

C# standard library has DataContractSerializer for decades. That thing reads/write text XML by default, but with minor tweaks can do binary XML or JSON.

I like their binary XML format the most. Very fast because doesn’t waste time printing or parsing numbers or Base64 bytes. Also, pre-shared XML dictionary, and session-accumulating dynamic dictionary, makes the serialized representation very compact, sometimes an order of magnitude better than text/xml.
“Never write if you can speak; never speak if you can nod; never nod if you can wink, never wink if you can do nothing.”
Check out "cosmological argument"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_argument
I’ll bite.

Yes. I am ok if homeless people find it difficult or impossible to vote.

If you are not capable of functioning minimally in society, I really don’t trust your judgment when trying to contribute to a positive societal outcome via voting.

As a citizen, you have the right to vote, providing you can meet minimal requirements. If you can’t meet them, then maybe focus on fixing your own problems before voting.
>We're literally just hitting the part of economic development where the highest impacts to output are not resource intensive but rather intellectual property intensive

I hope they issue patents on good edible paper then, because if the climate changes as much as this study proposes, all this intellectual property won’t matter much.
Vaccine does prevent transmission. Portugal, Spain, Korea, Japan, all those countries are observing significant reduction of daily cases and deaths.
There’s a subreddit that narrates other subreddits now?
I've tried the headset and liked it but on a whole it was kind of disappointing. the tech was nowhere near what the company marketed it as.

I'm sure it'll get there someday but for now it is all just rose-tinted glasses.
Are populations with large majorities of people who’ve received 2-3 injections seeing total or near eradication of coronavirus? I’m not aware of any examples.
At some point, auditors have to trust some things that their subjects are saying. If the auditor has to re-evaluate every piece of information, they will end up re-doing the subjects' jobs.
Right, I feel that once the "outrage" starts in full speed, there's no way to sit down in a middle ground and talk about the idea, how it is bad, how could it be improved, etc. It's as if someone from outside the US suggests that Healthcare should be socialized (once the outrage machine is out, there's no way to have a real argument).

From my point of view (someone who has had to interview and hire people for the last 10 years) the main idea doesn't sound completely broken. Here in HN we have discussed countless times how the interview process is broken, how it sucks for everyone (both interviewer and interviewee), etc. This person is trying a completely different angle, and that's good. I am happy to give it a chance.

The way I would implement it is more like this:

1. Hiring Company defines, they would spend $X for a Mid level FullStack dev.
2. Hiring company provides SkipTheInterview $X + fee.
3. SkipTheInterview opens the Position"bounty" .
4. If a candidate wants to be hired for the position, they apply and have to get enough _backers_ to get to the $X amount.
5. Once the candidate gets enough backer money, they get hired.
6. After a "trial" period (where the candidate is paid normally as he has bin hired), SkipTheInterview gives back the bounty money to the backers *doubled*, and only keeps the fee.
The US is apparently a big outlier in the number of reported children's deaths (5 per million) compared to other developed countries. There are also other confounding factors such as under/over reporting of symptoms and side effects. See here for a review: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/eci.13678

the mortality in kids seems to be orders of magnitude smaller than the seasonal flu:

> as of May 2021, data from 79 countries accounting for 2.7 million COVID-19 deaths (69% of all documented global COVID-19 deaths) show that over 8700 (0.3%) of these deaths are in children and adolescents under 20 years of age (40% in children 0–9 years old and 60% in adolescents 10–19 years old). For illustrative comparative purposes, estimated annual fatalities for seasonal influenza preceding the COVID-19 pandemic included 9243 to 105,690 deaths of children younger than 5 years
Capitalism can be correlated with almost anything that happens because capitalism is pervasive.
It's already out there. You can find it by searching for "The Aquaphile's Manifesto" on torrenting sites or on Tor.
Self-proclaimed hackers: Our trades rely on rationality and facts

Also self-proclaimed hackers: Let's all upvote this purely correlational study riddled with conflicts of interest because it makes us feel better about ourselves
You generally have to have a passport and entry visa (or equivalent) to fly internationally. The baseline is not a 'free for all'.

~100 years after arbitrary requirements are imposed on international travel, people freak out about one that is a direct response to exigent circumstances and not likely to be permanent.
If this became a real thing, people would just pay their former boss or coworkers to transfer the needed amount. People will apparently give referrals for quite cheap, so it wouldn't cost much: https://www.rooftopslushie.com/referral

Also, this seems like it'd be illegal many places due to laws against demanding payment for a job.
Have you ever wondered why the CDC vaccine card has four slots on the front?
Why are you concentrating on individual animals, where herd behaviour of them can not be explained by behavior of individual. Same applies to people - there are enough of examples in history of groups of people believing in God and his plan and that belief has led to catastrophic consequences for tribes and even nations...
For all I know nothing really matters - Sun can go Nova or Earth can be hit by a small planet and Life on earth can go extinct.
I did that in Rollercoaster Tycoon to stop people from exiting the park.
It's not just your pet theory, but a dominant reading of him. Both present and in the past Certainly many of his contemporaries (including Leibniz) and many who read him later saw him as a covert atheist and hated him for it.

I'm not sure it's explicitly a cover. I'm not sure he would have actually said "there is no God"; such a phrase might have been actually very difficult for someone to compose in that era, not just because it was shocking but it would be hard to think. Especially one raised in a devout Jewish community (from which he was expelled)

(I spent many years studying Spinoza, both in school and in private.)
I'm not sure I follow. You're saying the previous employer doesn't want the laid-off employee to get a new job? I guess that would vary ex-post (eg depending on the reason for the firing, and the industry - a professional services firm will be keener to have a successful alumni network), but I'd imagine that ex-ante having the reputation of 'we care of people even if they don't work out here' or a promise of 'even if this startup crashes and burns we'll do our best to ensure you land on your feet' would make an employer attractive.
Trees make their own rain, it’s a known thing, and if the moisture was only from the ocean then you’d expect it to rain to the west of the mountains not to the east.
All cause mortality from birth to age 18 is 865 per 100,000. An additional 1 per 100,000 is unnoticeable.
No, that’s not what sundvor says. They explicitly talk about the whole population (“everyone “), and I am pretty sure if everyone had to pull the trigger on their dinner, total meat consumption would absolutely go down, regardless of what a few hunters or farmers do.
I think you are missing a huge point.

A society is made up of lots of "one person" entities.

For your argument to be valid, I need to accept that you seriously believe the OP was claiming one person can fix climate change.

So which is it?
That is also why, when one witnesses a corporation hide that which was previously observable, we may suspect malice.
What's "grind LC"?
I don't at all see how you managed to jump to the conclusion that vegans are "or are at least subjected to more of an echo-chamber effect from their peers". This seems entirely unfounded.
Hey, best of luck Andy. I've been following your db classes online and the launch of OtterTune on twitter.
>it’s been like this for a long time

Yes. It has been like that since the day iPhone was launched. Arguably the whole (modern) Smartphone Market history.

So I am kinda surprised to see some of the reaction here. And it was easy in the old days when iPhone was in Financial Segment with ASP and unit volume. Now it is hard to judge without those Data. And no where on the site do they mention how they calculated the profits.

Also worth mentioning Apple used to make 95%+ if not more than 100% profits because other vendors were losing money.
That is absolutely fascinating (and horrifying!). Didn't know PR firms gave reporters that many stories.
I don’t. You could be right!
I came here to post this exact same thing. I have gone KETO the last few months. I feel better than I have in ten years. I can focus straight from 10 am to 5 pm at work, without music and excess caffeine. I feel amazing and literally cannot believe it. I have also been hitting the gym and sleeping well, but I really do think its the diet.
How? If there's no evidence of a conversation, it won't help his case.
Seeing that, it seems like this is likely cyclical.

We’ll have 20 years of siloed hardware, and then some competitors figure out a way to get a foot in the door, or signed-only systems will become distasteful to consumers and Companies will revert, interoperability will become the norm again.

There are always barriers in computing and society will respond to it.
Elite Dangerous: Odyssey. Couldn't even get a refund because it took more than 2 hours to get the game to even play, still was broken. Company stole $60 from me and somehow never fined.
It's honestly remarkable just how much money the FAANG companies can throw around.

What on earth can relatively small private tech shops that can't dangle heaps of RSUs possibly do to compete?

Quality of life improvements may be some of the only levers they have available to pull.

Generous time off (for NA standards at least), beyond four weeks could lure people.

Permanent, flexible WFH and remote work options will be a new one that they can use to differentiate from big public companies that want seats in desks.

Lastly potentially 4 day, 32 hour work weeks could be an effective tool. We've seen stories of Eidos Montreal implementing this recently.
True, but in this specific case I wouldn't be programming or creating content. It was management.
In fairness, China has twice the population of the entirety of Europe put together. It's easy to expand an economy from a small base, less so when you're already starting from a decent level.

Interesting stats nonetheless, I wasn't aware that Europe had stagnated so much. Your stats seem a little off; Most of the stagnation seems to have occurred from the GFC onwards, rather than before (using GDP per capita numbers)
Fiberglass doesn't recycle well, does it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql0Mkr3dwNU
“I’ve been a software engineer about 5 years. […] I’ve been with a startup about 3.5 years, have taken over Product Management, and I manage other engineers who work on customer-facing projects.
…
At Robin’s level of experience, they’d be mid-career or senior-level at most larger companies – so that would be something like an L4-L5 at Google, ICT3-ICT4 at Apple”

5 years of (mostly) engineering work at a startup and you’re saying this is on par with an L5 at Google or L4 at Apple? I find it hard to take anything else in the article seriously after that
>Many people report a significant mental health benefit from using fat rather than carbohydrates as the primary energy source. Works for me, too.

This is anecdotal, but I recently had blood work done showing that I have high A1C[0] levels. As such, I cut out most carbohydrates and sugar from my diet.

I've been maintaining this for almost three months and I have noticed no difference in my mental well being.

That said, I have spoken with a number of folks who claimed that not eating meat or carbs has made them feel better.

I don't have data to back it up, but I suspect it's more a result of the placebo effect than anything else.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/managing/managing-blood-sugar/a...
they do have a product. just like theranos had a product.

it just didn't do 99.9% of what they marketed it as capable of.
I have to stop myself from eating this every week because the sugar and frying probably isn't very healthy, but damn it's great with sticky short-grained rice:

https://www.veganricha.com/vegan-general-tsos-soy-curls/
despite being carnivore for years and reducing my anxiety and depression massively from when I was vegetarian, I think it’s best to take nutritional studies with a grain of salt unless they are clinical trials.

Anecdotally meat has definitely helped me with my health in so many countless ways. However, this study can’t prove causations.
I've been meaning to write up a history, but it's one of those things that's been on my to do list for years...Maybe someday, soon.

Kevin
Brain drain doesn’t mean that all top talent is gone, but rather that there is less of it than there would have been otherwise.

That this is happening between Europe and US is beyond clear: European engineers often emigrate to US, but American engineers emigrate much more rarely to Europe.
I'm not sure what to believe myself, but... One explanation which is just barely plausible, but by default is unfortunately the most plausible explanation, is that there is widespread fraud and powerful parties want it to remain in place.

What other reason could there be given the overwhelming evidence that no legitimate voter is stopped by these laws?
100%; that’s exactly my point (though I admit I sent readers off in the wrong direction on the surface).

Billions lived at all and tens of millions died an early death? That’s a pretty great trade if your only choice is to take or pass on that as a sole, binary option.
>Bluntly: Nerds use Pixel devices. Legacy from the Nexus days. Most people wouldn't even know what a Pixel is.

I don't know about that. At least in my city, I know more people with Pixels than Galaxy phones. Granted, I can count the Android users on one hand and about 90 percent of my phonebook is iPhones so who knows.
I just put the extra money into regular investment account. My investments account tend to perform better than the rather boring results that 401k accounts give me. Would be different story, if I was allowed to contribute to Roth IRA. I actually didn't know about the backdoor conversion until this year, but that loophole seems to be on its way out.
For someone who is way out of this loop, what does a typical day look like for someone who make $300k at a "tech" job? $600k? Is it actually programming intensive? Like the guy who wrote the default calculator app on the iphone was making that kind of a salary? Or are you managing teams of programmers? Architecing? Is it something like 16 hour days are the norm?
HN stays online through the work of humans.

The community thrives by following guidelines, among them:

* be kind

* do not sneer

* do not call names

* respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize
It's a good point, and I think I would generally agree with this. I just wish the SEC was keeping up with technological innovation. At this point crypto is moving faster than they can keep up with, so I don't think they can accurately judge new crypto projects (or even older ones like Bitcoin and Ethereum), because they don't have the technical skill on their staff, or a modern regulatory framework, to understand and regulate it properly.
I don’t think there are many wheel guns that would give you 249,999/250,000 odds of survival. The number of people killed or injured by mRNA treatments is also not zero.
IIRC, Theo was (is?) against using rust because rust hasn't seen real world usage and coreutils hasn't been written in rust (according to him). When someone pointed out how there's RedoxOS and uutils, coreutils written in rust, he went on to question their POSIX compliance and whether memory safety was really a thing.

So yeah, I doubt rust is ever coming to OpenBSD. I'm also skeptical about the level of adoption rust will see in the Linux kernel. People are usually resistant to change (sometimes for good reasons).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er44ur7wkXQ&t=2107
Maybe they won't? Maybe you will have to plant trees that can live there. The article mentions that while the Amazon could become barren by 2500, the American midwest may be tropical. Guess what kinds of plants would grow there? And crops would grow closer to the poles. So Canada and Russia would grow much of the world's food.

That's not ideal, but I'm guessing that 480 years is enough time for humans to adapt. Anyway, there have been several articles on here saying that global plant growth and the number of trees have increased over the past century based on NASA's satellite imagery and counts from 50,000 locations. So while your area may be losing trees, other areas are gaining them. Nature adapts and changes.
Why do you assume that all homeless people are fault for "not functioning minimally in society"
PromptArray: A Prompting Language for Neural Text Generators
The problem with climate change is it doesn't kill people quick enough for us to take action. Covid on the other hand, we rushed out vaccines and people have generally accepted massive disruption to their lives to tame it. Even with Covid not all governments wanted to react quickly. If we treated climate change like covid, we'd be finding a way to create lots of nuclear reactors around the world really quickly. We might even create a few hundred of them in the middle of Australia and use it to make hydrogen or some other fuel and ship it around.
> are not resource intensive but rather intellectual property intensive,

Just in time for folks to invent mechanisms to convert IP intensity to physical resource intensity via e.g. blockchains.
Like a lot of diets that benefit people, the big thing is probably just making more food at home, and eating less processed shit.
People not eating meat will lower demand, the price goes down, someone who couldn’t afford meat before now can and eats the meat. Either way, that cow is getting eaten. See my other comment…Meat consumption in China is up 30% over the last 7 years and expected to continue to climb. Meat producers will find a hungry mouth somewhere in the world to feed.
I personally have never done it with kids, but I've bumped into plenty of familes doing it and absolutely loving it.

Some French kids I met in Colombia driving around the world said "We don't like homeschooling... we like worldschooling!" with huge smiles.

These guys drove the length of West Africa with small children, an epic adventure - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc61AxCQQR4
> So long as you're at least a mediocre engineer, you can make it past the two-month mark and everyone gets their ROI.

Is this sustainable, though? Why do you assume that there would be no system to detect people who abuse the system by continually churning companies? Can’t the same thing happen right now with people who have connections to headhunter/recruiting agencies?

Also, if the system has no abuse detection, many people who work in tech for more than a few years should be able to afford gaming a system like this — not just those from rich backgrounds. $10k is not too much money to find if you know you’re guaranteed a 2x return in 60 days.

> And a company is going to take the pay-to-play candidate, because it's easier than running an interview process.

If the pay-to-play system is really producing only “mediocre” hires who churn earlier than candidates hired through the normal interview process, why would a company prefer the pay-to-play process in the long run?

Again, not saying that the platform is good, but I just don’t think your arguments hold up.