skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree with some of that.

Amazon pays very well. I hear good things from workers through the grapevine, it’s just that doesn’t make a good tech story. They let me live car free and they make a whole world of options available to consumers who otherwise might not have access. They pay quite well, enough to make #FightFor15 look antiquated. They are relentless in serving customers and in 10+ years as a customer they have gotten better at serving me every year, if not every month. People complain about monopolization, but they are still smaller than Walmart. They achieve dominance in online retail by offering better service, period. There’s no reason small business can’t do a better job serving their communities, but they often just choose to not be competitive in offering the best possible service, which I find offensive. Even when I was pushing carts and bagging groceries, or cooking paninis for college students, I always went out of my way to provide great service and not keep people waiting. I guess you could say I’m customer obsessed.

Apple makes the fastest, most reliable computing devices in my life. They produce devices with staying power, so I can resell them or give them to family when I want to upgrade, which is great for reducing waste. They single-handedly invented the category of true wireless headphones, and brought ANC to them; living and walking near a freeway, this improves my life substantially literally every day. The CSAM scanning was annoying, but otherwise they’ve been good to me. They’re also advancing the state of the art with their CPUs and making the industry competitive again, which is good for everyone, including hopefully someday android users. They make some bad choices, but at maybe 1/10 the rate that Microsoft does for similar products.

Google is somewhat neutral. I’d like the option to buy my way out of ads, but otherwise I think the service offered by their Search and Maps offerings make up for some other issues. They seem to be held back by their bad management structure, more than being specifically directed to be shitty to customers. The nonsense with Windows Phone and blocking PiP YouTube on iOS are exceptions. Overall I still find them less offensive than most, but I’m not exactly enamored. If they got rid of that awful Google Fi ad, they could maybe be considered benevolent overall.

Facebook is in a league of its own. Truly awful and explicitly acting maliciously at a corporate level, which is inexcusable. Almost Exxon suppressing climate change research level of malice towards humanity. Complicit in genocide level bad.

I might just be particularly bitter about Microsoft as an ex-fanboy of Windows. A product they have somehow managed to make worse than Linux desktop on some new devices. Seeing a team invest actual engineering hours into turning the platform that debuted the Trusted Computing Initiative into a privacy-hostile, ad-pushing tool to push Edge adoption is just really infuriating. And unnecessary.
I apologize in advance for generalizing here and there. The point holds.

“Capitalism” is what people do when they’re not having sex (and sometimes even then). It is the most powerful economic engine we know about.

“Socialism” is the discipline of maximizing overall human welfare within the economic limits.

The engine and the steering wheel so to speak. I’m willing to bet those definitions are in no dictionary, but the basic point is roughly what no constitution has yet to get right.

The tricky bit is avoiding capture, and I’m optimistic we can do this without shooting all the lobbyists, but it would be a bargain even at that price.
Disappearance of RSS.

So a rotation of a small number of sites. Because who wants to click through hundreds of bookmarks when 99% of the time there is no new content. Not a complaint, just that most sites don't update every day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3aieHjyNvw

Have a watch of this.
Mark Zuckerberg Sets Facebook on Long, Costly Path to Metaverse Reality
> bruegela
a thick, smooth-skinned black pepper with a slightly bitter taste, of the red pepper family, widely used as an anesthetic to treat conditions affecting either limb or the hands, such as gallstones (also see green pepper)
"these great kinds of bruegelas flavor every bite"

Haha that’s a wonderful example of how pattern recognition absent understanding can generate nonsense.
Scary choice of freedoms and liberties for citizens you are willing to give up there.
Oh man, I don't want to be in the queue behind that guy while he spells out his name to the clerk.
> central repository be started for archiving interesting search results. I wonder if there have been any efforts toward such a project?

What you want is a "directory". Like Yahoo! of old. Search killed these during the window where search was useful.
Question: Are you considered a patent troll if you are an individual that was granted a patent but don't want to go through the hassle of manufacturing and customer support, etc?

If a patent troll is only someone that attempts to enforce patent rights against accused infringers far beyond the patent's actual value as Wikipedia's article claim, perhaps the justice system is broken?
I'm lost, how is the government insurance of deposit records any worse than the government insurance of cash?
https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/QFoc

This word does exist.
I started my programming in the more "traditional" way i.e., C/C++ and then later python. When I started doing python, I was flabbergasted to find that I could just do 100**100 and get a complete number without using any additional libraries. Similarly, reversing string was trivial using the [::-1] notation. Heterogeneity of Lists, Dictionaries and the resulting versatility blew my mind. I now understand that I was discovering, at that time, what dynamic language had to offer over static languages.

I say all this because I would really like some great examples and use cases which would sort of highlight what LISP has to offer over the, for the lack of a better word, non-LISP languages. All of the articles that pop up in hacker news or other portals only seem to highlight the fact that LISP presents a new paradigm (?), enhances intuition (?), and that LISP macros are the best-thing ever. I would like to share the sentiment but ideally via a few digestible examples in lieu of a serious commitment required to basically learn an entire language. I would appreciate a few concrete examples (very much like [::-1] and 100**100) that would allow me to get what LISP really is about.
You can get the complete 51-volume Harvard Classics set on Kindle for a buck. https://smile.amazon.com/s?k=harvard+classics&i=digital-text...
Yeah, 'adversarial' isn't exactly the right word; I'm not sure what is.

What I mean is that client side form validation is typically part of a cooperative process - I want to buy something at your store, you want to sell it to me, and smart client side validation can make that faster/easier if I typo something it can catch. It is (or at least should be) mostly aimed at helping the user; your parsing for security is (should be), as you note, on the server.

Scanning photos for [CSAM, thoughtcrime memes, poor taste, whatever] doesn't make the user's life easier, is not something anyone asked to be subjected to, and potentially can lead to a very negative outcome for them.

That's the distinction I was getting at, and yes, your second point is directly relevant there.
Reminds me of why I learned to program in PostScript - the PostScript printer was, by far, the fastest computer I had access to - also it had a ton of memory and its very own SCSI hard disk.

Plotting a Mandelbrot on the Mac would take a lot longer, even in C, than just making the printer do it.

Usually overnight, because the program took a couple hours to run most of the time.
Amazon doing it doesn't make it any less virtue signalling. I'd be much more impressed if Amazon had used the money instead to buy some forest land and turned it into a nature conservancy. I wouldn't be critical of calling that "Climate Pledge Park".
Real life advice

You should consider helping your kid to learn a foreign language of a developed country, such as France, Germany.
The investment into private tutor, who will prepare him for TEFAQ or DAF test will pay off in the long run. Once he knows French or German he can apply to really good universities in France, Germany or Quebec(Canada).
The education in Europe is really cheap. Its about 1500 euro per year, and his monthly expenses are within 1000 euro. So you end up paying about 15K euro per year. The price range for Quebec province universities is about 7000 CAD per year and about 1000 CAD for monthly expenses.

Overall, the investment in a foreign language will completely pay off.
In the worst scenario your son will have a backup plan to move to Europe/Canada and live a normal life.

US is not the only place in this world to get a good education.
I'm sure that's what Intel would like you to believe. But if you benchmark this stuff (which I have) you will see that real world single core perf hasn't moved much in a decade, and memory bandwidth is never "94GB/sec" or whatever, especially not in a laptop.
I can save you the trouble. The internet is full of people: in short, avoid.

However, the internet is also what you bring to it. I took up playing synths last year and it's a whole new community of makers, hackers, and artists that was invisible to me before participating in that art. The same is true for any instrument. I have other pursuits that are almost completely unrepresented online other than some rich technical how-to's, which are great. Doing things whose online communities aren't representative of the real world activity makes me optimistic that the real world isn't like reddit.

Learn a thing and do it often, if not eventually even well, and it changes the lens you see the world through.
Yikes, please tell me they were hired as a junior?

Obviously in your case some trivial SQL would have sufficed, which I feel like should have been caught in an interview but could be excused for a junior eng.

Also Pandas is not an amazing choice for data engineering tasks in general IMO, type conversion wonkiness is one reason I have questions about people who decide to use Pandas for legitimate data engineering tasks (as opposed to exploratory work or analysis).
A fun exercise I did every day for a month was to take a (longish) random article and summarize 2 or 3 paragraphs of it (usually around 180 words), trying to make it as short as I could without losing the true meaning/purpose of those paragraphs.
I hoped the announcement was related to a modern remake of the classic RTS game Dune II from Westwood Studios (1993?).

Although I do look forward to watching Dune.
You skipped over Whitfield Diffie to find someone of public-key cryptography fame, lol. You might like his work too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitfield_Diffie

Hal Abelson, first name there, is from the computer science classic SICP book/MIT lecture series - https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussm...
The query layer is composed of ephemeral Postgres instances that get created on-the-fly. These instances either proxy to live data via FDW, or they lazily download the columnar fragments necessary to resolve a query. This is meant to perform as a horizontally scalable caching layer for shared queries. For more optimized/predictable use-cases you can “check out” a version of a data image ahead-of time. In this case you use the `sgr` command line tool to load the objects of an image into a Postgres database that you can then scale vertically as normal.

Our site is a bit out of date — we’ve got a new marketing site coming shortly, and we’ve gathered an all-star engineering team to take this to the next level. Stay tuned :)

(Or better yet if you want a unified data stack for your team, please get in touch… we can load data from 100+ sources into versioned Splitgraph images, or we can index and proxy to existing data sources with federated querying).
for actions that do not technically breach an existing law

Consider the implications of what you've said here.

Punishment outside of law breaks all kinds of long-developed social and democratic safeguards. It's one of those "democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others"[0] type situations.

[0]: https://richardlangworth.com/worst-form-of-government
Yes, that would be my guess. I talked to some people from Wikivoyage years ago, and one of the problems they talked about is that they were getting penalized for "duplicate content" a lot even though Wikivoyage was clearly the better alternative in every way (according to them anyway, I can't attest if that's true or not, or if it's still true since this was years ago).

It's not hard to imagine the "duplicate score ranking" got one-upped to "spam domain ranking".
The part you’re missing is that virtually everyone follows virtually everything at a surface/casual level which keeps that “discovery” alive.
“Intel fans reacted predictably by turning on at full speed and waking up the rest of the house”.
I do believe I see a lot of that in the understory, where there is a canopy and shade.

In this particular case, though, it was a similar plant that I normally always see in sunny areas. On the edges of my mowed yard, I was seeing a lot of monarchs for a few days.
Speculation: She's a spook (or working with spooks), and this is a public part of a negotiation taking place between FB and "the establishment" aka deep state Feds who want greater access to FB data, and greater influence and control over its policies. Ultimately these negotiations will result in some new legislation and regulatory systems put in place which put more power in the hands of government officials.
Oh, I didn't word that very well! What I meant was a repository of search results pages that are themselves interesting, especially as the results change over time...

Edit:

...and when they highlight the differences between search engines.

For example, Google's NLP allows it to just barely identify the video referenced by the query:

microsoft ceo repeating a word

And with this query, all three major engines return a jumble of results from amusingly diverse contexts:

split to left or right
Awesome!

baconroot
ba·con·root

a large, fleshy plant that yields bacon
"a baconroot salad"

trickety-clack
trick·ety·-·clack

a thing consisting of a series of short leaps or twists with no obvious ends or ends, typically in order to draw somewhere
"the trickety-clack of trains"
Totally with you. I can't imagine being married to "another one of me" - either there's not much you add to each other, or you're competing.

Like you, my wife doesn't just work in another field but is very much more driven by care and emotion and logic and "justice" that matter to me. Sometimes this makes it hard to co-exist since we literally look at problems from a totally different perspective, but the resolution of that conflict (or figuring out how to coexist despite the difference) is incredibly enriching, I'd not get to grow this way with someone else.
> you've set yourself up for scaling/sharding sooner than later.

OTOH, if you can pre-process the data (or shards) in the server (or servers), you won't need to move it across the network for processing.

Hard problems are hard and one of the reasons databases outlive their systems and developers is because moving that data is a Royal Pain.
>As I'm not a member of either group I don't fully understand these conflicts

I can't say how many Israelis or American Jews think this way, but there is a logical/practical justification of Zionism that has nothing to do with religion or nebulous ethnic hatreds, which I think I've heard people claim (rightly or wrongly) didn't exist much before 1948 anyway.

The justification is, that anyone who has enough Jewish ancestry to have been targeted by the Nazis, can never be secure in any place other than Israel. That if Jews can exist at all, they must have at least as much right to exist there as anywhere else, and historically it's proven cannot defend as well anywhere else but a homeland they believe in.

I doubt this myself, that everyone who could've been exterminated in WWII is best off in Israel. But it seems like a western, developed country, type of rationalization that impedes how you frame things.

I'm not knowledgeable and haven't researched it, but my impression is at some point the definition of a Jew who has the right to return to Israel was changed to the Nazi definition of a Jew, on ethical grounds, and that would seem to imply a secular, utilitarian outlook not a religio/ethnic one that outsiders should be bewildered by.

I don't think this is too complicated, until the dispossessed are brought into it.

Again, I like the word "anachronistic". I have the impression that much like people project the US-Israel being allies too far back, they also project the Israel/Palestine conflict too far back.

People say that many conflicts in Africa are not ancient either, but constructed during colonialism.
Shouldn't they just rebrand it and sell it to foreigners?
I don't really think novel just means "recent" but also has a connotation of non-standard or an idea that hasn't really caught on yet.
Giant, free index to world's research papers released online
!s is enough.
Affordable 70 MPH electric motorcycle is already here and no one noticed
Voxel – Computer Vision to Prevent Workplace Injuries
> vaxxed dying slightly more of myocarditis and other heart-related issues[2]

Your link actually doesn't say anything about people dying due to Myocarditis following vaccination. Do you have any other source for that?
"So now I am confused." We can tell. It is as if you are comprehending none of it and talking right past them.
> I believe it was Dropbox that famously released their own private internal Python build a while back and included some concurrency patches.

Google also had their Unladen Swallow version, but it seems they lost interest at some point.
I sold all my holdings in 2018 after the crash and ignored crypto until 2020 where I bought back in a bit. Wasn't expecting things to kickoff that much in 2020/21. In 2021 I started working on a startup in crypto.
I think it is more correctly defined as "Big Upfront Design". This was a thing; months spent on analysis and design that filled several tomes.
>instead of highlighting the benefits of the premium service

No need to put lipstick on a pig. It's a monthly fee to connect to Dropbox and Google Drive.
Just fwiw, “classics” as in TFA means specifically Greek & Roman language & lit, not “the greats” writ large.

To be fair TFA does not make this distinction clear, and conflates “the classics department” with “the classics” to make a rhetorical point (and a good one, imo).
It's not pretentious, it's true. The "Programming" section of chain bookstores would always be not-very-many shelves of "Teach Yourself X in Y Days" or "X for Dummies" books. I don't remember ever seeing any of the seminal books for noobies like "The C Programming Language" or SICP at Barnes & Noble/Borders/Chapter 11.
> women are attracted to money and status! Not men!!!

Professionals I know in the 20-35 cohort only want to date other professionals. The ones that don’t want some weird stay at home trophy wife dynamic.

There’s nothing provably innate about some men preferring trophy wives. There is a lot of availability due to cultural baggage. The phenomenon that you’re talking about is culturally bound.

Anecdotally my wife makes ~150k more per year than me. She’s made more than me for like 80% of our relationship. I’ve stayed at home with our son.

We’re still top 1%. Neither of us care.
There are ~20 American companies with more revenue than Microsft. Most people are always suprised by what they find on that list.
> you may still support sin taxes, but not on economic grounds.

I do not recognize a distinction. I see that you are citing common critiques of the sin tax relative to the Pigovian tax, but they are substantively and consequentially the same. As a consumer I pay $Price + $Tax for the good, be it due to a taboo good or internalization of cost. Perhaps your concern is on the constraint -- Pigovian taxes are intended to encourage socially optimal consumption, whereas sin taxes are to encourage disuse of the good (which, as it stands, a Pigovian tax is also encouraging for some subset of the consumers on the demand curve). Ergo sin taxes are a subset of Pigovian tax where the legislative body has deemed the optimal social consumption of the taxed good to be zero.

Now, _WHY_ the legislative body or society writ large deems said taxed good's total consumption to be zero versus some lower optimal consumption amount the free market cannot attain is a question on where preferences and metapreferences originate, which is a bridge economics is not prepped to cross.

But regardless, it fits squarely in the framework of Pigovian tax policy.
Physical books? No.
I guess I would rather have cheaper books/things, don't really care whether a book seller has respect for a book as a "work of spirit" whatever that means.
There are other browsing tools besides directories that have “died” del.icio.us and stumbleupon being 2 that spring to mind and hock supporting a true “browsing” experience.
> really make me wonder if the community as a whole would conclude the same on these critical sorts of decisions which shape the future of the language if they were put forward and not just made by a couple people in a closed meeting.

I for one couldn't care less if some proprietary binaries fail on Python 3.11 or so. That's why we keep multiple versions around (at last company, I could only use up to 3.6 because that was the version in the Sacred CentOS AMI)

And, of course, a very critical piece of code was depending on a bug in regex that was fixed in 3.8 or so, and decided to break during a demo (where I was using 3.9 instead of 3.6).
Where the "deeply hidden" options under Settings -> Privacy -> Activity History with "Jump back into what you were doing on your device by storing your activity history"?

It implements the feature of pressing Win+Tab to see open programs, and then scrolling down to see previously open programs.
I guess this proves the original poster right that there are only 5-6 interesting websites left on the internet. I also only check these 5 sites+HN.
I mean, I went to a state school, and I don't think we had a Classics Department, but we had courses on the classical era and its works if you really wanted to take them.

Headline makes it sound like they torched all the books. Really it probably didn't make sense to still have a whole department for it.
Why Trader Joe's won't be offering an online store (2020)
They still mostly rely on the local infrastructure. Even going through gig economy based approaches won't set them apart from the other players doing the same.

Amazon is dominant, but not as much as we would tend to believe. It was forced to stop operations in France for a few weeks at the beginning of the pandemic, and demand just shifted around, service wasn't worse, delivery times weren't very different considering the situation. Comparing it to the effect of AWS shutting down, it was pretty unexpected.
This is similar to "classical music". For those farther removed from this discussion, "classics" would include Shakespeare just as much as classical music would include Bach. No point in arguing "well, he's really Baroque".
You only live once:Epidemiologists analyze health risks in James Bond films
Sure. However, there are plenty of not so straightforward people too who are very well aware of loopholes in our law, society and human psyche and they are happy to exploit them.