skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Living for others even when you know the end is coming and you'd otherwise prefer to end it is true love. You are setting an example of courage for your family that they will remember.

I will remember too. God bless you.
I've worked at both FB and at smaller companies. The "stacked diff" workflow is quite good, although it can be replicated via Github's PRs via "logical commits." The basic workflow is:

1. Each commit is a Phabricator-style diff. Put the whole idea into a single commit via `git add -p` and rebasing.
2. Multiple ideas/diffs for the same feature? Split them into multiple commits on the same PR.
3. Review the PR commit-by-commit: you can click on the links in Github to the individual commits and see+comment on the changes there. Comments on commits automatically propagate back to the PR FWIW, so this works pretty well.

The mental model becomes: the PR is the overview of the full feature, but not how reviewers are expected to review. Reviewers review commits.

It works pretty well! Assuming you have buy-in from your team to operate this way. In fact, I actually somewhat prefer it: with "stacked diffs," it can be harder to get the birds-eye view of the entire feature's set of changes. Git and Github are very flexible, so in practice I find you do need some established workflows that everyone agrees to follow, or else it's chaos.
I'd steer clear of Hari. Having listened to an interview with him I found interesting I did a fair amount of digging into the sources of his claims. Some of his claims were known and fairly uncontroversial in the medical establishment but the manner he presented them, against some straw-man of medical practice, was a bit misleading (examples - https://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2018/jan/...). Still, that didn't worry me because I'm sure plenty of people do receive the standard of care he was arguing against. As that article above suggests, best practice care is expensive and time-consuming.

Where he really lost me was that every fascinating and surprising claim presented by him with absolute certainty that I looked into was either an exaggeration or wrong. As an example, he had a striking statistic that the modal number of friends people used to be able to rely on in an emergency was something like 4 or 5. Ten years later in the present day that number has dropped to 0. Putting aside the fact that a mode can be pretty misleading, I still thought it was an interesting difference in only ten years so I was disappointed to find that the most credible explanation in the literature seems to be that it's an artefact of survey design. Even the original paper he got the statistic from was pretty equivocal on the validity of the finding, so even if he was a bit lazy in not reading through later papers, he still should have been less confident.

I haven't read his book though. The above is just to say, caveat lector.
I don't think it did.

Electrical engineers still write incredibly low-level code in embedded programming courses - we did some pretty interesting shit in MIPS assembler before we even touched C++ - and I doubt we were any smarter than the CompSci kids.

I think it's primarily a cultural difference - modern CompSci people love treating everything as an academic exercise and hand-waving away complexity, whereas the old-school "hackers" (before CompSci was really a huge thing) would love getting into the nitty-gritty of things and didn't really give a damn about whether or not they were following best practices.

If the average CompSci student (who, to be fair, is smart but not Genius-level) spent as much time reading the spec sheet for the Motorola 68000 as they did learning how and when a Turing Machine halts, they'd have no issue understanding 80's video game code.
I still subscribe - I don't know why they do so many politically-inflected articles these days. Always just skip to the harder-science pieces, especially physics, astrophysics, deep human history, the body, animal behavior, genetics etc. which are so often a delight.

keep those flowing please!
Why the FBI raid of Project Veritas is concerning for press freedom
> If you think the people who [...]

I did not mention any of those folks. The reason you knocked that argument out of the park was because it was made of straw.
aside from Browserflow are there really no similar contemporary projects/products? seems insane to me
Dask and especially the dashboard is a very nice piece of technology.

But "naïve programming" (the art of writing a dumb algorithm with no regards to performance or optimizations) can bite you hard: https://docs.dask.org/en/latest/best-practices.html#avoid-ve...

I implemented an algorithm that was slower than the non-parallelized version this way :D
Its some insane FUD people always spam on matrix threads.
Two things spring to mind reading this.

First, I can't remember who said it but there's a quote that goes something like (paraphrased) "open standards are for losers" (side note: if anyone has the original quote, please let me know). It's a pithy way of pointing out that the winners in any market don't care. Others want open standards to level the playing field.

Second, and I can't stress this enough, literally nobody wants federated systems apart from a handful techno-enthusiasts. It doesn't solve any problem users care about. In fact, it tends to create problems users do care about.

Look no further than the POTS system. Part of the reason you have spam and robocalls is one provider is pretty much free to send or forward traffic to anyone and to essentially spoof the sender such that things like caller ID do very little. Plus there's all the routing issues. Users tend to want to keep their numbers so you can't use a phone number as an identifier anymore. You have to use something lower level (think of this as the difference between a domain name and an IP address) and then deal with all the porting issues and the security issues that creates (eg SIM jacking).
> Customer satisfaction is so much higher when they get a one click unsubscribe.

I mean, that's pretty tautological: unsatisfied customers who become not-customers, aren't part of your metric any more! The lower the barrier-to-exit is for your customers, the more survivorship bias there will be in any customer-satisfaction metrics you're trying to track.

When there's zero friction to quitting (incl. a high availability of alternatives to switch to), any time someone doesn't like your company, they'll just churn, and you'll never hear about it. So you'll think everything is great—despite the churn, customer numbers are growing, and all your non-churning customers love you!—even while there's this huge shadow-population of customers who resent your service for one reason or another, but who took that resentment right out the door with them, never bringing it to you to address.

(Not saying this is a bad way to do things, precisely; just that you have to be aware that it's the siutation you've put yourself in, especially when interpreting customer-success metrics.)

An interesting corollary to that effect, though, is that organizations that are effectively impossible to leave (e.g. utilities) will get a "true measure" of satisfaction, with no survivorship bias. If there's "marketing science" to be done on customer satisfaction, utilities are probably a great "spherical cow" simplified environment to study it in.
If you don't mind me asking, is there anywhere I can read more about this aspect of the system?

This comment seems really extreme and it's a perspective I haven't really seen anywhere else.
Rittenhouse defense requests mistrial after iOS Mail compresses video evidence
House votes to censure GOP Rep. Paul Gosar over video depicting killing of AOC
Which modern serialized protocol do you envision here? That comes with good extensibility by design?

Just the fact that XML is old, doesn't mean it's bad. It might be a bit unnecessary verbose or hard to parse for constrained devices, but luckily there is EXI to solve these issues when efficiency is key.
A 2-way pager! That's so retro.[1]

[1] https://youtu.be/E_nGZ36M0Qo
Yup. https://www.costco.ca/capital-one-costco-mastercard.html
It has been done. Chat apps once did work together and you had multi client apps that would connect to everything. Then they slowly died off and became discontinued because people don't actually care that much about having multiple chat apps. Thanks to modern push notification services, you can receive messages from all IM services without having to have those apps actually running.
What I meant is that the usual formal definition of Turing machine includes a built-in notion of halting that works as such: the machine's state + the symbol under the head decides whether it halts or not at every step (regardless of the contents in the rest of the tape).

In the case of the OP's machine, this isn't the case if I understand correctly. So the OP's machine isn't really a Turing machine by the usual definition.
And people say Ruby is beautiful
> It's very easy to bootstrap

Indeed. In college, I designed a stack based CPU that made it trivially easy to build a Forth compiler for it. It also had registers, because I started with a register based design, but the microcode fleshed out stack based instructions and the registers were mostly for storing data outside the stack.
> Few environments will provide this either though.

I used vim for ~12 years and then emacs for ~12 years, and this emacs has never been able to handle large files well. vim meanwhile has zero trouble with files of any size that I've ever tried.

"Vim can do it" doesn't counter you saying "few environments" though. I haven't needed to look much farther than vim/emacs.
Here is what actually happened and the prosecution later admitted it. (they first blamed it on the defense android phone)

1. Prosecution receives the file via airdrop, direct data transfer.

2. Prosecution sends the file via gmail to the defense but it gets compressed in the process.

There are 2 ways to send a vid/pic from ios with gmail

1. from gmail app with attachment function, this pops up a window with "processing" (compresses the video, which is poorly worded imo)

2. from ios photos app > share > gmail, this shows a progress bar at the bottom with "compressing"

both ways are easy to overlook, first one is poorly worded and its a very fast process, my test vid with 25mb took <1s and video in question is only 4s/11mb

the real question is, why is there no proper evidence system in place to submit and review(for all 3 parties), using gmail and dropbox sounds very questionable to me.
Those are not universal terms, and are actually defined in the contract which you seem to have not read. Grace periods, minimum commitments, subscription lengths, and/or post-paid terms are all common.

Ironically there are far more complaints about cloud providers shutting down entire business operations because of a late payment here on HN. Perhaps you should consider this more thoroughly instead of escalating a single unfortunate anecdote into a strawman argument against how business billing works.
If it sounds too good to be true it probably is. But maybe it will at least be possible to buy a genuine battery directly from them (for high price but still).
Well what % of your annual income are going to those.

I agree luxury good should have a weight of 0 but Housing and Education is need by everyone and are a major part of where your salary go to.
That humans had a major role in the extinction of wooly mammoths is likely correct.

However this cannot be said for the megafauna in Australia: https://theconversation.com/aboriginal-australians-co-existe...

Our propensity to blame past extinctions on humans often has more to do with projecting our own civilisation's tendancies at destruction than some immutable fact about human nature.

Mammoths also tended to live in areas of relatively low biodiversity such as the artic and tundra anyway so this does not contradict my point that historically humans have caused increases in the biodiversity in their local ecologies.

There is substantial evidence that the Amazon rainforest for instance was at least in part cultivated: https://www.voanews.com/a/amazon-rainforest-ancient-people-c...
Gerrit is the only thing I've seen do change exploration well.

Github is annoying as crap. Can't even comment on a line in the file that needs changing but was missed in the PR, can only comment on a tual changes.

Phab is god awful, it's like someone built that whole system with a purist mindset, everything is perfectly designed with perfect referential IDs. But every screen is a view into the db table, no screens join information and make it usable. This is worse when you have n:m relationships because they expose those tables via screens too, it's just plain awful.
It was with Forth that I learned to build up the language until solving the problem becomes trivial.

Of course, this can be done with any language, but Forth and Lisp make it look natural.
Maybe I'm missing something, but none of those applications/desktop icons scream "technically savvy" person to me.
Flagged, this is not interesting to us hackers and this would most likely be covered in the news, please read the guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Tweet at them?
Uh, no.

Science was invented by nature philosophers to defeat the ridiculous false sciences of the day like alchemy and so forth.

Go look up who invented science. You'll see three argued names. All three are philosophers.

Science is a tool of philosophy for discarding frauds.
Bill Gates-Backed TerraPower Picks Wyoming for First Advanced Nuclear Reactor
But doesn't this just give the game away? It seems like you're simply agreeing that the only reason this is happening is crypto hype. There is nothing actually better about crypto for this application, it's just channeling (or taking advantage of) people's general excitement about crypto.

And, honestly, I get that. There's nothing wrong with wanting to participate in something new. But nobody should be deceived into thinking that DAOs are really creating any important new capabilities here.
No, you prove it.

If incidence of suicidal ideation goes up with number of involuntary holds then it means that psych facilities are not treating the problem. That is enough: that they are provably not treating it. First do no harm means you have to be causing good; ambivalence is treated as likely harm because it is invasive.
>Auto-merge-on-green-checks

ADO has that.

Post, wait, CI failure, fix, post

This is the worst, especially when the CI system is homegrown, rickety, and difficult or impossible to reproduce locally.
Funny that this emerges the same week that some games of true historical significance are pulled from online retailers [1].

[1] https://kotaku.com/metal-gear-solid-games-being-removed-over...
Thank you!

Agreed, Abstraction for example, is really really hard for most people, like harder than most technical folks realize.
We don't live in a perfect world, so to me its a solved problem for any reasonable definition. In any case, I don't understand what your comment has to do with right to repair. I am for right to repair and anyone suggesting Apple is correct to be anti-repair because "it's hard to know which repair shop to trust" is the one being disingenuous.
> That seems to be a problem with a lot of these series. They usually start out good but they drag on and on. The story gets stretched out over too many books and it never gets to a satisfying end. It kills the pacing and makes me burn out on a series.

Hello, Wheeel of Time.

Hello, A Song of Ice and Fire.

Let's see if Martin pulls a Jordan.
I agree, 7% sound about correct. But not 15%
Now they're up to $31 million received, $35 million goal. This now looks like a dark pattern intended to deceive contributors into thinking it's almost there.
It seems pretty tautologically impossible for being “trapped in that system” to be a more permanent problem than death.
It’s a minifier. I am not sure if tsc minifies your code for you or not, but if it doesn’t, you’d definitely want that in your build step. It’ll shrink your built files considerably, and it’s a pretty standard, uncomplicated tool.
It's fair critique of the quoted passage above.
If incidence of suicidal ideation goes up with number of involuntary holds then it means that psych facilities are not treating the problem. That is enough: that they are provably not treating it. First do no harm means you have to be causing good; ambivalence is treated as likely harm because it is invasive.
Epic irony this massive troll comes from Bellingcat... but a good piece of work nevertheless. Good job lads, had me laughing in shadenfreude for a full minute.

I guess it took them a full year to write this because they were laughing too much in between sentences thinking how much this would aggravate their counterparts...
I was talking about all at once. If it’s over years I would rather wait for a meta analysis, but it depends on the reliability of the early papers.
In an alternate universe, far far away:

"I am the library of the Senate!" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtaEdpEuOyE)

I find it amusing that this power is vested in the library of congress.
This is Paul Graham's full tweet:

Of 1277 students who graduated from Lambda School in 2020 and sought jobs, 950 got them, for a placement rate of 74.8%.

(Lambda's weirdly dedicated haters will be happy to hear that these numbers were audited by an accounting firm.)

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I think while this seems like a great investment a better study would be on the return on investment including the opportunity cost of attending and the cost of Lambda.

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It seems Lambda school has been acquired by Bloom Institute of Technology

https://www.bloomtech.com/
I agree with your general sentiment, but speaking as someone who has been in jail and also involuntarily committed on multiple occasions, jail is much much worse.

All the downsides you listed apply to jail time also, but the food is more terrible, the environment more restrictive, and the opportunities for extricating yourself (if you are reasonably cogent) are greatly reduced.

Also, ironically, being in jail on suicide watch is preferable to being in general population.
If you don't need the things that K8s offers, try it and see if it works for you. It's pretty minimal. Most folks only need those features though.
Not sure how prominent this is, but if a business buys some online ads then their competitors have an incentive to see those ads rendered useless by quickly depleting their budget on bogus clicks.
"“Neural network–based urban rainfall trend estimation and adolescent anxiety management,”
by Mengjiao Liang, of Jiujiang University.

“The characteristics of rainfall in coastal areas and the intelligent library book push system oriented to the Internet of Things,”
was purportedly written by Hailing Chi, of the library at the Zibo Vocational Institute in Shandong —

which we loosely summarize as: “The rain in Spain falls mainly on my new smart refrigerator.”

And, perhaps our favorite,
“Distribution of earthquake activity in mountain area based on embedded system and physical fitness detection of basketball,”

which sounds like it might be the poorly-written elevator pitch for a new animated movie in which The Smurfs meet a volatile Shaq. "
> Some students tutor others, also not a new idea. What do you think is wrong with this idea?

In college it's frequent to have TAs, students who completed the course and did well in it and help with grading assignments, labs and so on. But they aren't just a few weeks ahead of the students they teach.

> Wow that was a full disclaimer and you're...leaning on it, with no elaboration?

Honestly, every time Lambda is mentioned there's a flow of new accounts who "graduated" from these bootcamps and companies that are "extremely satisfied" with these hires... but never is a company actually named! That's strange, to say the least.
"artificially rare"
We're not talking, in these instances, of someone who is mentally able but with a mobility issue, we are talking about people who will never contribute to society. That's money taken away from you, not some billionaire.

That said -- rounding up people and killing them is insane. But failing to test for birth defects and not working to prevent them is also insane.

Some ways this thread is going are kind of concerning, like, we don't know why people are depressed, so doing something like selecting against people who are liable to be depressed is probably a huge mistake. We could end up with generations that are poorly equipped to solve problems under pressure, etc, or whatever depression may naturally exist to help the host do.
> One observation is that after they play video games, they get agitated and angry afterwards, and it ruins the next hour or two of activities as they act like little assholes.

Two hours isn't a long time to make any progress on a game, especially if they start playing strategy games like Age of Empire where 1 hour games are the norm. It must be very frustrating for them to stop for arbitrary reasons (the $EVIL_SCREEN can't be used for more than $TIME) when they know their schoolwork is done and friends are still online.

> The one area where it gets dicey is my 9 year old is learning how to code, so managing that screen time is weird (is it like watching tv/playing games?)

It might feel like a game to him. Remember reading books? Assigned reading took the fun out of reading since the selection was imposed and you knew you were goign to be quized on it. But especially if it's unstructured and there's no assignment, he may think programming is a weird sandbox/logic game.
MSFT has always been a bit shady.

In some cases it's been a whole lot shady, and even criminal at times.

There are lots of reasons we older folk do not trust MSFT at all. The younger folk who are yet unaware of MSFT's past dealings are perfectly free to make up their own minds.
Why not use explosions?

https://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/JCCEAZ.0000068
Anyone who can find joy in a glass of whiskey and a terrific hardbook is going to be fine, is what I think, no matter what obstacle, unless they go too hard on the books.
'"I am asking not to receive any bonuses or be granted any equity during this time," he added.'

And then literally the next sentence: "...Kotick — who has been Activision CEO since 1991..."

So if he's truly so sorry for presiding over the 3 decades of toxic company culture that led to this point... How much of his last 30 years of compensation is he giving back, to make up for it?

None? Well, then I guess he's not actually very sorry, is he?

Kotick is already insanely rich, by any standard. I don't think he could even notice if he never cashed another paycheck or equity grant, for the rest of his life. Giving up his next year's compensation is just performative posturing.
My main memory of Magdeburg: Best hotel breakfast I've ever had. Holiday Inn, I believe. Not necessarily so any more: This was in 2007.
Tools Embody Mediums
Musing: Japan has a lot of "useless jobs", but these are basically social help in disguise: they keep money flowing to a lot of the population, including the elderly.

I wonder if the ad industry is a version of that: advertisers pay a lot of money and that money flows to overpaid programmers (us) making the latest JavaScript framework to, who knows what "world-critical" function.

Hollywood also has the strange accounting that most of a movie's profits is spent in advertising it, i.e. the money flows into the studio's subsidiary that pockets the money and spends a fraction of it to print and put up posters. I wonder if these subsidiaries are in tax havens...