skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Empathic emotional responses are absolutely required for society to function healthily, just look at our species' dark past! Living in a not-empathic, insensitive society would absolutely suck. But the pendulum has swung past healthy empathy to being overly sensitive - there's a happy empathy middle lost to some academic cultures. Both over and underreaction to empathic emotional responses are destructive and unhealthy. Here's a good lecture on the extremes of empathic responses: including insensitive and overly sensitive empathic responses, and what healthy empathy might look like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMw8Ua1953w

Being overstimulated by empathic responses renders one emotionally unavailable and unable to help just like the emotionally insensitive person. That's why people draw a line with some academic cultures: it resembles/promotes unhealthy relationship patterns.

Having empathy isn't a problem, it's just about getting the balance right. Too much or too little of a good thing is a bad thing
We're asked, over and over again to editorialize titles like this
NO. It is not just water transport. Of course water transport has always been more efficient.

If we were talking about economies where all the manufacturing and all the consumption was from communities that lived on connected bodies of water, that would be fine.

But the reality is that everyone does not produce and put their work directly on a boat, and does not purchase goods right off the boat. And even if they did, the current boats are massive carbon polluters, externalizing those costs to the rest of the world.

The reality is that global shipment involves far more than just boats - it is an entire exosystem of multi-modal transport, none of which works without the others — as we are seeing right now with the failures.

Moreover, there are also massive societal costs to offshoring manufacturing that are fobbed off onto future generations. These have zero to do with the efficiency of water transport.

So, I'm speaking of the entire system of offshoring manufacturing and transport of finished goods appears to be more efficient than local manufacture, but is in fact full of highly externalized costs that make the "efficiency" in fact a fallacy.
>as I reduced price on it for it to gain attention, I noticed the zillow estimate also went down to always stay below my listed price. I believe the estimate that both Zillow and Redfin display prominently were purely based on what my list price was changed to last, not on any meaningful algorithm

The fact that a house is for sale at a given price, but has not sold after some time, is a strong signal that it's overpriced. The longer it's been sitting, the stronger that signal is. They'd be crazy not to include that data in the Zestimate.

Now, if it's extremely fast, eg they adjust the price down within a day or so, then it seems a little ridiculous. OTOH the Zestimate has always been a rough indicator at best.
You're suggesting that the other person has no agency here, and all the responsibility is "mine" (for the purposes of discussion). I disagree. If you're so worried about catching diseases from people, be pro-active about it, avoid them and protect yourself how you can.

This specific case is an example of rationing medical services; if we accept that's OK now, what's the next class of people no longer worthy of treatments? The obese? How about we extend it to anybody who'se been chronically ill for more than say, 6mo? They're such a burden on our "overloaded hospitals" already arent they? And so on.
I was expecting a kernel written in Javascript
In our company there are, informally, two ways to operate at the staff level and above:

- Be an expert in a single domain, eventually up to the point where you are pushing the state of the art of that domain forward with conference presentations etc.

- Be someone who takes a broader perspective on efforts and ensures that sound technical choices are being made and organizational/ technical roadblocks to getting those technical choices implemented are resolved.

Either way, your role is as a force-multiplier, and you are having a broad impact on the org. Cross-team leadership is perhaps more assumed with the second role than the first. But it is rare I think to come into an engagement having built up the networks you need to operate at that level, so a year spent as a senior engineer and building up those networks might not be so bad if the fit is right.

Hope that helps!
HN loves toxoplasma stories.
I think some reasons Zillow lost were that their pricing and risk processes were terribly underdeveloped in order to scale fast, their models were obviously inaccurate, and they didn't understand the difference between an acquisition cohort and resale cohort, and specifically how much the tail sales of an acquisition cohort determines profitability.
I've heard somewhere that the CPU didn't have multiplication built-in, so in calculating how much level bonus to add would require a loop of additions. This was also an era where timing between frames was delicate, and if the housekeeping part of scorekeeping takes too long, weird things happen, it drops the ball on something else, and it seizes up.
Oh no it's a public GitHub. Nintendo will throw their lawyers at this. Download while you can.
So you upvote and downvote comments, which are presented randomly and by themselves. No support for replies or threading? Seems a step backwards to me.
Decoding DART
It is not machines that defraud people - people do.
isolation is new to me. Not having to worry about IE anymore really makes things so much easier.
Remember to star and fork!
They cash out in Russia is one thing that happens.
Try a consultancy. I work at one and there’s huge demand for senior engineers with workload that’s just what you’re after, as long as you have cloud experience. Pay is good too.
Imagine taking a book off a shelf, flipping to a random page, then pointing at a random word on that page. Without any knowledge of the rest of the page or book you can tell whether that word is spelled correctly and exists in the dictionary. That is local testability.

With code words you need to be able to distinguish where the code word starts and stops and how long it is. For more complex code words not all bit combinations are valid just like not all combinations of letters are valid words.

The example given at the beginning of the article doesn't really go far enough. Yes if you repeat a bit 3 times, you can tell its corrupted if any of the three don't match (ignore the correction part of it because that is not part of local testability).

What the article doesn't cover in its example is that if you have a message that is a full gigabyte. You can skip to any part of that message (as long as you know the index you're at), find the beginning of the code word (it will have index % 3 == 0) and the next three bits and verify whether those have been corrupted or not as well.
Except it is the other way around, currency becomes worth less because people are willing to exchange more of it for the same item (eg ikea table). Demand -> inflation.
Sorry for misleading, I just wanted to post moderna and pfizer estimates to add to authorization time.
Maybe not so much on milk because the retailer eats a low margin on it with higher margins on other products, but you really feel it on dairy-heavy products like butter or cheese.

There’s a reason why the import duty on cheese averages 250%. They’ve got a cartel to protect from the consumer choice evils of the free market.

And then there’s the underdevelopment of the dairy industry as a whole. Canada exports grain to other countries to feed their cows instead of having more cows here and exporting value-added dairy.
There is basically no difference in transmission rates. Look at the study linked in the RKI FAQ (eyre et Al I believe). It is a clear-cut contact tracing study.

You were infected? -> who were you in close contact with? -> did they get infected?

Result? Negligible impact, rapidly declining. Reducing your contacts by 30% has a much greater impact on spread than vaccination does.
We don't live in such a society, except in the fevered dreams of those who are allergic to crime data.
What you meant was: You're not trying to escape them, right? After all, some cats have humans, not the other way around.
Marketing gripe: “Over-engineering” is a negative thing for me. That means that the engineers didn’t think through the boundary conditions and requirements. They couldn’t produce optimal solution. They couldn’t bother with perfection. Instead they just slapped things together without calculation and hope it will hold up.
> the parasite changes the behavior of the rodent in such a way as to increase the chances of the parasite's getting into a feline and completing its life cycle

Seems like it is working as intended!
Regarding the SM64 decompilation, a nice showcase of the modifications that have been created based on that work can be seen on the YouTube entertainer SimpleFlips' channel: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3Hg1a3VjI1bfcErqawMUWhB6...

He also maintains a website where you can download and review many of them: https://romhacking.com/
Wow, thanks. I didn't know that they had an extensive clinical trial program and that the whole thing started so soon.
China will ban it for the 17th time? (kinda sarcasm, kinda not)
GP obviously meant PEX, which is another plastic. (For people not familiar with modern plumbing: PEX is used for supply; PVC is used for drainage to the sewer.)
Often people end up waiting for an outlet to cover it and write a news story on that interesting information. So technically then it's not "editorializing". I just don't know that it's better to do that, and sometimes the link gets changed to the actual source anyway. Maybe "Tell HN" should get more common for these?
I have a solution for you. Buy a table somewhere else
> I never quite get the reasoning behind changing box-sizing.

The relevant section from Every Layout is a great explainer: https://every-layout.dev/rudiments/boxes/
That is an honest to goodness “walk into the office and give the manager a firm handshake” story.

I guess the perception is that in the ‘50s there was work available for those who wanted it and big rewards (a car), for those who carried through. I don’t know how common these experiences actually were, or if there is selection bias, but my parents generation impressed on me that this was a common lived experience.

I can’t imagine now, or anytime in the last 15 years, a teenager being able to walk into an office and be expected to show up and work the next day in a hard industrial job. Now what they will hear is either “we don’t hire anyone under 18” or “apply online” and sit idle in a holding pattern till they’re needed. Modern suburban homes (common for the middle class) are far away from the productive centers of the city and car ownership is a requirement for servicing basic needs, such a getting groceries. Access to reliable transportation is a requirement for attaining jobs, so it’s a bit of a catch-22 if you’re young and looking for work in 21st century America.

I may be going on a limb here, but the days this story is from are long gone and cannot be used as a template for today’s youth. The best bet for being middle class, if you’re young, is to educate your self as fast as possible, and as cheaply as possible. Spend time in high school taking AP classes to take the AP tests to circumvent many gen-ed requirements, do extracurricular activities to look good to colleges and on scholarship applications. Graduate in three years to keep from accumulating too much debt. Do summer internships to have a job to go to after you graduate, and don’t waste time with the summer job that will pay you minimum wage.
A good old Opinel knife. Simple. Robust. Efficient.

https://www.opinel.com/
> Right, and the parents aren't saying "I refuse to let kids read any books by black authors", they are saying "don't put books into the curriculum just because the authors are black".

Let me tell you my point of view. I am an educator, and so I have bigger stake in this issue than most here on HN, who I would think are by a large majority in the tech field. I don't know what your profession is, but could you imagine if you found out what you say is happening between teachers and parents were happening in your field? You would want to know exactly where that was happening, right? Because as a person in this field, you would have some power and authority in that community to affect real change. To stamp out that behavior. Right? That's where I am at now. If what you're saying is true, I'm really upset by that, because it reflects directly on my profession and myself, and I'd like to use my position to stop it from happening.

So when you tell me that a conversation is happening like you described, I want to know specifics. What organizations, what teachers? I'm trying to understand if this is a perception you have of the issue through the lens of social media, or if you have actual knowledge since you wrote a specific conversation down that you said happened many times. I was wondering if this conversation was rooted in your experience, or if you had some other source as the basis for this conversation. I'm eager to get to the actual substance because then we can see where the nuance lies.

For example, as proof of your assertion that teachers are choosing books for racist reasons, you linked to a source that shows just the opposite -- that books were chosen because they provide perspectives not present in the existing curriculum. You further claimed that parents are saying "don't put books into the curriculum just because the authors are black", but your own evidence shows that is not happening. So maybe this is where the discrepancy lies. One group has a misperception about the motivations of the other. That's something we can work to solve.

So where is the evidence it is happening? What is leading you and others to claim it is? Because again, as an educator, I want to attack that directly. I can't attack that with vague anecdotes. You don't like it either, right? Help me help you.
I’m about the same age + experience as you are. I’ve learned that what I like best is the nuts and bolts of programming. My favorite jobs were low-bureaucracy business where I have a ton of control and few meetings. I’m currently on a team of 2.5 developers with one meeting per week. It’s great.

My advice is to think about what you’ve enjoyed most in the last twenty years, and optimize around that.
It is normal, but a lot of the rank & file don't understand that ahead of time.

I also think that fact that management went out of their way to leave the common shares with nothing is scummy, bordering on unethical. Which is not the same as saying it's uncommon.

(FWIW, I was not one of the downvotes)
> pretty bad, and if you voted for a bunch of dumb assholes who don't care about you or the nation, you're multifucked.

The vote tally and the resulting leader are not necessarily related in these places.
> counter-argument

The poster was referring to post infection "long covid", and stated suspect that the number of actual cases of "infection caused consequences" could be small. Before, in priority, challenging that idea, the poster was asked whether he actually met acquaintances who were "normal" before infection, and claiming being dramatically hit many months after. This is to pose a preliminary point about the existence of the problem, before considering the magnitude - one black swan entails black swans exist. That was the scope. So, not really an argument (to the poster's full point).

> If this was the case we'd be hearing, and reading, about it everywhere

Hearing, it depends who you hear; reading, I think mention of long covid can be found with reasonable frequency. I submitted one of the divulgative articles in mid October ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28854321 ). Progress in the development of information leaves could "always" be faster and better.
> if/when the lira rises 15% (#1), will Apple respond as timely to adjust prices cheaper? Mindful that companies are quick to point to a reason to increase prices yet when that same reason goes the other way, not so quick (if ever) to adjust down.

I certainly don’t ask to have my wage lowered in months where inflation is negative. I’m not sure why anyone would ever negotiate against themselves. Apple will lower prices if their customers demonstrate they are not willing to buy at the offered price.
It was so bad, we just moved to immutable GPU infrastructure regardless of physical or virtual. When a new release of all the nvidia stuff comes out, we re-image the machine and install it.

Cuda on linux with ml/gpu workloads is still kind of a hotmess and i'd say we're far from finding a winner like some suggest here.

It's gotten better... but still far easier to treat it like a mess and start fresh with any install
> The IBM midrange systems have a tremendous feature, backward-compatibility – anything you wrote 20 years ago can be compiled on current systems without any change in source code.

If this is saying OS/400 is backward compatible with old UNIX software, then it's kind of impressive. The team that developed OS/400 apparently had absolutely no background in UNIX.

Reasons for AS/400 seem to mostly be big finance software and municipal software (apparently local governments trying to migrate away from AS/400 to Windows municipal software are still having serious trouble 5 years later). There are other reasons... very stable OS and the rare successful security by obscurity. Migrating AS/400 to Cloud is a thing now, but it is still less expensive to own and run the equipment locally.
This is the resource recommended by teachyourselfcs.com. I guess that's encouraging.
Ask HN: How to get ISP Outage data?
Hi, I'm working on an open source project where I'd like to incorporate ISP outage data.
This service claims that it reports accurate ISP outage data, that is not crowdsourced like downdetector: https://www.thousandeyes.com/outages/faq

Quote: "Q: Where does outage data come from?

A: ThousandEyes agents located across the Internet perform billions of measurements each day, yielding a massive data set that includes network interface and application server-level information on when and where network traffic is disrupted and applications are unavailable."

Anyone wager a guess on what websites they are scraping, and what measurements they are making to come up with this data?
> The kind of reverse engineering ZRET do is made legal because the fans involved did not use any leaked content.

IANAL, but - there's no way that can be true. Reverse engineering of machine code is generally forbidden except for very specific exemptions, like compatibility with other systems. Furthermore, even under such exemptions, you are still generally not allowed to share the results.

Even putting reverse engineering aside, they are still distributing code that was written by Nintendo (although meticulously transformed in a way that makes reading and modification much easier), and which still belongs to them.

What would have been legal is if either this was a black box reverse engineering effort, in which all code was written without ever looking at the original machine code, or releasing a tool which fully automatically decompiles the ROM (which is not included with the tool, and must be acquired separately, probably from dumping a cartridge).

(Had to research this subject a bit as part of my collaboration on https://github.com/Davidebyzero/Snipes)
I believe because the original AS/400 hardware used a proprietary CPU (Called IPMI ?) and proprietary RAM that had extra space for tag bits.
When the AS/400 was moved to POWER processors, IBM added extensions for OS/400 called PowerPC AS[0], and uses some "magic" to store a tag bit in the ECC bits of standard RAM.

Also, "Fortress Rochester" by Frank Soltis (the follow up to Inside the AS/400) gives a detailed look at the differences compared to other systems.

[0] https://www.devever.net/~hl/ppcas
More like two thirds of it, by the way.
"The kind of reverse engineering ZRET do is made legal because the fans involved did not use any leaked content. Instead, they painstakingly recreated the game from scratch using modern coding languages. The project also does not use any of Nintendo’s original copyrighted assets such as graphics or sound."
How does it getting approved in Australia or New Zealand help counter it being harder to approve in EU?
I argue that what makes the sale, is that that is what so many in the field are using. Not much inherent to the technologies, but you are taking on a daunting task if you want to compete with pytorch, instead of using it.
What is the "Great Reset"¿?
TeXmacs is amazing but has been staying in a relative obscurity for some reason. It could be a great tool for the so-called literal programming. (Curiously, TeXmacs has little to do with TeX or emacs.)
Omicron cases are mild so far
Lots of discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29110444

Looking at the "SUMMARY CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL DATA" from their S1 ( https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1720671/000119312521... ) it looks like licensing fees are growing faster than support revenue. The latter 6xed from 2019 to 2021, whereas the latter 4xed.

Their cost of support also didn't increase as fast as revenues (looks like it increased by 3.5x from 2019 to 2021), which is a positive.

So, in short, I think they're doing just fine. It's great to see another company succeed with OSS as a core part of the business model.
Exactly, each of those examples is only interesting or useful to someone who already believes crypto has value. It's totally circular.
This is felt especially acutely because most Turkish debt is denominated in foreign currency (~70%) and the vast majority of trade is as well (I remember 85% but can't find a source). So inflation is felt immediately.
Apple is getting sued for iPhone 6 battery explosion caused by alleged defect
My pops and I were talking about this. We have a theory that the real reason these leetcodes are done is to allow large organization to discriminate in whatever way they want without opening themselves to discriminations lawsuits. I don't actualy believe this is the "conscious" reason, but I think this may be one of the reasons that leetcode style interviews are popular.

I can get everyone but the least skilled interviewer to pass if I provide enough assistance in the interview. Similarly, I can fail anyone but the strongest algorithmic candidates by being unhelpful in the interview. The interview allows enough "smoke screen" that I can basically end up passing/failing in a manner that is pretty detached from their "objective" algorithmic skill.

Just a theory.
Even if not, you could probably get donations to put quite a few of these up there. Seems a really good idea.
You originally claimed that these regulations were for safety:

> it's not as if building regulations have been developed for fun, it's largely in response to safety issues and so on.

But they're not. As you (now) say, they're for reducing development. The original statement about safety was substantially incorrect.
For example, low-code/no-code software development platforms
allow employees to drag and drop application components,
connect them together and create mobile or web apps without
programming skills. It’s another function of the old IT
department that is no longer necessary.

ROFLCOPTERING TO INFINITY

Anybody else remember when Visual Basic for Applications was going to make hand-written line-of-business code vanish overnight, replaced by point-and-click MFC widgets?

Also LOL at "we've decentralized technology decisions, people can do whatever they want as long as they use the company-wide-prescribed languages, protocols, and software architecture".
This could be the "endemic version" of COVID that we've been looking for. Particularly if it really is so much more infectious than the other variants and so manages to displace them.