skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Do you honestly think that Visa and Mastercard wanna prevent people from using their services to buy porn for example? They don't give a shit, they want money, the state, the people with the monopoly on force are the ones who create the circumstances that put that pressure on Visa and whoever else.

If the government doesn't want these industries, why not just ban them? Why make businesses jump through hoops to accept payments and pay higher fees? And don't forget, if your company is big enough, Mastercard and Visa will work with you. Small business? Yeah, they don't. Who decided to make Mastercard and Visa gatekeepers and not our actual laws?

>> If bitcoin mattered enough it would face the same fate (and I think it's clear that's the way it's headed). Crypto isn't somehow immune to the fact that we live in a society.

What fate is that? Using Bitcoin and other crypto to pay for legitimate and legal items would have the government come down in storm? Can I not use cash for items deemed high-risk by Visa and MC?

>> Broadly it's a zero or negative sum game, the value comes from other people losing value. We shouldn't allow systems like that.

It might be a zero-sum game, but in the payments example, the buyer and seller win and the centralized authority loses.
I too was struck by the seeming pointlessness of the article. However there is a reason to give her the benefit of the doubt. Often women are socialized to subsume their own wants and desires into the greater wants of their families. Because of this, the "I want" part of you, that can clearly even know what you want, becomes lost.

She might sound like she destroyed her marriage for no reason, not because she doesn't have a reason, but because those feelings are still so inchoate that she was just left with a strong but vague desperation. I'd be interested to read more from her in 5 years and see if the distance gains her clarity.
It also means mixing windows and posix code was impossible. If you chose posix, you were locked in an extremely limited text-only world with no good path to any extras windows could offer.

This architecture made it possible to claim posix compatibility on paper, while making it clear microsoft would make your life hell if you tried to actually use it
> The person being replied to literally suggested it as a single source of truth. For everything from HN to your bank account. So you’re tilting at the wrong windmill!

The parent I replied to is competent enough to know that there is an easy way to have that “recoverable account” he is obsessed with: custodial wallets. You know, like the custodial accounts that are the defining feature of Web 2.0.

People who don’t understand the innovation of being able to choose between custodial and non-custodial, and how that’s a big deal that many appreciate beyond the opsec requirements, sort of expose their own weaknesses.
That's not really true. It was a real trend on which Facebook jumped on[0] but yes their involvement overshadowed that. And at any rate clearly the poster here used it in a general sense of a VR Environment rather than meaning Facebook's specific implementation.

0. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...
I find most laser printer paper is not particularly absorbent. But it may depend on how fine we prefer to write compared to each other.
> Lisp is the most expressive and flexible language. You can reach a flow-state where ideas can freely flow from your mind into code

This kind of claim typically comes from someone pretty new to the world of software development.

You can say this of any language, really, and any developer who's reasonably proficient in language X will also claim that with X, their ideas flow directly into code.

> The Lisp programming language Racket is used to teach programming fundamentals in modern Computer Science courses.

Unsurprising cherry picking. How many universities teach Racket compared to, Javascript C/C++, or Java?

The rest of the article is of the same cloth, raving about Lisp and Clojure as the best programming languages ever invented.

You should learn Lisp, no matter what kind of developer you are. But by today's standards, Lisp a pretty antiquated language which still hasn't caught up to modern trends (static types, asynchronism, etc...) and with a very poor tooling (lack of IDE's) and library ecosystem (building websites, parallelism, GUI, etc...).
Because our plants are extremely old.
And if cancer kills millions every year and successful treatments are expensive and tedious, maybe someone can come up with a cure to cancer that is not expensive and not tedious. It's a hard problem to solve, but a lot of smart people are working on that problem, too.
Which is a good thing. Just converting energy sources is not going to save us. We need to tackle the energy sinks too, i.e., getting smarter about how we use the available energy, i.e., mostly being more energy efficient. ("We" as in "humankind".) Raising prices is the right incentive here. In the long run, +50% is not actually that bad. There is room for a lot more.
I had a professor that intentionally baked hard (for the course takers anyway) mathematics into some problems, that were technically solvable during an exam, but that required very good level (they typically included rare/obscure identities). The point was that solving precisely was always a “trap”.

His pet peeve was that engineering wasn’t about finding a precise answer at some point, but about finding good enough answers fast.

I liked that this forced you to stay alert during the problems for simplifications and to understand what you were doing, instead of just droning out method A for solving problem type B.
Well nothing is risk-free. But in my opinion in any case the risk of allowing climate change to rampantly continue vastly outweighs the infinitesimal risks of nuclear.
What a rollercoaster.
To a religious leader a few hundred years back, a 'game' is something totally different from what you and I know as a game. For instance: if you're leading men, and for some reason they're getting drunk and 'gaming' (hazard/dice/whatever) between each other, then that probably might be leading to real internal strife, conflict, violence, desperation etc. It would make sense in that reality, for a leader to subscribe and to propagate teachings/philosophies/doctrines which cut off that possibility.

It's not something I 'like' much either, but it's super interesting to think about why various things were 'banned' (or encouraged!) in different historical realities. These things weren't done by stupid people for stupid reasons.

The video/computer games we have today frequently serve as literature: a source of wisdom, means of companionship, educational simulations of reality. They're a powerful form of art/influence, and we're already seeing some authoritarian states ban or prohibit them.
There is trade, and then there is giving a geopolitical rival an "off" switch to a sizable percentage of your energy supply.

Free trade requires easy substitutes to remain "free" and opponents of this plan mostly think that energy markets don't work like that because of high switching costs. Germany can not just spin up new nuclear plants or easily buy electricity from neighbors past a certain amount of it's usage. I don't know enough to know if this angle is correct.
The threat isn't directly to invade Germany. It is to stop Germany from intervening when Russia invade it's neighbor countries. EG if you embargo us or provide Military Support to russian opponents, will shut down the power in Germany and you'll freeze to death. A short-term gas disruption will cause Russia to lose some money, but would be much more dangerous for Germany
Stereotyping != Racism

Every culture, color, creed, nationality, and gender has Karens.
It is hard to find an explanation for this other than Germany has been co-opted by Russia. Ukraine has been separated from the herd and will surely fall. Putin will be on Germany's border by the end of the decade.
Maybe saddest part of the whole Fukushima was that it was entirely avoidable. If proper planning and implementation was actually done. I expect Germany and European nations being culturally better to get things fixed.

My understanding was that root-cause was old design and not sufficiently secure back-up power and failure to get such on site. Which could have been done, but was not.
After resigning, have you had to work a day since?
Smart contracts are a pile of money exposed directly to the internet with no firewall in the way. And no recourse when things inevitably go pear shaped. They’re somewhere between self funding bug bounties and just straight up honeypots. It’s interesting the folks with piholes and boobie trapped routers are the first to get behind this idea.
Ah well. I guess we must buy solar and wind now.
Debug symbols are stored locally with MSVC, and booting into debug mode only takes a few seconds longer than non-debug, sounds like you are doing something wrong.
Love that last sentence!
It's actually due to EU regulations but spread your FUD.
Yeah.

> The java.lang.Math.random() method returns a pseudorandom double type number greater than or equal to 0.0 and less than 1.0.
After some quick searching (https://www.princeton.edu/~aaa/Public/Teaching/ORF523/S16/OR...), I don't think so. It looks like for robust optimization problem you don't know for certain what the objective function is or have uncertain data measurements for the objective function which I don't think is the case here. I could be completely wrong though.

From my understating, if you want to only able to only pick form a discrete set of components for certain variables, you are essentially transforming the problem into a Mixed-Integer Non-Linear Optimization problem (MINLP). I tried to find and easy way to do this with some python optimization libraries but they always needed other packages which were hard to install on Windows. So my solution was to "relax" the discrete constraints by using a continuous approximation of the minimum function when looking at the error from the nearness comment value that is possible. This also lets you assign weighting to have a tradeoff between having realistic comment values vs. having lower error for your main objective.
- Focus on quality of life improvements with existing control

- Start experimenting for happiness. I only in the last two years found out how incredible I feel stopping coffee at 1 PM and waking up before 6 AM.

- Financial independence can make you happier because not only does it give you more time it can also reward us by not needing to do things we don't want to do like house cleaning.
Sad that this is downvoted. The hidden cost of nuclear is one of the biggest issue the tech-affine crowds tend to ignore and not want to hear about. You may not pay it on your utility bill, but society and later generations will pay it.
This seems shortsighted at first look, but there's got to be more to it. During an undeniable, ongoing energy crisis every power source, a continuous one at that, should be treasured. While the phase out has been ongoing for more than a decade, could this not have been put into hold temporarily? Any expiring certifications? In any case I find it laughable that Greens themselves have contributed to the decommissioning of NPPs and are supporting of this move. So much for one the actual cleanest and certainly the one safest energy source.
Not to worry. I still recommend the documentary above. Happy New Year.
It's absolutely reasonable to have security requirements. It's not reasonable to fire someone for a single, accidental violation. I hope the people in the above story realize that they've made a mistake.
> everyone asking for “unmodified raw photos” to be produced don’t understand what they are asking for. Those “unmodified” photos would be unusable in most cases outside very bright conditions.

I’m asking for unmodified raw photos and modified ones. Or I would be if Megapixels didn’t already give me both on my GNU/Linux smartphone. The processed versions of the photo’s I’ve taken look great IMO, but I don’t see the harm in keeping the raws around, they’d probably be quite useable for producing even better edited versions if I were to import them into a full desktop image manipulaton program and let it process them with desktop power and more than a couple seconds of time to do it. And I’d think Apple would be be happy to sell bigger overpriced emmcs and iCloud subscriptions to SD-slotless iPhone users with raw image filled phones, and/or pop up a notification to delete them all with a tap when space was low.
Current nuclear plants don’t scale down well.

There will have to be a whole new generation of plants designed to be cost effective at that scale.
Most reasonable recent sedans have two or three isofix points, so I do not see the need for a van when you have two kids. The difference in handling and refinement (noise, cabin quality) is quite large, although the extra space is nice.
Am I crazy? I ignored this whole debacle the first pass but that couldn't more clearly be a leaf connected to a branch
Persisting it across jobs, using whatever your CI framework lets you do. We cache this stuff using the workspace cargo.lock checksum as the primary cache key
Education tech startup -> musical.ly -> acquired by Bytedance -> TikTok
No, you’re the one who is missing the point. An ever-growing number of highly engaged young people are using wallets and engaging in key signing without even thinking about it. And what those people do today, becomes the norm tomorrow.

I had meetings with newspaper executives in 2007 where I told them “everyone will get their news on Facebook soon.” They couldn’t understand what I meant, because they didn’t think “normal” people would ever use such things. A lot of comments on HN regarding web3 remind me of those conversations. This will all be so embarrassing in 10 years.
Not quite. They're reducing their dependency on nuclear as well. Sure they might build some new reactors but they'll also close some old ones. It's expected that they will close more reactors than they will build.
And closer to war. Great solution! It's going to do so much good for the climate!
> The second half of that statement is questionable, isn't it?

Yeah, the time I worked at Google most people worked less than 40 hours a week.

> but my distinct impression is that one trades time for a significant chunk of money.

Right, I traded 30-40 hours a week (a significant amount of time) for about $250k a year (a significant chunk of money).

I know other FAANG are a bit more harsh to work at than Google, but I haven't heard of any place where 40 hours weeks isn't the norm. Except Amazon, but Amazon is just a regular toxic company, you find such at every paygrade.
This is great, thank you!

TBH, the picture you linked to is much better than what I expected. Do you know if this was done with IR illumination?

EDIT: p.s. where would you go to buy [1] ? I checked alibaba for the "VG5640" device code and came up empty.
Moralization, as you put it is a fundamental question most humans have at some point.

Is this thing/activity/etc good/bad/neutral?

Additionally, any group of people basically ask the same question with the added problem of should we allow it in our group.

Few people have a problem with individuals and society moralizing about murder.

However, as you note, throughout history there's clearly been a tendency for this moralizing to become weaponized as control mechanisms for hierarchal power. In essence, "good" becomes defined as "does nothing to upset the powerful".

Video games get modern hate for two basic reasons. 1) They're new/different 2) They encourage people to spend time in ways that don't directly support and sometimes directly challenges the current paradigm.

The biggest complaint is that they're a waste of time, but honestly I think most of the ire is that they're just not as profitable. For example, TV used to be fairly negatively seen, but as they became a key part of maintaining our consumer society (via ads), complaints for them went down. As video games become more revenue focused, it seems complaints for them are lowering.

On the reverse side, I think humans could use more moralizing. Not the pearl clutching way, but a more steadfast dedication and education in good ethical systems. Of course, the trick is determining what a good ethical system is.
I'll take a look at this, thank you for the node. I believe I'm using mathjax currently but I may have set set some options correctly. I also need to go in and verify a11ty as well.
paying way more for electricity is not a good thing, sorry.
You have outstanding friends.
Yeah, at the least you can just sample from a gaussian distribution around the nominal value; the shape is probably wrong but it's got to be better than assuming no error. Or you could just do error analysis on the formula to find out which terms contribute the most to the final error.

I like that your suggestion is in-line with how we now can use an autoencoder to convert a molecular graph into a continuous latent space which can be used to train a network to predict some property. Now we have a latent space where things that have similar property predictions are near each other in a space we can explore and then decode into new candidate materials/molecules.

Drug discovery, solar panels, I'm looking forward to the field taking off industrially for sure. Applying machine learning and advanced computational techniques to ad-tech is very depressing with problems like these out there.
Are you guys bored or something?
Devastation is a strong word. The restricted area around Chernobyl is incredibly wild and lush right now. It's just humans that don't want to live there for credible health concerns.

Excessive resource extraction causes devastation.
Maybe Brittons got tired of so many ridiculous policies from the EU shoving down their throats?...

Not saying I'm pro or against Brexit, just that your point seems to corroborate their decision to leave.
Apple and Google Asked to Remove ‘Play to Earn’ Games in South Korea
I’ve spent the last 9 months doing little but rewriting indebted code that is a tar pit to all new and existing devs. Next year we can hire people who will be productive, and I can actually start to add features and resilience. Glad my employer can afford this luxury.
It's not politics preventing nuclear power it's the eye watering cost.

Unless you count getting taxpayers to shoulder the cost as politics.
The bargaining power is much higher on the user site. "I did not like the new feature. Take it back or we throw together some money to build a competitor. We already have all player data, it is on chain."
Right, playing world police should be right at the top of Europe's plan for saving the climate.
Why do people always want things to burn to the ground? Why not burn your home and things you care about to the ground? In all likelihood, they’re only serving you and a small portion of people around you. Why not do that?
Turns out the Camera app did NOT replace this person's head with a leaf https://twitter.com/mitchcohen/status/1476951534160257026

So the discussion about the image processing pipeline during the Rittenhouse trial" is just as bizarre as it was before.
Ah, good to know. These seem to be intended for use with the Raspberry Pi, but I imagine they can be used with microcontrollers like Arduino, with a bit of soldering-iron hackery, right?
this is the the result of a nonexistent European energy policy, let's switch of coal and nuclear and not work on accelerating the approving process of renewable power plants what should go wrong right? the entire EU is completely dependent on gas which we import from countries like Russia, Algeria. Currently due to the skyrocketing gas prices, production from coal is at a all time high, but hey the green transition is working right??! companies are closing because they can't handle the energy costs, but Germany says everything is fine...
Microcontrollers usually are not POSIX-compliant. Android and iOS are not POSIX-complaint.
This summer a large part of germany was completely flooded. This was a natural disaster, which might happen at higher frequencies nowadays. The alarming systems in place competely failed and around 200 people drowned in Germany. There are so many things which could happen and countries like Germany are not prepared for.
Interpolation algorithms (such as bicubic) used for zooming are not “AI” anymore than a decompression algorithm is. There’s no “training” involved; it’s an entirely “pure” algorithm. Same input in gets the exact same output out.
I'm sorry, it's not sarcasm. But I don't think it was appropriate to say. I don't think that talking can help me. I feel like I died around 2 years ago and now I'm just going about day to day things in a way that people don't get upset with me, but every day I feel more and more checked out of reality.
> Censorship at the scale Big Tech does today would be equivalent to the vBulletin developers baking admin backdoors into the software so that they could censor other people's instances of it.

No it wouldn't. As big as Facebook is, they still only moderate their own platform, and there is only one instance of Facebook. Separate vBulletin instances do not constitute a single, collective "vBulletin platform." The narrative of "Big Tech" as an organized leftist conspiracy orchestrating censorship over all social media is simply right-wing propaganda.
Can confirm that I had a very similar vibe from Dropbox interview process (got the offer, but chose a different offer for reasons that have nothing to do with Dropbox). Grinding leetcode wouldn’t have helped much beyond basics for the coding portion of the interview.

The problems were extremely practical, but also not “dirty” (so not like where you are given something like a React project, and asked to build a website doing XYZ). It was more like “here is a general problem (let’s say, process scheduling algorithm for a hypothetical OS; not the problem i got, but similar in concept), here are the methods the class needs to implement. What are the approaches? Which one you would go with if you prioritized memory? What if we prioritized speed instead? Are there any other helpful methods that the class might need?”.

And it essentially boils down to conversational decision-making on implementing a feature that is very similar to how it is done in a real workplace, not as a leetcode problem at all. And yes, you still implement it in leetcode, but grinding leetcode will only help you with the very basics, and it can imo be totally passed without leetcode grind.

The non-coding interviews were also very well thought-out (in comparison to the typical FAANG process). Systems design was a delight, and the deep dive interview (where you pick a project you worked on before ahead of time, write a few sentences about it, and then when the interview comes you dive very deep into an aspect of it and get grilled with questions on it) was very meaningful and useful.

Overall, i can definitely recommend interviewing with Dropbox, and it was a very difficult decision for me to not take that offer, as I got extremely good vibe from both the people i interviewed with and the company overall.
The PTY side has been covered for a couple of years now with the introduction of ConPTY.
Any guesses as to when this chart goes to singularity?

Actually, an exponential curve can go forever before it reaches a singularity. Because, you know, "math".

Not to say that over-reliance on QE isn't a problem. But it does sound like you're whipping out (scary-sounding) buzzwords (like "singularity") without understanding what they mean.
Yeah I think my confusion was that I was thinking about a fully mutable context shared across threads based on the code example in the post.

But if it's just for the ref counting part of the Arc then I can see how a GC would solve it by not needing the RC
I do not understand how 2 major incidents (in living memory) that could have ruined the biosphere don't discredit nuclear power for everyone.