skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is great advice, even if it sounds cliché and obvious. I like to say that you have to set yourself up for success. That is, make it as easy as possible for your task to actually be easier and more straightforward (i.e. get the other stuff out of the way the day before, clean up, mute your phone, empty your agenda, etc) It’s very common for us to do the exact opposite, and then we feel bad later because we failed. Of course! We made it even harder for ourselves then it already is. I think that many people (especially coders) got used earlier in life to do things naturally, to have natural motivation to work and that was enough. If at some point that’s not the case anymore, because you’re older, has more responsibility, is tired, or a combination of all these, you lose your “method” and don’t know what to do. So: recognize the difficulty of what you are going to do, and set yourself up for success. And also learn to expect less from yourself and be happy when small goals are achieved (you’ll learn this the hard way anyway; after not doing anything, even a small thing will feel like success).
> Think of the folks fighting the "murder" of children, they come up with baddies (abortion doctors)

This has been Christian doctrine for 2000 years: they didn't "come up with it." It's in the Didache, which is a first century document and puts abortion in the same category as pedophilia.

In contrast, there will never be a point where the left stops finding new niche epithets and specialized victims/oppressors because the Hegelian worldview requires it.

A mere 10 years ago, the idea of TERFs or people oppressing others because they didn't include pronouns would be unthinkable. Once that bridge is crossed, more bridges will inevitably need to be created. We live in a world where the left thinks thousands of unarmed black men are killed every year, when the number in 2019 was... 14 [1]

This same worldview thinks that there's a mass of white supremacists seeking to take over the country, and yet, where is the mass number of crimes that we hear about? If they were there, don't you think we'd hear about specific cases on the news, given that literally half of all unarmed black men killed by police made national news?

[1] https://www.manhattan-institute.org/police-black-killings-ho...
The thing is, when a programmers starts to generate input, the problem is already solved, he is merely putting the solution into whatever representation the tools demand.

I am not defending 10-15 WPM here ofc. just statingt that the majority of work happens before we start typing in code, and after we typed it.
How is that a counter argument to what i said?

The best way to fix the problem of evil is to say that the evil has a higher noble purpose and thus is justified. That applies just as much to man as it does to the divine, and has been how the majority of evil acts in the world get justified.

Giving it a fancy name just means it has a fancy name. It doesn't change the content of the idea.
It's possible to be not totally cynical about this stuff. The CEO of Raytheon might very well genuinely support gay rights. After all, many people do.

Also, I don't really see the connection between this tweet and Holywood.
You're quoting pretty selectively there.

11 billions went to the Soviet Union alone. The overall program was almost 50 billion. The reverse program of 7 billions is basically a calculatory sum of the lend and lease of military bases by the British Empire to the US.

> suppy of aid (which the US can afford because of their capitalist practices of exploitation etc)

That's a pretty wild statement considering how the Soviet Union created its resources (with slave labor of millions of people in the Gulag system).
Because it was intended as an identifier, not as a secret. The financial industry couldn't tell the difference between the two so now everyone tries to hide their IDs.
Quality of google results, has been going down for quite a while.

There have been some speculation that it's down to SEO and google trying to make as much money as they can.

It's possible that a company which does not derive their income from search ADS could create a better search engine.

If someone can make a better search, I am all for it, even if its just for limited topics.
That's not legal under the FCRA unless you've given them written permission.

Though some companies will do a background check on all new hires (again, with your permission) which would include employment verification.
I was just thinking last night that in 2022 we are going to see a lot of pushback against rising salaries and employee bargaining power. I expect more of this crap around the globe
> You could make the same arguments when you're working with slices in Go. Take append(slice, element). Does it return a slice with the element appended to it, or does it modify the slice in-place?

A funny trick question as it pretty much does both.

Also I'll take "functional trickery" over needing a page called Slice Tricks so you can find out how to delete an item any day of the week.
> Would love to know what this means.

You saying you’re completely baffled by this term, or asking for the poster’s particular meaning?

I’d draw a parallel to “White supremacy”. Given the wild range of applications for the term, you need to get a sense of what any one wielder really means.

But it’d be quite obtuse to reply “what’s White supremacy?”
> The 80-20 rule works here too.

Yes, and that's the problem: solving 80% of the problems may be a net positive for the company, but it is a net negative for the users: they are now interacting a bunch of time with a device that isn't able to solve their problem, resulting in a negative experience for 20% of the customers. If a waiter would refuse to help 20% of the customers by pretending to take their orders but not actually doing anything with them then that would kill the place where that person worked.

Solutions like these should not work better than 50%, they should work as often as a human on the other end would work, so closer to 100% including escalation options in case it ends up not working after all.
I feel they have overplayed their hand in the 2020 US elections, not just Hollywood but all media.
In some ways it is a bit sad and pathetic looking behind the curtain and the seeing the puppeteer pulling the strings.
C'est la vie I guess.
If you landed a good job afterwards, I’d say those four months were necessary and even beneficial. Sometimes your body/mind will simply force you to stop, and procrastination can be one of their tricks to convince you to do it.
I think the main thing that gets people accused of being shills it using new accounts to send shrill calls to action
> This is absolutely true for Google (or companies of similar scale), where it is 1. hard and slow to just fire someone 2. The production of a good (average?) vs. great programmer doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things (due to massive scale, and robust quality control systems).

This is true also for places like Germany (and Europe in general afaik) where the cost of firing someone past their probation (6 months) is very very costly, especially for small companies.

IMO, at-will employment should be something the employer and the employee should negotiate and not imposed by the state or the employer. Unfortunately, it's usually the employer who has the upper hand.
Yeah sorry updated above, 11bln to USSR specifically, thanks for correcting. Nevertheless, it seemed odd to almost suggest the Us were financing the USSR in their fight in order to obtain some credit.

Noted RE Soviet practices, though it's besides the point I think (i.e. it would be a scandal if the US didn't send aid in this form).
> This is a key part of what it means to be a responsible elite. You use your privilege and your personal judgment to explore and solve problems that no one else can.

> If you have the resources to spend some time exploring, if you are on to interesting threads of novelty that few other people have, and if you have the spirit to tighten your belt, throw out your map, and explore off-road, then your real job is to do so.

It's not really self-centered.
Americans have been fucking themselves for so long that they don't even care if it makes sense anymore.
It's even more obvious when it's the other way around; i.e. movies that criticize them have to create war scenes without the all the free fighter jets and Apache helicopters. One of the worst (war) movie scenes in history have to be the one in "Lions for lambs" [1]. It looks like some low budget / film school creation even though it's a massive production, with Tom Cruise, Robert Redford and Meryl Streep.

1: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0891527/
> Perl doesn't really shepherd you into regexp, it's just easy to s/// in it

I would also count that as "shephearding" or "pushing into a direction" or however you want to call it.

I'm not necessarily agreeing with the whole post, but I believe it even matters how easy it is to integrate libraries in general. Some programming languages make that easier than others and also require it more than others (by having a smaller stdlib).

And that definitely changes the way people think and act within the whole ecosystem.
What's a "bang"?
The particular article is probably written in 2017.
Of course, the opposite is also true - many of the pro side see this article as the road not travelled, and are lamenting not following a romantic vision of what could have been, without thinking too hard about what it might cost.
Hi Vladimir,

Thanks for the invite.

Please start monetizing : we want to support this effort ( I understand it is a difficult decision ). Would subscribe if reasonable.

Register a new HN handle here for comms about Kagi.

I see gimples of the future where my search engine behaves/looks differently depending if I am researching IT issues or looking for clothing.

Good luck.
Yet it seems like another issue tracker is being developed and advertised every year. Is there something missing in these tools that spurs people to keep making more?
This method of propaganda was described by Chomsky in Manufacturing Consent already in 1988:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent
I am convinced that the way to change the world (not necessarily towards some altruistic nirvana but at least to avoid a dysfunctional, environmentally and socially disastrous dystopia) is by raising our education / communication game towards more honesty and transparency when discussing socioeconomic challenges and less obfuscation inane, monkey chest beating like conflicts.

Already any discussion that centers around "capitalism" is deeply problematic as it invariably takes enormously complex sets of laws, conventions and behavioral attitudes that varies materially (both historically and regionally) and forces it into a binary yes/no universe. You can't solve complex problems with random hammer blows on each others heads.

All of the constituent components of what we term "market democracy" must be examined not as what they say on the label, but what happens in practice. Just as a simple and single example: when politicians routinely enter revolving-door appointments to serve private interests how can we even pretend this is a feature of "capitalism".

The true underlying behavior is cooperating private gangs marauding the commons. It doesn't matter if it happens in ultra-capitalist US or "communist" China.
Truffles are more expensive in the US because they don't grow well there and most of them need to be imported from Europe.
Off topic, but another interesting and tragic story is about the Aral Sea between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. I actually don't know in what state it is now, but it shows perils of modern agriculture and resulting environmental problems which hit the population severely. The issues often fly under the radar because it is said that people are used to environmental hardships, so a sea vanishing wasn't seen as something too catastrophic. I think there are efforts to restore the sea and that might be extremely important for the overall health of the population in the vicinity.
World War two, a summarized source is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties#Soviet... but that claims a slightly lower percentage of 13.7%.
As someone who happily pays for many "free" products/services (like DNS service through NextDNS), I am super excited about products like yours, where I can get a better product and more/better features for money. I received my invite this morning and I am super excited to check it out. I wish you all the best of luck and I am really rooting for your success!
Putin and LitRPG? Can you elaborate?
Show HN: I'm 15 and building a live quiz app for classrooms: Quickz
Hi HN. My name is Varun, I am 15 years old and I'm building a web app called Quickz.

It functions similarly to Kahoot, which is a learning platform that we often use in school. I had some annoyances with the direction and features of Kahoot, so I decided to make my own.

Teachers can create a deck of questions, and host it to their classes. Students will join with a Game Pin, and answer questions simultaneously. Students are rewarded points for answering correctly, and quickly. At the end of the game, a leaderboard is displayed that shows the top players.

To encourage students to win, the top players are rewarded "creditz", which can be used to unlock more character customization options.

I've just been working on Quickz for a couple months now in my free time, so it's definitely not full release yet, but please have a look. This is my first big project, and I'm very proud of it :)
It is either OOP or FP. You will not make everyone happy. Procedural programming unfortunately does not scale for the needs of the PSR. Remember, the group started as a platform standardization (between the laravel level projects) and not PHP in general.
I do that every time I go down a ladder.
Wouldn’t that be the other way around if anything?
Once the compiler has computed the async graph, it could in theory fuse subgraphs of nodes (especially linear sequences) back together and re-express the execution flow in terms of spawning and joining threads. This would be simple and could even be a performance win for some graphs (i.e. embarrassingly parallel ones), and would be a complete trainwreck for many, probably most. I certainly wouldn’t want to be stuck reading the error messages produced by a compiler when it failed to find a satisfactory solution to a complex execution graph. Profile guided optimization might help I suppose, but still.
This is a perfect example of the idiotic propaganda that spreads throughout Canada.

There is no indication of any chance of true, widespread violence in the US. The worst the US has seen barely qualifies as a riot. Nothing that will come close to overwhelming local police never mind their military. Nothing that actually qualifies as sedition. People who call Jan 6 events a 'coup' have obviously never seen a real coup d'état.

And even if the US collapsed, hypothetically (which it won't), Canada doesn't have the capacity to do anything about it. We can barely keep sovereignty over our own borders (talking about the north mainly).
I think one should not forget that Denmark's society is mostly homogenous.
When you have a vastly dominant, culturally homogenous group, it's relatively easy to trust and support one another.

In a highly diverse country like the US, where the average New Yorker or new immigrant will have a completely different culture and world view from the average Joe in Missouri, and that's just two examples out of many, it's very difficult to build a culture of mutual trust, especially in comparison to the level of support Scandinavian countries offer to their communities.
It is privilege. That one may have or attempt.

It doesn't make it less valid a path to consider.
There have been a couple of discussions on HN lately [0][1] about the current state of search engine results, be it served by Google, Bing, DDG or other. Also, it seems like there is a lot of work on search engine alternatives as in the case of Kagi and also here [2] to name but a few. Of all alternatives, Kagi seems to be off to a very good start and I personally am a very happy beta user.

What I have not seen so far being discussed anywhere, though, is the Willingness to Pay [3] for a search engine alternative, say like Kagi. What do you think is an acceptable monthly subscription price? What do you think is an expensive price? What do you think is a prohibitively expensive price?

Here is my take on those questions: 5$, 10$, 20$.

UPDATE: I'll summarize all answers and post the results here for reference.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29782186

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29772136

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29690877

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willingness_to_pay
This is much easier to achieve at big tech companies in the US than you think. Look at levels.fyi and you'll see many examples of people with only a few years of experience making $300k. I personally know many people making that much three years after graduating from a coding bootcamp, and a few people who make $450k-$550k after only a couple more years than that.
The infuriating thing is that Google used to do this right. It used to be possible to go to Google.de and see the German results for instance. Now I always get the Swedish results (I live in Sweden). I often have searches where I want results from Sweden, Germany Australia/NZ or general English. I have to become increasingly elaborate with my search terms to get them (essentially search with whole sentences in the desired language), it's really annoying and I'm surprised how Google could get the so wrong.
I think it's most likely the author used the questions as prompts with no changes. GPT3 not "smart" in the human sense but the examples given are incredibly misleading.

Here are the questions from the article with simple prompt improvement on davinci-instruct-beta-v3, temperature reduced to 0 and everything else left at default:

> Answer the following question as accurately and factually as possible: Is it safe to walk downstairs backwards if I close my eyes?
> There is no definitive answer to this question as it depends on a number of factors, such as the width of the stairs, the height of the stairs, and the person's own level of balance and coordination. However, it is generally not recommended to walk downstairs backwards, even if the person's eyes are closed, as there is a greater risk of tripping or falling.

> Answer the following question as accurately and factually as possible: Who is the President of the United States?
> The President of the United States is Donald J. Trump.

> Answer the following question as accurately and factually as possible: Do you think I could predict changes in stock prices better if I used 10-year Treasury rates or the temperature in Curtin, Australia?

> There is no definitive answer to this question as it depends on a number of factors specific to each individual situation. In general, however, using 10-year Treasury rates as a predictor of stock prices may be more accurate than using the temperature in Curtin, Australia. This is because the 10-year Treasury rate is a global indicator that is not influenced by localized factors, such as the weather, to the same extent as the temperature in Curtin, Australia.

> Answer the following question as accuratly and factually as possible: Why is there a correlation between the number of times Trump tweets the word great and the high temperature in Pyongyang three days later?
> There is no clear answer to this question. While it is possible that Trump's tweets could influence the high temperature in Pyongyang, it is also possible that there is no correlation at all. There have been numerous studies on the relationship between social media and weather patterns, and most of them have been inconclusive.

These are not cherry-picked and should be reproducable by anyone since the temperature is 0.

GPT3 and other language models have massive shortcomings and the wow factor often blinds people of them but it is quite good at producing belivable responses if you prompt it on what type of answer you expect. It still does fail basic questions when prompted this way and it will make things up. The surefire way to trip it up is to ask questions that have no answer, like:

> Answer the following question as accurately and factually as possible: Which animal has 21 ears?
> The animal with 21 ears is the rabbit.
It's the "!" character that you put in front of certain things, like "!g" ("bang gee") for searching Google through DuckDuckGo.
The Engineering of Spirituality
You are being manipulated in this very second. That you skim HN while watching the show was actually anticipated. This comment will auto-destruct in 60 seconds.
If this data is available to some parties, it will eventually be available for everyone interested. Especially when we are talking about Equifax, there should be no doubt.
The person who I responded to said "the mindset that lets you do this is a mindset that comes from a background of abundance" - implying that pours have a mindset which doesn't "let them" take risks.

And it goes without saying that the rich have it easier. That doesn't make it their exclusive province, nor indeed should it. It's not exactly as if the risk-free pour life is exactly paradise anyways. When I fell from working class to vagabond in fact it was a significant step up.
So your argument is, because of the author's moral failings, we should reject his arguments out of hand without considering them?

And you make this ad hominem argument in the name of critical thinking?
For purely search, 10$ is about the max I would pay.

For a full equivalent to Google's services including Maps, Docs, Drive, etc, I'd be happy to go much higher up to 50$.
I think it's kind of an compromise between the artistic community in Hollywood who usually want to be progressive and capital, which dont want to do anything risky or threatening to powerful/rich people/advertisers.

Gay rights and a few other issues satisfy both groups.
While that's true, the fundamental missions in space that we are likely to fly are basically all about science and engineering. Even (I speculate) the classified ones. Satellites provide either telecommunications or fundamental information about our world or the universe in which it sits. That information is not going to beinherently military -- it's the purposes that it is put to that may be.

On the other have, every American action movie seems to feature guns and explosions and quite a lot of glorification of the military. The military exist to kill people, and to deliver the utmost brutality to others whilst remaining organised, logical and efficient themselves. Guns exist to kill things. Explosive munitions are fundamentally excellent at killing people from a surprisingly long way away, larger than what Hollywood shows. When was the last time you saw a film highlight the loss a family of a minor villain felt when the hero shot him? The true aftermath of an air strike in a foreign country -- lifelong resentment and hatred about the country that provided it? (Vietnam is an interesting place to visit, but don't mention B-52s to the locals). It is an unfortunate but unavoidable fact of humanity that armies are required to exist. There is definitely good that comes from them, ranging from humanitarian aid to the research into high end technology, and I'm not calling for their abolition -- I am not naïve. That is fundamentally why the glorification of the military at all costs is problematic. The ethical arguments for their existence require exploring.

American films, on the other hand, will quite happily show a commando killing hundreds or thousands of people in a teenager-friendly film, yet American culture decrees that showing a single naked person mandates that the film is restricted. That mindset -- boobs bad, guns good, explosions fun and exciting -- is slowly but surely exported across the globe.

I'm going to look forward to the sci-fi space films where the drama is survival in a hostile environment, and infinitely prefer them to war films.