skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with parts of this, but I do want to complicate it a bit...

> the sheer arrogance of arts intellectuals saying "we're invaluable for society, so we should be paid by the government to do whatever we want to do" beggars belief.

The arts aren't the only place where this happens. A lot of scientific/medical research is in part or whole funded by public money. Is your belief just as beggared by "the sheer arrogance of scientists saying: we're invaluable for society, so we should be paid by the government to study whatever we want"?

> I'm way happier for the market to decide. There are viable business models out there for good quality content with niche appeal. It doesn't all have to be mass-market pap to be commercially sustainable.

I see a connection between people trying to carve out a living in OSS and in the arts. Many artists and OSS developers are just people who work a day job that they may like, hate, or be indifferent to--and then go do something they are passionate about in their spare time.

Do we, at scale, have a better society when most of these people's productive hours are fettered to whatever pays their bills (whether it uses their talents or squanders them) and they have to squirrel away energy for those passions--or are we better off when they can chase what makes them want to wake up on this side of the dirt every day?
Ah yes, after all a lottery winner will advise everyone around them to play lottery - clearly it works, they are the best example.

Once again, you are refusing to acknowledge that the word "typical" is not appropriate here. Even in your example it's not typical for American people to achieve that American dream, as America is absolutely awful on the social mobility scale.

Edit: also it's really classy you are just deleting your replies to my comments instead of actually engaging in a discussion. Your choice I suppose.
I used to have a co-worker exactly like you describe. He was great for consulting business: the clients liked him him so much that they hired two additional consultants. One to fix everything that he broke and another to do the job he was supposed to do and took credit for.
How is the performance and scaling story compared to live view?

Live view works so well because of elixir and BEAM. The same model may not translate well to other languages depending on their concurrency and recovery pattern. There are also many optimizations in BEAM for keeping latency consistent over throughout alone which is important for live view applications.

I also wonder if it will be possible to have push only live view application. One of the reasons for this is you can use server events instead of sockets. It would be cool for building visualization or showing metrics from backend.

Awesome job all around. I love the examples folder.
The apartment mentioned in the article stirred up some memories.

Back in the early 90's, I worked for a company that had a long term contract for software development and support in another city. The team that worked on that project would rotate up and stay in an apartment that the company maintained there. While I never worked on the project and never saw the apartment, I heard many tales about it, which indicated that it was terrible. Too small, non-functioning amenities, just an utter dive. The team that worked there would just grouse about it to other devs, but never said anything to management, because they assumed they were just being cheap.

Well, someone finally mentioned it (probably during an exit interview) and management was shocked. They had been paying top dollar for what they thought was a luxury apartment, and instead were getting ripped off. I think they wound up getting a different, better apartment for the devs.
It's because Facebook and Google tolerates far-right content on their platforms. That is why they're being targeted by progressive MEPs from the EU and liberal American media.

As an EU citizen I will not miss Facebook but it's healthy to be aware of what is actually going on instead of pretending Brussels care about my privacy.
Why randomized controlled trials matter and the procedures that strengthen them
You’re drawing equivalence between government action and non-government action, and applying that equivalence to a case where the non-government action is directly opposing the government action.

Further, you’re using a denunciation of the actions of government as an argument against the rights of the people to protest against it.

This debate would be a lot more productive and a lot less dangerous if you could stick to the actual disagreement at hand, which I think has something to do with vaccines, but I’m not sure anymore, rather than trying to build a case for rejection of all rights even marginally related to any form of opposition. And please understand that I have much less interest in the opposition rights than the unrelated collateral damage that any such restrictions would cause.
Note I did nothing to manipulate the top court. The application was phrased politely and only hinted at a crime background.

Severe procedural errors including denial of access to court files alone justified a reversal, besides the blatant misinterpretation of the law. There was no need to argue beyond this point or label anyone an offender at the time.

(Ordinarily one would have filed to have the decision voided locally instead of applying to the top court, but that court had unlawfully denied access to the assignment rules and does to this day.)
Optical Illusions of the Year
Or just enabling the default kernel hardening flags. But sure, let's dunk on people for not running hardware that has been in developer-only release for less than a month.
This is actually really shocking to me, I had no idea.
Yeah, it's a new parameter, based on exactly this common use case.
You're welcome to find the original sources. There are several excellent books on the topic. I suggest using Google to find one that piques your interest. You definitely seem like the type to "do your own research" Mr Just-Asking-Questions guy.
> Classes like Computer Organization, Operating Systems, Networking, Databases, Software Engineering Fundamentals, the first year programming sequence, etc. could hardly be considered math courses.

so a math degree has to have every single course be a math course? do they not take literature?

Networking had me prove the theoretical limit of networks using calculus and other things, databases had us using relational algebra and other proofs... it certainly wasn't `select * from users;` kinda course. it's a math degree at least at my university and most reputable ones it is. are all classes 100% pure math? no of course not but the emphasis is math.
> Tech’s Ender’s Game.

I think the last starfighter would be a more apt analogy
I don't remember ycombinator asking for my DOB when I created an HN account...
AssemblyStorm weekly?
Talk to the _person_ first. If that yields no joy, then escalate to your own manager
I feel compelled to repost a comment of mine from the simutrans thread:

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So, this is totally pop-evolutionary-psychology, but I think the relevant predisposition is towards hoarding. For 100,000 generations, humans (and our ancestors before then) have had to gather and store food and other supplies to see them through the winter (or other hard times). We are wired to do this because we would have died out if we didn’t.

Building games let you build up your hoard of stuff (whether trains, rails, buildings, tiberium silos, green circuits, …) in a tight feedback loop that repeatedly triggers the “this is my stuff, now I am safe” dopamine response.

This also explains collecting hobbies, and goes some way towards explaining the desire for wealth acquisition in general.
they didn't mean that it was astounding that something of the form "xxx1 + xxxx3 = xxxx4" was in the training set, but that it managed to "learn the pattern".
That's a fair point, but the literature here does say what the original comment stated, which makes the whole reading-comprehension thing excessive.
I didn't find any analysis here of what these companies are doing with all this location data they are collecting. The consumer gets some detail of single devices which they can see on a screen, but the mother ship is collecting a ton of detailed location data from every device that they can run through their advanced computing to refine into predictive products or advertising. This is the bigger story to me.
You actually rent domains, not own them unless your a large corp like fb or google
> E.g. if I, as european, create a Gmail account and my mails reside in an US server, I give explicit permission for all my emails to be transferred between Europe and the US.

NOYB has used this as an example of something that would be illegal.
Yes it seems like Apple should be able to limit the Airtags to just the bluetooth of the owner and then mark the GPS location of the last known connection.

If more people knew about the piggybacking feature of Airtags, I think few would opt in.
How does the NYT present the histogram from my past days on the powerlanguage.co.uk site?
The "bright box" disappears for me and I'm sure many others. It's just a callout and by default is visually ignored with my "ad reflex".

Here's one obvious fix. First line of the article, italics: "Originally published x/y/zz".
Sen Wyden has been solid. I'd totally believe the pro EARN IT rhetoric is completely divorced from reality. In my experience, this much push behind nonsensical policies is solely about pork and enriching cronies, using some manufactured outrage to moot deliberation and reasoned criticism.
Sometimes they do! My last company worked with title companies and it’s a little “insulting” to send less than a director to meet with them.
Yep, indeed. I'm technically the CTO of the startup I'm helping to found. And even though I'm 37, I haven't been in tech long enough to feel like I've earned that title, so my LinkedIn says Chief Software Architect (I made it up).
IME, you can register. And then between a day and a week later, you'll get a demand to verify by phone.
> economics thru the lenses of chaos theory, control theory, or cybernetics?

I'm looking too. In my mind this is absolutely the way to look at the macroeconomic landscape, and as a control theorist, I don't like what I see, which is a widespread lack of respect for delayed responses and positive feedback loops.

I'll evaluate what hope we have for stability once I see the control being executed sensibly.
Grad schemes are generally the way any graduates get introduced to a company in any career.
https://archive.is/uUVE7
Even if they voice their concerns, they do it in a very quiet way.
> He is also a human calculator with tremendous aptitude for arithmetics.

Even if this is true (and I'm not sure it is--Feynman had good intuition about a lot of things, but "human calculator with tremendous aptitude for arithmetics" seems more like a description of John Von Neumann or Norbert Wiener), I think it's orthogonal, so to speak, to the ability to live with not knowing the answers to questions.
Let's take a more complicated example, that is one of the main things that happens on Facebook:

1. Sam makes a post.

2. FB predicts Pat will comment on this post if they see it.

3. Pat sees the post, and writes a comment.

4. FB predicts Alex will reply to Pat's comment if they see it.

5. Alex sees the comment, and writes a reply.

To show why data transfer is such an issue, assume Sam, Pat, and Alex are all in jurisdictions with EU-style privacy regulations and that don't have data transfer agreements with each other.

How would you build a system that supports 1-5, a user journey that is core to Facebook's usage, in a way compliant with these regulations? For example, where is the discussion stored? Where do the models in (2) and (4) run?
Point of No Return: The Authoritarian Parties
Actually yea - I hadn't even thought of Japanese - or Korean. Korean is basically a phonetic language with a built in pronunciation guide!
It sounds like you're describing the same thing:
https://github.com/calderajs/caldera-react

> Think of it as the Node.js analog to Phoenix LiveView — all of the application logic (including rendering) runs on the server, and DOM updates are sent to the client in real-time.
I’ve bought a few over the years, particularly when Borders had its great magazine sections. They were uniformly turgid and boring and I was consistently disappointed. They are their own worst enemy.
I've never bought it. It will still involve being able to transfer information FTL, and then you're on to the Grandfather Paradox.

On top of it, let's handwave all of this away, poof. Any aliens anywhere in the Universe would also be using it once their technology got to that level. Just from the lack of visitors, we have three possibilities that are immediately evident:

1) Humans are among the first intelligent species to get to this technology in the entire Universe.

2) Other species have it, but all of them, every last far-flung one of them, even the renegade civilizations or the mad scientists at the individual level, abide by not using it around humans. Despite all of their numerous reasoning capacities and utterly inhuman motivations, every last sophont with access to the tech has agreed upon this, and has for thousands of years.

3) That tech can't exist.

The first and second are unlikely, statistically.
Tsumego is probably the term you are looking for. I have an app with lots of them on my phone.

I was talking specifically about using them to teach the rules, which is not something I've heard of so far.
Seems like lately we've gone from "when you hear hoofbeats behind you, don't expect to see a zebra" to "if you see a horse, it's definitely a centaur."
levels.fyi bro. You get to L4/E4 within a year or two, which is for all practical purposes basically “new grad”
I wish the world would've been that charitable to me. Instead, had I failed I'd be a +1 on another DOD statistic. I wouldn't have even registered in turnover for most software companies. Nobody would've missed the SWE without a degree beyond my friends. There are few, if any, DEI dashboards that would've tracked a SWE without a degree or an enlisted veteran.

On one hand, I hate that people seek accountability so much from individuals. I think individual decisions are so low level most of the time that it makes seeing the bigger picture very difficult, if not impossible. On the other hand, this story is the antithesis of my professional life, and the very principles that may have projected my career also did damage to my personal life because of the focus they demanded. I know what's lost and that makes reading about someone who just wanted more than what they were already given so hard to read.

Edit: I do feel for people who have a lack of opportunity. I was there, I lived it, I felt it. That said, it's certainly not the only emotion I connect with when reading this story.
From a pure immediate money perspective, sure changing immediately to a higher paying job makes sense.

However, generally each new job comes with a ramp up time before you become useful and then a further ramp up before you can develop new skills (in my limited experience).

I don’t think I could properly progress in my career by building higher level skills if I had to learn new organisational practices and technical skills every few months. And arguably, IMO proper progress is essential to securing significantly higher salaries in the future (but I’m not sure how the total money aspect works out though).
You've found the only sentence in the entire article about vaccination and attached you own meaning to it. If Ardheli wished to convey that severe disease increased the risk of complications much more than mild disease Ardheli could have and should have stated so.

I'm not saying your point is invalid, I'm just saying it's not addressed in the article in question. Please be more careful. It's OK to just admit you we're wrong. It's not OK to twist quotations to support your position not matter how valid or righteous you believe it to be.
Why are you running sexy protocols when non-sexy protocols do the job?
I wonder if the whole "weeding out" theory extends to college education in general, and like you ask, how constructive to society that is.

I, very briefly and quite honestly, attended a lower tier state school that was an absolute joke. Shortly after I started, there was an outreach program for local high school kids where if they showed a high school ID, they got admission for the upcoming year. The head of my dept dismissed it and quipped, "It's ok. Anyone that wasn't meant to be here will just drop out after a year anyway and we have their money."

I, thankfully, ended up at a much bigger P5, well-known university. One of the controversies was the engineering departments were trying to get as many students as possible to the point of exceeding infrastructure and admitting lower quality students into the program. Upperclassmen I talk to said, "that's why everyone hates <1st semester math for engineers> and <2nd semester math for engineers>. They immediately weed out those that don't qualify."

"Weeding out" is what college admissions should be doing, not the departments. When the departments weed someone out, they've wasted at least a year of their life and a year in tuition, and demoralized them.

This is what really the "college for everyone" mentality has led to. If the kid shouldn't be there, or should have started in junior college first, we need to be more upfront about that earlier.
I got it as a teenager from a cycling accident. It took me 20 years before I was finally able to say to myself "I'm fine with this". It did happen though, and for anyone else suffering it can get easier to deal with given time.
GP is making up definitions for concepts in ways that make no sense. denying the existence of games because you find them morally reprehensible doesn't change the fact of their existence.

of course games are executed with moral repercussions. if anything, that's really the point of games. they are simplified, yes, but not amoral.

if anything, most "amoral" or "apolitical" games are widely implemented hegemonic tools.
The point is that the air-gapped system would have to be compromised first.
Actually wouldn't that be good? Assuming the good guys have access to quantum computers.
So, is this the evolution of Snippet? I read about Snippet here https://secondorder.xyz/posts/introducing-snippet/, but the repository is non-existing now (404).
How do you tell the difference between bot users and legit users who just give up? Especially if you do it during a high growth period, it could easily be masked by the growth.
Makes me think there's no such thing as working for ABC Inc. or XYZ C-Corp. Nowadays--and I'd be happy to read the links in replies with evidence to the contrary--you're always working for a division of Corporate America.

It could have been different, and in many ways there was a time when it was so. There's still some cases where this happens, I guess. You just have to be much more culturally attuned, ideally monocultural in fact, and have the right instincts to know how to work the system and get them to compete.
It is, which is why i stopped playing after ~40hrs. "Refactoring" my factory was too similar to refactoring my code, so playing this game after work (and my work makes me tired sometimes) is not a relax I'm looking for on evening after work.
Very few of the maths textbooks I've read have had the answers to the exercises in them. If the author wants to put in a worked example, that will be in the chapter itself, rather than the exercises.

In maths, you know when you've got an exercise right, and so you don't need the answer written out for you. If you're looking up the answer before you get that feeling, you're cheating yourself. You won't learn the material.

It would seem weird if someone put the answers in the textbook, like having the answers to a newspaper crossword on the same page as the crossword itself. You'd have to exert willpower in order to not look at them.

The whole point of the exercises is to play with the ideas until you understand what they're for. If you don't at least partly invent the subject yourself, you never really 'get' it.

Textbooks are really guides to how to reinvent the field, what order to think about things in, what are the cleanest ways to break up the patterns, what are the best notations to use, so you can reinvent it all at a reasonable speed rather than having to spend a whole lifetime on each problem.

If you literally can't do the exercises despite having read the chapter, then it's a bad textbook. Throw it away and get a better one.
The social graph itself is PII. BobUS and SallyEU are friends. Where can that data reside?
So you propose to copy the private data of European citizens on US servers?

What happens when the law makes that illegal?
I don't think you're considering the context of my reply.
Vaccination status has a ton of confounding variables, including age, immunocompromised status/other comorbidities, immunity from prior infection etc.

This was at one singular hospital with unknown population level immunity. The fact that there were zero deaths in what was likely a small subgroup is not something to base a broad likelihood estimate off of.
The Gretel Epoch #4 – What's new in privacy engineering
What a bunch of elitist nonsense.

"I can't understand the appeal of programming for the average programmer. Unless you are advanced >2% of leetcode there is nothing really "deep" about it. It's about solving simple puzzles and you have to think like a computer, simply evaluate datatype and if-conditionals."
Would it be possible to use “active noise control” (reverse-amplitude sound waves) to cancel out the sound?
Anything. There seems to be this (unproven) belief that the drugs and methods used to treat Covid do no harm, and that it must be the virus, and only the virus.

The fact is, this is the first time in a long time that we've had a substantial sample size of infected humans, as well as a spotlight on the topic. The point being, there could be previous history with regard to treatment / solutions used for Covid and we've never bothered to look and see. That's not being critical. We had no reason to look. People survived and that we moved on.

But now we have a significant amount of data, yet we seem to be presuming - again, without proof - that the cause of "long Covid" is exclusively due to the virus. Simply put, that assumption isn't supported with science. It's based on assumption and narrative.
I took a contracting job where I'd travel for two or three weeks at a time, often working long hours. This would usually take me from a spot where weed was recreationally available and ubiqutous to impossible and impractice to get. The two vices ran together for me.

After sobering up while away, I realized how much of a drag these things had been on my well being and resolved to just give them up, or at least try.
Exactly my point, folks with privilege like yourself don't even understand what privilege they have and have taken advantage of their whole life.

I did (apply myself). I did work my ass off to get into, and out of, (good) engineering school and pay for it also.

It simply wasn't an option for me to go to an expensive private or out of state school with a price tag of a couple hundred thousand dollars. So I went to the best school I could afford. Many folks are in this boat. It's not for a lack of trying or intelligence - it's for a lack of privilege.

Edit - I also want to acknowledge that compared to many folks in the world I am very privileged. It only serves to highlight my point even further. These statements are less about me personally and more about me recognizing that I, and many others in our HN world are very privileged in one way or another as compared to he average American, or Human.