skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
800 grand for one of these ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCjVwRdL8ic

Beautiful, but 800 grand, really?
That's not a good name for a civil rocket/-program tbh.
Great contribution to the Worlde meta-game. I like that the AI follows through with your "bad" decisions and still tries to make the best out of the situation.

How hard would this be to use for another language? Would you just need one list with the valid answers and one with the valid guesses?
margin-inline-start is very cool and something I didn't know about! It seems to be specifically designed for this prose-style paragraph-indentation use case. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/margin-inli...
It depends on the content of the class. I had a class in Android programming in college where google was fair game because the API / libs were so large that google was a necessity to access all the documentation you need to write android apps.

My low level systems class was closed-book, no google, etc. At some point you have to learn something. Pointer manipulation is not something you should have to look up every time you do it.
> That's not true, because critical theory is about social systems, not essential properties of human beings. ... You have to be able to separate group conflict from group membership

Social systems can persist for generations. Your
whole argument would lead us to think that, e.g. there's nothing wrong with blaming detrimental aspects of Black culture as the only relevant causal factor behind the continued poverty and social marginalization of minorities in the U.S., but this is often regarded by many as being little different from showing overt hostility to Black people themselves. There's quite simply no shared consensus over what counts as an 'essentialised' vs. a properly nuanced analysis - a narrative focusing on historical dynamics and purported political interests can very much be so coarse and unsupported by evidence as to be quite 'essentialised' in practice. Arguably, this might describe much of what passes for scholarship in the 'critical' tradition, and the unrelenting, thoroughly naïve focus on facile narratives of "liberation from oppression" does not exactly help matters.
> I must emphasize that copying my program is not possible for most athletes straight away. If you would like to try something similar it will be necessary to ease into it and increase the training load carefully and wisely, but also rapidly. Do not forget to stick to the Limit. If you do, I am confident that you will be able to perform the same program as I did and perhaps exceed my results.

To get his results you need to be a few standard deviations away from the middle in terms of raw talent, time available, and picking a good training plan. He can't help you with the first two, but it's very cool that he is giving up his secrets on that third one.
Something a company chooses to do is in fact about that company, even if they didn't create the pressure to do it or invent the practice, even if other people do it more or did it first, etc etc. They teach this in kindergarten so I know you know it. If Alex jumped off a bridge, that thing.

> It critiques working conditions without providing any context as to how these jobs compare to other low pay -or more likely even average pay- jobs in those countries.

What context could justify the global power imbalance that makes this economic relationship possible? The article is critiquing working conditions and power imbalances. I'm sorry it also doesn't take the time to explain and rationalize the economic injustice that created them.

You seem to using a liberal or neoliberal framework to understand this relation in terms of its individual actors and the economic incentives and consequences of them. The missing context here isn't more details about those actors and consequences, it's an exploration of why these factors are distributed the way they are and how to engage with that system.
You are missing a third category: argument. That is to say a series of deductions starting from facts and sometimes values. The values might be opinions, but often attempts are made to use widely held opinions such that agreement can be assumed. Also facts are much harder to come by than one might think. We have data from observation and experiment and derive models and conclusions … and many call those results facts. But they are only probabilistic facts - one can assign a likelihood to their truth but full certainty is rare. Thus we must rely on rational dissection of argument to identify the most likely facts of rather than starting from some pool of known truths.
>This is also the reason why wealth dont survive over generations .

There is loads of counterexamples for this though. Especially in older countries in Europe it can become very apparent.

Also having wealth (trough inheritance) enables one both more opportunities and reduces risk.
A poor person taking a "gamble" on a business (if they can start one that doesn't require long rampup or capital) will struggle to feed themselves if it fails. A rich person (if not just focused on inherited assets) can try multiple times and is often encouraged to because of this but also trough exposure to fundamentals from family.
What does this mean? It's catchy, but what mechanism exists where a political position can run out of room? The space is defined by the number of inhabitants.
It's simpler than that. I don't feel the need to maintain relationships for my day to day well being, but I force myself to, because I don't want to die alone someday. But I also recognize that I'm an extreme hermit/introvert who is happy calling my dog my "SO", and will probably end up dying alone in a cabin in the woods someday, so it may all just be futile anyway.
> The course is only there to test your knowledge and give you a grade,

NO

> everything else..

I kind of agree what you are saying actually!
With blackmail and fraud convictions (and a 3-year prison sentence behind you), I would hope that nobody would give you a job with access to systems that enable you to get at personal information or money. That's their business, of course; but they'd presumably be exposed to an action for negligence if something went wrong as a result of them employing someone with that record.

Blackmail and fraud are both offences that involve using others as means to ends, and require the ability to discount the damage and pain you cause to others. If I were hiring a coder (let alone a computer security consultant) I'd search for a long time before hiring someone with a record of that kind of untrustworthy behaviour.

Sorry to be blunt; I know that some companies pay good money to convicted criminal hackers for their expertise. But I think that's a deplorable practice; it encourages the view that hacking/cracking, blackmail and fraud are a sensible route into regular employment. I think those convictions should be a blocker.
ETFs do pay out dividends from the underlying stocks. This does not require you to look at the account (in the US you will get a form at the end of the year summarizing what you have to pay taxes on).
Another way to look at it: This hypothetical person created their 'system' because they valued their connections enough to establish a way to maintain them. And they specifically added you to the finite list of people they don't want to lose touch with. So it is genuine—it's just a reminder, we all need reminders once in a while.

Now, if the person isn't actually your friend, but a professional contact (e.g., recruiter) who just hopes to extract value from you someday, then those guys can go jump in a lake.
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> I don't think it can. UPS's store energy too, and stop holding charge after a while. It would be nice to bring back easily replaceable batteries, since they're basically a consumable these days.

I don't know anything about how much "oomph" a dashcam needs as opposed to a smart phone or an uninterruptible power supply but I kno0w one of the bullet points in the marketing of the dashcam on my car was it uses a small capacitor as opposed to a battery and therefore it is safer to use it in a hot car.
There is just way more business now. Those businesses choose to host their website, information and communication with customers on FB/Instagram. They think it's profitable for them. It's a very arrogant view to think they are all wrong.
An IronMan triathlon is a 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike ride, and a 26.2 mile marathon. 140.6 miles.
When I had friends who did IronMan triathlons, I was shocked to learn that the 15-20 hours weekly of training that they did had one main purpose: to minimize the chance of going anaerobic during the race. Even the top IronMan athletes who are running 6 minute miles in the Kona heat and humidity at the IronMan World Championships are not going out of their aerobic zone. Once you go anaerobic, everything breaks down. You may recall those famous videos of athletes crawling across the finish line. The weekly commitment to 15-20 hours of IronMan training is to prevent that. As a side note, I went to IronMan Lake Placid to cheer on a friend a decade ago. We did not see her so we started walking out of town, reverse along the marathon course. It gets really dark and lonely quickly once you get about 2 miles out. So many of the 140.6 miles it is just you and your mind. We found her about 5 miles out and she was ecstatic to see us. She finished her IronMan. The next morning you see all these proud athletes of every age group (men’s 40-45 are the most competitive, cue mid-life crisis) strutting around with their finisher medals. Registration for next year’s race opens up exclusively on site before the Internet. There were a lot of people in line, some without medals.
> I’m surprised at how much this got downvoted. The laffer curve is pretty intuitive. I’m not sure why there is all the hate

"Intuitive" does not necessarily imply "true." Some of the most pernicious false ideas are ones that have an intuitive appeal (especially in an oversimple example scenario).

The Laffer curve likely falls into something like that category. If it has any truth to it, it's in conditions that don't actually exist (like an effective 90% tax rate).
They spent £1bn on Horizon, this isn't a case of not spending enough money.

You might be onto something re:business fit - the system was designed to process benefits payments and, when the Post Office lost this work, was repurposed into an all-functioning EPOS (which it wasn't originally designed for).

I get the distinct impression that, from the offset, the Post Office might have been more concerned with saving face and justifying the amount spent on the system, and this lead to a culture where none of the system's flaws (or poor fit) could be properly acknowledged or addressed.
Yelling about "free speech" most definitely is a rightwing agenda. Having any real insight into it is not, however.
>who'd bother to do this

I hate this mentality. If you have two hours of office hours a week and they're both during other classes I have, then I can hardly be held accountable for not showing up to your office hours.

Let's call it what it is: bad teachers trying to offload culpability for their inability to teach the material adequately during lecture by pretending the students are too lazy to come in after-hours for additional instruction.
no, but it does materially differ from censorship of a state.

No one is making Joe Rogan illegal. They are mad Spotify is paying for his nonsense.

If Spotify stopped paying him, nothing would materially change for his listeners. Unless Spotify went so far as to ban his Libsyn from their systems, they'd still be able to listen, for free, on Spotify. Even if they did that weird action, people would be able to listen from any number of podcatchers.

It's meaningless.
Yes but when you laser focus on this fact above all overs, as someone always does when they come up on HN, you are positioning yourself more as "sweatshop apologist" than "global labor market understander."
I like this idea, but rather than applying to every website, it should only apply to ones so big that they've stolen the public square from us and replaced it with themselves (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Reddit).
> they don't want the competition because it will have a negative effect on its members' incomes.

Is it the perception that increased competition will have negative effects on members' incomes or is that actually true? I swear I remember a story, study, allegory about a second doctor moving to town and both incomes went up.
An important aspect of this kind of workflow — one that is kinda glossed over in the convo here — is that the relationship one have with a contact is fluid. If the convo with a contact is cool, and you're both having fun, you're probably gonna bump to more frequent exchanges, while if the contact never seems to engage, you're probably going to bump them down or even remove them from the workflow. There is no point in annoying people.

Clearly, this acquaintance of yours is not taking your lack of response into account. Or, they're just trying to get closer to you and you might be reading their message as inpersonal when it is actually genuine. Anyway, I can't see myself sending multiple messages per month to someone who never answers back.
I understand the feeling.

What I've learned in the last five years is contacting people has more upside than not contacting them.

The worst thing that can happen after contact is a return to disconnection and the other person maintaining the same opinion.
Really great article! Very well explained.

One small inaccuracy is the claim that there is only one place for each stock. That has not been true for many years. In the US that was changed by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_NMS . NASDAQ is the primary listing exchange for MSFT, which means they will hold the opening and closing auctions, but it can be traded on any equities exchange, NYSE, IEX, BATS, EDGE-A, EDGE-X, you name it. RegNMS also has rules that if there is a better price at another exchange, the order must be routed there. This establishes the "NBBO" - National Best Bid and Offer, so in a way there is always one best bid and one best ask, but it's an aggregate over all the exchanges.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOwP0KUlnZg
This was done as a joke, but not in response to the Go! issue. If you have the original Mercurial repo from the time of the release, you will see it there from the start.

I wrote a longer post about this at https://research.swtch.com/govcs.
I can't just walk into employment with my skillset
because I'm not particularly talented

Maybe in the world of cybersecurity where a lot of the talent is (from my outside perspective) pretty top end.

For most tech industry jobs, you'll be way overqualified and the rest of the team will be in awe.
There are probably serious bugs in all sequence alignment software, but it's unclear how much it does matter. Downstream analysis must assume that the alignments contain all kinds of known and unknown errors anyway. The sequence alignment problem itself is so ill-defined and there are so many sources of bias and errors, from data to algorithms, from code to reference sequences, from instruments to sample preparation, and including your definition of truth, that you often can't say confidently whether the alignment is correct. The scale of the data is often also big enough that you have to make deliberate trade-offs between costs and correctness.
That’s a logical leap. No part of the interaction is automated.
As much as I understand that sentiment. I don't think license restrictions are a very good idea, except in really egregious cases. It would be nice to see in really extreme cases where pedestrians / bikers are disregarded in a really callous manor, but unfortunately I'm not sure the police see many clearcut cases of this.

Taking away licenses is not a clean and easy thing in the US, because you basically make someone the ward of someone else, or an outlaw. People can't get by without vehicles, and much of the time they just have to risk it. Best case scenario someone else has to babysit them.

I definitely agree we need to make it easier for people to get by without their cars. I just can't stomach making people second class citizens, which is what these laws do. I'm only in favor of them in really egregious, repeat violation situations. Like people that refuse to stop drinking and driving; the ones that just keep doing it over and over. Even then, I'm willing to talk about options in the grand scheme of things like ignition interlock systems (actually not even available to many repeat offenders in my state)
> If areas are deemed too congested there are already ways to limit congestion.

Such as? I have not seen an alternative to variable rate tools in the US.
you can start by writing a "Python: The Good Parts" book
Occam's razor suggests the 900k excess deaths are likely caused by the virus with the high mortality rate, not the lockdowns - particularly when economic slowdown is typically correlated with a decrease in all-cause mortality.

Given that we have 900k or so excess deaths, and we have identified 700-900k people who have died from covid, seems difficult to say "we can't really know"
This is a great short little article on how code reviews can turn ugly. On my current team we have formatting rules checked on build. This sometimes annoys me but we never ever have white space or formatting issues to fix in pull requests.
dsymonds strikes again..

David Symonds is a known type of bad actor within Google. Good luck if he latches onto your project or feature. This individual has consistently demonstrated a knack for deep sixing as much useful efforts as possible while simultaenously avoiding as much work as possible. The worst kind of BOFH developer I've encountered.

https://github.com/golang/protobuf/issues/156

It's just a sad aussie knoll troll situation.
My experience exactly, and my friend's experience too. I'm inclined to think every "tiktok is soo great after you put time into it" comment I see is some form of Stockholm syndrome..
Very cool. three.js is a very capable library when it comes to games. A few examples (all leveraging react-three-fiber on top of three.js):

- drcmda's space game https://codesandbox.io/s/i2160

- drcmda's ping pong game https://codesandbox.io/s/ping-pong-0mgum

- poimandres Racing game https://racing.pmnd.rs/
It makes me really sad to read things like this. .NET/C# gives you the tools to write elegant, performant code in any domain, and really rewards high level of expertise, with stuff like advanced parallelism support, and optimizing things like memory layout with structs, really great native interop story, or the ability to write Source Generators/Analyzers, so you can develop AST-parsing compiler plugins to do stuff like automated code generation/analysis.

Imo it has a way higher skill ceiling, than something like, say NodeJS, which is supposedly part of the cool kids club.

I have literally had conversations with hardcore devs that had the 'enterprise offshore-bait' perception of the language and were surprised when I showed them all the awesome stuff you can do with it.
Many states and cities in the US have so-called "ban the box" laws that prohibit employers from asking about your criminal history during the initial hiring process or sometimes until a job offer has been made.

Explaining why you have a criminal record is going to be a lot easier to someone who already thinks they want to hire you.
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Funny thing is, The Netherlands used to have infra that looked more like the US once, but we almost completely rebuild all the infrastructure in our towns and cities during the 80's. It's not too late, it 'just' needs a lot of investment. The biggest problem is US culture around cars and mobility IMO. Better public transport is a nice start.
So it's like https://undraw.co/illustrations
I agree completely, but often that's the reality for protocol designers.
Interesting how you don't mention that Russia has been attacking Ukraine for the last 8 years in one long, continuous act of unprovoked aggression.

Always interesting when someone's story of a situation omits basic facts which are quite obviously the most important to any reasonable observer.

As I recall, Hitler also had very understandable wounded nationalistic pride, and only needed to be "appeased" for Europe to remain peaceful.
The evidence of manipulation is pretty evident: look at the death statistics [0] for the periods around March - June 2021 and June - September 2021. It's flat, a tad under some round number.

It's a shame, really.

[0] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/russia/
Makes you walk every day. The negative is that it makes you walk every day, no matter the weather. Extremely lovely creatures, but if you are getting one, invest in training it either personally or by a dog trainer. Chasing the dog around shouting at it is comical only if you are not the chaser. Finally, consider the hairs. Some breeds are not changing their pelt, but others are hair bombs, so both you and your wife should find your tolerance level beforehand.
Zero. It makes no sense to risk an adverse side-effect of a vaccine if one already has natural immunity.
Do want to say there is quite a spectrum in the quality of free illustrations out there. I personally check out a bit when I see anything that looks like or is in the style of undraw[0].

The best I've found and go back to is ManyPixels -- their free gallery is amazing:

https://www.manypixels.co/gallery

The stuff on the gallery above is free to use, but I always feel a little guilty -- I need to actually pay them for something some day. Their pricing is intense but they put out great work.

[0]: https://undraw.co/illustrations
I received a cold call from a "broker" (at least I think that's what his title was) at Go Daddy about a year ago. As a liaison between a purchaser & I he facilitated the sale, and it went really well. I owned both the .com & .net variation, so I was a little surprised the purchaser didn't want both (for small increase). But based on the way that all worked out & how easy it was; I'd work with Go Daddy again.
We got a puppy a few months into the pandemic from a local shelter, and with young kids, it's been really great for the whole family. When the weather is nice, I take her on walks of a few miles, and it's completely different from going on walks alone. It means there's someone to talk to and teach about how to behave, how to leave other people and animals alone, and just generally how to be a good walking companion that keeps you company. A dog will also motivate you to walk (sometimes physically, by nudging you to the door or bringing you their leash).
I have a hard time rectifying the claim that you are a health economist with the fact that you don’t appear to understand that the bottleneck for increasing the supply of doctors is the number of residency slots. Foreign medical school certifications are largely accepted at face value but graduating a foreign residency program largely is not. I think it’s pretty much universal that each country wants doctors to go through their own version of residency.

My wife is a physician. She needs a large salary to pay off her large medical debt. When the medical debt is paid off her salary will still be large. A much more sensible system would to make medical school free so that the salaries don’t have to start off so high. There are people with hundreds of thousands in med school debt who didn’t match. We should feel sorry for those people.
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> I think there will be a -%50 S&P500 crash, maybe more

And this is why I am going against the advice of the majority(?) and trying to time buying into the S&P 500. I am looking for another crash like the one around when COVID started. Am I wrong and should I also not try to time the market?