skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is even a foundation with 1 million dollar price for whoever proves to have paranormal abilities

You probably mean the James Randi foundation prize. That was terminated in 2015.

Also, anything not understood scientifically as of now is "paranormal"... and these people claiming to give these prizes are not truly curious and have these to prove a point, the point being "we already know what is there to be known". They always have gotchas and are not worth the trouble. If you discover things like that, you are better off looking somewhere else.
Update: I spoke with Tyler, he says our new meeting place is TGI Fridays but that you're all welcome. He asks that groups of 8 or more call ahead.
A big chunk of the people working in the "office blocks" of "saving, lending, derivatives, FX and insurance companies" are there to deal with support and exceptions. This is a feature not a bug - if something goes wrong you want it to be fixed, especially when you are dealing with large sums of money. With smart contracts, if there's a bug it can't be fixed, if your money gets lost or stolen you can't get it back, if you lose your keys then tough, etc. This is considered a feature not a bug, e.g. to quote Satoshi "Lost coins only make everyone else's coins worth slightly more." However, in most people's view, this would be considered a backward step, and so not an example of a technology with a positive impact.
Video game industry was slow at this approach and there was significant push back on all these things. Pay to win vs drm vs gamergate stuff. The industry didn't care at all about any of the push back.

It's actually interesting to see how much the gaming industry doesn't give 2 squats about what online chat says. The gaming industry has dealt with online chat since basically forever. I remember counterstrike 1.5 pre-steam in the early 2000s and learning all kinds of new pejoratives. Gaming industry understood that the 12 year old edgy angsty teens are going to say all kinds of idiotic stuff. I am guilty of this indictment for when I was 12.

This is something a ton of other industries have not learnt yet. These other industries are looking at what is being said online and are responding like they need to take those opinions as truth.

Then again that's also why Elon Musk is mocking Netflix: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1503287788652871680

1 million likes and 150,000 retweets because he's not wrong.
I've gone ahead and bought the first edition, and then when the other is out, I'll add that to my collection too. Looking forward to reading it. No matter how much I learn, I find going over the basics again, reading introductions again, really helps to keep everything active up there. Let's face it, we learn so much but we also seem to lose so much as well.
Try Yocto with Qt. Ugh. I have a 48-core server just for this task.
> Crazy Eddie stores stayed open on holidays and Sundays, at a time when many retailers still followed a Chick-Fil-A schedule.

Wait. Retailers weren’t always open on Sunday?
This type of stuff will eventually lead us to a vegan world. It's hard to see it now but future generations will find it harder to slaughter millions of animals when perfect meat substitutes are available. It will be similar to the slow transition from fossil fuels.
It's not a conservative guess. It's objectively wrong. Inner join means "include only matching records," and if nulls are being dropped, it's because the developer doesn't know that in SQL, null != null, and they need to address the defect in the code that excludes that case.
Term limits are a deceptive idea: they sound good but part of why they get so much support as the go-to electoral reform idea from industry-backed groups is that they're either long enough not have much effect or shift more power to the lobbyists. If you are regularly forcing your most experienced people out, you're going to need more new candidates and those groups run programs which help identify and coach candidates, give them drafts of legislation to propose, and their media teams can make sure everyone hears about those proposals (not to mention punishing someone if they get too independent).
Social networks most important metric is "engagement" number of minutes spent on the site. And turns out that it is human nature to engage with content that it's "dangerous" so the social networks have optimized to show divisive content.

A free social network, will work to improve the happiness of their users... Which will include measures like limit the amount of hours you want to spend on the site itself.
(Like HN does by the way)

Or like I'm in NYC today, who wants to meet? Let's have a real interaction
> Your experience may differ if you're not "all in" on the Apple ecosystem

This is something that frustrates me, and it's one of the reasons I'll never go "all in" on the Apple ecosystem. It's tantamount to John Deere designing special cupholders in their tractors that cost $150, lest you risk your drink tipping over. I'm not paying more money to a company that actively wants to price me out of new experiences. I think Snow Leopard to Mojave was a really good time to own a Mac; generally speaking, the software and hardware experiences complimented one another. Nowadays, Apple is a hardware company that sells software products, and Tim Cook is doing everything he can to continue driving up the marginal utility they capitalize on. It's an absurd business, I refuse to support it.
I'm going to play devils advocate here. We already know that the observer effect is real. We have no idea on what level the spiritual world is in. I would find it logical, that if we ever do discover that this paranormal realm we can tap into is real, that one of the reasons we ignored it so long is that, our intentions have much to do with it. So participating in studies to prove its real would effect how it behaves.

Personally..
I highly doubt its real, else we would have more people doing this full time. There were also the divining rods that were bomb detectors(https://slate.com/technology/2013/04/dowsing-for-bombs-maker...).

People are crazy with what we will and won't believe. With varying levels of proof on each side...
For my style of positive parenting a lot of it comes down to clearly illustrating for my kids that they enjoy many privileges around the house. These privileges are conditional on their behaviour in the house. That is basically the foundation and then it’s positive parenting on top of that with privileges lost when necessary. All lost privileges or up for debate and negotiation, there is no confusion or all mighty authority.
I wonder if it's a bad machine translation of 'in bed with' or a similar idiom for corruption, as in 'the government is in bed with the oil industry when it comes to environmental policy'?
I haven't finished reading the article but:

> Interactive Ranking Through Sorting

Yes! I've been thinking about sitting down and writing something like this for ages.

Here's the idea for the ones that want a side project: a website of ranked lists. To add a new entry you have to compare it with the existing ones to find its place in the ranking. It's much easier for people to tell you which they prefer between Interstellar and 2001 Space Odyssey than if they had to assign stars out of five, or worse, a rating out of 10.

The goal of the project is being able to tell which are my favourite things (movies, albums, WWE personalities) and always independent from any scoring system.

And it's pretty practical for enormous lists, as it takes log2(n) comparisons to rank an item.
Twice I’ve had to write custom date parsing/handling libraries for employers to handle this sort of thing, most recently to accommodate translation of English language descriptions of health events. “Patient started taking drug in April” e.g., and I needed to provide date calculations against that.
When Nokia Pulled Out of Russia, a Vast Surveillance System Remained
At some point, the material correlates we use for compute, have to match what the human brain uses for consciousness. Probably those correlates are quantum mechanical in essence. And every quantum computing experiment gets us closer to that harmonious unity. But I don't believe it's a "given". We still use YBC oxide type superconducting qubits and not lab grown neural tissue itself ;)
I really wish I hadn't.
If someone from another country visits my restaurant, it doesn’t become “world famous”.

If someone from another country plays in a national-level sporting event where all teams are domestic ones, it doesn’t become a “World Series”.
I thought that the "Barter theory" was mostly forgotten by now. This was an hypothesis proposed as early as Adam Smith. However, it appears now that most "primitive" societies did not use barter but rather the sharing and gifting of resources. This is the currently favoured hypothesis: the Sharing Economy.
It's listed on the dropdown for 035, 036, 037, 050, 051, 052, 053, 054, 057, 058, and 059. Being relatively new to the area, I haven't the faintest idea where any of those (besides 050) are. Thanks for shedding some light on yet another interesting aspect of our postal system.

If you're in WRJ, hello neighbor! And if you're not, but are nearby, happy mud season :-)
Every partially ordered set S can easily be "upgraded" to a totally ordered set by simply "extending" every element of of S with an element of another set A, where A has a total ordering. The ordering on elements of A is used to break any ties when ordering the elements of S.

So for a Lamport timestamp, you go from the 1-tuple (timestamp) to the 2-tuple (timestamp, id) where 'id' is some arbitrary ordered key, unique for each process in the system. For instance every process in the system could just generate a large GUID, or a really big integer, or anything else. Then for any event e1 and e2, if the timestamps are equal, just tiebreak based on the ordering of IDs.

(This ability to "upgrade" a Lamport timestamp to have a total ordering is actually covered in Lamport's original paper at some point IIRC, but I don't have it open.)
Trained dogs are pretty good at locating buried corpses by smell. We know scientifically how it works, but no one has been able to build an artificial equivalent.
You are of course welcome to your opinions about these things, but please be respectful enough to spell the late David Graeber's name correctly.
Amazon is notorious for aggressively re-investing their profits which is why they're as massive as they are. They are constantly trying 30 different things at once.

"You must spend money to make it", this adage is true since the very inception of monetary value.

Not sure this is a great comparison.
PineTime with wasp-os!
Yes and yes, of course I do! I've learned a ton from this discipline and never need to raise my voice with my kid. When I do raise my voice, it is almost always unnecessary. I apologize in those cases because I want her to know we can recover from mistakes and that it is okay to be upset. Our relationship is stronger for it.
I don't think the analogy fits, since these are voices and outlets that are being effectively made inaccessible to Western audiences.

There's the purist view of free speech and then there's the practical one ("is it free speech if none can hear it"?). I'm obviously talking about the most important one: the latter.
Who got so rich of the war in Afghanistan?
crymeariver1
I was able to list a used mattress on there 3 years ago (the only data I can offer, sorry)
It's not a book but a website[1] and a talk[2] that explains a good strategy for writing docs, based on four quadrants.

[1] https://documentation.divio.com/
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4vKPhjcMZg
You're absolutely right that education is broken. It's been captured
and commodified by a cult of testing, shallow training, exclusion,
competition and normativity that cripples maturation, creative thought
human development.

Can technology help with that?

Maybe. Look at what Wikipedia, Internet Archive, YouTube, Vimeo and
other sites have done. We've never had access to more high quality
learning materials in history. That is a form of profound freedom.

There are many very successful self-educated people in the world.

The internet did more for education in a decade than in the millenia
between Aristotle and Thomas Mann.

On the other hand technologies like Turnitin, proctoring software, and
the march of big-tech like Microsoft and Google into our educational
institutions is a disaster for freedom, diversity and opportunity. It
may be that the internet has been a spearhead that ushers in an era of
thought control and "epistemological management" unseen in history.

The universities need an enema.

To fix education we need technologies that address the
monopolies/centralisation of reputation, certificate issuance,
commercial hiring practices, student debt, paying teachers, access to
specialised research equipment and much more. I know people like Peter
Theil have said the've given up on education reform, but I'm still
optimistic the institutions can be rescued.
> Even if you buried 1000 bodies in that square mile, your chances of finding one would still be a fraction of a percent.

Only if burying a body left no trace.

I can spot where deer have pooped in my lawn because there's a tuft of greener grass. Digging a big hole and putting 150 pounds of flesh into it is going to change stuff that's likely visible to an experienced tracker.
Critical Race Theory for HCI [pdf]
Nanit’s AI Development Process
Nanit’s AI Development Process - Improve Your Model Quality, Time to Market, and Culture
That's why the singularity is theoretical. Going back to the OP, that's the point where a system is able to improve itself better/faster than the humans who designed it can. Maybe 30, 100 years or never.

Another point on the way there is when AI chat is indistinguishable from humans. People are going to be scammed or influenced all over the place. Scams, influence campaigns, radicalization, which are already industrial in scale are gonna explode. I think this pretty soon, 5-10 years
I would be interested to see metrics on articles involving positive vs negative opinions regarding defense programs.
Worth a read through just to see some examples of cadaver dogs being problematic.

https://www.science.org/content/article/should-dog-s-sniff-b...
Costco Business Center isn’t open on Sunday! I nearly found out the hard way yesterday.
Lisa Cook's Tenure Packet
> but asking 10$ for a mobile game was kinda unheard of

Kind of crazy that the whole market was defined by shovelware
From my memory opening on Sundays slowly became the norm through the late 80s and early 90s in Texas.
Smells like parallel construction to me...

Dog noses ARE insane, but they're probably not THAT insane.
Thanks for the shoutout on the twister :)
Building Things While Raising Children
> You'll note that in countries like Russia and China, you can end up in prison for contradicting the state or publishing information that doesn't comport with its narrative.

Yes, in the West we're not quite there yet. We are just simply removing access to dissenting voices. Only for those we deem "enemies", of course. For now.

> you need to stop delivering undue power to private corporations and expecting the government to haphazardly legislate you out of your problems

I'm not sure where this non sequitur comes from, but regardless: which government? From which country do you think I'm from?
If you're looking for fundamentals, Sun Tzu's Art of War is a popularly-memed classic on strategy, and its modern equivalent MDCP 1 Warfighting echoes a lot of the same sentiments, but with modern clarity.

But these are very general strategy books, not tactics, and the reason for that is tactics are always evolving and must be adapted differently depending on the situation, the technology, the threat model. This is probably the most important takeaway: you must always be adapting and learning and changing your tactics in response to new information and events. In addition to understanding risk (not in an academically fragile mathematical sense), this is probably one of the most important fundamentals to understand.

I think war is ultimately just too simple to bother theorizing much about, not to mention a waste of time. It's not easy, of course, but it's simple to understand. It's in our bones. It's a part of primate nature. The only things that change are the technology and the scale, which inform the tactics.

Here's something closer to a more tactical fundamental, something that hasn't changed since Roman times:

Here are modern soldiers erecting fortifications to help hold a location of interest: https://mwi.usma.edu/effective-weapon-modern-battlefield-con.... From the HESCO barriers of today to the wooden palisades of two-thousand years ago, they accomplish the same fundamental goal. Protect a location of interest, keep your supply lines safe, etc.

Infantry-wise, like meetingthrower said, you "fire and manuever". There are nearby enemy soldiers attempting to harm our supply lines or pierce through our fortification to the location of interest? Go "fire and manuever" on them. That's the fundamental. Whether you do it with spears or rifles is another matter. It's not rocket science - the desired outcome is the same. How exactly you do it changes according to the technology, the threat, geographic features, and environmental factors.
What's interesting to me is that he started with a successful business model that really did change the industry for the better in a few ways (better hours, better customer service, etc.). The greed and sociopathy turned that into fraud.
Shuttle used a computer designed in the 60s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/4_Pi
The rapture for nerds.
See also "How I learned to program (danluu.com)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16010173 and "Why you should maybe not work so hard (johnwhiles.com)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30829243
But would they represent their data as character strings or would they pack four nucleotides with two bits each into one byte? Or would they be working on the amino acid level or something else all together? And would they really physically reverse potentially very long strings or just use a decreasing index into the original string? I am sure reversing strings has some use cases, maybe even in bioinformatics, but I would agree with the other comment, it seems a pretty niche operation, otherwise there would probably be a String.Reverse() method.
New SunCrypt ransomware variant found with added capabilities
But it's on substack it must be true!
There are medical interventions that can help so please talk to a doctor if you want to go down that path.

Other than that, practicing until you consistently pass meta mocks on interviewing.io or something like that is probably the best way to come in feeling OK.

Please realize this is normal. Lots of engineers get extremely anxious before interviews. Like sick to stomach can’t sleep for days anxious. I remember listening to a podcast with a senior principal at Amazon — this guy was an incredibly accomplished engineer, and he was so nervous during his first algo interview at Amazon the interviewer paused and asked him to grab a drink and take a moment. I think this is due to the ridiculous interviewing practices we have adopted as an industry, but that is a different topic.

You will get through it and no matter what happens you WILL be ok. The world is big and opportunity is endless, whether you work at Meta or not. If you have someone to talk to or hug, go do it. Seriously it helps.
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/limits-literature

in this way.
Johnny Cash Has Been Everywhere (Man) (2012)
> We already know that the observer effect is real.

If you're talking about the quantum mechanics effect, then you're misunderstanding it. In QM 'observing' just means measuring something about a system. The only way we know of measuring stuff on a quantum level is by poking it with light or other particles. On the scale of quantum interactions, poking something with light affects the thing you're trying to measure. The 'observer effect' has nothing to do with there being any sort of conscious or intelligent observer.
In The Netherlands, opening times were strictly regulated by law up to 1984 : no openings on Sunday, weekdays not later than 18:00 and Saturday no later than 17:00.

This scheme was common up till the mid nineties. Since then it has been relaxed, but it is still regulated.

One of the reasons listed for the regulation is the protection of 'Mom & Pop' stores.
The US isn't engaged in a flailing attempt to sieze neighboring territory, so not quite as interesting.
I get the anti-corporate opinion. I don’t think it totally fits here because VSCode is FOSS, and it offers them a very limited moat; if they tried to push something weird then you can bet on a fork or the myriad of alternatives in the saturated editor market. I work against aggregated market power for my day job, but this isn’t a case that needs fighting IMO.

As for the appeal to true hackerdom, I guess I’ll just hope I’m in the minority of great-thing-doers.
W3C wew. Where do we even start?

Let's begin with a polite thank you for your service, a hot drink, maybe some type of certificate of acknowledgment that says like "you were present." and then call it day.

But beyond that, in my opinion, W3C has been a disaster since day 1. It seems like some people with good intentions decided one day they could just play RFC roulette and maybe if they slipped enough nonsense into their content that nobody would notice, and we would just all play along and build the misshapen web they were imagining.
You've made some fair points, but there's an underlying assumption: that we are only going to be able to do what we are doing today. Of course, my example is not that good, but imagine things like increased spatial sensing, instant data analysis, better (supervised) sleep, bigger muscle and organ efficiency.

Are those in your opinion still more of the same?
Thanks for taking the time to write this. I learned a lot.
Nevermind the circle, the fractals that algorithm can produce are insane. It would be a good a tweet-sized snippet of code for impressing people.
We run rather a lot more than 2500 instances at peak and a variety of instance types dependent on game mode. Our waste is on the order of 5-7% depending on the time of day -- we can run less waste on the downward slope of the demand curve for instance.

We're also seeing some pretty compelling results from ARM based instances:
https://www.wired.com/sponsored/story/changing-the-game/
In Brazil, your internet provider may be a mobster, cops say
Acme was (is?) built by the same people who built Go, and a lot of the same complaints about this way of thinking are heard about Go.

Simplicity as a design goal means that there are trade-offs. YAGNI is one of those trade-offs: "yes we could probably add that feature, but it would make things complicated and we don't think the additional complexity is worth it for this feature".

I'm a huge fan of this approach. Mostly because in a majority of cases, YAGNI was true: by thinking more about the problem I needed less language features (as the article says).

I'm curious about ACME. I'm annoyed with VSCode (getting too slow), and IntelliJ/Goland feels too Java-y. Vim is fantastic but corrupts my muscle memory, and I can't get past the tutorial for Emacs.
Probably not, but spacing out housing enough so that every housing unit has land for its own garden to tend probably adds a lot of high carbon intensity transportation.
Not everything is able to be reproduced scientifically and reversed engineered. It’s not less real because of that.

You may know how to ride a bike. Can you reverse engineer and explain in an algorithmic way how to ride a bike? No. Does that invalidate the fact that you can indeed ride a bike? Of course not.

Edit: do not fixate on the bike. It was just an example. Write a symphony, create a joke, understand irony.