skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have such mixed feelings about healthy competition in this context. I really enjoy it. If I do something a little more performant, or a little faster, I feel good. If I don't, I legitimately look forward to learning what I could have done better (sometimes it's just "be faster" and there's not much you can do in that respect). But honestly I think I'm in the minority in that aspect. I enjoy doing LeetCode even though I'm not particularly good at it (50/50 shot at solving a medium on the first couple tries, at best). But I know a lot of people who are great developers that would crack if they thought they were constantly being compared to someone else, and these are people with the benefit of a decade+ of experience.
Treat them like any valued customer and book their payments!

You can't stop it from happening, and if you can't serve your customers better than the competition, consider being cheaper. Remember, you can only pick two of:

1. quality

2. service

3. price

It's how the free market works.
It's shouldn't be thought of as energy per transaction. It's energy protecting all productivity that has been transferred into the network. Also there's so many places that use heat energy (drying grain for instance). We're going to be seeing a lot more interesting uses of the heat energy being expelled to secure the bitcoin blockchain.
That doesn’t sound like it would help with every day awkwardness, does it? I presume that’s what OP wanted help with.
Okay.

https://youaretheirvoice.com/pages/the-clear-consensus

Enjoy.
> There are significantly more sales of PS4 than switch

With a 4 year head start, the PS4 has 116.9m, the Switch has 103.5m[1]. Averaged over the years, the PS4 is lagging the Switch by nearly half - 14.6m/y vs 25.9m/y, no?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_cons...
You folks just see conspiracy everywhere. How about Joe Manchin is just not a good person and there are a lot of not good people in Congress and most of them have an R next to their name, but some have a D.

I promise you, the DNC isn't in the background somewhere coordinating how to keep people in poverty.
Wow, blushing. I had entirely forgotten I used to do that in many situations. It's hideously embarrassing because it's so obvious to others. FWIW the good news is it goes away, or did for me.
> all salary data is available internally

That's pretty amazing, wonder if that applies to equity too. Most startups that are transparent about their metrics still don't share comp. If they did, I'm sure many people would be shocked at the variance: https://topstartups.io/startup-salary-equity-database/

Wave, if you're reading this, keep it up! Some of these principles will unfortunately break under the strain of a bigger company but stay nimble as long as you can
The low level is buried 34m underground. https://www.crossrail.co.uk/route/stations/liverpool-street/
I've been there. I was very shy, talking to strangers was a big problem, talking to girls my age was like climbing the Mt. Everest.

What helped me was to just go out there and practice. I'm not from the US, but i think it might be way easier in the states to just go out and practicing small talk.

I started very small. Driving to a different city and just asking people what time it is, asking for directions, pretending to be a tourist. Salespeople are also very helpful. For example drive to a store and ask for recommendations for a specific item if you want to make a purchase anyway.

The key for me was to make it a habit. Start with asking older people, then people your age, then women in groups, etc.

Practice and you will see that you get better at reading people and how they react to what you say.
Why? Trapped sitting in a truck, anxious about traffic? Restaurant work isn’t isn’t or fun, but at least you get to go home to your own bed.
Guessing: Automatic parallelization in pipelines, just as long as there isn't a wall that has to consume all its input like "sort".
I'm into drugs as much as the next guy. Ayahuasca, peyote, and similar things are just hallucigenics. It's all BS from people who don't know what it feels like and link it to spiritualism. Religion might be dead in the 21st century, but spiritualism is definitely taking its place.
The (Edited) Latecomer's Guide to Crypto
How do you explain the phenomenon, the very
existence of iPhone users who want sideloading?

Some people just enjoy complaining about stuff?

You'd think that an article with that many words about how important sideloading is would have at least one "I wanted to do X but wasn't allowed" story.
Problem is I don't know the items beforehand, instead I need to build the hash as I encounter new pages. I don't know any way of reconcile that with a minimal perfect hash.
What other incentives could there be? They aren't doing it for money or fame. Maybe you could come up with some irrational reasons.

I am not saying that she is perfectly neutral. That is not possible. I am just saying that the most neutral source of information on crypto that you can find often comes from sceptics, just because they aren't the ones being paid to lie.
Disagree with the first graf, totally agree with the second! I sort of like your point about just not worrying about it. But I found that I could improve my self-confidence by working at it, and it was ultimately worth literally millions of dollars and much more happiness to me. Also meant that I was always able to meet wonderful romantic partners and I am… not good looking at all.
My experience as a manager has been frustratingly similar.

For the same security and least-access reasons, I don’t have a view into the systems permissions tables for all of the tools that my team uses. I also don’t have a “definitely complete” list of what those tools even are, or what roles my current team members have in them.

So when it comes to presenting IT with a new hire access request, often the best I can do is to say “please copy the access that person Y (another member of my team) has in system Z to a new account for person X”

Because of audit regulations, I have to do this on a one-request-per-person-per-system basis. Bulk changes for a group of users, systems, or both are verboten.

IMO, it feels like this is another area where no one is incentivized to own a holistic and efficient outcome. It’s not quite laziness, but it is a mountain of tedious and error prone tape cutting, compounded by information changing rapidly underneath in a way opaque to the people closest to the issue.

I suspect that this could be a lot better in a world where “default roles and system permissions for those roles” is a centralized and crowd-sourced document. Like a terraform config. And then any time access needs change in a non-one-off way, you could tf apply the new roles table out to all the systems. Such is my dream, anyway
The book "The Lean Startup" by Eric Ries helped me understand what an MVP is about. It is about learning. So 'viable' doesn't mean someone can barely use it to do X. It is more like an experiment that should answer a question (an hypothesis).

So an MVP can be crappy, as long as it helps to answer the question it is supposed to answer. The lovable part should come, once you understand your environment and can build something that people actually need.
Sodium rhodizonate [1] gets a comparable real density to lithium by using an excellent cathode (rhodizonate) that doesn't work with lithium. The thing is that the rhodizonate method hasn't escaped Yi Cui's lab as far as I can tell.

1: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-017-0014-y?from=artic...
Sometimes the bull wins
https://old.reddit.com/r/TheBullWins/
A live test would be quite dangerous if the microwave does leak EM.
HW accelerated Youtube already works out of the box on Raspberry Pi OS.

It is less complicated to setup a Raspberry Pi than install Windows 11.

Your average Walmart buyers don't even run antivirus, setup Google/Apply/Samsung Pay, install Microsoft Office, or know how to make a Windows 10/11 USB installer.

$200 Android phones are notorious for not actually working correctly in getting apps to run.
> I don’t care about the emotions of animals at all, and never will.

This comes across as proudly sociopathic. The line between the human animal and any other is arbitrary and blurry and about to get much more so. I think it’s healthy to understand your own body and recognize the importance meat has in your diet, and if that comes at the cost of the suffering of animals, that might be a price you’re willing to pay. But to lump all animal suffering together as ignorable is really a red flag for an empathy deficit that is worth examining.
> I am of the mind that [...]

Which is totally fine, but unfortunately that position is neither informed by any specific evidence, nor informed by a principled understanding of the technology in question (which is where deferral to expertise can come in handy).

You should note that there's a difference between an appeal to authority fallacy, and deferral to expertise, and while the former is fatal to any logical argument, the latter is an entirely appropriate and useful heuristic: https://thelogicofscience.com/2015/03/20/the-rules-of-logic-...
Go to a new place where you don't plan on going again.
Is it just me or is it obvious that anyone who successfully goes through like _any_ intervention would show better results than someone who can’t? That just seems like an indicator of something about the individual or their circumstances instead of the effectiveness of the intervention. Do you compare your interventions with more typical interventions like calls to the Trevor project or something?

Also I think combining self harm with suicide resources might actually have a negative effect. If someone is searching something like hiding self harm marks from cutting and gets resources on suicide, it could trigger suicidal ideation when it wasn’t actually the issue they were seeking help with.
If you’re fine with ES3, there’s https://marijnhaverbeke.nl/cl-javascript/ (I’ve been intending to use Babel to compile modern JS to ES3 and then load it into CL, but no time)

Or parenscript: https://parenscript.common-lisp.dev/

Or CLOG: https://github.com/rabbibotton/clog

And, there’s always the option of writing an HTTP or websocket server and serving JSON.

I personally use the SLIME repl in emacs for a ton of things I used to use bash one-liners for and you can push it pretty far (this is an experiment, I’ve wrapped it up more nicely into my .sbclrc since):

https://twitter.com/fwoaroof/status/1502881957012668417?s=21...
For starters, anywhere where there's a shared activity that requires interaction. Nothing that allows you to be a wallflower. The shared activity makes it easier to not be pure social.

After that, joining volunteer leadership or purely social organizations. Think a volunteer-staffed group in your area or Toastmasters.

I did it for 10 years, at least twice monthly, and the practice drastically improved my ability and comfort interacting with people.
1. Set realistic goals and keep in mind a lot of social stuff that people pull off isn't effortless, they put A TON of work in.

2. Confidence boosts: gym, clothing style, telling friends about your vulnerabilities and feelings (there's no better feeling than being told by a friend that what you worried is something they really never saw or cared about), inviting people to things.

3. Too much blushing and physical vulnerability may be fixable with exposure therapy or may require medication. It may also be a result of Asperger's. Don't be afraid of seeking medical help for stuff that's out of your control.

4. Realise that ALL HUMANS are broken in some fundamental way and that includes the person next to you. So don't be afraid to interact with them and do not assume they'll judge you harshly.
Do you think Julia will chip away at Python's marketshare, or Fortran's? I thought it was aiming to be more of a replacement for the latter, but I've never written a line of Julia in my life, so I am very uninformed.
I disagree, and I think history will remember any belief system (or diet) that permits unnecessary suffering for temporary pleasure as being barbaric and ridiculous.
define "better"?

They each have a few strengths over the other, but generally speaking, I much prefer the language consistency of Matlab.

My general experience is - industrial shops will be using Matlab. Almost all of my Matlab work was aerospace related (think sigint/radar/signal processing/modeling).

R is more popular in education environments - but I strongly suspect that's just because it's free. Post-grads don't have much lab funding to work with at the best of times, and Matlab with an associated set of plugins/libraries specific for your task can easily run 30k a seat.

Personally - I find it pretty telling that most places with money choose Matlab. Doesn't inherently make it better, but it does mean Matlab is getting used in places where mistakes are expensive, and there's a focus and consistency to the tooling that I just think is desperately lacking in R.
What kind of benefits would using large amount of HBM3 memory would have on the Grace CPU ? How big of an improvement in common tasks ?

Or is it just an overkill for a CPU, in general ? Have they solved the "Memory Wall" for CPU's with their current implementation ?
The trend seems to be toward statically-typed languages, with the exception of the adoption of Python being used for data. I also prefer having more problems being found before deploying and running on production data.

Dynamic typing is great for prototyping, early development, and for small teams. If your definition of success is greater than that I would choose differently, or port at a good time early on.

And if someone were to ask me to join a company using lisp, I would hope that it's Clojure, though arguably not a Lisp, is better it that it will vary less between usages. This gives it a better chance of a growing ecosystem.
My point was more that it only works as long as new people are joining.
I’m pretty darn sure Netflix can’t do that. They would need to encode a different stream for each individual customer, and the encoding settings Netflix uses are far too cpu intensive for that to be practical.
I was a computer kid from age 7 (in the 70s). Lived in the computer lab through my teens. Turned 18, wanted to be better with people. Volunteered at a race track. Became a race track firefighter. Met the EMS crew there, signed up. Got my EMT. Spent the first year nervous and staring at my clipboard. Gradually got better and better at interacting. Now I am a flight medic. Spend my trips talking with patients and hearing their life stories. You get to see people in their very best and very worst. So amazing. Best change ever.

(I also have a parallel career in tech. The improved ability to interact with people has led to much success there as well. I regularly do public talks about the work I do.)
For me, it's less about Gmail as a service and more about Google as an ecosystem. They won't just mess up your Gmail, but also your YouTube, Stadia, Photos, Gvoice, and many, many more.

If Proton screws up, you just lost your email, not your entire digital life.
An evolutionary psychologist might argue something like that.

Another way to put it, is that while the individual might act selflessly with pure and honest empathy, with no conscious expectation of something in return, this kind of behavior wouldn't have survived in our gene pool if there wasn't some evolutionary advantage to behaving that way.

So, the onlookers would really have to specify whether they're talking about the conscious being who is the good Samaritan or if they're talking about the unconscious entity that is the generic big brained ape that has deeply embedded survival and reproductive instincts that drive their conscious behaviors and desires outside of their control.

I can simultaneously say that the person was honestly just being good while acknowledging that the biological entity may have achieved some kind of advantage by signalling their virtue. Alternatively, I could also say that the good Samaritan is actually acting in a way that is a detriment to his survival, and only happens because of a bug in his generic and psychological programming or an old beneficial feature that is no longer good for a new environment and will eventually be removed via natural selection.
That most folks in the tech community completely missed this is what makes them such easy prey to manipulative scumbags who just use them.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if it helps even 1 person out there: don't allow yourself be made a means to an end and don't make other means to ends, if possible. I acknowledge in an imperfect world it's not always possible, but we should at least: 1. be aware of it and 2. do our best to mitigate it.

In 2020 for many in media and big tech, the end was to ensure Trump wouldn't win, and even the truth itself was distorted and made a means to that end. Indefensible.
I’d say it’s just a matter of exposure and practice. If you force yourself to spend a lot of time in the kinds of situations that make you awkward, eventually you’ll figure out how to handle them, how to speak, how to react, what to say when etc. The more familiar it feels, the less self conscious and awkward you’ll feel.

And remember, people don’t care. People only think about themselves anyway, even if they notice your awkwardness they’ll forget it five minutes later so it doesn’t matter.
if stepanov would be too intelligent for this world, he would have designed proper iterators, not iterators which can run away. safe iterators are a thing, just not in the STL.

also he could have designed proper sets and usets. nobody really needs red-black trees when you have b- trees. likewise nobody needs linked-list usets, when you have open addressing or even swisstables.

you cannot copy from one container to another type. even the simpliest self-respecting libs support that.

you still have no string library, only memory buffers. many, many misdesigns in C++. just look at it, you'll get eyeblead
> is there any real practical use for them?

An infinite source of power. Place one wormhole at the top of a hill, another at the bottom. Send rolling generators through them, stop them once in awhile to swap dead batteries for charged ones.
The first online parametric 3D modeling software released by BeeGraphy
Ah, so spelled differently in English, but still the same sound.
Ruby had a numpy style library since the early 00's, I forget exactly when. But it never got the kind of momentum numpy and the Python ecosystem surrounding it did.

Lots of comments in this thread from people who's Ruby experience is only from the post Rails era after ~2008, and don't understand that the post Rails culture wasn't really a thing when Python was first gaining momentum for scientific computing.
Travelling helped me a lot. You’re kind of forced into social situations especially if you stay in hostels. I’m not talking about a 1 week vacation though. I’d recommend a multi-month trip.
I decided that I didn't care what other people's opinions of me were. This was after nearly pathological shyness and embarrassment at being "me" when I was 11-14. Then my family moved and the new location let me be a new person with new friends. Also, puberty and maturity played a large part, obviously. The not caring about what other people thought had its own problems that took me much longer to recognize and work through but it did get me out of my shy period. Personal growth is hard.

After we moved I made a new best friend. His brother, who was a few years older than me, was extremely outgoing and could talk to anyone about anything. I learned by observing him that asking questions was a great way to get to know people and hold up my end of a conversation.
> This industry literally won’t even pay for chassis they desperately need (and chassis are really cheap compared to trucks), doesn’t want to pay its workers, but they are supposedly going to pay for millions of robot trucks

Interesting perspective on autonomous freight. Even if self-driving trucks become technologically viable in the coming years, their economic viability may still significantly trail that of personal autonomous vehicles.
That was kind of my point. What skilled programmers do to find work is one thing, what scientists, who just need some help for a short project, do to find people is another. Assuming you are a programmer who wants to do work for scientists for some reason, you need to go where they are - they won't find you in your regular tech recruiting circles, which tend to be all about full time jobs. I happen to like doing some work for scientists so that my career isn't entirely about making private equity companies richer, but I don't expect them to pay my enterprise rates or find me on Linked In.
Just stop caring so much about what you and others think of you. I lot of shyness and awkwardness can be due to overwhelming self-awareness and a misinterpreted projected view of what others think of you. People don't spend their day thinking about their interaction with you. People interact and then move on. If they don't, then they're dealing with the same things.

Just be and stop thinking about being.
Fortran does not require (nor has much available for) manual memory management, and its array syntax is more convenient than Numpy (and far more convenient than Python without Numpy), obviating any futzing around with pointers or indices.
Eh, from hands on experience with Optane drives I'm very skeptical. They're still very far removed from RAM, even if they are good compared to SSDs. Like maybe next to RAM in the 1980s they seem about equivalent. Modern RAM has absurd bandwidth.
I never found a satisfactory answer to this question: if we stop eating domestic animals, they won't frolic forever in an idyllic wilderness - they'll just stop existing, completely. Do you prefer them not existing, to being eaten by people?

And once you've answered - how would you feel about hyper advanced aliens coming to our corner of the universe and being horrified of all the pain and misery on earth, with a finger on a button that'll painlessly stop us from existing.
In an argument, if you're trying to convince the other person to support your beliefs, you wouldn't use clearly biased sources like you did here. I have no argument with you specifically but just pointing it out for the future that people will dismiss any biased sources you give them, which is probably not what you want the outcome to be in an argumentative fashion.
How do they know that it's going to be the fastest chip in one year?

Frankly announcing anything about chip that (maybe?) will appear in one year is a bit... too far in the future, no?
But wasn't MPs detected in human placenta before? [1]

> In total, 12 microplastic fragments
(ranging from 5 to 10 μm in size), with spheric or irregular shape were found in 4 placentas (5 in the fetal side, 4
in the maternal side and 3 in the chorioamniotic membranes); all microplastics particles were characterized in
terms of morphology and chemical composition. All of them were pigmented; three were identified as stained
polypropylene a thermoplastic polymer, while for the other nine it was possible to identify only the pigments,
which were all used for man-made coatings, paints, adhesives, plasters, finger paints, polymers and cosmetics
and personal care products.

[1]: https://files.catbox.moe/023yyt.pdf
The only solution is to get out there and keep doing it until the awkwardness fades, and it will fade. Once it fades, you can start working on the voice, the posture, etc., one at a time. (It's too much to work on it all at once.)

I've been doing this my whole life, and am still a work in progress, but the more I work at it the better it gets.

It's well worth spending the effort.
> Honest question: how do you communicate between two Lisp processes on two different machines?

Depends what level of integration you want: custom tcp/udp protocols, HTTP and websockets are all pretty easy. But, you can also use something like this over a trusted network/vpn: https://github.com/brown/swank-client