skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those that don't know, it's written in Perl!

Such a life saver of a tool. I used GNU Parallel to run a script locally that did what a big distributed system did, quicker and more reliably. It got to the point where people would just ask me to "run the thing" on my laptop instead of waiting for the cron.

Mirror:
https://github.com/martinda/gnu-parallel
Yes.

The term “Affordable housing” is used in such different contexts, that it holds little meaning.

But I just want us to be building condos and simple homes geared that middle income families can afford at 30% of their annual income.
You're welcome. Here's to informed health!
If you felt like that after your single interview you wouldn’t hire them?

Especially when you know they’re going to need to move all across the country.
I wanna say the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm is probably the best way to explore any probability distribution like this. The core algorithm is pretty similar to battleships -- pick a random point from a map, then explore neighbouring points, use the difference between predicted and measured results to update the map, and when bored do random restarts.
They’re used to guarding the exhibits at Museum of Art. Now they’ve curated one
But perhaps low cholesterol points to having less inflammation/other minor repair work the body has "backed up", and thus begs the question of why people have low or high cholesterol.
> To be clear: there is NOTHING at all about sound in this article. The spectrum does not show a continuum from sound to light.

Except that a portion of the spectrum graphic is labeled “perceptible sound.” That’s what the OP is referencing.

Perhaps the illustrator is pointing out that the frequency range of these EM waves coincides with frequency range of audible sounds? Or perhaps they’re confused. Either way, there’s no mistaking that the graphic is labeled with the words “perceptible sound.”
Yes, but I only see facets of their performance. And I’m only interested in specific areas, and might be blind to other talents or issues. They might be the brightest bulb in the training class, but spend all their day reading hacker news and creating memes.

It’s very difficult to quantify individual performance, and even harder to put a dollar figure on it.
My issue simply stems from how people try to disconnect our conscious experiences from the physical phenomena that underlies it.

Perhaps its my own perception on how I read into statements that make these assertions, but humans have quite a long history of invoking magic "souls" and such to explain thought processes and behaviors. My insistence on referencing the underlying phenomena is an attempt to counter this.
I recently saw a new meme that was posted on Reddit, and then a day later posted to 4chan as if it was new. They may be brokers rather than originators.
> What is this mainstream media garbage about tumblr being racist.

From my memories of the meme wars and the last time I checked in on tumblr, tumblr had a lot of niche communities. A lot of those revolved around sexuality.

There were some nazis, but there was also a lot of bad poetry and art. Also porn. Porn was everywhere. When porn got banned, enough people left and enough communities were exiled that the nazi communities (without growing at all) passed some arbitrary percentage of users that declaring the entire site racist became in vogue.
There are a few gyms for battleship, https://github.com/thomashirtz/gym-battleship ... some variations I would like to see involve a much bigger grid (100x100) and moving ships along axis @ various rates ... but then you would get a different game I guess.
"You should be free to drive a car with friggin spikes on the front"

Then I shouks be free to shoot your car on sight if it gets withing 100 meters of my children? You can't bring them back from the dead
lol
yeah maybe if people had just one house that'd work out nice. you don't see hermit crabs renting shells either. think there is a fundamental flaw in your thought experiment here.
then who do they expect to do everything for them? the only way you can have the lifestyle of the ultrarich is paying people. who makes their food who sotckes the shelves at their stores who waits their table mixes their drinks drives them around and the million other jobs that their lifestyle depends on. we aren't building better mass transit so you cant bus them in or take the train/subway in to work, they don't want to pay them enough to live near by how do they expect to have a functional economy? slave labor living in coffin the basement?
There's an Apple watch face called "solar dial" that's pretty similar, and I've seen others like this.

To me this is the most logical watch face — everything else just confuses matters.
One thing to know is if you do the ptmp setup one unstable connection (trees, trucks) will cause other radios to DC momentarily as well.

I tried all possible mkt config, including fully routed and fully switched, same result.
Fog-busting technology receives government backing
I think the class warfare aspect of this stuff isn't discussed enough. People also want to differentiate themselves from other classes in some way. These days everyone has money and owns the latest iPhone and can afford nice clothes, so it is a lot harder than it used to be. This is why the concept of "upper class ideas" has surfaced. It is important that these ideas be strange enough that someone from the working class would never except them.
The British Starstreaks are looking very promising to do just that to ground support A/C.

https://nitter.net/Osinttechnical/status/1510094022970417160...
Interference between Zoom calls (being in different or the same one) is the killing factor here. Specially when not everyone is back, or there are more people from outside participating, and that it has become the new normal. One Zoom call in a work room may be ok (if people there is quiet and don't care a lot of the lone participant speaking from time to time while using headphones), but two or more cause trouble, at least without special microphones.

And even if in some workplaces are rooms for phone and now Zoom calls, that too many people use now Zoom calls make them insufficient.
I prefer working from the office, even if it’s empty. 99% of my interactions continue to be remote but I like to have somewhere that isn’t my home office to do work. I don’t like being _that_ much of a hermit.
Using the OpenWRT site results in a much better search experiance, some useful pre-defined filters are also available there: https://openwrt.org/toh/views/start

But the short answer for routers with OpenWRT 6E support is no. For m.2 6 GHz capable cards that have Linux drivers and support AP mode I know Qualcomm has a few models that fit that bill, in general just search any tri-band module from them and you should be set. Broadcom probably does as well but I'm not as familiar with those.

I passed dying on this hill long ago though. Even if you get such a card, get it working, and avoid bugs you're still going to be loading binary firmware to it. A much easier way to achieve the same level of openness is to buy a well supported router with AP mode and a properly designed antenna pattern then hanging that off a port on your open router; filtering any packets that source from the management MAC of the AP to completely isolate it.
If just one person for a meeting has to be on zoom because they’re remote, then so does everyone else, even if they’re sitting at the same table.
Technical description of the algorithm: http://potrace.sourceforge.net/potrace.pdf
Most of those systems pay for themselves and make great investments right?
Totolink X5000R is only 6 not 6e.
> ANY feedback to interviewees when they were rejected

This is a lawyer thing

Without large societal changes to no longer have the US be crazy litigious, no big company will ever give you actionable feedback about your interview.
> If it turns out you have built lots and lots of the highest-density housing and there's nothing affordable in sight even after that, then guess what - you're basically in Manhattan.

Your point is good, but it turns out that a lot of really expensive parts of Manhattan aren't anywhere near as dense as they should be, such as:

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.744212,-74.0017042,3a,90y,34...
That's not my experience.

It's almost always obvious whether the candidate really knows their stuff. They go into details, when you ask probing questions they don't revert back to generalities or repeat what they already said.

Where this does not work, however, is interviewing junior developers. They don't really know anything at all yet (well, some do, but again, that's almost always quickly obvious), so you're hiring for potential rather than actual skills.
Yours is a beautiful example of how to shoot yourself in the foot with reckless generalization. Addition of integers is commutative; concatenation of strings is not. That's not "a common idea". Compilers can transform a+b into b+a for one, if it suits them, but not for the other.
Mice can pretty easily show up indoors
Wasn't Gimp still stuck with GTK 2? It can't work with Wayland until GTK 3 migration.
Then it's time to break out the one-two punch that would specifically address the land being disproportionately valuable: a land value tax + a citizens' dividend (a.k.a. universal basic income). If anyone's to benefit from that land being valuable, it should be the citizenry as a whole, not some cartel of landlords who lucked into it.
I remember playing this variant for hours on end against a friend on DOS: https://dosgames.com/game/spacewar/

It was written by Bill Seiler, who apparently also did a port of the original game to the PDP-11 (https://github.com/MattisLind/SPACEWAR).

Has anyone ever put together a virtual museum of Spacewar! variants/derivatives over the decades? I would love to learn more about these games and the people who made them.
Vizio TVs are now showing banner ads over live TV
The webmaster at lowtechmagazine.com says: "...Compressed through this dithering plugin, images featured in the articles add much less load to the content: compared to the old website, the images are roughly ten times less resource-intensive..."

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/09/how-to-build-a-low...

They go into more detail on their github page:

https://github.com/lowtechmag/solar/wiki/Solar-Web-Design
If a company temporarily paid higher salary and covered your health insurance during this probationary period to account for the risk, I'd go for it. Otherwise,
never.
Wikipedia says Bucha has a population of 36k people, I can't see how this headline is correct as-is.
The old world associates US construction with 'houses made of paper', where anyone can break into your house just by kicking in a hollow wooden door.

Even in UK it was shocking to find out that walls between apartments are just plaster, that's totally unacceptable in continental europe, When i tell my folks that I could break through to the neighboirs with a kitchen knife, their brain implodes (It would take a while)
While for the reasons unknown you may sympathize with indefensible, I implore you to look into this document https://docs.cntd.ru/document/727930017?marker=64S0IJ it approves the application of an actual, no it's not a joke, government standard of mass burials during both peacetime and war. The referenced standard describes in detail how mass burials must be conducted. Why is it important? russia may be at this point a non-human regime but it is still a bureaucracy that follows certain procedures. Therefore, no matter how inhuman of an act something is, it has a high chance to be documented and declared as a procedure.
This document is discussed in the twitter thread alongside other references.
Perhaps this is where democracy meets principals...

The principal is that someone should be free to build on their land as long as they don't create safety issues or significantly impose on someone else.

Democracy at worst can be mob rule. Principals are important.

Japan does a good with federal zoning regulations. It's not impossible.
If the bulk of these solopreneurs are—in their role as entrepreneurs—as economically productive as corner store owners, then I agree that this trend is great.

But the parent is asserting that the reality is that most of these solopreneurs are a actually just delusional, in that they consider themselves entrepreneurs but aren’t actually all that enterprising.

My intuition is that the parent is right, but the article
doesn’t have much data to support or refute either of these theories.
Love the shout out to the Jerky Boys
bud, i've been waiting for the market to shit the bed for a decade.
Ask HN: Good places to find work as a technical writer?
I like writing and would love to contribute more of my time to writing technical documentation, blog posts, etc. Are there any good places where I can find such jobs?
The Chieftain recently had a video that discussed the relative effectiveness of anti-tank weapons in Ukraine: https://youtu.be/W9pVEP0AzZ4

TL;DW: too much is being made of the death of the tank when Russia's ineptitude at combined arms and the realities of urban warfare is likely a much larger factor.
Most of the tools for visualizing code lack the practical part. Dependencies graphs are often so huge, that generated graphiz output doesn't even open on Macbook M1. Codeflow graphs kinda helpful sometimes, but nothing game changing.

I explored the topic of visual programming a couple of years ago and presented the first attempt to make the code visualization tool useful and practical in this long-read - "Rethinking visual programming with Go" [1]

The key point is that we build mental maps of the code whiel reading it. Simplicity of Go allows for rules' formalization of how I build 3D mental map myself, so I can outsorce it to the code. I.e. the static code analysis tool that reads any Go codebase and visuzlies a 3D structure similar to how I would do it in my head anyways. By clearly separating spatial and temporal aspects of code, it's possible to blend this code visualization approach with editor and make it practical and helpful rather than just visualization excercies.

I paused the development, as I see the future of this project only in VR/AR environment, and I'm not sure this ecosystem is ready yet (it's a side project still). But honestly I dream about this tool almost daily, while coding with usual text code representation.

[1] https://divan.dev/posts/visual_programming_go/
Pardon the stupid question, but at this point why not just use Rust? It interoperates with C++ fairly well.
On the topic of housing: As long as it is obviously not normal housing I agree. If people want weird bespoke things in the middle of nowhere then that is different. If you are building your cabin an hour from town I think the government getting ahead of a housing shortage by ensuring your house can be available when you inevitably sell it is fine for everyone.

After all the city gets a house for the supply and you get your money back when you sell. Statistically everyone sells on long time scales after all.

On the topic of cars: that is stupid. 16.5 people died per day in 2019 in the US from being hit by cars. It is in everyone's best interest to bring that number down. It was double that in 1979 and while no one thing necessarily explains a big change like that newer safety requirements have helped a lot.

To be clear while recently some vehicle safety tests that protect the passengers from weird impacts have come up nearly as many regulations are actually related to protecting pedestrians whenever possible. Obviously hitting someone at highway speeds can't be helped but you would be surprised how much technology can reduce injuries in more minor accidents (and by extension reduce deaths in the non-extreme cases).
I have always wondered if Snowden is a CIA plant against the NSA. I mean, he was vouched for by the CIA and worked for them and then he transferred. I mean, his technical feats are social engineering and Sharepoint. And now everyone talks about the NSA spying on us, and nothing about the CIA. My weird opinion is that the CIA is paranoid of the NSA and wants to lead us into some mentat-lead future trajectory a machine cannot know of.

“Look at me, I am CIA and measure intelligence by the ability to trick people and I click on the wrong ‘X’ button when closing an advertisement, which means I am tricked by javascript libraries”.
I found this discussion of “the status game” and its variants to be really interesting and wanted to pass it along to those who find there way here:

https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/who-wants-to-play-the-...
The odd thing was this time even the rents increased substantially, so much that if you're moving to a new place it might be cheaper monthly to just buy instead of renting. Maybe now with interest rates near 5% and home prices still at its peak, it has shifted the short term advantage back to renting
Curious why you think this. Do you not believe there is some value in automation of certain tasks?
Existing housing already has people living in it. Prices are so high because demand is high and supply is low; if your model for creating new affordable housing involves incentivizing for-profit developers to buy existing supply in this kind of market and sell or rent units to people who could not afford to do so themselves without the middleman, who is presumably being propped up by public money incentives, why even have the middleman? You could just hand out rent vouchers (or whatever) and achieve the same result for less.

New high-density construction on lots that were previously low-density is better all around: It's more likely to be profitable for the developer, and it increases supply in a market that sorely needs it.
I used to have a friend who worked at AMD, and he said they simulated one of their in-progress CPUs on five Virtex-5 FPGAs.

Looking here: https://docs.xilinx.com/v/u/en-US/ds100

* I see a lot of LUTs, adders, and common operations(not a theoretical problem).

* There's memory and IO, but that shouldn't matter for defining a single clock tick.

* Thermal/power monitoring - not sure how important that is, but sure that's outside the definition of a FSM.

I have written simple software and FPGA CPU cores, and I would describe all of them as FSMs. It's possible that newer CPUs wouldn't qualify because e.g. they rely on metastable circuits for randomness, power-monitoring, etc. but most of it should be a FSM and the exceptions aren't anything like "infinite execution paths".
I prefer going to the office at least a few days a week, because (a) I like to socialize with other humans, and (b) I want to get out of my "home office", aka corner of the living room. I work with a distributed team, so I definitely don't go in to collaborate. In fact, on days with a lot of meetings, I'm more likely to work from home.
There’s no such thing as a “protected group” in the law. There are “suspect categories” such as race, religion, etc. But it’s not any more legal to discriminate against whites or men than to discriminate against Hispanics or women.

Moreover, the California law improperly conflates discrimination with structural disadvantage. It’s definition of “underrepresented” reflects people who might face discrimination. But that’s a different thing than facing structural disadvantages—persistent disparities that can’t be remediated simply by addressing prejudices conduct—which is the linchpin of affirmative action programs.

Hispanics and Asians are just modern day Italians or Irish. They may face discrimination, but the data shows that they don’t really face structural barriers to closing gaps with “white” Americans. Appalachians, by contrast, likely don’t face much discrimination, but face large and persistent structural gaps. These are two quite different categories and it’s nonsensical to conflate them.
Google does it. Google is successful. So if we do it, we'll be successful.
I’ve been going into the office 3 days per week, and often times, it’s just me and the office manager in the office out of our ~200-employee company. We’ve been hiring remote-first for a while, so that maybe the way it is until our lease ends.

Like the other commenter, I just like having a place to get work done that isn’t my home. The plus side of an empty office is that I can take Zoom calls at my desk. It does get rather irritating to have to find an empty call room or conference room when others show up.
This is a really accessible write up.

Although I agree with the comment elsewhere of asking for a “examples in Rust” comment somewhere to save everyone the 15 sec of squinting “is this … C++, or…” who don’t instantly recognize it.

Also funny that I just shared a Twitter thread on this topic to a coworker.

I was sharing the POV of this prof with the “wow, it’s amazing to think all the hard-won gains I ever did with deep feature engineering and tuning is now useless!”

Sharing in case others find it helpful.

https://twitter.com/moyix/status/1469401502422818823?s=10&t=...

Which references this thread:

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1468370605229547522?s=10...
No, the alternative is having a full time job (where you'd probably get paid more) and then quitting/switching after one has an offer.
Whatever Tumblr’s political legacy turns out to be, I will always value it for the UI and how it encouraged more people to blog.

When you logged into the Tumblr dashboard, you were presented with several options to post - link post, image post, text post, etc. Other blogging platforms presented you with this huge text box to fill - with the implicit expectation that you should write a huge post. Tumblr was the first that really encouraged sharing this cool new thing you found, or to quickly write down a random thought.

It invited a lot of people to blog, including myself, and I personally consider tumblr as a huge part of the history and legacy of blogs.
It used to be the case that if you pinged tumblr.com you'd get a response from x.66.6.y. If I know one thing for certain it's that there can be no light without the darkness on the web: just sterile corporate sponsored content and then some more in popups. You've got one popup for the website, another for the government, and another for the advertiser. I haven't seen any national socialist popups in my browser yet so remind me again who's making the web unpleasant? In American society whenever the state is unhappy with something they blame it on the enemy they defeated in the last war. It doesn't even matter if the enemy didn't have the Internet!
Why is this not surprising?

I have to wonder how long this kind of thing will last in these types of org structures before there's a collective realization that coordinating groups always has a challenging element to it, even in person in a single office location.

With distributed groups, even more "overhead," which Zoom / video calls, I think, have been proven over the last 2+ years to ameliorate to some extent.

These kinds of stories come across as almost validating the critique I've seen going around on various discussion forums - that critique would be that the return to office push when the job doesn't inherently require it is more an artifact of an organizational failure to adapt and/or an attempt to put expensive office spaces to some kind of readily visible use, rather than rational or productive management planning.
I agree, but not in the way which I think you mean.

They burn up engineers. What good to them is a burnt out engineer?

Who cares, hire another one?

It's eerily like the military using up soldiers, and I doubt it's an accident. They're maximizing output for their money and they don't care if it makes the engineers suicidal or quit. They can always get more.
I’m sorry to hear about your situation. Wisdom is seeking help, and knowing that we need each other for the hardest problems encountered in this precious life.
Working on my latest side project https://coinsscreener.com/

Its a crypto Coin screener. Could not find what i wanted so building it myself.