skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is learning physics and chemistry a better use of time than learning chess?
No, in other words the author had 8 real individuals speak to them directly.

An editor (and usually a separate on-staff fact-checker) would have confirmed they were real, credible, and in a position to make these claims. Had the sources fallen short the editor would have pushed the author to substantiate any claims though other means, otherwise they would not make it into the final article.

Yes, mistakes happen in any process. There is also a correction and a retraction procedure at such news services.

The people who cry 'fake news' typically do not know how journalism process work. To be fair, I don't think most people do and that in itself is an issue.
> it doesn't require a banner or an obtrusive banner.

And yet, that's the impact on users.
https://www.state.gov/establishment-of-the-bureau-of-cybersp...
Also thinking the same, looking for a monitor for my Surface Laptop 3 (Running Linux) and realising the lack of HDMI port really makes this a challenge USB C for a monitor lacks options currently, so am looking at dongle hell.
I think this is a great underappreciated comment.

I often feel my development went... much different than most in my peer group due to my much earlier access to the Internet/on-line services and me being a "curious hacker" getting into places and reading things I definitely should not have at that age. Seeing how utterly incompetent "powerful" institutions were (combined with teenage arrogance) that I was raised to deeply respect is still something I have difficulty processing.

I can't imagine being bombarded not just with 100x more information about how the future is f*cked and how incompetent those running the show are, but also it being amped up to 11 by hucksters selling "engagement" and ads. The content is coming to you now.

I think a lot of early adulthood is just brazen naivety. For example, I'd never have started the company I did at 17 at age 37, there would be too many reasons I know it'd fail. If you lose that naivety too early, at least personally I would have utterly lost any motivation to "try" since the odds were so astronomically against me.

When a generation collectively believes they will have it worse than their parents I'm not entirely sure what to expect the outcomes to be.
People also shoot themselves in the head with their hands tied on their back.

Point is: flickr should have enough space and whatnot to host all those images if it wanted. They decided to remove that content, because "it appears in search"?

Sounds more like it wasn't cool enough so they wanted it gone, found some reasonable reasons and that's it.
Reading about the whole situation turned me into a loyal Gibson's customer. I made my first online order when they won their verdict and always make a point to stop by and make a purchase on my way through the state.
The fact there are vector languages in subsets of python (numpy, pandas, etc.) and R.

And these already have great large columnar dataset support (eg. Apache Arrow)

And an open source community intent on developing and maintaining the ecosystem.
Nix is wonderful, and very difficult.

But, if you're talking about IaC, you need to more precisely talk about NixOps and how that compares to tools like Terraform or Pulumi. -- Overall, Nix isn't really aimed at solving IaC for cloud resources.
> Blatantly false, given that a town of 100,000 is still a city, and most cities don't even have a highway running through them.

I think you are using a different definition of "highway" than I am, and the DOT uses. By definition, nearly every town and city in the US has a highway, in fact, the "main street" (often called Main) in most US municipalities West of the Mississippi River is intentionally built to overlap on a US highway, including the famous and definitive US Route 66.

But more specifically, when I am saying "city" (and I later use major city), I'm not talking about 100k people, I'm talking about what comes to mind when you hear the word "city". E.g. Los Angeles, Kansas City, Dallas, Atlanta, Denver, et al.

In all of those places, a major interstate runs near/through the city and all of them have auxillary interstate highways (3 digit number).

You seem to be trying to be as literal as possible to call me out, but are in fact wrong even in your literal interpretation because you're being literal about "city" but not "highway".
It's a false assumption to assume that more interviews is going to drive the false positive rate down. Increased volume or difficulty are not the keys to driving the false positive rate down. Better preparation is the key to driving the false positive rate down. Your team has to be crystal clear about what they are looking for in a candidate. That will allow you to create better job descriptions and create better interview questions and processes.

Increasing the difficulty and frequency of interviews is a bandage for bad processes. It's also going to increase your false negative rate. In a job market like this, you just can't afford to do that.
At the start a sigmoid does look like an exponential doesn’t it?
Let's chalk it up to cultural difference! Some commenters think "silly" is fine (Ireland, UK, US - although I'm from the US and I disagree, but let's grant it). Some think it's not.

Let's assume that "silly" was meant kindly and not dismissively!
As your sibling allready stated, in Kotlin it is known as smart casting. Good to see that the article allready recognizes the prior art from ML which was conceived in 1971.
I did some work for a Dutch bank a while back, they had a similar setup.

The lag from remote access (Citrix) drove me nuts!
Wait huh? Is this a UK law? Or they don't support transfers from Coinbase for some other reason?
What are you talking about lol
already posted:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30896124
I mean, that's not true in the general case. That'd be incredibly wasteful.

(Work at Meta, mostly on capacity)
If you're willing to make sacrifices daily, or starting immediately, any amount of money can be "fuck you" money.
Correct. Vitamin D deficiency makes one more likely to get COVID-19 and more likely to have a severe case if you do get it. There really is a lot of evidence to support this, including studies from the NIH. Also, most people in the US are deficient in the winter and having a bit extra is considered harmless, so not suggesting it was always stupid.

There is also a traditional vaccine now that is completely ignored in the US. The ONLY acceptable response to COVID according to our government (and unfortunately one political side for reasons I don't understand) is one of the MRNA vaccines. Nothing else is acceptable even as an adjunct to those vaccines.
Terraform is amazing and is also very thin. It’s amazing to be able to commit your infrastructure to source control, but it’s nothing without effective well-maintained APIs that can be driven by Terraform providers.

I’ve built custom Terraform providers to map to custom APIs, and the experience was just fantastic. I’ve also used scripts with AWS resources that were a chore to use because the underlying API was a trash fire.

Specifically with respect to Terraform the language, the uniform adoption of functional programming concepts would be nice— right now providers expose varying ways of dealing with sets of resources in more or less confusing and incompatible ways (count, and the various times that you cannot use count).

So the problems with TF are twofold: the language is not quite consistent, and the ecosystem depends entirely on the quality of contributed providers and/or the module shims built on top of poor providers.

It can be easy to get frustrated during IaC development, but an absolute relief when you can rock deployments confidently.
A lot of people "learn how to drink" in college, often through trial and fire. Many of us have a few stories of getting too drunk in our early 20's and learning those consequences the "hard way". Considering how likely it is for any given young college student to engage in drinking/partying after leaving home, getting that knowledge in the safety of their parents home, ideally through experiences less harmful then maybe expected through learning the "hard way", guided by the more-experienced parents, what you suggest makes a lot of sense to me. For example, some people find it nearly impossible to stop drinking when they start, or they may have an alcohol intolerance leading to inebriation with much smaller amounts of alcohol - great information to know before going into an environment like college.
I didn't comment on that, only the specific portion that I quoted.
25% is ~50 million people. Also just because 80% of tweets are retweets, that doesn't mean only 20% of them are tweeting original content, it's probably a mix. So realistically we're looking at tens of millions of people forming the core contributor community. Hardly a small elite.
I am not talking about absolutes (at least I wasn't attempting to). The person talking about absolutes was the person I was responding to, not me.

I have no right to complete silence in my apartment block, but I do have a right to not have to listen to my neighbor's loud music at 3am in the morning.

I have no right to never breathe in second hand smoke, but I do have a right to not have to breath it in inside small enclosed rooms.

Our society and the law makes these kinds of trade-offs all the time.

Also, the issue isn't people having to read the speech, it is the speech negatively impacting people (sometimes severely if you are an Asian person that just got knifed on the street) in indirect ways. There is this false belief that speech can't be mortally harmful unless it's a direct call to violence, which I hope we can dispense with since the evidence doesn't line up with that narrative.
You raise a point worth discussing. In our contemporary times there are more traditional political factions and local authorities in the USA who believe in the legitimacy of the United States political process or at least the constitution (many sovereign citizens don't, preferring the articles of confederatin) yet are also more sympathetic to sovereign citizens than their counterparts, and could be interested in temporary alliances with them if trouble broke out. At the end of the day, Aragon remained under Catholic authority either way, but wanted to use tolerance of the Cathars as a wedge to keep hold of territory. Similarly, I could imagine a rural law-abiding United States bloc preferring that, for economic or political reasons, there be a nearby commune of Sovereign Citizens who are strange, under-documented, and sometimes live in potentially hazardous conditions, but are friendly and willing to pitch in to help the broader community out of a shared sense of common "American freedomism" so long as law enforcement and other day-to-day restrictions aren't carried out in ways they consider illogical or intrusive.
Not all highways are interstate highways.
At the scale of FB, handling fraud is a non-trivial effort. At any given time there are probably thousands of somewhat well funded fraud teams looking to bypass whatever shiny new countermeasure FB adds to their site.

There is a lot of money to be made from defrauding FB users. This monetary incentive results in criminals investing tons of effort into bypassing anti-fraud stuff. It is a non-stop effort of incremental moves on both parties that will carry on for as long as FB users remain a juicy target.
He's Twitter's largest shareholder, holding 4x the number of shares held by Jack: https://www.ft.com/content/29b9c884-02d7-4d1c-a4ab-c862242fa...
Spoken like a man who hasn't paid $5 for access to the jungle juice at a house party hosted by a friend of a friend.
I am working on a MicroPHP to shove into something like a RP2040 since PHP is really just a shell script for a whole bunch of C functions... but PHP eats too much ram currently on the micros
> At least I find it strange that Russia would happily see the material handed off like that, and I think it's more likely that all of this happened behind the back of Russia.

Why would you be surprised? Russia in the 90s was facing far more pressing problems than military equipment and even nuclear material. I remember reading that we actually paid russia and former soviet nations to keep their nuclear materials secure since much of the former soviet union was in a state of economic collapse in the 90s.
> Why not conserve it?

FWIW, the 5 million book illustrations are still on Internet Archive somewhere (the key being "somewhere"). The loss of the metadata and organization is still a shame, of course. IA is a miracle, but can be intimidating compared to Flickr.
Germany’s energy regulator to take control of Gazprom Germania
0.00001% of nytimes.com users write all the articles- what's your point?
In practice, yes. Pedantically, any Air Force aircraft carrying the president is Air Force One, no matter how it flies. Any Marine Corps aircraft will be Marine One. And as you might expect, there would be an Army One and Navy One as well.

I do not believe you are correct on the designation for a commercial flight if the president were on board. There is 'Executive One' if he flies on a US civil aircraft, but that is still federally owned.
The parent is talking about Python (specifically CPython, I assume), not Cython. Moreover, performance isn't a binary and there's lots of headroom for CPython to improve if they would be willing to drive the community through a breaking change (but the Python community generally assumes that any kind of breaking change necessarily has to look like the Python 2->3 transition and there's no political will for this). Note how many interpreted dynamic languages absolutely trounce CPython for anything that isn't a microbenchmark.
My primary computing device is a desktop PC. I have four monitors hooked up to it (two horizontal, two vertical). The primary monitor is for browsing. The secondary horizontal monitor is for coding. The two vertical ones are for things like reading logs/documentation, and for various chat apps (Slack/Discord/WhatsApp/Signal - yes I use all).

I started a new job recently and they got me a top of the line Macbook Pro. For the first two weeks, my productivity was in the gutter. Not because I'm not used to MacOS, but because going from four 27" screens to a single 15" screen was devastating. Things improved significantly once I bought an ultrawide, but I'm still having to do a significant amount of desktop-switching (using the three-finger swipe) and it's just not good.

I know the MBP supports more monitors but I'm out of desk space!
You'd be surprised how many people get offended (usually on behalf of others) by this these days ...
You don't need an app to detect alcohol because you can taste it, unlike GBH.
>Russia is lacking soldiers that are needed to attack more than they lack equipment at this point in time.

I haven't seen any proof of that. There are rather reliable reports that large majority of stockpiled soviet-era weapons (tanks, BMPs...) is unusable in a short term due to large-scale corruption and lack of maintanence.
In all cases an over intellectualized attempt to solve non problems with computer cycles.
<cite> does have a default browser style (italic), Standard Ebook's use of <i> within it would be redundant on the web, I don't know if the conventions are different in EPUB.

How to use <cite> is often misunderstood. Many think it can be used to identify the author of a quotation but it should only be used to name the work a quotation is from. Standard Ebook placed it inside the <blockquote> but I've also seen it placed after <blockquote>, I don't know whether both are considered correct or if it's a point of disagreement; to me, <blockquote> should contain only the quoted material itself but I understand the appeal of having the quote and its source be neatly contained within one semantic element.

Using the Markdown convention of putting backticks around `code` may not be great but at least it won't be confused for the wrong actual code.
If you had ever spent 0.002 seconds in Ukraine you would know Bandera is not on a pedestal throughout the entire country. Paradoxically, he's more favored in the West despite the atrocities his UPA committed against the Poles, but Bandera's a whole other can of worms that can't be broadstroked across all of Ukraine.

I mean, "doesn't give a crap" is kind of a hard sell, although I understand the uselessness of rhetoric when it comes to horrible sh*t like chemical weapons in Syria, ISIS publicly beheading people, etc. What war crimes in South America has the West been complicit in recently, by the way?
I was thinking about that article and how Lunduke deadnamed Danielle just the other day. I had no idea who these people were and I was shocked that I didn't even know Danielle was trans until I skimmed through the HN comments the next day. That's...yikes.
I believe most of the images are still available directly from IA.

For many with lighter copyright you can certainly host them elsewhere as well.
Can confirm the poor performance on small matrices (less than 20x20). This is a problem particularly for robotics applications when your entities are positions, velocities, etc.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58071344/is-eigen-slow-a...
this is why archives should be independently duplicated, to head off a massacre.

what isnt clear to me is the survival of the content, was there a data migration or was it all just nerfed?
The problem is, the internet archive is great at storing data, not not the best at making that data discoverable, viewable.

A partnership like this makes quite a bit of sense.
out-of-touch with anything any normal person would actually want/benefit from.

It’s because you are artificially lending yourself to problem spaces that you have no intuition or interest in. For example, you’d had to have be in X problem space and an actual consumer/user in that space to even know what the pain points are. If you do that your ideas and solutions are going to sound dumb to people in those spaces.

However, if you pick something you yourself deal with regularly, no matter how stupid, your solutions will be intuitive.

Developers struggle with this constantly because we think ‘this is probably what SaaS consumers need’. How fuck do you know? You just don’t, unless you’ve been in it.

You can’t fake this one believe it or not. Great writers always give the advice that you shouldn’t just become an author, first live a little, so when you write you have something to write about. The same goes for devs.

That’s why 90% of us look at stuff like TikTok and Snapchat and are baffled at their success. Many of us shun social media or how different age groups value it, we fail to understand what makes these things compelling. We simply don’t know because we don’t tweet, we don’t dance in videos, we don’t post stories, so the whole thing seems stupid to us. If we showed up to that space and tried to make something, we’d fundamentally get Google+.

Can’t fake it bro.
Is there evidence to suggest that Truth is going better then the article suggests?

Is there any evidence to suggest that the article is incorrect about these resignations?
People also don't know how their machines should operate if they've always bought into the shitty ecosystem where sacrifices are made and computation is throttled because "aesthetics"

Not to mention the e-waste, that's probably the biggest issue

Apple is terrible if you care about ecosystems
See also: https://www.forbes.com/sites/martinrivers/2022/04/03/is-bitc...
Serious question: Have you ever had an alcoholic beverage made with hard liquor? Alcohol has a very strong flavor/burn. Even half an ounce of cheap vodka, the "flavor-neutral spirit", will throw off the taste of a glass of soda. Grain spirits with even more ethanol like Everclear are even harsher. There are cocktails that can mask the taste of alcohol well, but not entirely.
Elon will make every user follow him by default. He will be the new MySpace Tom
Show HN: Snipd syncs podcast highlights to Notion with summary and transcripts
Because that's not their job? From their perspective it's quite literally spamming up their index and impeding the intended use of the commons. Those images and all associated metadata should have been relocated to archive.org years ago. Instead it appears IA just nuked it outright without consulting anybody to see if any of it was backed up anywhere. The problem here isn't with Flickr, but the clear lack of professionalism on the part of IA in misusing others' resources and then pitching a fit when called out on it.
Dart’s “..” operator, which allows void-returned function calls to be chained, adds no performance cost to the code and is one of my favorite pieces of Dart.
This reminds me that, back in the eighties, a friend of mine made a super cool EGA BBS terminal program with split screens and smooth scrolling - but it also used the vertical retrace interrupts. It's a shame there wasn't more compatibility around a lot of this on PC since it would have enabled some very cool software that everyone could use.
Ah, so maybe their models are just too simple?

The 40-50 band being more efficient isn't just a function of stopping frequency -- you can directly measure it on your favorite long, stop-free stretch of road. Your engine has a nonlinear efficiency with respect to throttle position and load, and at low speeds those dominate fuel economy rather than increased air resistance.

An engine optimized for efficiency would of course drive as slowly as possible, but other factors also contribute to the design of modern car engines.
Not sure I like the term "over-utilization" it's more likely over-consumption and under-utilización.

The industrial revolution was arguably a by-product of huge amounts of wealth in the hands of a few.
Efficiencies of scale may exist, but are not dependant on equal or inequal distribution of benefit.
Seems to me historically rich people/nations have consumed more natural resources, often taking them from other people/nations, focusing not on global wealth creation but on moving resources in, at the expense of global wealth.
On a global scale, inequality seems to have led to more consumption and destruction of someone else's long term resources.
Equality seems to lead to more resource preservation, thus better utilización.

Inequality is the result of thinking about yourself at the expense of others, equality is the result of thinking about others, and those targeting equality are likely to include future generations in their definition of "others" and thus more efficient/conservation use of long term resources.

Interested to see any stats to back up the assertion that "reducing inequalities typically means more consumption" on a global scale.
Conversely, don't become a public figure if you can't handle the costs. This kind of stuff comes with the territory. I don't advocate stalking public figures, but I have more sympathy for random private individuals being stalked than I do people who willingly choose the spotlight.
Cultural factors could play a significant part. I remember an article shared some time ago about understanding Japan by understanding the concept of the salaryman, wherein the author mentioned a (Japanese) entrepreneur and friend of his who claimed to save a massive amount of money by hiring people that greater society deemed undesirable, such as otakus and women. Can't seem to find the article right now or I'd share it.
This reminds me of the "poison snooper" as described in Dune.
This isn't the topic of discussion of this thread. What do you propose to achieve with this line of questioning?

I live in the EU. Most nations of the EU (all?) have quit invading other sovereign nations to solve their disputes, especially overt landgrabs. What exactly do you intend to convey by pointing out hypocrisy here? Do you have a solution to propose? Should we/I stop caring about an aggressive state power at our doorstep because hypocrisy exists?
I’m not sure but considering that SmugMug bought Flickr some time back…

Maybe they sent the IA a bill? And in response to that the IA “deleted their account”…