skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live here, it's fine. There are pockets in the Tenderloin and around that are filled with real misery, but I've never felt unsafe. It's just sad to see. There's police everywhere and the homeless may do drugs but I've never seen anything violent.

The fact of the matter is this is a city of a million people, every American city of this size has bad areas, the difference is in SF these sections aren't pushed somewhere away from the downtown where it can be ignored. Everyone can point to someone that has a story of being mugged, but this isn't specific to SF (think Chicago, New York, DC)

Our mayor endorsed Michael Bloomberg for President, while there are many Lefties in the city (and city council), the fact of the matter is the city is run by big money. They would rather remove the homeless from peoples field of vision than solve the social problems in the city. And with an ongoing attempt to recall the Progressive Prosecutor I would expect to see even more news stories like this.
Technically it isn't, since AIM is "AOL Instant Messenger", where AOL happens to also be an acronym, but it isn't America On-Line Instant Messenger, since then it'd be AOLIM.
So the end use MUST have a metamask wallet?
New PragProg Books on Medium
We just added:
Go Brain Teasers
https://medium.com/@pragprog/table-of-contents-836f54f5ebf2

Pandas Brain Teasers
https://medium.com/@pragprog/table-of-contents-5c90f01be7d

Python Brain Teasers
https://medium.com/@pragprog/table-of-contents-198513bdd6f0

Pythonic Programming
https://medium.com/@pragprog/table-of-contents-15e139fe916c

Modern Asynchronous JavaScript
https://medium.com/@pragprog/table-of-contents-863eb814ab55

Powerful Command-Line Applications in Go
https://medium.com/@pragprog/table-of-contents-ce7741c0f3a0

Agile Retrospectives
https://medium.com/@pragprog/table-of-contents-129aaafc0002

Resourceful Code Reuse
https://medium.com/@pragprog/table-of-contents-3d0fec13900c

101 Design Ingredients to Solve Big Tech Problems
https://medium.com/@pragprog/table-of-contents-1ad11e96d46c
The problem with that is an individual user doesn't generally mark enough things as spam to give the filter enough data to perform well on. It's the aggregation of every user's spam-marking that provides a large enough data set to make good predictions. If they switched to individual spam filters, a lot more spam would make its way into users' inboxes.
Your statement is valuing one form of sex over another. The point is that value isn't held by everyone, and asserting it as fact is diminishing someone else's entirely legitimate perspective.

Conversation is pointless as OP has now responded saying he simply doesn't like hearing about sex.
You missed the preceding "for my years of experience" statement.
Vancouver Zoning Map
Sure, but you could build the same thing with <100 LOC, in JS, 10 years ago.

What I’m trying to say is that even if this qualifies as fashionable in your time scale, a decade is a lot.

This isn’t criticism of your approach. It’s better to stick to whatever works for you and focus on the problem domain rather than the tech stack.
Cutting expenses also gets you closer to financial independence: https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-si...

In fact, it's doubly effective. If you can learn to reduce your expenses by $10k and live happily, not only do you have an additional $10k to save/invest, but you need less each year to live independently.
> Is it really necessary to cram like you're taking the SATs again to get a good job as a software engineer

He is explicitly optimizing for compensation so yes, he needs to nail the interviews. It's a bit of a "don't hate the player hate the game" situation. He
does what is needed to achieve the objective.

> Is "has memorized some number of coding problems" really a test of engineering knowledge?

Absolutely not, but the blog post is not titled "On becoming a better software engineer".
Facebook is pretty evil, but there are of course people out there who've worked for much less, at much more evil organizations.
This could bite you on platforms where tar observes absolute links (commercial UNIX comes to mind).

There is wild variation in tar implementations beyond what is required by POSIX.
Frightening: "Imagine a reserve bank stimulating the electric bicycle industry in the Kansas City metropolitan area by providing residents new US digital dollars that are only valid within bike shops in Kansas City."
My salary did the same thing, practically doubled every hop. That ends eventually and you find out there's a ceiling.
The Second Cold War started up around 2010 and it just turned hot. I doubt it will turn into WW3 but this isn't the last proxy war the US and Russia will fight.

How do you cope?

If you're like me and sleep better with fewer unknowns, understand Russia's and the US's military capabilities—I highly recommend Russia's Military Revival—and read about some modern nuclear strategy. We've evolved past "fire everything at every population center." Matthew Kroenig has publish some good stuff, and elucidates ideas like "warhead sinks."

If you don't sleep better the more you know, get real into sports and another hobby–something you enjoy you can talk about with others that occupies your time. Most people can get by just fine without following the news.

You can manage your own anxiety.
On top of the page there's a:
"Official website of the USA, here's how you know", and they list "it's on a .gov domain and uses https.

Well, is that really so? I doubt it.
Sunscreen?
No. The relevant algorithm is not one that counts up from 2 to n and performs trial division. It’s the massively faster general number field sieve, whose complexity is approximately exp((64/9)^⅓ (ln n)^⅓ (ln ln n)^⅔), which is about 6.43897⋅10²³ for RSA-250 and 1.52374⋅10³⁵ for RSA-2048.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_number_field_sieve
FWIW I assume that's because they parent a 1 year old, and it's important to trade-off on caregiving time.
What am I wrong about?

A Tesla gets ~130 mpg equivalent [1]. This means that if you put a gallon of gas worth of electricity into a tesla, the Tesla can go 130 miles.

On that same page you can see the Tesla is rated for ~350 miles of range. So the Tesla battery pack carries less energy than 3 gallons of gas.

Let's phrase it this way: if you had a 100% efficient generator, you would need less than 3 gallons of gas to fully charge a 1000lb Tesla battery pack. The Tesla could then travel 350 miles with that energy.

[1] https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/Find.do?action=sbs&id=43401
He constantly names Notepad++ releases after political topics he does not like, he's very political.

And if you look at the things he's covered, he seems to be a good person.
Only for the cases you are set up to test. This is about headroom on your golden resources so any kind of overload you can buy yourself time for.
> They don't do anything big 'just because it's cool/useful/good for society'

Their published AI research over past 10 years has been hugely beneficial to the field and society. While true they probably wouldn't be spending so much on this R&D (100B last 5 years, 31B last year) if they didn't expect a future profit, it's hard to deny the value of the research.
Just a case of different priorities for different people. Some people are just in it for the cash and in that case applying to the top-paying companies would be optimal.
I suggest you watch this John Mearsheimer talk (2015) as I think it will help clear a lot of misconceptions you seem to have and also tighten your thinking about the matter.

If there's gonna be a WW3, it'll be because the West wants a WW3.

[2015] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4
From my experience, ICs in technical fields like programming, data science, and cyber get hired in as Gs13-15 in non-supervisory roles.

Yes, GS is adjusted for locality and it’s up and down. But $100k is the minimum for GS-13, step 1 in most localities and is higher in high cost of living areas like DC, NY, etc.

But if you want a programmer job in government it’s not a big pay cut unless you’re a superstar working for Google or something. If it’s a decision of random Fortune 500 or government, government will usually pay more, AND have more benefits and stability.
that’s the point. eng at faang get paid referral fees and suffer no loss if you fail so they’re happy to do it
My fear isn't that we are “sleepwalking into WW3“, but that the world is deep into it, but large parts of it are making it worse, in the long term, by denial of that fact.

OTOH, I also desperately want the denial to turn out to be correct.
It doesn't matter how much RAM you're saving and how much fun you're having "thinking outside the box": our company won't use your product because we won't exclude from team communication our employees that choose to use Linux, or need to use Windows for financial software. It's absurd to me to have collaboration software that excludes people just for some technical clout.
> The problem is that those are two highly correlated data points. Toxic bosses are eventually found but at that point they leave a track of dead bodies.

Agree, and this is often overlooked. There's a handful of people I used to admire whose tendency to readily believe whatever's being sold by their middling middle management chain has left me deeply disappointed.

Middle management is a necessary evil, but there's little hope if upper management fails to recognize and subvert its inherent incentive structure.
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Here's one:

https://twitter.com/jmhessel/status/1511783083967586306

And a non-cherry picked depiction of cherry-picking scientists:

https://twitter.com/jmhessel/status/1512143226022481932

I think tbh people have been burned by cherry picked results in AI for so long that they're overly suspicious of DALL-E 2...
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I invested in Fast and removed all my position when it looked fishy. But the main problem of all that was all their hype about a « massive customer » they will have at the time. And close partner ship with them. And everybody speculating it was Amazon. Don’t do that. Don’t hype to the moon or it’s going to fall sooner or later to the ground.
Re: Universal menus: they may have ported all their animations and the general look and feel, but there are some strong differences to how the menus functioned on HD-DVD. They animated smoothly on top of the video itself on HD-DVD and in Java they fake that on some movies and stopped trying altogether after a few years. (On some players it's very much the opposite of smooth, it has very clear hiccups and clipping artifacts.) Plus the loss of things like picture-in-picture special features that HD-DVD supported but Blu-Ray never did.
This is true in all facets of government.
I do something like this as a first pass, but prune based on Values. I wouldn’t ever consider Amazon… but at $1MM… that’s kinda “change your values” type money.
Kinda not really? The XB-70 cancellation left a hole (next generation strategic bomber) that was eventually filled by the B-1. But the initial B-1(A) was envisioned to be somewhat lower speed, but still fast (Mach 2), and specifically a low altitude penetrator (XB-70 was a high speed, high altitude plane). It then got reworked into the B-1B which is uh... weird role. It's even slower than the B-1A, somewhat more stealthy, and really supposed to be used as a cruise missile truck. Arguable how much value the B-1B really provided.
Astronomers just discovered the farthest object in the known universe
In Times of Crisis, It's Better to Turn to Influencers Than Celebrities
To be fair, 10 years is still uncomfortably modern in my book. My tech needs to at least be old enough to drive a car. Ideally it should be old enough to have an existential crisis about how its life is turning out.

... and you can probably build a 100 LOC static page generator in Java as well.

My thing does a lot of weird crap, though. Like it also acts as a Gemini protocol server, you can publish from the web and it pushes every change to a git repo. It also tracks backlinks and re-publishes every page that is mentioned. It also renders from a specialized version of gemtext so there really isn't any standard libraries to use (that I'm aware of).
The U.S. Digital Corps was launched in August 2021 by the Biden administration
> This is an extremely unlikely story.

I'm glad you love your city and all, but whether or not you find my story unlikely you're not really denying the thrust of it. That the issue is a prominent feature on Wikipedia seems to bolster my argument and prove that it's a problem, I'm not sure why you brought that up as it doesn't help your position.

Anyway, as far as the story in question, it covers violent crimes as well as drug use, harassment, public sanitation issues, mental health, as well as just homelessness in general, not all of which are violent or crimes. Lumping all of this into "out of control violent crime" really throws the issue out of context.

It's also true that violent crime rates are an extremely reasonable measure of danger in a city, but in so far as we're talking about cities, they also show that violent crime does in fact concentrate there, and they also hide dangers which are not crimes or are not reported. For example, the crime of rape is committed at much higher rates than it's reported, so if we were to look at the stats of a place with a high rate of rape, we might conclude there is a low rate of rape based on low figures. So while they are reasonable they are not the full picture and can in fact be misleading.
Hey HN, one of the creators here! I made it at Cruise because it was super painful to develop https://webviz.io with manual memory management (lots of ArrayBuffers), WebWorkers, etc. I thought that there must be a better way.

Very curious to hear stories from other folks building intensive stuff in the browser. How are you dealing with performance issues in Javascript? Have you tried using Rust or C++ with WebAssembly for parts of your apps? How did you make 2d/3d rendering faster? Would you want to use something like Zaplib?

(You may have seen my blog yesterday about the subtleties about Wasm vs JS/TS: https://zaplib.com/docs/blog_ts++.html)
It is for me too, but new grads at FAANGs today are getting 200k+ TC offers.
Some expenses you have no control over (alimony, child support, chronic healthcare costs, elder care come to mind from my circle of associates). Yes, don’t spend frivolously (luxury vehicles, eating out all of the time), but sometimes (at least in tech), you have far more control over the income side of the equation. If you can switch jobs and make $100k/more a year, that’s easier than trying to cut all of your expenses to the bone, or expenses that are non-discretionary and simply can’t be cut.

Run hard, every hour you work is an hour you’ll never get back, so max the comp for each of those hours. Your future self will thank you.

(Huge mmm fan btw)
It's possible OP thought it might be fun. I enjoyed it (most of the comments anyway). Thanks OP.
Researchers reverse ageing in human cells by 30 years – study
Anyone interested in doing a mock coding interview in VR?
If anyone has an Oculus Quest 2 and is interested in getting interviewed in VR lmk!
I run a youtube channel that creates coding interview related content and I'm looking for more people interested in getting interviewed on camera: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfotE5RL1pfhIZ0fv2kAN9Q

You can remain completely anonymous, and I promise to give you detailed feedback after the call is done. All I ask is that we are allowed to record for the youtube channel.
> corporations are rule based non human entities that shouldn't be viewed as equivalent to or extensions of humans.

Thanks for this phrasing. Any books, essays or videos that you would recommend on this perspective? How about the Citizens United ruling in the U.S.?

> We need better corporate models and incentives. "What we can get away with" is not a great lower limit on behavior, but since it's what we have, we should assume that and account for it when regulating business.

What are some best practices or successful case studies for this approach? Could smart contracts and DAOs be regulated?
There's this class of engineer. They're remarkably successful. Essentially, they mechanize the process of the job hunt:

- Optimize for comp at all costs

- Work at full professional capacity for the 9-5

- Excel at interviewing, often also fairly competent at their jobs

- See the job as "just a job"

Personally, I think that if you're a startup you shouldn't hire any of these people. But at big companies they will probably do really well. Essentially, just perfectly professional individuals, but I think I'd want people who care about the thing you're building a lot more so they can influence its direction as well.

But that's okay for both parties in the FAANG world. The guaranteed high comp is a FAANG thing in general. For a while, in the Bay Area, we were easily the highest comp shop and that led to us encountering these people a lot and it was never a satisfactory outcome. One even signed and then reneged 2 w before starting when Amazon matched.

Presumably in a year or so he will repeat the process and pump up his comp even more. I expect this guy to be quite wealthy in the next few years.
99% of people in tech aren't changing the world. They are building accounting and metrics and shopping and add platforms to get marginal increases to marginal revenue so some business can make a bit more money than they were making before.

I'm honest that I trade my time for money. There are many times when I'll prioritize other things like working with people I like or not working with people I dislike, the same thing for processes or schedules or whatever.

But I'm not going to sit around and lose hundreds of thousands of dollars so I can go play with the latest JS framework instead of the one that was cool 6 years ago or so I can be in a sexier sounding industry. I'm going to trade my time for money and work towards financial freedom so hopefully I can go work on stuff that's interesting to me on my terms at some point.
Given most teams operate CI pipelines on their PRs/MRs, I like to make it a requirement to squash before merging. This means that only passing builds make it into the main branch.

The value of this cannot be underestimated, in my experience, as using things like “git bisect” mean you always have a working build.
> (--(char)hash_ptr.parm.v.p) = fpop(sst);

Yeah that’s not very portable. It will work on x86 but will die on MIPS/SPARC a horrible bus error based death unless there are special invariants on that pointer dictated elsewhere.
Duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30929024 (294 comments)
> The Second Cold War started up around 2010

It started with, in response to, or not later than, the 1999 NATO-Yugoslavia War, and was widely recognized to have started at or by that time.

That's literally what the (clearly, failed) famous 2009 “reset button" was about.
You've defined it via the general mismatch in a good way. Sea sickness is your eyes saying, "I'm not moving", but your inner ear saying, "Oh yes we are". VR sickness is your eyes saying, "We are moving" and your inner ear saying, "No we're not"
worst case: a CEO salary over 2 years & and a few million dollars from an aquihire :P
I don't believe you are seriously considering Fox News to be independent (I wouldn't even consider it as a source of information).

The insanity that they are spewing is just a tool to create the illusion of a debate.
I would compile it with adress sanitizer. Its very easy and already included into gcc. You basically only need to add -fsanitize=address to compiler and linker flags and -static-libasan.

Then you run it and when it dies address sanitizer tells you where the memory corruption occured. If the issue is pointer casting you 100% find it.

Then you can try to fix it. Most likely its s.th. like this:

Say you have a "long*" and the code assumes "ok a long has 4 bytes". Then casts the long* to a char* and does some fancy low level algorithm c programmers love.

But now you compile on debian 11 and suddenly a long is 8 bytes. And then ... it dies a horrible death.
>That is, until they get mugged walking to work or have their car broken in to.

Some people will still be blind even after something like that.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/seth-rogen-flamed-dismis...
Keeping track of how many moves you did would be cool. It would be fun to try get as low of score as possible.
I have no idea why anyone would hang around at an employer like Better.com.
That's fair.

The logic is that elections which do not have any secret ballots, do not have any ballots which go through a secure chain of custody, and cannot be audited are fundamentally election systems that are being run on an honor system. And democracy, of course, is fundamentally about the idea that you offset the adversarial nature of government with an objective, non-honor system based mechanism called voting. Taken together, this is a disaster.
People can be complying maliciously and the law can be bad at the same time. I doubt most people actually thinks the EU struck a good balancing with the current laws.
Hoboken NJ is only one square mile, so those factors don't really apply.

Also the link you provided is about why they don't want to move to shelters. GP is talking about people who are in shelters but do not want to move to permanent housing.
"Once I showed the potential salaries to my wife, we both agreed it would be perfectly reasonable for me to ask for 30 minutes of additional “me time” per day to prepare for my next job,"

What the hell? If he wants 30m to himself each day he needs to clear with his wife?

Don't most people get more than 30m free time each day away from their partner? Just what kind of unhealthy relationship is this dude in?
> Much less of an issue for me when I'm in front looking out the front window.

And it never an issue when your are behind the wheel. In this case nothing can surprise you, because any acceleration or rotation not just predicted by your brain, but directly caused by it.
This is so strange. If Affirm is the creditor why does he not ask Affirm to initiate a chargeback against the merchant? Is this one way Affirm can compete against credit cards, that they do not need to handle this kind of situation?
Any plans to support other languages, specifically Zig? It would be nice if it even just supported wiring in any LSP like Sublime Text LSP and Neovim LSP do.
Which experiment, though? There are now multiple experiments whose results contradict each other.
Why is this labeled a postmortem?
Sorry but... I'm from EU and in my view USA Digital Corps have GAFAM as name, they are widespread in the world, the most effective intelligence system under the Patriot Act. They have many people coming from "official" USA intelligence...

They even have uniforms, in the form of the casual suit and tie, more apt for their executive battlefields.

Having a formal corps with military uniforms is just a kind of Barnum's Circle.
I've never found Mearsheimer's arguments on Ukraine all that convincing. I really liked Adam Roberts succinct take down in the Economist a couple weeks ago. I know Roberts doesn't address all Mearsheimer's points, but he hits the main ones

https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2022/03/26/sir-adam-...
Qs: what's a good simple general purpose text editor for Mac, similar to Notepad++

I've been using VSCode for this, especially since it saves buffers without me having to save to a file and would love one with this feature.
Related project: https://github.com/notepadqq/notepadqq
I have been a gov developer. I have never been held to a lower standard, but a lot of that is not the developer's fault. It is that leadership is not technical.
This is in Canada.

A colleague still there tells me that they purchased a software library without consulting a single software developer.