skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Risk / reward

Nobody should ever think in absolutes regarding these topics, only consequences, specifically the value of those consequences.

Of course consequentialism is a two way street, like, is a potential $100 fine because an employer asked a personal question in an interview a deterrent?

For an employee though, the stakes are technically way higher, but do you want that $3 million house or not.
Well, PHP is specifically optimized for that usecase, with opcode caching etc. Python doesn't do well when initialized on every request.
Pennsylvania Senator calls for bridge data opened to public
Thank you. I was also confused.
Absolutely they did. They also didn't wear clothes, or have shelters with walls. So if we went back to that, we could definitely stretch out a few more decades of habitability.

It's also fair to say that the temps, even as few as 500 years ago, were much different than they are now.
Why wait until it goes through? Make your life better now.
Then their wording is misleading.

They compared against another bad RL system and they are better than that.

That is far from an "expert control system"
I've found that when the constant music starts to get grating, that feeling of annoyance is actually just the onset of a headache disguising itself differently.
Not a Musk fan or a Twitter user but is the sentiment here that someone with ASD cannot properly create policy or (more likely) employ people to create policy? Just curious.
Reposting this because unsure why it was flagged, as it is perfectly valid and based in objective reality:

They (twitter) remove a lot of volume because it doesn't fit with their political narrative, even though this is financially detrimental to them.
all right, i am guilty of that. my resume has 5 pages, but it is split up in clear sections that i can easily remove if appropriate:

page 1:
general objectives
current occupation
summary of the most important or interesting skills and projects
page 2:
skills (that's the list of all tech i ever worked with. just the names, no details. only the most important ones are bold.)
work history (list of companies, dates and titles)
page 3:
education
detailed work experience (that's a long list of every project i ever worked on, and the role i had there, split up in multiple subsections that i can include as appropriate)
software development
sysadmin work
page 4:
mentor and teaching experience
presentations and workshops
page 5:
organizing events
experience working with kids (that i only include for relevant ed-tech or training jobs)

so technically, you could stop reading after page 2. and only scan the rest if you want more details.

do you think it would be better to just skip the project list? i think it's better than a list of projects on github (which wouldn't have any of the interesting projects)
You are letting perfect be the enemy of the good here.

There are millions upon millions of bot accounts, trivially identifiable as “word647829585729” with a profile that reads “Soccer mom. Ohio. Loves baseball. Hates cheese.” or similar.

Every single one of those could be removed and the problem would be improved even if not eliminated. Pick the low-hanging fruit first…

That said I don’t imagine Elon Musk has any intention of doing that, and don’t intend to stick around on Twitter to find out.
https://hacklang.org/
Agree! As an EM I've felt that the simple act of genuinely caring about your people can get you a long way. So much of the day-to-day execution falls into place when you follow your prime directive, and when you need to do unpleasant things you've earned the legitimacy and trust handle them.
It's a good job I didn't say that then isn't it?
> that the us policies are unsustainable

I speak only to Cerner's development which is "unsustainable", but... like a zombie that keeps coming back to life... here it is.

> that the us policies are unsustainable

When everyone in a country, take Sweden or your small EU country, has a national identify and culture, it's very easy to put together national services like a functioning health care system. As your culture becomes diverse, and people do not have a strong national identity, or identify primarily on racial lines, political lines, running any services seems to lead to one group thinking another group is getting favored unfairly by another group.

I don't have an answer other than what works in European countries will likely not work here :/ We're kind of on our own to figure it out.
" == false" is sprinkled all over some pretty popular products, like Wordpress.
Pieter Levels has been using SQLite for nomadlist and I think it's been going well for him.
I use SQLite in production and it works great.

You should understand whichever RDBMS you use, and how to get the best performance out of it. Previously I used Postgres extensively, and it worked fine, and before that I managed MySQL servers. They are all fine, but SQLite is as simple as it gets, and more than adequate for most workloads.
Looks like just annotating videos. The deleted ones may have been forced.
Governments can generate IDs for thier sock-puppets for online influence campaigns.

Non-government actors can get in on the action by procuring IDs in other ways ("Make money by scanning your late maw-maws ID"[1]), or large scale phishing campaigns (fake jobs or college admissions abroad with 100% applicant success rate, the only catch is scanned IDs and qualifications are required).

Electronic forgeries are likely the best way to do it at scale; just the other day, therr was a top story ok faking as if your document was scanned. Do the fine people handling verifications at Twitter know what a legit Madagascan ID looks like?

1. Or "Get $10,000 funeral assistance from this new Biden admin relief program"
Remember for a moment that we live in a world where people drop $20 for a virtual Sword of Wounding +4. Often more than monthly in a single game.

A few bucks a month is nothing these days for dedicated netizens who want their social drug of choice.
Hidden feature — scroll down, there is a map and brief directions below the game.
I was confused by the units too. I like to mentally estimate how long it's going to take me to reach a certain altitude, for example, and the units displayed on the console didn't make sense to me. :)
Agreed. Other things to do to complement that:

1. Avoid excessive multi-tasking
2. Minimize activities that bring immediate reward signals to your brain like opening social networks 100s time/day. Taken to the extreme do a "dopamine detox" period
3. Try to set a routine for yourself in small steps
The macbook pro has a 70 watt hour battery, and has a 10 hour battery life (video playback). Also, if I'm reading correctly, the 1000 nits brightness is only achievable when plugged in, and apple automatically reduces brightness on battery to keep the power consumption lower.
Same boat.
I think there are other options that have worked pretty well in the past.
NCCoE Releases Preliminary Draft on 5G Cybersecurity
“Elon” is going to jam through some changes that disrupt the company and get a lot of press for n months then get bored and go do something else.
A few days ago I dusted off a Mac Pro 2012, reinstalled Mavericks and Photoshop CS6. It's the first time in my 40+ years of computing life where I've ever "rolled back" 10 years. I quit Adobe a few years ago and decided never to go back, however recent work dictated reading and editing of .PSD files - complicated enough that only Photoshop could do the job.

I opined during the whole installation process: something is very wrong with the modern computing industry when a user feels the need to wind the clock back 10 years (and go to the substantial trouble of doing so) to obtain needed functionality when there is no legal alternative. (i.e. I licensed CS6 in 2012, I was used to paying 600 or so dollars every few years for an upgrade, but I'm done with paying another cent for "renting" creative cloud at it's ridiculous ever-increasing price and CPU absorbing DRMware client. Adobe had me paying since CS3 - and for eight years as a CC customer). Capitalism would dictate that there should be a viable alternative, and yet, there is not.

I also found myself thinking, what have we gained in the last 10 years? Telemetry? Desktop advertisements? New icons? Loss of backward compatibility. Mavericks - to me - seems perfectly usable even 10 years later, however I don't dare to connect it to the internet for lack of security updates.

So... I too wonder if the future of the desktop is retro.

It sounds jaded when I say that if this "rolling back" becomes a mainstream thing, surely big tech will come up with a derogatory term for it: "The Dr. Who's" who somehow undermine progress.

I can't help feeling that we're experiencing multiple business monopolies simultaneously: because in Adobe's case - there was tremendous pushback against their subscription model... all to no avail. Their vendor-lock-in is as strong as it gets.

Adobe's behaviour is also enabled by Apple and Microsoft in this case, newer versions of the OS's do not support CS6, and to use newer versions of Photoshop you'll need a newer version of the operating system.

So what do we get now as locked-in photoshop users? Creative cloud ever increasing fees, Adobe CC software that wastes computing resources, topped off with the privilege of Microsoft or Apple telemetry. Back in the day it used to be called spyware.

How are we moving in the right direction as an industry?

I am completely sick of it.
I was under the impression that even though Hack no longer is backward compatible with PHP - that in practice, it's still largely the same (not much has changed). Or am I mistaken?
Removing every obstacle from your child’s life will cripple them for life.
You could have just said he planned to throw away 40+ billion dollars, because that's far more accurate given the reality of social media subscriptions and the internet.
The poison pill is just to prevent him from buying twitter on the open market. It can be removed at any time and any sale will be contingent on it being removed.
Not only work.
I found that fasting decreases my mental chatter.
This article could help a little: https://www.unixsheikh.com/articles/sqlite-the-only-database...

But you probably won't see it since at the time of writing my response there are already 172 comments.
> nearly 100% total tax burden.

What kind of number is this? The debt to GDP is actually more than 200% and you will find the US also above 100%. So yes Japan has a big debt problem, but what metric are you using?

> Yet it's worse... Japan has a major silver crime issue and well unspoken probable slave labour problem.

Do you have any source for that? I don't know about silver crime, but the globalslaveryindex ranks Japan as literally the lowest country (167/167 [1]), 4 times better than the US and more than 6 times better than a few European countries I looked up like Germany, Austria, France or UK.

> The fix for Japan is so simple yet for 30 years nobody has been willing to do it.

If it's so easy, why don't you at least enlighten us instead of just stating it's easy?

[1] https://www.globalslaveryindex.org/2018/data/country-data/ja...
It is the go-to source for breaking information - how is that not a news source?
Fair point, for me its the latter. I cant put on my CV brief descriptions of side projects I'm working on, during an interview I can give more details on those, etc... Still not ideal because they'd probably want to see the code, but its the lesser of two evils for me
It is, but I think it's the manager's job to be the first to take the emotional risks, and continue to do so even when they're not immediately reciprocated.
I'm not a hypochondriac, but from time to time I will become preoccupied with health related things. It has never occurred to me that anesthesia might in some way be harmful or potentially result in cognitive decline. I'm now afraid I might get a false positive feeling that my mind isn't as sharp after my next surgery (whatever it may be).
I can’t answer your question directly since I’ve never done that.

But is there any way you can limit the scope for an MVP you can knock out in a month or two of evenings and weekends?

If you can create something that addresses the problem (maybe only a portion of it) that is valuable enough that people are willing to use it, you’ll have a much easier time getting funding.
I think when you care enough to say those things - and frankly when you care that people are saying those things - you care too much about the person. Focus on the cool techy stuff rather than Musk.
UPDATE: Farther downstream https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31154330
dahfizz explains that the poison pill only goes into effect if the board does not approve the purchase. If the board accepts the offer, the poison pill won't be an issue.
$1 per hour manual labour would be cheaper more effective than updating scripts against a determined adversary.
I don’t know if you’re talking about levchin or Elon but please do a google search before throwing around communist propaganda that is blatantly untrue. For both people.
I don't think that he and only he can solve the bot problem, but with question stated this way - Tesla may currently have the best machine learning hardware on the planet. With people reports + second wave of hired people for marking what is spam and what is not, this seems like a fantastic place to shine for ML - especially when you have all accounts data and full graph available.

I would not bet on it - as far as I understand it, fighting spam is like 95% of what engineers at Twitter do and openly available ML on GPUs seem plenty strong - but it is a possibility.
> Usenet, Web 1.0 forums, news feeds, email lists didn't have block features

Plonk! [1, 2]

[1] https://de.zxc.wiki/wiki/Killfile

[2] https://infogalactic.com/info/Plonk_(Usenet)
> This is an odd thing to say. Can't I already run many graphical applications on a single kernel even without docker containers? And wouldn't that be even more lightweight?

I think what is written between the lines is that they compare it to full OS virtualization. That need for that results from the desire to isolate multiple users from each other.
Digg was a tragedy :( I still miss it. I check in every once in awhile, but the brand is essentially now an online version of Weekly World News.
I take a lot of issue with you framing this as "cheating." How is it cheating? How do you know the 9-5 necessarily suffers?
Ask HN: Solving content discoverability for entertainment startup?
Big players like YouTube, Netflix, TikTok invest heavily into their recommendation systems to improve content discoverability. From the outside, it looks like this is a core feature of their product - a decisive factor between having product-market fit, and not having it.

I'm currently advising a small-ish startup building an entertainment product with tons of content (and ~10K monthly active users), and we're trying to understand how crucial this is for us at our stage.

Does anyone here have experience with setting up recommender systems or other tools? At what stage of your company did that become relevant? Did you wish you would have done it sooner/later? Is this even something we should worry about? Anything else I should now?

Thanks!
Today everyone is like "remember when we didn't spend all of our time looking at our smartphones?"

15 years from now everyone will say "remember when we didn't have these computers literally strapped to our face all the time?"

It is the obvious extension of existing trends in technology.
Wasn't one of the reasons some people voted to leave the EU immigrants?
Thank you. I saw something about that downstream.
The problem is that life isn’t a nice linear distribution of truth the way data heads think.

Continuing to play the “optimize myself based upon some meta game as see it” is not a viable strategy.

There is no science that says Musk is certainly on the right path to human longevity.

None of the rich are infallibly and unassailably correct; pointing at them as correct is an appeal to authority which is ludicrous when we have plenty of evidence to show politics is corrupted such that elites are “too big to fail.”

I’m not obligated to make choices based upon your view of the problem and your solution is more of the same “boot straps”.

This culture is a joke. Moral relativism it is; if my choices screw any of you, oh well. Free market.
A fork would completely fracture the community. No thanks.
Just be a real cowboy and use pcntl_fork()

Partially not kidding - I've used this as far back as 2004 to build cron jobs that pull a dataset, split it into N subsets, then fork out into N children to process those subsets of data in parallel. It's certainly not fluid like tasks and it creates a lot of memory duplication if you fork AFTER your data is pulled, but it works surprisingly well. Parent thread can wait for children to finish and even message children through socket pairs (or pcntl_signal for very basic stuff). I agree that it would be nice to have a native abstraction for tasks with messaging and concurrency limits built in.
15-minute video from 1988 to now through all of the Amiga OS history
I believe the culprit is "Pump Head". Not the inflammation thing they mention, not the anesthesia.

Heart lung bypass machines, ECMO systems, they all use non-pulsatile continuous flow pumps. These pumps do not have the same pressure curve and higher pressure pulses that the native circulation does. This causes blood to not make it all the way down to the capillaries, and therefore starves brain tissue that is fed by the smallest of the capillaries.

To solve this problem, a company I helped called Ventriflo has been working to build a pulsatile pump that can be used for both ECMO and cardiopulmonary bypass uses.

https://ventriflo.com/
Because it's almost impossible to differentiate between a person posting a tweet and a bot doing the same. There is nothing humans do on Twitter than bots cannot automate.
> while Rust does bring significant advances in this field, it's a very large and complicated language.

The gist of Rust on this fairly easy, is the heritage/chasing of C++ that makes Rust complicated.

A "Rust simple like pascal/c" have potential and I bet 1 billon the borrow checker will not make it hard to use (check https://vale.dev)
Considering adobe Photoshop use(d) SQLite for application file format, this could be very far from unusual.
New account not to dox myself here.

I'm doing it. I very recently took on a second full time job. I work as a Release Engineer for both. It hasn't been too bad so far. The biggest thing is managing your calendars to avoid conflicts.
> Has GitHub introduced some “showcase” feature, ...

Yes, you can pin repos to your profile. But you can also create a profile repo. See https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-an...

I wrote a blog post about this and the profile generator I made for myself - https://blog.urth.org/2022/03/28/yet-another-github-profile-...
That seems like a good idea, but I suspect introducing a "MAU excluding bots" metric would look to investors like a sudden drop in MAU by 90%.
> Why is the 6800XT so in demand?

I don't know for sure. If I had to guess, it has good performance per watt for mining, and miners generally care more about that than performance per dollar.

> And is it worth selling mine to buy a 6900XT or an nvidia?

If you're able to sell yours and buy a 6900XT (or Nvidia GPU better than the 6800XT, basically 3080 and up), then I don't see why not.

If you can sell yours and upgrade for a small cost - how much is the performance worth to you? You're probably only getting 10%-20% more performance (depending on GPU), is that worth $50, $100, etc?
My understanding of vertical farming is that the only thing they've succeeded in growing in leafy greens.
If Twitter wanted to solve the problem they would have. Simple as that. Elon is the one who is putting his money where his mouth is to get the company to tackle the issues plaguing the company.
...haha, wow, I'm so glad I'm not alone in this.
Excellent answer. I would just add a brief summary, that naive reference counting does work proportional to the rate at which references are created and destroyed, and naive tracing collectors do work proportional to either the full heap size or the number of live objects on the heap.

Note that as a rule of thumb, tracing garbage collectors need about twice as much memory as live objects, to avoid frequent heap scans. Non-delayed reference counting only keeps around live objects, which can significantly reduce memory usage.

If you have a huge number of live objects that you need to keep around, but infrequently have references to them created (e.g. very large caches), then reference counting is going to out-perform tracing collection, particularly if some of those infrequently used objects might be paged out and you're not using card marking to sometimes avoid needing to trace the paged-out objects. It's convenient that these use cases also tend to work well with reference counting's generally lower peak memory requirements.

On the other hand, if you're rapidly creating and destroying objects, or often updating references, tracing may perform better. Moving collectors (at least using moving or compacting collectors for the young generation) can use bump allocation, resulting in much faster object allocation.

The Garbage Collection Handbook goes into nearly countless variations, hybridizations, and optimizations on these basic collectors.

For over a decade, I helped maintain Goldman's Slang language. Some components had bog standard mark-and-sweep collector, but most of the language uses reference counting. The language uses tight integration with the SecDb globally distributed NoSQL database and pervasively locally caches database objects and memoizes method calls on those objects. I'm sure naive reference counting isn't optimal for the Slang use case, but it's easy to implement and isn't actually that far from optimal. (When I first started at Goldman, some parts of the language used an implementation of Bacon's cycle-detecting concurrent reference counting collector, but there was some rare corner case where someone missed a reference count change on the C++ side, and after a while of trying to find the missing reference count, we just replaced that component with a non-generational mark-and-sweep collector.) (There was a publish-subscribe system that would watch the SecDb transaction logs, so applications could subscribe for cache invalidation notifications. With huge caches, you don't want to use database polling for cache invalidation.)
What pain points have you experienced with "many sqlites per customer". I'm considering transitioning to something similar but would love to know what pitfalls I might not be considering.