skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because blaming the author means it's their fault, because they're stupid/didn't pay attention/whatever. The alternative is that they just made a mistake that anyone could make, which means the keyboard warriors would need to reconcile the fact that they might have made this mistake. And since we're all Very Smart People, we wouldn't make such a silly mistake. So clearly the author much be a bumbling idiot. It's the only possible explanation.
Camping is so easy out east and so difficult out west. People must be writing scripts to book these campsites on these websites the nanosecond they become available. Its such a shame.
Do we want a society wherein only perfect inputs lead to good outcomes? Should we only seek to thrive as a whole if every member of society can individually adhere to the ideal of an utopian citizen?

Or, do we want some acknowledgment of the imperfection of humans and aim to structure a thriving society in any case, with some sense of community and public good? If so, and we acknowledge school as one public good, then why would we arbitrarily draw the line at "academic material"? Couldn't we just as arbitrarily say that parents should strictly teach academic material, while schools teach other values?

I mean, you're here advocating for values that you believe would benefit everyone. Yet, you would want no public or community effort to encourage those values? Seems incongruent.
My general impression is that “corporate” structures may have some veneer of a professional workplace culture in Israel, but with startups all bets are off.

I felt like being at a bazaar where a stranger talks to you like a person they know all their life. Which probably sounds appealing for people tired of Western sugarcoating and is probably great at a party when drinks flow freely. But at workspace it just feels unprofessional and disrespectful.

Local friends explained to me that this is cultural. Workplace in Israel is catered to locals and they rarely hire outsiders or expats. People have very short distance, they serve in army together, go to parties together, hide from bombings together. So hierarchy and workspace mannerisms make little sense in that context.
Perhaps a more direct "fuck off" would have been better?

View it from the eyes of a guy that retired in 2001, or any reasonable person, and $50k for a domain is an absurd amount that should have been tantamount to "I'm not selling, take off."
The i-bond with a fixed rate of 0% is guaranteed to return less than inflation: Even if you buy their inflation metric as faithful: The 'gains' are taxed. The tax is at income rates, not even LTCG rates.

Moreover, what they're attempting to match isn't inflation, it's a specific government inflation metric which contains many corrections which make it obviously not match inflation for the purpose of preserving purchasing power.

For example, when inflation goes up the metric assumes that purchasing will shift from high value goods (like steak) to lower value goods (like rice), which causes the metric to read lower. This is no good if your goal is preserving purchasing power: you put in enough to buy steak and the inflation metric is okay with what comes out being only enough to buy a meal of rice (not technically, since steak and rice aren't the only goods but you get my point).
I’ll echo a sibling comment: you’re reading way too much news. Every one of the things you mention are headline news.

Weirdly, I have a different recommendation. Try to find an online game you like, and then devote yourself to it. I came out of my dota 2 years with a few more friends and few less points of anxiety.
> Rust certainly could, and should, in my opinion as a long time C++ developer.

I'm not a Rust dev, but I am curious how things like epoll would work in Rust. In C (or C++) I place a pointer to a structure in the epoll `event.data.ptr` field. When an event is returned by epoll_wait() all the caller has to do is run a function on that instance in `event.data.ptr`.

It seems to me, that even with `unsafe`, you're not going to be able to do this in Rust unless all the code is unsafe. You cannot transfer ownership of the instance to `event.data.ptr`, can you mark the pointer or event structure itself as `unsafe`?
You can’t sell yourself into slavery either. The Disney example isn’t a case of signing away rights. You can enter into agreements to do and not do certain things but your rights are not signed away. For example: you can sign a contract that says you’ll never say “Disney Sucks”. You can then go on the street and scream it at the top of your lungs. You’ll be sued by Disney for breaching a contract, but the status of your right to exercise freedom of speech has not changed. You won’t go to jail, for example. It’s not a criminal matter.
These are problems created by concepts. Drop concepts, ideally. Or change your concepts if that is easier.
>Why is it crypto people are so gross?

They are desperate to become the new middle men so they fight dirty.
How do you folks feel about 'collaboration'?
Most likely because the amount of furor and kerfuffle that would be created when "the security system broke" would basically be equal quantities of facepalm and hustle that would phase between canceling each other out and producing undirected chaos.

Like, this brand of "security" is being persisted with, in 2022, when virtually nothing else uses this sort of approach, and the writing's been on the wall for so long you almost can't see the wall for the writing anymore. And yet.

At the end of the day from an actual-security standpoint there's a lot to be said for generally rooting this kind of thing out and doing away with it, but given the direct association to vaults and banks and government (and probably military) systems and whatnot it's one situation where the blowback might genuinely cause enough bad press to require a summary firing or two as a token of reassurance to the type of old-world mindset in charge of this sort of thing. Maybe.

*shrug* that's a worst-case-scenario imagining what might happen, at least. I honestly have no idea. I just get strong "swim away!!" vibes from it, heh
I note you added the word 'actively'.

They don't need to actively discriminate, that was my point, the invisible hand does it, just like it turns their selfish desire for money into goods and services for the rich.
I completely agree with this. You’ve got first world (worse, American) problems. Spending a while in another country (even some of the poor EU ones) will completely set your compass back to true north.
No. That’s why contracts exist.

If an email with a number in it was a binding offer, then what is a contract for?

Edit: I see that you edited in an additional paragraph at the end of your comment after my initial reply. If you’re editing a comment after-the-fact, it’s good practice to make it clear for future readers.
I think he was serious about selling it. But he was so severely low-balled initially that he doesn't trust Jump to give him a fair price.

Jump's original bid is 2,500 dollars.
Before following this advice, please read [1] first.

[1] https://www.nospec.com/
I would say this is a valid contract, as much as I don't like siding with scummy crypto people (scummy might be redundant here). A contract requires several things to form. According to LLI[1] these are:

The basic elements required for the agreement to be a legally enforceable contract are: mutual assent, expressed by a valid offer and acceptance; adequate consideration; capacity; and legality.

Jump made an offer of $2,500, Dick said the price is $50k firm, the other party immediately accepted. This was in writing, which gets around the Statute of Frauds given the value of the contract is over $500. This seems very straightforward from a legal perspective. I do think that crypto people are super scummy, but the only remedy available when there has been all the elements of a contract existing but one party reneging is a legal remedy either for specific performance or monetary damages, so it's natural that Jump went to court to enforce the, what I would argue is, valid contract.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/contract
Funny, I thought of the same quote. I loved watching their old MIT lessons and reading SICP.
> because the scrolling is so much better

Unless you use any application that requires more or less precise scrolls. Like any game, or any map in the browser. The experience of using Google maps / Apple maps / Openstreetmap with Magic Mouse is unbelievably shitty. Almost every time I want to make a click it interprets it as a scroll and zooms in or out. I eventually replaced magic mouse because of this with a regular mouse when I use an Apple computer, and it is much much better.
> BUT it is not new.

This is a gross misunderstanding of the issues we are facing, especially with regard to climate change. This is not just "bad things have always been happening", but change on the level the planet has not see in literally millions of years https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/All_pala...

Just one quick example: look at lake Mead right now http://mead.uslakes.info/level.asp

We are already having energy issues in the US and we're looking at a near term future where there is not enough water to run the Hoover dam. This is already impacting people in the US and it will get worse.

Within our life time we will very likely see an ice-free arctic. The blue ocean event will have major impacts on weather patterns and we currently can't really predict exactly how this will pan out, but there is a lot of extreme risk here.

Complex systems, such as our climate and our economy are remarkably resilient. Just like the human body, a lot of unexpected change can happen and it can still function shockingly well. However there are limits and once things start to breakdown the escalate quickly. What we're seeing know is just a tiny, tiny preview of what's to come.

Let's ignore climate. We are still part of the 6th largest mass extinction event in the history of life on this planet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction

Let's ignore the biosphere. First of all your examples of "it's happened before" are all in the last century, a blink of an eye on species level time scale. While you are correct that there has always been war, and plenty of examples of extremely destructive war, we are a very close to potential global nuclear war.

The "this is fine" meme dominates HN thinking, but this is largely because the HN crowd cannot accept the existential terror that is involved in facing these issues. In the long run I still hold that this deep denial is more psychologically harmful that working towards acceptance.
> dice rolling.... card drawing...

What you're talking about is "with/without replacement".
Hi, I am the creator of Remotewide, I will gladly add you to the site for free, no one has paid yet anyway
> And now he’s backing off out of greed

What do you think motivates the algorithmic trading company trying to buy the domain?
Having `true/false/on/off/null`, 4 different comment styles and 5 numerical types screams anything except for 'Simple' to me.

It may be a fine language, but it seems like it needs a new name. Maybe 'YAYAML' to highlighting its complexity.
This is the correct answer. Focus on helping people around you. Also stop reading the news if they cause anxiety.
He's had the domain since '94 and he's 79. If he's refusing to sell to someone offering double his original "go away" offer I'm inclined to believe he's truly not interested in selling the domain not that he's hoping to hold out even longer.

However even if this was his long con on owning the domain having proposed a number in email seems unlikely to form a contract that he must sell it to them at that cost but I suppose we'll see.
This strikes a nerve with me. Lately my work has started taking apart our website and shifting functionality to 3rd party vendors in an effort to limit liability. We're going to end up with something far less versatile, uglier and ironically less secure than what we started with. My focus is shifting to a bunch of API stuff that I just don't find very rewarding.
I think the problem that happened with Ive's designs is that he kept trying to out-do himself in the same direction. I've was important with regard to making really nice products that felt really good. Even a plastic iPhone 3G felt really solid compared to the creaky Android phones that would keep coming out years later, never mind an iPhone 4 with its amazing metal and glass feel.

However, Ive kept wanting to push things in the same direction. Apple made wonderful and thin MacBooks that were solid with unibody enclosures. I remember the thick, creaky, plastic PC laptops of 2008 and the MacBook Pros were just amazing in comparison. Later, Ive wanted to shave 0.25mm worth of keyboard space and we ended up with MacBooks that no one wanted.

I think labeling this as "the technocrats won" is way overstating the case. Ive's legacy is all around Apple's new products. It's in the Mac Studio which is a small and quiet machine made out of nice materials. It's just a tad more balanced with the practical implications of managing heat. Instead of trying to make the Mac Studio as small as humanly possible, they've made it small and nice. It isn't anything like the mini-towers that are typical. The new Apple Watch really pushes the display to the edge. It's amazing.

I think part of it was that Ive didn't have a lot of places to go. He'd won. Apple had moved over to his way of thinking almost entirely - with tiny exceptions like "I'd like a functional keyboard." The industry has moved over to his way of thinking a lot. Android phones aren't creaky plastic nearly as often - you can get ones with nice materials and build quality. Once everyone is won over to your way of thinking, where do you go?

In fact, I think a lot of people really like attention. For a long time, Ive got attention. He'd get positive attention from Apple fans who loved his nice designs and negative attention from those who would complain that the iMac didn't have a floppy drive or whatnot - but he was sure he was correct. Fast forward to 2016 and what was Ive really doing that would garner such attention? Apple's product line was all Ive'd. The industry had copied him in a lot of ways (even if they were potentially bad copies). In a way, he wasn't a thought-leader anymore because people had all accepted his thesis. If Newton were around today talking about gravity existing, we'd all be like "yea, we know...got anything new?"

As time went on Ive would either need to find some amazing new way of pushing things forward or his work would just be passé. Oh, another unibody MacBook Pro. Oh, another computer like the last one. He didn't have a battle to fight anymore.

Back in 2000-2010, he could be telling engineers "you need to make it this way because it's better" and most of the time he was right. Once he'd proven out the fact that he was right over that decade, everyone was on board because they saw the value. What would the next thing be that he was right about? Maybe there wasn't a next thing. Maybe they'd taken computers to the right level of design.

Apple's whole lineup is basically Ive's legacy - with a tiny bit of extra room for a decent keyboard or cooling.
>or any reasonable person

There are many reasonable people who understand that $50k is nothing for a decent domain name.
Curious in which list you would place Douglas Adams.
Yeah, if you mean including all output bits, agreed, but note it's not used that way and there's a well-known area of reliable randomness to the right end of the output bits that is used. To the original point, I think a "right pass filter" is simple for an ANN to figure out.

Some interesting discussion on Rule30 and BigCrush, updated as of 2017 by Daniel Lichtblau at Wolfram Research:

"In house testing has shown ExtendedCA passing all Diehard and BigCrush tests... The Rule 30 generator is almost as good as this in terms of the Big Crush suite... The upshot is that the Rule 30 and ExtendedCA RNGs are, by the standards of current testing, quite sound."

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/3208/quality...

ExtendedCA seems like also a good demonstration of a very simple high quality PRNG that an RNN could discover:

https://reference.wolfram.com/language/tutorial/RandomNumber...

It's 1d, 5-wide input, inputs 4 cells apart from each other
Oxide requires you to work close to California time. Otherwise I'd probably apply :-)
I thought I was a depressed misanthrope until I left North America

Nine years later it's been the best decision of my life to get a foothold in a place where people cringe when I explain to them what a 'furbaby' is. It's the banality of people's lack of perspective out there, and total deference to weird shit like not continuing your family in lieu of a dog which lives like ten years and then sadposting about mental health on social media when it realistically dies which got to me the most. The predictability of people's depression whenever festival season was over and they came down hard at once off of drug binges, and then september sadposting... like yeah ok not my culture anymore

It's just the whole approach to mental health out there in general isn't "go get some sun, get exercise, learn how to make yourself some good healthy food and maybe get laid when you're healthy enough to be attractive. Put on a happy face in hard times anyways". It's eating massive amounts of antidepressants and then all the metabolites are detectable in ocean outfall being studied as a potential pollutant and nobody sees anything wrong with this. It's the contrast between being the most privileged people on the planet who have everything and live in the nicest countries killing themselves the most and foisting all that misery on other people, versus people who have very little and still appreciate stuff like their family.

Great to step out of that and realize people with materially less stuff are happier somehow.
I feel like a key difference here is that the owner was initially willing to sell for $50k. He was the one coming up with this price tag in the first place, wasn’t he?
>Intel’s failing will redefine the industry in many ways. ARM and AMD and other players are taking chunks out of them at the cutting edge

Failing? Have you looked at Intel's 12th Gen CPUs? This trope was valid till the 10th Gen 14nm++++ era from 2019 but you might have overslept the last couple of years. Intel has improved massively since then starting with 11th Gen and Xe graphics.

Intel's 12th gen big-little tech really shook up the market and even AMD now is feeling the pressure.
I don’t see how outlining other gross behavior makes crypto people less gross.

Eg, Disney is currently suffering major financial losses due to being associated with child grooming and trying to overturn democratically passed laws.

Is your point that I should accept the grotesquery of a major company suing an old man because others behave badly?

…How does that make sense?

> Sorry to shatter your illusions, that's not specific to crypto at all.

This is also a petty ad hominem that requires an uncharitable assumption about me.

Far from shattering my “illusions”, you just revealed your own cynicism and low standards.
Hi, I am the creator of Remotewide, and this was one of my initial thoughts against building this, but then again, I found some other websites also focused on super-niche like 4dayweek.io - this can also be introduced as a filter on remoteok or any other leading job board, so I thought it wouldn't hurt to try :)
Drop Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, Tiktok, NYT, WaPo, Fox and all those other creators of permanent anxiety. Take up farming, buy a plot of land and build your own house, create something. Realise that:

- the climate has always been changing and it always will but humans and most other species survived. It takes an extinction level event to make a big dent in the biosphere

- social inequality is far less now than it has been in earlier times when people often lived or died at the whim of some aristocrat

- there is no shortage of workers, only a shortage of people who want to do a given job for a given reward

- there have always been 'billionaires' and there will always be since having a lot of resources makes it easier to gain more resources. Some billionaires do interesting things with their resources, others lie on them like Smaug. As long as there are enough resources left for the non-billionaires I don't care about them other than doing my best to not feed them if I can

- the media is rubbish. Don't criticise the media, be the media. Corporate media doesn't bite the hand that feeds it so just avoid them (see above).

- corruption is everywhere and has always been, it is not for nothing that Utopia was named so - it does not exist. Just like I try not to feed the billionaires I try not to feed corrupt institutions, occasionally breaking a law or two instead of giving in to their demands. That means they have a stick to hit me with if and when they want but knowing that they always will be able to find that stick means it doesn't make any difference to me
Since the O2 we need to breathe is the result of photosynthesis, and sunlight powers the entire food chain, what’s the expected impact of atmospheric solar reflection on them? I don’t start off thinking they will be highly impactee, but since we need oxygen and food I figure it’s a worthwhile variable to explore?
Prejudice is always masked as “preference.” Just because you say you prefer X doesn’t mean you know what you want pt what you are talking about. Many people actually choose self-harming things and this is the essence of inexperience and the learning process.
Gell-Mann amnesia is a huge reason why I don't trust the popular science press in general, not just Quanta Magazine.

In fluid dynamics, their pages on why turbulence is hard [0] don't mention the actual reason turbulence is hard: It has a really high computational complexity. There is no mystery here. The math behind it is pretty simple. I guess this doesn't sell the article though, so a journalist won't say that. Though I'm not sure the people at Quanta Magazine are aware!

Quanta Magazine also spends an extremely disproportionate amount of articles on the (constant viscosity) Navier-Stokes existence and uniqueness problem [1]. This is essentially a pure math problem, in my view, of no practical consequence [2]. Contrary to what Quanta Magazine writes, this has nothing to do with turbulence beyond that both use the Navier-Stokes equations.

[0] https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-trouble-with-turbulence-2... https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-makes-the-hardest-equati...

[1] https://www.quantamagazine.org/deep-learning-poised-to-blow-... https://www.quantamagazine.org/famous-fluid-equations-spring... https://www.quantamagazine.org/for-fluid-equations-a-steady-... https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-makes-the-hardest-equati... https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-find-wrinkle-i... https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-fluid-new-path-in-grand-mat...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31049535
I bought on Friday and they marked me for Monday so I missed it too. BUT I don’t think inflation is going down this year so whatever. China is in lockdown, Russian energy imports are curtailed, Ukrainian grain supply is down 20% at least. If it’s a supply side issue things are only getting worse
Just because someone makes a good offer, it doesn't obligate the other party to accept it.
The PR into their branch sounds nice, but not always necessary. If you forked the PR branch, threw a commit on top, opened and accepted a PR from your-branch to main and declined theirs, would that work? They get their commit in the history, you make the changes you want without back-and-forth. You could link from their-declined PR to your-accepted PR.

I guess that's messy if it's linked to issues and the connotation of "declined PR" isn't as nice.