skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would advise against optimizing your Python programs for speed. Fighting against a language's nature never leads to good results, it's much easier and better to use a faster language if (or where) you need the speed.

This is even more relevant if you are still learning the language. Focus on learning it, and leave arcane always changing implementation details for after you know it well.
An intriguing thing about Huawei is that even after being cut off from Google, cut off from TSMC, cut off from any 5G phone SOC from any supplier, they still keep on developing and marketing towards the European consumer market.

This must be extremely expensive, and there is no way they are making money here, at least for the foreseeable future.
Great. Looks fun.
I tried this on Firefox on Linux (Ubuntu/desktop).
If I travel to the moon and rotate it a bit, the Earth becomes quite elongated.
In this thread: people bitter for not having purchased bitcoin in 2013 and feeling reverse schadenfreude.
Developers have always been interested in the new shiny object... the next new technology. However, the agile / jira / confluence disease is not related, and did not take hold until much later. There was a time without all that BS.
Same. Surprisingly, my replacement 90% of the time is Walmart. Their prices aren’t much different but their site is simpler and I don’t get spammed with unrelated ads when I search and don’t get spammed to join prime.

Lots of minor things. Amazon defaults to the $7.99 shipping instead of free, two-shipping so it’s an extra click each time. Walmart just defaults to free shipping.

Amazon now seems customized to extract rents while Walmart just wants you to buy stuff.
These roles definitely exist, but it's worth counting the relative numbers at each level for Manager/Senior Manager/Director/VP vs IC's at that level.

Generally, there's wayyy less of the IC roles, which essentially means that people who want advancement are often gonna end up on the management track.
Newer Boeing models including the 777 are also fly-by-wire.
I think the portion of land owners in the US who inherited their land once is smaller than you might think. The portion who own property through a chain of inheritances going back to the 15th century is small enough to be virtually non-existent.

It’s all well and good to say some land owners will have to eat losses. Which land owners? How severe losses? The fact of the matter is that expensive housing in major cities has forced a substantial portion of the middle class to misallocate their portfolios and put far too large a percentage of their funds into real estate in order to have a primary residence. If you feel this group should eat losses without compensation you’re basically saying the government should financially doom them. More broadly it’s not uncommon to see a house in many neighborhoods become 50+% of a retirement plan. Cratering the value of homes without compensation dooms many people to less than half the standard of living they were expecting in retirement.

I agree with you that the transition you want would have to be bloody and violent. It would also have to be authoritarian. Simply put the groups you want to impose huge financial penalties on will oppose you and without them you lack the votes to pass this democratically.
> You can't shove Reddit into Twitter UX and expect something nice to come out, no matter how hard you try.

Why not? it's text; you could make the same exact post on reddit and twitter (barring the length, which could be truncated in a federated context). Link aggregation is basically just microblogging with the extra constraint that the initial post has to have a link.

> Smithereen is a social network

What does this mean? Every other platform you mentioned are social networks. On all of these platforms, a user posts text or media posts. Displaying them in a different UI doesn't make them radically different.
and teach them that littering is OK?
Haven't got the book yet, but started using Wren. It's a nice language if you want scripting and OOP (though I haven't used Lua).
Agreed. They are generally very solid hardware compared to semi-generic Chinese systems. They even have an embedded CEC control which is not found in any other x86 sytems AFAIK. Open source firmware that can do EFI or BIOS payloads. Look up MrChromebox for details.
Ah yes, the 'substantial real world value'. Nothing better for HN upovte crowd than the self-sure idiot calling a whole industry scam, because it isn't something that he personally wants.
Yeah cheers. I missed that.
And learning the target url allows you to look it up on archive.org, even if the target is permanently unavailable.
Ask HN: Teach me something new
A command line trick, a random factoid, anything that’s interesting to you.
They stopped giving out the monthly allowance of 10 links to free accounts in 2019.[1] New accounts now can archive 10 links, and that's it.

You might have access through a registered institution (e.g., libraries and universities get it for free). Otherwise, the rates for individuals are hidden on their blog.[2]

If you really want to archive and shorten a link at once, https://archive.today (often seen on HN for bypassing paywalls) is another option, but its unknown ownership makes its long-term existence slightly questionable. For general web archival, the Internet Archive (https://web.archive.org) looks like it'll be around for a little longer. But since its crawler and server have their own quirks, I'd still submit links to multiple services for good measure.

[1] https://blogs.harvard.edu/perma/2019/01/07/introducing-indiv...

[2] https://blogs.harvard.edu/perma/2021/09/15/usage-plans-updat...

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Speaking of web archive reliability, it looks like WebCite might have recently died for good, after a decade of funding issues and intermittent downtime[3][4]—the first major web archive to fall?

[3] https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/WebCite

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AWebCite#2021-10-27
I've seen that. Kids just get sneaky and they don't trust their parents.
With a 10 digit hash like that, collisions are already extremely unlikely, on the order of 1 in a trillion.
Good article except for this part of the conclusion: "The revival we need, urgently, is of recorded music income"

For centuries before recording, regular musicians made income without it. And even when regular musicians made money recording, only a few survived solely on recording.

I think we need to dispell the presumption that musicians must make money recording.
I think there is an element of the “grass is greener here”, of course you could have taken his path and enjoyed it, but if it helps I’m one data point that did take the management opportunity early and didn’t enjoy it. I pivoted to project management where I can be closer to the action without having the tedious line manager duties and I enjoy it much more.

Perhaps instead of looking back is there a way to look forward… in your current path what’s ahead and does it excite you. If not, what other careers would interest you (which aren’t this path that you wish you took). You may find yet another path that is even better if you expand your thinking.
True. I imagine Harvard has the necessary staff on hand to run a TLD themselves. Might make a good use for it.
What about the reduction in office space usage that will have to be repurposed into something else?
Cython is good for little numpy shims.
The Cloudflare network now spans 275 cities
Europe Escalates the Threat to Online Free Speech
I'm open to discussion of course, but I'd more a more argumentative reply.

My point is not about equity but just plain efficiency. I'm all for a more equitable recruitment - but that's not what I addressed here.

Of course reputation matters. But reputation is not provided by references - at least imo. That person is reputed in a community or not. If you are looking for a top-notch dev, her/his reputation will be apparent.

Social proof is of utter importance, hence the idea of hiring fast to see if that person fits well in your company. How is it relevant if that person did not fit well in the previous company? It may be in some cases, if you know that previous company well, like having work for them or at least with them.

If you are looking for someone who fits well anywhere, well, that can be a must for the role or you just prefer people without much personality.

Go fast, fail fast, anybody?

A human being behaves very differently in different social contexts. Your company's context is more often than not very different than the previous company's.

1 month trial is more efficient and costs less than 6 interviews + 3 references. Give people a chance and let them surprise you. Of course, that doesn't mean hiring the first resume received but if the person appears qualified and do well in 2 interviews (HR + the new boss or colleague), that's plenty enough.
Oh this could be fun. Anything other than JavaScript/Typescript is good.
Wow, that was profound. You are a thinker my friend.
> most beautiful part ...

> ... any enough popular blockchain ought run forever

Really? And how do you decide which of all the thousands of blockchains to store your bits on? Just because one chain seems popular today doesn't guarantee it'll be popular next year or next century; most likely some other shinier blockchain-successor will eventually supplant it, and it'll fade away.

So to preserve your data "forever", you'll need to constantly monitor the blockchain ecosystem, and make sure you copy your data to another blockchain if the one you picked first shows signs of decline.

Or just use a few copies of normal storage media, copying them to fresh media at intervals. This is a solved problem. Blockchain offers nothing here.
Thanks! We moved some code between repos and missed that link. Its fixed now!
I'm building a referral program SaaS in 1 weekend
Definitely understand the need and looks good, but can't help but feel this is like taking a fine steak and eating it at McDonalds.
As a general trend, I’d expect people to not return to mass events (theaters, concerts etc.) in the same numbers as before.

It started before covid, so I think live events won’t be much of a revenue source in the future, except for a select few artists who will attract those still enjoying the crowd experience.

I kinda hope memberships programs and other direct artist/fan settings come to fill that gap at a larger scale.
All bans on HN are shadowbans, dang is just usually nice enough to inform you by replying to the offending comment.
Thanks! I appreciate, really.
> I wonder why they failed to adapt to the web era

At the beginning of the web era; Microsoft owned the software market and did not believe in the web.

MySQL and PHP were the successors do the "4GL" databases, all the commercial efforts to compete with them ran into the brick wall corner of "only M$ may make money" vs "free".
My understanding is that hesitation to employ ECMO isn't about the risk of failure.

It's not like chemo or dialysis where you can live some kind of meaningful life while the treatment has an X% chance of buying you Y years.

It's extremely labor intensive. Another commenter mentioned 1:1 fulltime nurse care. If true, that means multiple fulltime employees, working in shifts, per ECMO patient. Given finite medical resources (doctors, nurses, beds, ECMO machines) we would like to make sure we're employing this only for patients who have a hope of recovering afterward.

In that sense it is similar to other "extreme measures" like ventilators and so on. We can sometimes keep somebody alive in a totally nonviable state for an extended amount of time after heart and/or lung failure, but if there's zero chance for recovery it just doesn't make sense from an ethical or practical standpoint.

(edit - when I say "we" I mean society. not "we" as in "we medical professionals." I am not a medical professional!)
In-Database Machine Learning
Yes, because we all know wikipedia is a very reliable, non-partisan source.
You can do the math and calculate risk of collisions. And then put that in relation to the context: It is a single repository, probably with very few commits since it is research and not a highly active commercial product.

You could probably cut the commit hash to 4 characters and still not have collisions for this application (ie. 1 / 65536 chance of collision @ 4 characters), or even fewer
Sorry, I wasn’t clear about it but I was talking about extension capabilities offered by stock VSCode. There’s nothing stopping third party extensions like Joyride from exposing the extension API in an REPL.
https://reason.com/2022/04/28/the-fdas-menthol-cigarette-ban...

In addition to condescending assumptions, the FDA is displaying remarkable shortsightedness regarding the practical impact of its policy on the community it supposedly is trying to help. "Policies that amount to prohibition for adults will have serious racial justice implications," the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Drug Policy Alliance, the Sentencing Project, and 24 other organizations warned in an April 2021 letter to Becerra and Acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock. "Such a ban will trigger criminal penalties, which will disproportionately impact people of color, as well as prioritize criminalization over public health and harm reduction. A ban will also lead to unconstitutional policing and other negative interactions with local law enforcement."

The ACLU letter noted that "a menthol cigarette ban would disproportionately impact communities of color, result in criminalization of the market, and exacerbate mass incarceration." The ban "also risks creating large underground, illegal markets." That "would be a massive law enforcement problem for states, counties, and cities, since all states treat unlicensed sale of tobacco products as a crime—usually as a felony punishable by imprisonment."
OK, thanks, I will take that into account.
Depends on what you mean.

If you just mean writing an implementation of Emacs (or something Emacs-like) in Common Lisp, that's not very hard, and it's been done a few times. See, for example, Lem[1] and Hemlock[2].

Heck, I wrote one for MacOSX in about 2001 or 2002.

If you mean a drop-in replacement for GNU Emacs, that's a lot harder. Besides the UI and the editing infrastructure, you need to write a bug-compatible implementation of GNU's elisp, or you lose the whole GNU Emacs ecosystem. That ecosystem is most of its practical appeal. That's a whole bunch of work.

[1] https://github.com/40ants/lem-pareto/blob/master/lem-pareto-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemlock_(text_editor)
> International Journal of Interesting Negative Results

"Interesting" results would presumably include failures to replicate the results of other researchers. Those need to be published.

But really, for an honest scientist, aren't negative results at least as interesting as positive results? I'm assuming that a positive result is one that confirms some theory or assumption; so a negative result is actually more interesting, in that it kicks over the cauldron, and forces a re-evaluation of previous theories and assumptions. A positive result means "All is groovy; rudder amidships, full ahead". A negative result means "Wait - where exactly are we anyway?"
the problem is forcing people into a medical treatment (injection of a vaccine) which obviously has risks. This is unethical and illegal.
It wasn't until deep into the pandemic (18+ months) that, in the USA, the CDC emphasized the KN95 masks or better.

That doesn't say there was a clear understanding. So not only were many effectively not wearing masks, we now can't make reliable heads or tails of the "post match" data.

If that's not negligence, then it was intentional. Neither is a good explanation.
> end result oriented, not procedural etc. you state what you want and the computer figure it out.

Yeah, this is how I've always understood fourth-gen programming language as well. SQL and Prolog were always the prime examples of "state what you want and let the system figure out how to get it".
this is why you seperate out the software makers from the hardware makers....it requires the other side to play niceley....apple is a bully and sadist.
This is premature optimization right
Thanks! Interesting...Tbh, I was expecting responsive design issues. Would you mind to tell me what device you're using? Knowing the screen sizes might help me to fix it.
I don't understand companies using a 3rd party service for something like this. Unless you really, really need an ultrashort domain, it's pretty trivial to do your own - for example, if you have an aws account you can use a bucket as a redirector.

No code version:

aws --profile $PROFILE s3api put-object \
--bucket $BUCKET \
--key $KEY \
--website-redirect-location $URL
I think he's providing a valuable service by creating products that exert a downward pressure on some coins. I don't see whats wrong with this. The default state allows for number to only go up until a rug pull.
We should remember that GDP doesn't reflect the totality of the economic reality on its own. It was popularized at a time of high population growth and the acceleration of mass production, presenting a perfect measure for encapsulating that time's idea of progress. As environmental threats are forcing us to reconsider our consumption habits with future products possibly created with less parts/materials/inputs, people may buy more used items, durability can become more of a priority where things are purchased and kept for a long time, GDP will go down. This however, doesn't reflect the diminishing of economic activity which takes on many forms, but is just one of the indicators which requires further contextualization.
To add to this purely economics perspective, the there’s a lot more at play when it comes to take up of new technological innovations: the preparedness the manufacturing sector to produce and deliver the goods, and customer acceptance.

The first is probably an economic one, but it’s important to consider that it’s not all about the cost of production - the technique may be prohibitive, and could draw out too many strategic resources from other areas in the sector… and it might not even scale, or has a short shelf life, or, or…

The second - customer acceptance - would need to be carefully considered. The doctor offers you two options to treat your babushka, the familiar and reliable antibiotic, or the new drug that sounds like a Matrix virus?
> Dont ever work for someone you dont want to become

Can't say I really understand this one. Wanting to become somebody else sounds like insecurity to me.
TIL the US army has a garrison in Italy.
In the EU, menthol cigarettes have been banned for about two years now. The main argument appears to be that it makes it easier / less unpleasant to smoke [1, in german], thus it makes it easier for people to start smoking.

Anecdotally, this aligns with my own experience. At the age of 13 or so, the first cigarettes I smoked were menthol, because the other ones were simply too gross. Luckily I never started smoking proper, but I can definitely see the danger.

Edit: Note that I'm not trying to relativize the situation in the US by saying "the EU did it too". I'm just providing an additional data point.

Edit 2: I'm curious though, as to why people would not simply start smoking "normal" cigarettes if menthol ones were banned. Could someone elaborate on this? Are menthol cigarettes just _really_ popular in communities of color in the US? Here in Germany, I rarely saw anyone above the age of 25 ever smoking them at all.

[1]: https://www.bfr.bund.de/de/presseinformation/2020/19/aus_fue...
>What's a bitcoin good for?

Transacting, for those who choose to. There are other means of transacting and arguably better blockchains for doing so. The point remains. We all have our preferences and subjective personal valuations. Another individual might not see that value for himself, but the value remains for other parties. Claiming it is useless is a reaching generalization.
This is sort of like how Disney makes more profits from theme parks than from its media, but the media serves as advertisement for the theme parks
I think this is OP's.
I use them to get long GitHub URLs for diffs between tags into IRC messages (which also have a line limit). It's used by cpythons commit notifier for example.
It sounds like something straight from a motivational calendar, but it is actually true: Don't look back at your decisions, and more importantly, don't compare your career against others.

Long version: As other said, there is no way to know that you would be a director now. Even if you were, there is no way to tell you would like being a director. There is no way to know your colleague is actually happy as director. And there is no way to know how your life, and not your career, would have turned out had you taken the manager role.

I think there was a reason you didn't take the manager job, it's a fair assumption that those reasons have been valid back then. Think about those reasons, if they are still valid today your move to another filed was no mistake. If they are different now, your move wasn't a mistake neither, but it might be a reason to consider a move "back" to management.

If you enjoy your job, but not the hours or being an IC, think about moving to a different role in that field. If you want to become a true expert, being an IC is actually not that bad. If you want to be a manager, chances are you won't be as good in your field as an IC would be ultimately.

But don't feel the urge to become a manager because you are somewhat jealous of your former colleague-turned-director.
> I built up a string of ascii 0's and 1's, sliced the string, and then converted back to integers.

How about a list of integers:

$ txr
This is the TXR Lisp interactive listener of TXR 274.
Quit with :quit or Ctrl-D on an empty line. Ctrl-X ? for cheatsheet.
This could be the year of the TXR desktop; I can feel it!
1> (digits 37)
(3 7)
2> (digits 37 2)
(1 0 0 1 0 1)
3> (reverse *2)
(1 0 1 0 0 1)
4> (mapcar (op - 1) *3)
(0 1 0 1 1 0)
5> (poly 2 *4)
22

:)
You're not even guaranteed to get infected (I still haven't been.) So you need to apply that prior as well.
> I’m very interested to see what happens with these nations that have adopted bitcoin as a currency

I know relatively little about economy at large scale, but crypto use as nation's currency is a disaster at many levels. Country not being able to control (and manipulate) its money is a recipe for a disaster as you cannot steer your ship. Devaluing or strengthening currency allows you to affect import/export ratios.

Deflationary nature of BTC means that future generations will be progressively more and more at disadvantage. Because wealth accumulation favors the early winners, making entry barrier harder and harder. It de-incentivizes spending - ie the thing that makes economy go.

I am not sure if those two thing could be upsided with anything that crypto provides.
Not quite half but June to September the flood season.
"That's wrong" and nothing to show why. Good argument there, lol.
This very story seems to clarify why they had recently purchased it. Though, of course, perhaps Epic just wanted to get into the music business.
Airbnb embraces home working with location-blind equal pay model
yet there are more billionaires per capita in Sweden than the USA.

I live in Malmo, not an expensive or high paying city; I have at one point had more than a million SEK in my bank (which is equivalent to about 100,000 USD), I was 27 at the time.

Certainly not impossible, no reason to be skeptical.
Fidelity Investments to offer Bitcoin in 401(k)
> Libre is really perfect but no one wants to call it that because it sounds silly.

Maybe I'm biased cause the word exists in French, but I'm not sure how "libre" sounds silly.

We really have to stop letting engineers name things...
For more complex queries, you can use https://github.com/pushshift/api.