skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What happened before the big-bang?

Perhaps this is like asking the question "What value did the system clock have before the computer was turned on?"
How do we know this is legit?
Doing the same, but this does not really apply for algorithmic feeds.

When you open YouTube the recommendations are always the first thing you see, same for TikTok and Twitter (although at least you can configure it there).

Sure you can say “just don’t use recommendation systems” just as you can say “just don’t go on YouTube”.
Of course he isn't just any game developer, that doesn't mean the issue at hands isn't trivial for a game developer to tackle.
The other thing about that chart is that is it's on a linear scale. If you have productive assets that compound returns, you should expect log structured growth.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BOGZ1FL192090005Q

You only get 36% if you measure from the bottom of the sharp V-shaped recession in 2020. If you measure from 2019Q4 to 2021Q4 you get something more like 29%. Still sounds like a lot, but compare 2002Q4 through 2004Q4 - that's also about 26%, it's just not so obvious on the linear scale.

In fact, if you look at the percentage growth over a two-year look-back, household wealth has grown by at least 20% on multiple occasions on that time series.

For comparison, this is what the same timeseries looks like if you plot it ending at the end of 2004:

https://imgur.com/EehsZbs
Has anyone got vim to display properly on Windows terminal?
Similar to JimtheCoder, I think it is experience. As a fresh faced college grad, I got hired at a bank. They have good recruitment, and a decade ago, the entire company was almost cult-ish (in the least bad way possible). The mission was constantly talked about, our members are the most important, we are helping members - our neighbors and public servants - with their problems, and every employee works toward that mission.

It felt really important. And to some extent you can still feel that in some places, even that bank.

However, as you get more experience, and you see the same political mid-management games play out, and you realize a lot of the cynical realities of things, you can lose energy. Or, perhaps you watch people not doing the right thing, but having no power to convince them to do otherwise.

Like an old man telling a child that digging a hole with a shovel is better than digging it with a rock and watching them continue to use the rock: you just get worn out.
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I agree with the main reply, that burnout is a thing, but that yes, it does help to be working on something you care about if you're going to put the level of mental effort required in software/IT. Sometimes I dream about being a bartender. You do your job, deal with the shit, and go home.
If we are splitting hair, note that in my comment you referred to, I wrote Disney/Hollywood, not only Disney.
I am addicted to twitter and reddit. Especially reddit. It often takes the place of reading, hobbies, quiet moments, improving my home, talking with my spouse, and playing with my baby.

When reddit records a click or an upvote, it thinks it has been a Good Product, and created Engagement. Reddit then takes those feedback loops and tunes the algorithm and feedback loops to create further engagement.

But in reality, there's almost no positive relationship between my engagement with social media and my personal human flourishing. I think these products are mostly poison for my soul.
Well, I know who is going to be the target of Matt Levine's next "everything is securities fraud" posting.
You post not knowing what happened just to say you don't use sentry in the end?
I'm someone else, but I'll bite. The article starts out by begging a question, ie. by skipping over an argument, and then bases most of the rest on the validity of the part it doesn't argue.

The second to fourth sentences read: «It is sadly thus that the very human impulse to help others and the mantra of Charity Navigator since its inception—that people should become informed donors and give with their heads as well as their hearts—have been infused with logic so cold that even Mr. Spock would cringe upon hearing it. One iteration of this tendency is in the idea of “effective altruism.” We believe a more accurate phrase for this concept is “defective altruism” and will therefore use that term for the remainder of this article.»

I restate that: Choosing altruistic action as a result intellectual deliberation instead of on an impulse renders the altruism defective.

The article avoids arguing that core point, and instead just bases a lot of secondary points on its being true. For example, below, it says one effect of effective altruism is that «experts decide where the money goes», and that's bad because… I don't get that part. Because experts do rational deliberation, I think, and because an EA proponent says it's «not necessarily morally superior».

I'd love to hear a thorough argument of why rational deliberation renders the resulting action bad or defective. Partly because IMO people who want to make that argument should try to make a rational argument to support their opinions, and someone has to listen.
The free version doesn't support response caching, only the enterprise one. If you reach any kind of scale it's a one-way ticket to enterprise, or a complete rewrite, at least last I checked.
I know nothing about this fight, let alone having a dog in it. But I'm getting downvoted for understanding English.

For my point it doesn't matter if they are in the wrong, if it was easier than they claim, if they are rude, etc. All I'm saying is that the complaint on Twitter is that they now called something "trivial" that they said wasn't simple or easy before. They clearly didn't do that.
Well done, you have condensed and encapsulated the problem into a single line. This is evil corps motto, "Keeping you at the mercy of our addictive user engagement algorithms since 20xx".
Or a handmade hero?
I think Popper's cred comes primarily from one of his acolytes getting very very rich, and using that money to amplify a low-information signal.

"If to argue like [Professor Popper] should ever become a frequent practice among writers on serious subjects, all cool and rational discussion would quickly come to an end. . . . His manner towards Aristotle is the sort that an unkind man sometimes adopts towards someone whom he believes to be his intellectual inferior; and, as is usual in such cases, it tells us more about the contemner than the object of his contempt. . . . There is here a failure of sympathy . . . on Professor Popper’s part; and he is the poorer for it."

- John Plamenatz

"Karl Popper is philosophically so uncultured, so fully a primitive ideological brawler, that he is not able to even approximately to reproduce correctly the contents of one page of Plato. Reading is of no use to him; he is too lacking in knowledge to understand what the author says"

- Leo Strauss

I decided to launch my big question: Is his falsification concept falsifiable? Popper glared at me. Then his expression softened, and he placed his hand on mine. “I don't want to hurt you,” he said gently, “but it is a silly question." Peering searchingly into my eyes, he asked if one of his critics had persuaded me to pose the question. Yes, I lied. “Exactly,” he said, looking pleased.

- John Horgan
A lot of people have forgotten the OG Twitter. University campuses practically used it as a mass notification system.

The inertia from that led to today's Twitter, where being on Twitter is nearly a prerequisite if you're a reporter, famous, or otherwise in the public eye, because of the number of users. Even though a high Twitter follower count is worth about as much as Mardi Gras beads, it's perceived as valuable because the Important People on Twitter see it as valuable.

I'm not sure what Musk's endgame is (and I doubt anybody else does either, and I may be including Musk in that), but a privately owned Twitter is probably the best case for the platform, if people want it to continue.
I'm not imaginative enough to envision a nefarious scenario, but that doesn't mean none exist. Maybe just curiosity? The format does seem a bit nicer than the public profile at least.
I wrote about something similar many years ago, “Traces vs. Snapshots: Print Statements and Debuggers”, https://www.scott-a-s.com/traces-vs-snapshots/
I guess like optimizing for throughtput != optimizing for latency
Easy solution: start off by not writing your software in something as hobbled as Python.
You got the wrong person, I didn't write that. Once it became obvious that it's the only way to solve the issue and that a different use of Direct2D can't help with this, I implemented a prototype based on my pre-existing knowledge and explained how it works to the team.
Yesterday, I found trustfall[1], which tries to query almost everything in GraphQL'ish format. This[2] talk by author explains it in few minutes.

[1]: https://github.com/obi1kenobi/trustfall

[2]: https://www.hytradboi.com/2022/how-to-query-almost-everythin...
We introduced a Graphql api 4 years ago and we deprecate it 1 year ago.
At the end of the day graphql didn't add much for our operations and we found ourselves having to maintain both the REST JSON API and the Graphql API.
We are a small team and we think types/classes are overengineering in our case and Graphql felt like types/classes/overengineering.

I wish Graphql would have used the web or help standardize a new standard for the web instead of inventing a new query language and that types were optional.
I think we need something standard like a JQL Javascript Query Language or just better conventions to use URLs and JSON for queries.
Switching Twitter to timeline mode rather than their poor excuse of an algorithm helps. Learned that from HN....but I have a browser plug-in that also removes all their recommended and "Joe also owed this tweet" junk.
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Which brings us to one of the best XKCD punchlines of all time: https://what-if.xkcd.com/3/
I didn't know this thanks for the information. There is probably an opportunity for some projects to enable exploration and discovery to be more intuitive - I think your second bullet is something where the distinction is not always obvious and leads to misunderstanding (at least for me).
If you care about programming enough to really have preferences on things like functional or OO or other kinds of "deep" topics, then you're invested.
Hrm...

File a complaint with your state AG's consumer protection office.

Most have a specific form (usually online) for telecoms issues.
I believe the argument would be that the tenant might be empowered to pay for their own maintenance if they're not paying rent to a landlord.
Many customers just don't want to spend much money. Wordpress is still one of the big players for small dynamic websites, probably because they have a good range of plugins to integrate with other services.
The article can be summed with with a link to the book it itself links:

https://www.amazon.com/Slack-Getting-Burnout-Busywork-Effici...
> the question is can we sustain 5% interest rates. The answer is no - unless GDP increases precipitously or government spending declines A LOT

We can’t sustain 5% real interest rates. But nominal GDP, rates and tax take are inherently linked; if short-term rates are 5% for 30 years it’s because inflation and/or the economy are going gangbusters. That will drive up GDP and tax collection. Until it doesn’t. Then we have a recession and all those numbers go down.

This isn’t infinitely extensible. But we’re nowhere close to federal debt servicing being a constraint on the Fed or the Congress. Inflation, instead, remains the check.
This is never the case, every time I use GQL, I always have to reshape the response. GQL only lets you declare the data you want, it does not let you declare the shape in which you want it.
> set up of foreign aid programs in pursuit of goals that are entirely unrelated to effectiveness.

Mostly true, but the side-effect are quite positive. I'd argue that in the long run, foreign aid between 1990 and 2012-ish was more effective than any charity donation. They set up vaccine and OMS programs, they created ports and infrastructure and pressured some government into being a bit more republican (not democratic sadly, but since a third of the third world country was colonized by Bonapartists, and a half by a parlementary monarchy, i'll settle for republic). Yes, Foreign aid do have some undercover agents, but most charity have them too, and the one pushed by GiveWell the most (the Malaria one) is too.
I hadn't, no. It looks like a great way to get a quick update on undergraduate CS.

It doesn't meet my requirement of having a real master's degree from an accredited university without the "extension" or "electronic" qualifier, though.

I'm doing the Algorithms specialisation from Stanford on Coursera right now, just to make sure I'm ready to get started on a master's in the fall.
>public housing in Singapore

Which is a huge success.
You got too much time on your hands.

Please stop wasting other people's.
There is nothing wrong with that
It might be that you're bored. A senior developer of 15 years making multiple 6 figures shouldn't be doing Vue/React/Angular. Someone like that should be tackling much more complex computer science topics. Of course there are people who are perfectly happy doing something like React their whole career. But if you're not happy, this could also be one of the causes.
> My goodness though, anyone with a brain knew the cards weren’t going to gamers. Was this not known to the average investor?

If it was so obvious, why did Nvidia never say it? This is a quote from a transcript, and seems representative of how they put it:

> ... I would say the large majority of the cryptocurrency demand [is for those] specialized products. There are still small miners that buy GeForces here and there, and that probably also increased the demand of GeForces.

While it may be true that everyone knew they were lying or being misleading, that isn't a very good defense.
Can’t said tenant just buy a house then?
32bit COM should work fine in 64bit Windows since it can run 32bit software - even classic VB. Obviously that would require a 32bit runtime. For a 64bit runtime they'd need either a 64bit version or only able to load 32bit out of process COM servers. AFAIK most COM stuff for VB was in-process (e.g. ActiveX controls) so those might be a problem but perhaps some sort of "32bit-to-64bit" bridge (via a separate 32bit process that communicates with the 64bit runtime) would work for the most part.

I think a harder part would be libraries/COM/extensions/whatever that access/modify the VB6 runtime internals.
LBO, Leveraged Byout. I had to look it up. “A leveraged buyout (LBO) is the acquisition of another company using a significant amount of borrowed money (bonds or loans) to meet the cost of acquisition.”
I don't think that's true. I have seen job descriptions for Director or VP that require a master's degree in CS.
> probably because someone in legal fucked up

Isn't there a list containing every risk in the world, that one can paste into the form? Would that suffice?
There are several comments about filesystem support in this article that I think are just patently incorrect. Exercise for the reader to suss them out.
The tide on mental health did not turn nearly enough.

The developed world is facing a real mental health crisis and still failing to address it.
It's not that you were taking credit, or that you were somehow wrong, it's that you initially put down Casey's idea so vehemently and so publicly. I think the lesson is, if you're going to step into the public arena, be humble, or be very, very right.
> Why look at results when you can look at analysis!

The problem with this mindless cargo culting around frameworks and tech stacks is that these cultists look at business results and somehow believe that they have anything to do with arbitrary choices regarding tech stacks.

It's like these guys look at professional athletes winning, and process to claim the wins are due to the brand of shoes they are using, even though the athlete had no say about the choice and was forced to wear what was handed over to him.
See David Pogue's "Missing Manual" series
They also use the very same word for creating accounts versus logging in to existing account. They clearly did not verify the translation. I have yet to receive 3 packages from China ordered end on Jan 2022 (I don't want them anymore after all this time), but its a nightmare to get my money back.
No questioning the established narrative. The State Department is always right.
There are plenty of GraphQL server libraries for other languages.
Tony Fadell Cleans Out His Garage
AMD properly noted potential volatility due to cryptocurrency mining their SEC filings. [1]

>The demand for our products depends in part on the market conditions in the industries into which they are sold.... for example, our GPU revenue has been affected in part by the volatility of the cryptocurrency mining market...If we are unable to manage the risks related to the volatility of the cryptocurrency mining market, our GPU business could be materially adversely affected.

That's from their most recent one, but similar statements are in prior ones as well.

[1] https://ir.amd.com/sec-filings/filter/quarterly-filings/cont...
Exactly! This puts too much weight on ownership rather than contribution. Also, it doesn't list the forks where I have made local changes just for myself!
AMD may have disclosed it in their financial statements.
Note that you're also announcing to the world "Hey look at me, I'm probably a new site" when you publish DNS records and then anybody looks at them via most public DNS resolvers.

Passive DNS is the product e.g. https://www.circl.lu/services/passive-dns/

https://www.farsightsecurity.com/technical/passive-dns/passi...

https://www.anomali.com/blog/introduction-to-passive-dns-usa...

Unsurprisingly lots of outfits want to publicly advertise this as a white hat feature you can purchase from them, but it's just technology, it works fine for bad guys too.
When there's physics, graphics and mathematics, there are magic numbers, which are results of formulas which needs to be computed once, or material properties, or nature's constants.

Also, nature and graphics works as an imperative parallel machine. So the code mirrors that.

This is not written deliberately this way. Code comes out like that when you strip all the libraries, fluff, and other less-related stuff.

I also write a scientific application, and yes, This is the way.
But will the document still remains understandable for your grandma? This is your document, not mine, so it is your pain to make it both truthful and understandable by grandmas as you have promised.

I just told what I was disagreed with but overall I have to admit that it is a great work for regular people who are not cypherpunks.
This is broken for anyone attempting to use ETH beyond a speculative asset. Consider if we get into the "crypto wins" future where it takes over as a payment method and replaces/live beside and equal to USD or traditional currencies. People can't just wait hours to buy random things there's a certain amount of transactions that are time sensitive. It's even worse when you think about the future where other record keeping has moved on chain because that too has a certain immediacy. Go to the doctor at the wrong time and suddenly it's thousands of dollars in fees to add to your on-chain medical records.
Coming from someone who really likes the guy;

Casey's code game and logic game, quite strong.

His tact game and empathy game, not as strong.

Not trying to denigrate, just observing.
It looks like you are fixated on caching in GraphQL, but that's unnecessary, you can just cache GraphQL like REST, because in the end they are just GET requests. Just cache the GET request.
Do you have a link to some information regarding the work on traits/interfaces and static typing, please?
Ask HN: Best Place to Live in the USA?
Assume money or jobs isn't an issue, and assume you have a spouse and children. Where are the best places to live in the USA?
> and then the next generation of GPUs has almost no demand at the inflated triple-digit prices. That's going to be a huge hit to its market cap

NVIDIA ('s distributors) still sale at the lower MSRP (right?) so the risk for them is people not buying them at all, which seems more farfetched

maybe I'm wrong, but I thought the true price was shown by what scalpers could fetch, which means the places the scalpers buy from had the wrong lower price
> Is eating sugar when it is offered a disease

It's not, but it will lead to some (obesity, diabetes, heart disease, etc).

In the same way, consuming infinite amounts of quick-hitting and dopamine-inducing social media is not a disease, but it can damage our brains and lead to "disease" in the same way that sugar damages the rest of our body.

Again, I'm not a doctor and I have no facts/evidence to share. Just my own thoughts on how things are going.
It always reminds me of a fire brigade or an army. You want the firefighters to have lots of slack so that they will be available when there is a fire. On the other hand, having people sitting around "being ready" is costly and there is some optimum amount you need.
It has been reported by a major Czech newspaper (it is originally a Czech project): https://domaci.hn.cz/c1-67066670-fiktivni-eshop-se-zbranemi-...
It is a good summary, I would also add the need for combining lots of internal badly documented microservices as a prerequisite (basically what they used it originally for in Facebook)
Being an inhabitant of a developed country doesn't mean you must eat beef. We can all eat less, no matter our location.
Indeed. The Fed is supposed to be politically neutral so for them to be supporting one party's major bill is a clear violation of that. And I fully believe they didn't raise rates earlier for political reasons.
I'm taking intermittent internet & phone fasts.
Did AMD attribute sales to growth in gaming, not crypto?
A big part of the problem: brain plasticity. (Which, ironically, I read about on the internet....)

But the idea is if you're doing a lot of one thing, your brain adapts. So if that one thing is "quickly scrolling headlines" or "consuming bursts of updates," over time your brain just atunes itself to that form of stimulation.

If that's true, who knows how far it will lead? I was on jury duty, and spoke to the prosecuting attorney afterwards. And his complaint was that over the years, "juries have gotten dumber" -- that he'd consistently seen the attention span of a typical juror getting shorter and shorter....
You can get a community licence from VMS Software:

https://vmssoftware.com/community/community-license/
Wow, thanks! That does look really good. I don't like "Extension", but otherwise it seems solid. The price tag sounds like they consider it a valuable commodity.