skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Federation is manageable. True decentralization however is a nightmare.
It's easy for nerds to get respect from other nerds.

But I agree with him that nerds get little respect from non-nerds.
This. There are different kinds of intelligence. Your intelligence in one area can blind you to the intelligence others have in different areas.
It could be useful to duplicate it for devirtualization, and that's more likely with a JIT than compilation since it doesn't cost code size on disk.
Great. Congratulations on you IF journey.
Since it's Apple's fav thing, I recommend iPrison.
The Roddenberry Archive: The Cage (2022) [video]
In my mind they intellectually coddle users by providing an echo chamber where they can spout their ideas to a group chosen specifically of people who will agree with them.
This is neat and all (sincerely!), but what we really need much more of than this, and fast, is bulk anhydrous ammonia synthesis. It takes a lot less energy to produce ammonia, ammonia burns where natural gas is used today, and many places burning oil (such as ships and trains) can switch to ammonia with only tankage and plumbing retrofit. Burning electrically-synthesized ammonia displaces entirely as much fossil CO2 as does burning captured carbon. I would rather see captured carbon sequestered instead.

A GW-scale ammonia plant is under construction in Norway. We will need thousands of them in short order. They need to be made cheaper.

Another concern competing with this is called Terrapower Industries. They are maybe less far along, but their web site is actually readable: https://terraformindustries.com/

If they could sequester, say, half their captured carbon, that would be a good look.
I've been on promotion committees where it was clear that the manager didn't support it, but we promoted the candidate. I feel like most of the memorable discussions in those committees were figuring out how to give the manager feedback on how bad of a job they were doing.

I agree that you're basically screwed, especially L3->L4, if your manager isn't actively counselling you on how to grow your career. You obviously don't have enough experience to do it on your own at that point, so you are at their whim. Even when you do have the experience, if you don't have a good working relationship with your manager, you're in trouble anywhere. It is ultimately going to be them or you, and you are easier to get rid of ("he took another offer" versus "everyone thinks your manager is a jerk, so we fired him, oh by the way in the meantime your career is on hold while we figure out what the fuck to do please keep showing up").
What about them?

Self-adjusting computation is probably the closest term for what I call cell libraries but the only time I've seen it used outside academia is when Jane St announced their cell library. My understanding is that the term covers a wider variety of techniques than the three or four common variations I've seen in cell libs. Incremental computing seems to cover an even wider subset.

Wasn't aware of reactive demand programming. My quick skim over the top search hits has the authors insisting that there's upstream parameter passing as part of their model. I've seen that done once in a toy/weekend project as well as true bidirectional computation in Kris Zyp's Alkali (by defining a transformation function each way) but usually the only "upstream" information I've seen in other cell libs is a demand for computation if it's pull based instead of push based. Also wasn't aware of "incremental DAG" but searching for that term doesn't turn up anything at all.

Datalog is only tangentially related in that it seems to pretty much always be implemented incrementally. I'm not an expert but I'm pretty sure it's still datalog if your implementation is stupid.

There's other related fields of computing: most incremental computations can be modeled as unidirectional constraint solutions, timely dataflow allows for incremental computation (including cycles) across distributed nodes, databases perform view maintenance, lens libraries can be implemented incrementally and chained to accomplish similar things.

The JS community is the most prolific author of the libs I'm talking about, mostly because the size of the community, the direct demand for it (incremental UI updates), and the relative ease of implementation. The most common term I've seen for it is "reactivity" or a "reactivity system", which I simply don't like.

Edit: It occurred to me that I didn't mention the obviously related spreadsheet engine in this response. I've only looked at a handful of spreadsheet implementations but none use the function + heap allocation per computation step pattern (i.e. cell) that cell libs use. Their use patterns have a lot more cells and generally less control flow so the focus is generally on arrays and unconditional updates.
If you stop 90 out of 100 shots, you’re a replacement-level goalie in the NHL.

If you stop 94 out of 100, you’re one of the best of all time.

So yeah, even if you can only stop 75 out of 100, that might get you through a period or two as the emergency backup.
There are plenty of other ways to build a war chest. VC money is the easiest but it comes with the most strings.
I understand the broken workflows thing. But "worse performance" actually sounds a little bit impressive to me (relatively speaking), because it implies you've had multiple Android devices actually get major version upgrades, rather than being abandoned and forcing you to buy a new device to get a newer OS.
> There's no reason to think the non-profit accomplishes anything or doesn't accomplish negative things

You could say the exact same thing about how the federal government spends its money.

> And there is an opportunity cost to the non-profit getting that money rather than, for example, schools.

There's also an opportunity cost to the government getting that money, rather than, for example, educational non-profits.

Overall, do I think the federal government would do more good with the same amount of money? Probably. But would the federal government do more good with $0.16B, as opposed to the non-profit sector with $1.1B? I highly doubt it.
This study by its own admission has no access to information on the amount of energy consumed by either group. It is possible to eat as many calories in one sitting as it is across the day; therefore, it is possible that people ate about the same calories/perhaps regulated by homeostasis.
Parent of a teen, one anecdote to add. You see what all your friends are doing all the time. Every gathering or event that you where not a part of you see, sometimes in real time.

People hate being excluded, and this greatly amplifies this feeling.

I'm certain I missed out on a ton of cool stuff as a kid, but at least I didn't have to see it.
I think it's using the right tool for the job. I thoroughly regret not using Vue or other major JS framework 5-6 years ago when building out our new application. While the server-side is solid the client-side is sort of a mess. A mix of a ton of different things, underscore templates, jquery, etc. It's not an SPA but any modern web application requires a ton of javascript.

We are slowly incorporating Vue into some aspects of the application and the code is just so much cleaner and legible, with better performance in a lot of cases.
This exists, just use Pixel?
I think you are taking what he is saying out of context and being very dishonest about it. He is not talking about diversity meaning he doesn't want different races or sexualities involved in the country. He is talking about the extreme fracturing of groups that is driven by social media.

I see this in my everyday life. Browsing any forum, almost every view expressed by any person is polarized to some side. However, being older and having enough people not connected to social media in my circle, I notice no one expresses the same polarization of thought that is so prevalent in social media and online communities. I also notice that the few people I interact with who do spend a large amount of time on social media are extremely polarized and mostly miserable.
They have to kick out the MBAs. They ruined the company.
Probably depends on how much you identify with your alter ego.
There are multiple mechanisms as play when we discuss about cholesterol. I will do an article discussing about this in the future.
The unicode epsilon isn't in the public API, it's describing the 3rd positional argument.

This was added recently, and for some reason the PR (1840) didn't fix the docs, which is bad. The Optimisers.jl version has an explanation: https://fluxml.ai/Optimisers.jl/dev/api/#Optimisers.RMSProp
Expedia sure does, it subtracts money from whatever points you have.

Hotels are on Booking.com and to a lesser extent AirBnb.

They often charge parking fees and wifi fees too.
"They literally dont have the capacity to understand the nerds game". That's some primo tech elitism right there.

I agree with the parent, that it's an interesting tale about waking up to the fact that others have been optimizing for other goals in life, and in many cases those make a ton of sense, perhaps even moreso than his science game.

Your take on this however, seems to be some kind of idea that no one else can gauge or judge the depths of your contributions, etc. In fact I'm not completely sure what you're saying, but it appears to be almost the opposite of the original article.

I've had my time of thinking what I do is especially valuable and unique. Then I grew up and realized we all (well, many of us) contribute to this world in our own way. A little humility goes a long way.
They’re on the right track but seeking VC money is the wrong direction. Their ad-free, non-exploitive vision might hold for a time but when the investors come knocking for their orders of magnitude return, those ideals will be the first to go.
There is so much more to engineering than slinging code into the repo. Using commit logs as anything other than a superficial note of trivia is absolutely terrible for anything but the most junior engineers.
Ouch! As a big Julia fan I cannot exactly complain about these criticism. They seem overall very fair. Although some things like tracking down problems I think is affected a lot by what you are used to. I am way slower figuring out problems in Python than in Julia.

But the heavily academic code and often poor user documentation for third party packages is a very real problem. I would like to point out that I think the Julia core libraries are better documented than Python. But third party stuff often has a long way to go.

I also think Julia may suffer a bit from people writing a lot of CLEVER code. I am computer science guy who feel lost in the midst of all these brainy Julia PhDs, postdocs and researchers. I think maybe many of us more regular programmers have a bit healthier habits in writing code a little bit less clever and and perhaps more verbose.

It is not all bad though. I think that the APIs to a lot of Julia libraries are quite well thought out. It is more the inside of a lot of these packages which can look a bit messy.

Perhaps Julia code quality and documentation can improve when the language starts expanding more outside academia and more among general programmers, industry etc.
I grew up in the Mainland, it is much worse now freedom and equality wise than ever in my lifetime. Of course some foreigners only see the skyscrapers and not the concentration camps. It was the same sort of materialistic thinking that lead them to outsource everything in the first place.

If we talk about degeneration, we can also talk about Westerners parroting a totalitarian regime's talking points. It was the party that starved the people and it was the party that "saved" them. Amazing job. Meanwhile no one starved in free China (RoC) and the GDP per capita is still multiple times higher there. But I never see any of you guys talk about the supposed Taiwan miracle. It obviously don't work for that sort of propaganda.

It was rich elites like Gates, Munger & co who enabled the CCP, made them rich and created the system as it exists today - a perfect dystopian nightmare. It now comes back to bite you in the ass, many simply have not realized it yet. Just like they had no problem doing business with Russia right up to the war.

Here's a bit of Gates mental diarrhea from 12 years ago:

>But today his reinvention suffered something of a setback when he played down China's attempts to stifle dissent on the internet as "very limited".

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/jan/25/bill-gate...

Today Bing remains the only American search engine that isn't blocked in China, because they censor like no tomorrow. Even 'be evil' Google is less evil than Bill Gates, this guy has all the money but no morals whatsoever. He's the last person in a position to lecture anyone on misinformation, his company is part of the worst misinformation network on the planet - the CCP intranet aka inside the GFW, where over a billion people are trapped viewing what is increasingly aggressive totalitarian propaganda.
Liberica seems hard to buy. And by that I mean I couldn't find any decent options on Amazon. Anyone know how to buy whole beans in the US?
SCOTUS is ideological, not political. The ideologies often line up with politics: the Constitution is a 244 year old document with a heavy emphasis on economic liberty and protection of personal and property rights. Interpreting the Constitution according to its text and original intent will naturally lead to conservative outcomes.

Likewise, viewing the Constitution as an evolving document that gives great discretion to judges to fashion rules for a changing world naturally favors liberal outcomes, because lawyers and judges are overwhelmingly liberal, even the republicans. (It was, after all, a majority Republican Court that wrote Roe in the first place.)

Indeed, overruling Roe is a good example of the distinction between ideology and partisanship. 1/3 of republicans don’t agree with their party on abortion: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/06/18/three-in-te.... (And about 29% of Democrats don’t.)

Republicans are heavily favored in the upcoming 2022 elections. Biden’s approval rating among republicans is 7%. Why would a savvy partisan blow up an issue that fractures the GOP and draws attention away from how unified they are in hating Biden? The GOP has the rural, churchgoing mom vote locked up. Inflation is what they want to be talking about right now to win back suburban moms, not abortion.
> The seventh word wasn't a noun, so they still needed one. I wonder how they picked gibbon.

They replaced "episode" by "epistolary", so they're not insisting that the replacements be nouns. (They did say "[I] occasionally had to take a few licenses.")
Less than 500 - 800 cal and no carbs for 2 days.
There’s a number of reasons.

It helps with hiring as a signal effect; if sequoia thinks the company you’re thinking joining is a worthwhile investment of they’re capital, they’re more likely a worthwhile investment of your career.

The spare capital is good insurance against risks that might make fundraising in the future difficult. For example, needing to invest in PR/marketing, because an entrenched company with more resources released a competing product. Or legal fees, if you get sued for one thing or another.

It’s also genuinely useful to have experienced investors on your board or in your intimate network, to ask for fiduciary-bound advice when waging your own battles. You typically “pay” for this service by raising money. I think this one is generally underrated by people who view the VC relationship as strictly transactional. Running a high visibility young company is incredibly stressful and it’s valuable to have people at the table who have seen it before.

I imagine this last reason is probably the main one for WhatsApp’s choice.
I’m not sure how this meme got started. I think it was something like WhatsApp may have been profitable in its first year when it was barely started but that doesn’t appear to be true either. Whatsapp was always a money pit, even if that meant losing 7 or 8 figures a year vs some startups burning 9 figures a year (there would have been less of this 8 years ago too, before the tech stock explosion).
I'm going to do all of you a favor - this is one of the greatest stories ever. EBUG from just 2 years ago.

Here's the incident as it happened:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0JTRm-wf2E&ab_channel=Slick...

The EBUG was the zamboni driver for the home team junior team. And also a practice goalie. He comes out in helmet, pads and breezers (pants) of the home team, and even skates to the wrong goal because...wrong team. And plays half the game.

Then Steve Dangle melts down. He's on Sportsnet in Canada. He's a die hard Leafs (home team) fan. He's even written a book about how the Leafs have ruined his life. His video is epic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFnQ0dcaBUI&ab_channel=Steve...

I don't have time to look for it but David Ayers's wife (the EBUG) was on twitter and live tweeting the experience. It was nuts.

Here's a 1 year later retrospective on Sportsnet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsjBr6rKEuU&ab_channel=SPORT...
My family is kinda addicted, so addicted, we ended up not talking anymore because someone wanted a perfect shot off the eifel tower and it wasn't goid enough, even worse when there has to be made pictures of food and whatever.
> The purpose is not to get anything for free, but rather to see if they're good at coming up with new ideas.

These "new ideas" are things you should be paying them for.
Why? What do you want to work on? FAANGS are certainly hiring “low-level” engineers. Apple is hiring and has relatively low-bullshit interviews (depending on the team).
Do you know if you lost more fat with a dry fast than an equivalent water fast?

I have a theory the body will sacrifice extra fat for its water content.
They mostly do it for the free tickets to games.
I run a consulting company. Working with startups, cost-plus model is the only way to go. It is maddening when customer does not know exactly what they want to do because they figuring things as they go, often "pivioting", but yet asks you to provide a fixed cost estimate for the work and sign contract which often includes penalties or payment on deliveiry. Usually my answer is: I will be glad to give you fixed cost quote if you can provide me with detailed spec of whay you want me to do. But this is exactly what you will get. If you want to have a freedom of changing things on the fly, it must be cost-plus.
Show HN: I built a beatbox-to-drum translator using WASM
My entirely anecdotal impression as a high school teacher is that media (in general, often but not always “social” media) is doing an exceptional job of sucking up teenagers’ every waking moment that is not actively demanded to be focused on something else. It’s pleasure without joy. Ennui without boredom.

Their social skills (and social interest) appear markedly reduced even compared to even five years ago. So many of them struggle to articulate any kind of positive vision for themselves/their lives unless they have lucked into a passion or have family that pushes.

They’re still teens. Funny and moody and confused, but their heads really are in their smartphones all the time.
You're right. I know goaltenders who played in Division I hockey who are retired, but are still young enough and in good enough condition to act as EBUGs.

They are generally goaltending coaches themselves at higher levels of amateur hockey, and/or they play in a very competitive adult league for some part of the calendar year.
In a manager driven promo process, do you want gp in charge of whether you're promoted or not?

Thats a benefit to having ICs run their promo process.

Generally, I think freedom to have anyone drive an ICs promo process is better than forcing it to be one group or another. The IC might be best for it, or the manager might.

Regardless of who it is, the IC can work at gaming the system, that's just the nature of systems and abuse
I don't completely disagree with your objection to the term, I think it is a term worthy of being critiqued. But, sometimes, when one is trying to communicate, the best option is to choose language which the majority of one's listeners will understand, even if one views that language as being in some ways flawed; choosing less flawed, yet less familiar, language may make it harder for the average listener to appreciate the point, and discussing the pros and cons of different terminological options can be a distracting detour which may also stand in the way of getting the primary point across. I think you are objecting, not to my point, but rather how I put it, because I think I could have made the same point without using that term. (And the same applies to my use of "culturally diverse", albeit for somewhat different reasons.)
I use export for my public functions. What is wrong with that? How exactly does Python signal what is public? Nothing but conventions like underscore, which btw Julia developers use as well. If I really really don't want somebody to use a function, I might underscore it but generally I don't see the point.
Fallout New Vegas and 4, on Linux
Direct quote !
“ We have this idea diversity is good, and diversity has many good effects, but diversity also makes things come apart for a large secular nation like the United States what are the forces holding us together, what are the things blowing us apart, diversity makes group more creative when you have good norms..”
Just as a word of warning, acidic coffee and late night eating are two habits heavily associated with acid reflux/GERD.

I had similar habits, was relatively healthy, and rarely if ever suffered from heart burn. But about a year ago, seemingly overnight, I came down with severe acid reflux. I am still managing symptoms to this day.

Not saying it will happen to you, but just raising awareness that human health is a fickle thing and it can take a turn for the worse quickly, often with little to no warning.
yes it varies from person to person.
> Personally I think it looks like going back to when your online and offline identities were totally separate.

Even this backfired at me when I was dating. Everything is completely separate and I get misjudged entirely.

But maybe I'm talking to the wrong people, but a lot of people are kinda the same in that regard.
There are many technical reasons for constraints like block size, block time, tx complexity, etc. most of these are for an availability or reliability metric. It is really important that low powered hardware can run a node if it is to be universal.

Why would nodes need to be low powered and how lower powered do you think they need to be? A $35 raspberry pi with an SD card or a $10/month VPS can run a node, even though these nodes don't really matter. This is propaganda that has no technical merit. You are repeating the same nonsense that gets repeated for the last 8 years, but never with any technical details, reasoning or explanation. This assertion is as deep as it goes.

So far unbounded solutions have presented fragile constructions on unproven math; low reliability with multiple hours long outages; very high compute and storage requirements for node hosting.

I have no idea what you are talking about here since you gave no examples, details, numbers or real information of any kind. Every cryptocurrency besides bitcoin has more throughput. Ethereum, doge coin, lite coin, bitcoin cash and many others. Bitcoin is the only one that is artificially constrained to a pathetic trickle of data. Who would attach themselves to something that can't scale? If I give you an address, you can't send to it through the lightning network. Why use a side chain when you can just use a chain that actually works?
Some one linked to TechCrunch stating WhatsApp lost over $65M from 2012 to mid 2014. How else were these losses paid for?