skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it'd be impossible to justify the cost of flying extra players around,

I doubt traveling expense is the limiter, how many years of that would it take to reach even the NHL minimum salary?

Teams would try to game the system if they were given more choice, and it'd lead to more decent goalies riding the bench rather than playing in smaller leagues.
The CCP will not allow a corporation they cannot control to gain so much power that they can subvert the CCP. This is what they're doing to nip it in the bud.
Written in standard NY Times style, as if theirs is sole voice of reason. They really are a disgusting organization. Is Sarah Jeong still on the NYT Editorial Board and Tweeting "#CancelWhitePeople?"

In addition what does this have to do with technology, in any way? Please keep your agitprop on reddit.
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Seems too focused on the NYT article? I don't think this because the NYT said so, I think this because PaLM's chains-of-thought approach seems to match how my own brain works. I think LMs have huge intelligence overhang atm that is hidden by the way they are forced to respond. If we figure out how to train LMs with propagation through hidden chains of thought, we'll see a huge jump in capability, and also this is the obvious next step that the industry will aim for.
Conspicuous in its absence is the getting laid game.

Or, put more healthily, the finding a spouse and starting a family game.

That is of course the most consequential game most human beings have ever played or will ever play.
The struct's field name is `eta`, but this is an internal detail. Its constructor takes a positional-only argument, no public name.

The greek letter is used in the documentation. And the reason is that every optimiser's documentation links to the original paper, and tries to follow that. If the Adam paper calls the two decay rates β1, β2, then staying close to that seems the least confusing option.
> soul sucking marathon run by relentless ladder climbers

The saddest part about the ladder is that it's not even fun. In academia, our ladder has fun names, and on each level you get to dress up in a different outfit that gets more elaborate the higher you climb on the ladder, which is basically the driving concept behind every MMO ever made, so that's cool. The whole promotion culminates in a parade and a blessing from the church elders, I mean University leadership.

At Google, they creatively dubbed the levels "L1-L10", and there's no outfit or parades. I assume they throw you a party or something at least? With cake?
OK, I dunno if I can top that. Definitely not. But...

I went to work for Bell Labs in 1978 after getting MSEE,

then went to work for a start up with a bunch of Labs buddies about 5 years later

that company got bought out by one of the "baby Bells" that went on a spending spree of acquisitions after the break up of ma bell, they bridged my service as if I had never left, hey, thank you very much !

then, a few years later I went to work for another startup working on this new cool technology you may have heard of "cellular" wireless phones duh. K, again, guess what, airtouch bought us out, they bridged my service again, hey thank you very much dudes.

Then, (tired of this yet) after working for those dolts for a while I left and went to work for another start up which will go nameless but has to do with fiber stuff. Those guys got bought out by the Big V company, they bridged my service again ! thank you very much again (tons of vaca time).

I have worked for, but my count 5 different companies and yet, never lost a day of service! 44 years and counting.

So anyone out there who would like to get bought out by a big company, simply hire me and they will buy you to get me back. Probably, I am thinking that has to be it. right ? it's all about me :)
I for one am very excited to see what happens with the Hyperfiddle/Photon project that made the front page the other day.

https://hyperfiddle.notion.site/Reactive-Clojure-You-don-t-n...

I am in the same boat as OP. Started doing web things right around the growth of rails, but spent plenty of time in my career doing Spring MVC apps. For the last 6 years or so I've been forced to build SPA's because its what's been mandated from on high, but it's to the point where I can't even explain to new devs coming in what they're missing. They can't understand how much easier it is to just make a query directly to a database while responding to a request than it is to concern yourself with explicit API calls onMount of some component. Rehydration, state management, blah. What are we even trying to solve anymore.

I'm excited by the new trend in a sort of hybrid approach where you write your code as if it all runs on the server, and the framework figures out the websocket communications that need to take place. Phoenix Livewiew, PHP Livewire, even Microsoft Blazor server. This is all admirable, but I think the hyperfiddle/photon solution is finally the right level of abstraction. It's sort of like when you start programming and try to write a parser with a bunch of if statements and it becomes a mess, then you realize that mathematicians figured all this stuff out in a really elegant way that composes and provides just a solid bedrock. We need that level of formality to get us out of the SPA/SSR tarpit.
Most of the web is just CRUD apps, be it php, rails, cgi calls, <your favorite language>. And no one is saying get rid of JS front end stuff, it should be used to enrich and not hinder.

> drop the files in an S3 bucket

If you have a completely static site you still shouldn't host of s3, that's a big no no.

S3 isn't a CDN; you want a CloudFront or something else in front of that.

But as soon as you need something more your gonna get lost or locked in.
Prometheus addresses this:

> The thing is one cell doesn’t make that much fuel. What it does do is make enough to tell us what to do to iterate to the next cell design, which is exactly what we need to be doing to improve our performance and costs as quickly and inexpensively as possible. If we stopped this process to replicate one of the iterations of the cell to many cells, we could make more fuel, but we wouldn’t learn any more, we’d use up a lot of time and materials, and it wouldn’t prove that we can compete with fossil fuels on cost - the thing that matters.
Laughing so much right now.
Article from 2019
This assumes people have no agency and are unable to choose a better option for themselves

Like preventing who can take an Uber gig job in CA
I don't think I would have the self confidence to sit there quietly thinking.
> Externally linked sources introduce a backward-compatibility problem of their own. E.g, I recall early versions of IE only supporting inline JS. So, if you want to support as much as possible as far back as possible, inlining is the way to go.

That was part of the reason for inlining the CSS. The other part (which I didn’t explain in the post) actually came about because of Mosaic.

Even though it didn’t support CSS, it was aware of link tags and added a button to the top of the window for each one (literally linking to the referenced file). I couldn’t dig up a way to disable that within the code, so I went with the commented-out inline method to get the experience I was looking for.
> I worked on a 9-figure construction project and there were two full-time engineers specifically tasked with looking for ways to reduce the cost of the project, because it was essentially free money for the contractor.

Semi-related story:

Way back I was a trainee for a company, which won a contract to upgrade the the branch servers for some other company, about 500 of them.

The on-site process involved copying over files from the old Unix server to a new NT4 server running Citrix, split maildir and home directory and set proper user-level permissions on each users home and mail directory.

The whole rollout was going on for just a few months, so we had tons of folks doing this in parallel at each site. During the first site I saw the manual our project team had created, and it specified us doing the copying and permission setting using Windows Explorer. To change the ACL that meant scrolling down to find the right abbreviated user name matching the directory name... fun when there was hundred employees at a branch.

I figured there had to be a better way, and started writing some batch scripts. After about a day I had automated the whole process, including sending a mail to our phones (the phone company had a service turning number@phone-company.com into an SMS).

So I just launched the script, went for a 1-2 hour lunch until the phone beeped. Then I just had to go over the logs and verify there were no errors, and job done.

Back at base, I shared the scripts with my coworkers, which obviously loved not having to do the tedious process as specified.

It was only after the end of the project that I learned that the contract included a fixed rate of 3-5 days per site for one or two techs, depending on size. After all, changing all those permissions manually took a lot of time. After I wrote the scripts nobody used more than half a day...

Did I get any extra compensation for that? Of course not, and I was too young and shy to ask.

Oh well, lesson learned.
Why hasn't the law changed to make bids binding?
Why do you think this?

You're not technically wrong, but I think a reasonable reading of my comment could see the implication that I was speaking of the individuals who are actively investing and derive their primary income from it.

If some schmuck pulling 50K a year with a passive 1% contribution to his 401K thinks he's the same as Warren Buffet or the guys at Bain, I can't stop him.
Because @foone asked. Not saying that's the reson. But rejecting weird wonkish adoring cult followings - especially after they already go & start liberating some source - is a silly way to pass on a free move of building some cred.

Isnt it crazy though- all this VR stuff we're up to & I cant name a single piece of software with a laymen's accessibility at constructing some simple 3d scenes as this. Software keeps titanizimg, expectations & production values go up & up & just making some dirty simple tools to let people throw stuff together & have fun has become highly unusual.
The spec is pretty amazing and very readable, for anyone wondering if they should look into it.

My top tip for understanding PDFs is to take one that you have a decompress it then open with a text editor.

mutool clean -d in.pdf out.pdf

What you'll find is very approachable for a developer. It's a tree of nodes of different types. Some are dictionaries, some are streams of other data. All of them are documented in the spec. There's all sorts of wonderful corners, like spot printing colors.

PDFs are actually ok, wait till you dig into the fonts. Now there's the real dark art of the ancients.
for java, i wonder if you could make the stack-size smaller to increase the number of threads possible (as long as you know your application can handle this smaller sized stack - aka no recursion etc).
I wonder if people with naturally high pain tolerance would also have reduced positive empathy?
1. That is not a standard definition of racism. It's one a small elite attempts to impose on society and is still mostly unrecognized outside of that.

2. There is no evidence that white people have institutional power over people of other races. This is a baseless assertion that forms the basis of a left-wing racial victimhood dogma.

3. It's also irrelevant. It's not the word "racism" that makes what you're doing bad. It's the fact that you're negatively generalizing people based on a single superficial dimension of their personage. It's bigotry, that disparages people based on something they have no control over, no matter if you want to engage in mental gymnastics to claim it's not "racism".
As an adverse opinion, I worked at a FAANG company as a software engineer for several years and not once did I ever have to implement one of those fancy data structures or algorithms that are taught at universities around the world.

There are of course outliers, but the vast majority of CS jobs out there are simply shuffling data around. They even call it “shuffling protobufs” at Google.
FYI, Firefox Android has basically killed add-ons, similar to Chrome. You can only install custom addons if you register with Mozilla:

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/20647
The Economist Who Believes Human Ingenuity Will Save the World
I came here to read the comments and figure out who the asshole is.
> In his item #1, he links to https://discourse.julialang.org/t/loaderror-when-using-inter... The issue is actually a Zygote bug, a Julia package for auto-differentiation, and is not directly related to Julia codebase (or Flux package) itself. Furthermore, the problematic code is working fine now, because DiffEqFlux has switched to Enzyme, which doesn't have that bug. He should first confirm whether the problem he is citing is actually a problem or not.

> Item #2, again another Zygote bug.

If flux chose a buggy package as a dependency, that's on them, and users are well justified in steering clear of Flux if it's authors are not in habit of auditing the depencies they pull in. As of today, the Project.toml for both Flux and DiffEqFlux still lists Zygote as a dependency. Neither list Enzyme.

https://github.com/FluxML/Flux.jl/blob/master/Project.toml

https://github.com/SciML/DiffEqFlux.jl/blob/master/Project.t...
Definitely, and its all theatre, easily circumventable such that dirty/sanctioned/fraudulently acquired money is within the financial system. Its circumventable in the way that the KYC fails to assist the state in any investigation, and more!
For our logging purposes, we found Sentry dead simple to use. Registration / pricing was straightforward and their SDK (C#) worked without any issues. Ours apps and services were using Sentry same-day.

New Relic was simple too back in the day but now it just seems geared towards large enterprises.
One of the biggest hurdles to my use of Jax is that it doesn't work on Windows, my daily driver. It's inconvenient when playing around with a new tool that requires a whole other OS to run. I'm hoping that gets figured out soon.
Flying cars?

There's been many proposed and built, but they haven't really 'taken off'.

Also "personal air vehicles" i.e. human carrying quadcopters and the like. Lots of press, still nothing commercially available after years.
Why is the Anglo-Saxon world so individualistic, and why has China leaned towards collectivism? Was it Adam Smith, or the Bill of Rights; communism and Mao? According to at least one economist, there might be an altogether more surprising explanation: the difference between wheat and rice. You see, it’s fairly straightforward for a lone farmer to sow wheat in soil and live off the harvest. Rice is a different affair: it requires extensive irrigation, which means cooperation across parcels of land, even centralised planning. A place where wheat grows favours the entrepreneur; a place where rice grows favours the bureaucrat.
> I cannot count the number of times I have lost a long well-typed comment on HN, because my internet went down

Why are you not learning and adapting then? Write your novel in external editor, be it on phone or computer and paste, when ready.

I still have this habit from early days when my connection would go down randomly.
Donations are made because of relationships. The donor likely has a relationship with Stanford or leaders at Stanford and has had many conversations with them about what he might donate money for. This is what they came up with.

And, yes, donations are often vanity projects. He will likely get his name on a building, maybe an honorary degree. His name is now forever tied to Stanford.
> A news org getting a story wrong is not defamation

Exactly, and neither is a journalist outright lying as long as it's not harming someone's reputation. I have no idea why the author says: "I trust the jour­nal­ists, because there are still serious legal conse­quences for news orga­ni­za­tions that publish false­hoods"

There are zero legal conse­quences for news orga­ni­za­tions who knowingly lie and mislead as long as they do it with a little bit of care.
My experience after a few years of OMAD fasting is that my body adapted really deeply. I don't get hungry (as long as I do eventually eat) and I have consistent energy levels throughout the day. If I know I'm about to do some long hike the next day (sometimes very long! 30+ miles) I try to eat extra the day before so I won't run out of energy the next day, which has also happened to me towards the end of a hike.
Right here.

https://nanovms.com

If you like kernel level c I'm hiring. The best hackers want to work with the best hackers and we are charting a new course for the 2020s - not one from the 1960s. Despite what you might read in the main-stream dev news our work is extremely important and needs people just like you.

You don't have to work at a boring corporate job -- you can instead work at the unikernel company NanoVMs - you just need to email me.
That's one of the open questions. YES. Absolutely.
That person is a Capitalist, and I am not.
141 million, is a minor footnote in their profits.
> unreasonable to be mad that people are trying to sell you iterative changes on what you already have

You must be furious about phones or game consoles or cars or...
This is great, thank you!

I’ve been living in backend-land for so long I’ve never actually used the <picture> tag. I will have to take a stab at it and see how the legacy browsers treat it, because if I don’t have to use GIFs, I won’t.

As for the @media tags, I do utilize them to a degree, just to make everything render nicely on mobile and to support dark-mode. But (to put it cheekily) I’m more concerned with backwards compatibility than forwards compatibility :p
> [...] and Edgar is the worst football player he has ever seen. [...] After Brad leaves the stadium, Edgar hits a home run, winning the game.

The irony. Or the sarcasm. This is comedy gold on so many levels.
It’s easy to demonstrate impact with the money-making stuff as you can put a dollar figure in your perf. The stuff that doesn’t get done as much is where your impact isn’t as easily demonstrated (e.g small incremental improvements that add up to a lot in term of overall quality)
Interesting. Delta is the only airline I absolutely refuse to ever fly again.
I believe that Universal Job guarantee (via a Federal Program - which doesn’t enforce a minimum wage but gives an alternative and sets a defacto floor on the price of labor - akin to the one done post Depression or WWII) or UBI are better than minimum wage laws, but minimum wage seems to be more politically palatable.
Security Risk and Failure Risk
I believe it's just called "game", or "having game".
Would you want the most recent reply or would you want to catch up and get the most popular in that order?

The most recent is probably not what I would want to see. Close family, friends, social circles first than influencers after.
"How git works", especially demystifying merge conflicts, has been a major pain point at all my jobs from embedded to frontend web dev, unfortunately.
> Whatever your pursuit, if you’re being judgmental of most other people, then you’re probably missing something big

Sure, but this may very well be intentional and good; an entire community can become pathological, and it then makes sense (and is good) for principled people to trust their judgement, even if it makes them an outcast.

Liberal-minded people often had this reaction to the mid-century rise of fascism, to the point of turning that into art. I'm specifically thinking of Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionescu, but there are many other examples.
We desperately need raspberry pis for our product! Does anyone happen to know where we can find more? We are currently drifting back to x86 to deal with the immense shortage of Pis!
does it not work on WSL ?
Not everyone knows that a private "black car" "car service", which is often a single car and driver, is commonly not called a "taxi".
Re-reading the original comment, I misunderstood their verb tense. I took it as "why hadn't we just done this ourselves" and was pointing out the historic glad-handing.

You are correct that in response to the issue, the IRS cut out the sweetheart deal they'd given the industry originally.
It's up to the society to decide, as long as the society accepts the consequences. If a job is useful, the society should ensure that people doing it get a fair share of the wealth. If a job is not useful, nothing of real value is lost if all businesses relying on such jobs fail.
That's not the standard I hold myself to.

I wish the Stripe team all the best, especially if they're playing by the rules. Their product has been top notch since almost the very beginning, which is remarkable. I'm actually relieved to be wrong! Prefer spreading positivity.
I meant superficially. I could write a script that computes histograms over the frequency of the characters in its input, and use the output to judge perl code quality.

In Python, that heuristic wouldn't work nearly as well.
> poison to counteract poison

Atropine is the standard antidote to several nerve gases and pesticides. It is itself quite toxic, as are the standard antidotes to atropine overdose.

Analogies often fall apart when examined literally, but I do think there's a role for software to play in mitigating the harms of social media. This is almost certainly not that software, but I like online one-to-many and many-to-many communication with people I actually know, and miss what Facebook provided when most of what it showed me was original content from my friends and family.
I had looked at this. It doesn't seem like they've implemented anything to handle firewall rules. They may not even be able to, seeing as how that part of ZT is closed source. Also, this doesn't solve the problem with mobile apps, so the whole thing was a moot point for me.
Do students or employers care about ABET? I don’t think they do.
"too much", if you take small amounts not too often, it's fine
It wasn't open source at the beginning. (I know, I was there.) We open-sourced it early on, but it started as closed-source software.
This shouldn’t happen in theory in a properly engineered and built system. The switches have arc chutes inside of them already, and the contacts are spring loaded to open and close as fast as possible to minimize. On the motor end, the maximum amount of amperage a motor pulls is called the Locked Rotor Current. You can achieve LRC by stopping a running motor with a screwdriver. But a motor also hits LRC for a brief second every time it starts from a rest state. So a UL rated motor sees maximum amperage all the time in its normal lifecycle.
Hahah right except that in this case the reward is purely intrinsic for returning to pay, while leaving without anyone knowing results in an extrinsic reward ($). "Being rewarded" is generally considered extrinsic otherwise you could just not do some bad thing and claim the feeling of knowing you didn't do the bad thing is a great reward in itself.
Because most people are not in Canada? At least who use this website I'm guessing? Or does WealthSimple Tax also do American taxes? Also, the signal to noise ratio. This is the first I've ever heard of this company, and I usually am light years ahead of the "normal" person because I peruse sites like this constantly.
Most common thing I say is "Enough with the damn credit card ads." Abusing safety equipment to abuse a captive audience should be a crime.
Automatically.

Everyone else is eating the results of all that money-making in the many many cafes.

Actually, this is only true for SWEs. The money making at Google really runs on the insane hard work of its SREs and its data centre staff.
It's not hard to articulate why: Nearly all the large numbers are beyond what anyone can actually pay. If you assume that the bet pays out at most 4 billion dollars, and simply can't pay more than that, suddenly the expected value is $32, instead of "infinite".