skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have the same feeling sometimes, but when I went back and checked some historical HN front pages, it wasn't amazing either.

Here's the one from 5 years ago, for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2017-05-03

Or 10 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2012-05-03

For me it seems to be selective memory. Sometimes it seems like it's all the same, it's just the names of companies and technologies that change. Am I just getting old?
Oh please - I'm severely ADD and was before it was even a thing. I still managed to learn to adapt without expecting everyone around me to bend to me.

And I'm not only full time WFH but geographically remote from my office too. Have been for some time. But wouldn't be anywhere near where I am to day had I started out that way.

There is nothing wrong with remote work. What's wrong is pretending there aren't trade off's with remote work. if those trade off's aren't majority negative for you then have at it! But assuming remote work should just be the norm just because it's what an employee wants - that's nuts!
There is also https://www.neilb.net/n64wasm/ , but you have to bring your own rom.
Okay, a fair few things to comment on. Firstly, you can't turn back time. You have to design your new brand and reputation if you want to change your career trajectory. I suggest you look at your real value, strengths and weaknesses and be honest about how people see you. It does not seem that other people see you or your value as you see yourself.
It sounds like you are angry, but if you use that emotion to push yourself to create a new brand and build the skills to demonstrate your value, you won't need any professional to deal with your emotions.
I hope this helps.
I don't think it's fair that you got down-voted for not knowing what Lisp-style interactive development offers beyond what ipython or jupyter offers. Many people don't know either and the proper response would be to explain, not to down-vote.

EDIT: I was made aware of the guidelines to not comment on voting, I apologize.
I am mozilla VPN, which uses Mullvad, is there any disadvantage using Mozilla over directly using Mullvad?
Lol that makes sense, never thought of commenting out the command but I guess I do something similar. If i realize i dont want a command yet I enter it with a trailing `\`, then `CTRL+C` to get back to an empty prompt.
I don't think it's being portrayed as news first, as it's just the first hard proof that a lot of these actors have investments and how they maintain their wealth and life styles despite the heavy scrutiny and weight of sanctions.

Second, I think it actually __is news__ for a lot of people just how such person's store their wealth. The schemes available once you have a huge amount of money are nothing that most people can even consider as an option for a store of wealth, so it probably is a surprise for a lot of people that yes, once you have 6 figures to throw around, you can throw that money around pretty freely, and worse, regardless of what laws are created just to restrict you.

For me I hope the take away is that sanctions aren't as much of a pressure they are made out to be and tend to harm the general populous of countries more than it does the actual actors targeted by the sanctions. Financially it does hit the actors of course, but you still have people with millions or more hidden away in places the sanctions cannot touch. It's a momentary hiccup at best in many cases and the actors continue to love lavish life styles with a nest egg to pull from that lasts decades without much of a change in life style.

All while common people suffer with money and food shortages and wondering how they're going to make a living in the years to come.

The argument might be to "rise up then!" But this is really not feasible as those in power take exceptional steps to make sure this cannot happen without an excessive bloodbath, and even with that it's not clear it will actually even help.

As I see it, as long as such places like Dubai exist and Seve clients of all types, including those who aren't the target of sanctions, the situation cannot improve by sanctions alone. If hitting these actors where it counts also means that Senator Bob Everyperson gets too much attention to their financial investments, then these financial store methods are going to continue to aid such actors and will not be touched.

I don't have an answer for how ti fix this since the world shouldn't bow to any single entity's rule; but hitting millions of innnocents who have no means to fight back or effectively change the systems they had the misfortune to be born into seems counterproductive and only strengthens the grip and popularity of these actors. Cutting off the people's access to free information only makes it worse, and limiting their ability to get fresh information makes it almost impossible to change public opinion of these actors. The end result is bad actors that don't suffer at all, look even better and more popular with their constituents, and millions suffer to get basic necessities or to secure a path to a better life.

So yes, articles like this are important I think, as it shows that it's not so black and white as just apply sanction and make bad person suffer; they don't at all. A better method needs to be found.
I’m not looking to work with people who need me to justify the info I gather or the tools I use.

The problem isn’t what I want to do it’s having an intermediary in the process who only introduces drag.
lol - see you in 20 years my friend :)
Scientists Discover Method to Break Down Plastic in Days, Not Centuries
Of all the places, I actually wouldn’t mind going into Apple’s (relatively) new HQ…if I lived within 30 minutes. Otherwise, it’s a complete waste of my personal time sitting in traffic and waste of gas.
I honestly don't understand some of the ideas people have about remote work. Remote work may be great, but there will be challenges associated.

For example, so many people are going about saying that they should be paid the same whether they work in SF or Topeka. And the assumption is that means people in Topeka will be paid SF salaries. And that may be true for a few years while we are still inside an extremely tight labor market. However, once there is the slightest bit of slack, it's far more likely that employees in SF will be paid Topeka salaries.

A few years further it's even more likely that people in Topeka and SF will be paid Bangalore or Rio or Mexico City salaries.

If there's no benefit from being geographically co-located, then the market should drive everyone to locate themselves in the cheapest geographies possible.

Now, this may not actually be true, even in a looser labor market, and there may be other reasons that would lead to salaries across Topeka and SF remaining at SF levels, but a clear eyed discussion would start from the earlier assumption, that salaries would drop, and then justify why that wouldn't happen.

What I'm seeing instead is that everyone is assuming that salaries will rise, and then operating based entirely on that assumption, without any discussion about why this may or may not be true.
It seems like there are ways to solve the commuting problem, by moving closer to work for example, in much the same way as you say others should find a job to satisfy their in-person work requirements. But opinions aside, what is true is that remote work is not common in the vast majority of workplaces around the world - and isn't a viable option for a number of of jobs. Saying "People work differently" doesn't change that reality.
Score: 128 (Your IQ was measured to 128 which is equivalent to the 97 percentile, with a standard deviation of 15.)

A little brag? idk, depends on what others' are. But long time no see, Mensa. I remember I used to do their books and would end up at somewhere in the middle of the bell curve. This is the first time I've scored this high. Programming does wonders :P. Also means that score is not absolute for life and can change over time depending on how much brain you exercise. Thanks for posting.
I recently had the exact same thought watching this video of Billy Strings and his father playing together.

https://www.google.com/search?q=billy+strings+akd.his+dad&oq...
I think of Haskell along with other languages that allow for shipping small, single-file binaries with a garbage collected, high level language. The straightforward alternatives I'm aware of include Nim, OCaml, Crystal, and Go.

Go is the most popular of this set, but to me seems like it barely qualifies as "high level". On Tiobe, the next most popular language from this set after Go is Haskell.

I like Haskell just fine, but what I really care about is "a more high level GC'd language than Go that ships binaries".
One possibility would be making an internal transition to a new role at the company you currently work for. This worked for me in moving from a systems administrator to SWE position years ago. Of course it can only work if your employer actually has the type of role you're interested in and isn't rigid and inflexible about work assignments. In that case the key is to greatly exceed expectations for your current role by showing that you can solve bigger problems that are of importance to your employer.
Walking is great for your general health, so in a way you're getting paid in health credits.
If you've never written a line of Rust in your life, then your position could be more informed. I've written a lot of Rust, and see how much one sacrifices to get the memory safety guarantees without losing speed or memory safety. You can't make basic observers, RAII, dependency injection, back-references, or a lot of other useful patterns, without sacrificing speed or safety.
UO is actually roughly the same generation as Graal. There were several of these fairly creative stabs at the problem before WoW came along and really defined what a MMO is.

I think in many way Neverwinter Nights' persistent worlds is another noteworthy entry. They weren't massively multiplayer, but I think more like a cross between Baldur's Gate and a MUD.
Not anymore! They all return spam now :/
From what I recall after listening to a podcast (I don't remember which one) on foreign policy, it's said that Putin was extremely angry that it was leaked because it exposed his wealth. It's also said that the Panama Papers helped create sanctions against him.
Encryption with a signed keypair maybe.
Amen brother. I walk about an hour a day, most every day, and do some light weights. It's the perfect amount of clear-your-head-and-think time for me, and makes me feel tons better. But it's a tradeoff about what doesn't get done (or that I push off on my wife & family) because I do it. The theme some folks in this thread are pushing that "oh, just take 3-4 hours a day...no big deal anyone can do that...you have nothing more important to do" is seriously defective.
There are two “ecosystems” at topic here: the language you’re writing code in, and the environment that it’s being executed in. In this case, you’re writing Hy that’s executed in a Python language environment, that allows you to tap into its entire ecosystem with Hy (in a similar way like Clojure and the JVM). These types of “alternative front ends” are a great way to bridge the gap for a new language.

As such, for Hy’s target audience, I think it’s not as much “ditch a new language” as it is “I have to use Python for $reason, but I want something more like CL”. A good example of this would be any machine learning related work.

Last but not least, I would expect that on HN we focus a bit more on “what could make Hy even better” rather than “what other languages are better than Hy”.
> A simple "thanks" goes much further than you think. Especially those that are genuine and out of the blue. For some reason managers tend to not use this "magic" word.

I used to work in litigation as an attorney before moving to the tech world. Started off as a public defender, which included working with some very challenging people (not just the clients, but also witnesses, sheriffs, prosecutors, judges, etc.). Learned pretty quickly to harness the power of three very powerful magic spells:

• I'm sorry

• Please

• Thank you

When used with sincerity, you can move mountains. I wish more people understood this.
I guess there was more than meets the eye here.
Creating the First Commercial Open-Source Robotic Quadruped
That's fine, it's the kind of project I've been meaning to do for myself, so wherever it leaves off at... chances are high I'll continue for my own personal learning.
> But, as Karlsson points out, “anyone who’s owned eight dogs from the same breed will tell you all about their different personalities”.

Even within a single litter, you can obviously track different personalities. The bigger dominant ones to the submissive runt. The more dominant or adventurous ones will come up to you while others remain a bit back and the runt remains all the way back.

> Particularly low was the connection between breed and how likely a dog was to display aggressive behaviour, which could have implications for how society treats “dangerous” dog breeds

Even within a litter, there will be more aggressive and less aggressive. And it isn't just "aggressiveness" that determines how society treats "dangerous" dog breeds, it's the size and ability to cause damage. Every pitbull owner will shout from the rooftops that a chihuahua is more aggressive than a pitbull and more people are bitten by chihuahuas than pitbulls. Of course they completely ignore the fact that a pitbull's bite will cause far more damage than a chihuahuas.

> Breeds as we think of them today — distinctive canines such as beagles, pugs and Labradors — are a by-product of more recent evolutionary meddling. Starting around 200 years ago, dog enthusiasts in Victorian England began inventing breeds by actively selecting for canine traits that they found aesthetically pleasing.

But dog breeds go back far thousands of years. Are they limiting dog breeds to just the last 200 years? Even so, certainly you can predict some behavioral differences between a labrador and a beagle. Of course being dogs they will share a lot of common behaviors like wagging the tail, sniffing each other, barking, etc, but certainly there are differences.

> But, on average, breed explained only around 9% of the variation in how a dog behaved, a number “much smaller than most people, including me, would have expected,” says Karlsson.

What did she expect? Dog breeds to behave 100% differently from each other?

> “We talk about breeds like they’re categorically different,” he says. “But in reality, that’s not the case.”

They are categorically different. Also why does the article talk about behavior then switch to personality then to temperament as if they all mean the same thing.

We have too many eaters in academia, media, etc. Nothing of value in the article. This study and article is a fine example of "publish or perish". People who have nothing to say or contribute but forced to say something and waste everyone's time because they need to justify their paychecks. This is why I support UBI. Cut down on the useless and wasteful white collar busy work.
Yeah, that's probably what they were going for. These kinds of puzzles are pretty bogus though. You could choose any number of ways to interpret each cell as some logical expression, and then choose from any number of functions that make the truth table valid with any result you want in the blank cell. At that point, you just have to guess which of those functions the test writers thought was the most "natural" or "elegant" or "clever," but there's really no objective sense in which one is more correct than the other (unless you literally define the purpose of the test as measuring the ability of the test taker to predict the intent of the test writer).

To use a simpler example with integer sequences, if the question asked for the next integer in this sequence:

0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, ?

Most of us probably immediately think "ooh, the test writer is very clever because they know about the Fibonacci sequence, and I'm clever too, so the correct answer is obviously 13. But wait! What if the intended sequence is the number of strict odd-length integer partitions of 2n, and thus the correct answer is 11 [0]? What if the intended sequence is the number of balanced ordered trees with n nodes, and the correct answer is 14 [1]? Heck, what if the intended sequence is Fibonacci(n) mod 10, and the correct answer is 3? There is an infinite set of functions from the integers to the integers which give you the 7 provided results for n=0 through n=6, and you can get any result you want for n=7 by just choosing among those functions. There is absolutely no mathematical or logical way to prefer any one of those functions to any other.

[0] https://oeis.org/A344650

[1] https://oeis.org/A007059
What's the difference? (for a legal layperson like me)
Edit: I realized describing the paths forward to dealing with this sort of challenge requires more context than can be given in a short comment, so I'll work on that and come back with more later.
Not too smart to handle content blockers. Got through 30 questions and ran out of time and hit finish only to see a JS error. LOL
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I’m an economics professor (not in macro, but I’ve taken more macro and at a higher level than you have).

I think this comment is right on the money. None of what I learned in graduate school would help you forecast the price of a specific asset.

Some of the large investment firms do employ economics PhDs to help them make forecasts of particular broad macro variables (inflation, unemployment, etc.). I don’t know of anyone who uses their macro background to forecast specific asset prices (e.g., Amazon’s share price).

(Note that there are people in economics who study time series forecasting - that can be used to make forecasts for specific assets but is considered somewhat separate from most macro modeling, which is micro founded and done in a DSGE framework.)

I’d recommend you study macro bc it is interesting and intellectually rewarding, but I don’t think it’s going to tell you anything about pricing a specific asset.
Disclosure: I'm the co-author of the blog post.

One nice thing about this approach is that because it works by inspecting a database that has been put in a desired state. This means it doesn't matter how you set up your database (with an ORM, a SQL file, etc.) the same function can be used to do the migration.

I'd really like if something like this were built into SQLite. That way we'd have more confidence that it would be/stay correct and complete. It seems generic enough that it could be a part of built-in functionality. I would have proposed it upstream, but AIUI the SQLite authors don't accept external patches.

Edit: Another benefit of this being built-in: there are plenty of places where SQLite is applicable where you can't, or don't want to run Python.
I always have the problem that I can either focus on the conversation or on the environment, but not both. When I concentrate on the conversation, I completely blind out my surroundings. Trying to repeatedly switch between both is exhausting.
A transversal quality does not imply «navel-gazing».
It can if your standing desk is shaped like a donut; then it can go forwards, backwards, and sideways ;)
If an IQ-based club sets its threshold too high, then it might end up accepting Mozart but excluding Beethoven. I'd personally find that fascinating, but the other 100% of the population would probably find it incoherent at best.

If an IQ-based club sets its threshold low enough to include a Beethoven, then it's no longer really an IQ-based club. (E.g., our threshold is "Edgar" because we want the smartest people and also we really like Edgar's output.)

Edit: I changed "Edgar" above to "Edgar's output." Let me explain:

Mozart had the "bigger brain," but Beethoven obsessed over a narrower set of techniques and devoted his life to exploring every facet of them (much to the detriment of everything else in his life). Probably for that reason, his output is considered to be at a comparable level by most historians. This is true even by modernist analysis standards which attempt to exclude considerations like influence.

You can probably find similar cases straddling any IQ threshold, where you want to include output from X and Y even though Y's IQ didn't meet your threshold.
The reason for this is because the conferencing system typically has an automixer setup which turns up the active speaker and turns down everyone else. That's why it's impossible to say have a group of people sing a song together on Zoom (ignoring latency) because the automixer will switch between different singers erattically as opposed to hearing them all at the same time. In typical videoconference setting with one person speaking at a time this feature typically makes sense.

This kind of mixing won't work well in a game for obvious reasons, so the audio is sent direct. However, the game uses direction and distance based audio to make the sound more natural. E.g. if the player to your right speaks, the signal you hear will be panned to the right. Humans are great at identifying different voices coming from different directions - you can try this yourself by loading up some voices into a DAW and seeing the difference in intelligibility having them panned out vs mono.

Note that this tech may work well in a VR meeting room or something but it won't in a regular monural video call. Also the user will need a proper stereo setup (headphones or speakers a reasonable distance apart) for this to work.
Which is the tolerated here? Allowing abortions or not allowing abortions? Because obviously this phrase can be applied to both making it rather useless as a rationalization for either side.

Downvote away, it’s unambiguously true.
Isn't the point of plastic pallets that they're more durable/reusable than wood?
>Apple has much better score than other companies with issues like this

Is there an objective scoring system you can point me to? Or a league table?

>It's totally unrealistic to expect hardware companies to watch every factory of their supply chain all the time

And totally realistic to expect that they had engineers at their major supplier on a regular basis...we are not talking about the people that made the resistors, we are taking about the main assembly plant. I would be suprised if Apple QA were not there full time.

I'm sorry but you don't sound like you have a lot of insight into it beyond what we all read at the time. It makes you sound like a fan boy trying to excuse the inexcusable
Twilio? Google voice?
Agreed. The data broker that the CDC got this data from is SafeGraph. What we really should be asking is what "partners" SafeGraph got this data from, and how.
What's funny about the VPPA is that it's so narrow in scope, to the point where it must have been deliberately so. It's not like people were unaware in the late 80s of where the information economy would lead. Of course nothing like "ad tech" existed back then, but the fact that only a specific type of product purchase/rental was covered suggests that the law was never intended to actually protect consumers.
"I have considered using EVIL mode, but I am wary of losing touch with default Emacs, as it's something that comes up from time to time as well"

You're basically giving up almost everything that makes Emacs great: its ecosystem. Bare-bones, default, vanilla Emacs, without any packages or configuration is woefully underpowered compared to Emacs or vim with lots of packages and configuration. I hate to use either in their default states, and would have never switched to Emacs if I wasn't able to use Evil.
I am Schrodinger's dummy.
I am Schrodinger's smarty.
Chard?
To make it more general, non-autistic people also sometimes have trouble with body language. The non-controversial point is most humans fall somewhere on the spectrum where they're able to read others' body language - with a minority being outliers.