skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Intelligence really doesn’t seem like the solution to any of our big problems.

Why not?

>I’ve heard this argument before (and probably made this argument at some point too), and it seems to boil down to thinking that people would agree with me if they would just be a bit smarter and/or more informed.

I don't want the next generation to agree with me. I want them to be on the next level.

>I think there is a strong argument for emotional intelligence, worldliness, and empathy though.

If you have a society of monkeys, no matter how worldly, emotionally intelligent they are - they are not creating astrolabes to travel the oceans, they are not domesticating animals, they are not writing plays, they are not building huts, even.

Similarly, if you create a society of humans with a higher average intelligence, we will likewise experience a phase shift and access new wonders of culture and science that are simply inaccessible or extremely impractical right now. I cannot tell you what these wonders will be, but I am certain they exist.

And in my humble opinion, we have already started to hit a wall in terms of what areas of intellectual achievement are possible with our current 'hardware' limitations. There are already areas of math, of physics, of biology that maybe 10-20 people on the whole Earth are capable of working in. We struggle to come up with any satisfying macro economic theory with testable predictions. Religious thought has very obviously stalled as well.
It's 8 keys less than on my atreus, which I run with 3 layers, not all of which are full. I can see how I'd get there from here.
I've been thinking about plant intelligence for over a decade (and have a neuroscience-related Ph.D.), yet never took it down the path of computation efficiency/time/energy tradeoffs as you have done. Thank you for this new perspective, including its obvious conclusion:

> trees can afford to be very, very smart.

Hopefully I can use some of my perspective to address your follow-on question:

> What could a smarter tree do to outcompete rivals?

This may represent a limited understanding of Darwinian evolution.

Trees have an economy, sharing resources with each other and with other living things.

Tree also are (more or less) fixed in place, thus these economic games are repeated games with known participants.

They thus have a vested interest in maximizing the wealth of the community, rather than their individual wealth. They may (and studies suggest they do) have a preference for supporting their offspring over other trees, but not to the point of killing the community their offspring will also depend on.

Where I am going with this. Repeated economic games are not zero-sum; the pie can get bigger. "Competition" in this setting does not look like competition in a zero-sum "I have to beat the other guy" game.

What trees can do with their intelligence is learn how to build long-term stable and nuturing communities which generate substantial wealth for many members. And that this is a logical local (perhaps global) optimium.
How do modern frameworks perform on the new INP metric
Linking a TLD's fate to ISO-3166 is already perilous for Taiwan. According to that standard, Taiwan's name is "Taiwan (Province of China)"[1]. Seems odd for one province to have it's own country-level record, while other provinces of China do not, but we all countenance the absurdity because China gonna China.

[1]: https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:TW
So long as Hong Kong is not a normal Chinese city, but a quasi-state, it will keep needing its own country code and keep the TLD.
While I agree, I always find picking tens of libraries for a project and making sure the dependencies work out to be somewhat difficult.

What would be the way to orchestrate those libraries? Some sort of orchestration library?
The last I remember thinking about that idea, the answer was yes. And that I could probably switch out the parser to a yml parser, not tell anyone, and get a few months free of parsing errors in our hand written json (don't ask) before anyone noticed. But then I imagined dealing with the inevitable yml parse errors when people figured out the new constraints, and decided not to take that particular path to code sins. I can't remember if I actually tested it for real though.
I don't think the fun of it will last only a weekend, and I don't think you have to get angry at expensive toys. It's more than I would want to pay though.

I currently use the "digital piano" measure of price. My Roland FP-10 + stand cost me around 500 euros, and that is going to bring me many hours of practise and interest. I don't think it's likely that this laptop will beat that, so it's not great value. I don't think it's really terrible though
This is awesome. How are you planning to update this? Any plans to allow user submissions/UGC?
What's does Google Analytics even bring to the table for projects like this?
>that also has smallpox.

Are you seriously unaware that that's "not a thing"? No US government entity, military or otherwise, has ever deliberately infected a native population with smallpox. You're reduced to making shit up?
There's also a say: "pecunia non olet" that literally translates to "money does not stink" but in latin is kind of funny, because pecunia comes from pecu, which does indeed stink :)
Even more amusing to consider directional of change.

If we assume trees are smarter than us, and speeding it up 1000 times brought them down to our level...

and conversely, if we could learn to think slower, would we be smarter?
Why show screenshot thumbnails when you can't click to enlarge? Infuriating.
We built https://cleanfeed.net/ which is an online studio for pro audio.

Chances are if you enjoy radio, podcasts or movies, especially during the pandemic, that you've listened to something produced using Cleanfeed. In many cases you wouldn't even realise that co-host or guest is remote.
Ryzen CPUs are limited when it comes to overclocking due to the infinity fabric as that needs to be stable and in sync with RAM.
I did programming contest problems, and also Google Code Jam a few years in a row, which got Google to reach out, which ended up with me getting hired. They probably didn't reach out due to my fantastic performance as I felt quite mediocre, but it got me hired.

Not quite a personal project, I know..
It's only not hard if you have a parser that allows you to carry that kind of context. Admittedly, operator precedence is so important that most parser (generators) have some canonical way to handle it. But try to implement a language with user-defined binary operators and consider the mess at your hands.
https://qcard.link

One step of the interview process was a feature request / pair programming session.
This feels tangential to the article. The article doesn't situate YAML against XML, JSON, TOML etc but against general purpose languages. The differences between the configuration approach and the GPL approach are pretty substantial compared to the differences between individual config formats.
You must be talking about something different to me. I am referring to using the compiler's LTO option to do LTO. I didn't say that's the only way you could get low overhead.
Without the presence of albumin, the high pressure of the blood vessels would push more fluids into the tissues.

Sounds to me like this would have significant implications for the ability of the body to return interstitial fluid to the bloodstream efficiently.
dhall. strongly typed configs.

if only people could get past the terror and see the light...
I'm in the UK so what to expect is full cloud
A computation is just an implementation of a function `f: {0,1}^N-> {0,1}^M`... if not, what is the meaning of the word at all?

All these phrases "manipulates data", "computation", and so on... they dont mean anything. A kettle "manipulates data".

You think you're saying something empirically significant about the brain using this language, but this language has no empirical content. It is a language of pure mathematics.

All of these claims are true of any system. What do we learn when we hear that "the brain is a computer" (or whatever else you wish to say). We dont learn anything.

If you can provide a logical model of the algorithm the brain is performing, and a model of *how the brain implements it*, then we learn something.

Saying "the brain is a computer" is basically no different than saying "it can be described, somehow, by mathematics".
The mechanical engineers at my work can barely use a computer. I think I'm good.
> the constraints around bitcoin are NOT the same constraints like the ones around a vending machine

Exactly, that's the whole point of the article.
I think that the coin that originated the name was - for some reasons - Dutch, the Dutch thaler called Leeuwendaalder, and it was later, 16th or 17th century, though possibly the actual coins that were used in Romania were some similar Italian ones, in practice "fakes" made with a lower amount of silver:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_leu#Etymology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaler#Dutch_Republic
I bought an SoundBlaster16 DSP card on the basic premise it had a DSP on it as I wanted to do some audio processing. Not sure if it actually did have a DSP IC in it as Creative never released any info on how to program it. The disappointment was made up for because the day after my card arrived the supplier sent a second one by mistake then the day following a third one. They never realised their mistake so I was able to sell the spare two so had some spare cash for more useful toys.
Uff, lots of files. My first idea after reading your comment was to consolidate the settings into two key=value files (simplified INI files): One for defaults, one for custom settings.
Only for SPSC. You need H/T consistency in other cases for full/empty checks.

Cmon AMD/Intel, give us hardware queues already :)
Big Tech is hard. Even if you can get an interview you're competing against so many people it's not likely you will get in (statistically). But let's rephrase what you're asking to "I want to get good/better offers" - the process you need to go through to get those is the same as to get into FAANG.
Namely - drill hard on job interviews. You can get good offers from smaller businesses - those will usually actually test your skills as an actual software developer, so make sure you are skilled. If you want more famous names the interviews tend to be more algorithmic.
So what is the problem - is the problem your resume isn't actually yielding any interview opportunities? In that case consult with an HR pro, you will need to embellish your resume a bit.
If the problem is you're getting interviews but not passing - drill as I said. It's also a matter of luck so you just have to keep trying.

FAANG is a nice goal to have, I don't want to dissuade you from trying, just keep in mind many many people want to be there and there isn't room for everyone. There's plenty of good jobs outside of FAANG.

Another thing that can really help is having a thing that separates you from the crowd - a good Github profile, a good technical blog or even a good Stackoverflow profile (it actually helped me get an offer as the manager was impressed I had a nice Stackoverflow score).
That's reasonable. I'm twitchy about CAS loops because I'm used to unfair schedulers, but they're a great choice in Linux/x64 land
Software engineers that go to the USA do the H1B visa which only very big employers can offer. Those big employers always offer very good health care plans. You are compensated far more than you would earn in Europe so being laid off is not a problem given with one month salary you can leave off for several months and you will have plenty of other employers trying to hire you given you already have the H1B visa.
Could they be made with a piece of string instead that the wearer has to tie?
It's not made very clear in the article, but the eye tracking study was not done by Tropicana, but after-the-fact by an eye tracking company.
well telling half truth doesnt mean you are honnest...
Some stuff are so big that ignoring them is too difficult to ignore and would question others too easely on your motive.
But Devil hides in details. Read their updated diet recommandation and understand that beside yelling with the herd about obesity epidemia, they are doing everything to promote it with their diet guidelines (based on vegan wokism).

Also it's not like nutrition heterodoxia haven't been warning since 50 years an this major health crisis. After year of promotion of modern diet from WHO and associates.

Now that you cannot go in the street without being surrounded by Obesity everywhere it's hard to play blind.

Also after 2 years of COVID, more and more peoples realised that OBESITY poses a threat by fragilizing society at global scale, as far as Obese peoples are weaker to fight against virus, and vaccines are less efficient on obese peoples. So basically they are weak and difficult to protect from common virus, especially respiratory virus.

Not forgetting about Diabetes type 2 (almost 1/3 of adult in the world has diabetic condition mostly due to overweight and obesity). Which calls about talking also on Diabete type 3 which is commonly named Alzheimer disease. Type 2 Diabetic have 6 times more chance to developp Alzheimer than non diabetic in the 10 to 20 years after start of their conditions.

So with more and more young starting to develop T2D around 20 years old, a good part of them will develop Alzheimer disease around 35-40 years old which will also have an huge societal impact.
And even before that, cognitive performance are deeply tied to calories type of sources. Alzheimer disease just being the final stage of a long degradation process over decades due to abuses of bad calories. So basically cognitive performance are degradated long time before Alzheimer occurance.

everybody jokes about Karen, but nobody look at average karen's bodyshape...This could explain a lot.
Amazing, minor nitpick it shows the ISS as visible over Ireland at approx 9pm tonight, pretty bright in Ireland at that time at this time of year, will check and report back if it was visible. Great work, you have amazing talent!
You’re generally lucky then I’d say. The point of the article was to try and see the other side of the equation for those people who do spend a lot of their lives writing long long YAML documents.

If you just need a configuration format for your application then none of this applies, there is however a whole school of tech job that has to deal with this every single day
This is such a privileged take. Outside of internet debates, the vast vast majority of people still see the US as the best place to immigrate to. I'm originally from north Africa, and America is still seen as a better place to be than Europe, by far. Going to Europe can mean years long unemployment, racism, low wages and is only considered because it's more accessible than the US.

In terms of opportunities for an immigrant, America is just in another league. Maybe tech workers don't see the difference, especially if they are from another western country, but that's not representative.

Also, I completely disagree that there wouldn't be a huge wave of immigration if ther borders open. Yes, moving is hard. But it's a complete no brainer when you have almost 0 prospects and opportunities in the place you currently live. They wouldn't be moving to just get a higher salary or a better career, they'd do it because they could barely even earn a living.

It's hard to imagine for westerners, and I think it's coming from a position of privilege where you can't really imagine things being so bad that you'd just move without hesitation at any opportunity. But that's the current situation for hundreds of millions of people. Wouldn't you jump on the opportunity to move if you lived somewhere where getting a McDonald's job isn't easy and youth unemployment can reach 50%?
These kinds of changes always feel to me like a new designer coming in and feeling like they need to make their mark - so they mess with an original design that works fine, just for the sake of some stupid career progression.

See: literally all Google products. Endlessly changing interfaces, one worse than another, for literally no reason - other than what I can only imagine is a string of promotions and designers feeling really important for couple months before they move onto the next product they can mess with and add to their portfolio.
Not only Rust, there is plenty of programming language design experience between 1950 and 2009, but naturally that was PhD stuff not worth taking into consideration.
Is there a reason a Markdown file, Notion generated page or Google Docs/Sheets would not have sufficed?
Blind Upload uses crypto.subtle to encrypt files in the browser, before uploading them to the cloud and displaying the key only in the browser.

https://www.blindupload.org
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Crypto/subt...
Except, only you are there. Exactly where you started, sterile and empty-handed.

"God did it" is equally applicable as the answer to every possible question, and is equally useless in every case. Every jot and tittle of progress ever made came from rejecting that answer.
Plik is a temporary file upload system (like Wetransfer) in Go
No it's not just FAANG. Just FAANG literally imply only Facebook Apple Amazon Netflix and Google offer healthcare. So I need to find only one more company that does offer healtcare to disprove you.
And I'll name Intel where I worked.
But likely all companies with 50+ employees offer you healthcare.
Also healthcare is not so expensive given the salary you receive.
The problem of private healthcare is a serious problem related to people in the USA earning 0-50.000$ a year. After that private healthcare paid in advance costs few hundred dollars per month and you can definitely afford it with a software engineer salary.
Thanks! ISS is very bright; bright enough that it is sometimes even visible before sunset if you know exactly where to look! It's fun to try to spot it in a bright sky although it can be difficult. Let me know if you find it!
Unfortunately, solar and wind and even nuclear do almost nothing to alleviate the impact that oil price has on the price of goods.

BEVs are far from being ready to be a part of the goods distribution market, even by land - power/weight is still far too low. Electrical trains are useful, but building up new rail infrastructure has been neglected and takes a long time. Even if BEVs were viable, battery production is limited, and electrifying the transportation industry would directly compete with increasing renewables on the power grid and the need to expand storage capacity to do so. The price of batteries would sky-rocket and cause inflation this way.

Secondly, oil and other fossil fuels are used for their chemical properties in a large amount of industries - plastics and fertilizer being the most obvious. The cost of oil going up significantly directly impacts all of these industries. Some uses could be replaced with cheap power generation (e.g. H2 production through electrolysis instead of natural gas breakdown), but that requires a massive expansion of the power grid.

So even if we were able to keep power from the grid cheap through renewables, fossil fuel prices exploding would still rapidly increase inflation, probably to unacceptable levels.

Of course, that still doesn't mean we should drill more. The right answer, given the unprecedented threat of global warming, is neither to increase oil supply nor to hope that increasing renewable will be enough. The right answer is to decrease demand - stop producing many unnecessary goods and burying them in plastic then shipping them halfway across the world. Ration the existing oil supply to the highest impact industries, and let other industries replace it.

Don't allow industry to keep using expensive oil while shunting the price off on consumers.
Ask HN: Any tool for system design and then simulation/testing?
It's a problem that's been around for quite a while. Like, since the dawn of computers. And it's been solved numerous times in compiler generators, explained in textbooks, etc. Right now most solutions compete on clarity, simplicity and adaptability, not solving the problem itself.

These days the general consensus is to use the Pratt parser, which is somewhat harder to understand, but ends up not too hard to build and integrate into a recursive decent parser, and is supereasy to modify.

Here's one popular explanation:

https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2011/03/19/pratt-parsers-...

What I find funny is that Pratt's parser was never really a theoretical result and was never properly covered in popular compiler textbook.
We unfortunately have one of those people in our team and he just can't be trusted to work from home. Unless he has people basically watching over his shoulder, then he gets nothing done

Over the 18 months of lockdown, his weekly engineering updates showed little change from week to week.

No surprise that when the order to return to the office came in, he argued for months about it
Unfortunely switching to F# also means throwing away what actually makes .NET relevant in terms of end to end developer experience, and the Redmond overloads don't seem to care that much to change that, as the C in CLR seems to refer to C# and no longer to Common, in the ways VS and VS4Mac are designed.
You can become a canadian citizen 3 years after getting your PR, usually. It would make sense for high earners to wait a few years before buying, and by that time they are already citizens. I might be completely wrong, but I just don't see how citizenship of the owners really disprove anything.
I concur. I have been programming JavaScript for 20 years and I have never used call/bind/apply. I have never been able to understand what they are for or what they do.
https://webvm.io is our public demo of CheerpX, an x86 virtualization technology made with WebAssembly.

At Leaning Technologies we have been using WebAssembly pretty much from day 1 as part of our C++ and Java compilers. CheerpX is our latest product, and we think it really pushes the boundaries of what is possible in the modern browser.
I never quite thought that I would see a fellow Zimbo on HN - although I suspect the few of us that are have left the country for good (and did so decades ago at that).
3D Buildings in Google Map like that was announced a few days ago at Google IO, it's called immersive view. https://blog.google/products/maps/three-maps-updates-io-2022...

I don't think we can actually use it yet though.

Edit: that video might be of a different 3D feature I have no idea of
Because for some people it really does. We have one such example in our team that unless he has people watching over his shoulder, he seems to have spent lockdown twiddling his thumbs
Some batteries have an entire stm32 series microcontroller in them, I've seen battery controllers that are actually the same "CPU" as on a discrete single motor quadcopter ESC.
Unless you cycle in which case you wake yourself up and get some exercise in
You'd better start saving for a cryo setup as well then, because even if your sensor has the right sensitivity at those wavelengths it will be hard to avoid contaminating the results if the gear itself is not chilled, unless the signal you are sampling is overwhelmingly stronger than the stray photons produced by the gear.
Those glasses look really nice. Much nicer than the original Google glass.

Also, I guess the last few years of learning Mandarin have been a complete waste - 不太好了！
Less stressful in all, no social media to boast one’s wealth, and less impostor syndrome.
I think "orchestratability" is a property of a library. If you start using a library and you find it hard to make it play nicely with other libs, it's probably not a well-designed library.