skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Evidence is not the same as proof. Evidence can often be interpreted in different directions.

As more and more evidence accumulates about some topic, we can use a Bayesian process to continously update our priors, but it is common to disagree about what constitutes enough evidence to conclude.

This is partly due to us having different priors, but also often due to our tendency to not trust evidence that is in conflict to our priors.

For both of these reasons, sufficient evidence for a new proposition for it to be logically more likely than the pre-existing consensus typically exist for quite a while before it becomes the new consensus.

In many cases, what is required for the paradigm shift to eventually happen, is not so much more evidence, but rather for the old guard to retire. In the interrim, it can be 'obnoxiously obvious' for some that the evidence is already there.
I find little value in these semantic arguments.
So long as carbon-emitting sources are allowed to be used in the mix. That’s the real problem here.
Ask HN: Is IP whitelisting still “a thing”, and why?
In the quest to get up to speed on latest trends, I was very surprised to find an organization asking for a well developed (assumed maintainable and scalable) IP whitelisting process, when just a little while ago, when I took my sabbatical, we were way into either:

- WAF/UTM to protect everything public facing (who could possibly certify consistency and maintainability of source IPs?)

and/or

- JSON produced sets of IPs, from large service provider, "installed" on edge devices (FWs)

and/or

- FQDNs, with verifiable name résolution, where no other solution was possible, to still narrow down sources,

and no longer IPs.

Is anyone still using IP whitelisting? Why? And how do you lifecycle such (MACDs)?
I was commenting about how historically bear markets start around the 20% mark to the original comment regardless of a recession. This is consistent with many books on the subject too and thus isn’t just “arbitrary”. It has actual data going back hundreds of years
A logic puzzle by a computer scientist? Imagine that!

If you don’t understand the reference to the Liar’s paradox you have self-selected yourself as somebody who doesn’t understand computer science.

Similarly: if you prefer prose (which is for humans) and shy away from logic (which is for computation) your interests are better aligned with the “woke” liberal arts; than with computer science.
Communicating Sequential Processes, and Actor model.

I know these aren't "design patterns" in the ordinary sense, but they seem to be ultimate models of computation. Every real world problem I've encountered has been much more easier to solve when looking at the system as a set of sequential processes that communicate.

Best of all - you can do it in almost every system out there. Shell + C is the oldest CSP "framework" I can think of.
OP should list these defeatist attitudes as something to eliminate if you want to be successful.
The nukes prohibit their own use. Besides, there's been more than 2000 nuclear bombs exploded, >500 of which in the atmosphere, and I bet you didn't notice.
I'm not convinced it's an assembly language advantage per se. Most of these very low power MCUs now come in variants with ridiculous amounts of flash that negate the space advantage of hand tuned assembly. The binary a C compiler will generate will be bloated but the tight loops that matter will run with comparable speed and induction count, and the extra dead code and flash will not impact power draw.

So you are down to C knowledge, a datasheet and a register and pin map, which many people in their 20s definitely knew how to handle 10 years ago, when I used to work for Freescale/NXP. To expedite that further you can go with Processor Expert, which will generate C code and abstract much of the datasheet swordsmanship. Can be finicky to setup, but the "drivers" you get (C routines) benefit from long debugging sessions and lessons we learned about the "proper" way to use a peripheral, sometimes using info from the hardware teams that was not in any datasheet.

The thing to win with newer, power hungry platforms is the so called "race to idle". They are so powerful and have such efficient low power modes that the best battery life is obtained by cramming as much work in a wakeup as possible and then going to sleep, as opposed to having an exceptionally low power machine that is awake most of the time. So someone with an 80s paradigm might need to adjust to this reality.

Thousands of units is nothing and definitely not enough to (profitably) stay on hand tuned assembly.
80ish dropping to 70 for tight curves and other "features" is pretty standard for everywhere in the Boston-RI-CT-NYC corridor for pre and post rush hour.
No problem! Good luck. If you can find where your conda-env's python _should_ be, you can invoke it manually to mitigate the issue.

For instance:

/home/user/.miniconda/envs/my-env/bin/python3.8 -m pip install <x>
The vast majority of text objects anybody generates won't exceed 4MB though. 4MB is 4 million ascii/utf8 characters, if we assume a typical word in English is 4 characters for simplicity, that's 1 million words without spaces. A quick Google search for "Novel that is 1 million words" yields the fact that this is twice the word count of Lord of the Ring and the word count of the first 3 A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) books. Accounting for whitespace, longer common words, and inefficient encoding schemes would bring that overestimate down to, what, 150K words? a 300-page or 600-page book (depending on the spacing) according to Google, still massive.

I see it only working where there's massive pooling, like you say. An OS or a tool provides a known dictionary service and you call into it with a text string and get back an array of indices that you can then decode with another call. That amortizes the dictionary cost among all possible uses of the service, which is a lot if it's a standard well-known service. Another scenario is perhaps in a database\cloud storage\social media, any single text object might be small but the total text they store overall is massive.
Well, at least the author did not suggest a specific morning routine.

As the others said, taking serial risks is a luxury. I did not have that luxury coming from a family on wellfare. I had to finish high school with honors, I had to go to college, I had to graduate, I had to find a job, and I had to pay my first rent.

There was no messing around with a startup in my parents' garage. Didn't have a garage. Didn't even have a computer while the other kids did. People describe garages as a rags to riches story. Nope. If you can do that, you are already ahead. Stop bragging about starting out in your garage.

Here is what it's all about. THERE IS NO FORMULA. Is success a product of pure luck. No. Is it a product of hard, non-stop work. Also no.

The truth is in the middle, and the middle itself is highly individual. Life is about tilting the scales of luck in your favor with hard work, but there is absolutely zero guarantee.

Some people just walk into riches with minimal effort. Why? They were at the right place, right time, of the right age, enough means, and enough ability to take risk.

Others just have a nuclear motor up their ass, like Masa Son, who never stops until the macaroni sticks to the wall. Masa famously set out to produce one business idea per day. Is he a brilliant business mind? He has made some shockingly bad decisions, and have you seen his slide decks and the 300-year-long plan? The man is pure hard work, but if you read his story, a lot of stars had to align. Entrepreneurial parents, relatives in the US when he went to school here, etc. What's a smart poor kid in Peru to do?

And the rest of us? We try to work hard, we do our best every day. Will it work? No one knows. The variables are too many, and the luck factor will take it in either direction.

If I ever make it, I promise you, HN, I will not be talking about what YOU should be doing in order to become successful, and I will never start a podcast about how to live the "correct" life in order to make it. Tim Ferriss, I am looking at you, buddy.
This tragi-comedy comes from the same circle of hell as the long failure of the Public Service (student) Loan Forgiveness program. Exposure of its failures led, finally, to some relief.

Michael Lewis podcast transcript - https://podscribe.app/feeds/https-feedsmegaphonefm-against-t...

NPR article - https://www.npr.org/2021/10/01/1041872045/education-dept-pla...
Is this a reverse shunting-yard?
I’ve used the strategy in some pretty big games. People get bored, drunk, lazy, etc. It’s pretty easy to consistently make money at poker if you aren’t playing anyone who takes it seriously.
But unlike 1-2-3, Emacs is still being developed.
No, this endless need to prostrate yourself and attribute everything to luck is silly and harmful.

What does that tell people in less fortunate circumstances? Sorry, you weren’t lucky, too bad. Better just hope some lucky person fixes everything for you because you have no agency over your own life.
> Because the following statement from you is a blatant lie ... It's impossible to say whether something is from a legitimate artist or not.

lol, have you ever looked at the chain? if an artist has been minting work for 1 year on the same public address and then suddenly somebody purchases a lookalike token from a different public address there is a high likelihood it is a copymint. you can avoid this by comparing the addresses, it does not take an art history expert to detect this form of copyminting.

many platforms will show attribution based on address and username. so if the artwork is attributed to b33ple.eth instead of beeple.eth then it is likely a copymint.

> DeviantArt has sent 90,000 alerts about possible fraud to thousands of their users since then, company executives said

it’s clear copyright infringement, but easily detectable to the point that DeviantArt is able to automate their search, and not a sophisticated form of forgery. still you are not able to provide evidence of significant funds being consistently lost here despite it being so prevalent, especially when you compare to trad art forgery where you can easily find evidence of millions of dollars per year being mistakenly spent on forged artworks.

it is like Nigerian prince email scams. part of the protocol that some unfortunate and naive users might fall for, but most users will learn to recognize and avoid this problem in time.
It’s not all good intentions of course, this would also make it easier to ‘work around’ all that annoying end to end encryption so they can snoop on the terrorists, the pedophiles, the communists or whatever todays excuse.
Hmm, interesting, I went through the guides and I have no idea what this game is about.

Is it just regular Pokemon game but somehow you play against others online?
I'll add a couple.

#0 Be given lots of money to start with.

#14 Start telling everyone else what they need to do, that you didn't.
So screw poor people eh? Until you can buy a beater EV for $2000 you can’t make gasoline price prohibitive unless you really want a Revolution.

Even in Europe where public transport is arguably better in most places than in the US car ownership rates are still very high and a very large portion of the population is dependent on them.

Even if Tesla does bring the Model 3 to its $30K price range that would still make it price prohibitive to most of the population in the west.
I enjoy what I do. I live humbly, and plan for the long game. I like helping others.

It really is that simple.
The stories we often see about burnout in tech are interesting. There’s a lot about burning out of programming etc, the hours. Of course, long hours will eventually burn you out in most any profession. Less commonly discussed, it seems like most people I know actually burn out from bureaucracy. It’s far more exhausting and demotivating to not make forward progress and waste time in meetings all day. Of course, it should go without saying that some meetings are necessary.
Framed like this it is surely a much better argument. But just applying a flat 1-hour "penalty" to train transit is a bit of a strawman: railway companies do their best to give you sane options, so that if you are, for example, a commuter, you can get at your destination before 8am.

I believe that the main difference in our viewpoinylts is this: people who drive a car tend to reason and plan as if the car is the most appropriate solution, and would not even think of checking fir alternatives unless special circumstances apply.

People who learned to rely on public transport do the opposite. As I wrote already: I do not own a car, but I can drive, so if trains or buses do not offer viable options I just rent one.
(The problem is that post Covid rental cars prices hiked, at least here, so the convenience in being more flexible gets often trumped by higher costs).
>Roundabouts generally make streets safer for pedestrians as they slow the flow of traffic.

I wonder--if it's a busy roundabout. There's a lot going on and drivers are looking at traffic in the roundabout and in the upcoming entrance to the roundabout and mentally calculating if it's safe to merge in. At one particularly busy pair of local roundabouts (aka "the twin doughnuts of death") there's actually been a pedestrian/cyclist stop light installed because otherwise you'd be taking your life in your hands to get across the road.
I'm not sure whether it's quite in that category yet - or whether this quote demonstrates that it's an elaborate joke/troll related to Silicon Valley (the TV series), but progress on Comma Body[1] may be worth following.

"One day we dream that 3 comma bodies will get into an openpilot car, drive to Phoenix, open a donut shop, run said donut shop, and bring the profits back once a week. The potential of AI.

But today, it balances, rolls around, and looks beautiful."

[1] - https://blog.comma.ai/commabody/
Pokémon gameplay can be deep but it’s pretty impenetrable for a kid just playing the game on his own. Most kids will just use the biggest attack moves, and that’s absolutely fine for the difficulty of the single player story made last I checked.

I wouldn’t really want kids getting deep into an online community meta personally.
Trying to solve a large problem set from a statistics textbook. If I can finish them on time, I'll probably tinker with the simulations around those problems in R and try to build more intuition about hard concepts.

The rest is family time. I can perhaps sneak one or two papers to read that I really look forward to.
Traffic engineers don't have magical abilities. It's not rocket science to select a crossing location. I seriously doubt most traffic changes are even modelled properly.

In the UK they still rely on road tubes to count traffic and I don't know if they've even considered networking traffic lights yet (maybe in London).
> It’s not entirely clear to me why working hard has become a Bad Thing in certain parts of the US

Because working hard is not a guarantee to a successful material life.

https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/2020-edelman-tr...

Success in life is mostly a function of starting conditions, i.e. where you're born and how rich your parents are. I know he mentions the US, but please let's not discount the billions of people around the globe who will never amount to anything no matter how hard they work. I was lucky enough to leave Greece soon after it was destroyed by the Economic Crisis, but not everyone was.

A lot of it comes down to luck too. Let's not idolise the people who got successful and keep repeating the same points over and over again of "work hard" and "networking", we've heard this before so many times. What about the people who worked hard and networked and still failed? I'd rather listen to them.

Finally, some people become great musicians, great inspirational mothers, absolutely incredible teachers, yet they get paid pennies. If I had to name successful people I've met in my life I would certainly put at the top my teachers in school who slogged through so much BS to deliver the best teaching to the children. People with lots of money are very down my list.
You might like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_%26_Frank
This resonates a bit with me. I'm at an earlier point in life (25 now), so I realize giving advice may be naïve, but I feel inclined to share my experience so far still.

I share the part of your story about liking computers and getting a wonderful career out of it - I currently work remotely in a low cost of living country making six USD figures, so I'm quite well into the 1% income bracket locally. Up until maybe a year or so ago, I'd been in 3 relationships, all multi-year, including a long distance one during university. It always felt that I had been missing out on the "single guy" part of life, and looking back now, my relationships weren't all that fulfilling; mostly they were probably a way to not be alone, although I still felt alone, and was ok with that.

This past ~year I've been out casually with many women (maybe something like 15?) and... It's fun, but obviously it's not fulfilling other than for ego reasons. I think the main positive thing in it is that I know it's "just ok" and don't have to wonder about it; if I had committed early on this would likely be something that would always be on my mind. What if I was letting my best life go by? Well, I haven't found ultimate happiness, but I have found comfort in the fact that I looked for it at least, and won't regret not having done so.

For me, casual relationships aren't really fulfilling, and committed ones aren't either. I've learned to be alone and even a bit alien from early on, and don't resent it.
Little known fun-fact re Lotus 1-2-3 was that it came on a ROM cartridge for the PCJr. The PCJr was a total sad sack of a machine. Technically superior to the PC and cheaper too so IBM intentionally crippled it with incompatibility bugs so that businesses could not really rely on it.

BUT they did release Lotus 1-2-3 for it in on a ROM cartridge which in the days when most programs ran on 5.25 inch floppies meant that performance just cranked!
Agreed. If an article defines a word clearly and does not pick meanings in an intentionally missleading way I do not see the value in talking semantics. The definition used in this article is common enough even of it is not my personal definition of what I think being successful is.
The taskbar changes, removal of context menus, and start menu changes have stopped me from upgrading.

I am not sure why the Windows 11 designers thought that removing features that people use were a good idea.

I am using a desktop computer and I want to be productive. Please do not strip out useful features by pretending that Windows is a primarily a tablet operating system.
I recently went through a round of interviews at big tech companies, and I found that the coding questions were less stressful than I was initially worried about. Leetcode problems are fair, and it just isn't true that you need to know the trick to pass. It allowed me to get in the door at a company I would have had no chance with otherwise (no CS degree, no top school, small no-name companies, etc)

System design on the other hand... that can be hard to prep for!

The reason companies provide so much info upfront, and even send candidates to leetcode.com, is so that everyone knows what to expect. Not everyone is on HN or is even aware of these types of interviewing trends.
Also The Doors, The Monkees, Giorgio Moroder.
It's not illegal afaik
You’d be surprised how boring it gets at a poker table when you don’t get good cards for a hour. Folks get bored and play suboptimally.

Part of what poker teaches is patience.
At the end of the 70's I bought (very expensive) a HP67 and discovered the inverse Polish notation, "1 2 +". Much later I came across LISP and discovered prefixed parenthesized expressions, {+ 1 2}, i.e. direct polish notation with parentheses. Then I thought that an HTML expression like "< b>< i>< u>Hello World< /u>< /i>< /b>", written in the right way, would be better written in a LISPsish style, {b {i {u Hello World}}}, no more boring with the order of closing brackets. Finally I found that writing {b 1 2 3 4 5 6} displayed "1 2 3 4 5 6" in bold, writing {* 1 2 3 4 5 6} displayed the product, "720", and writing {b {* 1 2 3 4 5 6}} displayed "720" in bold. This made me want to write a language about these findings and its current state is here http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/.
Very Gigachad comment, Gigachad!

The most relaxing time for me is going back to the small beach town where my surviving parent retired.

The pace is slow. It takes a few days for me to downshift from a “fit everything in you wanted to do” to the “lets see what the day brings” mindset.

You might go for a walk, run into a friend and decide to just stop by for a coffee for an hour and catch up. After that? Who knows. Maybe walk down main street and find something to eat (without looking up reviews on Yelp). Have a drink before heading home and reading a book for an hour until you fall asleep.

The urge to hyper-optimize every living minute is a very common mindset among certain groups of people. And it’s often what’s needed to reach the higher socio-economic levels.

But man can it be toxic. It starts to become a goal in and of itself. It’s no longer about the “best” life but rather the “most optimum”. Yes, it’s worthwhile to figure out the best job between the two choices. But it’s also good sometimes to stop trying to optimize and just enjoy where you are at that moment.
I'm curious why there is no solid state detector? We've had tons of advancements in solid state optical devices like emitters. But have there been no advancements to radiation detection in 100 years since the G-M tube was invented?
Static analysis for AWS best practices in Python code
Honestly, part of it is that it’s not even fair for me to present myself as “able to work” right now.

I’ve tested my ability to work four times since 2019 and three of the four have ended up being a burden on the employer (the third was a wash; it didn’t work out but I decided to write off the invoice). I’ve been on the other side of the table and I can’t do that in good conscience.

My thesis is that I should focus solely on feeling better until I can start doing some sort of sustained work; from there I can work my way up until I am able to do rewarding things with my skillset again.

The problem is that (coming back around to the article) our benefits programs have a welfare trap. These systems should be designed to help people who can reach some level of rehabilitation get there and protect the people who can’t.
I would love it if we got high-speed rail but I cannot see it happening any time soon. One thing I can say is that rail travel here is insanely cheap and compared to UK and my experience has been that it's generally more punctual with more frequent services. I must admit though, I haven't travelled by rail a great deal this year (only a couple of local journeys like Brno->Hustopeče, and Brno->Adamov) so I haven't encountered the delays you've described, that sounds painful.

edit: actually I just looked up Czech high-speed rail and found a wikipedia page. Apparently there are a set of HSR routes already approved and planned out, with a more direct Prague-Brno line via Jihlava supposedly due to start in 2025. Any idea if this is realistic, or if it should be taken with a generous pinch of salt?
Nah, let your kids decide what they want to learn.
I've been developing from bed/couch for over 5 years. No regrets. Absolutely hate working from a desk.

Wish Apple came up with lightweight folding/sliding out displays for extra real estate tho.
China’s GitHub Clone Making 15M Repos Private for Forceful Review
Inspirational! And “coffsyrup” made me giggle. Thank you Tavis!