skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
obviously no, we dont care about a language that was once used in a machine specifically for it, cuz we cant go in past and program in that specific machine.

i think ive realised what is up with lisps, forths, etc. theoretically you can build all kinds of beautiful abstractions over it and use them for anything

but in reality these languages cant do that and/or their communities dont care to implement it/its not their goal

it might sound bad but it is what it is

if i would have to say it in a worse way,
these languages are all talk
After years of hard work to get to a point where I've got a good, well-paying job, a great boss, and a great team, I've been disappointed to realize that my company absolutely cannot fix a serious infrastructure/process issue in my org. It's a shame but I'll probably have to leave over this -- there's another team that constantly screws up MY team's output, making us look bad, botching our deadlines, and preventing us from committing to future improvements we absolutely want to do.

And word comes down from on high that we can't just stop consuming from the screwup team -- in fact, they're giving them MORE resources because they're super important and they'll totally not screw it up this time. Hard pass from me, the people on that team have not operated in good faith in the past, I can't imagine they'll start now, especially when they realize that there are no repercussions for their behavior.

Add in the mess that is society today, the fact that I don't believe in our economic system enough to truly plan for long-term stuff like retirement, kids, house buying, etc. Honestly I'd rather just move to Europe than deal with the USA...

Kind of sucks when you do everything right but other people drop the ball. Feels like that at work, and in society in general now.
Birth control among many other medications.
But who'll work the sweatshops then?
I'm doing between kind of okay and mostly good. Finally restarting hobbies that have been on semi hold for the past 2 years. Recently gotten into a new boardgame gloomhaven.

Career wise I'm at a crossroads. I'm about 2 years into my first full time job. I'm looking at any where from 20-100% salary bump if I swap jobs. I'm not looking forwards to going through interviews again. I wish it wasn't the case that job hopping was how career development seems to work, but I guess it is what it is.
I'm one month in to a new job in a space I'm interested in. I'm working with smart people and couldn't be happier. I know the good feelings won't last, and that's okay. And for those not doing well, also remember that it won't last. We all regress back to the mean!
PayPal is closing the SF office because the new tax regime makes their business model nonfunctional (as it does to all payments businesses). The tax would be effectively based on payment volume, rather than profit, and so more than their entire margin would burn up in taxes

That is not how the tax works. It taxes gross receipts, in this case meaning Paypal's fees, not its total payment volume processed, because it only applies to amounts that would be considered income to Paypal for federal income tax purposes. Furthermore, the tax is allocated based on payroll, meaning that the tax is prorated based on the % of employees based in the city of SF vs elsewhere.

Paypal reported net income (i.e., profits) of almost $4 billion last year on roughly $25 billion of revenue on roughly $1.250 trillion of payment volume. Only approximately 550 of their 26,500 employees were located in the SF office, meaning that their effective GRT rate would have been .016%, for a tax of roughly $4m, or approximately their costs for 10 employees. They can afford the gross receipts tax.
The more vaxxed the greater the risk of death from the stress the vaccine puts on the body.
> This is like ants arguing that life outside their ant hill will likely have 6 or 8 legs because all the life they've seen so far have had 6 or 8 legs.

I wouldn't scoff at those ants. Ants who conclude life outside their anthill will have 6 legs would be mostly correct. 90% of lifeforms on earth are insects.

Anyway, my guess is that life at least as intelligent as us exists out there somewhere, and that more technologically advanced than us is possible too. But interstellar civilization, from what we are today? I don't think so. I think we're already in the "great filter", which I suspect to be the speed of light and our developing addiction to low latency communication. Turning ourselves into AIs or something won't solve that problem; if anything it would only make it worse. The more intimate our relationship with computers becomes, the more insular our civilization becomes.
Stanford has grade inflation, but not at the level at Harvard. Faculty senate said median GPA is 3.69 (so less than 50% have at least a 3.7, despite being just as selective as Harvard). And this is after taking into account that Stanford A+ is 4.3.
> Just wish I had more time off. Got a lot of vacation days. But our team is so small that taking the time off makes me feel guilty.

Try to remember: If you take time off and the business/team/project suffers, it's not your fault, it's your company's fault for failing to build in a staffing safety margin and failing to plan for the 100% expected event of people using their vacation time.
$29/mo seems high for the vast majority of podcasts, which are labors of love run on shoestring budgets. Of course, it's peanuts for the high traffic sites. Did you consider a Dropbox-like pricing model, e.g., free for low-traffic sites?
First, tThe fact that you believe that 6 miles each way is a short distance only confirms the original point.

And second, you seem to be quite an outlier when it comes to USA commute. The average daily commute in the USA seems to be over 40 miles [1]

[1] https://www.answerfinancial.com/insurance-center/which-state...
Bots behind the game console shortage
I haven't seen any data to support "roaring back". 6-ish months ago they were still saying SF rents were down 20% from March 2020. Any idea how many rentals aren't rentals anymore because of the moratorium impact? I know up here in Portland there was a huge net reduction of rentals and prices spiked pretty hard.

For example:
https://www.rentcafe.com/average-rent-market-trends/us/ca/sa...
https://therealdeal.com/sanfrancisco/2022/05/02/san-francisc...
> I want to work but I struggle with communication and being understood (or understanding) the world around me.

I struggled with this a lot because it didn't come naturally to me at all. These particular resources had an outsized impact on my ability to communicate (but they were by no means all of it.) I hope they can help you too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gtU-otxtPA&list=PLaZ37TOxDl...

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08MWYZPCR
Music NFTs
> Or, outsourcing remove new brains from entering the knowledge accumulation pipeline.

This is why Boeing can’t build planes anymore:

They decided midcareer engineers were too expensive and their crop of senior engineers are aging out — so they no longer have the expertise necessary, due to outsourcing and not supporting their young employees.
Your risk of heart failure is much greater with infection than with vaccination. It turns out that Covid messes up your immune system and will reinfect you multiple times, so there will be no natural herd immunity. And with each infection , your heart failure chances goes up.
To get a more equal spacing between the articles maybe one can make use of quasirandom numbers instead of random numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-discrepancy_sequence
Plug for https://commoncrawl.org/ if you need billions of pages but don't want to deal with scraping the web yourself.
I'm European, and don't want to see any cookie consent banners/popups ever. They are awful. If you don't want cookies, your browser has a perfectly fine setting to disable them.
Burnout Is Not Your Fault
Everyone thinks they want something to be done. The simple reason why few things are getting done is that it would seriously affect people's lives.

Right now, rising prices are a massive boon for the environment. Less consumption, more investment in better technology.

But people are angry, and at this rate, will start raging. It may be quite a turning point, if we're not mostly under authoritarian governments by 2030 I'll be happy.

As a collective, we simply do not want to solve climate change. Unless it magically does not affect our lives, then yeah, [whatever group, just not me] can go for it.
You're being extremely dogmatic here. All I see is a rant without any sort of indication of what we could do to improve the situation. I also don't think security researchers would agree that first-party E2EE is snake-oil.

I don't believe there can be security without trust. You will always have to decide to trust or not trust some parties. GPG would have enabled that sort of trust to happen in a decentralised way, but it's clearly way too complicated for the average user (plus, it suffers from other weaknesses too). We need something that works for average people and that is better than plain-text transmission, or just TLS.

Arguing against E2EE just because you don't know whether the software is potentially backdoored is throwing the baby out with the bath water.

E2EE helps prevent accidental exposure. It's actually of benefit to companies if they never have to see unencrypted data, it creates fewer attack vectors and therefore also fewer opportunities to be liable for exposures.

And even if your vendor backdoors its software and steals your keys, there's still a good chance somebody who is inspecting their internet traffic would discover that, which would obviously create problems for the vendor.
It seems like there must be a million confounding factors at thing point. Given that immunity eventually wanes and new variants show up, at what point is a person considered no longer 'vaccinated?' I get that people were excited to not need masks anymore, but I'm hanging on to my n95 in most indoor situations, even in my relatively low-risk region.
I remember back in my phreaking days, you were considered a rock star if you were able to steal a pay phone. I also remember writing down several payphone numbers and calling them at all hours to see who would pick up.

Its interesting in the article they don't address what the maintenance costs of these were, only they were "obsolete".

I do remember being in DT Minneapolis on a first date. Car broke down, cell phone was dead and we had to walk around for about an hour before finding a pay phone and being able to call a cab. It occurred to me at that point that payphones are largely ignored until you need them and you're thankful they're there.
> I genuinely believe that a league made of the 500-1000 rank players would be just as (or at least almost as) entertaining as one with the top 500 players.

This is a popular enough theory that it's been tested multiple times. In the successful cases, the rival league still ended up trying to poach the top players and ended up merging with the other top league. In the less successful cases, the league went out of business.
Something I cannot emphasize enough for startups is to not use your own auth no matter how convenient you might think it is. Github was built before the era of many "Authentication as a service" providers, but this is another example of why you don't roll your own.
Unsure what city you are referring to, but I've lived in Seoul which matches a lot of what you describe. Excellent transit (IMHO, still the best subway system I've experienced in the world), vast majority living in superdense highrise towers.

It's one of the few cities I felt I actually wanted to use public transportation instead of grudgingly being forced to (like NYC).

Yet most people living there still want a car. Maybe things have changed in the past few years, but last time I was there a few years back, and based on what I see today in K-dramas and shows, it seems most young people still aspire to have a car.
I think "protect the weak, engage/debate the strong" is worth way more than the reverse, for no reason, it is just an moral intuition.

Another way of thinking this is utilitarian: non-queer people will not be target of violence by armed (or even unarmed drunk) people in Nevada or California, while the LGBTQ community is at a greater risk of being the target of violence in TX or FL. So having the local governement pushing the "don't say gay" bill, and announcing it that strongly (only heard of it because of the Disney debacle) to me can only be a kind of "virtue signalling", the kind of virtue being: all against LGBTQ+ people.

[edit: forgot conclusion] thus for utilitatian purpose, it is better to have the convention in state where violences against marginalized communities present in tech are the lowest, or at least don't seems state-sanctioned.
I enjoy the freedom to have a closet full of extremely finely tailored clothes (going by the 1800s standards) I'm practically living the millionaire's dream from that era... but never in my life have I learned how to operate a flying shuttle loom - some information is specialized and doesn't need widespread knowing.

When I went to uni (and I'm only 35 so I'm not talking about the 80s) we learned about low level data structures, I took a course in relational algebra, operating system design, assembly language - these were necessary (imo) broadening exercises that have enabled me to better understand how to make things work performantly at a high level. Now a company may only need one or two folks like me with a passion for algorithm design among a dev team of fifty - but we don't all need formal training in every little thing.

Imparting the knowledge of how to learn, along with those pieces of basic information we deem critical, can be enough.
I'm not wild about the new trend of languages of making a bunch of syntax dependent on a single small sigil. It gives me a strong feeling of Perl's historical "eclecticness" and I feel like I'm putting more effort into correctly reading the program back into my mind than I should ideally have to.
That’s one of many reasons why it’s important to keep on investing in underdeveloped countries. There’s no reason why people there couldn’t contribute in the same ways that people in more developed countries contribute.

And immigration is a good way to help keep the population of developed countries growing. There really isn’t any reason why we can’t tap into the incredible human resources available in the world if we try.
>I cringe now.

Why? They look that scary?
Perhaps expecting readers of a message board to pick-up on your sarcastic tone is not going to be an effective way to communicate your point.
If you say to residents, ‘tax the rich’ without providing much background, of course you’ll get their vote. Legislators are responsible for making the messaging clear and fair.
This is the argument Professor Mansfield at Harvard uses (the bigot part). Inspiration from him or just coincidence?
A republican president (Trump) kind of started this whole thing by reducing interest rates on federal student loans during the pandemic to zero.

Only the courts can decide what is constitutional, but Biden could virtually cancel $10k in student loans by continuing to set the interest rate at 0% for that portion indefinitely.

So I would reason if that power is constitutional, canceling it is too.

Disclaimer: I think it is a terrible idea.
Not exactly a medication but alcohol for one.

But many other drugs can cause these sorts of symptoms too including anti-depressants paradoxically.
Notably this article doesn't mention water, and doesn't discuss land much other than a single line about Malthus and farmland. Then there's this assertion:

> "But the deeper reason is that there’s really no such thing as a natural resource. All resources are artificial. They are a product of technology. And economic growth is ultimately driven, not by material resources, but by ideas."

Arable land - i.e. topsoil - is not a product of technology, it's a product of geology and biology, namely the erosion of rocks and the accumulation of biomass. Yes, one can indeed make an artificial soil-like system (hydroponics), but this in turn requires raw materials (typically clay pebbles, plastic pots, plastic pipes, plus a complete nutrient mixture of simple chemicals) which are in turn made from limited material resources.

Similarly, fresh water is a limited natural resource, and in the absence of water, human populations do not grow. Just look at a population density map of the United States - note how few people live in the desert zones. Again, there are technological approaches: desalinate ocean water, pump it to the desert, and grow food hydroponically. This requires an investment of material resources and energy.

I get this feeling that economimsts who makes these claims about infinite growth have simply never studied the conservation of energy, or the conservation of mass. Every source I've looked at puts the minimal land area for food production for one human at about two hectares with traditional agriculture, and maybe half that with modern industrial double cropping methods. US farmland is about 166 million hectares, so that sort of fits, as the US population is about 330 million; exports of food also appear to match imports of food so that's a wash.

So clearly there are limits on the growth of the human population on a finite planet. If the question is, "can you have infinite economic growth with a fixed human population", well, whatever discipline makes claims like that is one entirely divorced from physical reality. Inflation maybe?
"LinkNYC kiosks also provide a social services directory, free phone calls within the U.S., ..."
Nope. It is completely realistic as long as you keep the chain of dependencies manageable.

To vet dependencies properly you have to stop using thousands of them willy-nilly.

To stop using thousands of them you mostly have to change only your development dependencies. Runtimes dependencies, even in large Javascript projects, are often well behaved and are rarely a big issue. Except maybe for a few large backend frameworks.

No, that won't destroy your company.

Anything that helps vetting will be more than welcome, though.
Do you have any evidence to support your view?

Things like the Pareto principle suggest our ability to do science is greatly impacted by raising the total population and creating more outliers who do extreme contributions.
> For instance, the smartphone is so powerful because it's not tied to one physical mode of operation. It can have buttons for a calculator, or a keyboard, or serve as a book, or a video game controller, or...

Smartphones are powerful because the interface is reconfigurable in software. That's orthogonal to whether the interface is tactile or not.

Imagine you go to choose between two smartphones:

1. One is like you have today: a flat surface of glass with colored pixels underneath.

2. The other supports a surface that physically changes in response to the application. Open the calculator, and a grid of number buttons appear. Tapping one gives the satisfying click of an old calculator. Switch to a synthesizer and a row of piano keys appear. The have the bounce of a weighted piano and play louder or softer based on how hard you press them. Open a game and a D-pad and joystick materialize.

I know which one I'd pick.
I'd say it's the opposite. The city has a few bad spots, but overall it's quite nice. The big problem is the lack of housing, which is arguably driven by the way that Prop 13 warps economic incentives.
So sorry to hear that. Hang in there! I know I'm just some rando on the internet, but if you need a listening ear, shoot me a note, as I'd be more than happy to chat - sometimes just talking things over with someone has really helped me a lot.
I don't doubt the statistics. I simply don't think the statistics warrant the level of fear the media tells me I should be experiencing.
I think the approach is clumsy and overly constrained, but I would hope the idea was that by being forced to actually interact with neighbors and their families it would increase social cohesion and empathy.

I don't think that's particularly incorrect, isolation from neighbors and the invisibility of the poor makes it a heck of a lot easier to ignore their problems.

I'm not sure in this case it's sympathy or empathy, it sounds like mere facilitation of the potential for future relationships and dialog between poor kids and people well enough off to own their own computer.

Imagining these hackers trying to individually determine whether someone has done a good enough job of pretending they're nice and whether a victim is themselves too poor to do this stuff... pretty amazing that they'd declare themselves the arbitrators of whether something is sufficiently repentant.

And posting it on social media? What, are we doxxing ourselves now to get out of ransomware attacks? I don't even have twitter or facebook or instagram or whatsapp... for good reason! Why make it performative, someone could just send them receipts if the goal was to help regardless of publicity.
Ask HN: Good Time to Acquire Domain?
We currently use "theapp.com" instead of "app.com" and it works well enough so as not to justify paying a domain squatter (BODIS/SecuredOffers).

Having said that, given that fewer startups are getting funded and tech companies are reigning in their spending, isn't this the perfect time to make a bid?

If so, when would be the most advantageous time to start the negotiation process with the squatter? I realize that it's impossible to "time the bottom" but perhaps someone out there has a better crystal ball.
> When tech- and progress-focused people can't figure out why some cultures/countries have "anti-progress" laws (France's protection of book stores, for instance), well, this is often part of why they do that.

Chesterton's Fence, yet again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#Chesterton's_...
Vapes make it so easy to take in Nicotine. There's no end like with a cigarette, and no need to go outside to use it. I started dragging on a vape pen one night while watching a movie. After a while, I realize my heart was racing like crazy, and I was up all night. Definitely overdid it on the Nicotine. For better or worse, I quit using the vape pen after that.

God this whole thread makes me want to smoke again.