skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heh, I recently sold one of my cars because of my ability to work from home.

Many more people, at least in the US are considered walkable communities than in the recent past.
Are these issues bugs in libxml, gloox, ejabberd? Or just in the Zoom client and server?
If “my dude” offended you, I’m sorry. I was just trying to make it lighthearted. I get frustrated at the number of comments on HN articles that are mostly irrelevant if you’ve actually read the article.
This article reminds me a demo Eskil Steenberg did about a visual live memory debugger

https://youtu.be/pvkn9Xz-xks
Building blockchain data pipelines with The Graph and Singer
Tokens can be lost. Everything I've seen uses tokens as one possible 2F of many.

(password and phoneNumber) or token

might be harder to explain than

password and oneOf(token, phone, etc)

Plus they'd have to probably change a lot of code, for not thar much demand, everyone just lets the browser remember passwords.
Meaning, distinctive. Eye rolling or not depends upon the persons taste, but definitively always done in a particular manner in all their film over the course of 2 decades. The formula is showing it’s cynical teeth and laughing at how dumb we are, by this point in time. I really won’t be surprised to find a small team having written a process guide and an AI churning out stuff, at this point
Exactly my thought. Why go over the ocean in hours when I can do it in milliseconds.
My father does this... incessantly. He has stacks of stamps he uses to send out for work and he gets them all at major discount on ebay.

It turns out the post office, mostly doesn't actually care to count up the 1 and 2 cent stamps.

There's a group of hobbyists committing felonies out there making their own stamps and sending them out. The post office doesn't notice.

One sillier trick was, forget a stamp, it'll get returned to sender. Simply put your destination as the return and you get a free mailer.
Read it as having to care about strict types as opposed to compatible types. Sort of like array broadcasting or casting bools to other numeric types or applying a bitwise xor to 32-bit floats -- if two types are obviously compatible with the operation I'm trying to do to them it's often nice to allow the implicit cast.
This is so true its funny. I wrote c64 machine code and assembly still looks ridiculous. How is NOP easier to remember than AE? Every time I see base64 in JSON I'm reminded how much better life is if you make the effort to design a data format for a specific purpose. When I looked at all the convenient things in jquery some functions had just one line in them (I need help with this?), other things were so "good" they had me wonder why that isn't simply part of js. I'm aware how unreasonable it is in how you cant win either way.

I cant wait for the day some kind of GUI programming glued onto excel takes over the world so that we can all simultaneously raise our fist at the screen like grumpy old men.
You do realize that the "sexual harrasment" allegation is that Musk asked for a handjob from a massage therapist who was already massaging him as he lay naked... and she declined and that was the end of it... right?
youtube-dl/yt-dlp (Python) is a full second slower than youtubedr (Go) or youtube.com (JS) to download YouTube videos, and I think a lot of that is due to interpreter warmup (though I don't know exactly why). Sadly mpv only supports youtube-dl/yt-dlp for watching videos, and youtubedr doesn't have the vast plugin ecosystem of yt-dlp for non-YouTube websites.
I very much enjoyed this blog post! Thank you for the thorough overview
I can't really think of much I'd want from my parents house. Maybe a few items with family history. But mostly, it is like you said -- they've mostly got their stuff for a reason, and if it serves them well for as long as they need it, then it has already met and likely exceeded expectations.

On the other hand, one step removed I think it makes more sense, because you have maybe less direct contact with the person -- I've got a microscope and and oil stone from my grandfather, which have some significant sentimental value to me. These were almost certainly obsolete when I got them, more than a couple years ago (Well, the microscope at least. An oil stone will last you a while). I think I value these because he was a very precise, but also very down-to-earth guy. That's my summary, having had limited time with him. My mom would not be able to sum up his whole personality in two items, because she has a much more full view of it. But, despite knowing that this stuff holds only the slightest outline of his personality, it really does mean a lot to me.
I doubt the issue has anything to do with being interesting or not. Do you know this for a fact or can give me anything to follow up on what it means for a decision to be interesting? For example if a decision procedure required the choice of chocolate or vanilla depending on the current time of day (a continuous input resulting in a discrete output), and I present an algorithm that categorically chooses chocolate regardless of what time it is, I doubt you'd turn around and claim that my algorithm is not making a decision because it always chooses chocolate.

If an algorithm takes an input, continuous or discrete, discards that input and returns a constant value, that algorithm is just as "legitimate" as any other algorithm in so far as being an algorithm is concerned. It may not produce the optimal output for some given cost, but it is a formal and rigorous decision procedure that manages to output a discrete value given a continuous input in a bounded amount of time.

At any rate, reading the comments when this was last posted it looks like the issue has to do with producing the optimal output in a given time frame. If an optimal discrete decision must be made in the next T seconds on the basis of a continuous input X, then there always exists some value of X that requires more than T seconds to compute. This will be true for any value of T regardless of how large.
> I can see the future as being devoid of any humanity.

Considering how many of the readers of said blog will be scrapers and bots, who will use the results to generate more spammy "content", I think you are right.
They're not radical or activist, because they're Republicans.

If you think the two sides of the above (as split by the conjunction "because") are in conflict or otherwise -- you haven't been paying attention to the last 40 years of the right-wing political resurgence in the United States.
What's hit me the most are a few keepsake items. I have a watch handed down, worthless. I have a old cigar tray from Cuba. I have some fine dishware we pull out at christmas and i say "this is from your grandmother when she lived in Cuba".

However, I sold my grandfathers STHL chainsaw, and that guy still uses it.
Cronos: A hybrid-fueled sounding rocket
You don't have a backlog?

He was listing every project the company was planning to do. If you go through your backlog you'll find over 100, without fail.

And, yes, it's way too much. Which was the entire point.
The growth of JavaScript is not something to be happy about.
ServiceNow deepens commitment to hybrid work with new way finding technology
A possible analogue of this for building/packaging systems is the DOCKERFILE for building a container for infrastructure. No wonder, it acts as a reliable state initialization procedure.
Ok, with unlimited power what would you change with your home?
Nice use of "kipple" in a sentence. Props and respect!!!
> They only need to have made 2% on those other investments

Made, realised and not spent/withdrawn by them. The required assumption here is that the pool of money behind tether grows / is reinvested. But given they only need to keep 1:1 (assuming even that is true) the investment profits may have been exchanged for hookers and blow for all we know.
Swap in a 2022 Toyota 4Runner and my argument stands. I was hoping I didn’t have to state that obvious fact. I also have a 10 year warranty so in 10 years it will definitely be serviced.

As the sibling comment points out on average longevity is way up, another point against older cars. Safety also way, way up.

Nostalgia mixed with contrarianism are potent drugs, but cars are the perfect case against things not changing, positive change has accelerated the last 20 years.
Are you me? :)

And whenever I think about throwing it out, I actually do end up using something from the pile :)

My only consolation is that it's all easy stuff to throw out for the next generation - there's no emotional stuff there.
This entire thread feels borderline ridiculous.

We have all the internet but damn even books are better and broader today. I can order that rare special indy book and print it on demand and have it show up in 3 days
Ask HN's: has anyone relocated to Florida or Texas? What city?
If you made the move, would you recommend it to others? If so, why or why not?
What does Australia mean to you? It's a whole country, a complex object, but you seem to use the word as though it has some obvious meaning in this context - that meaning isn't immediately apparent to me, as an Australian
In the German region selfhtml [0] was pretty common back in the days, and they meanwhile migrated all their content to a huge wiki for that very purpose. It starts from zero experience and goes over many aspects of web design up until the first CMS built in PHP.

Does anybody know whether something like this exists in the English language? So far I've seen only some bullshit "let's draw rectangles in canvas" like tutorials that lead to nowhere.

MDN and all are great, but expect the person reading it already knowing most of how to develop for the web. Selfhtml on the other hand was targeting an audience that even doesn't know what a text editor was, so they literally started from scratch.

For me, selfhtml taught me how to make a website when I was a child. It got me into web programming, and without it I would certainly not be the person who I am today. I hope that resources like this can be preserved for future generations in an easily consumable manner.

[0] https://wiki.selfhtml.org/wiki/HTML/Tutorials/Einstieg
Handle it in court. Sexual harassment is a crime, and we already have a legal system to deal with it.

Arbitration / counseling / punishment within the company is ok as long as its voluntary (by the victim). If whatever occurred isn't actually a crime, then you handle it with arbitration which is not voluntary (because the company doesn't technically need to do anything).

If the company wants to fire the accused even if they're potentiality innocent it's ultimately up to them. In an ideal world, the accused wouldn't be forced out until they're convicted (in a court of law or internal tribunal). But in practice, the accusation itself could create drama and negative reputation, so even if the accused is 100% innocent it may be best for them to need to leave anyways.
If you are in a niche, plan to get rid of it BEFORE you get old. Please, there are collectors, and stuff!

I just got four new to me toolboxes, from my neighbor who was a diesel mechanic. Perfectly good after a bit of sanding and oiling. They're awesome, from the 80s, well made, and they'll keep me going for a long time.

My father, a prodigious collector of oddities has done several wholsale removals of collections.

One comes to mind in parcticular - every single novel, novella, newspaper clipping and piece of paper of "E Phillip Oppenheim", a turn of the century paperback novelist who wrote hundreds of books and stories. Some guy drove out, gave him a nominal amount (a pittance for all the work done), but another avid collector.

Somewhere Indiana Jones of the paperback detective world is screaming "This belongs in a museum!"
http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=86D6705D13E2117F5B3FEB9E...
That's the claim, not proven. In reality, very little batteries are recycled and we recover very little of the materials.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/04/lithium-costs-a-lot-...
Yeah I was referring to VM snapshot transfer vsphere/openstack/gcp instance style.

> our apps platform (orchestrated by Nomad) already does it

Preserving internal vm state or just restart everything?
I had a similar pile but went through it and tried to pick:

- Only one of each type of thing
- Only the highest quality/safest power bricks
- And items that punched above their weight in terms of utility (like an adapter that at least one end was not obsolete)

This reduced my pile by about 75% .

I find that I subconsciously keep a map of things that I encounter on my search for other items and this is actually a burden. Just getting rid of that PCI SCSI card lets me just forget that type of thing even exists and move on with my life.

I've been doing this sort of thing since the pandemic started and I haven't once regretted it. Actually now I have more space for new junk.
>One could concievably test all possible combinations of that logic for errors, but it becomes 2^N combinations where N is the number of inputs and the number of state elements. Since this cannot be tested because the space is huge (excluding hierarchical designs and emulation), you generate targeted test patterns (and many many mutexes) to pare down the space, and perhaps randomize some of the targeted tests to verify you don't execute out of bounds.

This is all true of software too. Certainly, it’s easier to test software, but I don’t think it’s because software state is combinatorially simpler than hardware state.
From where, exactly? Is this a SF thing?
Because the world runs out of quantum leaps at times.

In theory we can 3d print houses now, but those are not more useful than a stick built house. They are very easy to change and repair which a feature most people like. The building wraps these days have rather insane R values and do a good job insulating the house. And most houses have some kind of blow in for insulation.
Things I’ve learned as a startup tech founder
Oof it sounds like NFT marketplace will be first to go in a recession.
Amazing - I also dumpster dove for black and white TV (one of those crappy 5" ones), jammed an ac adapter that seemed to fit (yolo) so 13 year old me could get channel 4 (NBC) to watch Conan O'Brien.

But for KITH, Comedy Central on cable was always airing reruns after school, so no need for the secret TV. I think the first sketch I saw was the waiter with stumps for hands and I was hooked ever since.
It isn’t difficult to learn a new programming language, especially if based on a known paradigm. What’s difficult is sorting out the multitude of tiny differences in their implementations and libraries.

(This assumes a relatively elegant language, not a bag-of-tricks one)
The chemistry varying isn’t the real world issue, as I understand it, it’s the varying interconnection and cell packaging… aka the plastic and the inter-cell wiring.
Snip snip, a lot slower than it should be, and the actual packages and cell trays should be standardized as well.
Starry seems to charge $50 per month for 0.2 Gbit/second speeds. OP is claiming 50x faster speed at a lower price
This feels like the anti-hero to Kondoesque sparks-joy cleaning.
> actually central to document processing?

ahh, the no true scotsman style of logical fallacy.

Document processing is not strict nor defined. The features listed in the parent comment are all very useful, and if the floppy disk document processor of 30 years ago could do it, the people there would also find it useful.
I'd say pretty much yes. If the file name is the "key" then most languages have straightforward ways to create and delete files, read data from them, and write data to them.
A friend of mine has a dad who is known in certain circles (name withheld) and I quote "Mr XYX, the owner of the largest collection of non-running Triumph coupes in the USA". He got a lot of sh*t for what is essentially a junk yard from his city. His house is filled to the brim with model train cars, in the bozes still, and all the EBay printouts of the auctions he won and lost. I do not know what my friend's plans are for all of this when his dad kicks it but I am betting on a lot of hassles around rusted hulks. Although they are strangely photogenic, we took some incredible photos...
Cleaning up after your parents is a gift you give to them: look at it like them paying it forward for all the times the cleaned up after you as a child.

Psychologically, mentally, and physically, parents can have difficulty tidying up their stuff. My friend’s parents came from very poor backgrounds and had a lot of trash. The father had a shed full of stuff that was useful to him - he knew what was in it and how to use it. When the father died, the stuff in the shed was mostly junk to be sorted into scrap metal or put in the skip. A very few useful tools, a bunch of valueless obsolete tools, and a little antique/collectable stuff. The mother’s stuff was useful or precious to her, mementoes and knick-knacks. Plus some hoarder mentality that made sense given her background. Mostly valueless stuff to anyone else. What value is a drawer of your smalls?

I want my parents to pass their problem down to me and my siblings. I think forcing parents to tidy up or downsize can be cruel. Why be selfish and needlessly make my parents sad?
One of our engineers had to make 2 contributions to the Bitnami Helm chart for airflow for some reason.
> Don't do anything different. You had one company pull out on you. That happens all the time for a multitude of reasons. Don't be discouraged. Apply for jobs at a range of companies, from start-ups to profitable SaaS companies to companies outside the typical "tech" wheelhouse.

This, I think OP is reading too much into a single rejection. Maybe they're right, maybe not, who knows. Individual companies do wacky things all the time. Startups in particular tend to be more volatile and may be risk-adverse depending on where they are in funding cycles. Try looking for jobs with larger stable companies with reliable revenue streams. I work at one and we've been actively hiring the entire time.
Could be from anywhere...

So many of my friends have gone officially remote now, and that's creating a large amount of people relocating for more affordable lifestyles.

I think the sun and no income taxes are enough to draw people to Texas and Florida. The problem is that they are big states and it's hard to compare. Florida is even harder to compare as there are a few different areas. For example, Miami and Tampa are not very similar at all. You would think you were in two different states.

I would like to hear first person experiences and what they would or wouldn't recommend.
The phrase "It's not my job" is never good to say,

Often, focusing on the things that are explicitly your job and intentionally ignoring bigger problems is a good move so that the people who are responsible for those issues will allow you to fix them.
> [XYZ] basically demand that I do, if I want their other shiny features

well, they aren't doing the demanding, if you're the one who wants those shiny features!
I am searching for a good calculus book. Not those 1200 pages of boring stuff. Something reasonable that teaches in good depth and breadth.
Damn, you're right, and I can't delete it anymore. Please flag it.
There's also the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals[1] used in quite a few countries.

[1] https://unece.org/DAM/trans/conventn/Conv_road_signs_2006v_E...
Consider the following decision: If x < 0.5 go left at a constant speed till the hay is reached, else go right at a constant speed until the hay is reached.

Then A(t,x) is clearly not continuous in x, and we can easily bound the time required to make a decision. The nuance here is that we have to somehow be able to distinguish 0.5 - eps from 0.5 for very small epsilon.

Edit: on further thought, suppose we had a device which measured reasonably well. More precisely it tells us x < 0.5 if x is actually <= 0.5 - c, it tells us x >= 0.5 if x > 0.5 + c, and tells us it is unsure otherwise. We do not know c, but it is deterministic (and hopefully reasonably small). Then we can decide to go left if it tells us x < 0.5, and right if it tells us unsure or that x >= 0.5.
I've been stuck in the mud for a bit and had been slowly forgetting this one papercut at a time. Since this is usually not something I'm susceptible to, it has been troubling me.

Last year I pulled off a minor coup by making it cheaper and easier to run a big chunk of our code. One of the senior people was trying to get me to toot my own horn but the actual work was like one week of cleverness and five weeks of book-keeping, and so it felt too slog-like to celebrate.

But a couple weeks later when I was doing some housework it dawned on me that it was 'only' six weeks of work because of a bunch of fairly thankless things I'd invested a great deal of time in over the previous 18 months. I'd been dribbling out appetizers for a while, this was the first big dish, and I'm not sure it's the main course, so it's not like I missed my big chance, but I probably should have honored it more.

I'd had an initial 'I told you so' feeling in the heat of the moment that pushed down as feeling petty, and delivered instead a fairly lukewarm "this is what I am talking about." This is, in fact, one of the things I'm talking about, but I think I'm past trying to recruit people (all the fun people to recruit are gone). I'm sadly just following the Campsite Rule and splitting my priorities between things that help me do my job, and things that might help me do the next one.

In that respect, I've been chasing a dragon (two, in fact) for the last couple of months instead of acknowledging that paragraphs like the one above are a pretty good indication I should be focusing all of my energy on job hunting instead. Wisdom is on a continuum and there's a lot of room still for foolishness even if you've got a lot of things figured out.
I found it amazing in the sense that I wouldn’t even come up with sentences like this under influence :D
I just think it’s funny.
Wonderful perspective, I appreciate it.
> "This belongs in a museum!"

Does it? A museum for who?
Warning: loud auto playing audio
Yeah, I've heard their stuff is good, I think I missed the bus slightly on it. It seems, sort of, very out there. I couldn't follow the plot most of the time whenever I tried to watch it.

Now I'm watching old Brad Neely videos, he had some good weird stuff.
>"If you can't write about a subject directly, use creative license and make the situation up. Nobody knows / is going to find it different and it will help get your point across."

Making up a situation—without disclosing that it is fiction—is risky in a practical sense and also morally questionable.

Readers typically don't like to be deceived when reading non-fiction. If a specific detail is fabricated and a reader notices, a reader can assume that the writer is sloppy/deceptive, and become far more skeptical with the rest of the author's works. Undisclosed fabrication can also lead to unsound conclusions (for example, an article could rely on the existence of a counter-example to disprove a rule, but a fabricated counter-example would make the argument fail to be valid).

Furthermore, suppose a reader cites an article with a fabricated story, relying on that story to make a point. If the story is false, the reader would take a reputational hit as well. In a moral sense, it's better for the reader to avoid fabricating situations.

It is typically good practice to make an article introduction easy-to-understand with minimal jargon, but creative license should always be disclosed when writing about a hypothetical situation. It leads to higher-quality reasoning (by avoiding arguments that rely on false anecdotal evidence) and is simple to disclose (e.g. "Consider a hypothetical: ...").
I have it bookmarked, for when my Amiga is switched off.

Good discussion here from 2019.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19034690