skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amusingly, my now passed ultra-SNP uncle spent a lot of his life bemoaning the replacement of the contemporary beautiful Scottish desert with huge tracts of monoculture pine trees, changing the expected beauty of Scottish landscapes with tens of thousands of dense rows of trees planted 'for the English', in turn making another form of desert. He was right in that it wasn't pretty and not much of an improvement on a [human-] degraded landscape, but I always thought he should've looked a little closer to home to see who was profiting from all that stock. It was likely his neighbours (perhaps English), not London per se.
Tired is the right word. He's a complex person doing interesting things, with a lot of noise mixed in. I don't care for how the cult of celebrity has grown to dominate public discourse, particularly since Trump got elected. Keep your celebrities out of my limited attention, particularly if its irrelevant to the actual events at hand.

Of course, the fact that Musk is materially affecting Twitter, Trump was president, etc. totally call for their manic actions as newsworthy. Ugh. Too much power concentrated in the hands of too few.
I have found all the “shoot the messenger” of leaks to be so backwards it seems like an orchestrated defense.
Not very online enough. But really, i think it's more about your online influence sphere. I've been on the intersection and seen a side where it's big, the other where it's not even felt.
I am shocked... absolutely shocked, I say, that Master Lock released a security product to the market that is so badly engineered it is trivial to open.
For those who are wondering how this equation is true:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_total_variance
Elon Musk asserts his “right to terminate” Twitter deal
Does an electronic lock of the kind where the keypad is on the insecure side of the door generally contain or not contain the mechanism to open that door? How is that mechanism normally secured?

Edit: I mean here it looks like that ripping off the front-panel and powering the solenoid will get you into the safe.
I wish HN had way more technical overviews like this from people with experience. It's certanily new to me.
What about Coinbase (YC S12)?

Same fraud, on top of insider trading! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31012462

Typical "china bad, USA angel" article, shame
The prompt is the programming, I'd guess.
Agreeing to be bought doesn’t create any obligation on Twitter’s part to do anything that’s not in the contract. Especially for things that Musk has explicitly waived.
The phones do NOT use the M1, although the M1 is based on the chips in the phone. The newest iPad Pro does run an actual M1 though.

Either way I agree a recent iPhone would be plenty for standard work (documents, spreadsheets, email, web).
No, in Big-O notation the magnitude of positive constant factors is completely irrelevant.
How is encryption for individuals comparable to, in your account, wanting an organisation to be more transparent, or - given a fair reading of what you're responding to - hoping that an incredibly powerful and influential group that may provide a majority of top level politicians isn't engaged in corruption?

Next you'll be arguing for less oversight for the 3 letter agencies because they should have strong privacy rights!
linkedlists in java are bad.

one of the benefits of a linkedlist is having the ability to remove an element from a list in O(1) by having reference to an item that is stored in the list. This is allowed since a linked list node can remve itself in constant time. This is a common pattern in linked lists used in C code for example.

javas linkedlists don't allow for this benefit. since in java you have to perform a search for the node to be removed and pay a O(n) penalty on a O(1) operation.
The UN will never solve anything because it requires unanimous support from russia and china on the security council. nato is a defensive alliance that only really comes into effect when a member is attacked. I'm not even sure what pretext allowed nato to get involved here, but Europe basically twiddled their thumbs while genocide happened on the european continent. This only really changed when the US got involved to keep things from spiraling out of control like 1914.
having goals (short term and long term), a roadmap to get there, and executing puts you so far ahead of the curve of "hustle culture". All the blog posts, all the videos, all the discussion revolve around goals and meeting them. If you can already do that then you're already there.
It's great until you touch async to which Go is way better and easier to use.
By this logic, all programs that we run are O(1), since any data structure is in practice bounded in size by your available address space (+ disk space if we want to be pedantic). So, you can replace any loop over the elements of a DS with a loop over all memory in the address space, and you will get an O(1) algorithm.

In the end, it's just not a useful way of modelling the problem.
>politically-correct term

I don't get it. Were people getting canceled for saying "pyramid scheme" or something?
> …it would be possible for a sufficiently advanced civilization to send probes to ever star in the galaxy (or even colonize it) in just a few million years.

It’s “possible”, highlighted by the fact that we haven’t sent a single probe to another star system. We have a grand total of 2 probes that have made it outside our solar system, and only 3 more on the way.

There are an estimated hundred thousand million stars in the Milky Way. At a rounded cost of $1B for the Voyager missions, “possible” starts to meet reality.

There are far to many assumptions. Not only does a technological civilization exist, but it had a few million years head start on us and used their time/technology to colonize every star system in the galaxy with physical probes, when so long as we are making assumptions and can assume they have/had the ability to collect all the same data/information locally at the speed of light.
I dunno, I just know that if anyone complains of any malady here on HN, the fastoids will jump on them like white on rice. It's like /r/nofap for techbro types.
I think we always take some of it home. You can try all you like to keep your work and private lives separate but there will always be some spillover. Plus, no matter what you do, there is always in theory some dollar value attached even to your free time, or some limitation on the amount of time off you can take, which means that you really do have to be goal-oriented about taking a vacation, spending time with family and friends, practicing an instrument, etc. If you're not, it might not happen at all.

I don't know what the answer is but I agree that market-worship is bad and makes all of us involved in market-driven work (i.e. basically everyone) a little less compassionate.
A lot of people who are good in a capitalistic world, you know your finance people, lawyers, software engineers (@ FAANG) are kind of like race horses, they are born with ample intellectual capacity and spend their formative years competing with their peers to try to rise to the top (starting from middle school, high school, top uni, top company, top position etc...), they rarely ask themselves if what they are doing is even worth it for humanity, themselves, or posterity, they just run as soon as they are put in a race. Taking a step back and questioning this stuff is scary, especially if you are brought up to think that if you aren't running then you are falling behind.
Lots of "busy" work - meetings, answering questions on slack, constant interruptions. Before you know the day is done.
Are "Feuerschwanz" technically a symphonic metal band? I saw them once, they seems more like a German Medieval metal, comedy act. It's niche, but it's a large enough scene that there's room for at least one band in that comedy niche.
> It was rare that a procuring team would know what they're doing with which nics need to go in which ports, and what VLANs would need to be spun up, and stuff like that.

yea. many of the teams would be devs who wouldn't understand that kind of thing (which was a large part of my job, being in such teams and knowing, roughly, how things worked helped get things done from day 1).
> What was it?

My lacking-evidence and very unverified theory is that it's something like bicameral mind theory. It wasn't until we developed a complex enough brain to have self metacognition that we started to take off as a species.
The more important point in the analogy is that people who buy houses aren't in prison. The other important point is that a house free house forever without restrictions doesn't exist - you're still beholden to zoning laws, fire safety laws, environmental regulations, you couldn't use the house as a meth lab or fly kites from it into restricted airspace, or broadcast from it into restricted radio bands, or a thousand other things. And for your own self-interest you want to keep it clear of insects, keep the roof waterproof, keep the floors from collapsing, etc.

Then it becomes a lot clearer that there are tradeoffs around amount of effort needed, amount of money spent, amounts of freedoms, with many reasonable choices for different people and use-cases, rather than the implied binary choice.
Public companies are limited in what data they can provide to potential buyers. In general, they can't provide any more than what's in their public statements. The SEC enforces this rule to ensure that all investors have access to the same info.

Also, when buying public companies, you have to be extremely careful not to let word get out before it's publicly announced. It's easy to imagine a Twitter employee tasked with sending logs to E.M. Acquisition Corp leaking this particular bombshell to the press.

So it's normal to make an acquisition bid based only on their publicly reported numbers. The acquisition contract provides for a due-diligence phase that happens between when the deal is announced and when it's final (ie, now) where the buyer can verify that there aren't material misrepresentations in the public filings. If there are, they can back out.

Everything about this process is normal, except the hyperventilating press.
If the young were very well-compensated for the inconvenience I don't actually have a huge problem with this kind of reverse wealth transfer. Try to balance the scales of the social security and housing market wealth extraction which is (in a metaphorical but more meaningful sense) bleeding the young dry.

Giving blood isn't really a big deal for a healthy person.
> Spent fuel rods are ferociously dangerous

No, they're not. While they're definitely not good for you they're not anything special when it comes to toxic materials. You're just unaware of all the other equally poisonous stuff humanity deals in at "industrial scales", most of which doesn't get safer by ignoring it.

At least we can detect radiation with simple equipment. Detecting most other types of contamination with some type of molecule that's no good for organic life even at low doses is far more involved. Until people start keeling over you generally have no idea whether there's bad stuff in your dirt or water.

The factories that make all sorts of things that make your modern life possible necessarily handle some stuff that's really, really, nasty in the concentrations in which they handle it.
You're making a category error. The posts you're looking at are marketing speech, intended to generate hype. They are not intended to be informative.

Also, C-suite-types may not have the slightest idea what approach the technical people are taking, or even whether it works. But they do know about things with dollar signs on them. They regard every penny investors are willing to spend as validation of ... important stuff.

I agree that this is not useful information. But I'm a technical guy. I am not the target audience of that kind of information.
Charlie doesn't give Alice's IOU to David and Eve, he gives his own IOUs. He can default on those, but that's implied by David and Eve interacting with Charlie directly.
Compressing BART models for resource-constrained operation
That is an insincere take. You are confusing varna system with casteism which became an issue later. It is not a Hindu problem but South Asia issue where muslims and Christians allow follow it, apart from discriminating against infidels and non believers
As an outside observer, I never had the sense that it would be considered fair, or non-corrupt, for one of the candidates to have the questions in advance.

To me, when I first saw this news story, I felt it was one of the most shockingly corrupt things I had ever seen. The fact that you could see this news and find that it "would hardly qualify as corruption"... this gives me hope that philosophers can gleefully debate reality forever without messing things up by accidentally tripping over the truth. No sarcasm implied!

I struggle to think of a situation as public as this that could be more corrupt.
This is not universal. My lack of dream recall predates my consumption of cannabis. I have multiple friends who, while smoking potent cannabis daily, also have some of the most vivid dream recalls I’ve ever witnessed.
> Your source is seemingly blaming Russia's invasion of Ukraine on the US and UK.

No, it's discussing the geopolitics involved in the war between the European powers. It is a fact that Germany, France and UK in Europe don't see eye to eye on many issues. And it is definitely a realistic possibility that the US and UK want to partly break the EU and and create a rival union with the states bordering Russia. This would mean that even if Germany and France want to improve economic relationship with Russia in the future, they would have to involve the US and UK too. It is clever as it would isolate Russia more from Europe as it would now need to deal with two blocs hostile to it.
In answer to your question, no.

Being truthful isn’t the goal, achieving the parities political goals is. Gerrymandering for example is a perversion of the core idea of democracy, but failing to use it when your opposition does is a problem. Politics exists in the real world and what should be often takes a back seat to what is.
Ask HN: Have You Burned Out?
I am looking to discuss / talk to people who have burned out, whether or not you feel you've recovered.

I just got turned down for another job and I am at the end of my mental and emotional rope.

Tomorrow I have a second interview at a local retail store. I've been a web developer or software engineer for a decade but increasingly painful failures have ruined me as a person and I am lost and without purpose in life. I think I just need to give up on software, I no longer feel welcome or wanted.

I have read that burnout can take up to five years to be resolved, I'm about in year three at this point. It's kinda like a recession you can't see it coming but looking back its easier to see when it started and its root causes.

Even with resources (supportive wife, limited family, therapist) recovery is slow, difficult, confusing and not a straight path. I need a job and purpose before life can improve and I can find a daily existence that's not 90% stress. Until then every day is a catastrophe where I'm upset that I didn't solve "the problem" and all I can think about is fixing "everything" or I'll lose my wife, my house, my independence, my dignity...

If you are suffering from burnout I wish you luck in the eternal struggle for normalcy. I can't say it ever gets better, but try to be kind to yourself. Most of all be honest with yourself even if you can't be with others.

If this post in any way resonates with you feel free to respond or just yell into the void.
When the article revealed the child porn, my first thought was "of course they 'found' child porn." Such a coincidence how tough cases like this always turn up with child porn charges.
>>Erdős found that for any primitive set, including infinite ones, that sum — the “Erdős sum” — is always finite. No matter what a primitive set might look like, its Erdős sum will always be less than or equal to some number. And so while that sum “looks, at least on the face of it, completely alien and vague,” Lichtman said, it’s in some ways “controlling some of the chaos of primitive sets,” making it the right measuring stick to use.

Finite? Surely there must be an operation done to each element of the set before summing to achieve a finite bound.
duckduckgo lets you turn them off. Not sure about google as I have de-googled.
Not sure I'm following you here. We're talking about the costs of doing business and how that might reflect in the retail price of gasoline. At this moment the price of gasoline in Washington is less than one penny different from Oregon. This whole discussion is hypothetical, of course, because there is a lot more that goes into the cost & price of gasoline than just employee wages and liability insurance. But to the original question of "is gas more expensive in Oregon?" the answer is "No."
That seems incredibly employee unfriendly
As much as it is maligned, base 60 is rather convenient. It's easy to take 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5 and 1/6th of that number. Base 12 has this property too (though lacks the easy 1/5th).
Self-destructing parasite: A new weapon against drug-resistant malaria
> That’s what happens when an industry is fully enveloped by capitalism

Yep, I'd say that capitalism itself is an MLM.
You did not understand what I wrote. I clearly defined what I meant by “extremist”. The holding of a particular belief is not what makes one an extremist (under my definition).
then exclude `man_made=water_tap`

in this case extreme fragmentation of tagging is actually useful
By the picture the object does not appear to have been in the water very long.
Good vid.

What would be interesting would be full lifecycle mgmt of 3D printed solid state batteries - meaning, do we want lithium ions leaching into the water table as billions of tiny batteries have entered the environment.

Look at all the little devices that have super small betteries sealed behind what will be micro-ploastics and lithium water pollution.

So, in addition to studying battery tech, hopefully we also treat how these devices will impact the environment over their lifetime.
You think it was coincidence numerous members of the Fed Reserve resigned ~6 months ago? They need to not be associated with the policies - and the Fed Reserve,as a private entity, knows that it needs alternate reasons / methods for a recession. Blame must always be passed in government. The easiest way to go into recession naturally - is bond market routs and high gas prices.

The Fed is aware that in today's 'cancel culture' a lot of public outcry that finally realizes the Fed's activities weaken it's future if political will becomes too strong. Thus it needs something to 'point to' for those whose brains freeze up when 'numbers' are involved.
Given that there is massive interest in getting people to believe that he is an adversarial plant, I would adjust your biases in the opposite direction to offset.

I have seen no credible evidence that he didn't do this for ideological reasons.
For "yield from lst" I think your example should be "for x in lst: yield x".
I'm sure there are thousands of people smarter than Musk.

Intelligence is necessary but not sufficient. In fact, being a little too smart is quite detrimental to success.

I almost want to say intelligence is orthogonal to running a company but that wouldn't be true. You have to have some intellect, anything above that is not that important.
Yeah, and longevity. If you want to be sure you can easily open and read a file in 30 years, on any device, plain text is usually the safest bet.
> I think Clubhouse was perhaps another VC pump and dump.

Attempted* quick pump and dump. They tried to get Twitter to acquire it for $4B and that failed so they are now scrambling to make money or make it worthy of an IPO.

Since either outcome is unlikely, they are most likely to do a down-round with more layoffs as a consequence and probably close down in the next 5 years.
You are correct. I arrive at conclusions based on my life experiences and what I've learned along the way.

We literally give industrial quantities of antibiotics to animals. So antibiotic preservation is not an honest reason to lock them up

Tylenol and Advil can very quickly mess up your kid's liver and kidneys if you misdose. Yet, they're over the counter. So safety does not appear to be an honest reason either.

Ironically, statistically considering the forum, most ppl who are against me on this thread believe in drug liberalization including opiates; the one class for drugs I would keep behind the pharmacist's counter.

Btw, antibiotics are available over the counter in Europe. The ones Id use and feel comfortable using
Have a look at this: https://opg.optica.org/ol/abstract.cfm?uri=ol-47-5-1279

Matches 100% what you're saying: use low intensity uv to write the spatial area you want to solidify, and when you're done flood cure it all together.
This is also the motto I learned. This would explain Python's motto of "There Is Only One Way to Do It".

(It's a joke due from this page: http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-m..., actual motto is "there should be one -- and preferably only one -- obvious way to do it")
I think only 1-2 clubhouses I listened to were any good. It was gamed by opportunists and grifters lightning fast. Lots of noise with very little signal.

I would enjoy it and Twitter spaces more if they supported replay w/ 2x speed, skipping over or only playing certain speakers, or some sort of auto-tagging on topics so you can skip to what's interesting.
Formal-Methods-Based Bugfinding for LLVM’s AArch64 Back End
FSD is a hard problem. Other companies, public ones, have no issue talking about it as a multi/many year project (at best).

Elon constantly says "it's months away", "it's this year", "no, really, this year". Hell he just recently pushed a date back from June to September because "we might be able to announce something".

Having seen the issues with FSD versions dropping today, no-one can seriously think that some September announcement is going to be a "solution".

I get what you're saying. And it's not about being "aspirational". It's repeatedly, to the point of eye-rolling, over-promising, and underdelivering.
The point is that they are not technically pyramid schemes - there is a product to sell. It just so happens that the product is worthless so it makes the system a pyramid scheme in practice, but its peddlers are very quick to point out that it's not a pyramid scheme because of this technicality. It's the same reason why they are still unfortunately legal.
You're absolutely right, and again, I think that reinforces how important a good migration path was to Python 3. Without that path, I think there was a real risk of Python dying off same as Perl 5.

It's sad because there was a lot I liked about Perl. I wish that community had better leadership because from my quick glance at the Wikipedia page, it looks like the Perl 7 project is making the same mistakes as Perl 6/Raku did. It's really too bad.
Yeah, I saw this article too. Started reading it and then "...started to use my TikTok and Instagram accounts to market wealth-building tools and online programs", basically she is doing sales.
> I don't miss Windows 98. I miss being a child using that, browsing the old internet, the old terrible "web design" and having my friends on the same page

I do miss it - having a Windows 98 (or Windows 95) VM is so useful for running some old beloved games.
No. This term was created by pyramid scheme firms themselves to to categorize their business in a legit sounding way.
Musk threatens to pull out of Twitter deal without more info on fake accounts
People are more likely to avoid doing business with you if you call yourself a pyramid scheme. Calling youself a "multi-level marketing" business sounds far more benign.