skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Elections are coming in Greece as well.

Politicians on either side of the aegean have failed their people misserably and are apparently turning to nationalism/hatred for political gain.

I wish this is understood by both countries (yet I do not expect it...)
> Are quantum computers overhyped?

Well, let's see:

> When given the same problem, a quantum computer should be able to trounce any supercomputer in any problem in terms of speed and efficiency

LOL, no, not any problem, far from it. Some problems, rather specific ones, such as prime factoring.

> Our current system, for example, taps into electrons and cleverly-designed chips to perform their functions. Quantum computers are similar, but they rely on alternative particle physics.

Um, no, they both rely on the same physics, that is a combination of Quantum Mechanics and electromagnetism. Note to the author: an electron is a quantum system, and classical electronics definitely rely on that.

So yes, quantum computers are overhyped, through no faults of their own, and this article contributes to the trend.
CJEU confirms that UK citizens have lost EU citizenship
Python isn't a special case either, same issue with node, php/composer, R, and many others. I pretty much do this for a living now, it seems like most of my skillset is figuring out how things should run without making too much of a mess.
Show HN: Analyzing top HN posts with language models
Hi HN,

I spent a few weeks looking at the top HN posts of all time. This included exploration, clustering, creating visualizations, and zooming in on what (to me personally) seems like some of the best discussions on here.

Three things in this post:

1- The interesting groups of HN posts

2- The interactive visualizations that you can explore in your browser

3- The data from this exploration -- this includes CSV of the titles as well as the text embeddings of 3,000 Ask HN articles.

Blog post about this whole process here: [1]

============

1- The interesting groups of HN posts

From the exploration, Ask HN proved the most interesting. These are the top four groups of topics I found insightful. Each group contains about 400 posts.

- Life experiences and advice threads [2]

- Technical and personal development [3]

- Software career insights, advice, and discussions [4]

- General content recommendations (blogs/podcasts) [5]

============

2- The interactive visualizations that you can explore in your browser

- Top 10,000 Hacker News articles of all time [6]

- Top 3,000 posts in Ask HN [7]

============

3- The data from this exploration

CSV file of top 3K Ask HN posts: [8]

The sentence embeddings of the titles of those posts: [9]

This is a colab notebook containing the code examples (including loading these two data files): [10]

============

If you've ever wanted to get into language models, this is a good place to start. Happy to answer any questions
I created a small company solving a real problem for a small group of people. Sold the company for a small amount (not newsworthy) and got hired with a pretty good salary by the company that bought us.
DM'd the team lead on Twitter.
You think people have their entire Stam lib on disk... at most they have 4-5 games.
Many of the claims of religion can’t be contradicted by observed reality because they are pointing to things beyond the observable (ie non-Falsifiable, like the proposed existence of a multiverse).

For example, religion claims you have free well. For a materialist, any interesting definition of free will is impossible, because we are made of quantum particles with defined statistical behavior.

Of course, we cannot prove or disprove the existence of free will in other people either…
> They've gone a bit crazy with the latest features

Can you elaborate? What are the latest features?
I'm writing rain simulators all day long right now : nothing fits those observed droplets data :-)

So one more good reason not to do any woodstuff at home when I can work with perfectly predictable things like the rust borrow checker instead :-)
> ...trusted central authority...

The major point is to not have this. No central authority, or government, will be able to alter the value of the currency.
Size Optimization Tricks
> The replication crisis wasn't just this one paper. There were also (e.g.) Daniel Bem's studies on ESP and a whole bunch of individual failed replications.

That's not a crisis, if I understand correctly what you mean. Failed replication is an essential part of science, like bankruptcy is an essential part of business. The reason the OSC replication failure paper was important was that it discussed widely accepted research.

> The point of the post is that the size of the replication crisis may have been exaggerated in this study.

The OP is much stronger than that. For example,

First, they introduced statistical error into the data which led the OSC to significantly underestimate how many of their replications should have failed by chance alone. When this error is taken into account, the number of failures in their data is no greater than one would expect if all 100 of the original findings had been true.

and

“What they did,” added Gilbert, “is create an idiosyncratic, arbitrary list of sampling rules that excluded the majority of psychology’s subfields from the sample, that excluded entire classes of studies whose methods are probably among the best in science from the sample, and so on. Then they proceeded to violate all of their own rules. ...”

and

“The replicators realized that doing this study [using people speaking English about US social issues] in the Netherlands might have been a problem, so they wisely decided to run another version of it in the US. And when they did, they basically replicated the original result. And yet, when the OSC estimated the reproducibility of psychological science, they excluded the successful replication and included only the one from the University of Amsterdam that failed. ...”
> "hence the title of "the evasive neutral", showing it's opportunism."

Imagine you are in charge of a struggling nation, somewhat behind technologically, close to Germany and Italy, during the most destructive war in history.

In that situation, would you be eager to declare war on the axis powers, and condemn your people to suffering?

Even US wasn't keen to get involved untill war came to them - and they had technological parity and protection of the oceans..

You also have to realise that
To non-europeans, for example folks in China, Nazi germany didn't look like 'absolute evil', it looked like a yet another war between colonial powers. They had fresh memory of atrocities commited by colonial powers which, to them, were not that different from Nazis's ones.

To them, Europe only cared about europe - when empire of Japan was doing genocide in China, noone cared.

The point is not to agree or disagree with this worldview, but you have to realise that world events don't look the same from dofferent corners.
I use claws with multiple sending identities.
Publii is a good one but it lacks proper marketing. It's just not promoted enough. It also does not have a mobile app, and don't support pages. It could be a good solution for non-tech people that want to own their space and can't spend too much money/time, but it would need to change substantially for that to happen.
“We speculate that our findings could possibly be attributed to contaminants in fish, such as polychlorinated biphenyls, dioxins, arsenic and mercury.”
You can easily, it's available on Amazon and eBay.
This article completely ignores the "embodied carbon" emissions and e-waste generated by the mining ecosystem [0]. Electricity usage is not the whole story.

[0]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09213...
This trope of "personal responsibility" needs to go away.

Only a minority of people can withstand an onslaught of determined, highly paid professionals, working together to basically harm them.

Our brains have flaws. These people know those flaws and work actively every day of their working lives to exploit them. What hope can the always tired, always stressed out average person have of resisting, long term?

Personal responsibility is failing, just look at obesity rates in countries with reduced malnutrition rates.

We need systemic solutions, not blaming the poor idiot.

That's how we solved other collective problems like air travel safety and road fatality rates.

Your approach was the old, antiquated one, where we always blamed the pilot or the driver. Guess what? Even if the person is an idiot, we're all idiots. Let's make stuff that doesn't kill us even if we're idiots.

Similar principle here.
Good catch, but assuming evading capital controls is crime, then this becomes a debate of victimless crime. Under normal circumstances, it's not victimless, because it can hurt the economy and everyone in it. Who is the victim of a Russian civilian evading their establishment? I don't see the criminals running the establishment as a victim; they already did the most damage to their economy, and they're still the perpetrators of other crimes with many victims. Cryptocurrency makes everything pertaining to money easier, unfortunately crime too depending on what is considered crime, and I think it's still a net benefit. No matter what happens, we can't rely on implicit control of money as an easy way to punish crime anymore, no amount of debating or essays or letters will close that box.
This paper drew heavy criticism at the time: http://retractionwatch.com/2016/03/07/lets-not-mischaracteri...

And the years since then haven't been kind to landmark results in psychology.
Previous Job I just left - Former manager (great boss) recruited me. I spent 7 years there.

New Job - Told people in my network I was looking and let people refer me.
I think it is very different to other indigenous people, in many important ways.

Sámi and Germanic speaking peoples have lived side by side for almost 2000 years. That's very different from the classical colonial story.

For much of history, Sámi were exploited but prized subjects, because they were taxed in furs, a very profitable trade commodity. At one point, three states (Norway, Sweden and Russia) taxed the Sámi... although that can't have been fun for the Sámi, it also gave them considerable legal protection, since you didn't mess with someone that profitable.

Assimilation is also a complex story. It was worst in Norway in the 20th century - after WW2, which makes it especially damning. There they committed basically all the classic colonial crimes that e.g. Canada and Australia committed against their indigenous populations - separation of families, suppression of language, forced sterilization, you name it.

But at other times, especially in Sweden, they went to the other extreme of segregation instead, under the "Lapp ska vara lapp" policy, where Sami were not allowed to get education, and those who failed to live up to the exotisized image (e.g. by not being reindeer herders) were denied traditional rights.

On religion, it's also rather far from the classic "they came and imposed their religion on us" story. Christianity didn't reach the Sámi much later than it reached the Norse, if it was later at all. The first chapel in Finnmark was apparently built by Sami. The presence of the Virgin Mary in some Sámi folk tales is good evidence that it wasn't after the reformation the Sámi became Christian. However, since the Sámi were at that time nomadic, had low literacy rates and lived geographically and culturally far from ecclesiastical overview, they did not stay orthodox and mixed in a lot of animistic beliefs and superstitions with their Christianity. Sápmi today is a stronghold of arch-conservative Christianity, in particular followers of the 19th century Sámi pietist reformer Lars Levi Læstadius, and that's another thing that doesn't fit well with the Sámi as a "typical indigenous people", as well as a source of conflict between generations, where younger Sámi people may be a lot more OK with the idea of themselves as basically pagan (and their pietist parent generation as self-hating colonialism victims).

So, let's be careful to not squeeze the Sámi into a generic indigenous people mold. I get that doing so is often a well-meaning effort to justify Sámi rights, but it should not be necessary to cut the foot to make that shoe fit. I think it's important to focus on the value of language and culture over ancestry.
It seemed to work well, but then my MacBook crashed for some reason.
Those are the countries that Stadia is available in. [1]

You really need servers to be close by for game streaming to work.

[1] https://support.google.com/stadia/answer/9566513?hl=en
Is the name a Stargate SG-1 reference? I have to know...
> What happened? I don't know any reason that programs such as Mutt should have gotten bad.

If you have a mailbox with tens of thousands of messages and you also use mutt's IMAP capabilities, mutt's UI is going to freeze on you for prolonged periods of time. It also is trying very hard to be efficient and only download relevant stuff, but somehow it translates to "is downloading stuff all the time" (and freezes its UI while doing so).

Basically you reproduce this by subscribing to a high-traffic mailing list, letting it send you stuff for a month, then trying to use Mutt on that.

It also turns out that a maildir with all that stuff is also a stress test for your filesystem, so you add all deficiencies of email client to all deficiencies of your filesystem. Meh.
Depends, I have a couble of TiB of Steam games installed right now but not my entire library. At least with Steam you have that option preserve the games and perhaps more importantly, pirates^Warchivists have the option to backup the game for those of us that did not have the foresight/care to do so. A potential future game that is streaming only will be gone for good once shut down.
> But when it turns into losing the right to have any job whatsoever, then no, that's definitely not okay either.

wesleywt seems to be against this too since removing a legal right like that would require government action and they are againts that as seen in:

> I am for both free speech and getting cancelled for it. In this way, standards acceptable to our society can be policed without interferance from the government.

It seems like you put cancelling on the acceptable side of the line when you say:

> So no, by my logic, you're totally allowed to not be friends with someone who says something racist. As for losing a job, in an ideal world where this person could just get another job, yes, that'd be acceptable.

I normally think of cancelling as individuals deciding who they want to associate with and any consequences that flow from that. Which seems to land on the acceptable side of the line you are drawing.

While government action would not be acceptable, which I agree with, but I would not call cancelling.
>Barring all that, they could just not recognize the owner and send police to physically remove someone who thinks they own it because the have the NFT. That's one reason why some people like bitcoin so much, the government can't (easily) take it from you by force (because there's no physical aspect to it) like they can a home or gold.

If this were to happen and the blockchain and the physical world diverge, how would potential house NFT buyers know whether the physical house purportedly linked hasn't been overridden by local government? If the answer is for local registries to publish a list; then that list is the only thing that matters. The entire blockchain component becomes completely superfluous and a centrally managed electronic exchange would be faster, easier and cheaper.
Isn't the whole essence of software that we are lazy? And so we write code so we don't do stuff ourselves?

Nothing wrong with being lazy if it gets things done, right?
I'm not sure if I understand your tool correctly.

Do you generate Terraform code based on the AWS account, to help with a migration to Terraform?

Or is it that your platform works in that it "compiles" whatever is created in it to Terraform, to be run by the user on their AWS account? In other words, it's kind of a GUI DSL for Terraform?
HN who is hiring.

Now that there are so many remote positions, it is definitely the best place for software jobs for the discerning developer. I went through the hundreds and found a select few that met my criteria (open source, multi language, not too big, software focused company, etc).
Wasn't control theory invented to understand the dynamic behavior of steam engine governors?
I think it's missing a bit nuance.

Dependencies can be very good, they can provide enormous leverage to actually solve your problems and share the burden of common problems like parsing a json string or compressing to gzip or whatever. In theory at least.

On the other hand, I think a large part of the problem actually comes from dependency managers being a bit too good. It's easy to pull some library and not realize the dependency has massive root system of transitive dependencies, and once that gets settled in your code base it may be difficult to get out.

I think the real problem isn't dependencies themselves, but when dependencies are expected to have dependencies in themselves. I don't think what you get in the end is good, robust software. It gets a sort of flimsy quality where stuff keeps breaking and falling apart and that's just the way it is.
How do you detect one?
Australians generally live in big dense cities. In fact, this is probably why the ban will work, they are also more into rule of law than the USA is.

Also, vaping in Australia is illegal, making the ban even more impressive.
Top notch silicium chip manufacturing is now strategic (and that could be extended to display panels...).

Each world "zone" should have its foundries _and_ tool manufacturing facilities.

Making money out of it is optional, like defence. This is no excuse to "waste" money though.

That would not forbid international cooperation à la ITER.

That's why RISC-V is interesting for CPUs, because if it is a success: write a RISC-V code path once, runs on many different CPUs all around the world (without toxic IP and beyond sanity SDK).

I dunno if this is possible because this is really, really hard.
I ended up deleting like 30% of my React components after switching to Tailwind, because suddenly they just felt like unnecessary overhead. Tailwind FTW.
These claims are usually supported by graphs about how much USD/EUR/... are provided by the respective central banks, which does not measure money in circulation, but total money existing. It's important to distinguish between the two since they are easily confused and a lot of existing money not in circulation can lead to rapid inflation if something mobilizes this money, which might be what we're seeing right now.
Oooo. That’s an interesting idea. Being able to toggle className to be `className=“…”` in vim.

Would be interesting to see what an experience of being able to toggle between classless and class-only jsx looked like.
It's also data scientists, computer scientists, and plenty of other folks in fields which are considered "hard sciences", that are working together with the psychologists.

Plus, if it's "only" 20% of people we lose to these addictions, that's still a major tragedy.

The dig at psychologists was funny, but this is a super serious topic, unfortunately.
One of my managers in a previous company hired me. No interviews involved.
[1] https://txt.cohere.ai/combing-for-insight-in-10-000-hacker-n...

[2] https://assets.cohere.ai/blog/text-clustering/askhn_cluster_...

[3] https://assets.cohere.ai/blog/text-clustering/askhn_cluster_...

[4] https://assets.cohere.ai/blog/text-clustering/askhn_cluster_...

[5] https://assets.cohere.ai/blog/text-clustering/askhn_cluster_...

[6] https://assets.cohere.ai/blog/text-clustering/hn10k_clustere...

[7] https://assets.cohere.ai/blog/text-clustering/askhn-3k.html

[8] https://storage.googleapis.com/cohere-assets/blog/text-clust...

[9] https://storage.googleapis.com/cohere-assets/blog/text-clust...

[10] https://colab.research.google.com/github/cohere-ai/notebooks...
Would you kindly expand on that? What research? What answer does it give? Any links? Thanks.
It's very much a classic "if someone can get root access to your system and is given the ability to install software, they can install this rootkit and do very bad things" type of malware. That part is glossed over completely in the article(s) and the focus is on the "do very bad things" because it sells eyeballs and clicks.

After a while, in security, the blog posts, adverts, and scanners are the malware that's taking our time and money.
It's not universally true either, not by a long way.

I've worked with plenty of devs who wore extreme verbosity almost as a badge of honour.
Firefox itself is a failure and it is not early days. We've given it enough time to be better than Chrome and it is still declining.
I didn't realize that was a necessary precondition in your evaluation of what makes something "crazy." Sorry.
Yes and straighforwardly so if you use character classes as your basic building blocks. Here I implemented a Haskell implementation that is easily extandable to include complements: https://github.com/dan-blank/hgrep-smallcore (I like this project because it translates ERE compliant regexes - sans negated character sets - down to only 4 constructs, one of which being character classes). It implements https://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/turon/re-deriv.pdf, character classes are described in 4.2.

I actually had complement in it as a 5th construct, but when the submission came closer and the examiners found some errors in my logic (my fault for not writing good enough unit tests!), I took complement out again when cleaning the project up.
"Why did you not quit the platform?"

aaaand checkmate
Additionally I've got a lot out of:

The Old Man and the Sea - Hemmingway
L'Etranger - Camus
The Castle / The Trial - Kafka
We have those in NJ now. They are very cool. The printed ballot is presented to the voter, protected under glass, to verify that it is correct. It is then swallowed by the machine and the vote registered.

Very clear printed text. No hanging chads.
I do use Hacker News a lot, but not to a point where I feel being addicted. Might feel that in the long run though...
"15-50 bugs per 1000 lines of code" is weird. The model should discount on number of years that have passed since a line was written.
Only if you use a small percentage of the functionality. If the dependency is maintained (not all are!) there is a good chance someone else discovered many of the bugs, the the per bugs per line of code metric should be much lower. And the dependency probably has some features you wish existed but can't justify the effort to write.

It is about trade offs. Is the time/money saved and the additional features gained worth the cost that some of features you don't use may result in more bugs that affect you in some way. For the most part I'd say no: I can write my own whatever, but that too will have bugs, and I need to fix all of them. I work with people who disagree with me on this one, and so we have a lot of pain maintaining code we wrote ourselves that isn't as good as a library I could have downloaded. Or in some case code that is already on our system - We have 6 different logging frameworks in one project, 3 we wrote in house, this is a big mess.
I'm still unsure exactly who the market is for Stadia/streaming games.

People with a console/PC are going to just buy it outright. I could see it used by someone who travels a lot, but hotels aren't going to like the massive bandwidth hit, nor will mobile carriers. The most obvious candidate is people who cannot afford a console or PC, but having just played through this demo, the graphics look like last-gen consoles anyway. I'm sure there is a use-case for this somewhere, but I can't think of it.
You can’t fine a broken transformer $34k.
I'll never understand why YouTube allows their ads to be trivially bypassed like that, instead of just making them part of the video stream. It would ruin YouTube for me, so I'm not complaining.
That is called Class in CSS...