skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went to 42 SV and was there when it closed, now gainfully employed and grateful for the opportunity.

There was absolutely rampant embezzlement of money by the French staff who came to initially start it.

It was the hubris from Paris that caused the school to fail (opening up a massive campus with no real plans to actually fill it up, tying grant money to enrollment numbers that were infeasible and leading them to take anyone) that caused the school to fail. If they had started slowly, and focused on quality 42 SV would have been great- a lot of good people were there.

As it was, I have no doubt that they were thrilled to use Covid as an excuse to close the branch without bad publicity. A lot of scandals at 42 if anyone cares to look.
One thing I've tried is switching the display to greyscale. (On some phones, it's a built-in option under "Bedtime mode.")

The idea is it makes everything less attractive on your phone.

And of course, turn off as many notifications as you can. (Sometimes I'll even power it off, and only power it back up when I need to do something.)
All the states vulnerable to hurricanes could band together to set up an insurance consortium to protect their citizens. Except, uh-oh, they’re all red states who are convinced the market cures all problems. Never assumed companies were unwilling to keep losing money I guess.
If the purpose of the sub is to get other users to visit these 'bad' sub aren't they doing harm be acting as a place to discover these types of subs
I don't want new receptors, I want to undo what social media did to them in the last five years.
The price level depends on the money supply and the amount of goods available. It was predictable that giving people more spending power when production was lower would case inflation.
Great comment. I’ve always hated that comment but your phrasing makes so much sense.
Just wondering...If gradients or probability distributions are an issue for Julia, can't they just be fixed some day in the future?
This is where Firefox Containers[1] rules. Just open all these sites in new containers and you can keep them siloed and apart (either not logged in, or under separate accounts). You can have as many as you want and have them auto-assigned based on the website.

It's actually an official Firefox project, although it comes as an extension. Though I think it should be a first class feature in the base install.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
How do go monorepos work? Does each library/binary have its own directory with its own go.mod file? And then you need a build system more powerful than go build to descend into each directory and build (if necessary)?

Does this play nice with gopls (go language server) allowing you to jump around to definitions?
Robots and automation take over one discrete task at a time, not whole jobs in one fell swoop.

It allows a smaller workforce to handle the same or greater volume. A port that had 1000 longshoremen can be staffed with 100 people. That’s as much due to workflows adapting to new technology, the use of standardized containers, and scale as it is a robot that slots in 1:1 for a crane operator. Bank of America opened a virtual branch in my town. There’s two ATMs that let you video chat with a teller if needed.

Or the end product itself has been obsoleted by something more mechanized, computerized, or standardized. Computer files means no more file clerks. Email reduces demand for First Class letters and mailroom staff. Dedicated staff passing around external mail and interdepartmental envelopes with the prior recipient and sender crossed out is an anachronism. Direct deposit/ACH and debit cards reduce demand for payroll staff, bookkeepers, tellers, armored car services, and checkbook manufacturing. Even low end legal labor like document review has been automated.

Demand is elastic. When goods are factory made they become cheaper and people individually buy more and more people can afford to buy one.
There is no 10x tool except your brain. Don't believe the hype.
What should someone do if they feel there is some scam going on, in multiple dimensions, but it's all just suggestive?
Parts of the station are owned by Network Rail, parts are owned by TfL who manages the overall station (but there are also staff from the individual train operating companies).

The TfL station layout covers the entire station, and shows which parts are owned by TfL and which aren't.
> Microsoft thinks 550 will stop you from caring about copilot, EEEing vscode, etc.

Could you find one developer that stopped caring about license violations just because of the money they received?
This is an inflammatory title, meant for clickbait: if building a home from decades of savings in which to nurture a family, would one want to find an industrial factory subsequently next door, because some article in the Pasadena Star News decreed zoning must be abolished?
Get your boy Elon in line:NASA tell-all recounts turmoil over private space race
This kind of press is akin to hailing the 20 gallon gas tank over the 10 gallon gas tank. In the future consumers will understand kWh per mile is more important, just like mpg is today.
Things are absolutely compartmentalised. If devs genuinely believe that they are working for the greater good, what's to answer?

But, pretending that you don't know what you do know, that you don't realise you are doing something that will negatively impact others, esp when it is easy to find these things out, won't wash. Remaining ignorant is a choice after all.

I suspect that we will judge ourselves. If you find yourself wanting, there's time to change.

> For AI-in-the-loop, similarly for a long time I have framed that as an extension of heuristic-based-control-system development. I suppose implicitly that puts some or all of the onus on the developers.

Well, yes - AI doesn't come out of nowhere, it didn't invent and code itself. At least, I don't think that's how it occurred :)

People have choices about what they do. They can choose to believe they live in a materialistic, amoral reality - as they are taught at school - and then pretend that they are 'good' with no culpability because they are doing what they are told (coding dystopia). Or they can try to become individuals and try to uncover the nature of reality for themselves and according to their principles and truth.
Of course the state meddling can be done wrong. But unrestricted free trade advocates claim that is cannot be done right - that simply opening up markets is always preferable. That there are zero examples of poor countries that became successful economies following this path, and numerous examples of various forms of protectionism resulting in prosperity, should be a clue to which strategy is better.
My bank does, but only if I install their app and enable notifications. Even then, I still had to slowly tap through layers upon layers of menus to setup rules that actually triggered the alerts.

Latter part is somewhat fine, even if an opinionated default ("report all, no exceptions") would have sufficed.

Former is the annoying part, mostly because Bank of America's app is just slow and still isn't up to par with their website. Notably, the virtual card function is not present on the mobile app, even after many years (imagine a really bad Privacy.com clone, like really bad, but it still has virtual numbers at least).
The Civil War was needed to overturn slavery. Do you imagine people on the wrong side of history just going: "whoops i guess it's wrong. We're gonna stop doing it"?

The more I see, the more I believe a civil war is not off the table. In fact it's becoming more and more likely each day. We have 2 camps today and people are more and more divided. There used to be a time when you could... talk about the issue and use logic and arguments around facts. Not anymore. Abortion will not lead to a civil war - not on its own - but it does add extra pressure to a pressure cooker that's about to blow up.
You'd be better off with an older Raspberry Pi, using the iPad solely as a browser.
> Please imagine that my response is "I said good day sir!"

That sounds a lot like "Anyway, why do I think I have time for this ... "

It's clear to me that "stuff" can be arranged to work as a Turing Machine (or some other kind of computer) without design or intent. Whether it is such a thing or not depends on how it is used; a Turing Machine that is given random inputs, or whose outputs don't mean anything to anyone, is a computer only in a formal sense. If nobody knows that some thing is a computer, I'm not sure that it's computer-ness is meaningful.

So that's why I think intent and interpretation are relevant.
My bank still has tellers. Also, I'm not sure that making your customer do the work instead of an employee is quite the same as automation. Would you consider the self checkout line at the grocery as automation? A human is still doing all the work, the difference is the store doesn't have to pay for the labor.
I don't frequently visit Reddit, but I think in the last year or two it has become more prone to mono-think and feels a bit like high school.

I hope it changes direction and becomes a better public forum. We need more of those kinds of environments.
> Upon her death, Vanderbilt left her son, Anderson Cooper, almost her entire estate, which was valued at less than $1.5 million.

Gloria Vanderbilt wasn’t ultra wealthy by any means. Lots of retirees from modest backgrounds have $1.5 million upon death. My uncle is a cnc machinist and had a retirement of about a million dollars.
This also shows how women at that time were treated as "glorified property":

> If that woman die, his daughter shall be killed.

You damaged my property — your property will be equally damaged. Justice!

Women wouldn't be treated as equal to men for another 3,500 years or so.
wa"hlen is to choose. which is welche. perhaps cognates
What's the advantage of ATAK over something like Locus Maps?
> Do people miss the Google of old, or the Web of old?

Yeah, I wish I knew how to get back to it, but I think that's impossible without a big enough movement. Yes, I know about tildeverse and some other things but the countervailing network effect is just too big for it to be sustaining right now. The closest is Mastadon but it's not really that great.
Same. I used to have a BMW with this shifter. It was the most intuitive car to drive of all that I had driven. It’s like the controls melted away around you and you could just focus on the drive. That car died a bad death when someone else drove it into a telephone pole and I still miss it.

I know different people have different expectations for UX but for me that BMW had few of none UX flaws.
I think what happened is that since YouTube makes its business with advertisements which are "free" for the users, users get accustomed to the idea that content should be free. That lowers the quality of the music because why invest more in quality than what is needed to provide free convent.

If nobody is paying for it except with their eye-balls how much should you expect to profit, and thus how much should you invest in producing your content? Not much hence quality goes down and everybody suffers from poor cultural offerings.
I've come to really disagree with this approach. It's extremely hard to undo an entrenched system. My org has a gnarly monolith that works well enough that we can't justify spending any money refactoring it as it enters it's 12th year of service.

"There is nothing more permanent than a temporary solution"
> These things have a way of working themselves out.

Yes, but how they work themselves out and where they work themselves out to matter quite a lot.

Also, both of those things, the how and the where, are not random. They are influenced dramatically by the blood, sweat, and tears of people with ideals and the willingness put in the work.

Those people putting in the work, are they people who share your vision of what the world should be like?

If you don't participate in the process, you can't complain about the result.
> I stopped reading after the second paragraph…

> … I thought this was going to be about google search or something that actually matters

That’s what the other paragraphs were for.
#itgetsbetter
I agree with everything you have said in this thread, the one area I would take a slightly different approach with is that some of the best algorithmic advances do come from people and teams looking at a problem anew -- without examining all previous works and failures.

Are they likely to find a way to jump forward? no. Are they likely to fall into the same traps and dead ends that are well documented in this space? yep. But in general I believe we should temper the negative feedback with constructive details:

Hey have you seen this previous and very similar work in the same space, here is some info where and how they failed to scale.

Taking a stance (even an implied one) that this is not novel and therefore you should stop could have been made against many of the teams working in vast areas of algorithms and architectures that have lead to jumps forward. CS is and should be science and to that end, our current knowledge and understanding is simply what is known today and must remain mutable to move forward. While their current approach is not scalable and a dead end, who knows if this experience will lead them to identify previously unrealized solutions (even if partial).
This theory predicted inflation should have soared back in 2009 when QE began. The fact that it took 13 years and additional crises (pandemic, Ukr war) for inflation to surface is pretty good disproof of the theory.
> Classes aren't a great abstraction when enforcing program invariants like "this object must at least have fields a and b."

Can you elaborate on the functional difference between

- an enhanced dictionary where certain keys are guaranteed as part of the type, and

- a record type (class, struct, whatever) with named fields?
Started paying for Kagi.com recently and is very satisfied with the results. Visiting Google again after being used to Kagi is an interesting and uncomfortable experience, it's very easy to become accustomed to how much ads and irrelevant information Google actually displays.

The ability to boost your favorite sites is a really nice feature, especially for developers. Also not having to sift through all the content-stealing websites and SEO scams is a huge plus. Recommended!

(No connection to it, just happy user).
Join an orienteering club?

Start simple. What will guide you in the right direction. The path, street, river, giant arrows, etc.

What will you see if you are heading the right direction /almost there. The third street on the left, a pub, park etc.

What will catch you if you go too far. A big intersection, a prominent building, water, etc.
Wealth will always be very unequal, see the Mathew principle - just like a few songs have the most listeners and a few books the most readers. And it's hard to stay at the top too, so the elites are always changing.

The real issue comes when the really powerful can inflate their and their friends assets at will.
First, point 2 isn't valid, inflation was happening long before the war.

> yet somehow everyone is experiencing the exact same rates of inflation... almost as if it was for some common material reasons.

Western nations mostly took the same monetary action, likely with some level of coordination so that exchange rates don't wildly change and also because they all had a common problem.

Countries like Japan, Switzerland, China and Taiwan all have much lower inflation than the US, UK, Canada and the Eurozone for example.

https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/inflation-rate-
Like watering your lawn, your garden?
> if you're passing in/out some monstrosity which has a structure that you can only really find out by reading the code

This is conflating multiple issues. Using generic collections (dictionaries, if you like) and then trying to work out what's in them. Modern stacks include a debugger, so figuring out what's in them is trivial in a given code path, if you have a test environment.

Figuring out how to use them (or how to not abuse them) when you have an immature development environment, is the issue at hand.

The author of the blog implies that they will necessarily be problematic. That's incorrect on it's face, but let's get into a codebase where we have no frame of reference, documentation, a limited dev environment, and/or the tests are missing/ignore the ramifications of the dictionary containing a variety. The question then becomes one of ascribing blame in these conversations:

1. is it the fault of the original programmer in selecting a dictionary? - No

2. is it the natural outcome of using a dictionary? - No

3. is there a compelling reason to use a dictionary at all (over a typed list)? - Yes and I would say more than one.

That's all aside to the issue of "what do you do now?" Well you do research and work, same as any of these tangled codebases (which may not be tangled at all). You break it up, you write tests and then you reason about the choices made. None of this is particularly special in regards to dictionaries. It's a particular practice that is sometimes expedient or efficient and that seems to offend the author's sensibilities. It's zealotry.
A sufficient fraction of the population who practices honesty and the Golden Rule, which go a long way. One thing that helps with that is to really believe that we are and will be accountable to God, i.e., so that even when no one is watching, doing the honest and kind thing matters to oneself and one's own self-respect. Without this sufficient fraction of the population, it will be very hard to maintain the rule of law anywhere, I think.

Also very important, I think, are literacy and education in general, which is more available than ever before (see for example other discussion around WGU and BYU Pathway Worldwide, like at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31180816 or in wikipedia). They are accredited, online, and tuition at least for BYU Pathway Worldwide is vastly lower for students in poor countries, with support system etc etc, even if one doesn't yet know English.

There are just so many opportunities, if we are willing to strive to be consistently honest and decent toward each other (...and of course, work and plan, as others point out in various ways...).

edit: more at my web site (in profile, simple, skimmable, & nothing for sale).

Thoughtful comments appreciated with any downvotes.
Yeah, you push it forward to go backwards, and pull it backwards to go forwards.
Germany is the best.

In Germany your son would be considered normal.
Supposing it's just a youthful phase. Like the fashion industry for example. Where skinny jeans were popular in the 80's then baggy jeans in the 90's. Then skinny jeans are back in sync now. Don't you think personal blogs and forums will come in sync at some point in the future?
The real kicker of course, is for many people there is even more than a few folks coming to visit, especially for folks who don’t do the hard and nasty stuff in like when it’s necessary for others.
> First, this is an incorrect comparison: chickens eating corn VS humans eating wheat bread. Humans can very much eat corn as well.

I mean, it compares what it compares. From a land usage and calorie perspective chicken is approximately equivalent to wheat.

> Also, the environmental impact needs to account for water usage, pollution from the plant and animal farming and energy usage.

Yes, I am not accounting for those. The first reason is that I am lazy, and this is a comment on the internet; the second reason is that once you are trying to optimize for land usage, water usage, energy usage, fertilizer usage, human labor, capital costs, run-off pollution, CO2, and everything else, you now need to decide how to weight each factor.

Rice produces almost 3 times as many calories per acre as wheat, but uses more than 3 times as much water (449 gallons / lb vs 132). Which is better?

> Second, you have to consider the conversion rate for each nutrients including calories and proteins and chickens are much less efficient than that.

This is actually where chicken excels.

I should really be comparing chicken to soy, not wheat, because soy is a great source of complete protein.

If you plant 3 acres of soybeans, you'll get 18 million calories worth of soybeans.

If you plant 2 acres of corn and 1 acre of soybeans, you'll get 36 million calories of grains, and if you feed them to chickens, you'll get 12 million calories of chicken.

On a calories-per-acre basis, soy is beating chicken 3:2. But soy only gives you about 0.1 grams of protein per calorie, while chicken gives you more like 0.2 grams of protein per calorie.

So your 3 acres of soybeans give you 1.8 million grams of protein, while your 3 acres of corn+soy->chickens give you 2.4 million grams of protein. So chickens beat soy on protein per acre by 4:3.

> Please provide evidence sources if you want to claim otherwise.

I've stated all the numbers I'm using; if there's one you want to call bullshit on in particular let me know.
So by doxxing someone, you can get them to no longer fall under GDPR? Interesting theory! Do you have any court rulings or law texts or even a random lawyer's interpretation on a blog post to link for that?
This just in: politicians forbidden to learn, grow, progress: must be beholden to the views they had when they were ignorant, less experienced, lacked compassion.
The issue is pretty simple. If you have 100 ppl working on the same directory, the chance of them conflicting each other is ALOT BIGGER than 100 ppl working on 10 different directories. It's a simple probability.

This is the issue with monorepos -> That over time the more ppl work on them, the higher the chance of the CICD to fail due to conflicts. And till now pretty much NOONE in the world fully resolved the conflicts issue.

Companies introduce merge queues which cripple productivity, because every next merge "can" (but doesn't have to) break all previous PRs.

Instead of having a very easy Feature-Branch pipeline, you have to build some abomination that becomes a bottleneck as soon as the company starts growing.

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Like I said in other comment - majority of IT still lives in GitFlow/EnvFlow hell. Some of us learnt from those mistakes and do better now.
Are you suggesting a fetus that is 20 weeks is not a child? It has brain waves, a heartbeat, different DNA from the mother, perhaps different chromosomes than the mother, legs, arms, etc.
Yeah, makes you wonder what is wrong with Britain?
This theory is ridiculous on its face.

> Inflation breaks out when there is more overall government debt than people think the government will repay by its future excess of taxes over spending.

No government with a sovereign currency need default. Anyone dealing in government debt knows that.
Having worked for a different FAANG, I saw the immense pressure to incorporate data from other products. I imagine there’s a big internal push to aggregate all data from across Google services. It’s an easy win for product managers looking for projects.
Click saver: on https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_D... has Thailand on 79th place between Peru and Armenia. Malaysia is on place 62 between Costa Rica and Kuwait. The list is 189 entries long so both of these countries are still in the upper half, but there aren't western countries nearby, unless east european countries like Albania and Bulgaria count.
Much of that still exists. It's just harder to find than it used to be because the corporate stuff is so loud.

There are a lot of little things that could make the non-corporate internet more appealing to the average person. Why, for example can't I have a shared identity across several independent forums? OpenID came out long ago.
The article does talk more about efficiency and weight instead of just capacity