skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I took the pill (what color were you supposed to take again?). I'm prepping for the leetcode interviews. If my opinion counts for anything, don't change the interview format now. How will i get my time back that I've spent learning how to use hashmaps with java-specific syntax? My notebooks full of pseudocode are waiting to be converted into a leetcode-time-limit friendly programming language. Dont tell me it's actually Python, not Java. A man can only stoop so low.
Oh man - I'm def gonna spend some time picking the bones of this list -- great finds.

I have a whole section of my notes dedicated to ASCII Art in the purely creative/crack/BBS scene.

Unicode/Cyrillic fonts used by loud girls on instagram:

https://coolfonts.text-generator.org/
https://www.messletters.com/en/
https://github.com/sepandhaghighi/art

Some creative ASCII tools:

https://github.com/maaslalani/draw
https://blocktronics.github.io/moebius/
http://picoe.ca/products/pablodraw/
https://ivanceras.github.io/svgbob-editor/
http://www.torchsoft.com/en/aas_information.html
https://github.com/hpjansson/chafa/

Here's some ANSI and BBS scene stuff:

https://www.asciiarena.se/
https://16colo.rs/
https://www.ansilove.org/
https://www.trueschool.se/
https://www.teletextart.com/
https://www.pouet.net/
https://github.com/NuSkooler/enigma-bbs

Like most of us - I grew up with mostly Async communication online.

I'm still out here dishing out emoticons like it's 1998 and every kilobyte counts.

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> Seeing an open source project's reviewer begin with "Why did you do it this way instead of X?" is the the most shocking shutdown I have seen this year.

Thing is, in most cases it's not meant to be nasty at all. Their intent usually is to point out they think there's a better way, and are either trying to say you should do it that way, or are trying to invite you to give your reasons. The problem is they're phrasing it in a manner where there are multiple interpretations to their intent.

Given that commenters responded negatively to it - beyond what I had originally meant when I highlighted it - makes it a good example of how not to communicate.
The answer's pretty obvious: Apple just like dumbing down their devices and people would still flock to their products because buyers are inherently stupid. Apple users seem to follow this mindset that just because they paid a premium price for their phones, it's a more solid and secure product (it is not). My mother has an iPhone and you'd be surprised how she'll assume it's a better phone even though she doesn't even know what half of the buttons in the Control Center does. The same goes for browsers in iOS. Most users would just outright defend Apple for their actions because it aligns with their beliefs that it is a better security model and has better UX (of course in a layman's jargon). When you ask them how is that so, most of them couldn't point out how they got to that conclusion.
In the earliest iterations Tolkien imagined Middle-Earth to have steam punk technology. I believe it is because steam ships and rolling tanks are much closer to what Tolkien expierenced in the First World War when he first conceived his world.

I suspect over the course of his life Tolkien became more and more frustrated with technology, and removed most overt traces of it to bring his stories closer to what he read in Medieval folk lore.
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One man came to Mozart and asked him how to write a symphony. Mozart replied, “You are too young to write a symphony.” The man said, “You were writing symphonies when you were 10 years of age, and I am 21.” Mozart said, “Yes, but I didn’t run around asking people how to do it.”
Tolkien lived in a city in Oxford which was neither bucolic nor a village. It sounds more like you hate industry and wish to return to bucolic village life.
How is studying programming considered cheating?
CRM still has a market cap of 180B after being the share price has been almost cut in half since November 2021. I don't think not many companies have the type of money to buy out CRM.
This seems correct. A lot of the infrastructure people point to as examples of a time when America could build (such as the interstate highway system, or the old Penn Station in NYC) were built mostly by government, not private contractors.
> allows us to start applying the mathematical techniques of control theory and dynamical systems theory.

I'm skeptical that this approach will bear much fruit beyond, say, implementing a basic PID (more realistically IMO, proportional) controller (e.g. number of active processing threads is high? reject a greater fraction of incoming requests), for a number of reasons:

- In order to apply state-space systems theory, you need to be able to model your system. Not only is your input/output relationship typically highly nonlinear, you also have a heavy mix of discrete and continuous components.

- Oh, and you have stochastic processes at play here too, whether it's modeling arrival times / sizes of HTTP requests or performance characteristics in the underlying hardware, or even that of RPCs / database queries.

- One classic result of systems theory is that input latency leads to oscillation. One constant of distributed systems is message latency (whether due to propagation delay, or due to retransmissions to combat loss).

Most classical systems theory you'll encounter (short of advanced graduate material) applies specifically to linear time-invariant systems. Guess what, we don't write many of those. And even if you have a nonlinear time-invariant system, there are cases where the linearized model isn't guaranteed to behave the same even locally.

I can't even begin to imagine how you'd accurately model anything beyond the simplest systems.
If you want to advocate for the Yemeni Civil War issue, why don’t you commenters start with the reasons why Saudis and US are involved. Houthi’s are a foreign-backed (Iran) insurgency attempting to overthrow the government, with the racist slogan “Death to America, Death to Israel, Cursed be the Jews, Victory to Islam".

With that said, lots more needs to be done to prevent innocent civilians from the atrocities from both sides.

Nobody likes having to realpolitik with Saudi. They’re a shitty necessity to counter Iran’s attempt at stirring the pot with global Muslim caliphate nonsense.
> Yet, you also find it plausible that people who spent years on this project would never have thought of that.

I find it plausible that the few people who spent hours reviewing this paper didn't think of that, and that the people publishing the paper ignored it since ignoring it could help them gain more funding.

> Your misplaced trust in your own plausibility filter causes you to make foolish posts on HN.

It is foolish to believe that scientists does things properly. As an outsider you only see the outlier results, meaning that most of what reaches HN could be faked or statistical trickery or have simple explanations due to poor science since poor science is more likely to produce headlines, while most scientists could still do the right thing.
What is the canonical lower case form for domains anyway? Lowercasing is locale-sensitive.... or does it just lowercase the punycode and call it "done"?
If I may suggest an entirely different direction (that also requires either schema knowledge or adherence to a convention), I've always been mildly annoyed that foreign keys are kind of like pointers that don't behave like pointers. What if:

create table users (id int primary key, name text);
create table things (id int primary key, creator int references users);

from things select [id, creator.name];
Thank you for this. We pretty much have two main political labels for people in the US, "republican" and "democrat". Sure, some people identify as libertarian, some as independent (which to me means nothing), green, whatever. But either you're a Dem or a member of the GOP, for the most part. And do we really expect that everyone in each of those buckets as the exact same needs, desires, and policy plans? C'mon...
Regardless of the state of LaMDA, clearly a system that has “knowledge” of the external world is closer to sentience than one that does not.

The external knowledge system, the optimization for “grounding”, and the mining of dialogs instead of just sentences means it is a different beast than GPT-3 in a qualitative way.
For HN readers who currently reside in California, note that you can sign up for as many local library systems in California as you like. There is no requirement that you only get a card for your local town or local county library. You can collect them all, statewide, if you want.

This is really useful when certain libraries may have different eBook platforms, streaming services, and/or database access than other systems. For example, an eBook may be checked out or unavailable in one little town’s website, but not another.

(I currently have four California cards, for Los Angeles, San Francisco, and two different Marin county libraries/systems.)
Tolkiens views weren’t subtle or complicated..

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmentalism_in_The_Lord...
I hate to be "that guy", but honestly I had to stop reading at:

> Confession time. I have never read Lord of the Rings. I’ve tried. It’s boring as hell.

When your whole article is based on something you have zero knowledge about... Sorry, I'm just not going to spend the time.
If you can't turn things on, you can't turn them off (well, you can, but will you survive?). If you can't turn things on, that means you also can't spin up microcosms of your system and reproduce tricky bugs, or try out crazy theories for making things much better, instead of a tiny bit better.

Every project where I've gotten that has gone much, much better for everyone afterward, including the clever people. Half the ones where I didn't, we all suffered together. For the other half people seemed to think I was scapegoating, covering for my own inadequacies. But I've never quite figured out what sort of masochist/sadist thinks those two statements mean the same thing. Half the point of engineering and the entire point of human factors is exactly that: covering for your own inadequacies. It's not scapegoating, it's planning your way out of the problems you can see, making space for yourself for the ones you can't.

Systems that cannot be replicated on cold hardware have very little space in them.
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> CA has a nexus of software engineers, and dot com capital

> Not Civil, Mechanical, or other engineers.

What on earth makes you think that? All sorts of hardware is designed and developed here. It has the largest aerospace sector of any state. A lot of automotive design is done in the LA basin for the auto majors.

And that’s just off the top of my head. I’m in SV and even up here though we lost most of the defense manufacturing (e.g. tanks and ships) though a lot remains further south, when I need parts machined there are still plenty of local machine shops etc. I’ve brought in welders from the Central Valley when local ones were too busy.
Lifestyle creep from the human desire to project status.
Never heard of this company but it seems they had the misfortune of launching an Open Hardware laptop around the same time as Framework but with a far poorer design.
Interviewing gets discussed a lot here. Very little actually gets improved. If you want a (1) high paying job (2) and want to work on products that scale to millions, there's just no way you can escape leetcode style interviews. I've 2 decades of experience and have resisted it for sometime, but eventually gave in. These companies have way too many candidates to filter, so unless you're one of those inventors of popular frameworks like Tensorflow/Pytorch, you've to go through the grind. And with the popularity of blogs/tutorials/coaching classes the bar is only increasing. 2 medium problems in 30 mins is not a joke unless you've solved the same problems before or solved hundreds to quickly decipher the patterns. All this really breaks the back of staff/sr. staff level folks who rather choose to stay where they are even if that means lesser pay.
That's messed up? I was one of the ones who criticized him when this was originally posted, but that's wild to hear that people were this harsh.
Sure, but as noted that isn't a prototype - it's a sloppy product.

That's when it's time to have a frank discussion about whether that's really what they want (and maybe to consider whether this project is really what you want to be working on, if it's a common pattern).
How is it in the public interest if I exercise a right? I see you claimed it above, but it doesn't seem like it to me.
Seems like you googled where he lived and haven’t read any analysis of his works and letters.
Here’s the reason:

In the United States, zoning is controlled almost exclusively by local city councils. Voter turnout in local elections is extremely poor. The only people who vote are A. older and B. homeowners. The young and renters scarcely show up. Thus, local city councils by and large represent homeowner’s interests. These older homeowners adamantly oppose new development like apartments, bike lanes, and mass transit. They fear developments might affect the value of existing homes, change the ‘character of the neighborhood’ (read: attract the wrong type of minorities), increase traffic, compete for existing parking, etc… the list goes on. In general, homeowners are opposed to any type of change that might affect the value of their home or mildly inconvenience their lives.

Local politicians are loathe to cross homeowners. They will be voted out if they do. Further, these politicians are usually homeowners themselves and are complicit in maintaining homeowner’s best interests at the expense of the broader public.

The only solution is that cities be stripped of their absolute control over zoning and power shared at the federal and state level.
People have been re-discovering this technique for over a decade now at least. It's actually used at quite a few big tech companies, but only for strategic hires.

You touch on one of the reasons this technique isn't used in general:

> it’s quite difficult because it requires the interviewer to know their shit

Having an interviewing team in an engineering org n > 100 with the following properties is nearly impossible:

1. Everyone knows their shit

2. Everyone cares enough to give the interview well

3. Has enough throughput to meet the company's hiring needs

4. The interviews are given in such a way that legal isn't worried we'll get slapped with a discrimination lawsuit
Have a look at the list of hijackings[1]. I count 149 hijackings between 1960 and 9/11, and about 10 that were "mass casualty events" where more than the hijackers and 5 passengers or airline staff were killed. It seems at least 2 of the mass casualty events were accidents by the hijackers (bombs went off probably accidentally).

I understand your impulse to act, but the math is pretty clear - before 9/11 you were better off waiting out the hijacking. In the even that happened that would have been explained to you by the airline staff and fellow passengers as well as the hijackers.

(And most hijackings in the US didn't go to Cuba - they set down at a domestic airport)

In any event - your instinct to act is irrelevant as to if there was some conspiracy (which I think was your initial point?)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_hijackings
It's simple, money rules everything in the US. Homes are investment vehicles above all else and property rights trump all. This is one reason good public transit can't be built and when there are big public works projects, the contractors who win have political connections either through campaign contributions or politicians owning stock. They also know how to game the system and milk the city for money causing massive budget overruns and go way over completion date. See Tutor Perini in California.

Auto manufacturers and oil companies have had massive political influence, they've prevented good public transit from being built and they've bought public transit and ripped up the lines or bought bus companies and shut them down.

Capitalism, shareholder value, and profit rule everything in the US. And don't even get me started on our foreign policy.
Paycheck to paycheck is relative. I’ve seen families bring in $500k/year and barely have any retirement savings. They go buy a home with a mortgage that’s $16k/month, a few fancy cars at $1000/mo each, childcare, maintenance on a home that expensive, and everything else that money is gone quick. They want to give the illusion of stupidly rich at the cost of spending every dime that comes in. Pretty common in every income bracket. Majority of people are terrible with money.
Wow didn’t even take as much work as I suggested.
There's only one way to eat the elephant, one bite at a time. The buses are already being used even as they are now, the more we improve them the more people can shift to them and the more momentum builds.
When a company is going to invest half a million bucks in a new hire, they're going to do what they can to determine in advance if the hire is going to work out.
I've found this site helpful. Not exhaustive, but reasonably accurate for the types it lists. https://www.pickyourown.org/USharvestcalendar.htm
The title aside, this essay is about why Middle Earth didn't have an industrial revolution. Unfortunately, it uses a model with a limiting assumption which it ignores, the assumption being that a certain population level is also required.

High-labour-cost, low-coal-cost is fine and might fit our world. However, to get people to spend years in R&D you need specialization and scale. Without the first you don't have R&D people. Without the second there's no profit or even much advantage to the new tech. To get both of these you, well, need people. A good number of people to support specialists which aren't part of the Nobility (or at least Nobles which are engaged in activities which weren't historically considered very Noble-like in nearly every society in our world), and a good number of people so that scale can generate a profit.

Industrial revolution can't happen by itself in ultra-sparse societies as in the LOTR era. The author cites estimates which are an order of magnitude lower than 17th century England, and I'd go one order of magnitude lower still*.

Now if he asked the question about Númenor that's a different matter... (Yes, it was destroyed, but there were populous colonies in Middle Earth which should have kept any tech?)

* Judging by the level of hostility involved and very high internal coherence of the protagonist societies I suspect a more total mobilization than your typical feudal society where losing simply meant the peasants served a different lord.
This is the outcome I see as well, and I think it is a good thing. Every form of communication beyond physical face to face will be completely untrustworthy. It will affect banking. Remote work. Dating. Clubs. Everything.
Welfare rolls tell you which neighbors are living off the fruits of your labor.
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The world described in LoTR is not physically like ours. For instance, the orcs aren't described as bad guys because of their upbringing, culture, or subjective perception by the other races. Orcs are intrinsically evil. All the bad creatures of middle earth are described as if they radiate a natural and unalienable evil aura from their being.

There are two explanations for this: (1) this is an accurate explanation of a phenomenon or (2) it's an unreliable narrator projecting propaganda.

Orcs are also often associated with industrial activity. If (1) is true, then there might be a real connection between industry and evil. E.g. the downfall of the dwarves is related to their industrial greed. If (2) is true, there might be a stigma against industry due to its association with orcs.

There is a fan-fiction that expands in the vein of (2), although I haven't read it yet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Ringbearer
Now you just let them flourish and buy them up and/or Sherlock them
As long as rtcwake works with memory suspend you can stretch the battery pretty far. That's essentially what Android does anyway.
This comment rubs me the wrong way. He could stab you if you make a complaint about him too. Just saying. A gun doesn’t make you more violent.
Huh? How does that follow? Also, I’m not entirely sure we ever left Stone Age tribalism…
Big mortgage + 2 big car loans + private school for your kids + sports for your kids + the expensive yearly vacation you’ve been taking and don’t want to skip + name brand clothes for your kids + meal services, etc, etc. And sure maybe student loans in there, credit card debt, maybe medical debt, care for extended family members. It’s super easy to blow through a 250K salary (which is not 250k in your pocket each year.)
As long as you tag your hypothetical neighbor's business as "private", saying that it's inappropriate to think you have a say in it is tautological.

The idea that you have a say in your neighbor's business is not a problem, it's a fact. The fact that you have property at all is an agreement amongst your neighbors to respect that claim. If you want a place where your neighbors don't get a say in what you do, you should shop for another planet.
That strikes me as reasonable. With magic, they didn't need to invent things. They didn't need engineering.

There's also the hint, at least from the movies, that Sauron and Sarumon could produce an unlimited supply slave labor.
Not any right, this specific one. Your right to own a gun is not coextensive with your right to privacy (a right, I may remind you, that has been significantly weakened by SCOTUS this week.)

See above for the public interest: people engage and escalate disputes all the time, believing that the other party is unwilling or at least incapable of conveniently murdering them. CCWs change that calculus; it's in my best interest as a member of the public to know whether my neighbor might murder me rather than merely being angry at a dispute.