skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is ludicrous. The only accurate sentence is the one where the author admits the opposite of what they otherwise argue:

“OK, if you want to blame someone for the emphasis on monetary policy and the de-emphasis on fiscal policy, then Milton Friedman is guilty as charged.”

Exactly. This one sentence is correct and the rest of the essay is a complete waste of words.

Two big things are left out. The article doesn’t mention the 0% lower bound on interest rates, or the way debt changes the models. If you don’t have the time to write an essay long enough to include those two things, then you shouldn’t waste the time writing such an essay at all.
Previously discussed (and flagged) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31881206
I at one point encountered Drew at a meetup.

He basically ignores anyone who has or currently does work at any company he deems unethical (read: Google/Amazon/Facebook/etc). You're forever tainted in his eyes, and your opinions are always only useful if someone else agrees with you that isn't tainted.

Which really sucks because his entire software stack depends on the work (and opinions) of the people that he discards: Go, Python, and Git for a few.
Units are arbitrary, particles aren’t.

Newton might look foundational as 1 N = 1 kg * m/s^2, but if the kilogram had been defined as 1% smaller or the meter larger then so presumably would the Newton.
Personally, I'd be happy to see a single place where management doesn't do the "we need a metric, this is a metric" dance in some context.

Anyway, it's hard to say somebody is an incompetent idiot when literally everybody does the same thing. It's certainly caused by some structural feature of companies.
>Imagine being a police officer risking your life every single day. Knowing that the next person you stop might try to do his/her best to kill you. While also knowing that any mistake you make will be headline news around the world. It’s an impossible situation.

Defender problem. Just like how pen testers are insufferably smug that throwing random input at your endpoint causes unexpected problems. Nevermind that building secure endpoints is harder than building random fuzzers.
Automate parts of your home life with Node-RED:

https://hackaday.com/2020/01/15/automate-your-life-with-node...

Alternatively, if you are interested in making or playing back music, one idea is to turn the Raspberry Pi into a MIDI synthesizer:

MiniDexed: 8 DX7 Tone Generators

- https://github.com/probonopd/MiniDexed

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3t94ceMHJo

MT32-Pi: Roland MT-32 emulator

- https://github.com/dwhinham/mt32-pi

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaSD_wbzJRw

Optionally, buy a PCM5102/PCM5122 or ES9018K2M I2S DAC to improve the output sound quality:

https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/76188/how-to...

PCM5102 (~$7):
https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?SearchText=PCM5102+DAC

ES9018K2M (~$12):
https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?SearchText=es9018k2m+i2...
Hey just because it's harder to rationalize nowadays doesn't make it any less fun to do. Especially if you can get a good deal, go for it!
What is PMF mean in this context?
Many people who loathe fame end up killing themselves because there is no way to “undo” fame, once you realize you can’t go anywhere without hiding your face in various ways (wigs, makeup, sunglasses, etc). Common with rock stars in particular.
Does it work as good as grep though? I have to resort to grep all too often to search for a snippet of code in a project on Github.
I'd like to see its performance on New York Times crosswords split into decades. I suspect they've been getting dumbed down.
> p.s. Your post inspired the idea of "Date HN: Who wants to date?"

Uhh. That would be an amazing idea.
Top ranking guy was white though? Right?
Related:

How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30023489 - Jan 2022 (10 comments)

How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need? (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24616797 - Sept 2020 (147 comments)

How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Need? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24267042 - Aug 2020 (2 comments)

How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need? (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15801317 - Nov 2017 (3 comments)

How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11316401 - March 2016 (120 comments)

How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11315974 - March 2016 (1 comment)
Same here. I remember when I used to think twice before clicking a link and loading a page. It would take seconds to load most pages, so loading things unnecessarily was a huge waste of time. Now people don’t think twice about opening a bunch of links from search results all at the same time, etc.

I also remember loading being so slow that I could sit there watching an imagine file load a few rows of pixels at a time. And when downloading, I had to worry about tying up the phone line for x amount of time, even for things that were just a few MB. So yeah, it was definitely much slower “back in the day.”
Where is the swift code I wonder ?
Yes that's fine if the company can determine what they want before setting dates, or asking for "estimates" (date commitments). Though the OP was talking about worse case of: date set, product/ux/etc continues (or starts) planning, eating well into deadline.
Is a prediction market actually a useful predictor?
I’m close to profound hearing loss, and I much prefer a good sound system with speakers.

“Hearing” the music with my body makes a big difference, and I can adjust the bass/treble effectively, which I can’t do with most headphone/earbud systems.
My strategy has always been to be selective of what I'm doing and where I am relative to others. The person ignoring their surroundings while scrolling through instagram and standing by the door on the train is the one who gets their phone snatched. I'll be the one across the aisle listening to music but with my back to the wall and watching it happen.
Consequences are only for Julian Assange and Snowden.

The mil complex, pill complex, big tech-advertistng-attention capture complex, wall street market manipulation crypto bs complex have all gotten away with taking advantage of the weakness in the population, exploiting the bottom of the food chain at scale, for so long that there is no fear at all.

I really don't know how the situation is going to change in the US..
Go here: https://austinswingsyndicate.org/

I haven't been to Austin, so this is a generic recommendation from google. But the idea is sound.
I hear ya. Maybe you could argue that GNU, BSD or a few other groups were using SCCS but that’s relatively very few developers in comparison to the DOS, Windows 3.x, Amiga, BBC, Apple that we’re producing more code at the time. I’ve seen few bits of early NASA/JPL code and it wasn’t in source control, it was on NFS.
Shout out to my Azure homies enjoying their Resource Groups.
Yes, but fewer cities would burn as a result.
ML Compilation
divest is synonymous with defund, no?
So- shouldn’t this mean that space programs should start building artificial gravity-generating centripetal motion rotating loops in space stations from here on out, as well as eventual long distance spacecraft?

The bone loss experienced when actually on the surface of Mars will be tricky, though. Unless they can somehow bring the spinning loop onto the planet.
Interesting. Thank you for the info.
At such point it will probably become a large corporation that people will consider ethically challenged.
(misread your tone completely)
> Notably this 0.26 TWh/yr number doesn't include things like the energy used by each human to drive to and from work or the amount of energy needed to make the food that fed them that year but now we're getting into some anti-human territory.

Surely the crypto numbers don't include the same figures for folks working on all of the Ethereum infrastructure. PayPal employs 31000 people. Surely there are more people globally working on Ethereum (in mining facilities, writing code, etc).
I didn't mean it would solve the problem of Police killing minorities, just a problem of public caring about it.
I suspect the bigger challenges in the modern dating market is guys who assume they have all the time in the world to have kids. (Which is not true. Sperm quality degrades with age.)

For what it’s worth, my wife’s view is that women who want kids should be clear about that up front to filter out guys who aren’t like minded. They are out there. Men want kids as much as women, statistically. Maybe find a south Asian guy whose mom has put him on a deadline, lol.
Humans, except for very cream of the crop (and that too in limited time window), is not rational species. The chimp genes still dominates our majority of the short and long term actions.
How does the "competition" work? Is it "live"? Is it online? Is there an accuracy component? I'm intrigued how the NYT ran a crossword competition with thousands of competitors.

> Proverb and Dr. Fill. Proverb is a 1998 system that ranked 213th out of 252 competitors in the tournament.

> Dr. Fill’s first competition was in ACPT 2012, and it ranked 141st out of 650 competitors.

> We teamed up with Dr. Fill’s creator Matt Ginsberg and combined an early version of our QA system with Dr. Fill’s search procedure to win first place in the 2021 ACPT against over a thousand competitors.
IPL: Intuitionistic Programming Language (2013)
Reading these comments I realize now that despite Boudin's recall, places like SF -- dominated by leftist ideology -- still have a long, long way to go before bottoming out and smelling the coffee.
I've been working on building plugins on top of JupyterLab and their documentation leaves much to be desired. I usually have 15 tabs open on their public GitHub repositories learning how to use their own API. GitHub does a decent job of parsing symbols (class names, etc.) so you can double-click on those to see dependencies and references of some symbols quite helpful. Of course this feature breaks down when code is split across multiple repositories.

Also one thing that has been missing from all these code search engines is tracking how a variable might traverse through the code. In cybersec this is called taint analysis. But for my purposes it greatly helps with just program understanding.

My .02 is whatever GitHub does here should be directly integrated into the main GitHub UI.
More accurately, this shows a FSD beta tester deliberately allowing his vehicle to head into oncoming traffic.

The beta is not just level 2, it is a privileged system of trust to enable learning. A privilege that this user will likely no-longer be afforded.

That being said, I am a FSD beta tester that lives between 2 one-way streets and I can confirm it is laughably bad at one-way streets.

This week, it tried to change lanes into an oncoming reversible lane as if it were a turning lane.

1 block from my house, FSD beta comes to a complete standstill 10 meters before the stop sign, while it waits indefinitely for completely parked cars to clear what it believes is the left lane before turning left.

When the left side of a one-way is clear and cars are parked on the right, it will weave toward the parked cars as if "staying right" makes sense for any reason in this context.

But most annoyingly, it will completely ignore signs like "do not enter" and "no turn on red" not like a bug, but like it doesn't even attempt to read them.

Of course, as a beta tester it is not difficult to prevent it from doing these unsafe things since it's going the actual speeddlimit and I keep my hands on the wheel unlike this presumably former tester.
I'm looking for a good online cryptic crossword. Something harder than Lovatt's Cryptic. The Guardian is no good, I can look at their solutions and still have no idea why those are the answers.
product-market fit
Just put off curiosity, it looks like only 689 million are "living in extreme poverty" but 1.3 billion people are "multidimensionality poor" which seems to be trying to capture some the things you're talking about.

https://www.worldvision.org/sponsorship-news-stories/global-...

Even the 689 million "extreme poverty" number does at least mean there's more people in poverty today than were total alive approx 300 years ago.
Socializing beats dating apps!

1. Do things you like
2. Where would the guy you want to date go to socialize?
- hey space nerds, check out my new result
- oh yeah what ya got math kid
- new digits of Pi. Such fast, very precision!
- not this shit again
- it's so cool, *look at it*
- tl;dr
- but it's the key to the universe
- ok ok, look we have to do actual space stuff
- laugh now fools, while I grasp ultimate power
But the MUDs are outside of the cities and pay for the utilities in their defined area... The cities and counties aren't paying for what the MUDs provide, unless I'm mistaken...
I took a look at react query and it seemed to me that the core of it was caching the network request promises with named keys, so that you could inefficiently call the same endpoint redundantly a bunch of times and not get punished for it. Even if a codebase could get away with such sloppiness it should probably avoid it.

And then as I recall it featured some out of the box refetching to unstale the cached data. I think this core idea is pretty good, though I don't like the cultishness of the people who use this lib. And the vast majority of pages in the wild I have worked on don't need this auto-refresh, as the data will be static until the user does something new (i.e. because the user is viewing personal data). Even if I wanted to refresh the data often (i.e. I had a site like reddit) I would prob just roll my own custom refresh logic.

And then this

https://ui.dev/checkout/react-query?from=tanstack

If server side logic is "insanely complicated", and is routinely being solved in two lines post react query, instantly working better than files worth of server side data fetching code, why the need to charge 149 to learn the fundamentals? If I had taken a paid course to learn a state management library I would probably advocate for it everywhere I went.
I like this advice a lot and how you write. It’s very kind. Thanks so much for the encouragement and taking the time to weigh in even though you don’t usually post. I appreciate it.
Those same people are now in the rehab business bilking the healthcare system for money
The majority of acquisitions and mergers fail. It should come to no surprise for those whose company or employer is acquired that the acquisition will fail as well.
4. Stop making exploding offers in the first place, because hires will just accept immediately and keep interviewing for better offers anyway.
https://archive.ph/llFjO
It's kind trite to say “much is explained”, but… that explains so much about google.
Are there no calculations that would compound this error though? Where you use multiple circles, or conversions and the errors would grow?
> I don’t trust proof of stake, mostly because loads of people who I consider irrational want it to work so desperately.

What a great argument against PoS.
I'm surprised the airlines haven't seen this as an itemizable fee opportunity.

The cheapest tickets would come with an explicit "buying this class ticket constitutes an explicit agreement to being bumped according to such-and-such-rules if oversold" disclaimer, and then they can list "schedule protection" as a feature of more expensive fare classes.

I suspect if they could get away with it, they'd just put everyone's ticket price in a spreadsheet and start bumping from the bottom up.
> The beta is not just level 2,

The beta is a drunk teenager.
I don't even know where to start with that reply.

"...second chance..." You're keeping a tally?

".. I sanity check it with my friend." You have the capability of discernment on your own, and you should engage with owning your own power and capabilities. Going to a friend is you trying to export the potential guilt/shame/pain/whatever-negative-feeling-you're-avoiding out to a 3rd party as a safety valve so you don't have to deal with it when the (surprise!) inevitable happens because there are now no consequences for your actions.

"I'm not the kind of person..." Whatever was in the rest of that sentence, you should try to be that kind of person for a while. To get some perspective.

"I try to be compassionate and see the good in people." Oh this is a giant red flag. If you feel compelled to wave this banner around (especially in public), as though other people 'are not' this, it is because you likely have a crushing amount of guilt from being judgmental about others.

"I've endured a lot of negative treatment from men" You mean like they beat and rape you, or they call you names and yell at you? There is a chasm of difference between these two things. If you're summoning assholes from the first group, god help you. I hope you can find a mentor that can restore your confidence and you can come to know that you intrinsically have worth that is outside of whatever horribleness you are encountering in the world. If you attract men who are verbally/psychologically abusive, then I would suppose there is a reason you are attracting those kind of men. Maybe you are a negative, spoiled, titty baby who constantly plays the victim card and incessantly puts the blame for your situation on others because you're afraid of responsibility. Maybe you've lost (or were never taught) the value of having gratitude, even (and especially) during trouble.

Your expectations of people are worthless, no, worse, they are actively destructive to your relationships. Any expectations of people are that. Assume all responsibility, even for others, yourself, or continue driving in circles.
In a code base I once maintained there where PostConstruct/InitializingBean/ApplicationListener bean's that took quite a bit of time making maps for use as caches. This contributed to quite a bit of time. So I would look at any misbehaving beans.
"I got to admit, Tesla's self-driving software is getting really impressive, and I've been using it all the time. Here's a vid of Tesla's FSD Beta driving through Seattle (version 10.11.2), and doing the monorail test 3 times. It's so fun to watch the car get better. Feels like I'm living in the future every time I turn on FSD Beta or Autopilot :)"

This is what youtuber author said. However, the headline is trying to attract more eyeballs. Shorter looks desperate now!
Ah ok, what is the definition then ?

I thought it would be a Linux kernel bundled with software and distributed in a format that's easy for people to use?
99% of a CRUD app -- which is most of them -- is going to be simple CRUD stuff. Load a thing from database, let user edit it, save it. Doing that in 'plain' sql, even with templating, is repetitive and error prone.

An ORM that didn't let you escape to SQL when you wanted to do more complex things would be a total failure, of course -- but to suggest that they're not more convenient for the 80/20 or even 90/10 use case is just really hard to understand. Must be NIH syndrome.
They're less likely to disappear, sure, but they're way more likely to permaban you and lock you out of your stuff, with no way to get ahold of a human who can undo it for you.
> [Infura is] just a rpc

Infura is not 'just an rpc.' It takes real economic output to do what Infura does and its necessary for Ethereum to operate as well as it does today. If you force users to run their own lite nodes in their browsers they will simply leave, the alternative is that chain data interfaces centralize exactly as they have.

> Infura is completely irrelevant as far as security goes, they have zero power to do anything related to consensus.

Not directly, but the majority of data which ends up in block chains runs through Infura which accounts for transaction fees and affects the profits of miners. There are certainly levers to be pulled there. At the end of the day networking operations are important to security and therefore should be directly tied into consensus and the incentive system. That's why I bring up Saito, its work function is the quality of open networking provided.

As far as staking goes. Stake isn't protected from custodial pools, its already condensing in pools since people want to stake and can't afford 32 Eth. Not only does that defeat the purpose of having an arbitrary requirement, it incentivizes users to give up control of their keys.

Your failure condition for PoW is that someone eventually accumulates 51%, and you simply assume that it will happen. Convenient you get to ignore one of the best arguments for PoW, which is that sustainably mining, monopolizing mining, and centralizing the resources for profitable mining are all made extremely difficult by the distributed and remote nature of cheap energy. Scaling up with thin margins is not as simple as just buying another ASIC.

But just like in Ethereum's proposed PoS system, controlling a PoW network to the point of disaster does nothing but damage the attacker's own investment. The incentives are basically the same: extract as much value without going noticed. Its not great in either case.

Appreciate the enlightened discussion. It's in the spirit of crypto these systems are highly debated and it helps everyone get ahead and learn to participate in them.
Police are protected more than medical professionals.

Also we’re not talking about medical professionals here and mixing them into the conversation is muddying the water.
It depends at which level you're at. If you're working at an infrastructure or firmware level, throwaway work can be expensive and time consuming. Re-architecture can also be time consuming. There are some parts you have to spend design cycles on, especially if you're doing a large project. It's not that you can't pivot, but the pivot takes a lot of time. At the very least have a set of System Features and System Guarantees that you will drive towards.
May be the Guardian one needs a Chambers dictionary to solve it?

But still, is there a good guide to get into Cryptics?
"I’ve dated every profession you can think of from doctors to electricians and unemployed guys."

That's a lot of guys. Can you shed some light on why all those failed?

"My time for having children is running out."

Realistically, time was running out in your early 30s (where female fertility starts to nose dive). After 40 and you are seriously rolling the dice (assuming the ovum even gets fertilized, there Downs, aneuploidy, etc.)
A single show vs an entire culture lol
"Only sociopaths, engineers, and scientists use more than 4 digits of pi. Which one are you?"
> they have zero power to do anything related to consensus.

Suggest reading what Vitalik has to say if you're going to offer this kind of objection:

https://github.com/ethereum/research/blob/master/papers/disc...

Infura collects upwards of 80 percent of the fees that flow into Ethereum and is in a position to control exactly who participates profitably. If your solution is "minority will fork" the obvious question is surely "with what scalable infrastructure?"
Was it in C++ originally not C? (It seems like a C FFI bridge would have been straightforward from). Or did it already go from C => Objective-C++ a while back?

(I read the article hours ago and didn't notice you'd posted. Btw, I think we would have gotten better conversation if you had said "Hey, this is me! AMA" as a top-level comment)
The problem of “average” is that you try to use one statistics to rep a population. Even for bell curves you need 3 - bell curve (normal dist.), mean and std. dev.

Sum up is the problem.