skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Backend web dev for the most part these days. Trying to simultaneously learn a language or system and produce something deployable has been a huge headache for me. I prefer to learn something new by starting at the beginning, with small exercises and study until I'm fluent enough to work on a real project without making bad mistakes from ignorance. The other approach, which everyone seems to expect, seems like madness to me.

If you're a good pianist and you have to learn the violin, I think it's best to start with scales and arpeggios just like any other beginner, except you go faster because your existing knowledge transfers to the new instrument. Trying to make your way through Beethoven's violin concerto starting on your first day with the violin seems to me like a ridiculous approach.
MGI to sell DNA sequencers in the US after lifted ban
That reminds me of a time a recruiter started browbeating me over rejecting an offer which was the exact same or less TC as my current job (where I was happy). I had to hang up on him and never responded to to the subsequent urgent calls and emails.

A few years later he had the audacity to email me once again trying to "work with me" insisting the past was all "water under the bridge". What a pushy, selfish fool.
Pleating is interesting mechanically because its very strong in the right 'direction' considering the pleats. Its what makes corrugated cardboard work.

I suspect pleating would work well with "flow" production methods which start with sheets, and do some kind of printing/overlay process in a shallow bath, and then you have 100m of thing, which you pleat before canning/containerising and its both robust and a BIT flexible in some plain in the 3D space, so you can shape it around things.
I can also flip my burgers with my flipflop. I was asking for a useful usecase.
> Among those aged 40-64, safe alcohol consumption levels ranged from about half a standard drink a day to almost two standard drinks. For those aged 65 or older, the risks of “health loss from alcohol consumption” were reached after consuming a little more than three standard drinks a day.

This part is fascinating to me, because an aging body is less able to tolerate most kinds of stress. What about this kind of stress is tolerable or even healthy for a 65yo but harmful under 40? My granddad lived to be 97, and drank a shot of his "medicine" (schnaps) every night. Maybe for him it was really medicine.
And that’s not just VC money. Often they have borrowed through issuing bonds.
Two people killed after Tesla collides with semi-truck on I-75
Small world, thanks for your contributions! It wasn't very complicated, but I enjoyed putting it together and playing it with our child.

For me the Hitchhikers Guide was something I'd been wanting to complete - having played it for the first time a little after the release -and I did get there in the end.
Ask HN: What was your best job offer negotiation?
I understand this argument, and for technical matters, that's fine, but I don't think this is sensible as a general guide for medical or political sites like this one. These are very common snake-oil pits, and it's difficult for people without the necessary specialization of knowledge to discover the pitfalls. The source is sometimes the issue!
{- You can optionally add types

`x : T` means that `x` has type `T`
-}

let Config : Type =

Config's type is Type?

Clear as mud.
Ray tracer or a simple roguelike.

I've got pretty good experience with both, so knowing the algorithms is helpful. Where it gets harder isn't the language itself, but usually the idioms for expressing certain concepts.

For example, Rust doesn't have default parameters, so the builder pattern is pretty common.
Bjarne Stroustrup: Remember the Vasa (2018) [pdf]
You'll be able to sell it eventually.
Why not instead use one of the popular programming languages (C#, Java, ...), possibly with some dedicated library built on top of it? Also, reminds me of the Heptagon of Configuration [1].

[1] https://matt-rickard.com/heptagon-of-configuration
Doing things unconsciously doesn't make them less evil, if anything it's worse.

Arguably the worst things are completely natural and unconscious.

Natural selection by itself is very brutal, and often slow process, and doesn't always optimize for traits you yourself find desirable.

As far as sexual selection is concerned, it is very often conscious.

In other words, there's nothing inherently wrong about eugenics.

The wrong part is coercing people doing or not doing things.
First thing I do is looking for ways to execute machine code.

When that fails, because there's no non-exploity solution ... I drop it.

Otherwise, next, I look for easy multithreading.

Then I look for ways of plotting pixels on an easily available canvas.

Then I code an effect.

The last new language I've learned was python. For that one it was different. With no experience in python specifically, I've asked the friend, who recommended it to me, to give me a problem and I'll code him a solution.

I'm an autodidact and generally don't like using tutorials, papers and whatnot. Google is all I need. He wanted a webscraper ... and two hours later, after lots of fiddling around figuring out how the language works, I was done.

Then I made an effect. It was slow. D'uh. :-)
Seems like a fairly straightforward call by HN's own practices - if these big-if-true claims are supportable, there's going to be more neutrally sourced, reputable reporting on it soon enough. So it's ok to wait. This wouldn't generally apply to a site that happens to have an ideological or political slant but seems ezmode for regular news, especially public-health news.
XLK is down 26% from its high.
Have you considered Mexico City?
Maybe Larry Ellison and Mark Zuckerberg can go halfsies on one for their estate in Hawaii.
It takes 1 or 2 hours to make a decent pratt parser for even somewhat unusual syntax.
Yeah, it's also a fabrication, unless "by the world" he means to exclude China.
yep, but now it's flagged so I can't move it.
You don’t have to live in SF to observe that living in SF is a choice. Many of my law school cohort has household incomes of $300k to $1 million. Many choose to live in MYC or SF or DC and pay nearly $2 million for a house. My wife and I instead chose to buy a sub-$500k house in an exurb. We eat at Maggianos instead of Per Se, but we can afford “rich people” luxuries like a house on the water, sending our kids to private school, etc. But those are choices. An ordinary American would consider us all “rich,” and rightfully so. They don’t care whether we spend our riches on boats versus exclusive neighborhoods versus the cultural amenities of a big city.
I would like to make quick (<30 min) transactions of large amounts. I can do that with BTC, but it would be nice to do this with USD. Currently, this involves finding a bank, go during the right time, proper account numbers, etc.
This sounds good until someone makes a mistake and your money is irreversibly gone forever.
> I'm not sure I understand. Most European languages go through cycles where letters are added when languages are mixed together followed by periods of redundant letters disappearing. Old English had something like 39 letters. 'th' used to have its own letter: thorn.

There is a fundamental difference between pictographic languages where glyphs have intrinsic meaning, and alphabetic languages where letters reflect sounds.

Old English was much better spelled than current English because it didn't have a spelling. People wrote what they heard. The current mess is because we have 5 centuries of bad standards that can render ghoti as fish. I think you'll agree that the digraph ti, as in nation, is just as nonsensical as sh for the same sound and we'd be much better served by a single glyph for both.

We in fact have that already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabe... English uses somewhere around 45 of those sounds depending on accent. Th for example renders two distinct sounds: ð and θ. þ is not any better than th, apart from brevity, because it also rendered to ð or θ when spoken depending on context.

Chinese is of course as much a pictographic language as English is an alphabetic one. A substantial number of glyphs come from combinations of simpler glyphs which have the same sound as the word you're trying to write.
The rule of law cannot survive when government officials and law enforcement are exempt.
You wouldn’t believe how bad it was on reddit. Places like r/Canada had to ban any dissenting voices because they were unable to have a discussion that didn’t go with their beliefs. If I had to wager my left nut I would wager that sub is controlled by the government to try and sway a narrative. If you have a strong argument you have no issues about debate.
Thanks for fighting against ad hominem rhetorics
The Launch of Boosted OMM
I haven't checked if it already includes it, but they have made a Common Lisp binding for Qt WebEngine which uses code from Chromium, so it at least seems to be the plan.
How so? Leading comma puts the terminator on the line after what it's terminating (which is why it bothers me, can't speak for others). This doesn't do that.
Quarto – Revealjs Presentations
Celsius got huge deposits based on unsustainable yield guarantees (17% I think), they took that crypto and used it as collateral on defi protocols, then took the loans they got and gave it to funds like 3ac, who made money on leveraged carry trades that eventually worked up to Luna which was offering an absurd 20% apy through anchor which was completely unsustainable but basically kept afloat by Luna itself dumping money into it.

Everyone could see they were running out of money which would eventually cause them to blow up, which caused people to eventually jump ship, which caused Luna to implode because it was fundamentally flawed but people were either too greedy or didn't do their due diligence to avoid it, which caused all of their assets to vaporize as they tried to defend their stablecoin peg. With 3ac insolvent, nobody that lent to them could get their capital back, which meant they could no longer repay their defi loans which caused them to be liquidated as prices dropped and they couldn't post additional collateral. With their funds locked or liquidated, they had nothing to return to depositors who wanted their stuff back.

To be charitable you could say they weren't outright scamming people, but anyone with a nose should have smelled the enormous stench of death coming from the entire thing.
Was three arrows a scam or just acting like a hedgefund? It’s well known hedgefunds can go bust like LTCM. Especially if you’re doing arbitrage and your thesis is two disparate assets are price linked.
That's the worst possible example since the retail investors were proven right about Hertz...
We've had two crypto threads in the past two days. They both had a real world use case in the top comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32080174

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32094142

Or do those not count?
Currently paused due to "extreme market conditions". What conditions exactly? BTC is down from all-time high, but still worth about twice as much as it was only two years ago. Ethereum is worth over 4x as much. Is a two-year average appreciation rate of 40-100% per year so witheringly horrible that the Celsius business model couldn't survive it? Did crypto have to basically 2x every year without fail for Celsius to survive?
My last name isn't English, and doesn't follow English pronunciation rules. I've long ago accepted the minor annoyance of people neither knowing how to spell or pronounce it.

There's a trick in Chinese to explain which character you are referring to when it could be any number of homophones- you repeat it as part of another well-known word. To use a crap analogy, you might say "Je like Jeep" or Ge like geography" if your name is Jennifer or Gene. The latter is a bad example since Gene is itself a single syllable, but hopefully it is illustrative enough.
On the other hand, if you have a special stroke in a common character (or remove a stroke, as in the post above), I am guessing it's harder to explain.
I don't think they're suggesting finding someone who values the collection so much as someone who will take care of the chores of listing and shipping that's involved.

If the alternatives are keep it all (undesirable because of space use, etc), sell it yourself (undesirable because of time use and disappointment), dumping it (undesirable because it's good stuff), or letting someone else sell it... Well you're not going to get the monetary value of the collection, but at least it's probably going to someone willing to pay for it... And hopefully they don't let it sit in boxes forever.
Chaosnet records still serve very much a valid purpose.

Trying doing this to see a DNS server's version:

dig ch txt version.bind @9.9.9.9

Try doing this to see the hostname of a DNS server servicing your request:

dig ch txt id.server @9.9.9.9
I too don't want to or would use a bash script as a config file. That's the point of dhall: you get good static types and it's not turing complete, so you get a lot of the safety and code reusability tools without the pitfalls of a general purpose programming language.

And, have you ever worked with giant configs in json or yaml? It becomes incredibly painful to manage.
Was better as an auto looping gif with auto playing music. This is zombocom 2.0
Yeah, because it's good-to-essential for boomers' retirements and they're the median voter. Young people are pretty bad at voting in general (they take any excuse to stop doing it) but unfortunately even besides that, wouldn't be the median voter because of population demographics.

But if you're a young person who doesn't own a home, X corporation owning the homes isn't worse for you than random boomer landlords owning them. Corporate landlords at least don't take things personally when you ask them to do maintenance, and theoretically you can be part owners of them since they're publicly traded.

And corporate landlords didn't defeat the social housing legislation in California just now, boomers did.
"Can" is the key word in that quote. It's possible, but not necessarily likely. There's no contradiction.

Efficiency of markets is like the Law of Large Numbers. But it's possible to get n consecutive coin flips that come up heads.
> well known hedgefunds can go bust like LTMS

LTCM’s managers didn’t skip bail and go full fugitive [1].

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/12/founders-of-bankrupt-crypto-...
This is a really biased article pushing a particular viewpoint. If it wasn't, you would also include the studies the demonstrate the number of lives saved by lockdowns that happened, the impact of different levels and types of lockdowns etc.

A good summary with links is here: https://www.the-scientist.com/features/counting-the-lives-sa...
> There were deaths caused by the prolonged evacuation at Fukushima, which must be where this figure comes from.

That seems a pretty reasonable thing to consider since it is one of (or the?) major risk with nuclear power.
Because they can't be sold right now. And the future date at which they could be sold is undetermined and doesn't appear to be any time soon.
I came across a video of him on a YouTube journey one time, and really respected his performance, but I completely forgot his name and never came across him again until now, to your point.
Off topic, but I was surprised to see a YouTube TLD. Google paid $185,000 plus $6,250 per quarter ($25,000 per year) just to have .youtube as a TLD.

Sure, that's nothing to a company the size of Alphabet, but I still think it's insane.
Especially because they could have done a basic search for what the person was talking about. Not everything needs to be cited if it’s an easy search away.

Agree with not just this comment but your comments as a new throwaway (I assume?) account in general. Though I don’t care about the CCP enough to be as anti CCP as you. Tho Ofc I am anti CCP
It is, I was expecting it to be less, can’t tell you how much.
For better or worse, the principle here has always been to trust readers to be smart enough to make up their own minds (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). I'm not saying we all are (nor that I am), but I think it's the right principle, especially for this place, where trying to tell users what/how to think is guaranteed to provoke a backlash (quite separately from political position). The consequences of dropping that principle seem pretty negative to me.

Following standard ideological grooves to discredit the other tribe's sources is not acting from specialist knowledge in any case. The only specialty at work in such discussion is the specialty of internet battle. That's ultimately just a way to turn every thread into a boring, if intense, flamewar.

One of the things that follows from HN's core principle of intellectual curiosity (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...) is the principle of diffs (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...). Diffs are what's interesting. This is the positive formulation of the principle that repetition is bad for curiosity (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...).

For topics that burn hot, like political/ideological ones, this "diff" principle implies that discussion is most interesting (and therefore best for HN) when people don't take the obvious path from their own initial position—that is, when they don't repeat the reaction that they've had most often before. That is a hard thing to ask on the hottest topics, which tend to melt into a few (well, two) monolithic piles of tar. But I think it follows from the principle.

Here's another thing that I think follows, and is even harder to swallow. To the extent that someone has strong political/ideological views, if they're not seeing articles on HN that they strongly disagree with, at least semi-regularly, then there's probably something wrong with HN*.

That isn't always great for community spirit because it only takes a few disagreeable data points before the mind starts to defend itself with a "this place sucks" reaction (and there are people on all ideological sides who develop such reactions). I wrote about this here, if anyone wants to read more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23308098.

* To ward off one common misunderstanding: that is not a Goldilocks argument for split-the-difference centrism! It's an argument for unpredictability. Since centrism is just as predictable as other ideologies, it should encounter just as much to be put off by.
Well, just odd - here's a link to their tweet about it https://twitter.com/GamersNexus/status/1547528351442771968?s...
She compared herself to Galileo being threatened with burning at the stake, talk about being a professional victim. Not only is the anonymous sourcing suspect, but she herself thinks vaccines are not as effective as previous infections of Covid-19 and a negative test is better than a vaccine(!) and we know from studies that both are patently untrue, she has ulterior motives in anything to discredit vaccines. I don't know why she claims to be a left leaning centrist, that doesn't survive the slightest scrutiny of her published writing/twitter.
Sam Altman has done other stuff too. Like this comment asks, the same thing for you https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32087778. Why so focused on defending someone who failed upward (see what happened to his startup Loopt) and is now super powerful?
> We don't even have T+1 settlement in the US yet

By default, no. If you’re an idiot and put yourself in a place where you need instantaneous settlement, you can get it. Hilariously, their extravagant cost was apparently too low. Post crypto, they index to crypto trading fees. These are at least quadruple their historic spreads. I don’t believe anyone but the crypto bros demand it in real markets.
Chinese has a lot of specific characters for various species of birds (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_196), fish (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_195), and "bugs" (which includes small reptiles and certain other non-warm-blooded animals) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_142).

One of my favorite features of the language is the fact that every element in the periodic table gets its own character - and the characters have radicals that indicate their usual state of matter (钅 for metal, 石 for non-metal solids, 氵 for liquids, 气 for gases) - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_elements_in_East_Asia....

There are also lots of specific words for species of trees (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_75) and other plants (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_140), but characters under those radicals also include botanical terms, medicines, things made of wood and plants, etc.
They assumed collateral would hold 25% of its initial value until the end of the loan.

In the past 12 years, Bitcoin lost 80%+ of its market value. Three times.

It came back before, so they might become solvent again eventually. But this was bad risk management.
Given the fact that those models seem to improve logarithmically and that they pretty much trained codex on ~all available public code (maybe divide by 2) meaning the training data will at most scale with the growth rate of public repos in Github, I doubt that whole "1 million times better".
Even the number of parameters won't improve with a factor of 1 million (it will not improve by a factor of a 1000 and may even not reach a factor of 100) by the end of the decade.
Well, considering I worked with these people for 27 years, I have a feeling they had my measure.

I knew them, and accepted the fact they were ignoring over a decade (at the time) of working with me, so it was what it was.

We're usually really good at solving other people's problems, from outside, but every case is unique[0].

In the aggregate, I was proud to have worked there, and gladly stayed, even knowing what I knew, mostly because of the relationships I made, and the chance to learn what I learned. I was learning exciting new stuff; right up until the very end, and made many lifelong friends.

[0] "There's always an easy solution to every human problem; Neat, plausible and wrong."

-H. L. Mencken
This disingenuous method of distracting from the real issues is so commonplace in everything web3 (and corporate)

Edit: Good job with your arguments for the rest of the thread too.
When your leader tries to have sex with and kidnap 12-year-old girls, it tends to not go over well outside of the cult.

The narrative inside the LDS fold naturally presents a very different take, with their Dear Leader being a victim of Bad Men persecuting him for their faith and love of god.

Praise the lord for the Internet, for making the truth easily accessible to those who seek it.
Completely absurd. Same for Facebook too. You can spend thousands of dollars on the Facebook/Instagram Ad platform but apparently that's not good enough to get you a dedicated rep who you can call.
It's because unicode was defined by Tolkien fans

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runic_(Unicode_block)#cite_n...
I mean, they could expand their sample size and the situation wouldn't be any different. Shitcoins come and go, but even the most benevolent of cryptocurrencies don't have a real shot at widespread success.
So… shouldn’t those text messages be on a server, in addition to being in the mobile phones (pre-“accidental erasure”)? What am I missing?
When everybody piles in near the all-time high then wants to cash out at the bottom, the two-year return becomes irrelevant.
I signed up on April 8th and I am still waiting too.
I'm the author of this article. I'd be happy to answer questions if anyone has them.
Any employer who reduces an offer is a huge red flag and is presumptively a moron. You dodged a bullet. You should have ceased communication when the offer was "reduced" in the first place!

Maybe the balance of power is shifting back to employers, but it's still premature to act on that assumption. Plenty of room to negotiate and get good jobs.