skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As others have said, I would recommend going to therapy. But also, if you need to, quit. It might take a while to fix this issue but you don't need to be in continued pain while you're in it. This is a you problem. You're projecting how they perceive you based on your own insecurities instead of reality.

It's a cognitive distortion. And unfortunately, if it's cropping up here it probably has cropped up before and will continue to crop up elsewhere.

It took me a couple years in therapy and examining the same distortion cropping up in several different ways for it to sink in. But once I did - it changed how I perceive people.

>I feel like the weird introvert

This is probably not the first time you've felt that way. Maybe in high school you were in class and the loud talkative kids in class made jokes about you probably being a school shooter or whatever.

Everybody has things they are insecure about. For me, it was feeling like people thought of me as a fat "neckbeard" nerd when I entered some social situations after years of seeing that stereotype mocked on the internet. The go to joke now for this archetype with Gen Z is "Discord mod" which I never wanted to be perceived as.

For some, they might enter some situations feeling like people think they're a dumb hick because they have a slight accent. Or "These guys aren't taking me seriously, because I am a woman."

The trouble is - sometimes it's true, right? Some workplaces are cliquey and toxic. Some people do think people with southern accents are less intelligent. So you have to look at reality as your source. Look for evidence. You've furnished no evidence they think that way of you. So where is this feeling coming from and why is it getting worse?

It's not just that you feel like that, it's that you ruminate on it. But you've ruminated on it, it has magnified in your mind, and now you're losing sleep over it the night before. This can be a form of OCD. But I've had the experience with the right medication and talk therapy of improving. It's hard work but worth doing because distortions like this absolutely end up in scenarios like "I have to quit my job" and it gets to the point where it seriously starts affecting your life.

I hope this helped. Just some of the stuff you've described resonated with me.
> Nice balanced writeup! However, I am not convinced one can make something solving all the things Rust solves which is substantially simpler as language.

I used to think this too, but my opinions have evolved a bit.

Recall the transition from goto-heavy assembly code to C; it solved all the things assembly solved, and was a substantially simpler language. One of the keys to designing a good language (or any good abstraction, really) is to identify the patterns that already informally exist.

So if we want to see a simpler Rust, we need to look at the informal patterns that exist in Rust.

* Zig did this with Rust's async/await, by making it colorblind. [0]

* Vale did this with Rust's generational indices, by making generational references, a way to get memory-safe single ownership without a borrow checker. [1] It then adds a hardened FFI boundary to get more solid safety guarantees than Rust could. [2]

* HVM did this for Haskell by looking at Rust's particular blend of borrowing and cloning, and making it happen automatically. [3]

* Lobster did something similar for an imperative mutable language, to reduce RC costs lower than ever before. [4]

I think Rust is an amazing first attempt at an interesting new problem space, and a huge step forward for the field. Now, language designers are starting to notice that the building blocks that Rust trailblazed might be combined in new interesting ways, to make new interesting languages.

It's an exciting time for programming languages!

[0] https://kristoff.it/blog/zig-colorblind-async-await/

[1] https://verdagon.dev/blog/generational-references

[2] https://vale.dev/memory-safe

[3] https://github.com/Kindelia/HVM

[4] https://www.strlen.com/lobster/
I think it’s a typo and they meant unused parameters.
I think it stopped working once Covid became far more infectious. Before that, it was possible to stamp out the occasional quarantine failure.
Extradition is 10 order of magnitude harder, even for the US legal system. Plus, he'll have enough time to figure out another country where extraditing him is just not worth it anymore.
Currently going through a MBA program, slowly unlearning many of the habits I've picked up as an Individual contributor and began to look at the big picture.
Disallowing recursion is one possibility (IIRC misra guidelines forbid it).

In some circumstances, static proofs are also possible. IIRC it's still an open problem in zig as to what the possible language features will be while keeping this guarantee, but the goal is to be able to have recursion in some circumstances and still provide the possibility of stack-overflow-safety with a performance tradeoff, and to know when you've stepped out of the bounds where that is possible.

Here's a thread I'm at least a year out of date on https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/1006

The general philosophy is to give the programmer tools to know what the consequence of a choice will be as far as that doesn't hamstring them overly. Ie. the compiler can tell you when a stack overflow is possible, and it's up to you to decide what to do about it (or whether it is wrong because you know something it doesn't).
> However, I am not convinced one can make something solving all the things Rust solves which is substantially simpler as language.

I wonder a lot about this too. As far as I know, rust is alone. It’s the first language to exist which does compile time memory management in a safe way. Every other language either is memory-unsafe (C, Zig) or garbage collected. (Go, JS, etc).

Rust might the first language of its kind, but it probably won’t be the last. I’d be very surprised if we’re still using rust 100 years from now. Subsequent languages can learn from rust’s accidental complexity and clean up the approach.

Personally I suspect it’s possible to have a borrow checked language that’s much simpler than rust. I don’t know what that would look like, but it would be surprising to me if we found the best programming language in this space on our (collective) first attempt at it.

But I don’t have enough insight to figure out what rust’s successor would look like either. But luckily for both of us, there are a lot of smart people thinking about the problem now. Let’s give it a decade and see.
> Before the adoption of peer review, journals focused on quickly disseminating letters and communications between scientists, with little to no editing or external reviewing

It seems to me that a return to this standard is inevitable:

* Scientific papers are in enormously difficult to peer review properly because fields have become so specialized

* The incentive structure is highly unbalanced, and the truth is, the people you’d like to peer review your papers are already too busy

* Peer review is very expensive (in terms of time) for a conscientious reviewer

* Many of these papers are low quality, serving to buttress the reputation of the author more than moving the field forward

Since it’s an open secret that so many journals are worthless, it would probably be better just to return to the publish fast model instead of trying to fix a sick endeavor.
The article presses only a single hypothesis (food input costs going up), but I don't think the article addresses the other side of balancing the books: it may just be a substantial drop in customer traffic to restaurants, even before price changes.

It does seem that publicly-traded restaurants are being impacted far more than meat suppliers:

https://totalrealreturns.com/s/TSN,CMG,MCD,QSR,DRI,BLMN

I think the "Total Real Drawdowns" chart is decently instructive. See the huge dip in March 2020, then the general hopeful recovery of June 2021. Compare the red line (Tyson Foods, from the article) versus all the restaurants. With the exception of McDonald's, the restaurants are fairing worse. Would have to dig into fundamentals to get a better sense of why.
Interesting perspective. I’ve never used a REPL much. I did a bit of commercial Python and rarely used it there and I built my career on PHP, which kinda has one, but not a very usable one. I found the REPL to be a distraction. I just want to write code in my favorite text editor and then interpret or compile it.

I’m a bit old school, I realize.
C++ STL uses trees because the generic requirement for them to work is a < operator. Designing generics around hashing is much more difficult, and most languages struggle with that.

Ironically, due to caches, sorting and then using algorithms that rely on order tend to be superior than most hashing implementations, even though they are theoretically worse due to log(n) factor. So in a way, C++ algorithms are actually more modern.
Honestly I'm not an expert on autonomous driving so I'm not sure I have great insights there. I do know quite a bit about computer vision however so feel qualified to comment on that bit -- I suspect the decision by Tesla to only use CV, and not LIDAR, may turn out to be a mistake. I don't see any reason why we couldn't achieve full autonomy with our current tech including LIDAR, although I don't know if it can be achieved at a practical latency and power budget.

The new advances in DL I'm excited about are things I show in the class: the accessibility of modern NLP thanks to the Hugging Face ecosystem; the power of ConvNeXt for even better computer vision models; the way Gradio and HF Spaces makes it trivially easy to get a working prototype application using DL online.

I'm also excited about hosted models and applications like GPT-3, DALL-E, and Codex. All the illustrations on our course website are from DALL-E, for instance!
Zoning law in large parts of this country is designed around single family homes, non-walkable suburban layouts, complete separation of residential and commercial development, and minimum parking requirements at businesses.

Interestingly, places that are dense and friendly to walking and bicycling are actually extremely popular with home buyers and renters. These places have seen prices and demand skyrocket, yet building more of them is often against zoning or other planning guidelines.

It's starting to change, many places are starting to convert to denser and mixed-used zoning and remove minimum parking requirements, but it seems to be happening slower than market demand.
I've warned several times that banning sales to China would lead to the rapid development of the Chinese semiconductor industry that would take over all such manufacturing in short order, leading to the US and other semiconductor manufacturers lying in the dust.

Seems I'm saying "Told you so." even earlier than I had imagined.
Crypto heists and scams make fictional crime look like amateur hour. A fake YouTube livestream can make hundreds of thousands of dollars in hours. A code bug can net tens or hundreds of millions. No need to rob a bank or casino.
Reinforcement Learning :-

1. https://courses.dibya.online/courses/1690878/lectures/383852... [done]

2. https://www.deeplearningbook.org/ [currently reading]
Rust doesn't have a repl (well it kind of does: the rust compiler slack bot that runs code you ask it to...), but if you use rust-analyzer the feedback cycle is just as fast. There's also https://play.rust-lang.org/ for testing short bits of code in a persistent editor.
Using a throwaway here, but I stayed at Accenture for much too long (years). I ended up moving to a household-name tech company and never looked back. This move was not intentional. Despite having glowing performance reviews as an hands-on engineer, my business group felt my skills were mismatched. And they were - they wanted specific certified consultants in the business group and my expertise was building general cloud-native systems.

The very unfortunate thing is most of my ex-colleagues have climbed the ladder to a point with no perceived way down or up. They think they are “managers” and believe they are equivalent to one in tech, but no tech company wants some 7+ year tenure Accenture “manager” managing their engineering teams when all they’ve done is sent out product specs to an offshore team. Even if that offshore team is awful, they’re still doing the hard work of architecting and creating the code. The onshore “manager” is just a face for the team.

Some are genuinely good at their job, but they’ll need to transition to non-tech F500 companies to do anything with a similar prestige to what they’re doing now.
Well, that weaker sense of "correct programs have no UB" is true for Rust as well, then.
> Natto is a traditional Japanese fermented food that is sticky when eaten and clings to the mouth and chopsticks (Fig. 3c). Natto is made by fermenting soybeans with the spore-forming bacterium Bacillus subtilis, which can survive dry conditions. As expected, in this study, we observed the large white colonies formed by B. subtilis. According to the questionnaire, 9% and 27% of the participants have eaten natto daily and weekly, respectively; 19% of the participants ate natto during the experimental period. The participants who ate natto had a significantly higher incidence of large white B. subtilis colonies on both sides of the masks than those who did not.

The authors have this bizarre obsession with reminding us of all the Japanese things going on in the study, and it culminates in borderline parody here.
Serif -> Cliche San Serif, CHECK!

Quirky Original Graphics -> Corporate Memphis, CHECK!

Distinctive Colours -> Generic Shades of #0000FF, CHECK!

Crisp Headline -> Something Generic, CHECK!

Sharp image of distinctive looking device, makes you curious, looks like a unit! -> Generic Graphics, CHECK!

And more...

They ruined it!

What a shame it was so good, so perfect before.

The redeeming thing about the new design, if any, is that if you want to sell the company or get investment it might add some value as it makes it look more like a "tech" investment.
Ever heard of geospatial hierarchical Indices?

E.g. Uber's H3 index or Google's S2 index.
China is on the verge of massive collapse of its financial system due to the real estate bubble. Not to mention the demographic crunch from its one child policy.
Higher margins is exactly what we would expect in a supply constrained environment. Demand outstrips supply, so businesses can raise their prices without leaving unsold products. The natural temptation here is to enforce price controls or whatever, but they come with their own problems. If demand is outstripping supply, price controls would lead to empty shelves/rationing.
On economic issues, republicans support industries like oil production that undergirds good working class jobs. Republicans also tend to support small businesses, which is a realistic aspiration for working class people who might hope to own their own contracting or catering business some day. Republicans also have opposed Democratic efforts to implement racial preferences, which working class people correctly understand place them at the bottom of the hierarchy.

Working class people also tend to align with republicans in terms of values. Part of that is ideology (the Bible versus Judith Butler). But part of it is more pragmatic. For example, less than half of people without a college degree think that “changing gender roles has made it easier for women to lead satisfying lives.” https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2017/10/18/wide-pa.... Is that because these folks haven’t read Judith Butler? Or because Leave it to Beaver sounds pretty great in comparison to the jobs (not careers) available to them? For most people, raising a family is going to be the most fulfilling thing they ever do. Is it surprising that those folks gravitate to a party that dignifies that, instead of the one that exalts careerism and a diversity of lifestyles?
1,000% agree. I hope he is brought to justice and sees time behind bars.
Personal anecdote but my personal experience is that targeted advertising seems to be predicting my past me. I can't describe it exactly, but it seems to never realise that I'm done with (something), especially with once-in-a-moon purchases (like laptops).
india is a huge country. very easy to get lost, blend in
Huge amen to that. Our favorite family activity is to spend all morning there with the kids on Saturdays.
Well he did build a website like this, but thought (incorrectly) that a professional designer/marketer (which is not what a Google engineer specializes in) could build something better.
The trouble here is the same problem that affects tons of static analyses: what do you do about higher order functions. I'm pretty skeptical that heap allocating every call to a function pointer/closure/virtual method is going to be fast enough.
Those must be really low quality eggs? The Costco ones are not quite the bottom tier.
I refuse to say them outloud, but I also refuse to misuse the Si prefixes, and so I'll write KiB or MiB or GiB when I mean 2^10/2^20/2^30 bytes, and file bugs against anybody using KB as 1024 bytes.
> In 2020 a beloved Syrian cheese and dessert shop, owned by a refugee, was forcibly evicted because their land lord tripled their rent. The lot remains vacant to this day. Was this personally my fault for not buying enough cheese?

Obviously every single instance of a restaurant closing is not going to be the same. Maybe the landlord hates Syrians. Maybe they're negotiating a deal where Starbucks will pay triple the rent for a 10 year NNN lease that will make more money even with the vacancy, maybe it's a money laundering front for the Russian mob, who knows?

I'm sorry your favorite cheese shop closed and it was probably not personally your fault for not buying enough cheese. Maybe you just live in a town that does not have enough cheese loving people to support a cheese shop, or there are uniquely evil landlords who have a vendetta against immigrant hard-luck stories. Sometimes businesses we like close. It happens.
> Both are based on the claim that if a business isn't profitable enough, it shouldn't exist in the first place.

I think a little bit of empathy goes a long way. The past few years have wreaked havoc; many people and businesses are struggling to stay afloat. Coldly repeating the mantra that small businesses failing (many for reasons outside their control) is just 'the economy' is rubbing salt in the wound.

Even in the best of times, many great businesses weren't profitable for several years.
There are also Judy arrays: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_array
If it's not constant time on both ends, it's not a deque. You can already insert items at any index in an array with linear cost.
>CPU horsepower and efficiency in the same ballpark as M2

I think it's off by 2-3x compared to M2 in terms of efficency.
too many things at once.

tbh I feel very scattered. I really need to pick one or two things and focus.
In general when a company is controlling what you can say, they're doing it to make their product look better. Publications that aspire to actual journalism shouldn't participate in that.
A logo is nothing on it's own. Many agencies, like the one in the article, push a 'rebranding' that should include a brand/style guide on how to use its components, thereby justifying the price. If OP didn't receive such a guide he definitively got ripped off.
Yeah, Sooo over Waterfall. We do Wagile here!

(Hey, what are the worst bits of waterfall and agile? Let's combine them into our methodology!)
You are correct, if you are overweight or obese it can definitely be a lethal disease (78% of hospitalizations are overweight and obese). So if you fall into that category, I can for understand continued concern.

If you're young, healthy, in good shape, it's just a bad flu, though (had it in May).

The lesson here for America, who is a unique outlier in how badly this went here, should've been "lose weight, get in shape". It's not too late to do that!

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/08/covid-cdc-study-finds-roughl...
I kind of see the point of those who think this is obnoxious and damaging to the rule of law, even if what Grewal says is perfectly true. Just because one part of the government thinks something is a security, even for logical reasons, doesn't mean every other part agrees. The SEC is not the supreme and only authority, which means you can't simply obey its whims.

Why does it have to be fought out in court with no master plan?

If X, Y, and Z are securities, then why can't the government label them as such and enforce that others do?

Why can't rules and regulations be made in an orderly fashion so that people know what is legal without costly litigation?

I mean, those are rhetorical questions; it seems like the reason is everybody is making it up as they go along and there's no leadership.

It's like "move fast and break things" has become so standard that nobody bothers to say "wait, breaking things because you don't look before you leap is wasteful". It's just how we do things here.
Dating. Or, trying. Harder than I thought, and every attempt I make it always seems to go the direction of signing up for one of these online dating services, which I originally wanted to avoid, because privacy is important to me.
String tries are pretty fun if you need to implement auto completion. I spent some time implementing my own on one project and open sourced it. And then brought it in on a few more projects.

I've used bloom filters with in memory caches a few times.
These extremists are the only people that show up and care enough to make sure the representatives they vote for actually represent them on this issue. If you don't care enough to do that, I don't know why you expect politicians to care either. It doesn't really matter what "most people" say in these no-stake questionnaires. If "most people" care about getting this middle ground passed, then there'll be enough of them to vote out anyone who sticks to an extremist position. So where are these "most people"? Because I can't find them anywhere in the electoral surveys that matter.
Thanks for the laugh - I thought the same thing
Damn that movie is a blast from the past, I might need to dig up a copy on the weekend!
if the government had any integrity they would ban human drivers and invest billions into self driving tech.
- I'm learning about the format (sections) of executable machine code files.
- I'm learning about love, e.g. how different ppl express their affections and what they expect from others they love.
- I'm learning about Stoicism and Cynicism (Hellenistic philosophy).
- I'm restudying nursing, so I can go back to work.
- I'm trying to understand myself.
> to bring in an era where all are “equal”, some are just more equal than others.

But that's the era where you are now. Consider the humble speeding ticket. Same flat fee for everyone. Well that means rich people can afford to break the rules.

In a "more equal" nation like Finland, speeding tickets are income proportional. A billionaire speeding is gonna pay a huge fine, and that's what makes it fair.
Are you under the impression that droughts didn't happen in Texas until the 21st century? Can we stop calling all extreme weather climate change? It just gives talking points to the critics.