skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My dad died a couple of months ago and I'm still sorting through his and my mother's stuff, including a lot of books.

I discovered in one of them he'd written a fake dedication from the author "To ____ who could have written this far better than I".

And in the front of a copy of Tristram Shandy he'd written: "This is the 3rd copy I have bought. All the others have been STOLEN. If I ever get to read it I may find out why!"

Makes me miss him more.
Same idea though. Edited for clarification.
Hustle and grind. Create 7 streams of income. Work 18 hour days - anything less and you're a loser destined for mediocrity. Read 5 books a week. Start trading stocks and crypto. Take cold showers, hit the gym. Optimize your schedule, log every minute spent. Ditch your loser friends and only hang out with likeminded - success breeds success. Sigma grindset. Moon or bust. If you're not worth $1 million liquid before 30, cut off your finger and work even harder. Analyze your productivity and always look for places to cut fat.
> You're misunderstanding ZFS' persistent data structure. It's the whole point that it's not doing a copy then modifying something.

I'm talking about the internal implementation of those data structures, not about their API. Neither C nor C++ have built-in immutable data structures, so those persistent data structures with their immutable API are implemented using mutable C structs or C++ classes.

> Also no one claims there's one immutable data structure that's faster than all mutable data structures. That's a ridiculous strawman argument.

No, you're misunderstanding what I said: For any given abstract functionality or interface (like a key->value map, or a graph composed of vertices and edges), there exists a mutable data structure which is at least as fast as all immutable data structures that provide the same interface. That's because the set of mutable data structures is a strict superset of (i.e., contains all) the set of immutable data structures.
A TikTok rival promised millions to Black creators. Now some are deep in debt
That’s an extraordinary claim. Perhaps you’d back that up with some numbers?
Yet they just increased the cost of the quest by $100
I guess I take a different approach than the author does. I waste several hours a day on such social media consumption, but I don't delude myself into thinking I was productive. If anything, it lights a fire under me because I wasted so much time, and that gives me a productivity boost to finish the things I was supposed to do.
I read lots of highly ranked comments here that I think are pretty wrong. There are lots of quite idiosyncratic opinions that are popular on hn but tend to be pretty wrong. On this site you’re mostly looking at a small subset of programmers who tend to spend a lot of time online and the conventions on this site tend to encourage authoritative and contrarian opinions, so while there are a lot of comments and many are good, you can get quite a biased sample. I think it would often be unwise to follow all the advice in high-ranking (or low-ranking) hn comments but I have no advice for differentiating what is rot from what is not.
As engineers, it often feels like enforcing one policy regardless of the actor is the best solution, but I think it breaks down in practice.

For example, imagine if your email password was given out to two individuals - one is your significant other, and the other is a random dude on the internet. In theory, good password hygiene should be maintained no matter who the individual is. In practice I would be (and should be) vastly more worried about this random dude than my partner.

Trying to figure out a generalized solution for big tech may prove to be too hard, and is frankly a waste of time when there's a credible geopolitical threat on our doorstep.
Is this really Baz Luhrmann singing or is it someone else?
No it doesn’t SCP has no support for directory listing. The -o flag only controls the security layer which is openSSL just like SFTP. So you established the S’s are the same, But the P’s (protocol) are different. A protocol is like get post put… Totally separate from security
I cannot remember a time in my adulthood where I didn't feel like I was behind, it was too late to start whatever random thing I was thinking of. And then I get older and look back and think that of course I could've started then. I say this with as much sincerity as can be transmitted through text on a screen. It is not too late.

You're experiencing grief of the loss of your startup. That's going to take time to heal. You will have more successes. You will feel differently than you do now. Take some time to heal, and take care of yourself. There is a bright future ahead for you.
We have a gallery of apps in https://www.textualize.io/textual/gallery

I'm surprised how much has been done with it. The version in master has been stuck in limbo while we've been working on the CSS branch.
Windows explorer is almost unusable. Microsoft poluting it with Downloads, Images, Videos and My Documents virtual folders (just to name a few) didn't help either.
Midnight comes a fraction sooner as Earth spins faster
I have an interest in medical books from the first half of the 20th Century. It's fascinating what you can find, even in books that have been passed through many sets of hands.

In one, I found a stockbrocker's letter and managed to trace the owner to his historic pubmed articles (all > 100 years old), as well as obituaries and probable descendants on WikiTree.
Chili Mac ftw
Not the strangest thing in the world, but I'm currently on a Mark Twain reading binge. He's absolutely amazing - if all you've read of his is Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn, you need to read his non-fiction travelogues. His observations were prescient almost beyond belief, and his acerbic humor is laugh out loud funny.

Here's the strange bit: His book "Roughing It" is about his experience as a young man of moving to the West, spending a few years in Nevada and San Francisco, and then visiting The Kingdom of Hawaii where he tried surfing. In 1865.

> In one place we came upon a large company of naked natives, of both sexes and all ages, amusing themselves with the national pastime of surf-bathing. Each heathen would paddle three or four hundred yards out to sea, (taking a short board with him), then face the shore and wait for a particularly prodigious billow to come along; at the right moment he would fling his board upon its foamy crest and himself upon the board, and here he would come whizzing by like a bombshell! It did not seem that a lightning express train could shoot along at a more hair-lifting speed. I tried surf-bathing once, subsequently, but made a failure of it. I got the board placed right, and at the right moment, too; but missed the connection myself.—The board struck the shore in three quarters of a second, without any cargo, and I struck the bottom about the same time, with a couple of barrels of water in me. None but natives ever master the art of surf-bathing thoroughly.

Sam embraced and exaggerated his "Southern gentleman" Mark Twain persona later in life so much, the idea that earlier in life he was in Hawaii, hanging out and surfing is quite amusing to me. Victorian surfing?? Who knew?
Every country is ultimately derived by its people though.

Rather than a boolean, democratic is better understood as a numeric value.

"How democratic are you?" not "are you democratic?"
A butterfly. I opened a book (can't remember title) at a library over 15 years ago and a butterfly came out of the pages and landed on my shoulder.
While we're at it

> The suggested pronunciation of JWT [JSON Web Token] is the same as the English word "jot".

Please don't say "jot token" or "JWT token", they're wrong and redundant.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7519
Given that it's been in the works for what seems like a decade, do you think pkgbase will be finalized anytime soon?

Just curious (please don't take my comments as being negative)

https://wiki.freebsd.org/PkgBase
A similar idea that a friend of mine implemented is, when he gets called, the caller hears this message "Thanks for calling (name); press one to be connected immediately"

This filters out pretty much all spam!
Again, why does this mean that I have to suffer from robocalls, other than cynical justification to defend robocalls in the abstract and continue to inflict them on everyone?
Just delusional. They justified their manipulation of a useless index by convincing themselves they were just preventing undercounting. It’s BS.

What’s worse is that the language clearly failed to provide any compelling reason to use it and died a slow death. This manipulation was evidently their best attempt at showing the language was worthwhile.
Oh it's definitely a mess, and I don't absolve Microsoft of responsibility at all. Money, tax breaks, whatever their reasoning is, donating to these PACs looks awful. However I believe we should have a bright line between responsible journalism and opinion pieces that disguise themselves as objective news.
A tutorial like you have never seen
They basically won the smartphone round of the game. We don't know what the Next Thing is, they don't either, nobody does. If they are (unknowingly) working on what will be the Next Thing, it is probably in "wearables and accessories" because that seems to be where their experiments live. But the fact that that section of their company is basically noise at the moment just reflects the fact that the Next Thing hasn't arrived yet.

I don't think we should put too much thought (as the article seems to) into their quarter-to-quarter results in the Land of Lost Devices. The point there isn't to sell lots of devices, it is to either try new ideas (which will probably fail because we only get like one big new device class per generation) and have a foundation to quickly try and catch up if their competition finds the Next Thing.
Things I Have Drawn is a site in which the things kids draw are real
I built a free app that helps you brainstorm product ideas with AI
The other danger here is the human resources side of the business. Lots of skilled labor just evaporating away — institutional knowledge that is hard to replace and even harder to document.

The US needs to simultaneously invest in trade schools, stop pushing for higher education so zealously, and perhaps find ways to make our manufacturing workforce earn dignified wages.

Addendum: American Factory (the Netflix documentary) tried to make the takeaway about the plight of the American worker and the decay of manufacturing and the seemingly inhumanity of Chinese manufacturing. What everyone should take away instead is the insane skill-gap on display between the two country’s assembly lines. Seriously, even without the inhumane hours, the Chinese factory still had the US factory beat on everything.
I'd like it that if a work has been out of print for more than 10 years then its copyright should expire, regardless of the remaining copyright duration. Let them have their 100+ year copyright, but its forfeit if they don't bother to keep it in print. Let somebody else print it if you can't be bothered.
Yes look at how well Trump supporters and non-Trump supporters get along and work together. Do you think that’s productive for a workplace? Some things are just obvious as hell
Water quality control clams keep Polish water clean
It could sound like a joke, but when I applied years ago to be a sysadmin for an Antartica base, they let me travel with whatever I want.

My first option was a full copy of stackoverflow. No joke.

Now, I'm reading this 5 hours letter and everything is ok, but what a wonderful site.
Large language models cannot replace mental health professionals
Not that long ago, that info was right on the card in the back or front of the book. Unless the card had just been replaced.
This is an opportunity for personal evolution. Think about what you did wrong to get yourself here?

The version of you that failed has been shattered. It’s painful, but this is your opportunity to move on to become a wholly stronger person.

You tested part of your personality in an extreme situation and you found it did not hold up. This is a great insight that will serve you well for the rest of your life (much more lies ahead than behind).
Well, it does seem like a "made up", not directly measurable variable. We just have it for convenience of understanding the world. Or am I missing something?
I can't find an online article where Merlin Mann discusses this but I remember very vividly him talking about why he stopped posting on 43Folders.com a decade ago. 43Folders was a GTD productivity porn site and after while Merlin decided that he didn't want to be "giving drugs to addicts" and stopped posting little "5 ways to write a better task title" articles for all the same reasons OP is writing about here.
Eventually they’ll come out ahead because it will be less divisiveness and more cooperation. There is no positive that comes from political activism at work
Like others here, I wasn't very happy about / trusting automatic coverage, so I made this instead https://github.com/viraptor/cruftspy

Instead of going extreme with coverage analysis, it shows places that can be manually cleaned during the build process. Maybe someone will find it useful. Smaller space gains, but gives more confidence.
I'm writing a book on this(in my bio). I don't claim to have broke the cycle, but I discuss the challenges of my generation in it.
> Work 18 hour days

...and meditate the other 6.
All very good points. I don't wear glasses, so hadn't thought about some of those. I do wonder if the usefulness would change peoples preferences or behavior.
Don't take all PR statements at face value.
I went through a couple years where I was finding cash kind of a lot. Not life changing amounts, but something.

At work in the secure area when locking up I found a 10 inside the door. I didn't know what to do with it so I tacked it on the bulletin board by the door. Really obvious. Nobody took it for 2 weeks (which is kind of remarkable), so I took it back to buy lunch.

I found a twenty in the snow on the street in cambridge. But it was new snow and easy to follow the tracks. It led to the security guard at the University. He was really thankfully to have it back.

Later that spring I found a crumpled $50 blowing down the street. It was near the faculty club. "Tumble Money" my partner said. Also 50s aren't really common. I kept 30 and donated 20 to charity.

But lamentably my good fortune in the finding of cash has come to an end. Perhaps the rise of the credit card changed my fortunes.
Not much demand for 8080 Assembler anymore.
It's important that digital textbooks are more than a pdf of the pages found in a traditional textbook. You can do so much more with an explorable interactive experience.

I shared my attempt at this on Hacker News a few years ago.

https://landgreen.github.io/physics/index.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17178031
Keyboard pops out text off keys into the screen without needing root
I was with my girlfriend at a restaurant whose decor was filled with a bunch of old furniture and knickknacks. Next to our table was a stack of books. My girlfriend opened the top one and inside the cover was a bunch of money - maybe $200 in twenties?

Over dinner we talked about what to do about this, and ultimately she added $20 more to the stash and left it in the book.

That restaurant is now gone.
Yes. Most children intuitive understand addition and subtraction of negative numbers. It’s just moving left or right of the number line. It’s multiplication and division of negative numbers that’s a bit confusing.
It was nice! Thanks for pointing it out.
You are much appreciated. I didn't even know there is term for this part of my work.

Down the line, we do everything you cautiously described. We extract single fields with pointers (in lack of a better term, english is not my main language) to the XML/JSON fields we like to extract. Our software then lets us use JS snippets to manipulate the contents. Problem is, once you define a rule, it may get 80-90% over hundreds of datasets. But breakage is not an option most of the time. It's pareto principle work: 80% in 20% of the time, 20% work in 80% of the time. In the end, they are just snippets, then a giant gap, then the projects my colleague does.

I get where you are coming from, regarding "never to do that again". This not the only work I do. I also build HTML from customer demands, many of which are pdfs meant for print use, but not for the web. I like it, but I only scratch the surface of what might be. Thanks to the resources in this thread, I have a good insight of what to come. So, thanks again.
You're quite right, and to be honest at this point I've given up trying to keep track of where it's at. It's definitely something I'd like to see completed, but I've been too busy with FreeBSD/EC2 and speeding up the boot process to spend time looking at pkgbase too.
Just checked, yeah you're right! Wonder why
Tree based algorithms have the advantage that global or robust optimization of them is possible. Do your approaches offer similar guarantees?
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> the first $20 I spent was to get a pizza

Story would be even better if you had traded the pizza for 10 bitcoin.
This is a shitpost.
Fundamentally, I agree. Though you need to draw some boundaries between being aware of customer needs and advocating for them during development (and alloying them with realities in your development environment) and being responsible for all customer satisfaction.
Although updated in GNU Emacs side, SXEmacs shows recent version to be 22.1.16 (06-may-16) whereas 22.1.17 (02-sep-20) has been released.
The people who use the hospital system the most are the ones who are the least likely to be able to use those functions effectively.
This is really cool! I was impressed by the demo. I would be sad to see this replace a more "traditional" cli/tui, but for highly complex command line applications like qemu this is really awesome!
I've been making do with the Emacs psychiatrist (M-x doctor). It hasn't been more or less helpful than talk therapy with a human, but it's a hell of a lot cheaper and I don't have a capitalist death panel telling me I've used up my sessions for the year.
I’ve written tiny little apps in clojure and really enjoyed it. But I did find getting started to be a bit tricky.

Cool to see stuff like this tool. I think one of the best getting started tools I’ve seen lately is Calva for VS Code.
if youre going to make that comparison, its worth noting that the nazis did draw their inspiration from America.

For a long drawn out analysis: https://youtu.be/R1gcipAvplY
that's an interesting idea. but at the end of the paper they do an analysis of the effect of different hyperparameters for the nets with their dataset and find that the batch size doesn't seem to matter much. (although they're trying size ranges like [256, 512, 1024] as opposed to turning batching off entirely)
Unless they are expected to be "affordable housing" in which case they are mandated to use unaffordable labor.
It all starts with the body, the mind follows from the rise in endorphins and serotonin, and the spirit is revived
The second requirement in that definitionally excludes american owned companies, other than dual citizens
Was this downvoted because it was a joke or because people didn't get the joke? I can accept the former, but not the later.
I’ve worked in dozens of startups in my career that all failed, including 2 of my own. I started another and I turned 50 this year. I’m older, slower, and have less stamina. I’m also more crafty, more self-aware, more experienced. I’m biased but I see many benefits. If you want to keep starting companies it’s not age that will hold you back. M
That's a common take but I think it's based more on PC/Android fans looking for an easy dismissal than any serious understanding of the history of the field. You saw this a lot when the iPod or, especially, iPhone came out which both ignored the degree to which devices were substantially different from other ones and, especially, that there were older experiments going back to the 1990s or even 1980s but that they chose not release products which were seriously compromised by the hardware.

In the case of VR/AR, we know Apple has been working on VR products since at least the early 90s but those never made it very far other than a few things like QuickTime VR. As we can see from the rest of the field it was only until the last half-decade that people were getting things like the visual quality or especially latency to acceptable levels and battery life / weight still seem to be a substantial problem.
The emails leaked a few years ago on twitter say different
I'm a homeschool parent, I used https://openstax.org/ high school physics book with my son last year. Really great resource, its essentially Newtonian physics for the first 3/4ths, so hasn't really changed in 300 years, no need to publish a new textbook every year. Also they embed Khan Academy videos, embedded Flash based "games", and they have really well done end of chapter questions with answer key (need to show proof of homeschooling to get them to email you the answer key). Highly recommend it!
Google’s plan to get rid of cookies (still) isn’t going well
Resting metabolic rate means "sitting on the couch literally all day long".

Even the slightest physical activity (working, moving around the house) will raise that by a few hundred calories.
You really don't understand why people don't want to have their internet history logged or be tracked as they browse the internet? Cookies that track you are bad. The banners are bad too.
Show HN: How to evaluate the quality of synthetic datasets
Sure, but "I doubt that's that big of a problem" is very different from "isn't important".
I mostly disagree with this line of reasoning. Yes, financialization is bad, but Intel would have been fine if its process went fine.

We probably will never know what exactly went wrong, but I think the current best guess is this: Intel set minimum metal pitch target for its 10 nm process at 36 nm, while TSMC set minimum metal pitch target for its 7 nm process (equivalent to Intel 10 nm process) at 40 nm. These processes were the last before EUV, pushing DUV to its limit. It turned out that you can do 40 nm but not 36 nm. That's it.

It was an extremely technical issue, with justifications on both sides, and Intel's decision wasn't obviously mistaken, even in retrospect. 36 nm was usual scaling to Moore's law. It was 40 nm that was unusual, TSMC underscaled metal relative to fin and gate. Why 40 nm? Because it was the limit of DUV double patterning. But Intel also knew that! That's why Intel went with quadruple patterning. It was a conservative choice to underscale metal to the limit of double patterning, but quadruple patterning wasn't crazy either. Everyone was using quadruple patterning for fin at this point, so it wasn't thought that risky.

Should Intel have reconsidered this once they encountered yield issues? Yes, but that's hindsight. All processes experience yield issues. Intel probably thought they can be solved, faster than going back to drawing board and doing everything again. Unfortunately they couldn't.

(Above analysis was informed by lots of reading on this topic I did over the years, but https://semiwiki.com/semiconductor-manufacturers/intel/7433-... in particular.)
And?

People supposed to get food from farms, aren't they?
I agree. I have deep knowledge of a somewhat narrow aspect of tech (and a very shallow knowledge of a much broader base, like many of us.)

Comments regarding the areas I have expertise in are frequently quite wrong, but worded confidently.

It makes me wonder how wrong comments about other areas are - ones I'm not well-versed enough in to disprove.
They will be fine, they find money for buybacks during pandemic recovery, they will find for a minimum 15% tax.

Us, the individuals we spit out on average 23% on income taxes in the US, and we also have to buy diapers.