skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again Anti-intellectualism is centre piece in society and has risen to the point if being reveered across the pond asin "being too geeky" having negative connotations.

Don't pretend this is a simple matter of party politics, you're not a hammer and this is not a nail. It's a large cross-partisan social ill which is only fixed by people working together not insisting "it's all his fault".

The blue are guilty of their own politico-crimes, insider trading, favouritism/nepotism, classism and alike (we could go on), don't go making up justifications for them not being reputable they can do it on their own.

Again, rampant anti-intellectualism is party policy of most parties.
Greens (anti-nuclear given it's low carbon footprint), Labour (import more people rather than invest in the NHS in the good times by raising taxes), SNP (waa freedom), Brexit/GBP/???(whatever they call themselves, the backbencher OAPs calling for a return to the mythical 'good ol days').

There isn't a single party aspousing anything close to meritocracy. The closest we got to that was cummings who frankly has a lot to answer for, for trusting idiot 'data scientists' who luncheon with him in the boys clubs. He at least drove solid policy based on input from peers, even if it turns out his peers can't tell the difference between the black death and a sniffle.
Yes that is one of my concerns with their tech stack. The management overhead of that must be insane.
Are ejected pilots likely to be armed?
>we don't have to prove it theoretically. We need to build it, and then study what we built.

Doesn't that raise some serious ethical concerns if at some point what you might end up having built is human-like consciousness?

Staying with Westworld, it also explores the possible reactions of those consciousnesses to that ethical issue being ignored
would also need a way to generate steam without natural gas. Maybe nuclear, but that's just as unrealistic right now.

Steam is used to heat a lot of things outside of power generation and without steam our economy falls apart and this means without natural gas we are fucked.
That's what you get for working from memory... Just re-read the article and your way of reading it is actually correct.
There are limits on working hours, but I guess the reason is obvious as elsewhere.

You have your team of 20+ developers/sysadmins working Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm, and then you have a single individual responding to on-call events outside those hours.
If you threaten to leave, be ready to do it. In most cases, I'd say it's a bad idea to threaten because they might end up firing you later a bad time for you (basically the working relation might turn bad).
This project was also already discussed two months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31596888
The readme has a more direct explanation of this project's objective:

"MiniRust is the cornerstone of my vision for a normative specification of Rust semantics. It is an idealized MIR-like language with the purpose of serving as a "core language" of Rust. This is part of a larger story whose goal is to precisely specify the operational behavior of Rust, i.e., the possible behaviors that a Rust program might have when being executed: the behavior of a Rust program is defined by first translating it to MiniRust (which is outside the scope of this repository), and then considering the possible behaviors of the MiniRust program as specified in this document. That translation does a lot of work; for example, traits and pattern matching are basically gone on the level of MiniRust. On the other hand, MiniRust is concerned a lot with details such as the exact evaluation order, data representations, and precisely what is and is not Undefined Behavior."

It is yet another step on the path to having a Rust specification, especially with respect to precisely specifying the capabilities and requirements of `unsafe` code.
How much overlap between people are there? Last several years, the 'agile' stuff I've worked on with various teams was always individual people working on individual things. Whether my button changed behaviour or not was usually of no concern to anyone else except the product owner, and you can talk with them directly. Spending dev time talking about stuff (or hearing about stuff) you had no control over, or involvement in, was usually time wasteful. This waste wasn't always just the time wasted, but the X minutes before and after to transition in and out of 'meeting' mode. 'Daily standup' of '15 minutes' usually cost me an additional 30-40 minutes of mental time of getting back in to the 'zone' (when I was there).
Should that information be part of a daily meeting that will be forgotten quickly or documented somewhere the requirement or documentation exists? How do you share this to someone off today..
Build an HOA Ballot Smart Contract Application
Language Models Cannot Learn To Reason By End-To-End Training
Your Open Source Repo Needs a Project Manager – RustConf 2022
I'm sure there is, but there is an enormous corpus of data, and any filtering you add can end up impacting the legitimate sites you're trying to get to.

SEO spam is constantly adapting to changes in filtering. If you start filtering sites that have a table of contents, SEO spam will remove their ToC in no time, but authentic blog poster will probably not.

Real content producers don't have the time to chase every change to google's algorithm but SEO spammers do. How do you filter out the spammers who adapt to changes without affecting the real content producers who can't afford it?

I promise you, the problem is harder than you realize. And sure as shit a lot harder than "just add a bayesian filter and these 3 hard coded rules I just came up with"
> I find it hard to believe that they struggle to make money off bank accounts.

Why is that? Current accounts are a loss-leader for most (all?) legacy banks too, they're used to lure the customer in so they can then pitch revenue-generating products such as credit cards or mortgages.
https://www.julianjaynes.org/resources/articles/the-origin-o... implies (if I'm understanding correctly what it is) that in 1973 Jaynes was saying that he had already been thinking for many years about "a new theory of consciousness".

Nagel's paper was published in 1974.

So unless the thing Jaynes said in 1973 he'd been thinking about for a long time was something quite different from what he published a book about in 1976 (which seems super-unlikely to me), Nagel's paper can't have had much to do with it.
> I will be using C to keep the grim atmosphere of the apocalypse, but you may try this exercise in a different language, of course.

<crying joy emoticon>
I'm sorry I didn't make myself clearer. I'm not talking about GDP, but income (which has a distribution curve).

OTOH, we can see that curve in a global context, of GDP per capita across countries. It's a boring curve, very power-law ish with slightly odd peak in the 30K-40K region.

https://imgur.com/a/BqsQDT9
Where will venture money go in the next 20 years?
Just thinking about how we don't really need another delivery service or SaaS project management company. What are the thoughts here on where venture capitalists see as growth areas in the next 20 years?

Is it healthcare or insurance (maybe we're already there on this one) or industrials like Tesla/CATL?

Synbio seems to be having a moment, but I fear we are about to see blood in the water for many of those companies.

Thoughts?
This has worked greatly for me as well. Cuts out pretty much all automated spam that isn't targetted specifically to you.
Lol, I've been kicked out of class for asking the teacher to explain why something works in math here in the US

I think it was long division and lattice multiplication in elementary school

Doing math by drawing numbers in predefined shapes so that it magically worked out was the most ludicrous thing I'd ever seen

"Because that's how it works." Wasn't really a satisfactory answer lol.
I thought it was Bergamot? https://browser.mt/
Tell HN: Recruiters misusing HN's “Who wants to be hired”
It's getting worse each time and I'm sure I'm not alone on this. Taking advantage on "Who wants to be hired" recruiters are sending completely random (web scrap?) positions in our inboxes which leads me to think: if you don't care about your recruitment process, imagine how fcked up is your whole business. I stopped to use linkedin because of the same bs. Any idea on how to solve it here?
> The fact that people in 2022 describe 4chan as having any kind of effect on our culture should send shivers down our collective spines.

4chan has always been the undercurrent of digital culture. It's just way closer to the surface now. And contrary to popular belief, the entirety of 4chan isn't some den of degenerates and racists. People end up focusing on /b/ and /pol/, when the entire reason they were created was to quarantine that sort of discussion from infecting the rest of the boards. /fit/, /sci/, /mu/ etc are about as toxic as any subreddit.
I doubt that all that many old people welcome it, somehow. And that’s not what’s being suggested either - rather more years of active life, more time to enjoy the world.
i dunno, i like keyword parameters
For me it was bots for RuneScape
Ralf is the head of the official Rust team tasked with specifying Rust's operational semantics, so as far as trademark usage this is approximately as official as it gets (keeping in mind that the project in the OP is still just an experiment, and not any sort of stable or normative document).
Yeah, I actually read the fourth (Season of Mists) first, and that hooked me. Dunno what would have happened if I'd actually read them in order.
You have too many managers and not enough developers. In this type of organisation, management goals are the only ones that matter.

Change organisations to one where you don't have teams starting with 1 dev, 1 prod manager, 1 scrum master and 1 manager. Move to one that has a clear way of developing and moving people up and on.
I agree. HTTP/2 is a huge requirement to push everywhere you want to use RPC. Want to do RPC to a microcontroller? Tough luck. Want to make RPC calls from a web page? Yeah have fun figuring out the two incompatible gRPC-web systems, setting up complicated proxies and actually finding a gRPC library that actually supports them fully.

Thrift has a much more sane design where everything is pluggable including the transport layer.

Bit of a shame that Thrift never became more popular.
Not an expert, but I think that part is wrong. You can still do a controlled landing with a severely damaged helicopter. If the damage is so bad you can't, perhaps ejection is not really an option either.
It's not even the main focus of the article, but I love how this mentions in passing that Steve Roberts was the original digital nomad! I remember seeing his custom recumbent bike with built-in computer in a TV documentary decades ago. Amazing to hear that he has continued to be a trailbreaking innovator.
Sorry, I finished my troll-berries for today, see you on the next OpenBSD thread!
Chrome doesn't do this though, its translation requests are just sent to Google Translate for processing (which obviously includes the data you want to translate). This is offline and thus more private. It might be a little challenging to get it on mobile given that this is machine learning and so obviously needs some processing power though I don't know the requirements.
One of my friends in HS was against calculators, and also very stubborn, and got in trouble for asking how to do sin, cos, tan functions without a calculator.
The problem is that the body stops producing sufficient amounts of NAD.
So the fasting would provide better uptake of the supplement.
I'm not sure what commercial means to you, but yes it is a synthesized compound, which is also naturally produced in the body.
How’s it working out for you?
Open-source notification infrastructure for products
Jonathan Haidt speaks about something similar in The Happiness Hypothesis. Epiphanies can only take you so far, before their novelty wears off and they lose the power to change your behaviour. This is why self-help book readers tend to keep reading self-help books. 4 weeks after finishing one they need another hit of epiphanies.

Even the lamest examples listed in the OP article can probably give someone a boost in productivity for a while, as long as that epiphanic rush lasts.

I've felt this in myself over the years. I'd hit a low point and try to hoist myself out of it, with some sombre new ethical code for creating a work ethic; some new note taking system; or epiphany gleaned from Shakespeare or Nietzsche.

You can see it in the Jordan Peterson clips that haunt my YouTube shorts.
I also summarized from my memory. I've read this article about a year ago ;)
Who gets mad at an email not viewed? If there is an expectation of responding immediately that breaks async people get mad. I have no ideas what emails came in over the weekend.. we will find out when the time is right
Indeed, a watch simply falling to the floor will incur a lot more than 10G :)
The open-source notification infrastructure for developers
The radical scope of Tesla’s data hoard
Can you elaborate on the MTHFR mutation? I did supplementation in the past with similar results to the above commenter.
While it's part of homoiconicity, I'd stress that a great part of the language is that it grows without warts. Because the "syntax" is so insanely regular, new layers of abstraction look just like the builtin layers.

With something like SBCL, you can literally write assembly in lisp notation (called VOP in SBCL), then layer the Common Lisp language on top seamlessly, then layer your domain-specific code on top with your code looking and acting just like it is part of the native language.

When you're done, you've built language primitives up to deal with your specific problem domain then you can solve the problem with a language custom-made for your needs.
> Rather than dwell on the past, we should try and find ways to create a better future.

Of course. But the solution differs depending on whether the problem today is underdevelopment or overexploitation. Most current thinking seems to tend to try to fix the former problem, not the latter. But whatever they are doing, it does not seem to be helping; these countries have been “developing” for 50 years. You’d think if they were simply underdeveloped, they would have developed by now.
Ask HN: Have you ever inherited a code base you thought was well done?
I see and hear a lot of complaints around inheriting code bases that are less than stellar. If anyone has, I'd love to hear about cases where you inherited a "good" code base, whatever that may mean: awesome test coverage, good documentation, solid organization, consistent styling/formatting, abundant best practices, whatever!
The Artificial Inventor Project loses its latest patent appeal
I feel like the linear history and rebasing always causes problems. I too like linear history, and feel like the problem is with how git displays its history.

Before moving to git, we used bazaar (bzr). Merges ALWAYS come in with a merge commit. This makes it linear for when the branch came into master. When you look at the history in bazaar (bzr log), it _only_ shows the merge commit. All of the subcommits are hidden by default, as what is really important is that something was merged.

> - 2022-08-01: Merged feature y
> - 2022-07-25: Merged feature X
> ...

If you need or want to see the subcommits, you can run `bzr log --include-merges`. Unlike git, which still shows a single linear history, bzr instead shows only the commits to master as linear, and then bundles all the subcommits with the merge as a tree, so it looks something like:

> - 2022-08-01: Merged feature y
> + 2022-07-26: Fixed review comments
> + 2022-07-21: Implemented features for y
> + 2022-07-19: Added test to show desired behavior for y
> - 2022-07-25: Merged feature X
> + 2022-07-24: Tidied up code
> + 2022-07-22: Fixed edge case
> + 2022-07-18: Implemented feature x
> ...

This is quite different than `git log --graph` which still shows each commit individually as linear. This to me is much less confusing!

For git, what we do, is we don't rebase merges, we instead just always do a merge commit (We never do fast forwards either, so every feature/bug/task comes in as a merge commit). Then, by default, we only run `git log --first-parent`. This only shows the commits directly into master, which in our case, is always just the merge commit. Because of this, every thing is linear, and it is easy to see exactly what was merged into master and the order. If you want to see the commits that happened in a specific feature branch, then you can look at the log/diff for a specific merge commit. It isn't as nice as bazaar, but to me, makes things much clearer.

Unfortunately, tools like github aren't configureable, and by default, just show the standard `git log`, which to me isn't helpful or useable. This means, we almost always need to drop to the command line.
Dr. Stephen Thaler's latest appeal to get his AI recognized as an inventor was denied on Friday.
It would be interesting to see the motivations behind the people who respond "yes" as well.

I wear sunscreen, but purely for anti-ageing, not at all because I'm worried about sunburns.
Thank you. I saw it disappear when I loaded this thread in a private browser window. Strange. Thanks.
This inspired me. I think this kind of work would be fascinating and deeply satisfying.
I see a lot of people saying to change companies. Maybe thats the only thing you can realistically do.

But I think this sort of situation is common at many, if not most, companies. It seems like it's trial and error to find a company that will treat you right. That varies by person and manager. I work for a company that is consistently one of Computer World's best places to work and all sorts of other awards. I see people join fresh out of college and become managers within 5 years. Yet I've been mistreated, passed over, put in bad situations, etc. I'm 10 years in and only a midlevel, eventhough they had me fill a senior role for a year and tech lead for a year.

I guess I'm saying you might as well try another company, but don't be surprised if it's the same or worse. Your other alternative is to give up like me, being frustrated all the time and making under $100k.
Would a technical description in plain English (specification) and C code be sufficient to preserve a piece of software? The understanding of the specification may be different years later, but this applies even to the paintings and the works of fiction.

So, the question is not only about the preservation the actual software, but also about its correct interpretation.
They called it the lawn dart too.

In Holland it also had a very bad name due to Lockheed's bribery of the royal family, which shouldn't even have had any influence on such matters anyway.
I remember a video where two guys snuck into Disneyland wearing these security vests
are they not both?
https://earth-planets-space.springeropen.com/articles/10.118...

This recent paper from Japan estimates the following likelihood for what it calls "extremely large solar flares":

> for 30-, 50-, and 100-year periods to be 0.70−0.76, 0.87−0.91, and 0.98−0.99, respectively
I hope Firefox more tightly integrates their VPN offering into their browser. I want to see them survive with revenue outside of Google.
Looks like singlely linked lists in the linked article.
Indeed it's a great missing link, it's incredible we have this text survive at all.

Surviving ancient texts are filled with references to other texts and we don't know most of them. To know what was written by Xenophon or Cicero or Lucretius is a happy result of everyone through centuries of labour who copied, preserved and protected these works. An Italian scholar in the 15th century, Bracciolini [0], was responsible for "rediscovering" and preserving many works after hunting for them in old libraries and monastic scriptoria simply by knowing about them through references.

I'd love to learn about other such cases in non European history.

[0] perhaps most famously De rerum natura by Lucretius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poggio_Bracciolini
Probably condensation in there somewhere, and it dries up in a less humid climate.
Yeah, with the result that the only decent adaptation (V for Vendetta) doesn't have his name anywhere on it.
> there is almost zero prescribed process ... Counterintuitively, everyone seems to be vastly more productive.

i think this the whole "people over process" part of agile that most "agile" people seem to forget....
About a year ago I tried to find a most elegant, distilled TTRPG. I was delighted with "Roll for shoes" rules:

- Your character begins with a single starting skill Do Anything (1).
- Any time you preform action that might fail, select a character skill that applies and roll that number of dices. The GM sets the target you are rolling against.
- If you roll all sixes, your character learns a new skill specific to the attempted action, at proficiency one level higher than the one you used.
- For every roll you fail you get 1 XP, which can be used up to eliminate a non-6 dice for purposes of skill advancement.
- At the start of a game, roll to check if you have shoes.
I still have my wiki reader. I love it :)

Being eink would definitely have been nicer tho.
Depends how far you sit from the TV. I’m 15 ft away from a 100” HD projector screen. LGTM.
https://i.rtings.com/images/optimal-viewing-distance-televis...
I do agree was excessive, and even now that we are only two developers still feels a little bit overkill, ceremonies like daily end up being very fast, and ceremonies like retro feel very forced ( it gets very hard to say what went well and what wend bad when nothing really happens... )
I had not come across Serious Python before, ordering it now. Thanks
The community college down the road from me has them. Couple things:

1) the projects are very expensive, for their project it cost $13mil, is expected to last 25 years, and saves them a total of $15mil. So a $2mil saving IFF no more than a few panels prematurely fail.

2) it still doesn’t get them off the grid.

Until panels become cheaper, or last longer and become more efficient, this isn’t viable to do everywhere.
It is disingenuous to reply to a comment about "undoing all the json parser work across multiple languages" with "no it hasn't it's just 13 lines in javascript see!"
The way "I have a doubt" as an Indianism is used more accurately translates to "I don't believe I fully understand/there are things that are unclear to me about <thing>"

At first I thought it was a simple grammatical thing, but I started seeing it so often that I looked it up.
I am not that hacker you are looking for
The real challenge is keeping the battery charged and operating.
on first glance, no.

after a sufficient time spent meditating on the construction techniques of that project’s chesterton’s fence, most codebases i’ve seen become much more reasonable. Once i’ve spent enough time using it myself instead of just reading it, design decisions or organic evolutions start to make sense.

A good-faith humility is a good attitude to have as a reader, but it only really comes with professional maturity. Un-curling the sneering lip most of us seem to pick up in our late teens takes, in my experience, about a decade in a relatively attentive person.

some are still truly horrific, but they’re relatively rare.
gRPC has no opinion on what you name things.
Where's the Android version?

As usual, Firefox for Android is an afterthought.
"Does your company fund them or let you work on them on company time?"

I asked my company that during my interview 10 years ago. They told me they were working on setting up a policy to give back to the community since they use a lot of open source.

Never happened. I honestly doubt they were even writing a policy for it at the time.
I compared it (german-english) to google translate and it's on the level of how google was 7 years ago.