skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my age and wisdom I find that I can't get through a even a quarter of what I read these days. At best. 29 times out of 30.

I throw it aside exclaiming, "what crap!".

If it weren't for free blackmarket epubs I would have wasted a fortune.

Where have all the good sci fi writers gone?
The q and k languages are part of the commercial Kdb+ array database that all the major banks use for rapid analysis. Seriously cool stuff and probably the state of the art in array programming. Kdb+ also has dashboards and other useful things. The original creator left to form his own company called shaktiDB, so that is another commercial product. Dyalog APL is the most advanced true APL out there. Unfortunately, you may notice a trend here that all the best tech in this space is currently commercial and closed source. That's a major deal breaker for some and for good reason.
One of the downsides of Blaze/Bazel is that the symlink tree adds indirection that makes debugging broken builds that much harder. This approach, while not very portable, seems like a win from an ease of use standpoint.

(Also, at least internally, Blaze pretty much required Linux for the longest time anyway.)
Capitonym
Engineer claims he is close to proving Fermat theorem with 1650 Math
I hate it when people create a false narrative to back up their prejudices.

The beginnings of IMDB started in 1990 as personal files, soon moved to Usenet with a few people managing different information, then first on the WWW hosted by Cardiff University in 1993, and the company was then incorporated in the UK in 1996, and sold to Amazon in 1998.

https://www.theatreartlife.com/lifestyle/history-of-an-indis...
“If it’s just a paycheck, then it’s like what have you reduced your life to?”

But Malcolm, everyone is comfortable just being a wage whore now. A few years back, you’d have accused us of being in denial.
Sounds amazing. Big fan of his writing style, have two of his books: "Code" and "The Annotated Turing".

I'd be curious to learn about his work habits - have they changed over the years? Has he experienced any procrastination during his career and how he dealt with it? Any advice to those who got bored by the challenges of the modern software industry?

Only now I found that he has a blog, so it looks like I've got some new reading material: https://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/toc.html
Thanks for the shout-out :] It's true the Simula One is a work in progress, but we try to be transparent about our progress in the form of weekly blog updates.

Our headset boards were recently assembled, so we're expecting review units within days or weeks.[1] Our software is also demoable on GitHub for HTC Vive & Valve Index platforms.[2]

[1] https://simulavr.com/blog/first-batch-of-boards/

[2] https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula
Hoenstly, the recent trend of specifically created accoubts posting shit like that under everything even just remotely India related is troublesome. Especially since it either to paint any, slight criticism as being anti-Hinu and anti-Modi or to paint Indians as victims of cololianism (true, but no excuse to do whatever you want and usually used totally out of cont!xt) or those evil Muslims (using the same made up shit Islamophobs in the West use). HN is no place to spread propagabda of any kind, would be nice to keep it that way.
I've never heard of things like alcoholism pride, for instance (maybe I'm wrong). What makes obesity so different that it gets these defenders, despite the indisputable link with a wide array of health issues?
Maybe you're right, but I have no way to tell from your comments, because both of them are very generic. A lot of handwaving dismissal, but not actually describing any of the aggrieved wrongness. Lobbing "formulaic" but not giving a formula, "safe" but not explaining the safety. What you've done is, ironically, formulaic and safe. Statements that fit well into the typical potshot pattern of people on the internet wanting to turn "I don't like" into some objective truth about the work, with a smattering of "everyone knows Netflix corp yada yada", without having enough detail to put your own preferences at risk.
I agree, but I think they are linked.

Culturally, the 'pro gender revolution, LGBTQ' movements and the fat pride movement (amongst other movements) are part of the same underlying thrust of our society. The basis is the idea that the individual should be free to be/do whatever they want (especially wrt themselves/bodies), and it's oppressive to have social norms/laws which restrict or even make the individual feel bad for being as they 'truly' are.

To suggest a way of living is not ideal (even with solid utilitarian arguments) for a set of individuals can be considered oppressive, as you are saying who they are is somehow not good enough. The individuals sense of themself and their feelings are tantamount in a culture so centered on the individual.

On a slightly related note, it does seem like our culture is also moving away from believing humans have free will. A lot of maladaptive states (from a utilitarian perspective) that humans can be in are increasingly described as 'unfortunate'/'unlucky' things that 'happen' to them. This relates to the sense of oppression for social norms that would suggest one way of being/living is not good - "How dare you say my current state is bad, I can't control that!"
Collection of John Carmack’s .plan files
That's an interesting thread. Thanks for sharing.

Not sure if asking about his take on AI will lead anywhere though as that's not really his thing. But I'll explore the area when we talk about Turing (his other book is the Annotated Turing) a bit to see if there's something on the other side that I didn't know about.
Ask HN: How to validate product ideas before building?
Hi HN,

Does anyone have some ideas for how to validate product ideas before you invest a lot of time into building the MVP. I have read about people making a landing page and then trying to drive traffic to it as a validation method and then others say that you can’t really validate an idea until someone pays for the service.

Any ideas on how to validate product ideas before building?
> Perhaps the government should simply pay people to keep their BMI under 25.

The problem is we are doing the opposite: We pay people (subsidize) their unhealthy food (corn, sugar, and beef).

We should just make healthy food cheaper.
Depends who you include in the consensus. Plenty of doctors and researchers were shut out of the public debate regarding COVID safety measures.
Apparently their management doesn't know how to measure anything and prove their claims. I certainly hope their engineers can.
You can clearly do something about depression, and hearing loss is also closely tied to lifestyle choices[0].

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3208793/
I wonder if we could get AI to code biological outcomes using biomolecular objects (as in object oriented programming), and what level of computing technology / how comprehensive a database of biochemical reactions would be needed to do this. Could this be something that is achievable in 20 yrs, perhaps speeded up with the aid of quantum computing?
How to upskill your engineering team
Yeah, it read like an article of faith rather than an analysis. It simply must be so.

There are many examples in history where it was the privileged class/race/ethnicity/group that was the most murderous one.

Spartiates, Normans, elites of Renaissance Italy, even Nazis (see: The Night of Long Knives).
what do you mean about DDG ?
Apple asks suppliers in Taiwan to label products as made in China
They were :) Before I took the time to write a vim syntax file I just used the Rust one with a couple of tweaks and the syntax was close enough that it sort of worked.
Well, most of the criticism don't apply to, e.g. golden rice, which could improve the food security and nutrition for a billion people, including preventing severe deficiencies that cause blindness.

> associated with strain patenting

strain patenting isn't really a GM-vs-non-GM issue. As to golden rice-- sure, it's patented, but it's also licensed in a way that most of the people cultivating it wouldn't pay any license fees.

> seedless plants

Golden rice isn't seedless.

> because they contaminate neighbouring organic plots with non-organic DNA

Because of how rice is cultivated and the fact that it self-pollinates, the potential for this is extremely limited.

> because they are often sold in conjunction with herbicides

Not the case here.

> frankly, because I hate the way their lobbyists act on our legislators.

Here, there's not much desire to cultivate it "here", though obviously governments abroad do need to approve it. The amount of pro-gm lobbying here is limited, though, because there's really just not much direct fiscal interest in approval (licensing it gratis and letting farmers retain seed neuters that).

Of course, there's some, in part from the desire for an opportunity to show GM as wholesome.
Out of all cases when I used --show-trace, I can remember it being useful only once or twice. I gave up and just sprinkled builtins.trace.

IIRC debugger comes with nix 2.9 and nixpkgs for 22.05 still has 2.8.x.
Why? I’ve been heavy. I’ve been light. Burn more calories than you consume and you lose weight. I don’t think it’s fair others should need to pay more for my healthcare if I choose to use my American freedom to be heavy?
fyi, when I try to move a tile in your puzzle, it opens the image in the browser instead. if i click back in the browser, it loads a new puzzle.
IMDB lost all my respect many years ago when they made clear with their actions that they support fake reviews. When the problem started to grow beyond the occasional vandalism, they still had a very effective discussion section in which users soon began to expose fake reviews. Their response? Of course remove the discussion section!
IMDB today has some use for their database only; but they lost any credibility on everything else.
This is a poorly written study that comes across as self-conflating. Science currently has an echo chamber problem.
As compared to proper hiking trousers, appr. 100 bucks and they serve you well for a decade. Assuming nornal use as intended. Granted, those are not tactical, but then I have much more use for trekking trousers as I rarely encounter any tactical situations...
I'm very proud to say we did show that in the Google Cinema Club, and in fact we had a professor from UCSC who specializes in Ray films come and show it and answer questions. He knew Ray personally.
But it's not the kinds of food you eat that make you fat. It's how much food you eat. Remember the Twinkie diet?
> Now, over ten trillion new titles hit the shelves every month in Young Adult fiction alone.

Say what? Ten trillion? That doesn't strike me as plausible. Which raises the question...what is the correct number? Ten billion new titles per month doesn't sound plausible either. Ten thousand sounds more reasonable. Maybe ten million but that seems like stretching it.
Um, Ramda has pipe and types: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@types/ramda. Although I liked my own implementation of a pipeP (pipe that automatically unwraps promises) that let you specify the type of the input and output of the pipeline: https://github.com/chughes87/ramdaP-ts/blob/main/index.ts#L1....
On Windows it is clear, memory allocated by DLLs belongs to them, and should be deallocated by APIs exposed by them, and to play safe you should use Win32 APIs for memory management and not rely on the free()/malloc() provided by the compiler.
AI researchers develop new way to ‘reverse engineer’ recipes from photos (2019)
Why does it matter how complicated it is if you’re not the one maintaining it? Your head would probably spin if you saw how complicated the database code you use is, as a backend dev.
Ooh now that is very interesting. I would really love to see how this speeds up the run-time of fpng as a whole, if you have any numbers. It looks like fjxl [0] and fpnge [1] (which also uses AVX2) are at the Pareto front for lossless image compression right now [2], but if this speeds things significantly then it's possible there'll be a huge shakeup!

[0] https://github.com/libjxl/libjxl/tree/main/experimental/fast...

[1] https://github.com/veluca93/fpnge

[2] https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1485976101692358656
Either you got really lucky or I'm really dumb :) -- because it took me a solid 6 attempts to solve the game. No matter what I started with, I always had 1 piece left over on all previous 5 attempts.
I remember imdb being meticulous in its record keeping ~15 years ago/before it got bought by Amazon (though its quality held up for at least a few years after). I remember looking up details for kinda obscure movies and talent, and my mind being blown when info for either was listed. Now, it takes years to see the filmography of a given actor from a streaming show.
See dang's roundup of past Numenta threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26243032
You need to break up the asphalt for trenches, dig down and set cement foundation for the solar frames, run electrical, repave and install the panels themselves. Oh, and once the fresh asphalt is cured, repaint the lines.

You are much better off doing an entire parking lot at once, or maybe half at a time, than you are doing multiple sections, as that work isn't all done be the same people.
To a large extent, I'd be interested in his thoughts about being open with Code. I'm an immigrant, and I'd love to do it with my kid. I'd need to have access to text, and run it through a translator to do that. I'm glad to pay the purchase fee, but a DRM'ed book is less than helpful.

There are a lot of tools like nandgame which would integrate well....

Same thing for adaptations for school curricula, afterschool clubs, etc....

I'm not sure the right solution here, but it'd be awesome if there were some way to build from his work for specific contexts.
It's actually tapping with two fingers on the veins of the upper harm. It means what's going on is so tedious that she'd prefer to get a jab to escape from it.
The colored pencil test for web features
We're making an office-dedicated headset with extremely high pixel density and AR passthrough to solve both of these issues.[1]

[1] https://simulavr.com
> Tellingly the first download was The Complete Works of Shakespeare — the next, one of the original bluffer’s guides, by Charles Lamb. His abridgments were good enough for James Joyce, who based Ulysses on Lamb’s filleting of Homer. Would the masterpiece of modernism have been any better, more highly esteemed — or more readable — if he’d actually read The Odyssey first, instead of just getting the gist? I doubt it.

I know of a modern version of this: When K. A. Applegate was writing Everworld, she mentioned in an interview that whenever she wanted to introduce a new god or mythology, she made a point to never read the actual myths/stories and instead just get an overview. That way she wouldn't get stuck on how the various mythological characters were previously written and would be able to fit their abilities and personalities into the books, while still grounding them in what how the myths portrayed them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everworld
It helps to think of it as one of many movements resistant to health and longevity becoming entrenched as a universal moral standard.

Some people think that there are more important values in life than those things, and don’t want to have to fight for their right to live by those other values.

Here, it’s a right to eat and be active in the way they want, for whatever reasons they want, without having to answer to someone else’s concern over their health or longevity.
We also outlaw health plans providing discounts to those who lead healthy lifestyles.
> Also, when learning something, it typically takes multiple articles

This is where I think video would be most helpful, actually. To relate it to software, when I'm learning a new language or a new tool, a video helps me navigate and learn my unknowns. But when I'm already an expert on a topic, video is intolerable because it takes too long to get to the point and often doesn't have the information I'm looking for.

Likewise for science, a video recording for materials and methods would probably be incredibly helpful for replication purposes. Also review papers might lend themselves better to video format because their purpose is to summarize existing research in a way that's digestible to someone relatively new to the field. It doesn't fit all purposes but it would make the science more accessible
Nice, and cool that this was your first project! Could you share more on your background / how you went about learning those tools? Did you use online courses, or just read the docs?
Sounds a bit like Internal Family Systems (IFS), a therapeutic technique where you allow three different aspects of self talk to each other to solve deep seated psychological issues playfully.
Thorough Analysis of Footwear Materials: https://www.youtube.com/c/RoseAnvil

Python: https://www.youtube.com/c/mCodingWithJamesMurphy

General Programming: https://www.youtube.com/c/Fireship

Learning Brand New Skills: https://www.youtube.com/c/MikeShake

Economics: https://www.youtube.com/c/ThePlainBagel

History: https://www.youtube.com/c/TenMinuteHistory

Investing (UK Focus): https://www.youtube.com/c/Pensioncraft

Soccer: https://www.youtube.com/c/BecomeElite

London Transport History: https://www.youtube.com/c/JagoHazzard
Side note, I'd really appreciate if you could close off your opening (. I don't know where to stop reading with a lower volume in my head.
Update number three. I now just use both lalal and stemroller because each one seems to do better in certain cases. If I hadn’t paid for lalal, I’d probably just use stemroller as it’s way better than RX9
That doesn't sound like a good burger per se? I like a couple leaves of lettuce, in August definitely nice slices of tomato, onions grilled or raw, and generally put my six pickle slices in a delicate daisy wheel. I've become a convert to the under-the-meat school of burger 'topping', 2 centimeters of vegetable matter will survive this without the dreaded backslide.

A salad it ain't, but let's not bicker about the meaning of 'some' eh?

A burger with ketchup on it won't pass my lips on purpose, I'll only judge you very slightly for it and you hopefully won't notice. A bit of pan fat or a very thin layer of mayo, mustard on occasion.
The article ends with Ghosn entering the box.

> This article is adapted from “Boundless: The Rise, Fall, and Escape of Carlos Ghosn” by Wall Street Journal reporters Nick Kostov and Sean McLain, to be published on Aug. 9, 2022
We also have car centric city planning, which is going to take untold amounts of time and capital to shift away from.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/carltonreid/4646637491
I disagree, the difference is still there. It’s gotten a bit smaller, but it’s still there. Some people who are perpetually online on forums will say things like “that’s based” in real life, but out of a diverse group of 100 people how many do you think would understand and say things like that? I’d wager a lot of people may have heard before but probably don’t understand what it means. There’s also lots of localized real life slang that people on forums won’t get. You still might hear it on Instagram or places like that, but there is no ubiquity there. I don’t think it’s changed significantly beyond exposure with more people being on TikTok/Instagram/YouTube and similar networks.
Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?
Blockchain & AI don't count, because they're being talked about plenty!
Yes, it does, as I said in the comment above. It resizes windows according to their DPI settings, to keep a consistent scale.
The Hated One & Techlore

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjr2bPAyPV7t35MvcgT3W8Q

https://www.youtube.com/c/Techlore
I just pre-ordered a copy. The first edition was on my reading list for some time now, but there was always something else to read. Now seems like a good opportunity to change that :)
True, I’m looking at the top 1% I’m sure when I made that comment. I guess another observation is someone of his stature could come off a lot more…entitled? I guess? But man, his post is pure though.
RNB, NeoSoul, Trap
> Conveniently, he cannot stand trial in France, which has also called for his arrest based on their own investigations, because he chose to become an international fugitive in Lebanon.

(Without getting into value judgments about the merits of the case,) this quote from Leo McGarry comes to mind:

> Well, that's why he did it. You can't fault him for having a winning strategy.

http://www.westwingtranscripts.com/search.php?flag=getTransc...
I don't care if it's discord or slack or whatsapp or thelatesthypedapp... I even have a discord account, I just don't understand why the author is introducing extra hurdles, stick it on the open web, that's the lowest friction and least platform dependence.
I don't know if HN is a good place for personal advice like this;

I have grown severely paranoid about what has happened around social media. I watched.. a conversation unfold in 2012. I thought at the time that I needed to de-escalate it. It kept escalating as I kept looking for a way to talk to the people involved. And, to my own perception, it grew into and took over the entire 'national conversation' that was happening here in the years that followed. I now have panic attacks whenever I see the words / phrases / jargon / ideas I watched form 'here'. I often have severe enough psychological issues that I just disconnect from everything and repeat the question "who are you people" to myself. Especially as my suspicions of what it was that had spread from that day in 2012 grew to... everything people say/think/do.

I'm not sure what way I could move forward. I've been trying, with minimal success, to write down in long form what I saw happen. I've largely lost the emotional wherewithal for it. I tried reaching out to old friends for advice, which shows I've lost contact with everyone enough that I can't. I was terminally online before this all happened, and don't really know how to meet people away from here. Or if I would find the same things, and shut down again. I do know that my paranoia extends to people I see in real life. The past 1 year has pushed me into a constant fear of everyone, online and off.

Not sure if getting away from the internet would help now.
Getting to the Staff+ Level? Leverage
Take your pick: https://portableapps.com/apps
Chaining assignments and using non-ascii characters as variable names is definitely not the norm in most TypeScript projects I've seen and worked on.

When I started this project it was just for my own personal use and kind of a creative / intellectual outlet for me where I didn't have to make any compromises and adhere to anyone else's style. So to this day some of the code might be a bit... exotic. It's definitely not how I'd write it in my day job.

That's the JS part. The type-definitions I'm afraid are just unreadable because it's TypeScript. I feel they're like regexes in that regard: write once and try not to touch them again.
Helpful comment as I had assumed that more social stigma would definitely lower obesity prevalence.
> But it defines its pipe function the same way RXJS does, separately for any number of arguments

What’s the issue? This has been a common way to do this sort of thing since C++ template meta programming. Have you honestly ever broke the bounds?
+1 on the sun hoodies. Those are amazing and make being in bright sun much less stressful. Patagonia had great ones, but pulled them for not meeting 50 SPF spec, but the replacements are still somewhere in the mid 30s I believe.
That’s not what OP said, they said the government should pay people to lose weight. As if getting a $100 check in the mail each month would change people’s behavior. It just lacks any real understanding of why people are overweight to begin with.
> the free()/malloc() provided by the compiler

Nitpick: they're provided by the C runtime library.