skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a good story from the perspective of a math-concept-struggler, but I don’t think linear algebra is that much of a step up. Fully formal linear algebra, maybe, but there’s a lot you can do with computer systems to sidestep some of the tedium inherent in traditional teaching of the subject
Multiscale modeling of brain network organization
Thanks for sharing these! I assume this is in response to the interview he did last week?
I remember the original thread and agreeing about the comments addition. I still think it's a poor addition. That said the meanness is disappointing. Congrats to the author for persevering.
I too am interested in the difference between GDP and Income, and my usual sources (e.g. Wikipedia) don't satisfy.

1) Regarding velocity: if the other person quickly spends that same dollar, unless they spend it abroad, wouldn't it end up as someone else's income, domestically? So why should velocity matter?

2) Request you to elaborate your explanation using the example of a real country whose per capita GDP and per capita Income differ substantially.
"Horrible. There's a reason JSON is homoiconic with valid javascript." is a weird comment to read about something that takes JSON closer to javascript.
I think the US is the place where you'll find the largest amount of technical people doing cutting edge stuff. I said largest amount, i.e. you'll find other places in the world with some amount. Tel Aviv. Barcelona, Berlin, Amsterdam and London in Europe. I get you might also be looking for a nice place not just technical people. I think Barcelona and Tel Aviv are the best of these. Some people are saying Miami. I think it doesn't hold a candle to any of these other options. Source; I've lived there for two years (funny bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4Xud2Gqoxk&t=549s)

In general, no offense to the U.S, I think life, specially remote work life, is better enjoyed in Europe.
I don't follow your discovery/goal-less-ness argument. Why couldn't one of the things present in his discovery be readability?

+1 on those S-expressions.
Just remember everything that has been formalized and condensed down into a course structure was an outcome on tinkering and hacking over longer timescale. Courses and curriculum gives you a condensed outlook that might give you an initial uplift, but in the longer run, its the true hacking spirit that in my opinion differentiates good software engineers from the rest.
I wish the camera's power circuitry were set up such that the LED were an integral part of it, so the LED failing would make the camera inoperable too.
I think, for me, there is a parallel with video games. The common denominator is time and emotional investment.

I used to read books (voraciously)/play games when I was younger (until lates 20s, getting married), but then I found it hard to invest time/emotions into a book/game that could be dreadful. It's a significant time sink, especially as I tend to be a completionist.

I'm slowly getting into games again, mainly because I realized it's a better use of my time that's passive activities like television, so perhaps there is still hope for books in my life.
Income has nothing to do with GDP. Maybe do some research before littering the comments with uneducated takes.

And real income/GDP is what matters more in the end anyway. E.g. nominal wage increases aren't beneficial to people if their spending power is in decline
As much as the spec for this looks like a list of features that one hardly believes are absent from the original JSON, this just makes things worse as you now have to check which type you're working with, as if there are already not enough places for things to break.

https://xkcd.com/927/
The point is that for work you are required to be available to work at any given time during the shift, no different from being required to work during business hours in the office. It is work, period. Not free time. And it should be compensated accordingly (at least time and a half, when outside of normal business hours).
Good question. That seems plausible to me as well.
Guessing it’s a common Indian speech pattern that gets lost in translation cause I’ve heard similar at the office
I agree with your point here (but I'm not the GP). The main thrust of the article is about finding product/market fit, and it could be said here that the market isn't the parser writers, who would be disrupted, but the developers who want a JSON format with better ergonomics.

> And if I happen to be consuming an API I don't control which for God knows what reason decided to move to json5

And such a decision might be the API maintainers not understanding their users.
My whole family went from just plain d poverty to extreme poverty thanks to the lockdowns....
> Technology's default mode is to constantly call for my attention.

"Technology" has no need for your attention. Developers do. Right
from it's origins in the 60's and 70's, driven by early science
fiction, programmers wrote anthropomorphic code to act as a proxy
between users and their vicarious ego interactions.

> Hi! I'm OMNICOGNITRON-ZX1, ENTER YOUR NAME...

> fuck off

> I do not understand "fuck off". YOU MUST ENTER YOUR NAME!

Weizenbaum, irritated that his secretary found this more engaging than
a conversation with him, forged "The Computer" typecast as some sort
of laconic, overbearing and demanding "Rogerian" nurk.

> Say more about why you'd like to smash me to a thousand pieces

Douglas Adams captured it best in his lampoon of the (fictitious)
Sirius Cybernetics Corporation's marketing drive for GPP (Genuine
People Personalities). Marvin the Paranoid Android properly describes
the whole project (which today includes Siri, Alexa and suchlike) as
"Ghastly and depressing" [2].

Computers as "demanding" objects is firmly wired into our culture, and
developers play along to it as if it were entirely natural.

[1] https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Genuine_People_Personali...

[2] Marvin was himself a GPP
Transhumanists Want to Upload Their Minds to Computers
> almost nothing for everyone else

The Equifax class action lawsuit required you to fill out a form. Half a year later, they required you to fill out another form and then mail something in. If you forgot at any point, you'd not be entitled to your paltry settlement.

The game is rigged.
To each their own, but I find mandatory quoted keys a pain in the ass, and once you change those three things you're basically at JSON5.
I only ever used prepaid CCs that you load with a fixed amount. CCs that allow you to spend more than is in the account is financial vampirism and needs to stop.
Sidenote: I find it interesting that Syncthing kind of implements a purpose-specific software defined network by itself with its discovery and relay protocols. I'm guessing that's because Syncthing has been around for longer than accessible SDN solutions have existed?

Also makes me wonder how much Syncthing could be simplified if it could assume all devices have a fixed IP address and direct connectivity.
If people in the US buy things from China, the income they earn does not contribute to US GDP. One example.

These are basic concepts with clear definitions. Why so many argumentative comments trying to dispute a textbook definition? Look it up first and stop spreading false information
Perhaps something that has been overlooked is that for most people, their phone IS their camera.

Years prior, it would've been too awkward to take a selfie in front of the Eiffel tower, so you'd have to get someone else to take the photo for you. They'd probably be standing much further back than the length of your extended arm, or even a selfie stick, so you'd naturally end up with more of the attraction in the frame than the traveller.

If it were possible to get both the detail of a tight portrait shot AND a good framing of the attraction AND it were as easy as taking a selfie, then we'd probably see more photos where the attraction is less "shaded" by the traveller.

Having said that I do think that a lot of "Instagram travel bloggers" exhibit selfish/narcissistic behaviours.
Speaking as a reconstructed jerk, I have worked hard at not being one but sometimes it slips through the net.
Meta is the same, it can suck.
I was on a team that got down to 4 eng once and everyone was oncall for a week each month.
If I really have to go with a single number I’d go with a trimmed mean, this comes after a long stint both in academia and trying to generate metrics pipelines in industry.
What a waste of lifes! The Tennō had already broadcast via radio his intention to surrender a week before. The war was practically over.
I would like to remind you that US is the ONLY country that actually has decimated 2 (not 1) cities using nuclear warheads. So saying that Russia has that capability while America doesn't is simply false.

Did not America threaten to use nuclear warheads in Afghanistan? It literally went into Iraq after the made-up threat of nuclear weapons in Iraq.

I don't think the West ever spoke out against America when it waged all those wars. Oh it does now but now it has become political. The wars have been waged, cities have been destroyed, civilians are dead, and so these wars become unpopular. No one stood up to stop those wars and I bet no one will stand up again.

So no, Russia-Ukraine war is not different because Russian has nuclear warheads. It's wrong. It's bad. It's consequences will be horrifying. All true. But in this instance, nothing puts it apart from all the other wars.

There's a difference between being anti-war and being silent. Silence is acceptance. And the world remained silent when people were dying in all those war-stricken countries.

Just to put things into perspective: America went into Afghanistan and stayed there for 20 years. 20 years long invasion. How long in Iraq? How long in Vietnam? Now Russia opens a front against Ukraine and suddenly everyone thinks it's different. It's not. It's the same thing in a different country. Big oppressing small. Sending a message etc etc.
not in the US. GDPR gives those protections, but the US doesn't have equivalent ones.
I wouldn't be incorrect: it's not even a matter of opinion. It literally is the definition of labor: being available to work on you employer's products and systems. This isn't debatable.

And not every tech company has Google's on-call policy. The company I work for has team-defined shifts, generally these are one or two week rotations where the person on call is on call 24/7 during their rotation.
You are not alone, I find TOML awful to use and hate when I get forced into it.

Give me YAML or JSON at least they make sense.
> As an aside, HTTP/2 is technically superior to WebSockets. HTTP/2 keeps the semantics of the web, while WS does not.

WTF is this? Those are different layer protocols. WebSocket can run on top of HTTP/2.

It's like saying TLS is technically superior to TCP, or IP is superior to copper cables.

Reference: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8441.html
> One topic was Windows programming. I got Petzold's Programing Windows book and nearly read it cover to cover on my break, going page by page and running and reviewing the sample programs provided. I learned a lot about Windows programming and really enjoyed the read.

I stopped writing Windows programs when Petzold stopped doing new editions of "Programming Windows". I'm not actually sure whether or not what was covered in his last one, Windows 8 using C# and XAML, still works on Windows 10 and 11, or if it does whether or not that is all you need.
I had never heard of HTTP trailers. So FYI

> The Trailer response header allows the sender to include additional fields at the end of chunked messages in order to supply metadata that might be dynamically generated while the message body is sent, such as a message integrity check, digital signature, or post-processing status.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Tr...
The main issue is that LISP supports dynamic scoping, whereas lambdas act like lexically scoped functions.
well they probably get fired and sued by the stockholders.
> So any project that includes both standard JS and JSON5 could literally copy and paste this code

is not a convincing reply to

> so parsers already exist in every language
GDP is the sum of the market values of all final goods and services produced. It can be determined equivalently by measuring production (or added value), income, or expenditure. "Final" is the key word: middlemen and other intermediate steps don't affect the GDP.

Then there is GNI, or gross national income, which is basically GDP with some adjustments for international situations. In most cases, GDP and GNI are within a few percent of each other.
There's a simple way to test this:

What percentage of convictions are accompanied by confessions?

I don't know the answer to that, actually.
I wonder with moving water, how old can these holes really be?

Is it that still down there?

You have to admit that the linearity, the spacing and the size and shape are strange if considering an organic origin... Fascinating.

Side note, I wish these kind of discoveries could have some kind of hashtag you could subscribe on the web to keep tabs on them.
I mean it’s a learning tool, not a design pattern. Far simpler than figuring out how to measure/cut cpu cycles.
PHP RFC: Deprecate dynamic properties
Actually, I found this enlightening. It didn’t reduce the signal to noise ratio in any way.
>> I find that traffic lights are fundamentally designed for motor vehicles

> they are designed to simply make precedences rules obvious.

While what you are saying is true, the crosswalk signals that accompany traffic lights have a considerably shorter green than that for automobiles. Traffic lights are also timed to favour the continuous flow of motor vehicle traffic, rather than pedestrians or cyclists. In other words, pedestrians (and, to a lesser degree, cyclists) are considerably disadvantaged by traffic lights.

Another consideration for cyclists is that amber lights are timed for motor vehicles. Entering an intersection as the light changes means that a cyclists will usually be leaving the intersection once the light is red. On the other hand, stopping under such circumstances is an excellent way to be struck by an automobile from behind since the driver does have enough time to clear the intersection.

Judging from what I've seen on Not Just Bikes, it is possible to design controlled intersections that strikes a more reasonable balance between multiple users. Unfortunately, that is not the case in my neck of the woods yet.

If you look at the details of most controlled intersections in my city, it becomes abundantly clear that pedestrian and cyclist safety were (at best) secondary considerations. Some of them are so bad that pedestrians are expected to wait to cross in a blind zone. Things are slowly changing around here, unfortunately it takes a lot of money to undo something that should have been done properly in the first place. NIMBYism also makes change near impossible in many areas, since the loss of as much as one on-street parking spot per block is considered by some to be a more heinous crime than pedestrians being run down. (Thankfully parts of the city are seeing change due to lower vehicle ownership by nearby residents.)
Income is not GDP. A US citizen buying a Chinese good does not contribute to US GDP.

Can all these uneducated commenters please stop misleading people about very clear economic concepts.

Lookup how the velocity of money is calculated in relation to GDP and it will be more clear to you and others
I would say that these are solutions in search of a problem. Putting everything in one basket doesn't solve organizational dysfunction; solving organizational dysfunction can be accomplished by putting everything in a basket, but that's one tool and it only works if you have a strong basket, good apples, and a heavy position of leverage against whatever you need to lift.

Choosing you advisors carefully is almost a truism; you can't have trustworthy advisors unless you have a good system for evaluating and generating trust.
We outsourced our production of Pig Iron and Coke from the United States, which in effect outsourced our pollution. We'll be rebuilding that capacity (hopefully with scrubbers) soon as deglobalization kicks in.

I don't see how the numbers work out for a steel plant using this "green" process.. that hydrogen has to come from somewhere, and odds are it'll involve fossil fuel as a source.
I’m not a web developer, but that RFC, which talks about bootstrapping, talks about using the CONNECT method to “transition” to the WebSockets protocol. Which matches what I thought the CONNECT method does: Switch to a protocol that is not HTTP?

But I only skimmed the introduction, did I miss something?
He made changes that were based on design goals. He simplified a few parts, and removed comments with the explicitly stated goal of avoiding parsing directives.

We can say the underlying idea of taking javascript's object syntax was a discovery, but he refined it between discovery and release.
Code golf is a recreational pursuit, sometimes educational, sometimes competitive. I don’t think it’s generally expected to be directly useful beyond that.

As far as CPU cycles, sometimes the educational aspect leads code golfers (and such audience they might have) to discover efficiencies they mightn't have otherwise.
Or the opening line of Greg Egan's 1995 novel Distress:

> “All right. He’s dead. Go ahead and talk to him.”

https://www.gregegan.net/DISTRESS/Excerpt/DistressExcerpt.ht...
Footless Jo - https://www.youtube.com/c/FootlessJo
First We Feast - https://www.youtube.com/c/FirstWeFeast
https://www.youtube.com/c/SimplyMam%C3%A1Cooks
Are you confusing the economic term "income" with wages?
Gateways to the trans-abyssal subway system.
You’re welcome to find other quantifiable sources, but to me Google trends speak for themselves. Also, less and less people not sharing answers reduces odds of new users finding it. WordleBot might aggregate stats, but it’s not them same as getting users to share on social media.

Honestly indifferent, thought Wordle was doing better, but I do believe in quantifying trends via notable significant sources; again, if you’re able to think of any, for example NYT article covering it’s grow since being acquired, I would be interested.
What kind of due process you get depends on your money, and that is bad. In particular people rot in jail for months and years on much smaller bails until they just take the plea deal.

And about passport checks I repeated the NPR as I have no first hand experience with private jet :)
Could next party in Danish parliament be led by AI?
Semis run everything, but: they wear out slowly, there's a long line of consumer semis for reuse, and few systems require the latest semi tech; There's extra capacity in the West for the older semi tech.

It's understandable HN community would focus on semis, but compared to 'financial crash worse than 2008' and 'Would all people be able to get food next month?' semis aren't that important. Semi production would be a slow long-term crisis we would be able to adjust to if we could handle effectively the initial very big short-term crises resulting from a massive war.

As Keynes put it: "In the long run we're all dead". If we couldn't handle the initial short-term economic crises we'll have bigger problems than long-term semi production adjustment. If we can, we could handle adjusting semi production and use. It's not that it isn't an issue, it's just way less important and less difficult than the other issues.
well, for a start, flows and holdings on foreign investments, interest and monetary flows, international trade, consumption of existing stock (depending on your particular definition of income).

but either way, he's fundamentally right.
You're grossly underestimating the power of "progressives" within the overall governmental and administrative structure.

Sure, to win in 2020 the Democrats had to go with a more pragmatic candidate. But behind the scenes, the legion of government employees, aides, administrators, lobbyists, and bureaucrats are implementing policies and interpreting rules with more or less the exact set of values and beliefs that you're attributing to "weirdos" on twitter and in academia.

You're not going to see Biden give a speech where he says "Give minorities preferential access to covid treatments to compensate for systemic racism against them" but some committee of people appointed by his office will write the rules as such. So does it matter that Biden publicly claims moderate, centrist positions if all his appointments and policymakers put racial progressivism as their top priority?
I'd say income and debt are more interesting than GDP. The Average Joe in my country saves a bit of money, burns it quickly, then struggles for a while because he needs to borrow money, and he doesn't make enough to pay it quickly. Many people are blissfully unaware of how limited their runway is, particularly when inflation hits hard.
Geo engineering solutions have been proposed for a while. They were particularly popular in the public imagination back when there was fear of a new ice age. They are less popular now given the belief that there is something we can do to change our CO2 emissions.

I suspect the next major climate conference will include discussion on this topic given the present effects of global warming and our inability to control carbon emissions in any region for the last 30 years.
Yes, they are the same. Economists consider GDP and GDI as two measurements of the same thing: https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2016/march/better-...
In the old days (and still today) lots of "sysadmins" were programmers. Mostly because programmers were the only people that used computers and then some of them happened to administrate those. That's at least my recollection from an academic/university setting. The ones I ran into were awesome programmers.

IMO "software reliability" shouldn't and can't be thought of as its own feature. Reliability is part of parcel of every feature. You can't make bad software reliable and good software doesn't need the "reliability" tacked on. This mindset (similar to thinking of "quality" as an add-on from the "QA team") seems very problematic to me. At the very least it's an unnatural way of getting there, at worst it just doesn't work. Where I would draw the line though is the reliability of the infrastructure, that's not the domain of the software developer, so it's totally OK to delegate that portion and draw a contract (e.g. in your item #3).
There a few very important things to consider if you’re being asked to be on call:
1. Expected response time
2. Number of times called on average
3. Average time spent working to fix a problem.

#1 and #2 are pretty obvious. These things actually eat into your life because you’re actually working.

#3 is hard to calculate how much that’s worth. If I’m required to be logged into vpn and starting to dig in within let’s say 10 minutes. That means I cannot reasonably leave my house to: eat dinner with my family, go to lowes to grab some pvc because the pipe for my sump pump started leaking, walk my dogs, take my kids outside to teach them how to ride a bike, etc.

I feel I should be compensated for having to be ready to go and not having the freedom to live my life. That in itself is an interruption.
Experian is so powerful; you can be denied loans for buying a house if your Experian score is poor. You could have little leverage in negotiating a fair salary at your new job because Experian told your new employer what you are currently making. And you could even be denied medical care if your Experian score is poor.

Private hospitals are now consulting a secret medical credit score from Experian before you even see a doctor. As a patient you do not have access to this score, nor can you see how it is generated. All you know is that you may be denied care, or receive different care, because of it. [2]

[1] https://www.experian.com/consumer-information/employment-inc...

[2] https://thetoolsweneed.com/poorly-secured-medical-credit-sco...