skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...still ended up going down an execution rather than concept focused route.

This is something that made me really disappointed when I realized it in school. It was always a step by step process taught to me, and I loved math. I took my AP Calculus class in my senior year of high school and my teacher (fantastic man) showed us how the formula for a derivative is derived. I was blown away. We had just learned and it were told to memorize it the previous year and I had just accepted it.

After that, math changed for me. Everything had a reason that was connected to everything else. If you understood where it came from, you could do even more than if you were just given a formula to follow. How beautiful.

I realized that I had 5 years (assuming we only cared to do so after algebra) of match education that could have been better taught if done conceptually. I don't blame teachers. You need to get everyone to pass your class for state requirements, so you try to streamline it to get this year done, and not prepare for the future. Also, most math teachers I had did it as a job, not because they loved it, and there's nothing wrong with that. When I had that calculus class during my senior year though, I realized that that man loved math. Hard but fair. I learned so much and that teacher taught me how to develop a work ethic.

I wish meta-learning and a more concept based approach could be applied to high school courses (at least looking back). I understand why they aren't, but man would I love to see how it would play out.
Put it on F-Droid, but oh boohoo, it's harder to monetize it. (They mention the inability to buy "Premium products" in the text which isn't in the giant popup)
People are aware of Deepfakes and AI generated media, and worried about it being used to generate fake news. I haven't seen a lot of talk about it being used to change our generally accepted histories, but I've been thinking about that for a while.
> Are consumers not responsible for the carbon they emit through the gas they buy

Sure we are responsible, but it's not our choice that this gas is emitted... we aren't the ones responsible to make the choice toward theses combustibles on the planes sadly.

Shifting it over the ones that actually have control over whether they use more or less gas, is a great way to incentive them to go toward the one that use less gas, as they only want the cheaper options, not the best options.

At the end of the day, we are still paying for it, but the one that do have the power to change it, now is the one that see it over their balance sheet.
My first useful code I wrote was writing scripts to beat Neopets games
I think a key difference here is building your cities to be more walkable; if there are humidity and heat problems: plant more trees for shade, provide more cover in general for people

I can't imagine that the current way of building cities with massive multi-lane stretches is going to be good for reducing experienced suffering to those who walk (it's just not a priority...)

Of course, any of that requires that you actually prioritise these features as opposed to extending highways/motorways with ever more lanes causing more and more induced demand, which... American cities don't seem to, generally...?

The usual shilling of "Not Just Bikes" should go here, where he talks in depth about what's wrong with American car-dependent cities and how they build...
The APU2 is cheap, has lots of hardware support, but is getting a little long in the tooth. If you can deal with maxing out at gigabit speeds, it’s an amazing choice and can run just about any software because it’s just a standard x86 board.
I believe in the EU. I believe in their fines.

Just like yesterday I was walking down the block and the police on Lastarria were towing a gray car. I had never seen that, and they had five cops on the scene watching everything was going in order. I asked them if they were towing I thanked them! In this context there was never any towing, no consequence ever for parking violations. I said yeah great! There has to be integrity, there have to be consequences. Great!
It's named after the karma leaderboard page: https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
Equity isn’t equal outcome. How does building housing for poor people next to rich people give equal outcome?
The point isn't to check if they actually know - it's to gauge the response. If they say "I don't know" that may be a valid answer, but if they say "George Bush" then something is seriously wrong.
The ‘fat service’ pattern for Go web applications
Why not inserting a call to free automatically instead of forcing you to do it manually?
There are many good reasons. Must have to do with profit and rent seeking.
> once the market demand exists

I suspect that is where many of us can disagree — the when.
it would be good if we could just ask to look up and to the left
I agree Jaynes' hypothesis is flawed, but how can you say with such confidence that:

> [...] I'd argue there's no distinction at all [...] the characters are perfectly relatable to modern humans

It can be that you find them relatable due to modern translations, or by projecting your own modern understanding of them. The whole of Jaynes' hypothesis is that they are quite alien and unrelatable, and that they don't function like you and me, and that our reading of them has been wrong.

The probable flaw in Jaynes' thought is that I don't think there is a way to test this supposition, other than time travel.
I feel like I’ve heard this before. When does the runaway change start?
Start small has worked for me really well recently. Can I find 1-10 lines of css that I can fix first thing in the morning? Great. That is enough for me to actually get into code and get started for the day.
Exactly, Good Citizens have nothing to fear.

But the next time you try to go to a protest that is not sanctioned by the Democrats, expect your Tesla to refuse to take you there.
China invading Taiwan.

Demographic problems (low birth rates).
When I see highly upvoted users, I tend to recognize a lot of them as people posting wild and unfounded speculation, drama, conspiracy theories, etc. I'm not terribly interested in those views.
Is your company's information that interesting? We had to prepare for an audit, and concluded that our info is simply not worth the effort. People get training in noticing phishing emails, but the only one we've ever had was a cheap shot at getting someone to transfer money. We may have been wrong though, and overlooked something.
Not the OP, but I think the point is valid.

I was born in the 70s, and my entire life I've been hearing climate alarmism - the end of the world is nigh (or just around the corner). No, really, this time it's for real! Donate here to stop it.

Most of the "solutions" I've seen are worse than the problem. Recycling was a major con that no one wants to talk about.

Carbon offset credits? Really?

With the amount of alarmism and blatant opportunism in the space, it's pretty hard to sift through and focus on real, meaningful change. Like not wasting precious aquifer water on lawns.

Simple stuff that would have real impact. Taxing the hell out of single use plastic water bottles.

We've done it before. The anti CFC thing was a huge success. Seems like that should be a model to follow.

Instead of pearl-clutching global alarmism, we should narrowly focus on concrete problems with real, measurable solutions, and address them one by one.
Reproducible Builds and Docker Images
Effective altruism went from a niche movement to a billion-dollar force
this 'people are rich because they are smart' is not a take i expected to find on HN.

Its not quite as damaging as 'people are rich because they work harder' but its really not far off
Or just enable NTP client in the BMC.

A more than a decade old BMCs based on Aspeed 20xx had the NTP baked in. Because you know, it's already running Linux there.

I don't remember on hw/os ancient iLOs/iDRACs were running on, but they had NTP client too.

I'd say everything newer than 2010 should already have NTP client.
I love the word "grok", but I don't think it means what you think it means.
> and it's only a matter of time before someone starts fitting them with rifles.

"DHS has chosen to lease its robot dog technology from Ghost Robotics, which has also debuted a company equipped with long-range guns"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/16/robot-dogs-u...
This is actually a very common model (along with the similar "power purchase agreement" (PPA) model).
You scare me.
I haven't inherited it, but I've been working on an experimental fork of Stockfish as a side project.

The code isn't exactly easy to understand, but that's inherent to the complexity of the domain. But there's a lot of elegance to a lot of the data structures and how well optimised they are for the problem at hand.

And Stockfish' way of utilising multiple cores is simply beautiful to me. There are all sorts of algorithms for parallellisation of the Principal Variation Search algorithm at the core of Stockfish's search, to do with distributing nodes between threads and so on and so forth.

If you go read Stockfish, it might seem like it's just running ncpu separate single-threaded searches. Because that really is what it's doing. Which seems crazy at first.

But what it does is it has a shared, effectively constant time(technically O(n) where n is 3, the number of entries per cluster) lookup hash table for caching search results, keyed by the node. And it's even lockless. And then each thread has its own set of statistics generated through search, which then influences the order in which that thread visits nodes because they're used for move ordering heuristics. And there's some other heuristics where the thread might jump straight from searching depth n to n+2, to inject some more randomness.

So there is a distribution of different nodes to different threads. It's just an emergent property of fairly simple things happening in each thread, whether they got a cache hit or miss, etc.

The reason this is so elegant is that the search algorithm itself is much simpler this way because it doesn't care about what other threads are doing. It looks at the transposition table, that's all, everything past that is good old single threaded programming. Then there's a very simple bit of code at the end that does a vote for the best move, based on evaluation and various other statistics(like the number of times the thread has changed its mind on the best move).

What excites me so much about this is that you could in theory do wildly different things in different threads. They only have to agree on what goes into the transposition table, what it means, and how to vote at the end. Stockfish doesn't do that, so that's one of the things I've been trying to explore in my own project.
One aspect still missing (to create a bike talk show) is that e-bikes seems not to break down that often, nor are the repairs that expensive that you are sorely tempted to do it yourself.
The United States has a mechanism for slow-moving policy; the Constitution.

That doesn't mean we can't have other mechanisms for policy that can be more nimble, local, or "temporary" (for better or worse).

Tech policy is the best example of legislation that can't keep up with reality on the ground. (subject to corruption from monied interests, of course)
Is #42 really solvable in 9 moves?

I can consistently get it down to 1 piece using the hint but haven't beat today's yet.

Update: Just beat it! That took quite a few tries... curious to see the global stats tomorrow.
APT27 Attack
Is it possible to self-host?
People understood algebra just fine before Peano came up with this axioms.
rarely talk about this, there is another wizard that lived in friday harbor.

I spent most of my youth and 20s with this man. He taught pain alleviation and hypnosis. I spent 6 years learning from him, 2 as an intern. When I left, the whole hypnosis community made me sick. It is filled with false hoods and people lusting for power. Tony Robbins hired my mentor, the guy the book Monster's and magical sticks was about, "dave".

I occassionally saw patients with burns and cancer treatments. While till this day, I have no real idea how I can allevate their pain, they do. I stopped after an ass named wolf of wall street jordan belfort, used a portion of it to scam people out of millions.

My last phone call was with him, I asked him if he was going to let his current "life mate" if she was going to told the last 2-3 missing pieces.. He laughed, and said no, it should go our graves. I am conflicted , cause i want people to know he FOUND the secret, but realized it was like a nuclear weapon of communication. Politicians are already manipulative, but to make an army of them that has near god like abilities... would be socially resposible.

Thus I hide on the internet, rarely complain, and speak about the other wizard in friday harbor.

may he rest in peace, and Ill take to my grave what he left out. The night where I saw the magic he was trying to keep secret. He grabbed me in the throat and made me swear not to tell. I kept my promise old friend, my 2nd dad.
The next generation of Data Platforms is the Data Mesh
I get that some people like to hear engine sounds selectively but what gets me is why would the car manufacturers spend time and money to make a bad emulation when they could mic up the engine block/exhaust, add some EQ to beef it up if necessary and play it in the cabin?
..on second thought it's probably because adding extra wires and brackets being work/cost added to each car in assembly vs digital gimmick shipped as part of the head unit that requires no additional work per unit since it already has access to CAN bus for RPM etc. imo they should realize the old adage still holds, if it's worth doing it's worth doing well.
'Deserts' in California are not that far away from population centers. The same goes for Texas. There is lots of unformed land around many major population centers and the energy loss from transporting energy is not actually that big.
My family back in India loves Slumdog Millionaire. It's a relatively accurate portrayal of poverty in India.

The American equivalent was Hillbilly Elegy. The book was well reviewed (though the movie adaptation was not), and friends who grew up poor described it as relatively faithful to the general experience of growing up poor in rural America.
The path to such a future will either be paved with mass extermination to lower to population to remove scarcity or via surviving with government until scarcity is defeated and government can be safely dismantled.

I do agree that there is a root problem with any existing power structure not being truely incentivized to reduce scarcity and then loose power, but that doesn't make the thanos solution more ok.
It might not be helpful to the individual, but it provides a useful guideline for society - everyone is capable of doing great stuff, as long as the means for doing so are provided.

I'd bet my life on this - if every homeless person was given a place to live, recovery from addiction (if needed), mental health counceling, education and a job, a significant percentage of them would become productive members of society.
You’re right it’s not helpful towards the goal of becoming an entrepreneur or whatever, but I disagree that it’s not helpful at the macro level.

We should all have this basic understanding of how our society works, and how our plutocrats got to be in the position they are in. We’re fed myths that they all started from the bottom and worked hard enough and smart enough to get where they are, and you can do it too! And if you can’t, you’re just not as smart or hard working as they are. These myths serve the people in power by preserving the status quo. I believe it is helpful to remind people that we should change the status quo instead of adopting a “grindset” to get yours within it.
It's not that you cannot use Genetic information to accurately predict certain aspects of someone's future... It's that genetic information tells you nothing about human will, and human will can overcome a lot.
I think OP means that new hires are receiving actual spearphishing emails from attackers outside of the company, not that they're testing them by sending fake spearphising emails. (I misread it as the latter at first too)
Hmm... I am big believer in mini-habits[1] and chaining habits. The way how I structure by day is to start off small with one habit then keep chaining it to other habits. For instance, I would start my day brush my teeth. It is a small easy habit to get going in the morning. Then, I will chain this habit to exercising. With exercising there are two versions... one I call my minimum and the other is my regular training regimen. My minimum is like 2 min or so of working out, something easy to do that can be replicated each day without any problems. Then, I chain my exercise routine with creating a todo list of the day. Which is chained to tracking my spending. My goal right now is to establish some evening habits. Right now I am little reckless with my evenings.

1. https://www.chestergrant.com/26-highlights-from-mini-habits-...
I do computational physics but Snakemake has become a essential component in my daily workflow. It is makefile with Python. Kudos do the computational biologists!
Nothing about the world's rich folks suggests that they, as a class, are in any way genetically superior to anyone else. Nature vs nurture leans 90 degrees towards nurture.
Prob will mess up for upside down too
It's still a good example where the specification is in flux and a lot of documentation virtually non-existent (e.g. std), but that is still very usable, simply due to the fact that it isn't a very complex language in terms of semantics, which in turn makes it less dependent on a very precise spec.
You do realize that we live in a globalized economy and that a collapse of the German economy would have significant consequences for the world at large?
> seems like a racist remark

It is the very opposite. I'm stating that the global south is being exploited and denied access to technology (and more).

If anything, it is racist to NOT acknowledge the problems that the global south is facing.

Besides, I clearly wrote "countries" obviously referring to the political entities, not the population.

> Maybe you aren't racist yourself, but you presume nuclear power proponents to be racist?

Now you flipped 180?

> The ends justify the means, so you can play into the racial biases of those you oppose?

What does this even mean?
I agree 100%,and if they sold them on that, I might support them. But then I would rather scrap cars altogether. Phase them out over 20 years, and replace with public transport and bicycles.
My thoughts exactly. A/C has some important electromagnetic characteristics that make it a lot easier to transport. Particularly for long distance lines, high voltage is critical and transformers make it trivial to modify voltage levels, such as to get to 120V for the house. it's also a lot easier to convert AC to DC than the other way around. If we start transporting with DC, we take on a number of problems/challenges that we don't deal with now.

I could see a point in time where there are AC outlets and DC outlets in a house depending on where the power comes from (power lines vs. solar panels/battery), but unless we radically decentralize (which I don't see happening) it seems unlikely to me that we switch to DC for long-distance power transmission.
Good to know! I've been trying to get hold of certain H7 and G4 variants in a specific footprint. Family and footprint are a hard requirement, but not too picky otherwise. Checking it out.

Of note regarding the one you linked - great find; looks like that Octopart link was bad! I actually have some 491s, and they're great, except that the OSS firmware I'm using them with for this project doesn't support them. Got my own firmware working on them though.
People hoarded incandescent bulbs and large tank toilets in anticipation of similar bans.
I like standup as a means of coming together as a team before starting the day, and only if your team is into that kind of thing. It shouldn't be a status report. If your manager needs a daily status report, that can be done async, I hate sitting around listening to my colleague list off every little thing they did the day before.
I'd argue that it's well written, but not well designed.
"How I used Twilio to hack Twilio"
Simplify Code with if constexpr and Concepts in C++17/C++20 (updated for 2022)
I bet that software creation will get automated before that.
I doubt I count as anywhere close to the echo chamber (#65 right now).

On a side note, I wonder how many people on HN have actually met someone they recognize from HN?
what is the difference to http://linen.dev/?
Of the truly rich today, can you honestly say that they are more attractive than average? I’m not seeing it. I’m not talking Hollywood level but much higher, generational wealth levels. I realize that it’s hard to get data on this but just anecdotally, there aren’t many examples that come to mind.
I think any car company is toast, if it sells users' private data. Including Tesla. I really doubt any data is being sold.

Most companies do actually collect data for a very simple reason: they want to genuinely improve their products and services. (Although some companies, like Google, Samsung and Facebook collect it also to help other companies sell more crap to you.)

Please provide details if you have any evidence that Tesla (or any other automotive company) is selling users' data.
Okay, rather than being pithy, perhaps you could explain succinctly why people are rich, then?

Or perhaps you can admit that in many cases people have achieved moderate to high wealth in democratic free market societies by either working harder or worker smarter than their peers?
I'm not nearly educated enough about this subject to try to summarise it, but the research being carried out by Michael Levin's group into how organisms control anatomy growth is completely fascinating and has the feel of a breakthrough. Almost all the talks I've seen are good, for example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-9rLlFgcm0

Creating new species without genetic changes seems wild!
And, of course, as barriers are raised it makes it very difficult for some portion of the population (and less convenient for everyone else). I have to change addresses for an older person at a couple of banks and I'm sure it's going to be a nightmare.
> One peculiarity about HN culture I found is that commenters will often comment something tangental to the subject of the post, so I often find myself reading really insightful comments on threads I otherwise have zero interest in.

Four days ago I was reading a thread I did have interest in about hiring freezes at Google and Facebook, and there was a tangential thread, which was even more insightful, between the Linux maintainer for ext4 (the Linux filesystem probably 99% of Android devices use, and a high percentage of Linux servers too), and another Googler/Xoogler about whether the Google storage engineering team could make non-incremental contributions, and which contributions were worthwhile and which weren't ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32323734 ).
No I believe what they meant was the attackers knew that if they wanted to spear-phish Joe Smith from IT they had a way to correctly get Joe Smith’s phone number to send a text to him, so things could be personalized and seem more legit.
> an insanely higher number of chargers

Or use battery swapping, like China is doing. This enables many gas stations to remain viable, allows far better battery health monitoring/remediation, permits slower, less stressful charging & greatly reduces the grid issue, eliminates the battery as a limitation of the car’s lifespan, etc.
I can answer that one - it absolutely wouldn't. An electric car is vastly better than a new ICE car from eco perspective, if you're buying new. But keeping your old car and driving it instead will always be more ecologically sound.