skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many times do I need to see Covid is caused by China being nefarious? Or rich people worked hard for their money. Or whatever other uptight rigid status quo bullshit permeates most facets of western life.
And, it is amazing just how much you do not miss it. Once the stream of news is gone - you wonder why you ever fell into it in the first place.

I am in the same boat with other people bringing the important news. Some times it might actually be relevant.

News nowadays reminds me of the Serenity's prayer.

--

Grant to us the serenity of mind to accept that which cannot be changed; courage to change that which can be changed, and wisdom to know the one from the other.

--

Most things in the news, we cannot change.
Lex Fridman definitely has a YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSHZKyawb77ixDdsGog4iWA

He even has a clip channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJIfeSCssxSC_Dhc5s7woww

You ever hear of Machine Learning Street Talk?

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMLtBahI5DMrt0NPvDSoIRQ
GDP has something to do with income, certainly.

But I think that the article's author suffers a fundamental failing of understanding of why people look at GDP per capita. It's not because they're trying to understand the experience of individuals within the country at all -- it's because they're trying to understand how rich the country is, normalized to its size.
Can't join a raid on WoW without pissing off your guild mates halfway through.
No this won’t work.
No, it really isn't. TFA is about carbon credits.
The articles says what happened, not why it happened that way.

_Why_ did the bazookas take out the howitzer, and not the other way around? Howitzer seems like a more powerful weapon for the situation.

The Americans were greatly outnumbered, so _how_ did they win?
It’s a comedy trope. Seinfeld is probably most famous for the formula with back-references throughout the series. Arrested Development dabbled in it, and Community took it to the extreme of whole story arcs. Brooklyn 99 and New Girl revel in it. A less comedy-specific example, Buffy, created a role for the throw away character (Spike) because he was so well received, then went on to do several more episodes along a similar theme (Zeppo, the one about Jonathan being a superhero, the musical, come to mind).

Movies are less susceptible to being described as formulaic, but an iconic movie, The Big Lebowski, could reasonably be summarized this way (albeit the series is serialized into one piece). Coffee and Cigarettes doesn’t satisfy the “nobodies” in the literal sense, but it’s almost entirely this formula.

I’m just citing examples I can think of, I haven’t watched most of what people have watched. And I don’t mean in any way to dismiss the actual work, or the concept, or your finding novelty in it. It’s a really cool device for storytelling, but it’s definitely not a unique device.
Not everyone here is ignorant or unwilling to think of second order effects. You can't really do programming/networks/tech as a career and not get it after a certain point.

These problems are hard as hell, and yeah, being paid well insulates one from a lot of problems if that's what you set out to do. Not everyone sets out to do that though.
The real question however is why? I don’t see any real benefit to doing this, unless it’s fashionable in some social circle, or if all of these people want to build singing/acting careers.
If the next big things doesn't include how we generate and use energy, probably the really big next thing may be runaway climate change.
What brand/model of ECC RAM?
The way the world has enforced drugs as crime has been a massive massive failure. The worst thing we have done is be puritanical, judgemental, and ready to throw the book at drug crimes.

Based off that we shouldn’t touch social media or smart phones or anything.
Out of context that is an unsettling sentence! @zuminator is right: find all the yellow pads to advance to the next level. Level 2 is when enemy tanks come in
Tell HN: Debian blocks access to wiki pages from VPN IPs
Just what the title says.

ProtonVPN here. I get blocking when people try to comment or make changes but this is preventing debian users from accessing the wiki for help or to follow instructions.

For a bit more context, I have gone to a great length to make sure my devices can only access the internet via a VPN that is enforced at the network level not at the host level for obvious reasons.

Is this acceptable? Do they also block Tor? What is the benefit?

No other distro or open source project I encountered has a similar restriction.

I thought I would post here because they are one of the most popular distros. If they need my direct IP address to use their software then is the "free" part of FOSS really true? (Paying with loss of privacy).

Edit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/460fm4/debian_wiki_inaccessible_for_months/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2016/05/msg00093.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/63xyod/psa_debian_wiki_blocking_all_access_to_certain/

This isn't new apparently. How can I tell the right person this isn't 2008?
Google, Amazon, Tesla, Tencent, Alibaba, ByteDance are in the list, not all are on a website. It's not like a company mandate, mainly individual contributors checking it out and building things.

It's not widespread because it is just starting to get going, but it is definitely popular (well liked) among its users.
> If that were true, wouldn’t crime rates be evenly distributed among income/circumstances?

Just because some people from lower income brackets choose to risk their livelihoods by doing crimes doesn’t mean there isn’t boundless opportunities.

If a person would rather gangbang or sling meth instead of doing something productive then that’s their choice.

There aren’t exactly a bunch of dudes desperate for cancer treatments they can’t afford so they turn to criminal enterprise to fund it. They choose the lifestyle.
Being paid at 2/3 base is technically not "unpaid" and it's better than most other tech companies, but it's hardly laudable. They're basically saying your life (literally--the time you spend on-call is time you never get back) is worth less when you're working for them, but outside office hours.

I will probably never cease to be amazed at how naive software engineers can be. It's like the relatively high base salaries act as bedazzling enchantments that turn off parts of the rational brain.
I read that book, and as I recall it takes a left turn into education policy after chapter one. Part 1 sells you a story of personalization over one size fits all, and the next parts tell you how individuals vary, mostly in ways understood by educators, and emphasizing the authors personal story of getting a PhD as a high school dropout and how to remove barriers to educational attainment.

It's probably a fine book if education policy is your jam, and its fine for scholars to publish monographs on their research but I felt a bit mislead given the title and PR excerpts. For example, maybe an examination of Average Treatment Effect and Individual Treatment Effect in medicine, and followed by an adventure into causal reasoning. Or perhaps a treatment on diminishing returns of personalization.

And perhaps if the "how we succeed" portion investigated productivity instead of defining success as getting a degree from Harvard. As software designers we come to recognize that there's diminishing returns on customization in our software, and develop hierarchies of customization -- commonly adjusted settings are easily found, and others may be dotfile / envvar / registry only. There's probably a happy medium between Apple inspired "it just works" philosophy and Gentoo's 'every software custom built' approach.
See also Knuth's TAOCP section 7.1.3 "Bitwise Tricks & Techniques" which makes references to this book Hacker's Delight and covers some similar ground, in Knuth's unique style. (Published as part of Vol 4A in 2011, earlier as Volume 4 Fascicle 1 in 2009, and earlier draft available online as pre-fascicle 1A: https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/fasc1a.ps.gz ) (The first edition of Hacker's Delight is from 2002. HAKMEM is from 1972.)

Independent recommendation here: https://twitter.com/pervognsen/status/1253135922553425921

> The bitwise techniques book will shock you because it's basically Hacker's Delight: Knuth Edition and it is very, very good and useful.
I’m guessing it’s a failure of the author to proofread. The guy’s issuewire bio has a similar sentence without the repetition: “Besides being a successful YouTuber, he tried his luck in singing and music.” Seems like whoever wrote these blurbs is working from a template.
I really enjoyed this theory when I was introduced to it about 10 years ago. A lot of ancient literature talks about voices and gods in a way where this seems plausible. But then there is the idea that the bicameral mind completely disappeared across the world in a somewhat uniform fashion.. that was hard to swallow. We simply don’t evolve like that.
> No, these are regulations for the blind.

No, they aren't.

> Laws, mind you.

No, they aren't.

> For a reason.

Nope.

> That being said, the noise should NOT be heard inside the car.

If you're going to admit that you're talking about something completely different, why say anything at all?
Your response is completely orthogonal to what I said. I'm not too interested in hashing out the basics of the philosophy of science for the purpose of pedantry on the internet. That said--

Specific theories and predictions of phrenology were debunked and discarded with evidence. That happens to make almost all the utility evaporate, but that's not to say there's not quite any left.

Of course, there's a whole lot of predictions and data from alchemy that became the body of knowledge of chemistry, too, even if a lot more evaporated.

The other thing to point out is that the overall scientific method itself has evolved and is still evolving. Debating various kinds of errors and their nature made in the 18th century when even early 19th century practice was sufficient to refute them is not likely to be productive.
That article was written just a few days before the last 4:1 stock split took place, so it's just a snapshot in time.

However, accounting for that last 4:1 split, Microsoft's 18.1 million shares would now be 72.4 million shares at the last closing price of $165.35.
Three economists are on the football field, practicing field goals. The first kicks the ball was to the left, widely missing the goal. The second one kicks and shanks it to the right, again missing the goal. The third one runs off the field shouting "we got it, we got it!"
It is literally... not... the definition of labor. Labor would be doing work on your employer's products and systems, not _being available to do so_.
The first photo made me think that the observed phenomena is simply an undersea cable.
Happiness will likely increase with decrease in life expectancy.
I have. It doesn’t work for us. I think it’s probably something with her account, where she doesn’t have a setting right. But I try to stay out of her technology as much as possible… it’s just easier that way. :)
Offtopic, but:

> However, Google is not one single company, but a collection of independent and distrusting companies.

This is an important thing to keep in mind when considering the behavior of any large company.
Lots of motorcycle riders claim this: "Loud pipes save lives".

In my anecdotal experience, as the owner of both noisy and quiet motorcycles, there is very little truth to that. My noisy motorcycles have just as many "Sorry mate, I didn't see you" incidents as my quiet ones. On the other hand, looking like you might be an evil baby-eating biker (cruiser-style bike, black leather, open face helmet with a beard and sunglasses, blatantly disregarding road rules) does seem to have a probably statistically significant reduction in other road users treating you badly. People don't "not see you" or "not hear you" they judge you as not being a danger to them - perhaps subconsciously, perhaps consciously, but I have strong suspicion that lots of people do look and see you, but their heads categorise you as either "just a tiny fucking motorcycle, I'm insured so I don't care if they bounce off my car" or "I'd better not annoy _that_ guy, he might reach through my window and rip my head off and then go home and murder my family and pets".

I could _maybe_ see an argument that especially quiet vehicles (electric for sure, but a lot of modern ice cars as well) might improve pedestrian safety with a little bit of "fake engine noise" being projected at low speeds where pedestrians are likely to be around, but 105db straight through pipes do not improve anyone's safety at 25mph+ in my experience, they just annoy people. (And I say that somewhat hypocritically, as the owner of a Ducati with aftermarket and louder than stock pipes, but which fall a long way short of 100+db straight through Harley Davidson pipes.)
We actually know what is going on. It’s called carb addiction. The more carbs you eat, the more carbs you want to eat. In modern societies we have easy access to as many carbs as we want. That is a new phenomenon. Sugar used to be so expensive that only the rich could afford it. And back then only the rich had the kind of health problems that we now see everywhere in our societies (Metabolic syndrome).
Well, the question here was just "is ln(x) sublinear or not?". You can answer that question with much less work: the second derivative is always negative, so the function must be sublinear. Any function that grows linearly must have a second derivative of zero.
You watch The Angry Astronaut?

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQvhpTBJRgMAXXzHHzJr7hg
Ah I didn’t realize that you considered yourself to be a longevity enthusiast. When you said:
> Maybe some of these people actually have a passion for pushing the envelope.

That sounded to me like you were speculating about a group rather than stating your personal stance.

Yes, my last paragraph is a distinct wording of the exact same question, though it is meant to cut more to the core of what I’m asking about.

Are you aware that during an average lifetime, you’ll see quite a few people around you die, and the longer you live the more that will happen?

I’ve done end-of-life care for quite a few cancer patients in their late eighties to around 100. Even the ones in relatively good shape often like to talk about the people they’ve lost, it’s a natural part of aging that can’t be abated by metformin or intermittent fasting. Ignoring it doesn’t abate it either. The older they are, the more people they’ve lost.

Living to 130 sounds honestly terrible to me unless you don’t have anybody you care about losing, or you’ve got people you look forward to losing. The point of living to 130 is not “living long”, it’s “living longer than [everybody/average people/some specific group].”
Another project to add to the list is Replicache https://github.com/rocicorp/replicache
Turkey, at least, is traditionally considered part of Asia, or rather, the name of Asia is traditionally an extension from a toponym for part of Turkey.

But anyway, in this context the thing it's helpful to be near is Western Europe. If you're trying to push back against classing Poland and Romania out of "Europe", sure, just say it.
> idiots

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> if you have an oncall rotation for a service that never pages or pages so rarely, you're wasting human and engineering resources.

Not really.

If the company loses $20,000 per minute when the system is down, the system should be well engineered, so it rarely goes down - but it's still worth paying $700/week to have someone available in 10 minutes if it does.
Most of that made sense apart from the last paragraph.

Don't most engineering managers get paid more than most IC engineers? Doesn't the move to management progress all the way to the C-suite? If so, then how is moving to management a lateral move?
Let's add them too.
Personally, I like some of the ideas of JSON5, but it isn't compatible with JSON as implemented. Altering existing systems to use it isn't as trivial as you imply. And requires taking on new dependencies.

You'd have to rewrite anything using json_encode() and json_decode() in PHP, or the equivalent standard functions/methods in Python, C#, etc. And also take on another dependency. And maybe lose performance.

And then you sometimes may have to know whether you're dealing with JSON or JSON5, and what the program on the other end of the line produces or expects and can handle.

For new greenfield projects it might be worthwhile. But most of the world runs on legacy code and many prefer to stick to the standards and minimize dependencies. So it's not that simple.

That doesn't mean it's bad though. Like anything else in software, it's a trade-off.
> But no one is going to keep those commitments, few if any countries are even close, and many are not even on any real path

Where are you seeing this? In the last few years alone there has been hundreds of billions if not trillions put into renewable energy.
Well, yea, but you can't calcuate GDP per capita. You have to instead look at median household income. If you wanna sell fancy electronics in mid market economies it really helps to know the difference.
TechEmpower Framework Benchmark – Round 21 (2022)
Analysis of Inflation Reduction Act impact on US emissions targets [pdf]
Paper is fascinating to the right interests but oddly extremely specific for HN?

Do some people just not have Slc25a51? Does this matter?

Is this supposed to be some kind of longevity insight?
Outside of the tech world, this is absolutely true. My wife is an elementary school teacher and a few of her coworkers have to drive for Lyft or do something similar a couple of nights per week or on weekends just to be able to afford their apartments. These aren’t exactly luxury digs, either.
GDP is a blunt force measurement. A country with a high GDP per capita USUALLY (not always) has a higher standard of living that one with a low GDP per capita.

Taxation figures heavily into GDP - most taxes end up being measured as a share GDP (and why "financial circle jerks" and "made up increases in asset value" are counted as they eventually... but not always... end up being taxed). That is why "economic growth" is so good for the public sector. More GDP generally means more money to work with. Output that is out of reach of taxation (i.e. domestic labor, barters, charity) is also USUALLY not counted in GDP.

Finally, the Scientific American article is a really good read. GDP is not a measure of quality of life, and really never has been. It's just a measure of economic output.
So has the journal this was published in disappeared off the face of the earth? It seems like you could give a better link than the pubmed entry. Maybe I’m missing something on mobile?
I 10x'd a TI-84 emulator's speed by replacing a switch-case
Personally I’d like to see mass adoption of synthetic fuel made from the air for use cases where liquid fuel is the only practical solution. Like HIF Global’s plan to make synthetic fuel for about 8 USD per gallon (4.5 liters).

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/04/porsche-invests-75-mill...
> many of the UFOs observed by the US Navy/Airforce were spotted on top of oceans

The ocean also covers 75% of the earth.

So there’s a fairly high chance it’d occur over an ocean.
I'd only read Xenophon's (430 BC) horsemanship as the earliest record, I did not know about this Kikkuli reference. There is a reference in Xenophon to someone called Simeon, but apparently the records were lost. His Cavalry General has some related insights about horsemanship.

Not to Cliff Claven this, but this Kikkuli program is a complete program for making a ridable horse using gradual and persistant regular change over a relatively long period of time in dozens of steps. If you followed this with a young horse today, you would have a perfectly good hack. There are a lot of gaps in horsemanship literature, partially I think because the methods made and broke empires, so they may have been just as guarded as a secret as cryptography. The next earliest I could find after Xenophon was Dom Duarte, a King in Portugal writing about horsemanship in about 1245 AD. so our current records have a gap of almost 2k years without writing on horses, which seems unlikely to have happened. Duarte's treatise is closer to the training of the horseman as a philosopher who depends on the willing and loyal alliance of another animal to both survive and prevail. After him, the writings we have now are all in rennaisance Italy, whose methods were imported to France to provide an education their king, and then with some letters and monographs by French masters after them. Then, after about 1850, Germany's cavalry methods are what seems to have survived. Today, there is still a divide between German and Latin schools of riding.

The point is, this Kikkuli text is a nice missing piece because we know if we had horses, we were writing about them, and where there are hundreds of years of gaps in the literature about them means we have some fantastically large gaps in history as well. Up until very recently, their story was our story.
Ask HN: Best way to have candidates share code for takehome evaluations?
I used to be against takehome evaluations (I thought companies showed the most respect to candidates by being present during the evaluation), but we've recently had a few candidates say they prefer it as they think it gives them a better chance to show their skills.

So we wrote up a short prompt for a project that should take a couple of hours.

What's the right way to have candidates share their solution code? My first thought was to instruct them to put it into a private github repo and share it with me. But that seems to present a few problems:
1) According to the accept invite dialog, Github apparently leaks my IP address to the repository owner whenever I access it?
2) No obvious workflow for me to share the code with other engineers on my team so that they can help evaluate. I tried Github forking but the candidate was included as a collaborator on that fork, so probably got awkward emails when I forked and then removed him.

So I'm trying to think of a solution that doesn't involve leaking my teams' IP addresses, or other teammates' Github usernames.

I don't need to run this stuff. I'm OK with only being able to review in a web UI (I prefer it, from a security perspective). That's also why I don't want them to try to use email attaching either, even if Gmail could be made to tolerate it.

So I want something like a web (lowercase D) dropbox for code. Any ideas, HNers? Thanks!
Others have said similar things, so my point is mostly one of emphasis. Bazel goes deep on finding edges in the build graph.

Example: C/C++ has this preprocessor step where ‘#include’ and stuff happen. It’s very cheap compared to what comes next.

If you change white space or comments or whatever, the preprocessor runs, hashes the same, now the .o is good, now the link is good.

OP’s stuff is cool, but just wanted to make sure everyone is clear that industrial strength build systems like Bazel take on that constant factor intentionally. They are designed for building big, complex, polyglot code bases.
I had a pager in ~ 2015. Was that a long time ago?

Company policy said we had to have different devices on different networks, so the company issued cellphone was one, and the pager was on another provider.