skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What would you suggest people invest in right now ?

A mix of high quality long term bonds and stocks, depending on the desired risk profile, the same boring answer you'll get from anybody else.

> Demographic collapses incoming in multiple developed countries, there will be a surplus of land in a decade or two?

Very much a fantasy.

> Shares? Going backwards, lots of uncertainty, potential war /conflict about to break out in the pacific.High inflation, interest rates.

The idea is to buy low and sell high, not buy high and sell low. I have 40+ years of work ahead of me. We had recessions before.
Thank you for the thoughtful comment. I think you are right.

For every “you can’t admit you are wrong” discussion, I must have a 1000 discussions where I just go “oh you’re right” and move on. My default operating mode is being wrong and knowing I am, or knowing that alternative approaches are just as valid, or sometimes less valid but still bring value to the table. This was not easily learnt, but it just leads to better engineering so it’s a no brainer. I brush over it in a single sentence, and this is not enough, as evidenced in some comments here.

I had a much longer first draft, much less focused, and edited it down to crystalline precision. The next article I write about the topic, I will chose the other approach, and see how that resonates.

Thanks!
> I have hired people as well, any capable engineer is able to prove its worth in a couple technical interviews at most.

There is so much more to being a good employee than just the ability to demonstrate technical aptitude. How do they handle a crisis, how well do they cooperate with other employees, how's their work ethic, how diplomatic is their communication? The aspect of the engineers you hired which you chose to highlight was that they stayed for years - how did them solving a technical problem give you insight into their long term personal life plans?

I've seen countless brilliant engineers who I would never in a million years hire. I'd much rather teach a good employee how to be a good engineer than teach a good engineer how to be a good employee.
> On iOS, when Apple does the same, I don't really have a choice other than to go along with it.

Part of my original comment:

> I don't have to think about how I want the phone to work because it just works the Apple way and if I don't like it I can just get a different phone.

That's a feature to me. I don't spend any brainspace when I'm using my phone on thinking about things that annoy me or things that could be better. Launcher sucks? Does it suck bad enough to make me switch platforms? No? Then it's not worth worrying about any further and so I won't.

When I used Android, knowing I _could_ fix those annoyances meant I _did_ fix those annoyances. That's just not something important for me to be spending my time on, but I know I will if put in that situation.
Google Fiber has been "available and growing" in Austin for close to a decade now and it's still not available at my Austin address. I'm not going to hold my breath.
proof by example: https://youtu.be/CGQwqWqzkNA

We do agree on one thing: significantly safer batteries have to use a different chemistry than Lithium NMC.
In simulation of how water freezes, artificial intelligence breaks the ice
to be fair I am seeing very little empathy for the author in a lot of these comments
He does do stress testing, dropping tools, etc.
Most of the time nothing is used. The thing is that iterating is so quick, that you find the problems really fast.

Although, I've been using luacheck https://github.com/mpeterv/luacheck. It is quite nice, but you have to write down the global variables by hand on the config file.

Edit: Also, the vscode lua plugins have been getting quite good, and completion works to a certain extent.
But they have to do something like this right? I mean, consumption patterns have obviously changed since the 1960s. I understand maybe the way they adjust isn't correct but if you think this is a really easy problem you probably haven't considered it enough
All it would take is for the user to use iCloud backups, which are enabled by default, for Apple to be able to hand over the users complete iMessage archive.

Apple has done a wonderful job marketing something that doesn’t Turkey exist.
Selenium is very good
Why Mobile Apps Matter
Oh, not this again. If you have a standard household outlet accessible where you park, you probably don’t need charging stations outside of road trips, because you’ll be getting 60+ miles of charge overnight. The load at a given time is like a third that of a central air conditioner. I think we can handle it.
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The whole point of this inflation is, times ARE good. People have too much money to spend, the job market is too hot, which is why the fed is raising rates so fast

When times are bad, McDonalds sales go way down, then they re-introduce the $1 menu
>This doesn't sound like a real first-class ISP

I'm not an expert but afaik you can't just be a Tier 1 network member https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_1_network

Even Tier 2 very limited https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_2_network

In this guide's case yes you will be akin to an MVNO, you won't peer but just buying transit traffic. That's why most of these guides are also focusing on making the network wireless only (easier to build infrastructure)
We released estela for this and other purposes, check it out, maybe it will suit your needs:

https://github.com/bitmakerla/estela

Only Scrapy support atm, but additional scraping frameworks/language are on the roadmap. It would be great to have feedback to consider it when prioritizing some over others :-)
The key word in your post is "familiar". You want it to be familiar. There's no need to overstep that and make vague judgements of simplicity and complexity.
> - if Ukraine doesn’t surrender, we can expect less food production

I doubt that Russia would prioritize food production if they win the war, considering the huge list of "enemies" they've added to their list.

Most likely, they send food production to allies and they'll attack the next neighboring country in a few years by keeping exports (Gas/food) towards "enemies" at a minimum.
I agree insofar as that there is no dedicated runtime for crystal in AWS Lambda, but it can well be used there or in fargate containers. I wrote a (proof of concept) minimal runtime for Lambda some time ago [1] and had pretty decent results.

Given that both fly.io and Heroku have working buildpacks for Crystal/Lucky, I’d say you can serve pretty heavy load before you’d need to reach for more specialized machines. Of course, that depends on the nature of your application as well. Maybe my understanding of 'large scale' is different from yours, though.

[1] https://github.com/lagr/aws_lambda_runtime
That's fair, maybe this family should be able to opt out of taxes that don't benefit them then, you know since they are so remote and everything.
Which is why email should not have linked images.

It's too bad that mail clients encourage people to write HTML email by default. The default should be plain text, or perhaps better yet, text/markdown but without links as image sources.
The article does not provide data significant enough to support its basic assumption, that smart people fail to solve ill-defined tasks more than dumb people.
My definitions:

(1) Can you get things done unattended in the long term? If no, you are junior, if yes, you are not.

(2) Can you take charge of figuring out what things even should be done? If so, you are senior, if no, you are not.

(If you are neither junior nor senior based on those definitions, you are midlevel)
Jared has been participating in Nanog since forever. I have always looked up to him as a top-tier engineer.
If photons had a very small but non-0 mass, it would simply mean that they actually move slightly slower than c, but it wouldn't otherwise have any significant implications. There are in fact experiments that are trying to check whether photons have a mass we can detect.

Also, just as a note, I'm using the term "mass" for what used to be called "rest mass" (as opposed to "relativistic mass"). Even if their "rest mass" is truly exactly 0, and their speed is exactly c, they still have energy and momentum, and thus they have mass in general relativity, but that is a different discussion.
Mind boggling pictures - really shows just a tiny part of the scale, and just how manual the whole process still is. I can't imagine the difficulty of trying to upgrade systems that are 30-50 years old and maintain compatibility.
I have to disagree - it was a nice read without the grafted on pseudo poetic pretentiousness.
I think calling for someone to kill someone in a serious tone or from a position of power generally meets the requirements.

Eg, a politician saying citizens need to take to the streets and kill someone, or an average citizen saying quite sternly that we should meet up at 10 PM outside someone’s house.
It's a lot easier for a single entity (ME) rather than a Corporation to get all this set right, I suppose. My personal domain email has DKIM,SPF,DMARC, and I send all my emails S/MIME signed at the least. Where I run into issues with this is for automatic/service account emails, like for monitoring alerts and the like. Either have to save the PW with the S/MIME cert command somehow, or just not S/MIME sign at all for service accounts.
You should check their quarterly earnings I think you would be shocked. In the second quarter Cable and Broadband account for 7.4 Billion in profit, and have a profit margin near 50%. NBC Universal only accounts for 1.9 Billion and their theme parks are 632 Million. By far cable is the largest driver of profit.

https://www.cmcsa.com/news-releases/news-release-details/com...
It's funny because he said one of the houses needed 0.5 miles of cable. My jaw dropped when he said it would only be $30K for that.

I'm speaking as someone who has had a few hundred foot trenches dug in my yard for running cable. Extrapolating it to 0.5 miles would come out to a lot more than $30K.
The word "abominable" is dehumanizing? What about "loathsome", "detestable", "disgusting"?

> Fuck that pastor and may he rot in prison.

Your eagerness to use state violence against innocent folks—that is intimidating. Should I use violence against you before you can use it against me?
Avg gasoline prices are down 20% in 2 months. Is that noise?

https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_gas_price
Abuse of VFX Artists Is Ruining the Movies
Abortion specifically is significantly easier to achieve this for, because it's a reproductive rights issue.
https://archive.ph/jgKdf
Visual Studio for Mac is yet another branding fail. It's just Xamarin/Mono Studio and has very little to do with the VS code base.
That's more due to the proportional representation method (STV) used by Australia's upper legislative body. The lower body uses single-seat IRV and for most of the past century has been strongly dominated by two parties. This isn't surprising because IRV (aka RCV) suffers from center squeeze, meaning that it tends to eliminate consensus candidates when there are three or more real contender candidates.
This is just going to push people further and further away into fringes and extremist views when they are lied to.

We are truly on our own now. Our government no longer serves the people but a smaller proportion of people that gets their representatives elected to spread lies about everything.

This garbage inflation number is just the beginning. Who knows what other absurdities they are willing to push to the public and punish people? I'm already seeing people who don't buy this number getting flagged on HN which is bound to have lot of affuluent ppl that benefit by pushing this number.
Guns arent inherently bad, either.
Fuckyou.money
How much corn are you getting for $9?
Yes, it’s a hard skill to learn, and … it’s why I ask so many questions / make sure we have the same context.

Very often in software engineering, people use abstract words that have been overloaded with meanings in many different ways, and it can be easy to think the other person is suggesting something completely different. I love using diagrams because they remove a lot of the “words”.
Are you also concerned about your tax dollars paying for roads in the next neighborhood over?
I guess so, but that's another thing you need to remember to charge. I feel like that shifts the mental tether from, "I hope there's an outlet", to, "I hope my power bank has enough juice".
I agree, it will take some time for EVs to really take off. And the dynamics are difficult to predict. If even 5% of cars become electric, it will really move the needle on the retail gas pricing, which might slow EV adoption, etc. I expect it might go in waves. Although EVs have such a dramatic running cost advantage that as capital costs and range anxieties are addressed, the adoption rate will probably be supply limited for years.
And the problem of that is ... ?
> The main innovation is that we prevent loss mis-allocation during training of the acoustic AI model by pre-weighting things with the loss of the language model. Or in short:

> We don't train what you don't need to hear

This does sound a lot more interesting than the ~280 lines of code.
If I declare my hate for gay people I'll be ostracised, is that also violence against me?

Why should the law be getting involved in the social dynamics of ostracism?

Free speech doesn't mean you only get to hear what you want to hear.
From Powell's recent FOMC press conference:

>So what are we going to be looking at? You know, we’ll be looking at the incoming data, as I mentioned, and that’ll start with economic activity. Are we seeing the slowdown that we — the slowdown in economic activity that we think we need, and there is some evidence that we are at this time.

Economic activity data is likely to continue to worsen between now and the September FOMC meeting, so I believe there's a high likelihood that they are opting for +50 bps rather than +75 bps.

This would signal that we are getting close to the end of the tightening cycle. You can see it in the price of risk assets today after the CPI data release - everything is up (markets are forward looking).
$100M ARR in 18 months: Wiz becomes the fastest-growing software company ever
I wrote my own webscraper: https://videlibri.de/xidel.html

The main purpose was to submit HTML forms. You just say in which input fields something should be written and then it does the other things (i.e. download the page, find all other fields and their default values, build a HTTP request from all of them and send that ).

The last 5 years, I spent updating the XPath implementation to XPath/XQuery 3.1. The W3C has put a lot new stuff in the new XPath versions like JSON support or higher order functions, for some reason they decided to turn XPath into a Turing-complete functional programming language.
Unpopular opinion, but Bash/Shell Scripting. Seriously, it's probably the fastest way to get things done. For fetching, use cURL. Want to extract particular markup? Use pup[1]. Want to process csv? Use cskit[2]. Or JSON? Use jq[3]. Want to use DB? Use psql. Once you get the hang of shell scripting, you can create simple scrapers by wiring up these utilities in a matter of minutes.

The only thing I wish was present was better support for RegExes. Bash and most unix tools don't support PCRE which can severely limiting. Plus, sometimes you want to process text as a whole vs line-by-line.

I would also recommend Python's sh[4] module if Shell scripting isn't your cup of tea. You get best of both worlds: faster dev work with Bash utils, and a saner syntax.

[1]: https://github.com/ericchiang/pup

[2]: https://csvkit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

[3]: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/

[4]: https://pypi.org/project/sh/
> The House + Senate system was setup so that less-populous states would still get a say in federal policies that impacted them

I was under the impression that it was a compromise between slave holding and free states. Smaller free states we worried about larger slave states overrunning things with their large enslaved populations. There was a lot of back and forth on this in the convention.
Competition for food sales is pretty high though. If sales go down, or someone sees a chance to take market share, prices will come down.
And Python is a great macro language for c / c++, brings back the point why is the use of higher levels language not more common, afterall who still does assembler these days (and c++ is heavily background optimized for asmblr as well).
I consider climate change a negligible issue, it's just the hype of the day, something you're "supposed" to virtue signal about. Even a 10C temperature change won't change much in the grand scheme of things.

Average person is dumber each year because high iq is negatively correlated with fertility. On top of that populations are collapsing due to below replacement tfr. There's a real danger that technical civilization collapses later this century. The problem is that all easily accessible fossil fuel sources are already used up, so restarting much later from eg. a late xix century level is borderline impossible - civilization will run out of wood fast and progress stops due to an energy deficit. Advanced semiconductor manufacturing beyond proof of concept requires scale unattainable by such a civilization.

In short, the falling intelligence trend coupled with running out of easily accessible energy means that most likely, either humanity escapes biological-planetary constraints this century, or becomes stuck in a low-tech hairless ape local maxima until the inevitable extinction. A very good candidate for the Great Filter.

Fossil fuels only exist in the first place because for millions of years no organism on Earth was capable of digesting lignin. As trees died they just became buried, eventually transforming into coal and oil. That process stopped the moment fungi evolved the ability to digest lignin. This means that there's not going to be another chance even in millions of years, whether for human descendants or some other intelligent species (racoons seem like a good candidate). Easily accessible fossil fuel energy is a one time event per planet.

There's less than 100 years to escape the trap and it requires sci-fi level tech, either advanced genetic modification of humans or superhuman level ai.

>In fact, if we follow this logic, less smart people should be unhappier, since they are in an even worse position to do something

Worrying about something requires realizing it's a problem first.
Yet theres ppl, even on this thread that claims your views are conspiracy theory, that you are lying about what you saw.
Automate moving the recordings from your phone? IFTT (If This, Then That) used to be a thing but I never played with it.

"constant recording": are you really sure you need that? Do you plan to go back through it and filter the majority of non interesting time out, somehow? Or do you really want the sound of every keyboard clack and digestive announcement saved for posterity?

My first thought was "what will you use for a mic?" but I'm guessing you're happy with what your phone gives from the rest of the post. If you wanted an actual "sound sensor" record of an area then the choice of mic becomes more important and if you're wearing it i think yer boned and will get more clothing noise than useful signal.
Spoken as if you were somehow owed something else than what is.
I would argue the opposite.

Smart people are unhappy because they have a whole identity constructed around being smart and in order to be happy they would have to shatter this construction.
I honestly thought Google fiber was ending? This may actually be one of Google’s longest running non-core projects now.
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While I don't doubt that governments like to bias the numbers, if they are doing it this year to convince us we have no inflation issue, they are doing it very poorly.
Ask HN: Is Apple now a chip company?
Apple does not make laptops with unique designs anymore. They recently redesigned the MacBook Air and Pro's and they went with a utilitarian and conservative look. They did not push any boundaries.

They don't make the most bleeding edge phones anymore (Samsung is pushing the envelope with foldables).

They don't make the best looking wireless earbuds.

They don't make the best looking smartwatches.

They don't make the best looking tablets.

On the software front, Google has caught up on Android's UI and has the same polish as iOS. Apple is no longer the software design leader.

The only area that Apple is truly ahead is in chip design. Does that mean Apple is now a chip company first and design second? Also, does that mean Apple no longer attracts the very best designers and instead attracts the best chip designers?
Stellaris was ported to console and works fairly well! I still would rather play it with a keyboard and mouse, of course :)
I don’t think you’re giving enough credit to physicists.

Dark matter isn’t just adding a fudge/“God” parameter to the equations to make the numbers work. The “stuff” that’s thought to be missing is described with very precise properties… the fact that it’s “dark” means something, the fact that it’s “matter” means something.
>> You can't be stupider than a rock, but there seems to be no upper definite upper limit to human intelligence.

But to conclude from this that most are below average, wouldn't you have to know that the high IQs pull the average up more than the low IQs pull it down? I don't see how the mere assumption that there's no upper limit gets you there (not to mention that this assumption is bound to be wrong anyway). But as you say, maybe there's a reason I'm in the big half...
That is not happening unfortunately, ever. They are hiring more people in IRS to shake down working people.
In the UK, they'd prefer ten innocents suffer than one innocent escape.
I suspect the current property owning class will keep buying it up as investments and land banking, and bidding up the price as they go. The only way they could be as high as they are is as ‘investments’ where the purchaser either had capital or is anticipating selling before their loan reverts from interest only.